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Manawatu Herald, 11 June 1892, Page 2

On Wednesday afternoon Mr McLennan, the blacksmith at Mr E. H. Barber's shop, had an interesting two hours job in shoeing a young horse which a Maori had brought in. Mr McLennan says that he has never yet had a horse to best him and was glad this one had not, but it was " near it, very near it." The animal resisted in every way it could, by plunging, rearing and kicking at any attempt to raise its foreleg. A t one rear ho broke the heavy rail on which a number of shoes were hanging ; another, knooked McLennan down ; another, laid itself low. However, at last the leg was seized and strapped up. The horse left with two front shoes on. There is nothing like Bticking to it. Mr J. 6. Wilson has been making a run through his constituency, and on Monday he held a meeting at Shannon, and at Levin on Tuesday, and on Wednesday at Manakau. On Thursday he addresses the electors here. It seems to be generally anticipated that an early dissolution of Parliament will take place. This district is likely to be made the battle ground of many candidates Kind fortune seems to be likely to preserve us from any similar sample of a working man's candidate such as we had at the last election. It is rumoured that Sir Walter Buller will stand as a supporter of the present Government. This means considerably, and unnecessarily handicapping himself. Mr Izard, having the Southern portion of the constituency more easily within his grasp will, it is said, be a candidate. Then we have our old member, who most probably will win. We hear it mentioned that a conoert will be given by our vocalists to provide some assistance to a family left badly off through the death of the father. Mr Williams is hard at work attending to the removal of the old Family Hotel. AH the windows are out, chimnies down, and the doors removed. There is more sound timber in the building than he expected. What a tale the old building could tell. We believe more pounds have been taken in it than there are nails in its construction. We notice timber is being staoked for the erection of a new bakehouse for Mr Walls. The property belongs to Mr McMillan, and Mr Andrew Jonson has secured the eon* tract. Mv Gray has praotioally completed the formation of the earth tennis court for the local club, and the work appears to have been faithfully oarried out. We noticed a few holes in the road between Carnarvon and Poxton which would be the better if filled up, and also a culvert which badly needs some more earth to its approach. We are glad to learn that diphtheria in the family of Mr Mitchell has? now disappeared, and all the little patients have fully recovered The owners of the Queen of the South propose laying her up for a time in order place new boilers in her, but the Wakatu will keep up the running. The Worker a few issues ago stated that the present Ministry were the most Socialistic of a'l of the proposed federation. ]n its last issue it remarks : — " Men are beginning to pose as Socialists for purely selfish political purposes now that it is becoming the thing to profess Socialism of the boudoir type." Is it beginning to appraise our Premier's words and deeds ?

On Thursday evening about six o'clock the alarming tones of the firebell sounded over the town. Fortunately the fire was nothing more than anotner candidate for a fine, the conflagration being only a chimney alight at ihe Bank of New Zealand. It is rumoured that the Government propose to repeal the tea and sugar duties. We hops they do, and that it will not be like the promised reduction in the postal charges, which have also been promised but not performed. In our report of Tuesday's entertainment we find we unwittingly did not give praise to whom praise was due. The whole entertainment was got up by Mr J. E. McMillan, who put his usual energy into the work, and the stage decorations were the evidences of his labour in the afternoon. The credit of the selection of the piece also belongs to him and it proved to have been a capital one. What is thi3 strange thing we hear about the town pump? The water supplied by this useful, if not very ornamental structure is, we understand, pure, bright, sparkling and exhilarating — something like Apollinaris. But when the City Fathers put up this classic fountain, they certainly never intended that it should be diverted to such purposes as it waa on Thursday night. Fancy a respected citizen dumped down before the spout by a parcel of boys, a cold pitiless stream poured first into the right leg of his pants, then into the left leg, then down his back, then over his heaving chest, and finally his hat filled with the dispiriting element and crammed over his burning brow. We beg to say that this was not the purpose for which the town pump was erected, and it may be well for the young jokers to be more careful in their choice of amusement in future. Em in Pasha, of Equatorial Africa fame, died early this month. Mr Chapman, who, under the name of " Augur," was until recently sporting editor of the Australasian, died at Melbourne on June 9. Private telegrams received from Gieborne state that the celebrated jookey 'Wally' Clifford died in that town on Thursday of Bright's disease. The Portuguese Cabinet decline to ratify the new loan, as they believe that when it was exhausted the nation would be bankrupt. It may be worth noting that the innumerable Bank holidays are now, for a month or two, fortunately at an end. Yet Bank clerks wish there were a few more saints — to celebrate ! As so many curiosities are to be exhibited at the World's Fair at Chicago it seems a pity if the Manawatu County Council cannot be induced Jto forward th broken tire of the locomotive " Fox " if only as an exhibition as to how things should not be done. The Times reports that the work of sinking the artesian well at the Longbum Freezing Works has now been completed, the depth being 275 feet. The water rises to a height of lift 3in in the six-inoh pipe, above the ground, and at six inohes below the surface there is a flow of 65 gallons per minute. The water is pure, cold and soft. The contractor, Mr Osborne, with his staff left for Hawera this morning. A special meeting of the Wanganui School Committee was held on Monday night, at which the Chairman's action in closing the schools, on the recommendation of the medical men, was endorsed, and it was resolved that they should remain closed until July 4th, the time during wlrioh they remain shut to count for the winter holidays.