Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1892.

Manawatu Herald, 14 May 1892, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1892.

To-night " Billy " Barlow appears at the hall. The Resident Magistrate sat to a late hour on Thursday evening. In this column will be found the dates fixed by Mr Brabant for his courts foB the nest quarter:

The entries for Messra .Stevens and Gorton's stock sale at Awahuri on Tuesday x and horse sale at Palmerston next Satur- , (lay are advertised to-day. t " Survivor " was sold by Mr Montague on Thursday and only realised £8 2s 6d 1 I Just before going to press We learn that a Maori boy, named Tatftna has been ( drowned at the lakes on the coast. The State school will be closed for , another fortnight. In our next issue we will give the Eesi- , dent Magistrate's remarks in giving his . decision in the Shannon sly grog selling cases, when our contemporary the Palmerston Standard will be able to understand that it is not always wise to accept any statement that may be made without due inquiry as to its truth. Deeming is engaged in writing a history of his life, an I stales that he intends to make a full confession of the Bainhill and Windsor murders. He has assigned all his property to Mr Lyle, his counsel, for the purpose of paying the expenses attend, ing his defence. The United States Senate has endorsed the arrangement made with the Inman Line of steamers for securing the City of New York and City of New Paris as war cruisers, besides five other fast steamers in the event of war. The Post says:— Mr J. M. Shera, M.H.R., has sent the following telegram to the Hon. W. P. Reeves :—" You have just placed on the Commission of the Peace some men bitterly opposed to your labour friends. You have neglected to open labour bureaus here, notwithstanding repeated promises. The strain is becoming too much." After a hearing extending over three days, Michael Alexander, pawnbroker, and Harold Bey, labourer, of Napier, have been committed for trial on several charged of working swindles by means of alleged pawned goods. Bey would offer for sale for a small sum a pawn ticket for a ring, alleged to be of considerable value, pawned with Alexander. He succeeded in selling a number, but the purchasers, when they redeemed the goods, found they had paid four or five times their value. The police seize! Alexander's books, but could find no entries corresponding to the pawn tickets. Heavy bail was fixed by the Resident Magistrate in each case. The Government organ, the New Zealand Times, is very amusing yesterday. It is not pleased to learn that Mr Macarthur secured such a good reception at Feilding the other week, it appears impossible, to confidence. As Mr Ballance spoke there the other night, it appears impossible, to the Time*, that anybody else's views can be satisfactory to the settlers! Mso because the meeting did give this vote, unanimously to Mr Macarthur, it concludes that he was surrounded by his Conservative Committee, and by a few equally perapatetic members of the Conservative Political Association, and was aided by a servile local press ! ! ! If the Star is servile, what can be a fitting name for the New Zealand Times ? The Wellington correspondent of the Otago Times writes : — " As a cogent illustration of the way in which the new taxation is operating in discouraging the employment of labour, I may mention a little incident that came under my notice. A well-to-do country landowner was paying into a bank a large sum of money. A friend who met him then remarked : " That's a good lump of money you are paying in." The depositor then replied: " Yes, and I shall not take it out again in a hurry. But for this new taxation, and the uncertainty as to what else this Government may do after the hints various Ministers and their friends have thrown out, I should have laid it all out as I used to do in improvements on my place, where I formerly employed a large amount of labour in this way. As it is, I am afraid to do anything, because I never know what Ministers may do, and so I shall simply deposit my money until I see how things turn out. Of course, all this money is thus kept out Of the pockets of the working classes, who otherwise would have had every penny in the shape of wages, but I cannot afford to run the risk of investing more money in improvements in the present uncertainty, and in view of the further penal aotion Ministers have forshadowed against capital, so my money goes into the bank and the labouring class go without it." This particular depositer was not a party politician, but merely a practical large farmer, who spoke from the practical standpoint, irrespective of politios and parties. His words are consequently all the more significant. 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 12g. 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 Fodle Serge, all colors, for 14s 6d and 16s Gd. Full dress length Navy Dress •" kboe, all wool and fast dye from 13s Gd to 22s 6d, 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 Bending orders will please en close 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 oompleted, their first Direct Shipments of Autumn and Winter goods for all Departments, which are on a more extensive soale 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 stooks in the following Departments viz: — Dressgoods, Mantles, Plush 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, Ross & Sandford, the Bon March, Palmerston North.