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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 6 October 1891, Page 2

In the Friday's issue of the Palmerston Standard there appeared a jocose little paragraph finding fault with a criticism, said to be our , on the piano recitals given by Mons. Leon s river. 0 my prophetic Standard, yon happen to be considerably out. No. performance had oeen given in Foxton by Mons. Leon Driver until the issue of the Standard of Friday last, was published, and we could not criticise that which we had not heard. As a fact no criticism of ours in any shape appeared till the following Saturday, and therefore it was impossible that the paragraph of the day previous could refer to it. In time, no doubt, our Argus-eyed contemporary will get correct. An eel is a very slippery fish, and the truth in the tales narrated of the same are slippery also. The conversation commenced with the mention of the capture of the 14 bs eel last week, which was made but little of, a gentleman gravely asserting that it had been reported in the South that an eel weighing IGOlbs! had been obtained. Some remarks, suggesting a doubt, having been passed, one of those present admitted that it did secin sns icious, but that he biew of an eel weighing 701bs being caught up North, and that it was presented to Governor Bowen upon his first landing in New Zealand. Upon being pressed as to his having seen the eel he admitted that he had not, hut he had seen the trench which the Maoris had cut to represent the size of the eel. Maoris are good narrators of tales, and are cred ted wi h being in possession ; of most of the visiting cards used by travellers, upon which are inscribed " I am a bit of a liar myself," and which they hand up whenever a narrator caps their stories. On Sunday afternoon a large fire was observed burning at the Makererua swamp opposite Moutoa , and at night the sight was a very pretty one, there being quite a mile of a wall of fire, working its way towards the hills. During the night the fire had worked itself out, no smoke being even visible in the morning. Captain Mair brought his family up on Saturday, aud me have the pleasure of welcoming them as settlers, for the future, of this district. A specimen of " stra ning at a gnat, and swallowing a camel " business was given at the Borough Council yesterday. A Coun ci lor proposed that some chairs, he in fact mentioned six, not like the sumptuous ones which grace the chamber of the Manawatu County Council, but neat plain seated ones, should be bought • a not unreasonable proposal considering that one-half of the Councillors have been ace mmodated with a form for some years past, yet it me with disfavour in high places. The Clerk sug gested to the Chairman that there was no money ! none had been allocated for this particular purpose ! and the Chairman seemed inclined to agree, until it was suggested that if this was a real difficulty the resolution might still be passed, with tho proviso that the Clerk purchase a chair at a time as funds became aval able. The position dawned upon the objectors and the resolution was agreed to. Almost immediately afterwards it was ordered that tenders for metalling three roads be called f or ! ! ! There ap ears to be, like our nautical Councillor would say, still " a shot in the locker " left. Tenders are invited by the Manawatu County Council for building and launching a new punt for the Shannon ferry. The Mayor did not preside at the meeting of the Borough Council, nor was there any explanation given of the rsason for his absence. "Coming events, etc.," aud Cr Nye filled the position for him, and the Oouncil hold one of its shortest sittings. Mr Gardner invites tenders for drainin :. | The adjourned meeting of the. Butchorinc; : Company will be held at the Pub ic Hall i to-morrow at 2 p.m. It is desired that us • many shareholders as can nmb it convenient to attend, should be there. J In this issue we publish the result or th> Inspector's examination of the Foxton School. We have to thank him for his quick despatch, but still the papers arrived too late for Saturday's issue. Tailing everything into consideration we think Mr . Woodham and his assistants are to be congratulated on the result.

The usual monthly sitting of the Resident Magistrate's Court will be held to-morrow. The meeting as advertised in favour of ear y doting and ha f-holiday was he'd in McMillan, Rhodes & Co.'s old store last evening there being a fair number presentMr W. Hamer was voted to the chair. Sevsral reso utions by employers and employees were brought before the meeting and adopted. It was resolved to ask His Worship the Mayor, the Clergymen, and another gentleman to wait. on Mr Perreau and ask him to re-consider his decision, and so givo the employees of the town a show. The meeting closed with the usual thimks to the chair. A committee meeting of the Wanganui Jockey Club on Friday evening passed the programmes of the Eangitikei Racing Club, Foxton Racing Club, and the Warvengate I Hack Racing Club. The owner of a Somnus filly was showing her off in the Main Btreet on Saturday afternoon, when he met with an unexpected mishap. He had reigned her in for the inspection of a very "horsey" gentleman, who naturally surveyed the animal from every direction, and tickled her bv placing his finger on the fifth or some other rib at which the thoroughbred let his head down and his hind-quarters up, and placed the rider upon the metal, and then made ofi at full speed. No actual damage was done but a great deal was said. The man Waterloo and his wife were brought up before a Justice yesterday morning and remanded till Wednesday. The woman is charged with stealing weaving apparel from Captain Mair, and the man with being an accessory before the fact. " Spectator " is responsible for the statement that Mr Donald Eraser thinks that the people of Sandon and adjacent districts should spend a small snm in buildin • an observatory on Mount Stewart and supply it with glasses and maps of the country. For cool audacity, the action of a young man towards a storekeeper in town, the other day, is to be commended. The young man was of a careful nature, he desired to purchase two packs, one of wheat and one of Hour, and h ving priced the goods at all the stores, decided to buy for cash at an estab ishment where they do not deliver goods. Nothing abashed, this hopeful called upon a neighbouring storekeeper and asked him to kindly call at the opposition shop and cart the two sacks up to his house! We believe his request was not acceded to. Twenty-five million Russians are unable to pay taxes. So says the cablegrams, and therefore open to suspicion. If true, the fact will be very awkward for the remainder, as the total population is 108,787,215, and taking the 25 millions who are so poor and the 1 million in the army, it leaves threefourths of the population to provide the 89 millions of revenue needed. From these three-fourths there will have to be deducted the 4 millions of Je*s which the Russians are driving out of their Kingdom. The Woodvil e Examiner says that complaints are rife of stock being taken and branded and earmarked by others than their owners. The Napier Supreme Court has been occupied two days with the hearing of a libel action against the Waipawa Mail by Dr von Mirbach. Some time ago the Mail contained an article warning people against quacks and unqualified persons. Dr von Mirbach was not named, but he claims that the article was directed at him. Two years ago he got £250 damages from the same paper for publishing a letter alleging that he was not qualified. Defendants declare that the article on which the present action was founded referred to several travelling quacks then in the district, one of whom the Hawke's Bay Herald had just exposed. The jury failed to agree and were discharged. A majority of three-fourths were in favour of a verdict for the plaintiff, but could not agree an damages, most of majority being for only the nominal sum. Mr J. W. Lowther, M.P. for Penrith succeeds Sir J. Ferguson as Political Secretary to the Foreign Office. The Witness says that in Otago, with the exception perhaps of one or two of the northern districts, the stocks of milling wheat in farmers' hands are exhausted, and as has been the case for some time past, during trie ensuing five months breadstuffs for the southern population must be largely drawn from Canterbury. While exportation of wheat from the principle producing districts proceeds steadily, with the prospects of acceleration should any sharp rise in prices occur in Australia because of necessities there, it is just on the cards that we may be awakened at rdi ear y date to the knowledge of over exporation and constant bankruptcy in wheat and flour.

Messrs Boss & Sandpord, of the Bon Marche, are now showing their first shipments of new Spring and Summer Goods ex " s.s. Rimutaka and lone." 46 cases and packages ar already to hand for the present season, and a highly attractive display of new goods is now on view at their well known establishment, The Square, Palmerston North, of which they respectfully invite the inspection of the residents of this di triet. THREE CENTURIES have rolled by since Bacon said " Coffee comforteth the brain and heart, and helpeth digestion ; Use Creasf.'s A 1. Coffek. Sold only in lb and 21b tins. The appearance both externally and internally of our widely known Family Drapery Warehouse is now extremely bril~ 1 ant. With the advent of the Spring Season come an entire change of Fashions. The 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 im«mense range of choice in every description of Fabric and Fashions to be always seen 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 and Fawn, at Te Aro House, Wellington. Patterns of our new Dress Fabrics with c-e f-measurement chart, will be forwarded post free on app'ication to our only address, James Smith, Te Aro House, Wellington. THERE K ONE THING every house wife should know, and that is that Hekcui.es Baking Powder is the best. Why ? It is the cheapest because the Rest for makj ng breads, pastry, cakes, puddings, scones, j iVc. Beaut ifuly light and wholesome. iin (id and Is tins. From all grocers. J Visitors to our Wavehouse will view with j wonderment our vast piles of every deI seviption of Spring and Summer Dress i Pabri'-s, consisting of Jacijuard Beiges, natural Homespuns, Art Dingone's, French Corduroy. French and Scotch Chirids, ': Saxony Suitings, Camel Hair Tweeds, Jacqnard Vigoreaux, Twilled and Plain B?i es, French Delaines, Printed Bengalinos aud Foulards, Floral and Striped Bengalin s. Silk Grenadines, Summer Sevgc-B and Foules, *0., &c., at To Aro i House, Wellington.