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Manawatu Herald, 31 May 1892, Page 2

It is iisserteA that Mr Arkwright has cabled out his decision in the matter of the Rangitikei election, and has declined to become a candidate. The Manawatu Times says that Mr H.P. Davidson has decided to erect a comfortable residence on his property at Heatherlea. The Palmerston Standard, in view of the probable result of the coming election in Rangitikei, asserts that it is regarded as the most Conservative constituency id the colony ! More about Mr Cooper's dompulsory retirement from the head of the Civil Service will be heard when Parliament meets. The Public Servici Journal says :— We think strongly that Mr Cooper should at i least have been given extended furlough on retirement on full pay, and that the notice he has received is scarcely in keeping with the recognition due from a Colony like New Zealand to a high officer of State, after fifty years of single hearted devotion to its interests. We cannot detect in the ' loudness of the democratic tos3in which is sounding in these latter days over an astonished world, any tone which rings of disregard of generous consideration towards those who have faithfully served their couutry through good report and ill report. The Catholic press lii England is discussing the possibility of canonising the late Cardinal Manning. Good rain has fallen all through the country round Broken Hill, and the dams are full, thus allaying all danger of a water famine. The cablegrams assert that Sir Charles Dilke will be a candidate for a seat in the House of Commons at the coming general election. It is expected in London that Newfoundland and Canada will federate. A woman named Beatrice Cooper has been sentenced to a week's imprisonment in the Spinning House by the Cambridge University authorities. The sentence has been severely handled by outsiders, and the authorities were hissed. With the view of increasing the variety of game birds in this district, says the j Post, the Council of the Acclimatisation | ! Society has decided to expend a sum of I 1 £25 in procuring a consignment of Amei rican prairie hens and mountain quail for liberation, and a sura of £10 in importing some Virginian quail. The committee appointed by the society at the last annual meeting is also in communication with Tasmania and Inveroargill on the subject of the introduction of the famed black opossum into our forest ranges. The Court of Beviewers sit to-morrow at the Courthouse to determine objections to i the valuations for the Borough of Foxton : i and the County of Manawatu. The next ! ! day they will sit at Sanson. The State Legislature of Kentucky has passed an Act to the effeot that every train must have a separate carriage for negroes. William Astor, the American millionaire left fifteen millions sterling to his family, and bequeathed several thousands to charities. It is estimated that no less than 26,000 pigs were disposed of by the two large factories and a few small oureis in Canterbury during the past year, the total value of the export trade being worth from £50,000 to £60,000. The Victorian Government has decided that the papers left by Deeming shall not see publication, and they will be destroyed. The Christohurch tug-of-vrar was won by a Maori team oaptained by Uru, an athlete well known in Hawke's Bay and the Wairarapa. He took his men to Dunedin, and again won, and on their return to Chrißtohuroh they challenged the best ten men, not of the Maori raoe, to pull for £100 a side. The challenge was accepted by a team of ten picked athletes, and these also have succumbed to the victorious natives, who won both pulls. The Maori team weigh 154 stone. A meeting between them and Wellington's New Zealand team would be interesting. Bobert Clark Shearman, commission agent, formerly Inspector of Police, applied for his discharge at the Bankruptcy Court at Wellington last week. His Honour granted the application, remarking that he was sorry to find Mr Shearman obliged to come before him for an order of discharge. The price of flour haa been reduced by the New Zealand Millers* Association, who met in Timaru on Wednesday evening to consider the matter, by 103 per ton. This brings it to £10 10a per ton f.o.b. in the southern ports, and £11 2 a6d ex store in Wellington. The irony of fate and the ups and downs of colonial life was exemplified by a little inoident whioh occurred in the Bankruptcy Court, the presiding Judge being His Honor the Chief Justice, says the Press. Amongst the " poor debtors " who came up for thrir discharge was Mr B. C Shearman, land and estate agent, who until up to a couple of years ago was Senior Inspector of Police in New Zealand. The incident brought to mind a period in the " fifties," the scene being laid in the Police Court in the digging township of Maryborough, Victoria. A loafer is being pro secuted for robbery from a tent, the prose cutor being Inspector Shearman, then of the Victorian Police Court, whilst the clerk of the petty sessions who is taking down the depositions is a young man named Prondergast, the present Chief Justice of the Colony of New Zealand. " O ttmpora, a more*."

, The adjourned annual meeting of the Foxton Cooperative Butchering Company is advertised to be held at the Publio Hall on Wednesday, Bth June. During the month twenty cases of diphtheria have been reported in Nelson. " Full Salvation," is the name df the monthly record of the. Salvatiori Army ttarfare" aniorig tlie liatidris. It is published in Melbourne, and we have to thank the publishers for the June number. It is profusely illustrated, and contains most interesting matter. The sum needed to purchase it is only threepence, and it is therefore tfitliiri the reach of all. By the latest mail steamers we have received fresh supplies of the most fashionable and seasonable drsss materials at Te Aro House, Wellington. We have opened out a nice variety of Dress Tweeds in a Variety of patterns and colors in both single and double widths* from 6s 6s to 25s the full dress length at Te Aro House* Wellington. We have also a very good selection of plain Colored Dress Fabrics in all the favourite materials and colours, such as Drap Hombourg, Feule3, Serges, Amazones, <fee, and in the fashionable shades of Reds and Navy Blue at Te Aro House, Wellington. We have some handsome specialities in Single Robe lengt.hs such as the new Diagonal Tweeds with camel hair mixtures frqm 29s tid to 455, the Cheviot TAveeds with Vicura Stripes and Checks 31s Od tp 455, the Aberdeen Tweeds in, Checks and Fibras and the Khedive Tvtreeds in Oriental designs at Te Aro House, Wellington. We are also selling Colonial Dress Tweeds very freely, our selection having been very judiciously made from the best mills, and in order to ensure a good variety of choice, intending purchasers should without delay send for patterns to Te Aro House, Wellington. We have the plaasure to announce the arrival, ex Tekoa, of our second direct shipment of seasonable and fashionable drapery, comprising 17 cases and bales for all departmentSi these goods being bought at Home at the Very close of the winter season, and sent tin by cargo steamer j every possible expense as well as all intermediate pi'onts being saved. We are thus in a position to offer cur customers such value as is not usually met with. We invite inspection of the goods, and comparison of the prices at the Bon March 6. Ross & Sandfokd. — Advt.