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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 7 February 1891, Page 2

Mr McLennan has lately made large sales of lambs from the Oroua Downs station. Tenderers are reminded that the Manaattt County Council meets on Wednesday at Sanson. Mr Potter resumed his duties at the Telegraph Office on Wednesday. We are glad to learn that he thoroughly enjoyed his well earnt ho iday. We hear complaints about the number of caterpillars in the crops in the Rangitikei district this year. A scheme for the classification oi the police force is being prepared by the Minister of Defence. « •' A v toat was seen by Mr Wilson in his garden on the Moutoa* estate. Is this the one that has been seen in different, places, or are there mtfny about ? Mr Rutherford informs U8 that he holds orders for a fail' supply of hackled tow, and has placed the orders under offer to one who is an expert in his business, at a price considered very satisfactory. The hemp mill partly owned by Mr Butler, was sold the other day by the creditors, and realised the magnificent sum of £100. We understand it is for sale again, by the purchaser, with a riie on the cost. Mr Redfern, it will be noticed, has gone over, to what is jocularly termed, the majority. He is not a fiaxmiller, but still he worked the tow, probably thus accounting for his difficulties. A Roman prelate has stated that nearly all the funds of Roman Catholic Christen* dom are invested in English securities or house property, including the reserve of the Papacy itself. To what some men drift down to, was clearly exemplified in the wages case reported elsewhere. Conceive the abjectness of a man, who has received some sort of an education that fits him to play the piano, to accept a situation as a " rouse-about ' at a public house, and to have to hold himself at the beck and call of every other servant, even the kitchen maid ! This is what drink does. Some of the Anglican congrpgation are moving in the matter of obtaining a schoolroom for All Saints Church, and with this view the Curate and Churchwardens are to wait upon the ladies who so successfully carried out the late Bazaar with the view of inducing them, if possible, to allow the proceeds of their efforts to be devoted towards the erection of a schoolroom instead of a parsonage, as originally intended. Should the ladies consent to the course proposed, the Vestry will take active steps at once in the matter. There was a very good attendance at the Auction sale of the' Louth hemp mill yesterday. The engine and shed was purchased by Mi- Bell for £110. Mr Honore secured three strippers for £3 for the lot. The Californian pump and scutcher were not sold. The horses realised from £23 to £27. A lot of harness was also disposed of, and the total of the sale reached £253. The Government have decided to post pone tho opening of the Palmerston-Wood-ville section of the 'Wellington-Napier railway says the N. Z. Time* until the 10th indt Tin railway authorities wish to make sure that the recent slip is secure, and are unwilling to risk premature opening only to close the line again with attendant inconvenience to travellers. The Registrar Gonoral gives us, in a very useful report on tho statistics of New Zealand, some rather startling, though apparently old, information as to marriage customs. Minors may be married, with the consent of their parents but at what age? It seems ridiculous to Bay that the law permits children, females of 12 and males of 14 to be married, but it h so, and what is surprising, is to find that such marriages have taken place. The Registrar informs us that for the period 1874-89 12 females under 14 years of age, have been married, and of these, one was only 11 years old ! During the same period only 8 males under 17, and they had all reached 16 years of age, married ! The parents would seem to be blameab'e more than the children. A terrific hailstorm was experienced at Riverton on Wednesday proceeded by a tremendous thunderstorm, which lasted till after the shower of ice stones. Some of these were as large- as hen's eggs. The fall lasted ten minutes. Not a single skylight or conservatory escaped. Nearly every pane of glass was completely ridd ed. Fruit and vegetables suffered severely, and a school-boy named Mil er was blinded for a time by lightening, and had to be sent home. There were electrical disturbances in other partfi of the distriot, but not so severe, and the hailstorm was oonfied to Kiverton. i The duties of livery stable keepers was clearly laid down hy*jjlr Brabant on Wednesday. Curiously, on Tuesday the Wellington court had the, following acoount of a court case showing very great laok of attention on the part of the stable keeper from whom th,e def ndaut hi>ed his turnout. The case was brought by the police through Mounted Constable Healey, who stated that while on duty on the racecourse on the 22nd ult his attention was directed to the condition of a pony one of a pair attached to a buggy, There was no collar on the animal, but merely a pair of hames, j around which a pooket handkerchief had been wrapped, This was the only palding that kept the iron hames from eaiing into the pony's flesh A witness named John Staoey corroborated the evidence oi! the constable, and it was further urged against the defendant that his attention had been direoted to the pony's oondition by a person at Kaitvarra, The defendant elected to give evidence, and he swore that he hired the buggy and two horse team from Mr Lane, livery stablekeeper, and did not notice that the near-side pony had been harnessed up without a collar until his attention was drawn to the matter at Kaiwarra. Thereupon he bound a handkerchief as well as he coul ■ around the hames, and with his party, consisting of four other persons, drove the team to tho Hutt. In answer to Sergeant-Major Ramsey, the defendant said he returned to the cry the same evening, and on his way home borrowed a horse collar, which he placed on the crippled animal's neck. The Magistrates commented strongly on the conduct of the defendant, whom they fined 40a, with 15a costs, remarking that Mi- Lan« bhould a 1 bo have bean brought

: The Borbugh Council haye 1 completed the repairs td Duncan street, ftnd it lob'ks 5 &s thdugli a good job has beeti done. i Mr Mathers, the contractor for the supply of gravel, has just made a star! with the main street. A large number of natives passed '.hrough town this morning on their way south. It is interesting to" redd Iti t, l'edeiit niMber of the 'Cdnfoniporary Eev'taw, thit " the members of the last Oriental Congress heard with astonishment " that Ar ibia, of which so little was known, had once exercised an important influence on the ancient world,, and possessed an alphabetic system in the very earliest tinier Sudh is tke statement of Pi'dfessc»r L&yed. tfhe site of Ophii 1 also, and of Saba (the Sheba of the Pi le) are being confirmed by recent research. Some sceptical writers have yen* tured the statement that letters were unknown in Israel before the time of Samuel. The assumption is now conclusively refuted There is evidence that education was carried to a high point in Canaan before the Israelites settled there. Letters were sent from Palestine to Egypt before the Exodus and Jerusalem had been the site of a " hallowed sanctuary," long before Solomon built the Temple. The Cash C earing Sale of Jobberns & Co. Bankrupt Stock by Ross & Sandford, in Main Street, Foxton is still proceeding with unabated interest. Cash purchasers of Drapery & Clothing are invited to pay an early visit of inspection. Rosa iv. Sahdfokd. To-morrow we invite special attention to i the remarkably cheap lots in our dresi department at Te Aro House, those who will throng that counter and make their selections from the array of bargains displayed will have every reason to be thankful for the institution of " The Fair." To morrow we shall offer dress lengths of French cashmeres in several beautiful shades of the new greens at 25s for 12s 6d, dress lengths of the fashionable coloured mohairs at 15s for 10s 6d and dress lengths of black grenadines reduced to 5s lid at " The Fair " Te Aro House. Tomorrow we shall show dress lengths of summer mohairs, reduced from os 6d to 2s lid summer checks reduced from 7s 6d to 3s lid, summer flakes reduced from 8s Gd to 4s lid summer tweeds reduced from 12s ' to (is 6d at " The Fair " Te Aro House, j To-morrow we shall sell full dress lengths of the following double width material, viz: — Delaims at 9s lid for 6s lid. Kscarte at 12s 6d for 8s lid. Beiges at 16s 6d for 10s 6d, Knicker Tweeds at 21s for 12s 6d. Striped Cashmeres at 16s 6d and Figured Sittings at 21s 6d for 15 9d at " The Fair " To Aro House. i To-morrow we have resolved to clear out . all our .Remnants of Black Satins, Coloured I Satins, Black Silks, Coloured Silks, Black Silk Velvets, Coloured Silk Velvets and all drees fabrics at ha'f price at " The Fair," Wellington.