Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, SEPT. 15, 1891.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 15 September 1891, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, SEPT. 15, 1891.

The Russian novivpspors are unanimous ■ in expressing satisfaction at tha fiion-My feelings. displayed by Great Britain towards France, ss evinced in the invitation of the Fjrenoh Squadron to Port mouth.. Thcso dispositions, remarks the Noeoxti, constitute yet another guarantee tor the maintenance of European peace. Oysters frequently reach a great oM-ag-i. The ridges pi 1 water lines on the- shell m<!> cate the number of years until tln-y g.c beyond 40 ; then the linos are wider, and indraate a period of 10 years. An oyster 8G years old was caught in Delaware" Bay four years ago. . ; • >; -. A lost saddlo is advertised for. A football match took place on the Racecourse Reserve last Saturday botwern tho Foxton and Sandon teams. . The Saudon men arrived by a special train,. a number of other people availing themselves of tho opportunity of corning'into town to witness the game Play' was started a little after. IJ o'clock, in two 'spoils of 35 minutes cac!'.. From the commencement of the game tho visitors were on ;the defence, aivi five minutes after starting, the first .-try was obtained for Foxton. Tries followed in quick sue cession after this, the Foxton backs being too quick for their opponents, th:; score at the close of tho game standing sit Foxton 11 points, Sandon nil. For the visitois Brooks (capt.), Bailey, Anderson, Whanga and Hanson played best, and for Foxton J. Whyte (capt.), H. Robinson, U. Cole, 80;Ville and Doyle. The game was noticeable as free from any wrangling, bskig played in quite a friendly spirit throughout. The Sandon team played a plucky, up-hill game, and tried their bast to avert defeat. . .A. return match is likely to be played in a fortnight's time at San- ' don. . , On Tticsi'.v.- ' next Messrs Steven:' nr.s! Gorton hold their quarterly stock salo nt Handon. By the iidveiti«einent it will lie noticed . that there are. already over 20 jj uiieep entered, 11300 of them being turnip fed. ■ , ■ Tiic pocond annual meeting of the Mann • watu Rowing Club is conveaed for to-nsor-row evening. 'i'isn iirsf, .r.:j:nhcr of the enlarged an-J i>n; jravt-il C.witorbury Times h before us. Ji. a.way ■• was r. ;.;j.>l paper, it is even more so now. Forty pages, with eight p::gos of a supplement, makes it now tho largest weekly in llie Colony. We can honestly recommend the paper to our readers.

It has boon decided to hold n, Spring Show of flowers and vegetables curly in *) -osmber. Gardeners should take the hiat. An accident occurred at the wharf on Satmday which very nearly endsd in the death oi a litils boy. It appc-ars that the little fellow was standing on the steps loading from the wharf to the river, wh< j n a dog rushed past him and knocked him into th« water. A little girl, Miss Lilly East, was 'on the wharf, and noticed what hadoccurred, and ran do vn to "the steps, and. ■altf.-i' nmch strtfgglhi" caught "tho boy afti'i 1 lie had sunk twice;. Be was then too he'd vy for her to get out and she; jnst managed to keep his head cleai, till a Mr MacMahon cams along who then lifted the little fe.bw out ar.d j^ot hi:n home, ilo-.v the. h;yj osur.e to be by l:iai.;e;i ! , uu'attended, in sueli a ilaugerous ylaoy 's notknown. Mesdamcs Thornton and Welsh velum thanks to the rescuers. It is understood that the general manager of the Wellington and ManawaHi Kail way Company sa) a the.N. Z. Time* is prepared .to alter the starling of the early morning train from Wellington from G. 30 a.m. to 8 a.m., and to time the arrival of tho.evening train in'Wel ington an hour and a half car ier than the present time table hour. He cannot, however, carry out these reforms nn"ess the Railway Commissioners will make reciprocal arrangements on the Governiuoi^liaK and this, it is reported, the ComftyafyMfiys emphatically decline to T-vyorthiixls peanut crop entering -into c*oiffiiwl'cliil&,;iS»i,'rown in the southwestern ciJuntieis ofTinjinia and adjoining districts in North Carolina, ami the Norfo k market absorbs the largest proportion, of the civp. ' The remaining third is raised in Tennessee^. '.The annual value of the crop for the.J&gl "four years averaged about Ji500,Q00..---;5-/-..; ilany.wiU.n-o. doubt recollect at one. timo 4 u'.onths waft&ansideral ;a good pas. age ' from, thsfbld country to New Z? aland, but in the early .d(iy,s. of the colony six months I was about thfC.rjsual period. Mow everything has a'teteij since that time, even in the length of passages. Mr J mes Smith, oC -To Aro House, Wellington, left We lington in November last and even by the roundabout Suez routs was timed to bu i:j. London wilh'in '50 days. During lu«;..si:;y in London ho personally supervised all., the ; buying for our present 1 spring' season"!' That he ' uriderSbod our rcjciuirements gjoes without saying,- and that, he -would manifest taste and judgment in selecting, is. tonally, true. .The res alt i-s the magnificent display o( Spring Fashions 1 we [.are now m'a'khijj a!, I c Aro'llouse, Wi'llinjjton. 1; " ■ ' • ' ■•■ Ju?t now wo 1 arc too busy cponing up our ijcv.' Spring G.oods, coming to hand by every steamer, to enter into details. This wo shall do in a subsequent is.-;uo of tliis paper. We irTay, however, say t at for ijuanlity," excellence, value, variety, no previous .'spring exhibition lias ever eijuaHed the present one at Te Aro llouso, \%.'ellington. •».. ur country friends should if possible, pa3-us an early visit, or we will forward patterns of outnew spring goods, free l>y post, on application to James Smith, Te Aro House, Wellington. • . The anriualetfock-taking saleat the Bp:; Maj'.ciik, Palmerston Kcrth, U now on. Visitors to Palmerston arc requested to inspect the bargains iv- every department. Mi linory, .mantles, ulsters, household ■ drapery, ' Men's and 'Joy's tjlothinj;. a'! m dl'/3:in'g prices at the i>on Marcho, Pahi^rston North, lloss <t S.AXJU'Oi;:). STASUEV S.VVS: "After all thorc is •notiiin;; beats s, cip of good Coffee." J( you woiiidi unjoy.:such, dvink-Ci;EAS'K's A. If CoiTEi:. So d only in lib and 21b lias.