Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, SEPT. 12, 1891.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 12 September 1891, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, SEPT. 12, 1891.

Mr Hankey, the manager of this sect'on of the Government railway, has struck an artesian supply at the Oroua Bridge at 90 feet. The water does not, however, rise more than eighteen inches. The jury found Christian Hansen guilty of setting fire to the Island Bay hotel, and he was sentenced to three years hard labour. The leader of the English Opposition has a line knowledge of human nature. In a recent letter he expresses himself in favour of an increase in the number of labour members, but not of a lab ur party. Class parties, he says, make queei Parliaments. King Leopold, of Belgium, threatens that if Lord Salisbury claims Katanga he will allow trance to purchase the Congo Free State. Joseph Thomson, the explorer, has been recalled £i-om Katanga. Another hero gone. At the wreck of the barque Fiji it is reported that deserving of mention above all was Arthur Wilkinson, who died like a trave man. On Saturday afternoon one of the crew threw himself off the ship into the sea in the endeavour to swim ashore, but was swept back again and again by the back wash until he seemed thorough y exhausted. Wilkinson plunged into the sea to assist the drowning man. They kept together for some time, but were pparently lost beyond hope, when ropes from the ship reached them and they were dragged aboard. Wilkinson was thoroughly exhausted, and expired in a few moments, but the other man recovered. A new way of making war. General Gallifet watched the manoeuvres of the French troops from a balloon, and directed their movements by telephone. According to an Austra'ian contemporary a man rushed into a hotel on the bank of tho Burdekin one day recently yelling for help. Foon it was ascertained that a fair-sized black snake had crawed up inside of his troupers. Willing hands helped the victim, and the reptile was, when extricated, found dead. ,As the man had felt many punctures, he was dosed with brandy for the following two days, and then, danger being past, tended like a prince for the rest of the week, at the end of which time he took up his swag and proceeded on his lonely tramp. A few days after, the driver of Cobb's co.aeh dropped in, and being told the tale knocked the publican into extravagant profanity by explaining that the man had played the same game at fu ly a dozen hotels and shanties along the road, ''"he plan the gentle boozer adopted was to find the snake, kill i , and, when in site of a hotol, lnd£<» it in hH tronievf,

A horrible, s*cry c" "urieririg at st-a conies hoiVi Washington. Four ha- ds of the l'<\val Tar, which has put into San Franv.iseo, died of fever, contracted in German New Guinea, from which she sailed on June 5 Her stores were exhausted, and the survivors of the pvev: £Uts toothless and starred W lh gangrene, the effects of scurvy. Three of them worked the ship from Famoa, and as the remainder were unable to give help, they were kept on duty night and day all the way.

M<\ssr?. HonUirk Brothers, the owners of tl*n i'«oho hemp mill, intend to start boring for water very shortly.

Mr Snelson advertises an auction sale on Thursday of the fiaxmill and plant known as Liddoll and Co. 'si Orortft Bridge.

Ix Another column Mr Oaborne* of the Cs-n lre of Commerce, has a notice about spring goods and a first-class tailor, the whole of which will repay perusal.

The result of the man John Hretinc.il being charged at the Police Goiirt on Wednesday \vlth larceny-, has been to Create surmise in some people's, minds ris to his having been so, they having laboured tinder the idea . thAt. there wits H'rilV bile 1 .totin BrennAn \\\ [[{[£ v,'iile world, and therefore the man accused must have been the John Brennan they knew. Such occurrences are very annoying to the respectabe, and we therefore' note that the accused was ,only a stranger to the plftfe, fthd hikt ho lilrig" to do vritn\'dt&ri l v wily mated to, our townsman " Jack " Brennan, the trusted foreman of the paddocking for Butherford's mills. During his residence in Foxton, some nine or ten years, John Brennan has made a rec id as being a most civil, obliging, and hard-working young man. How any such misiake coiV d have arisen we hardly understand, but having arisen we are g act to be able to 3et the matter right. The Legislative Council on Thursday threw, out the Female Suffrage Bill on a division by 17 to 15. The Councillors who voted against the measure were :— Hons>-. Bonar, Bowen, Ruck'evi Digiiatt-, Ctrace, Hart, Mantellj Mller, Peacock, Shrimski, Swanson, .Taiaroa, Wahnwaha, Wa'ker, Whitmore Whyte and Williams. In responding to the toast of " the ladies " on Thursday evening, Mr Young expressed" his regret that the ladies did not ride, and this I rought up Mr Scott, who informed the company that at one of his private races at Willow Bank he had a race for lady riders in which three had competed. We believe this to be exceptional. The following tenders were received today for the erection of a slaughter house for the Messrs Robinson Brothers : — A # Mn.-sgrovo, £28 ; T. Easton, £23 10s ; H. Aldridge, £23 10s ; and Jonson and Trask, £17. The lowest tender is only 23.-> under Mr Nye's estimate. The tender of Messrs Jonson and Trask has been accepted. The Advocate, no doubt inadvertently, publish an incident of the Maori War from our columns without acknowledgement. The new school at Ohau, on the Manawatu me, was opened on Monday by Miss Brown, late assistant at Thorndon

Many will no doubt recollect at one time •1 months was considered a good passage from the old country to New Zealand, but in the early days of the colony six months was about the usual period. Hoiv everything has a'tered since that time, even in the length of passages. Mr J.mes Smith, of Te Aro House, Wellington, left We'lington in November last and even by the round about Suez route was timed - o be In London: within GO days. During his stay in London he personally Bupervisod all the buying for our present spring season. That he understood our requirements goes without saying, and that he would manifest taste and judgment in selecting is equally true. The result is the magnificent display of Spring Fashions we are now making at Te Aro House, Wellington. Just now we are too busy opening up our new Spring Goods, coming to hand by every steamer, to enter into details This we shall do in a .subsequent issue of this paper. We may, however, say t' at for quantify, excellence, value, variety, no previous spring exhibition has ever equalled the present one at Te Aro House, Wellington. Our country friends should if possible, pas us an early visit or we will forward patterns of our new spring goods, free by post, on application to James Smith, Te Aro House, Wellington. The annual stock-taking sale at the Bon Mahche, 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 prioes at the Bon Marche, Palmerston North. Ross & Saxdfohu. THERE IS ONE THING every house wife should know, and that is that Hercules Baking Powder is the best. Why ? It is the cheapest because the Best for makng breads, pastry, cakes, puddings, scones, ifcc. Beautifu'ly light and wholesomein 6d and Is tins. From all grocers.