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Manawatu Herald, 7 June 1892, Page 2

We thank the local traffic agent for a copy of the railway timetable for June. Flax is not so down as some suppose. Mr J. L. Morrison, the well known hemp and fibre broker of Wellington, advertises today that he has leased large and central buildings in Featherston-street, and will take flax for sale or storage, and will make advanoes on flax sent for sale. He is also prepared to store grain and produce at lowest rates. The Manawatu County Council meets for business to-morrow at Sanson. The special trm will run as usual giving settlers an opportunity to make a trip to Sanson and back in a day. The term of the lease held by Mr Brooks of the Tramway expires early next month, so that probably the Council will take some action to-morrow about re-letting it. The Council have not been long left in doubt as to the wide difference there are in men's ways of carrying out a duty. The present ranger showed, by his note to the Council, yesterday, how little he understood the duty of his office. The leiter sent was unnecessary, and as it referred to a Councillor, impertinent. His duties are set forth plain enough, and such a report was so much waste paper. He forgot, however, to report that he had also broken the law by having tethered his horse to graze in a street. To-morrow the annual meeting of the Licensing Committee for the Borough will beheld at the Courthouse at noon. The only new application is that of Mr Keegan for Aberdeen House Sunday was the coldest day we have experienced for a twelvemonth, the southerly gale blowing passed the cold air through every building despite of all care. The mountains yesterday morning were covered extremely low down with snow. The Borough Council are to be congratulated on doing three things yesterday, viz., in fixing a sight for the deposit of nightsoil, deciding to call for applications for nightman, and for deoiding to erect a shelter at the Cemetery under which funeral services can be held. We are glad to Warn that Mr Lansdon, our new saddler, has his hands full of work, thus proving the satisfaction.he has given to his first customers. The Weather Bureau reports from Brisbane that indications of a barometric disturbance affecting the waters between Hobart and the Bluff within nine days. The Burkenbuvgh silver mine, near Prague, in Bohemia, has caught fire. Fourteen miners were burned to death. The mineral riches of the Austria Hungary Empire are very great, comprising gold, silver, copper, iron, quicksilver, lead, tin, zinc, and coal. Eleven more dead bodies have been recovered. Two hundred men are still missing. Altogether 90 bodies have been recovered from the mine. It is believed that the death roll will reach 350. It is always unsatisfactory to appeal for a reduction in one's taxable property. At the Reviewer's Court last week one objector thought the Eeviewers decision " very hard," but •• Diogenes " in the Press supplies a better expression, which we pass on to him for future use. " The owner left the room worsted and convinced, like many another, that to appear before a Board of Eeview is just about as useless as whistling psalms to a dead horse " ! ! ! Short sighted tradespeople. The Manawatu Times says :—General regret was expressed at the'meeting of the Chamber of Commerce that the proposal to establish a bonded warehouse in Palmerston had received such lukewarm support from those whom it was thought the proposed wavehouse would be the most benefit. The secretary stated that all the tradespeople whom li 3 had interviewed on the subject had declined to take any part in the proposal,

In the Palmerston Bankruptcy Court on Friday his Honour granted the discharge of T. and E. Westwood. The case, Harcourt y. Oliver, is set down for hearing at, the sitting of the Supreme Court on the iOth June. Mr Bruce has replied to the Eangitikei Political Aosociation that as the wish for him to be a candidate appeared to be so general, he would put himself in the hands of his party and do his best to win. From Londou a cablegram states that the French officials at Cape de Verde Islands refuse to assist in FalvagePwork at the wreck of the steamer Port Douglas unless" the ship is abandoned or their expenses are paid. It is expected that this refusal wil, cause the total loss of either the ship or the cargo. These islands are a dependency of Portugal and lie off the west coast of Africa. The population is a little over 100,000, A grateful country ! as administered by a ' liberal ' . Government. Mr G-. S. Cooper, late Undersecretary for the Colony, made his first appearance in his new capacity as a Native Interpreter in the Supreme Court on Thursday. A London correspondent writes :— ' ' I notice that New Zealand mutton is still advancing in favour in England. Besides the enormous number of families who always have it in preferance to the English growth, the Government have now taken it up. The latest revised rules regulating the I dietaries of the prisons in England and Wales, and issued by the Home Office, after allowing the prisoners' bread and cocoa, &c, now allows for dinner 4ox of colonial mutton or beef to each persson." It is not generally known (says an Australian exchange) that the invasion of Australia by foreign nations has been pre-> meditated no fewer than four times within the last 35 years. (1) In 1856, when Eussia sough to fit out naval expeditions in America to destroy Australian commerce and land at Melbourne. (2) When France in 1859 threatened war re the Orsini affair, and actually formulated a scheme to land an army of 10,000 men on Australian shores. (3) When Germany, before annex* ing a part of New Guinea, demanded a province of Northern Australia; and (4), in 18G5, when the Home Government cabled to the Governors and Premiers of Australia that Eussia contemplated the conquest of New Zealand. The Wanganui Herald, the Premier's special organ, inferentially declares Mr Justice Richmond, Mr Justice Williams, and Mr Justice Dennisten to be legal ignoramuses, unfit to sit on the Supreme Court Bench, says the Post. In an article on the Edwards case, it says ; — " Now, if Mr Edwards was possessed of the necessary legal knowledge to warrant his elevation to the Bench of the Supreme Court, and no one has ever questioned it, he must have known that his appointment was ultra vires and open to cancellation." The three Judges we have named, sitting in the Court of Appeal, evidently, according to our contemporary, were " not possessed of the necessary legal knowledge to warrant " their sitting on the Bench, any more than Mr Edwards himself, as they agreed with him in thinking the appointment a legal one. The Herald has proved just a little too much for its own case. Orders for the following Bargain Parcels will receive prompt attention and the goods duly forwarded to any address, carriage paid by " Parcel Post " on receipt of the amount in cheques, Postal notes, Bank notes or Money Orders addressed to James Smith, Te Aro House, Wellington. Parcel No. I— Consists of Dres3 length or--flt«x>®» l uMi_Mfilton Cloth, in navy blue, marone, brown, grey, fawn, green or black, 2yd3 body lining, 4yds skirt lining, 2doz buttons to match, lyd velveteen for trimming, 1 print or g ; ngham apron, the whole lot carriage paid for one guinea, Te Aro Aro House, Wellington. Parcel No. 2— Contains Byds Twilled Flannnellette, 6yds Colonial' Flannel in white, Shetland, or Orkney, 12yds Stout Dasca Calico, 4 Honeycomb Towels, syda Stout White Sheeting, the lot carriage paid for 255, Te Aro House, Wellington. Parcel No. 20, Boy's Hoisery — We have some exceedingly strong and good wearing, heavy Ribbed B ack or Navy worsted Hose, excel ent for school or hard wear, and we will send free by post for 12/9 two pairs each size 4, 5, G. For other parcels see " Wanted " Column. We have the pleasure to announce the arrival, ex Tekoa, of our second direel shipment of seasonable and fashionable drapery, comprising 17 cases and bales for all departments, these goods being bough) at Home at the very close of the wintei season, and sent on by cargo steamer ; every possible expense as well as all intermediate profits being saved. We are thus in a position to offer cur customers sucb value as is not usna'ly met with. We invite inspection of the goods, and comparison of the prices at the Bon Marche. Boss A Sandfobd. — Advt.