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Manawatu Herald, 26 July 1892, Page 2

Messrs Freeman Jackson;* Co. have decided to hold their Johnsonville sales only once a fortnight for the future.

What about our boasted New Zealand timber now ? On Friday the Hon Minister for Publio Works, said it was not the case that totara sleepers were better and cheaper than silver pine. The latter, delivered in Wellington, cost 8s 2d each, while totara sleepers, which were of inferior quality to silver pine, costs 3s lOJd each. Matai was so much inferior that it was never specified.

On Friday in Chambers His Honor the Chief Justice, on the motion of Mr Gaily, admitted Mr Leo. Buller and Mr Percy Buller (the two sons of Sir Walter Buller) as barristers and solicitors of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, says the N.Z. Times. These gentlemen wero called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, and we believe, intend to commence practioe at Levin (?)

A statement was made, during the discussion on the Compensation to Publicans Bill, that the City of Wellington was directly, and indirectly deriving no less a sum than £12,000 a year from the public houses I As there are are sixty publichouses at £40 a year license, and the in creased rates from the large rentals of these houses, it is possible that the sum would amount to close upon that. Indeed the speaker said they were the particulars he bad obtained from the City Council office.

The present Government are adepts in the use of phrases meaning nothing. In the case of the Rangitikei bridge they openly admitted that their implied promise to do something meant nothing, it was only a way they had. They are at it again with our member, Mr J. G. Wilson, about the Money Order offices at Shannon, Levin, and Manakau, and also telephone communications with the same districts. Last session they promised to keep the question steadily in view, during the recess they did the same thing, and now, in the House, on Friday they " promised to consider " the matter ! The question is, when.

Messrs Stevens & Gorton hold their stock sale at Feilding on Friday.

Talking about the returned Kanakas and other natives, a member said that the ordinary dress of the people of those (Joiltitrieg id, well, nothing at all. When one of these fflefd goes back he generally terrifies his old friends upon the islands by hia respectability— by wearing an eye-glass and a check suit. Of course he takes with him a carpet bag or a trunk.

It baa been stated, and is we believe tfuite correct, that in 1875 sugar was £47 I fofc\ and last year it was £14 ! In 1849, 1 isd,ss farisS ot sugar were produced, and in 1890, 5,050.000 iofisi More than half the sugar in the world was made from the sugar-beet. Mr Bucklana, speaking on the col<?«r«d labour question, asserted that a great many of the& island men will not leave their homes and" gd aWay to the main land, gimply because they are too lazy. At Tonga, which has a population* Of 30,000 people, they actually import their labour from one of the other islands.

Mr McMillan on Saturday obtained orders for 250 tons of flax, and placed immediately 180 tons. One hundred tons is an order extending over a year, and the eighty tons is for delivery by end of September.

Mr H. F. Davidson is about ereotirig a very comfortable residence on his property at Heatherlea, and in this issue his architect, Ut Jamsn. invites tenders for its erection.

Mr Bramley has disposed* of hto land on the Manawatu Eiver, near Atiki, to Mr Akers.

At a Vestry meeting last week, it fell to the lot of the only bachelor at the meeting to propose that women should have a voice Jn Oburoh matters. He declares that every married man immediately and emphatiobjected to the motion. Can this be true ?

Tenders are invited by the Borough Council for the erection of a shelter shed at the oemetery.

We are glad to announce that fifty-nine volumes of new books for the Library have arrived and are being numbered today.

We have generally understood that most people desired to get out of gaol, than into one, and that gaolers had to Bteel their hearts to refusals to leave than to enter. It is not bo always as we have learnt. A person who committed a breach of the law was, in some town on this West Coast, ordered to pay a fine or go to gaol. Time was given for payment. When the time was up, the law-breaker betook himself, on his own motion, to the Wanganui Gaol and requested to be permitted to board there. The governor declined, sa\d he would be pleased if he would procure a warrant. Poor man, what was he to do ; he waited day after day in anxiety about the arrival of this document, called daily on the town police to know if it had arrived, but some one had blundered, no warrant had oome. This became at last too expensive and too exasperating to be longer endured, so the law-breaker sent a telegram to the police offioer at whose instance proceedings had been taken against him, to tell him that for a whole week he had been waiting a warrant of committal ( and he was getting tired out, and one must be at once sen^up, as the governor would not take him in ! A warrant did at last arrive in Wanganui and the governor of the gaol will now be able to get on intimate terms with his anxious boarder, as he will be there one month, unless he finds that things ' inside are not quite as they seemed outside, when the dollars may be counted over and freedom be rejoiced in once again.

That unfortunate Borough Council _ of Palmerston is threatened with an aotion for £1000 for damages alleged to have been caused to the property of Messrs Mayo & Sons by the overflowing of the Hawaii stream.

It is said that Mr Donald Grant is about to bring an action, against the Government for damages sustained by the drains cut through his property at Kairauga.

We understand that the charges against those who are summoned for creating a di«turbance at the Hall, will be heard on Thursday morning.

Mr Hopkirk scoured the contraot for the erection of a fourteen-roomed house at Motoa for Mr Smith.

Messrs Stevens & Gorton have secured a site at Campbelltown for a sale yard.

Owing to a slip on the Manawatu railway the mail did not arrive till one hour and a half after its usual time yesterday.

Though the weather has turned so cold, it may be interesting to know that white, bait have boen for sale during the paßt two weeks. They are very early.

The lambing season has commenced, and most of the settlers have a few. This weather is against their doing well.

The Church of England congregation are going in for a high tea and concert in a fortnight* time. We have been requested to mention that all those who will contribute something in the eatable line are invited to do so.

How they all love one another 1 Oar representatives seem to have been striving lately to say something rough about each other, in an indirect manner. We think, however, that Mr Meredith scored pretty well off a member who was interrupting him, by saying: "My honourable friend on the right is constantly interrupting me ; and he seems to occupy the position, in a certain respect, of two great men. It is said of Fox and Pitt, who were in the habit of imbibing freely, that on one occasion Fox, looking into the House of Commons ohamber, said : "Pitt, I see no Speaker." Pitt immediately said: "Do you see no Speaker ? Why, I see two."

The Broken Hill strikes represents a loss in wages to the men of £45,000 up to date.

Two experimental shipments of tow from New Zealand flax have been sent, says the Advocate — one to Messrs Parson's & Co., of New York, and the other to Messrs Cowan & Co., Edinburgh, both of whom ara large manufacturers ofjpaper and have consented to give the tow a trial to see whether it can be profitably used in paper making.

Messrs Baker & Cooke have'sueceeded in obtaining an order for a new trial in the i case of Rickleben v. Baker & Cooke. This is a Wanganui case which excited muoh interest at the first hearing. A big sale of Surplus Winter Stock will commence on Friday, July Ist, at The Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington. We would earnestly advise all country settlers to make sure of this opportunity i and try if possible to pay a visit to the Empire City during the continuance of this big sale at Te Aro House, Wellington^ Our Sale Price Lists will, on application, be forwarded postage free from |the Big Sale at Te Aro House, Wellington. We feel sure that the expenses of the trip would be far more than recouped and there would be the additional advantage of choosing from the largest and most varied lot of Bargains in the Province. If this is du'y estimated a trip to the Te Aro House ' big sale will become a positive necessity.

' '•• ffe If unable to cofflev orders with cash cm* be sent to us direct ami we will guaranteeinstant attention, and prompt despatch from the Big Sale at Te Aro House, Wellington.. The annual stock-taking sale at the Bon Marche, Palmerston North, is now on. I The feature of the annual sales of this Srm is that the whole stock, without any reserve, is offered at greatly reduced prices, every article in stock being subject to reduction as the stock must be induced at least £2000 previous to the Annual Balance, and purchasers have the benefit of a £6000 stock to select from. — Advt.