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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 16 March 1891, Page 2

Messrs Pascal Bros, invite tenders for clearing out some 8 miles of drains on the Puketotara run. Tenders close on Saturday. On Saturday the Public Works Committee of the Borough Council met at the Library Crs Nye and Williams being present, and opened tenders for the different drainage contracts. No 1, contract ; — John Guerin, 2s 3d per chain ; C. Adin, Is 3d per chain. No 2 contract : — John Guerin, 2s per chain ; C. Adin, Is per chain. No 3 contract : — P. Guprin Is 3d and Is 7d per chain ; G. Trask Is per chain. C. Adin's tenders for numbers 1 and 2 contracts and Q. Trask for No 8 oon* tr*flt Tv«r« Rfletpted,

It is announced that to-morrow the train will leave Carnarvon after the arrival of the Government train, so that visitors will arrive at the Sandon race course in time for the first race. The train will leave in time to connect with the railway So that passengei'B will be at Foxton at 6.30 p.m. Mr Stansell has a 16 h.p> engine and boiler for sale Cheap-. A gentleman, wants to lease a good dwelling house in or near Foxton. It would seem that Sir Charles Dilke has at last been able to clear himself of the charge made against him some years ago, as the cablegrams tejidl't that the Prince of Wales Was seen with him and Lady Dilke in London's most Public resort, Rotten Row, Hyde Park. Mr T. S. Baker, late of Canterbury, who is reported to have bought Chui'ton College, is an ttthlette enthusiast) and should be a decided acquisition to aquatic circles in Wangahul. Ml- Baker pulled in the Oxford eight when at College* fie was also a member of the Oxford fours which pulled against Harvard University (America). Mr Baker's yacht, the Zephyr, is wellknown ii the South Island, having won the Champion Yacht Race at the Akaroa regattas on more than one occasion. When cricket was at Its best in Canterbury MiBaker was a member of the Provincial Eleven, and 'ie is stt'l a very good bat, of the hard hitiing type, besides being a good " wicket.*' He is a brother to Mr Southey Baker, of Palmerstou. — Chronicle. The Weekly Press has unearthed a male Miss Marsden. It says : — Some joker, or more probably a globe-trotter whose Addtralian experience began and ended with Melbourne, has been " taking a rise " out of our respected contemporary, the Live Stock Journal, in describing an Australian bush run of twenty years agpi In a portion of a run the nari'ator " could hear in the distance cows calling their calves and bulls roaring and stamping with their forefeet ! ' And again : " Apart with their 'rncks to huge trees were to be seen bulls, eleven or twelve years old, with manes like lions \" This is very funny. Mr G. Maxwell, of Kilbernie, who was a passenger on board the Hinemoa on her last trip to the Antipodes, Bounty and Chatham Islands, informs the Pout that he has with him a snipe, killed by him at the Antipodes. The bird is larger than the English snipe, but almost identical in plumage and build. A curious circumstance, however, is related by Mr Maxwell in conneotion with the blue cod fishing at both the Antipodes and Bounty Islands. These fish were caught freely with hook and line, and were of good size, but the ilesh was found to be full of worms, about an inch long. From enquiries made Mr Maxwell gathered that there was only one month in the year when the fish were fit to eat. But at the Chathams, the same kind of fish was caught and found to be both excellent eating and free from the objectionable worms. When the Hinemoa arrived at the Chathama the Maoris thought she had come for the purpose of annexing some more of their number in default of the dog tax, and they were inclined to be wrath. The position, however, was |soon explained. Mr Justice Denniston gave an important decision at Christchurch last week, when he granted leave to enforce a sentence of a week's imprisonment in default of paying the amount of a judgment in the Resident Magistrate's Court made against a man who filed his schedule just after the order of the Resident Magistrate was made, and who had had means to pay the judgment, but would not do so. His Honor said the man had no right to file merely to avoid satisfying the judgment, and not for the purpose of dividing his assets among his creditors. According to the Wanganui Herald's travelling correspondent Feilding appears to be a remarkably temperate place, and boasts of on'y three hotels about a third of the number that is often found in townships of half its size and population. The principal of these is the Feilding Hotel, commonly known as Hastie's on account of the hurried rush that is made to it by the passengers arriving by the various trains and coaches. There is also a large building, that has been christened the White £ ephant, o.ving to its having been erected for extensiv- business premises, and being found unsui;a.)le for the purpose for which it was designed. It has since proved a veritable white elephant to its proprietors. It is now occupied after the French style, by a number of different familes and other lodgers, who rent rooms according to their requirements, and although all sorts and conditions are found under its roof, they appear to dwell together in true Continental harmony. The Chronicle says Mr T. Scott has disposed of his hack hurdler, Wairua, to Mr F. Paneti, who intends taking him over to Australia, the price received for him being £180. Jupiter has also been sold for £150 to a Hawera sport. The purchaser's name has not transpired. ™c regret that in our paragraph of the 7th of February referring to Mr McGuinnsss, that he and others were led to infer that we asserted the position he held arose from excessive drinking. From inquiries we have made and from a personal interview with him we find that he does not indulge in any way in excess.