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Manawatu Herald, 4 August 1892, Page 2

Mr Gerbes wants to purchase a secondhand saddle, and a good many fowls. Messrs Carter Bros, give notice that all cattle and sheep on the Awa Downs will be impounded. Other people's property we presume they mean, unless they fall into the same mistake that our hemp-mill paddocker did ; Messrs H. Wickett & Go. have some new, and to the ladies more especially, some interesting notices, scattered about the paper knowing thusly, they will be bound oatoh the eye of " whom it may concern.,' The Borough Counoil was in a " melting mood "on Monday. Peace and happiness reigned supreme (for a very short time); and instead of proposals for ' reducing salaries, or curtailing the printing bill,there was an effort made to raise the pay of a man who did not want it. Fancy that ! The Town Clerk hopes his turn will be next. Sir George Grey left Auokland by the Takapuna on Monday for Wellington, to attend his Parliamentary duties, ■ A circular is being distributed in France urging the Cardinals to support Cardinal Bampolla or Cardinal Gibbons at the next election for the Papal Chair, and oppose any candidate favoured by the Triple Alliance. "'.'■'■' It is reported that cholera has spread to Austrian Galicia. During his recent visit to Wellington, Mr Donald Grant, Chairman of Manawatu Road Board, endeavoured to have matters in connection with the improvement of the Oroua Bridge road put into definite and more satisfactory shape (says the Manawatu 'limes). With this in view he and Mr J. G. Wilson, M.H.R., waited on the Minister of Lands as a deputation, and thoroughly explained to him the position of affairs in regard to the road. >It \vas explained that the £4000 previously estitimated to be required was an excessive estimate, and that the sum of £1700 would be sufficient. The Minister gave the deputation to understand that the sum mentioned will be placed on the estimates. An oddity in the way of a hen's nest (says the Advocate) was accidentally revealed at Mr Arthur Amon's, of Lower Bangitikei, recently. A strong wind had been blowing, and at the foot of a blue-gum tree a broken hen's egg was found. Various surmises were made as to how the egg came there, and it was at length decided to try the trees and ascertain whether it had been blown out of a nest or, dot.^ 'Thia was found to be the case 1 , and a nesl dis : covefcd, in which were several other eggsj' in a fork of the tree, about thirty feet from the ground.- : The propensity of' fo\7la for roosting on the branches of trees is well known, but making their nests there is a very unusual occurrence indeed, -.- Next Tuesday the first Parochial teameeting of the congregation of All Saints' Church, Foxton, will be held at the Public Hall. A concert will be given after the tea. Tickets can be purchased in advance, and the charges are low, as the attendance, more than the money, is wanted. •• , The Manawatu County Council invite tenders, for leasing the Tramway, and clearing sides of roads at Mount Stswart and; from Awahuri to Feilding. ; Messrs Stevens and Gorton's sales at Palmerstoa and Bulls are advertised today. .'/..' George Congdon, who was fined 40s for disturbing the Salvation Army, having failed to pay his fine within the time allowed him, was apprehended and taken to Wanganui on Tuesday, to serve a senience of seven days. A great interest is felt in artesian wells just now, and we therefore felt that our readers would like to know the strata thai; lies below us. We had an interview with Mr Lord, of the firm of Lord & Lowis, who sunk the wells on the Motoa estate, and he informed us that the sinking for! the first thirty feet was through brown and; blue clay intermixed with small sticks,! &c, and the next fifty . to eighty feet was! fine sand, after which there was six feet of brown clay, and then four feet of very! heavy blue clay, under which the water] was found in sand-, below which was' shipgle. •■ . . ; . ' ]■. The Tennis Court was duly opened on Tuesday afternoon, and a number of ladies graced the scene with their presence, The ladies being shy, the first game had to be played by the gentlemen, but it had been hoped that the ladies would have been' the first to play. As, however, -they knew they must remain' tit " love " if they did not score, may account for their disinclination to break the spell. The Victorian farmers are urging the protection of the starling, as they find it a ro id remedy against the white grub, which I is so destructive to grass fields.

.M* A. Webb, painter, has a noijce.in^ Gyp.it Britain Is urging the Canadian Government to deepen the St. Lawrence canals sufficiently to give a passage to gunboats. The cost is estimated at two and a quarter millions sterling. The Royal Commission appointed to enquire irfto" the charges levelled by Ml- 'Schef, MX, against Sir Eddy and the other N.S W. Railway Commissioners have submitted their report to His Excellency the Governor. They declare the charges to be false, and without any^ foundation whatever. ~ " A tiger-claw brooch has been lo3t and a reward will be paid on delivery. A Nap&r paper-siitea r-r-Manj .'(if our readers heard on Wednesday a strange rambling sound^ scjimd which wag like distant thunder,' as; the rumbling that pie;--cedes an earthquake— well, the natives are now predicting a severe, velcaniiv eruption, and say that that sound is the sign of it coming. The herds of wild horses running on the Kaingaroa plains near Taupo have left the flat country, and this is regarded as a sign of instinctive knowledge of coming trouble. , Torn Curran, elected to the Commons in the 1 M'Carthy. interest, was once ft yO™* man in New South Wales,: and made the usual drift from the force to the hotel business. H e was mine- host at the Sydney Oxford, from which he went to Ptahlert's in the good .days, iand 1 made a Jortune. Young, Curran, his son, who has also been elected to the British Pai i lia'tne6 ; t,.Y'as edu(Sated : at,>t Ignatiu/, College; ' Sydqey, and is "now sup p' o-'ed 'to be ' studying for the bar. He has an athletic bo<ly"and a tyiti;d.y Iritellect, and will make his^ ma'rir Wereyer. .he goes.-^-Bulletin." ■■•'-•■. • .