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

By Kentish papers of June, we notice that wether mutton in wool was quoted at ninepence a lb, and fat beasts at 65s per lOOlbs. These prices cause us to wonder as the low prices ruling for frozen meat. Snbsoiling has always been recognised as of great value in worked out lands. To dig and spread each season ten tons, would mean some considerable expense, but in Africa they are blessed with an earthworm that does this for the landowners for nothing. It ha 3 also been reckoned that these useful agents turn over the whole soil to a depth of two feet in twenty seven years. The Knights of Labour will have to see that none are imported. . Tomorrow the Manawatu County Council meets for business at Sanson. The special train run for the convenience of the Councillors offers an opportunity to those who wonld like to visit the Carnarvon and San* son districts, to go up in the morning and return in the evening. Thursday is the day fixed for hearing objections by shareholders to the oall that it is proposed to make to wind up the Co* operative Bakery Company. The Wanganui Education Board sent a telegram on Saturday to the Foxton School Committee stating that Mr Barrett, probationer at PalrnerstonjNorth, should] go to Foxton to relieve Mr Stansell, junior assistant. He has now taken up his duties. We must be thankful for small mercies, but the Committee asked for a teacher. Mr Van Tienhoven, Premier of the new Dutch Cabinet, officially asserted that the losses of the Deutsche Bank would not exceed £50,000. The N. Z. Times in answer to a correspondent says the generally accepted division of the year in New Zealand we should say was as follows : — Spring — August, September and October ; Summer—November, December and January ; Autumn — February, March and April ; Winter — May, June and July. For our part we are inclined to put the seasons a mouth later. An Invercargill man suggests that a profitable line of business for New Zealand would be freezing milk for London. He says milk sells at Is a gallon in London wholesale. William Vereker Bindon, commercial traveller, was arrested at Auckland on Tuesday on a charge of indecent aesault on a girl under 14. The assault is alleged to have been committed in an unoccupied apartment of the Government Insurance Building. The girl is respectable, and the daughter of a shopkeeper. Bindon was released on bail on his own recognisances of £100, and a surety for a like amount. He declares he riever saw the girl in his life. John Cooper, of Omarau, wrote to the Waitaki County Council, offering to kill small birds on behalf of the Council at a remuneration oj £ 1 per thousand, birds to be taken from any place where the Council might mention. He added that he had been' acouatomed to killing birds in the old country, and had all the appliances handy. It was resolved to accept the offer for a month's trial. The Wellington Press is respsnsib'e for the following paragraph :— lt is generally rumoured that the cheques for payment of £500 each to Messrs Macdonald, Larnach, and Loughrey for their services on the Public Trust Commission have been made, but that the Auditor-General refuses to sign them, being in contravention to the law. As a matter of faot, we believe that no money oan be paid to any of the gentlemen named without a direct vote of Parliament, unless, indeed, ordinary travelling expenses. The work among the children is more than ever engaging the attention, of the heads of the Salvation Army. A set of fresh rules and regulations have lately been formulated at London Headquarters. The General has despatched special "officers to New Zealand to prosecute this branch of the work. The rising generation is evidently in for a good' time. , .;. „ V'^r Th&S&lvatioh Army's Labour Bureau, has obtained employment in the North Island for a number .of Canterbury men, at bush -felling and road-makiug. Two batohes of eleven and fourteen mpn respectively were last week despatched- from Christchuro'i to Wellington, from which place they were conduc ed to their employment by the Army's agent. This oli. cer reports,—" Prospects for men magnificent." Many of the men are engaged at Bush-falling at a shilling an hour, with a prospect of six months work. It is estimated that General Booth's first Farm Colony on the banks of the Thames, will, wh-n fully oocupied, sustain between 4000 and 5000 people. A catcher is wanted at Spiers' mill, also 30 cords of firewood a month. ,

The first notice of the entertainment for rieJt Tuesday evening appears today. '« Stidttediti:" As the weather keeps, the piece w'Giild 6ekiti i 8 fre verjf seasonable. The Chronicle says : — Ift&fefay" ftfoxMng a fine seal, supposed to be a silver 868', about nine feet in length, was found on the Kaitoke Beach by Mr William Hatwell. At first sight it looked like a peouliar shaped log, but on approaohing nearer the finder was startled by the animal's calf like Voice* As may be imagined a seal of this Size made no very mild burden, but with the aid at hte Mother and a friend, Mr Hartwell succeeded in carrying it into town, though it was not until a" late hour last night that the task was compleW, We believe that this is the. first seal found inltnfeiie'i^hbDarhood, so that it is 1 . Ye y likely considerable Interest will be taken in Mr Hartwell's discovery.