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Manawatu Herald, 26 March 1892, Page 2

The Salvation .Army coffee supper and entertainment on Thursday evening was a great success. The Hall was crowded and the playing of the lassies very much admired. The Racing Club have received splendid nominations for their Hack Meeting, and thus have endorsed in a satisfactory manner the action of the Club officials in holding such a meeting. The Borough Council are giving tha footpaths a sprinkling of what is said to ba " screened " gravel. The screen must have had a large mesh. It is expected that the P.ope will insist on Bishop Va.ugb.an taking up the succession to Cardinal Manning despite his unwillingness.

Messrs Stevens & Gorton hold a sale of Mr J. Beid's furniture at the Kopani on Wednesday.

Referring to the startling discovery of Mr Garvey, the governor of the Wanganui Gaol, re porpoise skins, Mr Startup informs us that in 1886 he used to obtain porpoise skins from the leather manufacturers in the South Island. There is no doubt about the. leather being remarkably strong and soft.

There was a'sharp frost experienced here on Friday morning.

We are glad to be able to report that the Mayor is fast recovering from his illness, and was able to get down to town on Thursday afternoon for a short time. The attack has, however, left him very weak.

Mr Osborne's new advertisement will appear in our next issue.

Messrs McMillan, Rhodes & Co announce the arrival of new goods.

A sale of Crown lands in the Oroua Coal Creek North Block resulted as follows:— Of the first-olass land, 3164 acres, under the perpetual lease system, and 30 acres under the cash system, were disposed of. Of the second cla,ss 520 acres under the deferred payment, and 1000 acres under perpetual lease, were sold.

At the last Council meeting it will be remembered that Mr McAlister, who had secured the contract for metalling the main Foxton-Sanson road, waited upon the Counoil re compensation for delay in obtaining trucks to convey the gravel along the tram. He then suggested that a sum not less than £250 would be acceptable if he threw up his contract, or some undefined sum, to be hereafter determined, but probably greater than the Bum he had named, if he waited for trucks and carried out the work. The Council wisely left it to a committee to deal with, consisting of the Chairman, and Grs Hammond and Masters. McAlister had laid a portion of a tramway towards a pit, and had discovered the gravel pit and had it wholly stripped, so that so much work waa of a permanent and useful nature. The committee are therefore to be congratulated on having settled the difference with their contractor for the sum of £35, and permitting him to throw up his job. By the committee granting him this concession Me 4 lister obtains a refund of his deposit. The amount taken, and the amount asked appear very widely different.

A committee of the Manawatu County Counoil met at Sanson on Wednesday and opened tenders received for the various works advertised. Mr Coyle obtained the claying and gravelling in Carnarvon, and Mr Anderson the claying on the FoxtonShannon road. The price of this last contract was £1 3s lHd per chain. It is wonderful how very precise some tenderers are !

Tho Key. Mr Paton, chairman of the Presbyterian New Hebrides Mission, has forwarded a strongly worded protest to Sir Samuel Griffith against the resumption of Island labour traffic. He pleads that the Queen, the British Government, and all Her Majesty's dominions should do everything possible to suppress for ever the shocking traffic and the destruction of human life.

A Press Association telegram from Auckland, states that iv the Customs case of Sharland & Co., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the first cause of the action for the amount claimed, £1960, or treble the value of the goods ; and in the second cause of the action, a claim for £980, the verdict was for the defendants. It was shown in the first case that the pills were imported as "druggists' sundries," whereas they were pills sold as Mother Seigel's pills ; and in the second case, that in which the verdict was for the defendants, it was charged that the firm, having imported a certain quantity of -Mother Seigel's pills, represented their value to be only 4s pev lb, whereas the value is 3s 6d per dozen boxes.

Mary Stock, aged 23, the wife of Cecil Stock.' a settler near Waiuku, Auckland, was killed at Mauku on Wednesday night by the upsetting of a trap. Stock was married yesterday at Auckland, and was taking his wife home when the accident occurred. , The deceased's parents are named Gerrard, and live at Devonport.

A man strolled down into a Grafton (N.S.W.) bar during the hot Christmastide and deposited a sixpenny-bit for a "long beer," which wa3 duly served to him. As it gurgled down, he was observed to shiver, but immediately resumed the operation of dringing in marked haste, put down the glass without a word, and, with pursed lips,*walked hurriedly outside. When outside "he spat out a score or so of sixpences into his hat. The barman had, in the rush of trade, served out the wanderer's liquor in the glass iv which he usually kept his small change.

A singular accident, reported by the Wairarapa Standard, occurred at the Ruamahunga river, near Masterton the other morning, by which two residents narrowly escaped losing their lives. Mr Thomas Jago, undertaker, in company with Mr James Walker, was proceeding to the Taueru with a hearse containing a coffin, and decided to cross the Ruamahunga at the ford to give the horses a drink. They had got about half way across the river, when the horses suddenly fell into a deep hole and commenced plunging and kicking. The driver had barely time to release his hold of the reins before the whole concern was upset, and hearse, coffin and all were carried down the stream. The escape of Messrs Jago and Walker was almost miraculous. Immediately on the vehicle capsizing they jumped for their lives, and although the river was considerably swollen, succeeded in reaching the shore very little the worse for their adventure. The horses, which could not free themselves from the hearse, were soon drowned and were washed down the stream. Mr Jago and his assistant were brought into town by Mr Wilton, mailman, and Mr Cole, fishmouger, has proceded to the scene of the accident to endeavour to recover the hearse. The loss to Mr Jago through the drowning or his horses will be very heavy, and the circumstances of the whole case are unfortunate. <

The Sanson correspondent of the Mercury writes :— I am sorry to learn that Mr and Mrs Maighan hove gone to live at Bulls. The couple were much respected here, and never harmed anybody. They lived in a neat little cottage with a nice garden, which was freehold. They have been so much annoyed lately by certain larrikins throwing stones on the house at night, breaking windows and such' like, that they thought it was unsafe to stay in the township any longer: Now this i« carrying larrikinism a good deal too far altogether, and a month with hard labour would cool them down so that they would not be in a hurry to annoy anybody again.

Our first shipment of new goods for the Autumn and Winter Season have now come to hand by the latest mail steamers and are ready for inspection at Te Aro House, Wellington.

We have no hesitation in saying that the selection for the present season is without exception the beat, largest and most varied we have ever previously been able to show at Te Aro House, Wellington.

Our display of new Dress Fabrics for Autumn and Winter wetfr is really superb and manifests the good taste and judgment exorcised by our British, French and Continental buyers. Ladies requiring patterns of these should intimate their wishes to James Smith, Te Aro House, Wellington.

Patterns of these and new dress fabrics and charts for self-measurement will be forwarded free by post on application. We would earnestly, advise ladies to make an early selection and to secure the advantage of getting their dresses made in good time in the season in our celebrated dressmaking rooms at Te Aro House, Wellingtod.

All orders will be carefully executed, finished in the latest style and forwarded without delay from Te Aro House, Wellington. Messrs Boss and Sandford, of the Bon March 6, elsewhere direct the attention of oash purchasers of general drapery to. the advantages to be scoured by making their selections during the present clearing sale at the Bon Marcb.6. The goods being disposed of are all fresh and new, and the difference between present prices and ordinary prices is considerab'e. A large quantity of stock has already been disposed of, but there still remains a good choice of thorough bargains in Cotton Stuff, Dress pieces and Remnant I*,1 *, also Calicoes, Sheetings, Shirtings, Flannel 1 ettes, and Household Drapery, while Mantles, Millinery, Dustoloalts, and Sunshades are being disposed of at nominal prices to effect a complete clearance.