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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 11 February 1892, Page 2

Messrs Stevens it Gorton'* stock sales at Awahuri and Palmerston are advertised in this issue. > A meeting of the Athletic Sports Committee was held on Tuesday cv. rung when a very Rood programme was drawn up, in which the total amount of prizes run up to over £30 There was also a sum set apart for prizes for the little children, with a view of making the meeting a kind of a picnic and plea«ant day for all. The programme will shortly be published. A private meeting was he'd at Sanson yesterday to prepare the steps necessary to call public meetings in the distriot for the purpose of forming a National A ssociation b'rom what transpired it is evident that the movement will be numerously supported. During the month tenders are to be irvited to cleaV a small piece of road near the Shannon ferry which will thus give an outlet to Mr Saunders' farm. Willow Grove farm containing 30 acres, is advertised for sale. The land is well known as being situated near the cemetery. There are some useful buildings upon the property and a small orchard. It is also subdivided into convenient paddocks, Mr Osborne has determined to commence next season with a new lot of tweeds and .will therefore sell what he has in s ock at 1 reduced prices. He is also clearing his ' Summer'goods at great reductions. Messrs Loveday Brothers announce they ] have received direct from London five cases of new goods, particulars of which will be found in their advertisement 'over the leader.

A general meeting of the Manawatu Rowing Club was he d last night at Whyte'p Eotel. Sixteen members were present, and Mr Stansell was voted to the chair. The following new members were elected : — Messrs G. Edwards, .T. B. Imrie, S. Lewis, ftnd F. C. McLennan. After a discussion the programme was left to the Regatta Committee, consisting of Messrs Cowles, Hamer, A. Osborne, 0. Robinson, Shadbolt, W. Stansell, and C. Symons to draw up. The programme will include two pair-oared inrigged handicap races open to all comers, champion double sculls outrigged, champion pair-oared outrigged. final sculling heat for Mr Hunter's cup, and various water sports, such as sea horse races, tub race, greasy pole, etc. , etc. It was decided to canvaß the town for subscriptions, five pounds eleven shillings being subscribed in the room. The committee will meet early next week and frame the programme, Two sections, centrally situated in the township of Shannon are for sale. Strephon has again changed hands, Mr E Woods having sold him to Mr 11. J. Chapman, who intends taking him to Australia. The price is said to be £150. The barque Lucia arrived at We ling, ton from New York on Monday, 123 days out. On December 31st, in a hurricane, she shipped a tremendous sea, which smashed up everything on deck, carried away a boat, broke the main boom in two, an'd'wrecked the cabin. A large. quantity of water got below, and the cargo is probably damaged. Grey, second mate, and Stretz, the man at the wheel, had their legs broken. Captain Erskine, Funck, the first mate, were knocked about and seriously injured. Count Hartenau (Prince ' Alexander of Bulgaria) has had a private audience of the Emperor of Austria, and it is understood that he has obtained permission to accept the pension of 50,000 francs (£2000) per annum voted him by the Bulgarian Sobranje. He telegraphed his thanks to the President of the Chamber, and, separately to Prince Ferdinand, to whom, it is understood, the initiative in this matter was due. Frequent complaints are made as to the information sent out from London by cable. We notice that it was thought of public interest to cable out that " Miss Nellie Stewart is a great success in the new opera ' Blue-eyed Susan, 1 " now being played in London ! It is stated that the Government are about starting an evening paper in Wellington. "Experience teaches fools," but not politicians. The fate of past papers should be a warning. The Napier paper in the " Liberal " interest has ceased publication ! A Mr Southwood visited Mount Egmont in April last year and never r* turned, and a search party was unable to discover his body. On Sunday last a party who ascended Mount Egmont found the body. It was found in a good state of preservation on the top of the mountain, lying across two boulders at the foot of a p ecipice about twenty feet high. One leg was thrust out, and the other bent under the body, as also was one arm. One side of the face was crushed as if smashed by a fall. The body had clothes on, even the hat, and the flesh was in such a good state of preservation that the body could not have been exposed more than two days, and must have been covered by snow, which had melted off it. , One of the party was Mr Hendry, clerk in the Police Station, who searched the deceas d's clothes, and took from the pockets a watch, which had stopped at 12.20 a.m., a purse, some cartridges, a number of ink pencil leads, a match box, a knife and other trifles. The cartridges had not Deen fired, the caps being intact, but the paper had all rotted away, letting the shot and powder escape. Hendry also found two bundles of papers which, on account of the damp, had been reduced almost to a pulp. Deceased was a man apparently between 25 an l 30 years of age, with brown hair and brown moustache. The remains had on the following articles of clothing : — Light check coat and vest, white Bedford cord trov ers, heavy lace-up boots, and brown knitted socks.