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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 4 November 1890, Page 2

We regret to have to notice a slight attempt at rowdyism on Saturday night at Mr Steven'a meeting, which the chairman neglected to firmly repress, until our reporter had to rise and publicly request the Mayor to act. That a townsman, Henry Webb, should have allowed himself to get so full of liquor as to be so great a nuisance, and thus necessitated his being forcibly chucked out by the constable, with the assistance of one of the audience, is a great disgrace and we trust he will so feel it to be. Master Harry Thynne produced on Sunday a cucumber ten and a half inches long and two inches in diameter ! He has two or three more ready to cut. The property lying at the back of Aber deon house has been purchased from the Bank of Australasia by Mr A. S. Easton. A man named William Morrison was brought before Mr .T. 11. Russell, J.P. yesterday charged witli dmnkencss. He was fined'us or 2-1 hours imprisonment. Tin's is the man who started questioning Mr Stevens on Saturday night. We have to acknowledge the receipt, from the Government Printer, of n volume of the Statutes passed during ;he last session of Parliament. Mr Charles Egf&on, of the N. S. Wales weather department, lias b-jen dUnui.^-l from the service owing to his insubordiuation in persisting in hia prognostications in regard to the state of the wenther. He still holds that a three vmv'^ .Iron^ijt is loomin the near future. A fine of £20, with 7s costs, was imposed on Friday by Mr Robinson, R. M., on Charles Cress, " tobacconist and turf commission agent," of Willis street, Wellington who pleaded guilty to a charge of keeping a gaming-house. A carpet used in the room of an Americau mint, after being in wear some years was recently burned in pans, yielding £500 worth of gold. County matters are lively in Horowheuua. Only three Councillors were proposed for the Wirokiuo riding and they were thus j returned. They were Messrs (i. W. Yean, John Davies, and John Kebbell. Messrs W. H. Simcox, F. H. Cockrell, J Cootes, J. Atkins, J. Mcßeath, E. Spackman, and W. Tompsitt, have been nominated for the Otaki Riding ; and for the Te Horo riding —Messrs F. W. Bills, A Small, W. Best, and H. Eagar. We draw attention to Mr Osborne's, of the Centre of Commerce, advertisement about a tailor. He thoroughly believes that he has secured the very best. Mr Shortt has some prime Derwent potatoes for sale very sheap. The usual sitting of the R. M. Court will be held to-morrow. The latest report for N. Z. hemp is that the market is active and the price has risen £2 per ton. " Pakeha," in the Wanganui Herald, referring to the Momohaki race meeting, remarks : - " The card, as usual, was opened with the Hurdles, for which event the Hiiwern, contingent reckoned they bad a good thing in Kimberley, but he put their anxiety to an end at the first hurdle by falling. He is undoubtedly a rare stamp for 'chasing, and I shall be disappointed if he does not do Gibson's stable a good turn." I We have received a telegram from Mr F. Pirani complaing of the statement in our issue of the |lir.«t instant that he was I " the leader of the demonstration against certain storekeepers on Tuesday at Palmerston when they halted ami hooted" and requesting us to contradict the statement. This we gladly do and regret that the paragraph should have caused him annoyance. He does not however inform us whether he was present on the occasion, but, if ho were not present we shall gladly publish his denial to that effect. A Temperance Lecture will be be given by Mr Glover. Agent for the N. Z Alliance at thn Temperance Hall on Friday evening at 7.o() p.m. Tir: Mayor convenes a public meeting of the JJurtfMHPs to consider a water supply Kchrni .

Ot'R fancy department is just now » most interesting study and source of attraction ou account of our new spri g stock of the thousand and one artiel; 1 " so indis- ; pensahle for ladies' at 1 c Aro Hju ;* , Wei- I lington. I Is sun .hades and pa asols, we have the very latest novelties in moire und shot silks. We have a beautiful assortment and selection ■ >!' ladies 7 aprons in a variety of useful | and pretty materials at Te Aro House, W-.:l lington. | Fok instance, our new stock of gloves in ' both kid and silk is excellently assorted in i all the new colors, the best makers, aud the ! most co.nplete range of size. Onv stock of ribbons is exquisitely recfurche, comprising all the new colors, the b>-st widths, and the most fashionable styles. Certainly no lady could be otherwise than pleased with these at Te Aro House, Wellington. And then also there is au immense pro- 1 fusion of laces in Vandyke, macrame, gui- j pure, Eiti'el. Torchon, and Clutntilly. Ouv \ assortment of Swiss embroideries and Bouncings came to us direct from the manufacturers, and are excellent in value and style, being made to special order for To Aro House, Wellington. Ladies should see our new beaut.y spot fall nets, Medici collars, beaded and braid ornaments. Liberty and tartan sashes, sash ribbons, cambric, hemstitched, and silk handkerchiefs. Ac, at Te Aro House, Wellington.