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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 19 May 1891, Page 2

Mr Staff has made a start with the erection of Mr C. Honore's house: This day week is the date fixed for a most interesting ceremony at All Saints' Church. The rink is very well patronised every night that it is open, and the amusement of skating seems as much the rage now as previous y. We understand that a large clearing sale of stock on the Oroua Downs will shortly be announced. On Thursday, Mr Snelson will offer the whole plant connected with what has been recently known as "Bnckman's" mill by auction, as it stands, as a going concern. We believe that if not sold as a whole, it will be divided and parted with as may suit the purchasers We believe the situation is a good one, and is cose to a fair snpply of flax and plenty of water. The congregation at All Saints' Church on Sunday evening received quite a shock, owing to the lay reader intimating, at the close of the service, that " owing to circumstances that had occurred," this was his last appearance in that capacity. The Messrs Dudson have now all their mill plant on the new mill site at Blackman's point. An old settler, William Wintersgill, died on Sunday morning on his farm near town. We are sorry to learn that Wi'liam Carroll, who left for tho Hospital last week, succumbed to his disease on Friday night. Yesterday, being Whit Monday, the Banks were not a wit more thoughtful than usual, and closed their premises without any public notification. The Alice Jane left Timaru a month ago, with a cargo of flour for Messrs McMillan, Rhodes & Co., and no tidings can be gained of her whereabouts. The Town Clerk notifies that a rate of Is 3d in the f will be struck at the next meeting of the Borough Council, as well as a Library rate of one penny. Mr T. P. Williams has a side-saddle to sell. "It never rains, but it pours," so with starting Companies. Up the coast a Farmers' Association has been started at Mar ton, at Wellington a Co-operative and Farmers' Alliance has been launched. The capital is to be £250,000 in 50,000 £5 shares. The Provisional Directors number Messrs J. C. McKerrow, G. H. Luxford, J. Saunders, T. H. Robinson, R. Gardner, J. O. Batchelor, J. Beale, J. Bell, D. Buick, J. W. Baker, H. Sanson and G. S. Bridge, in Wellington and on this coast. It is well supported in the Wairanpa. The chief objects which the Association will be established for are :— To carry on the business of a Co-operative Association in all its branches. To buy and sell goods, stores, consumable articles, chatte s, and effects of all kinds. To conduct the sales of the Association upon a cash basis. To offer facilities to Farmers for the shipment of their produce to the various markets of the world, and to appoint Agents in different localities for the furtherance of this ] object. To purchase, take on lease, or in exchange, hire, or otherwise acquire any real and personal property, and any rights, patents, or privileges necessaiy or convenient for the purpose of the Association, and Warehouses for the storage of grain and prduce of any kind, and any land, buildings, easements, railway sidings, machinery, plant, and stock-in-trade. The Governor-in-Council, on the application of the Auditor-General, at the instance of Mr Jellicoe, solicitor to the Manawatu Road Board, has ordered a special audit of the accounts and affairs of the late Board. The enquiry will be held shortly at Palmerston before the Auditor-General. The prohibitionists have gained three seats on the Kaikonra Licensing Com mittee. Their programme is declared to be the closing of all the hotels there next year. Four thousand acres of forest in Pensylvania are on fire. Mr W. R. Wilson, of Broken Hill fame, has bought the Pa hi estate, a few miles from Auckland, and he is going in for blood >

stock breeding. The Hon. James Williamson was the former owntv of the estate. The furniture owned by the late Hon. Chas. Williamson, at thn Pahi farm, and bought by him in London at a cost of about eleven thousand pounds, lip <s been bought by Mr Jas. Thomson. Mr Thomson was the purchaser of Sir George Grey's island, the Kawau, and afterwards became the owner of the late Judge Gillies' residence at Epsom. The Boston Post, that in Dodge City there are three well defined classes of society — the aristocrats, who put out their washing ; the middle class, who do their own washing, and the democrats, who take in washing. Besides these there is a contingent consisting of ultra democrats who regard washing as a supurfluous luxury. The next English and European mail via San Francisco will close to-night at 8 o'clock. Mr McLennan wants a first-class cook who must be a good baker and a steady man. Mr Osborne wants an all round tailor. An English barrister in Christchurch has created a little interest by advertising in a straightforward manner the charges he makes. The Daily Press says :— What we are quite sure of is that Mr Speckman is the first English barrister — we believe he is a member of the English Bar — who has ever advertised himself and his scale of charges in this bold and uncompromising manner. We are well aware that lawyers have many ways of indirect y advertising themselves. One lawyer will take to politics and stump oratory as a means of drawing fuller attention to himself ; another will create scenes in Court, insult Judges, quarrel with counsel on the opposite side, and generally speaking make himself a nuisance in the hope of drawing business. Others with the same notion wi 1 write long letters to the newspapers. But we have not yet heard of any lawyer but Mr Spackman who has courageously adopted the methods of the grocer or the draper We have no sympathy with the nonsense about professional etiquette which make professional men rank themselves above tradespeople. A grocer's business is to sell sugar ; a lawyer's business to sell law. If the former desires to extend his trade he sits down and drafts a good sounding advertisement, and in due course reaps the benefit of his enterprise. Why should not a lawyer do the same ? We do not see why he should not, and Mr Spackman is evidently of the same opinion. Klock Yung Gee, a citizen of Ballarat, is suing for divorce from his wife, Jessica Klock Yung. The petition is based mainly on the ground of desertion, Jessica having absconded with a Hindoo ; but there is an addendum also, charging her with " too muchey talkee with neighbours, too muchey paint face and eye-brows, too muchey drink Yu epean brandy, too muchey fight, too muchey snore in sleep, too muchey boss, too muchey dream, too muchey say " Uilium husband," and too muchey no good." Messrs Russell & Co. need two smart boys used to flax work.