Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, SEPT. 6,1892.

Manawatu Herald, 6 September 1892, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, SEPT. 6, 1892.

We congratulate Mr McMillan on acting openly arid inviting the ratepayers to meet him to-morrow evening. We wonder how many of the other candidates will be there. A horse is now in the custody of the poundkeeper. 1 Mr Osborne invites the ratepayers to ■ meet him at the Temperance hall tomorrow evening. l Eight hundred rabbit skins were sent in to Mr McLennan the honorary Secretary ' of the Manawatu Rabbit Extermination ' Society, in response to the advertisement 1 which appeared in this paper. Mr Lord has kindly supplied us with the strata passed through in sinking the artesian well on Mr Satherley's farm. At 18 feet a bed of ironstone was met which ' proved 12 feet thick ; then sand till 57 feet was reached, then a bed of shingle 10 feet thick was met ; then a layer of sand and P at 78 feet shingle was met which was three 1 feet thick ; then sand to 150 feet when a ! strata of 8 feet of brown clay was met, ' then sand and at 162 feet papa rock was encountered which was not deep as water J was got in the shingle strata at 100 feet. We are informed that previous to start--1 ing the well in town Messrs Lord & Lewis will sink a well in the swamp property of Mrs Purcell. Mr Eutherford having secured the Brandon Hall hemp mill, calls for tenders for [ cutting and carting the green flax, carting to Greatford, and scutching and paddocking. - Tenders close, at the mill on Friday. ' Contractors will be shewn the green flax i on Wednesday. The Land Bill was further considered in Committee on Friday evening in the House. Mr W. K. Simpson has secured the con- ' tract for cutting and delivering flax at the Puketotara mill. Mr Satherley is to be congratulated in having secured an artesian well on his farm. At midday on Saturday Messrs Lord & Lewis, the contractors Btruck water. The depth is about 166 feet, and water comes from the small shingle strata. The flow is good and rises six feet. Yesterday a serious accident happened on the Oroua Bridge. A man named Peter Williams, fighting with his mate James Head, when the latter went over the bridge and into the river. The body has not yet been recovered, though it was seen afterwards floating down the river. The police have gone to arrest Williams. j The Canterbury Times and the N.Z. Pr«w and Referee are not the best of friends, both desiring the monopoly of circulation now divided. It is not surprising then that the faults committed by one are eagerly shown up by the other. The week before last the Referee published a wooicut representing our old West Coast Ahua taking the brush fence in the Grand National in August. Thj Times kindly reproduces this cut and alongside one entitled " Mr Thomas on Pathfinder," which appeared in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic Neivs of . pril 3rd 1875! It pomes out in how very little the two outs i differ and certainly the resemblance Is very elriking. The Press no doubt will have something to say in explanation, otherwise tb.3 view taken by the Times will be the general, one, an>i that ia not to the ovedit of the Prm, At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce on Friday at Napier, there was a lengthy discussion on the Railway Act Amen nient Bill. The following resolutions were unanimously adopted : — (1) , ' hat in the opinion of this chamber no member of the Government or Minister of Kailways should have such powers vested in him as are proposed to be introducted 1 this session ; (2) the existing non-political management has proved highly satisfactory in the general interest of the Colony, and a ' great improvement on the previous management by the Government. The Inverearn'ill Chamber of Commerce endorses the resolution of the Canterbury Chamber condemnatory of the Railway Aot Amendment Bill, although not altogether satisfied with the management by the Commissioners. It is reported that the Otago Brewery Company has been successully floated in London. A oapital of £80,000 was required, and £100,000 was subscribed. Lord Onslow is the chairman. The Washers and Manglers Bill was in great demand directly it was put in circulation cays the Post, but it was almost immediately . suppressed by order of the Speaker, whose hair fairly stood on end when he saw it for the first time, in print. Something dreadful is going to happen. From Me bourne we learn that an extra ordinary document has been unearthed purporting to*, be the confession of a man who apparently destroyed himself. In the confession it is declared that Mrs O'Brien, who was recently convicted and sentenced to death on a charge of poisoning a farmer' named Cornwall, at Warracknabeal, is innooerit of '< the crime, and that Cornwall; committed suicide. The writer of the 'letter says' he assisted in the plot to fix the death on Mrs O'Brien. Dr. Koch asserts that the cholera arose in Hamburg from a camp of Russians emigrants, the dirty water from which flowed into the River Elbe and the adjoin, ing waterworks. t General Booth admits that he is up to his neck in financial difficulty, but still relies on the public to' provide £30,000 a year for " Darkest England." He states he has already expended £165,000 on the scheme, which he believes, that once the corner is turned, will prove a great business success. He intends to begin pawnbrokerage on the Parisian system. He asserts that the secession movement in Canada is of an unimportant character. '■'■ Thenightsoil question has reached the B.M Court stage in Hawera, and the R.M. (C. C. Kettle, Esq.) has fined several persons 5s and costs for burying nightsoil on their premises. In giving judgment, the Magistrate paid he thought the question of drainage and sanitation came before lighting, rating, or road-making, and that the matter of sanitation was a question the whole colony would have to consider. For fear of being misunderstood we declare the following little anecdote is taken from the Egmont Settler, but we have one or two very near it even here : — We have got a* champion mean man here. I am very sorry I'll have to be verbose in felling ihy simple tale. There is a sawmill on the Beaconsfield-road and to it came a settler desiring some timber. " Phat might be the price of tiramer like this? " " Ten shillings a hundred." " Mon, that's an i awfu' price ; phat's the price of the white | pine?" " Ten . shillings a hundred," "Phat?" "Yes, it had gone up Is a hundred for 12in board; anything under that width ia 95." " AWeeK aweel, jdat cut tno twa huildor, eleeveu Rad Uifte quarter*