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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 22 September 1891, Page 2

Tenders are invited by the Borough Council for leasing certain reserves within the Borough. The public pound is open to tender up to noon of the 2£<th instant. The lease is for three years. The right to cut flax on the roads within the Borough for the next three years is now offered for lease. The art to live well is always worth studying. The constant round of beef and mutton wants a change. We are therefore glad to record that Messrs Walsh and Silcock have opened in town as pork butchers and small goods men, and prepare numberless tasty morsels for the good of the public. They thoughtfully sent round some pork sausages, savelois and black pudding, each and all were scientifically prepared and enjoj'ablo eating. We can therefore highly commend the products of this firm and advise our readers to test a samp c to fiee if we are not quite correct in our statements. We know they have a shop open on each Saturday, but are not sure of the other days. The shop is in the Tram Sheds next the Post-oflice. Exaggeration is not usually indulged in at the Borough Council meetings, but Cr Williams allowed himself to bo carriel away, when speaking about the inconvenient place the pound was lately in, as to assert that children had been very frequently (?) run over, when persons were driving horses to the pound. Once being ran over should certain'y have acted as a warning to the victim. William Charles Hazel was sentence 1 by the Chief Justice to be kept in the public gaol in Wellington for 12 months. This is the man who was convicted of obtaining £30 from a man named Barker by representing himself as being the proprietor of a travelling t; eatrical company, whioh he styled " The Carnival of Fun Company," and in which ho sold an interest to Barker. In the Supreme Court on Friday morning the Crown Prosecutor informed the Chief Justice that he would enter a nolle prosequi in the case of Coleman Phillips charged with having committed a breach of the Land Act. By the last mail from England, Mr Albert Fetter, Mount Eden, long well known in connection with inventions for cleaning and dressing phormium tenax (says the New Zealand Herald) received a letter from Manchester which shows that >iew Zealand flax is now brought face to face with a keen competitor, The " China grass" of commerce, the fibre of the rhea or ramie plant, has been brought to great I perfection recent y by Thomas Barraclough and Company, Limited Globe Works, Whitley street.Rochda'e-road, Manchester. This cleaned libre, which is as white and lustrous as the tinest silk, can now be prepared with the machinery invented by the above firm, at a cost of from 5s to (33 per lb. In their letter to Mr Potter they state that they have found that the phormium tenax dressed by Mr Potter's patent mixes well with Barra dough's dressed ramie fibre and that the mixture can be prepared in suitable fabrics which it is anticipated will prove acceptab'e to purchasers. This invention is of importance to New Zealand, as tho ramie i.lant grow.-; fairly in the Auckland district, and to the northward of Auckland will probably produce at least two crops of staklfs a year. A church in Kent has boon roofn.l witli jarrah timber, giving a splendid effect. A sensation was caused in New Plymouth on Friday, owing to the body of Jas Davis, in business as an ironmonger, being found dead in the ornamental water in the recreation ground, and his clothes at the bathinghouse. It te presumed he must have gone for a bathe early in the morning, and had cramp in the water. He was Chairman of tho Piccroation Ground Board, and presented the public with tho bridge across the lake. He was about sixty years of age and welKknown over the colony from the interest he tcvk in sporting matters. A meeting of the Stewards oftheFoxton Racing Club has been convened for tomorrow evening to consider tne framing of a programme for the Summer Meeting. " General " Booth received an immense ovation on his arrival in Melbourne, and thousands were una le to gain admission to the Exhibition building, where the reception was held. There has been an extraordinary religious revival at Geelong during the week, and the Christian Convention has held immense congregations. At the service yesterday the enthusiasm was so great that persons were almost delirious with laughing and weoping fervour. The collection amounted to £1500. Some of the congregation gave their watches, while others gave jewellery of every description. In some case title deeds of property were given. THREE CENTURIES have rolled by since Bacon said " Coffee comforteth the brain and heart, and helpeth digestion ; Use Cbeask's A 1. Coffee. Sold only in lib and 21b tins. The annual stock-taking sale at the Bon Mauchk, Pa'merston .North, is now on. Visitors to Palmerston are requested to inspect the bargains in every department. Mi linery, mantles, ulstors, household drapery, Men's and Boy's clothing, all nt clearing prices at the Bon Marche, Palmerston North. Ross & Sanm-ord. The appearance both externally and internally of our widely known Family Drapery Warehouse is now extremely briK 1 ant. With the advent of the 'Spring Season come an entire change of Fashions. Tho dark, sombre tints of winter are now completely effaced by the light, cheerful, beautiful new colors that distinguish the present season's fashions at Te Aro House, Wellington. An advantage to customers not possessed by any sma 1 traders anywhere is the immense range of choice in every description of Fabric and Fashions to be always sovii at Te Aro House, Wellington. Visitors to our Warehouse will vi.»v with wonderment our vast piles of every doscription of Spring and .Summer Divs* Fabri.s, consisting of Jaeipard Beiges, natural Homespuns, Art Diagoue «, French Corduroy, French and Scotcli f'hirids, Saxony Suitings, Camel Hair Tweeds, Jacquard Vigoreaux, Twilled and Plain Bei;es, French Delaines, Printed Bengalines and Foulards, Floral and Striped Bengalin •r, Silk Grenadines, Summer Serges and Foules, iVrc, ivc, at Te Aro House, Wellington.

The colors of the new Dress Fabrics are principally Grey, Grey-Blue Lavender, Cornflour Blue, and the most delicate tints of Dove aid Fawn, at Te Aro House, Wellington.

Patterns ot our new Dress Fabucs with se^f-measurement chart, will be forwarded post free on app ication to our only address, James Smith, Te Aro House, Wellington.