Post Office Notices.

Manawatu Herald, 10 May 1892, Page 2

Post Office Notices.

FOXTON OFFICE. MAILS CLOSE AS FOLLOWS :— For Palmerston North, Foilding, Wan/anui daily at 8.30 a.m. and Thursdays and Saturdays at 3.15 p.m. (additional). For Wellington and south daily at 8 p.m. and on Thursdays and Saturdays at 3.15 additional). For» Oroua Downs daily afc 8.30 a.m. P. CURTIS, Postmaster.

Captain Mair has just got his house on his farm completed. It has seven rooms, and the ground plan is thirty-five feet by forty-five feet, with eleven foot studs, and is roofed with iron. The house was built by Mr Boss. One room is a studio for Mrs Mair, and the windows and skylights have been specially framed to throw the necessary light. The walls are hung with tinted papers, brown, pink, and green. The woodwork is all varnished. The passage is block siennia with dado and pink ceiling. One room has been papered with the fairy tale of Cinderalla worked out. The whole of the painting and papering has been done by Mr Webb of this town. The libel action against the Evening Press by Colonel Fraser, M.H.8., for statements published respecting a case of evic tion has been withdrawn. The paper accepts without reserve Colonel Fraser's denial of the statements) nnd regrets thai they should have been puhlt'ahsdi

We are requested to call the attention of those whom it may concern' to the re-open-ing of the old Good Templar Lodge in Foxton on Thursday next. Nobody can deny that there is room in this district as in most others for a society of this sort conducted in a reasonable and temperate way. Some advocates of temperance, we are of opinion, are neither reasonable nor temperate in their advocacy ; but as we are given to understand that the old lodge is starting anew more or less under the enlightened guidance of our old friend Mr W. S. Stewart, we are justified in auguring for it a prosperous and useful career. Yesterday morning L. A. Langley was brought before the Court on the charge that on or about the 18th day of April, 1892, at Foxton, he did feloniously steal, take and drive away one horse, of the value of £25, of the goods and chattels of one Bernard Spelman. The Constable applied for a remand to the 18 th instant, which was granted, and the accused was liberated on bail. We are glad to learn that Mr Nye has withdrawn his proposal to resign from the Palmerston Hospital Board. The members were unanimous in urging him to retain his seat, and were willing that he should not attend unless there was important work to be considered. This speaks highly for the impression Mr Nye's business habits have made upon his fellowmembers. Parliament has been further prorougued to the 23rd of June. The control of the Awahuri bridge lias been vested in the Manawatu Boad Board. The Fitzherbert Road Board have to pay one sum of thirty-six pounds eight shillings and tenpence, and then the cost remains on the three bodies we have previously mentioned. "It is funny that he felt that way." Some time ago we announced that Mr Toomath had sold his property at Motoa. He vehemently denied it, yet the Bank of New Zealand Assets Company are the owners. A white cockatoo was noticed flying across the country four miles out of town. To-morrow the Manawatu County Council hold their ordinary monthly meeting at Sanson. The sale of Mr Burgess' farm at Campbelltown takes place to-morrow. Several instances of sheep and cattle stealing have occurred in the Woodville district of late. Mr George Henry Luxford, of Oroua Bridge, has been gazetted a Justice of the Peace. Mr William Grey, relative of Sir G. Grey, has been successful in establishing his claim to the earldom of Stamford. The Liverpool Journal of Commerce of a recent date says that the steamship Duke of Buckingham, from New Zealand, which left Wellington on the 28th of January, has just reached the Mersey, bringing, amongst other goods, BGO packages, or about twentyfive tons, of New Zealand fresh butter. This is the first shipment made from that colony to Liverpool direct. The quality compares favourably with many of the best-known makes in England and on the Continent. Other papers speak in equally favourable terms of our butter. An incident is reported from Oamaru which shows that the old Maori customs have not altogether died out. Some three weeks ago an old Maori chief named Solomon died at the Puketotara settlement. Since his death, his aged wife believing that food was tapu to her, refused to eat, and succumbed the other day to her prolonged fast. Some sheep from the Hakatere Station, Ashburton Gorge, sold at Ashburton last Tuesday, were curiously disfigured with large scars on their backs, says the Weekly Press. These, it appears, were evidences of the evil work of the kea, which is still a great nuisance on the ranges. These sheep had evidently survived its attack, but numbers are killed by it every year, and the bird increases rapidly in spite of efforts on some stations to keep it down. On Hakatere seventy keas have been killed in the past season, and the loss of sheep has been annoying. It would be well if runholders in infested districts were to unite and offer ;a fixed price for dead keas, high enough to attract good shots to every likely place. Combined effort might practically end the nuisance. Charles Hawtrey made £80,000 clear out of the " Private Secretary," every penny of which he lost on the turf. Mr Wilson, general manager of the Midland Railway Company, writes to the West Coast Times categorically denying Mr Seddon's statement in his speech that land settlement on the West Coast was delayed by the Company, and that the Midland Railway contract gives no power to make regulations dealing with their land. He again asserts that the Government delay in making the assessments is the real cause of settlement being retarded, and denies that the timber trade developed by the Company was derived from timber cut on the mining reserves. On Saturday the secretary to the Jtlabbit Extermination Society had 540 skins de. livered to him. During the present month we shall be prepared to send full dress lengths of any of the undermentioned new Winter Dress Fabrics, " free by parcel post " to any address. The goods are all of the present season's importation and are splendid value. Country residents should certainly request patterns of these forwarded from Te Aro House, Wellington. The following are the special items. Full dress length of good quality, Melton, in any shade for 10s. Full dress length of superior quality, Melton, for 12b. Full dress length of Granite Tweed for 12s. Full dress length of Grey Homespun for 12s. Any of these sent " free by parcel post " from Te Aro House, Wellington. Full dress length French Foule Serge, all colors, for 14s <5d and 16a Gd. Full dress length Navy Dress i>erge, all wool and fast dye from 13s 6d to 22s Gd, and full dress lengths Fancy Homespun for Bs, 9s, 10s each, " free by parcel post " from Te Aro House, Wellington. Patterns of all the above are now ready for dispatch, and can be sent immediately on application to James Smith, Te Aro House, Wellington. Customers sending orders will please enclose cash in postal notes, post office order or cheque, payable to James Smith, Te Aro House, Wellington. Messrs Ross and Sandford of the Bon Marche, Palmerston North, beg to intimate to their numerous customers in the district, ' that the additions to their premises are now completed, their first Direct Shipments of Autumn and Winter goods for all Departments, which are on a more extensive scale than on any former season are also to hand and ready to select from, and they respectfully solicit the early inspection of customers, they direct special attention to their stocks in the following Departments viz : — Dressgoods, Mantles, Plush j and Scalette Jackets. Ulsters, Millinery and Fancy goods ; also Flannels and Blankets, General Drapery and Household Furnishing, which are now stocked more largely than formerly and in keeping with their extended premises, Rosa <% Sandfobd, 1 Dip Hon Mnroh, Pftlmfwton Nortlit