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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 11 July 1891, Page 2

Wedding cakes should have an upward tendency, owing to the number of marriage about to take place. Tn about a fortnights time, the daughter of one of our old and respected residents will be married at All Saint*' Churoh. In about the same period two daughters of a farmer in Sandon wil be married on one day, to two estimable young men. So the country grown. It is probable that a Rale of fruit tree? and shrubs will be held in less than a fortnight's time. The stock will be of first c-ass quality. Messr- Stevens and Gorton's stock sale j at Bui's will be held next Tuesday. On Tuesday the attraction at the Rink will be a Hurdle Bace. The disadvantages of public houses in positions where there are no constables wa? fully shown in our Shannon correspondent's letter of last issue. We have sc often heard of such scenes in similar place? that we are not surprised, it was only what j might have been expected. It would. , however, be better if a constable did make his appearance the r a unannounced, when more caution would afterwards be exercised. The Minister of Lands has stated that Connell has been suspended for writing an " improper " letter to a member of thf House. When that letter is read it wi' l not be surprising to learn that " improper " is a mild term, and that the member is the one who represents Bangitikei. There is a likelihood of the Government acquiring, for village settlement purpose?, a block of land near Levin, from the Natives. It is a pity a block could not have been got for a special settlement. We are sure that Mr Wilson will keep his attention to this, and get it if possible. A brand saved from the burning -of the Minister of Lands. We are glad to learn that Mr J. W. Gower has been sucful in getting the titles to the land at Levin, settled. He is unlikely to have a desire to purchase any further property of the Crown for a time. As Mr Gower has got the land, it is reasonable to suppose that his actions have been correot, therefore those of the Minister must have been unfair and improper. ,:.._■• The two rangers, Campbell and Connell, do not seem to have secured very enviab'e positions, judging by the reports of the proceedings of Parliament. A successful experiment has been he'd at Pimlico, London, for tho production of superior iron from inferior metal, by adding aluminium. Cole, a clerk in the employ of the Commercial Panning Company, in London, hap een arrested on a charge of defrauding the Bank of £8500. The defalcations have been going on since 1886, and have been n.arried on by means of forged office warrants. Four murderers have been executed by 9?ectricity in New York State. Conflicting accounts of the exeoution are published. One doctor states that there were signs of respiration, and the current was renewed again and again as wafe found necessary in the caso of Kemmler, exeouted by electricity last year, and which led to horrible descriptions of the scene in the execution room being published by numerous newspapers. The word " calico " has a queer origin. Many centuries ago the first monarch of the province of Malabar gave to one of his ohiefs, as a reward for distinguished services, his Bword and all the land within the limits of which a cock crowing at a certain temple could be heard. From this circum stance the town which grew up in the centre of this territory was called Caliooda, or the cock of crowing. Afterwards it was called Calicut, and from this place the first cotton goods were imported into England, bearing the name of calico. The Frenoh Government has voted a million francs for the purpose of bringing back distressed emigrants from the Argentine. ' ' • ■ From Auckland we learn that so far as is known the returns for the Te \roha flleotions are: — Colonel Eraser, 616; Sir Walter Bailer, 417 ; Dr. Broom e nowhere. There are b'x stations to come in, but Colonel Fraser's return is regarded as C3r'ain. ..-•■■ j The auction sale of damaged flour, was well attended on Thursday afternoon, anr the whole quitted at satisfactory prioes. The flour bad sot damaged in the trip from th» South, and all marked 'ags were rejected I y the consignees. The averag pn'oe was close on £7 10s a ton, and both i B ; de=> seemed satisfied. 1 We are sorry to know that Mr Georg Hughes, who assisted Mrs Bowe and he n<i "hboura to save what they could at th r fire, has suffered rather a severe injury t" hi* h >nd by fome glass and putty getting into it. It is very painful and may, wi hout ereat oare, be dangerous. He also received a pretty good tcorohing about the face. At a quarter to five yesterday afternoon a smat earthquake shock was fe't, the direction aoreari^g to be from east to west. Another shock followed at 7.25 p.m. The M»yor convenes a meeting at the Public HaH ' n Wednesday evening to consider the ste-s necessary to (take to secure a du'y qua'ified medical man for this dia. triot. Tenders are invited for considerable a tsrations at the Bank of Australasia. Tho whole p emises are also to be paired and painted throughout. The British Museum has secured from Thibet a copy of the " Jangym " a monster encyoloypeadia of Thibetan Buddhism. It comprises 555 volumes, each of which is two feet long by six inches thick. Three thousand rupees formed the price for the work which was formerly in the possession ' of a Buddhist monastery in Thibet.

Th> TVjornirp; p 08 t says :— "N** 1 Pl.v---m nth, a co stitn nor iA New Zealand, eeently returned the local lamplighter as Us member of Parliament. It «as though t that when this gentleman was iv receipt of the £150 per annum, ■which is paid to each member of the House of Bepresentatives, he would retire from his position as lamplighter ; but he has decid d to retain the appointment, and the New Zealand papers announce that • Mr E. M. Smith, M.H.8., has been re-elected lamplighter of New Plymouth, »t a salary of £25 a year." 1 We trust that the combination in one person of the qualities of lamplighter and statesman may .tend >tp a brilliant illnminat:on of the dark places of New Zealand politics. A few lamplighters might even be an improvement in the Imperial Parliament. The oldest tree on record is perhaps the cypress of Somma, Lombardy. It is supnosed to have be planted in the year of the birth of Christ, and on that account is looked on with reverence by the inhabitants ; but an ancient chronicle at Milan is said to prove that it was. a tree in the time of Julius Caesar, b. c, 42. .It is 123 feet high, and 20ft in circumferance at one foot from the ground. Napoleon when layfown the plan for his great road over the simplon, diverged from a straight line to avoid injuring this tree. It seems hardly worthy of the cost to cable out that during the banquet at Windsor Caste in honour of the marriage of Princess Louise, a water pipe burst in the dining-room. Still it was . done. The annual stock-taking sale at the Bon Makche, Pa'merston North, is now on. Visitors to Palmerston are requested to inspect the bargains in . every department. Mi'linery, mantles, ulsters, household drapery, Men's and Boy's clothing, a'l at clearing prices at the Bon Marche, Palmer- j ston North. Boss & Sandford. Ham'et — •• The air bites shrewdly ; is very cod. Horatio — It is a nipping and an eager air my Lord." Hamlet, Scene 4, Act 1. As in the time of Royal Dane and Courtly Horatio so of late, to use a very common expression, the weather has been " bitter] v cod." For the present wintry season there have been imported thousands of yards of the best Flannels and bales upon bales <v excellent Blankets at Te Aro House, Wellington. .: Of Flannels we have at present a stock of about 20,000 (twenty thousand) yards in all the best English and Colonial makes, in White, Shetland, Orkney Scarlet and Fancy colors, and the prices range from 'Hd to 3s per yard at Te Aro House, Wellington. We are noted throughout the Province for the excellent value we give in Flannels, \o that customers may rely on getting their orders executed most advantageously at Te Aro House, Wellington. Our usual stock of blankets is between 600 and 700 pairs, in both the Best English and Colonial mattes. We buy at first hand in the English markets, from the very best manufacturers and at the lowest cash prices, and our Colonial Blankets are picked with great care from the best mills. We are thus able to sell our Blankets cheaper than nine-tenths of the trade in the colony can do. Our prices range from 6s lid to 50s per pair at Tk Aro House, Wellington. As orders sometimes come addressed to hands in our employ, and delay is therefore caused, we would notify that all orders and business letters should be addressed onty to James Smith, Te Aro House, Wellington.