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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 6 November 1890, Page 2

Mr Austiu wants tenders for flax-cutting and loading, on the Moutoa swamp. Mr Glover's lecture will be given at tlio Temperance Hall to-morrow evening, at 7.30 p.m. The admission is free. Mass will be celebrated at St. Mary's Church, Foxton, at 8 and 11 a.m. on Sunday next. The newly appointed 'British Resident at Raratonga, Mr F. J. Moss, left for that place by the schooner Torea from Auck and. It has been definitely resolved to offer the Sylvia Park stud for sale by auction in January next. A right whale, 45 feet long, has been stranded on the beach about a mile from New Plymouth. The Maoris have secured it-

Te Mahuki and the twenty-one Natives arrested with him were brought before the Auckland I'olic Court on Monday on the oharge of riotously assembling to disturb the public peace and with assaulting Messrs Ellis and >t. Glair, storekeepers, at Te Kuiti. They weiv all committed for trial except one, named Manuka, who was disci. arg d, there not beiny sufficient evidence against him. Anniversary services in connection with the Primitive .Methodist Sunday School, will be held next Sunday. The children of the school have been practising special hymns for some time past, and a platform has been erected so that they may be seen, and heard to advantage. Mr F. W. Glover, (Temperance Lecture) will preach in the morning, and the Rev. J. Olphert afternoon and evening. A successful effort is anticipated. The Rev. Charles Clark's lecture on Wednesday will be the last one he has written, entitled " The New Dickens' Entertainment." We shall give full particular* next issue The Railway Department notify the rates of excursion tickets for the Prince of Wales' birthda. . Mr Stevens addresses the Campbelltown electors on Saturday. Thus the Catholic Times :--" Up Wanganui way'thpy have a librarian and a bull, and as the former was ascending some local eminence the other day, the latter charged and tossed him. Then the librarian got on his feet to expostulate with the bull, and the bull tossed him again : after which the libariaji retired to the other side Ol the fence, and reasoned the matter out with the bull and a stick. Eventually the bull became depressed, and left for the purpose of tossing something more impressionable than a librarian. There is nothing particularly remarkable about these incidents except the toughness of the librarian. But a man who has become inured to refusing the one solitary copy ot the latest yellow-backed novel to a large number of infuriated single ladies of uncertain age is not likely to back down before a mere bovine creature.

Ocr fancy department is just now a most interesting study and sourro of attraction on account of our new spring stock of the thousand and- one articles so indispensable for ladies" at To Aro House. Wellington. In sunshades and parasols, we have the very latest novelties in moire and shot silk?. We have a beautiful assortment and selection of ladies' aprons in a variety of useful and pretty materials at Te Aro House, Wellington. For instance, our new stock of gloves in both kid and silk is excellently assorted in all the now colors, the best makers, and the most complete range of size. Our stock of ribbons is exquisitely recherche, comprising all the new colors, the best widths, and the most fashionable styles. Certainly no lady could be otherwise than pleased with these at T Aro House, Wellington. And then also there is an immense profusion of laces in Vandyke, macraine, guipure, Eiffel, Torchon, and Chantilly. Our assortment of Swiss embroideries and tiouncings came to .us direct from the manufacturers, and are excellent in value and style, being made to special order for Te Aro House, Wellington. Ladies should see our new beauty spot fall nets, Medici collars, beaded and braid ornaments, Liberty and tartan sashes, sash ribbons, oainbric, hemstitched, and eilk handkerchiefs. &0,., at To Aro House, Wellington.