Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, DEC. 22, 1891.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 22 December 1891, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, DEC. 22, 1891.

Six hundred and nine rabbit skins were brought to the Rabbit Extermination Society on Saturday. The Carnarvon school children paid their annual visit to Poiton yesterday. There were about fifty and were under the charge of the Key. Mr Harper. The lessee of the Carnarvon-Sanson Tramway notifies that there will be no train on Christmas Day, and that on \ew Year's day the tram will arrive at Foxton at 10.30 a.m. and leave at noon. Mr Frank Robinson has had a capital shearing, securing tliirty-fonr bales of « oo) from fourteen hundred sheep. The fat sheep clipped, without the belly wool, from 15§lbs to 171bs each! The sheep from which the loc i was taken of which we gave the length a month or two back, cvi 15£lba ! For little time our enterprising coach proprietor hns been running a larger coach with n four horse team. It looks very much like business. Oui? Bufcnoribsi-e will kindly notn that wo ataU lit jm'jlith cm t&turday euti deil&g

The prices offered for stock seem much in advance of their proper value. Taking the present rates for frozen mutton, wethers should not be wo th 2Jd per lb, but the sales made give this price, an'l more than this iv most cases, to the farmer, leaving the bujer the risk and cost of freight. L is to be hoped that nothing will interfere with the m?at export trade, but we cannot help thinking the prices asked by sellers will soon do so A lin of close on 800 wethers have been rai ed from I'oxton to 51 ssrs Harbers in Wellington for freezin •. They were purchased from thn Herr.ington estate by Mr Ham noud. The Gi?ar Company have purchased Mr McLennan's fat wethers at a satisfactory figure. Mi- Washington Stewart, who has been taking charge of the Sandon School during Mr Grant's leave of absence, concluded his term on Friday, and will, with Mrs Stewart, return to Mellington. Messrs Russell & Co have closed their hemp mill at Papakiri, and have paid all hands off. We have heard of a 'me of two-tooth shorn wethers being sold for 18s fid a head by a farmer in the northern part of the county. Mr James Linton has scoured the contract for the valuation of the Borough under the new Land Tax. He was down last Saturday, and is atill in the town, paying the necessary visits. We inspected a trap this morning made by Mr Ahem for Mr John Walls, to carry his bread round to his enstomers. It i very strong and light and should givo the purchaser every satisfoction. The iron work, all made by Mr John Westwood, is worth noticing, as great care and neatness has been exercised in the manufacture. It is a good thing for the town that such creditable work is done in it. Mr Andreason secured, a short time ago, a t wo-voomed cottage that had lately been erected on the beach for a fisherman, and now lets it to those desirous of h ying a spell near the sea. We understand that it is let for some weeks to come, Mr Walsh being the present teenpant. The cottage was taken by Mr Walsh to give his family, who have been bad from whooping cough, a thorough change. We can speak of the very great advantage a stay near the seabeach is to those who do not feel strong. We be'ieve that during the summer many cottages would easily find tenants ntar the site where this one is situated. A meeting of the Committee of the Fovton Eacing Club was held 'ast evening when there were present — M ssrs 0 iver (in thfi chair), Wi liams, f-tansell, Rhodes, J. Robinson, W. Uobicson, J. Whyte, F. Young, and the Secretary. It was resolved to accept Messrs. Hi 1 and Poole's tender for working the totalisator. Mr y taasßl reported that he had been unab c whilst at Sydney to procure a suitable weighing machine for the C üb. The Secretary wa? instructed to make the usual engagemenf for the sale of the privileges, and the pro curing of the train and band services. The Secretary and Treasurer (Mr W. G. obinson) were empowered to sign the bond for *he payment of the totalisator tax to the Government. It has been known for a considerate time that Mr Woo-iham has been wishinp to get a change from Fox ton, and had hoped to go to Pohangina, but no vacancy is ikely to be open there From the 'atest news received from his parents in Auckland he has decided to app y for a schoo' n*ar that town, and has sent in his resignation to the Waviganui Board We arr •orry to lose him, and wish him every success. The meeting that was to have been held ast Saturday evening in regard to the protest 'odged by C. Symons for the ex-cap, tain of the Bowing C üb'a cup, did not take place, owing to absence. We draw attention to the advertisement of tha opening of the Shannon church. A •licnic, tea, and public meeting will bf held at Shannon on Saturday. There should be a good gathering. To»morrow some spare furniture will bn offered for sale by private bargain, at Furrie's old store. The honorary secretary of the Foxton Racing Club is to be most heartily con gratulated on the nominations he has received for the Summer meeting. The entries tota l 5G for the four handicaps as against 33 for the last Summer meeting and shows that the horse owners of tho district have rpcognised that the opposition of the We lington Club is not to be allowed towipeoutthe ocal institution. Theentrics sompare most favourably with those received by other coast clubs which even •jive two days racing. Mr A. Fraser returns thanks to all those who assisted to put out the fire in the paddook adjoining his honse. Mr Cawston reoeived four tenders for the erection of his new stables and accepted that of A. Musgrove, which was the lowest. The work is to be finished within a month. It is not generally known, says the Press, that seagulls prey upon trout in our rivers, and in some quarters there is considerable scepticism on the point. Our "• ilverstream correspondent, however, informs us that hey taw gulls attacking trout in the Hutt river a few days ago. We hope some interest will be taken in the election of a Councillor for the Borough, in Mr Nye's place. The nomination is sxed for next Monday. The Exchange Buildings in Wellington, lately owned by Mr T. Kennedy Macdonald, was sold by auction on Friday, and were bought in for the mortgagees for £9000. It will be remembered that after Mr McLean had announced himself as a can didate for the seat vaoated by Mr T. K. Macdouald, Mr Jellicoe intimated that ho intended to stand against all comers. It took but little time to prove to him to him the very little chance he had of success, and a conversation with the Government, and a deputation from the Trade Unions led him to publish his withdrawal. It is curious to find that after being put a 1 ttle lower in the s ale than Mr McLean, yet Mr Jellicoe bears no malice, and is ready to do anything to secure the return of Mr McLean. At Mr Bell's meeting at the Opera House, he, when cheers were given at the conoluaion of Mr Bell's address, rose up in the dress circle and called for cheers for the Government ! We might have had more to say about the peculiarity of such %n act, but the Post, in its answer to oorrespondents, puts it very neatly thusly: — " R.E.D.," 'Fairp ay,"" Indignant," "Decency," and others write to us in reference to Mr Jellicoe's conduct in interrupting the proceedings at Mr Bell's meeting last. night to call for three cheers for the Government. Our correspondents use very strong language to characterise Mr Jellicoa's conduct, a'though perhaps riot stronger than the occasion would justify. Space, however, will not permit us to pubiish these letters, and the public so tho roughly understand the Htitude in matters of taste which Mr Jellicoe prescribes to himn If that it In not necent&ry to say more

No less a sum than ;"2832 has been ex- ! pended in the We'Hngton districts for the year 1890 91 by the Stock Department in the destruction of rabbits. This does not include the salaries of the inspectors. A native land case came before Mr Justice Richmond in the Supreme Court on 1 hursday, say the Post, in which N-korima i te Haunga, of Ofaki. attachpd a conveyance I to the Manawatu Kukutauaki Block from certain natives, of which he was one, to A. Stuart, John Davies (of Wirokino), and Walter L. Bailer, these thr^e, with the District Land Rpgistrar, b"ing joined an defendants. Mr Menteath appeared for the •ila-ntiff, and Mt Gully for the defendants. In the outset an objfetion was raised by Mr Gully that the case came within the meaning of the suspending clause in the Native Land Act of last session, prohibiting all proceedings in respect to disputed titles until after the end of the next session of Parliament. The verdict of the Coroner's jury at the inquest held on Sarah Ramsay was " suicide whilst of unsound mind." By some moans the grass in one of the paddocks belonging to Mr Duncan got alight soon after the tram had passed along the railway, yesterday afternoon. T ere was a good deal of excitement for a time, as on one side of the padlock a thick gorse hedge run •, and on the other Bide of the hedge are the residences of Messrs Fraser, Osbornes and Barber. By warm work and many hands the fire was beaten out before it reached the hedge. Very curiously, Mr Duncan, who has previously suffered from a similar fire, has had all the boundares of his paddooks ploughed round this week, but this one was not done, it being thought unnecessary. After the fire was apparently put out in the afternoon, it broke out again at half past eleven at night. Mr Duncan had asked Mr G'urrie to keep an eye on the paddock, and thus it was that it was discovered in time. This was put out, and then it broke out three difiierent times afterwards. Mr Furrie remained on the ground ti 1 two o'c'ock. We hear from Wellington, from a private source, says the Mercury, that Mr George Fisher's old Central Committee are working this time for Mr Bell, and not the Radical candidate. If this rumour be true, Mr Bell stands a very good chance of being returned, despite the oceans of ministerial eloquence now being poured forth on his behalf. Mr J. O'Brien has resigned the mastership of Oroua Bridge School to take* charge of the Catholic School in Masterton. Not themselves, but others ! The Times says:— At the R.M. Court yesterday afternoon (Thursday) Mr G. F. Hawkins sued VI r A. S. Baker for £6 4s for services performed for defendant's clients. Plaintiff in his evidence said the services had been performed for defendant at a time when he was absent, and at the request of defendant's clerk. Defendant in his evidenoe said he disputed part of the claim, as the arrangement between the solicitor's acting at the R.M. Court, was, that no charge should be made for service' performed ,by one solicitor for another during his absence. Ho set up as a defence the fact that the hill of costs had not been rendered within the legal seven days. Mr Hankins gave evidence as to the practice usually adopted by the profession. He had never charged a brother practitioner for services performed for him during his absence, His Worship reserved his decision. The Railway Commissioners announce the arrangements for the Christmas and New Year holidays. Excursion tickets to Wellington will be issued up to 2nd January, available to the 12th January. On Jhristmas Day there will b a no trains to or from Foxton. On.Boxing Day the morning train from Foxton will leave at a quarter c ght, and the return train will leave Feilding at 6.30 p.m. and Palmerston at 7.10 p.m.

There are certain customs that seem in iisolubly associated with Christmastide, x d one of the oldest and most agreeable is that of giving and receiving presents. Thiß •.ime-honoured precedent we now follow at Te a ro House. With a view to rendering shopping a veritable delight, an ' imparting to it all the pleasures of anticipation, we shall during the present month and until its close, •jresentour cash customers with a Christmas ■yift, the value of which will be in accordmce with the amount of goods purchased at Te -\ro House. The cash buyer of 10s worth will receive a present, and so on, varying in value for parcels of £2 up to £100. 'I he larger the purchase the more numerous or valuable will be the gifts. Nevertheless every purchaser from the limit named will get a choice of presents as decided by the amount bought at Te Aro House. This free distribution will.extend to and include the 31st. or last day of the month and year. Those who can appreciate the advantage of buying from the largest and best selected stock of summer drapery in the city, new, seasonable goods in perfect condition and fashion, and at the lowest wholesa c prices, wi 1 find the addition of attractive Christmas presents perfectly irresistible in v ging a visit to Te Aro House — Advt. We are requested to direct the attention v)f our readers to the fact that Ross & - Sandford, of the Bon Marche, Palmerston North, have opened np a large stock of Men's and Boys' Clothing, purchased direct fro <• the best mills and manufacturers in the Colony. The value and choice in this department this season surpassing anything they have previously offered to the public. Visitors from this district are respectfully invited to inspect the stock in this and other departments.