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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 22 November 1890, Page 2

Mi* John Stevens' committee n«et at I the usual place on Monday evening. A swarm of bees selected a peculiar place wherein to settle, the ..other ? day. It was noticed at Mrs Purcell's house that a swarm was very busy round the top of one of the chimnies, but the astonishment of the inmates may be imagined, when, on entering the sitting-room the chimney was attached to, to find that the bees had" descended the chimney and settled on the back of a chair ! They were promptly housed in a more suitable dwe'ling. . .., „. Miss C. Williams' painting of the 'Gorge fell to the lot of Mr W. T. Cook at the Bazaar on Thursday. -■ ' \ Owing to the late receipt of the Manawatu Standard, we had not seen it when commenting on the long report of Mr J. 6. Wilson's speech given by the Times. We now notice that the Standard gave as equally a long report. Mr Robert Hammond has been appointed buyer to the Longurn Freezing Company. Lieut-Colonel Noake is leaving Wanganui, and his friends are taking steps to present him with an address and testimonia 1 . What a man to make such a statement ! Mr Fitzgerald, the Australian labour dele gate, speakiug at Chelsea on the question of Chinese exclusion, said that. Australia wou'd not tolerate Fngland's.dictatioh-with regard to treaties. /v ...... Mrs Maclean showed' us yesterday morning some extremely pretty' Christmas cards and books which she has just- opened up. As tbis is only a first; instalment of the new fancy goods we shall refrain from further mention until the goods have all arrived, but the excellent taste disp ayed in the selection a ready to hand, fairly demanded a passing notice. The subscriptions received by .Genera' Booth, in aid of hia colonising scheme, amount to £38,000. Judge Kettle gave jn'gmbnt, at New Plymouth, in regard to a brench of the Licensing Act relative to unlawful games being carried on in 'licensed houses. He said poker, under the Act, became an unlawful game if played in a public place, but he doubted whetner the parlour of an hotel was a public place within the meaning of the Gaining and Lotteries Act. . The" case was dismissed. . . Mr Walls gives notice of the sale of his bakery business to his son John, fie aso requests the prompt payment of outstanding accounts. Lady Boseberry, whose death is announced in the cable news, was a daughter of the late Baron Mayer de Kothchi d, M.P. for Hythe, and was married in 1878 to the Earl of Rosebe.n-y. The strike of slaughterhousemen at Melbourne does not effect the meat trade, as there is plenty of free labour available. A case of some importance was' heard before Co'onel Roberts, 8.M., the other day at Carterton. Constable Derby, on behalf of the police, charged both the hotelkeepers in Carterton with keeping their houses open for the sa'e of liquor after the prescribed honr of closing on the night of the Pastoral Show, 30th ult., and thereby acting illegally and contrary to section 155 of- the Licensing Act, 1881. The hotelkeepers held conditional licenses from the Licensing Committee to keep their premises open during the night in question, but the police maintained that under the Act the Committee had no power to grant such conditional licenses for licensed houses, but only for open-air booths at show grounds, races, and so forth. The Magistrate upheld this contention, but said that as it seemed the note keepers had acted in good faith on the authority of the Licensing Committee, he w«uld impose no penalty in the present cases, but in future in similar cases he would have to convict. Among the passengers by the mid-day train yesterday say Monday's Chronicle, were Messrs Krull and Poole, besides Mr J. L. Toole. As the train was leaving the station, Mr Krull intended to call for three chesrs for the great comedian but in the flurry of the moment gave the name of Poole instead of Toole. Needless to say the crowd immediately gave three vociferous cheers, which our looal sport acknowledged by bowing and raising his hat. Somebody remarked that it 'was " Krull " of Poole to take advantage of Toole. Mr James Brown, one of the candidates for the Ashburton seat, referring to the incidence of taxation, said :— A great many people desired that a land and income tax should immediately take the place of the property tax. He could not support the proposition. In theory nothing could -'be fairer than an income tax. Practically, nothing would be more . outrageous, in a country like New Zealand. He wished to know what were the incomes that were to be taxed. Was a farmer's landtobe taxed as well as the, income derived from it ? Was the mortgagee who owned threefonrtlvi of a farm to be taxed on his income ? If so, then the farmer would have j to pay it, for the mortgagee \wm d raise I the interest. - .

Tile slui/l iiiipulllllltill Wilt! <o\\\ li>-<UI» lv Mr Fred Carter for 82,'Messrs Stevens mid Gorton announce the entries of stock for their Sandon sale on Friday next. The Manawatu Railway Company au- ■ nounce their train arrangements for the Wellington Agricultura' Show. The company will on Wednesday issue Saturday return tickets available until Monday Ist December, from all stations. To-day the N. Z. L. &.M. A. Company insert an advertisement relating to their business which we shall more particularly refer to, next issue. A lively experience has happened to the officers and crew of the British ship Eat of Zetland, bound. for Java ports to San Francisco with a cargo of sugai\ On September 22nd, says a Singapore paper, the captain showed signs of madness, which quickly increased. He acted most violently, firing guns, trying to kill the men, tearing up the. charts i and, pitching them overboard, and otherwise behaving dangerously. On September 28th the third mate left in a lifeboat for Singapore for assistance. He was picked up about 7.3 am. by tlie s.s. Schwalbo and brought on. He had a letter from the chief office to the master attendant informing him of the state of affairs. The ;tug Bangkok was sent at daylight to tow the vessel to Singapore, as she is now helpless The mate also regorted two deaths from Java fever since leaving land, and all on board ill with the same disease. -The Earl of Zetland was bui.t at Dumbarton in 1873, and is owned by J. R. Menzies and Co., of Edinborough. , ' <■ \ "We can beat you in mutton, but you leave us miles behind iv beef," was the comment of a Canterbury settler to a Hawke's Bay resident' the other day. The remark about the beef is borne out (says the Hawkes Bay Herald) by the result of the recent shipment of 100 head of cattle sent to Canterbury from the Rev. S. Williams', Te Aute, bred <by Messrs Murray, Roberts, and Co. They went in the Wareatea, and had a fearful: passage of 50 hours, being terribly knocked about. Yet, on landing, most of them found a ready sale at excellent prices, j ' Of the remainder, eleven were exhibited in the fat cattle a'asses at the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Society's Show, and two of them carried off the first and second prizes respectively. Though they had had on y a few days on shore after their hard voyage, and were in nothing like their best condition, it .was acknowledged that they beat everything else in their class, averaging about lewt. more weight than the best of the Canterbury exhibits." The Parnellite business has (says a London correspondent) cost The Times £180, 000. That is the exact figure, everything included, . and it has been paid by the shareholders of the paper foregoing their dividends for last year and for the first six months of this year. The Walters, however, are not losers to the extent commonly supposed, for John Walter stands towards the paper in a twofold capacity He is owner of sixteen shares out of sixty, and the dividend on each share for 1889 was £300. Therefore John Walter'i loss was, on his sixteen shares, L 48.000. But he is also printer of the Times, and this printing business is kept separate from the publishing. He supplies paper, ink, printing &c, and the profits thereon belong, exclusively to him. On these he lost nothing, for it was decided that the printer of the paper «ould not be called upon to bear any share in the general losfss accruing to the publishing department. The whole of the £180, 000 has now been paid off, and as the circulation of the paper tind'itsf .receipts .for advertisements have increased, it is reckoned that a dividend of L2OOO. will lie paid per share at 'Vic close of" tins year.- 1 •• Our fancy department is just now a most interesting study and source of attraction on account of our new spri g stock of the thousand and one articles so indispensable for ladies' at Te Aro House, Wellington. .. In sunshades and pa asols, we have the very latest novelties in moire and shot silks. We have a bean tiful assortment and selection of ladies' aprons in a variety of useful and pretty materials at Te Aro House, Wellington. Fok instance, our new stock of gloves in both kid and silk is excellently assorted in all the new 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. Certainlyno lady cpuldMie otherwise thiin.,pleased-with thesis it*-T« ? Ard -House; Wellington* : ' '''■■■■ And then also*the"re"is'an immense profusion of laces in Vandyke, macrame, guipure, Eiffel, Torchon, and Chantilly. Our assortment of ; Swiss embroideries and flounpings 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 shonld see our new beauty spot fall nets, Medici collars, beaded and braid ornaments, Liberty and tartan sashes, sash ribbons, cambric, hemstitched, and silk handkerchiefs, *0., at Te Aro House, Wellington.