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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 9 April 1891, Page 2

Our member, Mr .7. Or. Wilson, wrote to the Minister of Marine re dispensing with the services of the boatman at the heads, and has received the following "reply : — " I am to inform you that the Harbour Master at that port has been authorised to engage a man to sound the bar, shift beacons, etc., whenever it is necessary, as it was found that similar assistance was quite sufficient for a space of two years on a former occasion when the trade of the Port had decreased to its present dimensions." We thank Mr Wilson for making bis protest, but the reasons for this action are not those set out in the reply of the Department. We shall take an early opportunity of showing that not only has the working of the bar become more difficult but that the trade is larger, than it was the two years ago, reserred to. The Town Clerk invites tenders for getting, carting and delivering of imtal. Tenders to be in by noon of Monday next,

Town section No. 504, containing 3J acres, in Coley street, is fov sale. This is a very valuable property well worthy of inspection. Mr Short has a Eob Roy canoe for sale, also a flax trolly, Mr Wilson warns trespassers against entering on the Moutoa Estate in pursuit of game. The Census of of India shows the population to be 284 millions. Another instance of the excessive cold in England is given in the fact that the sea at Eastbourne has been frozen over, and at Heine Bay the sea has been covered with ice as far as the eye can see. Professor Thurston does not think that any serious engineering difficulty stands in the way of attaining a speed of 100 miles an hour by rail, but it would cost more than people are at present willing to pay. Mr Thomas Wilson has some Meadow Fescue aeed for sale cheap. This is the appreciated Fescue, and is not the giant fescue. The seed was grown in Taranaki. Messrs Stevens and Gorton's stock sale at Bulls will be heltl on Tuesday. At the Manawatu County Council meeting yesterday, the Chairman instructed the overseer to have all the culverts, not now needed, taken up, to lessen the risk of accidents. It was admitted by all the Councillors, that the country generally had got much drier, and that culverts appeared in most unnecessary spots?. Some of our Sandon farmers have received account sales of their wool. MiEdwards is credited with scouring elevenpence a pound. Many have got from Did tolOJd. Mr Brooks has lately had music, if not, as the old song says, wherever he goes, still on the down trips of the tram lately, as large shipments of pigs have been sent from Sandon to Wellington. We notice, a very fine paddock of turnips on the farm of Mr Gifford. Remarking on the same to our companion, he said that Mr Gifford always had splendid turnips. The best trimmed gorge hedge in the district, is that which runs along the road boundary of the Oroua Dowhs Estate We are sorry to learn that Mr Brabant is still an invalid, and has had to apply fov extension of leave. Amongst the passengers in the s.s. Wanaka when she ran on the reef off Taranaki, was Mr J. Herbert Kankins The passengers suffered one very bad half hour after first striking. On Monday the Salvation Army are going to have a great musical festival in the Public Hall. There is to be "tip top" singing* and lassies with a brass band. A coffee supper is to follow. A paragraph from the Advocate, has been going the rounds to the effect that nearly all the mills are closed around Foxton. The facts are just the reverse, every mill around Foxton, that has|been working the past six months, is now in full work. The Palmerston Standard is welcome to the information that we obtain, but it is usual to acknowledge the source. In its last issue three items were unblushingly appropriated. There are 4 kegs of good salt butter to be obtained at the Centre of Commerce. Additions are made to Messrs Stevens & Gorton's stock sale at Bulls. A modern American train is a palace, and costs from thirty to forty thousand pounds to build. It includes bath-rooms, sleepi g rooms, restaurants, and reception rooms ; and supplies ladies maids, stenographers, typewriting amanuenses, and barbers. We are not interested in r?al estate in Mexico, and we are just as well jrieased that we are not, owing to the statements made about the "drop" in land in that country. Thirty five miles from Pueb'a there stood a mountain 17,784 feet high, called Popocatapetl, but some uneasy mind lias again thought fit to measure it and has found that this volcano has deeveased in height 3090 feet ! Fortunately there is room for a further fall yet before it reaches the level. Ancient monuments demand our attention and admiration. Travellers frequently visit the pyramids of Egypt, so that they are becoming to the people mere show places, but it should not be so. The great pyramid is named after its builder, Cheops, who lived b.c. 3091, and the account of its building is interesting. The pyramid is 485 feet high, and is built of stone, on a site where no quarries exist. The material had to be brought a long distance, but how, is not as yet ascertained, as the blocks are of very large size, and it is stated the road, for their passage, took ten years to make. The building is said to have taken twenty years to erect, and that 6,800,000 tons of stone were used I Visitors who are aotive, make a point of climbing to the top, which, remembering the temperature, must be " warm" work, Every one is struck with the solidity and age of these piles, and desire to make a point. The great Napoleon encouraged his troops, when they defeated the Mameluke army on the plain of the Pyramids, near Cairo, by exclaiming: " Forty centuries look down on you from the pyramids." Some such idea must have run through our correspondent's mind when he wrote us a letter, just received, from the top of the Cheops pyramid.

Messrs Ross and Sandford, The Bon Mavche, Palmerston N., beg to announce the arrival and opening up of their first Direct Shipments of New Goods for the Autumn Season, Comprising Latest Novelties in * Ulsters, Mantles, Cloaks, Dress Goods and Millinery. The whole Embracing the" Handsomest, choice on this Coast. They respectfully invite the Inspection of purchasers. Boss and Sandford, The Bon Marche, Palmerston N. Dresses — We have now opened out our two first shipments of autumn and winter dress fabrics, which have come to us recently by the steamers Aorangiand Arawa. We may conscientiously affirm that no finer, more varied, or well-selected goods have ever previously passed the portals of Te Aro House. Dresses— ln the limited space at our command, there is not room to give anything like an adequate description of our new autumn dress goods, but it is sufficient to say that they are of excellent value, of superior finish, well assorted in styles and colourings, well adapted to meet the tastes of our numerous lady patrons. We solicit an early inspection of these, at Te Aro House. Dressmaking — Our two large and commodious dressmaking rooms are still under the same efficient management, and can guarantee in this season, as in all past seasons, instaut attention, prompt execution, faultless finish, and perfect fit Ladies wbo want their dresses early should at once place their orders at Te Aro House. Jackets, Mantles axd Ui.stkps — We have opened out a very fine assortment of these, in all fashionable makes, styles, colours, shapes, and sizes. Our mantleroom is now filled with all the latest novelties, such as should induce an early visit to Te Aro House.— Advt.