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Manawatu Herald, 21 May 1892, Page 2

The Rev. Mr Jones will conduct services at All Saints' Church to-morrow morning and evening. A meeting was held last evening at the Manawatu Hotel when it was decided to hold series of Tug-of-War. Mr T. P. Williams was appointed to form a committee n.nd make other arrangements. Mr Ellery Gilbert will visit Foxtoa oil Wednesday next. Tenders are invited for supplying and laying glazed drain pipes for the Borough. A man named William Barton was arrested last night for drunkeness, and was fined ss, or 24 hours' imprisonment this morning. On our front page the A.M.P. Society has an altered advertisement. Mr Osborne has an alteration in his advertisement, and refers to his tailoring department. Our readers will notice the altered advertisement of Messrs McMillan Rhodes & Co. in which they enumerate some of *'" new lines of their v; ~ y «'{ n ...jier issue We shalll give some interesting particulars concerning this firm's latest shipments! A desperate; biit very iii-advised" step, Sas taken by a canvasser for the proposed taki paper. This " enterprise "is also to be on "liberal" or Government lines. With that rashness, which could only be credited to a person who would engage in such an undertaking, the canvasser for the new paper made a dash at a leading gentleman of the district and a large landowner, and endeavoured to Ingratiate himgelf, so as to Secure a subscriber, by running down land-owners ! He found that a little more discretion and less zeal would have been advisable,, The otltside publican's bodth oil the racecourse was ttifrlea completely topsytiii'vy by last Saturday's gale, and is now a complete wreck. " Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them," the Psalmist says. The possession of a large family, however, destroys the interest in each succeeding arrival. A good tale to this effect is told of a resident of Otaki who undoubtedly should be a happy man, guaged by the Psalmist's estimate. Lady Onslow paid a visit to the Natives at Otaki to show off the youthful "ftuia.V ;The old resident was at Imncl and ready to put liis'oar in, as we may perhaps remark, as usual. Thus is it stated is what he said to the mother of the child, " Look here Missis ! when you've had as many Huia's and Tuia's as I've had you won't make so much fuss of him." What a hard hearted monster. It was rumoured that the general meeting of shareholders in the Mercury newspaper company was a stormy one. Possibly it was, as a statement has leaked out that the loss on running a newspaper in the Government interest in a country district for a year amounted to £800 111 It appears that it would pay better if it attempted to represent the real interests of the settlers. A very good story, if true, and it is said to be true, is in circulation concerning a very smart lawyer in Wellington. A row had occurred in one of the pest spots in the town, and the police were having the matter investigated in the Court. A notable member of the demi-monde was under cross-examination by the lawyer, and he wanted to know something which she did not desire to inform him ; he per* sisted in.' requiring an answer, when the the lady (?) advised the lawyer to desist or she would be compelled to say something he would not like. The lawyer, blind to a hint, still asserted that he must know why she would not say what she knew, when the woman- burst out with " why don't you say, you were there all the time " ! !! The lawyer repented and closed his examination. The gentleman who act.d as Clerk of the Court on Wednesday, was Mr Percy Ward, 'a son of Judge Ward, of the Native Land Court, and at one time Resident Magistrate for this district. The Feilding State School was re-opened on Wednesday, it having been olosed some time owing to the prevalence of diphtheria in that town. Messrs Weekes and Short have been elected to the directorate of the A.M.P. Society. A well known recipient of charitable aid, Sir Charles Burdett, Bart., who for the past two years has been an inmate of the Auckland Costley House for the Aged Poor, died at that institution on Monday night. Deceased was the seventh baronet of Benthwaite. He was formerly a lieutenant in the 57th Foot, and afterwards in the Second Staffordshire Militia. About 30 years ago he came to New Zealand, and fought in the Waikato War. 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, iv any shade for 10s. Full dress length of superior quality, Melton, for 12s. Full dress length of Gkanite Tweed for 12s. Full dress length of Gbey Homespun for 12s. Any '■ of these 'sent . " f rte.fi by parcel post " frsm"Te Aro House, Wellington. Full dress length French Foule Serge, all colors, for 14s 6d and 16a 6d. ; Full dress length Navy Dress serge, all wool and fast dye from 13s 6d to 22s fid, 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 Robs 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 and Scalette Jackets, Ulsters, Millinery Fancy g^oods; also 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.