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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 21 April 1891, Page 2

We are sorry to learn that Mr Enderby will be leaving the Foxton station for New Plymouth, in a few days. Mr McNicol has already arrived to take up his duties. Mr Enderby has earned the good will of all by his obliging manners and cheerful disposition. We wish him well wherever he goes. Tomorrow Mr G. M. Snelson will sell by auction at Mrs Savill's residence at Palmerston, the fishing boats, nets, and anchors belonging to her, now at the mouth of the river, as well as a lot of household furniture. The Prohibitionists nearly won the licensing election for Dunedin. Saturday's Chronicle states that a further rise in flour took place yesterday of £3 per ton and Southern holders decline to quote even at the advance but for small parcels only. The Woodville Examiner says : — The line into Ne'son Bros 1 works is now about half competed. The concrete bed of the freezing chamber has been laid, the foundtions of the engines and the water reservoir dug out. A ditch has also been cut to convey the water from the Manga-atua to the woiks. The workshop is erected. At present little more can be doufi 'ill timber is available. Happy times for publicans ! The Wnnganui Licensing elect on resulted in the return of the three candidates put forward by the prohibition party, who pledge themselves to close five of tlio ninafcfip hotel? ID

Mi* R. Leary has been elected President of the Palmei'ston Chamber of Commerce, Mr G. F, Hawkins, Vice-President, Mr J. P. Leary, Treasurer, and Messrs Mowbray, Secretary, and Clapperton & Smith, Auditors. The New Zealand Herald says Mr C Clayton, survvvor, who is at present in the Taupo district, has written to Mr Humphries, Chief Surveyor, informing him of a remarkable outburst at Ngaruhoe, the volcanic peak of Tongariro. Mr Clayton's letter is dated from t Rangipo, March 29. He says : " About mid-day on Monday, the 23rd inst., a fresh outbreak took place at Ngaruhoe. on the south-western side of the cone. The explosion went off with a terrific crash. Ou the same day there was a heavy fall of snow covering all the lower country to a considerable depth. This outbreak has considerably altered the appearance of the top of the mountain. It is now sending up enormous volumes of steam. The Tekymph says :— '• We understand that in no case will the frozen meat from Messrs Nelson Bros' wo;ks at Woodvil'e be shipped at Wellington. Their desire is that it should be forwarded to Napier, but in order to enable them to do this it wi 1 be necessary to secure a slight reduction in the existing charge for railway carriage. They hope to be able to secure this concession, and it is a very small one that they wil ask for ; if it be not granted them they wi 1 send the meat to Foxton, and ship it on board the big steamers which will lie off the mouth of the Manawatu river to receive it." More retrenchments ! News from Wellington states that the savitg effected in the Stock department is to be £2000 per annum. Ten inspectors and one clerk are to be suspended. The Land and Survey Departments are to be amalgamated, and that Mr W. J. Elliot, Under-Secretary of Lands and Mines, is take Under-Seeretary of mines only. Thirty three officers of the Lands Department throughout the Colony ma to be retrenched, and 12 other* transferred. The siiving in (lie llouds aud Survey Department will be iEO^O per annum. The compensation to be paid in the Land Stock and Survey Department amounts to £4500. The stock districts are to be enlarged, and 12 officers of the Crown Lands and Survey Department are to be transferred including the following five : — t hief Inspectors Humphreys, Auckland ; Barker, Christchurch ; Marchant, Wellington; Muller, Westland ; Spence, Invercargill. Their destinations are not yet decided. The services of five of the Native Land Court Judges are to be dispensed with. It is intended to divide the North Island for the purposes of Native Land Courts into circuits, each in charge of one Judge. The Justice Department is to be dealt with in a day or two.