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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 18 July 1891, Page 2

Dr. Porter will be at Whyte's Hotel tonight and on Sunday morning, Our readers will rememb-r that Hooper's Ylinstre's will appear at the Hall to-night. Ov r the leader will be se n the advertisement of one of the ol'est and wealthiest Insuranoe Companie ■ in the world We refer to the Liverpool London an* Globe. No one need have the slightest hesitation io providing seourity against loss »ith suoh a oompa y, We are glad to see that Mr P. Youn >, the agent for the Queen of the South, has the •»• po : ntraen' as agent for this district, and h<> inform as that during the ohort time he has had it, he has secured many valuable risks. A ■ errifying spectacle was witnessed on a plateau on the Dandenong ranges the other day. An avalanobe of Birth, 50 acres in extent, swept down the sHe of the mountain with a fearful roar, and engulphed one residence, the occupants of which escaped with difficulty. One lady was buried in the debris, but was rescue^. She,' however, had a leg brolteri, besides sustaining other injuries. T c damage caused by the flood in the Yarra is said to be fully a quarter <>f a million. A great, deal of pil agin 2 is going on in houses vvacuated by the occupants. The n w noted Horowhenua Block case is again ef ore the Native Affairs Committee this session, says the Post, in th«j shape of a pietitio 1 by Major Kemp and members of 'the Muaupnko tribe, who ask Par ianient to take stems to remedy the gross wrong which Has been committed of making Major Ke&p and Warena Bunia actual own-rs in ; the certificate of title, instead of trustees for the tri e. An effort is to; be made to hay* a special A ot passed this session dealing with the matter. Mr P. Cunningham, of Christohurch. supplies the following figures in connection with the frozen meat trade : — Fr m the Ist July, 1090, to the 30th June, 1891, one and a half mil ion carcases of mutt n have been shipped, 358,000 carcases of lamb, and ten and a half million pounds of beef, the tota weight being 113,000,000 pound?. The es imated cash money va ue of frozen mea- f.o.b is over £1,800,000 sterling. Tbs increase in we ght of shipments over that of the previous 12 mouths is 12,000,000 pounds. In a leader upon the Breach of P ivilege business the other d y, the Post remarks : —If Mi Bryce had contented hiraualf with merely da- ing the attention of the House to what had been done, and expressing his disapproval of the course _adopte', but not moving any formal motion of con 'emnation, we Relieve the House would have agreed with him, and'shown a higher and more true appreciation of its own position th nit d ld in passing a reso uti n not only condoning, but practioa'ly applauding what was rea ly a very improper and upjnstfiable proceeding on Mr Seddon's part. , He committed a dou' le wrong— a w ong to tin House and a wrong to she Railway Comniissioners. Theo c desired and asked for certain, information. The o hers desire 1 to give what was asked for, with soch ex--planatibns as.wonld enable the facts t > be better understood. The Minister 'of Pub ie W.rks i tervened and and intercepted and suppressed a portion of the explanation, becau efo Wdothhedid not deem itfeleVan In doi g this he exceeded his rights a d mistook his positions , ,

The totara b'ooki put into Mr Mills's foundry at Welington in 1860 are now being taken out and are a* sound as the day they were put in. A humorous describer of London life has said th»t a charwoman is. a pergon v> he brings nothhg with her to a house in th morning, and in the evening goes home with it lied up in a large bundle. Th" Examiner says : — Wild pigs are very plentiful this season and br,ve caused n, good deal of damage to the pnpertias at the i rear of the Victoria Block, breaking their fences and rooting up their grass. It is generally known that the Premier has a ye y arge interest in the Wanaa vi Herald, though i* i* worked as a company. From such a disinterested source as its lady's letter from Wellington we extract her opinion of the Hon. John Bal'anee— ♦'But abiit the speech, its modnp, an^ matter, and maker. . Have I not already said, some time, that he stands without a peer in the Honse? That, however, is syi g little. In any representative Assembly in any country in the world he won d take a foremost pace, and as regards our own l-.e stands in general intellectual capacity, in power of clear thought 1 , classification of ides, and facility of expression, and above all in that generous human sympat y minus which no statesman can c aim to be truly great— head and shoulders above every man in it—^ut stay; must I not except our G.O.M. ?— Well, no, not even him. As an orator he can't b • touched', his cultur d implicity is inimitab'e, in sympathy with his kind and desire to elevate thvm he is unsu'paßsed ; as a man of intellect he towers aloft, but as a statesman he is not so good all round as our present Premier a d Colonial Treasurer, the Hon. the member for Wanganui ; and as fair the others, they are not to be named in the same day. lam not deifying him, imirid you." Ever! to scoffers it must becle r that new.-papers are not without their use. A new steam yacht, 85 ton* register, has been launched at Auckland for Mrs Buxton, f rmerly of Me'boume, now ow'nqr of Kawau Is and. The yacht i* of handsome design, and is named " The Kawau." . ."■' 1 The annual stock-taking sale at the Bon Marche, Palmerston 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, Palmerston North. Boss <& Sandfokd. . Ham'et — "The air bites shrewdly ; is veiy. co.d. ■■■■■ Horatio— lt is a nipping and an eager air my Lord." j , Hamlet, Scene 4, Act 1. ~ As in the time of Royal Dane and Courtly Horatio so of late, to use a very common express on, the weather has been "bitterly cod." For the present wintry season therd" have been imported thousands of yards of. the best Flannels and bales upon bales of excellent Blankets at Te Aro House, Wei lington. ; 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 flid to 3s per yard at Te Aro House, Wellington. "We are noted throughout the Province for the excellent value we give in Flannels, ; so that customers may rely on getting their orders executed most advantageous'y at Te Aro House, Wellington. As orders sometimes come addressed to , hands in our employ, and delay is therefore caused, we would notify that a I. orders and i business letters should he addressed on'y to James Smith, Te Aro House, Wei ington. Our usual stock of blankets is between , GOO and 700 pairs, in both the Best English and Colonial. maKes. We buy at firsthand in the English markets, from the very best manufacturers and at the /lowest cash prices, and our Colonial Blankets are picked with great oare 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 Te Aro House, Wellington. THREE CENTURIES have rolled by since Bacon said " Coffee comforteth the lu-flin and heart, and helpeth digestion • Use Crease's A 1. Coffee. Sold only in 1 b and 21b tins. ;.