Wanamatu Herald. THURSDAY, NOV. 12, 1891.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 12 November 1891, Page 2

Wanamatu Herald. THURSDAY, NOV. 12, 1891.

It happens after all that Captain Mair did not regain possession of his horse, though he has had plenty brought to him to claim. A small, hut important mistake was made in the advertisement. The horse that is lost, or stolen, is not shod, and those seeking the animal are requested to notice this alteration. The d?soripUon appears again to-day, bo there in still a chance of making £2. It. was raining hard in Palmovston yesterday, and there were heavy showers in Sansoh, and though not so muoh rain fell in town, yet we had a hailstorm in the morning. The storm vas very local, as thr*»e miles out of town no nail fell. A beautiful bright morning tempted a larj>« numher of our townsfolk to journey to Palmerston, anil onr carriages quite full Is t the station at nine o'olock. A cricket match was played on Monday between side 3 chosen by the captain and vic n-captain respectively, nnd resu ted in a tie. tli* captain's team scoring 51 nnd 11, n.n>l the vice- captain's 38 and 24 W. Neal for the former, with 22 and 0. and \V. Poster for the latter, with 14 and 13, w. re the highest scorers, while for the captain's sid^ Vesers Ingram, K vis* and Brtty, and for the vicp-captain's Messrs Silcock, Winter and Fowle- did most execution with the ball. Mr Gifford has a fine field of w^eat on his property abutting on the main road in Carnarvon.

An altered advertisement of Joe Tos's appears elsewhere.

Mi 1 Boyle was very successful in his tendering for work for the County yesterday, securing three contracts.

Some weeks ago Mr John Hooban lost his life at Awahuri just as he had met a nephew for whom he had sent, and to whom it is rumoured he intended to leave his property. His death was so unexpected that no legal documents had been prepared. Yesterday Mr Ho ban's brother was in Sanson making inquiries into the position of affairs.

The advantages gained by advertising was again clearly shown at the last Council meeting, the difference between the highest and lowest tenders being very marked. In nearly every instance the highest tenders were double that of the lowest. The slips in the cuttings on the Awahuri road have been cleared. Mr F. Robinson has gi en considerable attention to the road between. Carnarvon and the Oroua Bridge, and by the County report the settlers will see that he moved that they be consulted as to the expenditure of further monies allocated to the im provement of the road. The Commissioner of Taxes announces that in pursuance of " The Land and Income Assessment Act, 1891," every person owning land must furnish, him with the returns of land and mortgages by the 28th of this month. A meeting is convened for next Wednesday evening of those interested in the formation of a band. At Messrs Stevens & Gorton's sale at Bulls one lot of shorn ewe hoggetis fetched fourteen shillings per head. That very dangerous bit of road, close to where the water- tank for tho tramway is situated, by the spot known as "Mickey town," is. at last to be partly fenced. A good many accidents have taken place there owing to the excavations that exist on either side of the metalled road. The County Overseer handed in a list of names of owners of property who had not yet removed the gorse from off the roads. Among the names was that of Mr Smith of Motoa. The eighty acres that Mr Frank Robinson has had broken up on his property at Carnarvon, has been sown with turnips, and the late rains have brought them on well. Dom Pedro, who was deposed from the throne of Brazil when the public was proclaimed some time ago, has offered to return if requested to do so. A cyclone has swept over Buenos Ayres, and a large number of people have been killed. Immense damage was done to property. Mr Wells, an Englishman who recently broke the bank at Monte Carlo, has again won heavily. He began with six louis and won £20,000. The London Herald states that Joe Thompson (" The Leviathan "), bookmaker, lost £30,000 over the Cambridgeshire Stakes. The officials in Burmah are resorting to rain-making experiments with a view to averting the threatened drought. Sanky and Moody, after their London visit, tour India, China, and Australia. Sir John Gorst succeeds Mr Jackson as Financial Secretary io the Treasury, A real, high time ! The Parnellites in Cork stoned the Nationalists from the roofs of houses Many were injured, and had to be removed to the infirmary.