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Manawatu Herald, 29 November 1892, Page 2

Mr McMillan announces that having ad* dresied the burgesses last night, he \vi 1 not ho d his advertised meeting to-night. The Bank of New Zealand is receiving, ;.at the hands of Mr Webb, a much needed coat of paint. Mr Jenks' contract for painting and papering Whyte-'s Hotel is progressing very well, the upstairs work inside being finished, and a portion of the second coat on the outside. Mr B. Austin has just purchased that forty odd acres of land lying at the back of the Norbiton Block, from the Bui ding Society. This piece was formerly in the occupation of Mr B. Gray. The new owner will no doubt make mauy necessary improvements to the property. The price is said to have been extremely low. Messrs Greenwood and Hoop°r wi'l vidit Foxton on Thursday, and can be consulted at. Whyte's Hotel.

Mr Lewis has become agent for the two i lustrated papers Chips* and Scraps.

Mr Ahem, our well-known local wheelwright, has in hand an uncommon pair of wheels, as the tyres measure ten and a half indies, These wheels are to the order o! Mr Hutherford, Vfhd requires them for carting over the soft places in the swamp.

A valuable 'ittie prdperty on the Motoa road is advertised to-day at a very reasonable price. To anyone who desires to be his own landlord we recommend an inspection.

Tlia formal notice of the dissolution- of partnership between Messrs Lord and Lewis appears in this issue.

Mr Lord, elsewhere notifies that he is prepared to sink artesian wells at a low price. It has oome to our knowledge that some persons believed that the Wanganui people got their well sunk much cheaper than what Mr Lord's price for the town well was, but it is not.sd* as the price quoted by the Wanganui people was for boring only, as for the first 100 feet, five shillings a foot, to which nearly five shillings a foot would have to be added for pipes, so that the Wanganui well would cost 2s 6d a foot more than the town one. There is no doubt but that Mr Lord is a thoroughly experienced sinker and should be preferred to younger men.

The Araersterdam islands and St Paul over which France has hoisted her flag ayp uninhabited and we suppose are only taken to be a base of operations for swift cruisers, in time of war. The islands lay right in the usual sailing track from the Oape to Australia and almost midway.

Mr tleliry l?eilder is retiring from his Palmerston business and has instructe i an auction sale of his stock to be held shortly.

Messrs Gorton & Son's Bull's stock sale will be held on Tuesday next.

A reward is offered to the finder of a cheque book lost on the Motuiti road, who will return it to the Bank of New Zealand.

Mr Snelgon, the Mayor of Palmerston is anxious to «cc. a handsoino block of municipal buildings erected in the town. He moved, at the last Council meeting to that effect, and Cr Edwards, a candidate for the Mayoralty seconded the motion.

A trial shipment of pineapples has been sent from Brisbane to Rnglond under the auspices of the Government.

As the Sorting Standard remarks, no one coo Id suffer keener pangs over the victory of Glenloth than W. Thomas, the New Zealand jockey, who was to have had the mount. Thomas had ridden the horse in all his work, both for the Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup, but he disobeyed orders on the Saturday before the race, and Carmody engaged Hobsou in his place. A slight indiscretion robbed the boy of the chance of a life time.

The following gentlemen have been elected to the Palmerston Hospital and Charitable Aid Board : — Messrs G. M Snelson, Park, Taylor, .Ransom, Saxon, Eavenhill, Lethbridge, Purkess and Goodbehere.

• The grant of £3000 voted by Parliament last session to the widow of Sir Harry Atkinson, was paid over, says the Post, to Lady Aikinson's trustees on Thursday.

Armed police encircled an I took notes of a meeting at Toombridge, in Ireland, held for the purpose of promoting the Redmonds 1 new society of the Army of Independence. This action of the police enraged the mob.

The crew of the ship Port Glasgow have been sentenced at Sydney to a month's iua prisonment each on a charge of disobeying the orders of the captain. The men accused the captain of incompetency, and threatened to throw him overboard if he interfered in the navigation of the ship. They petitioned the mate to take command, and alleged that during bad weather the captain remained below. When the vessel was in danger of foundering, the captain was compelled to hand over the command to the first mate.

"There was no charitable aid in New Zealand in 1842, and we were brought up mostly on Maori cabbage and fish," remarkel Cr Cook at the meeting of the Hutt County Council the other morning during a discussion on charitable aid. 1 Yes," chimed in Cr C. Brown, " aud when there was honest poverty we helped onr another willingly, but now we are making poverty — forming a class of professional paupers." These .two gentlemen have got the ' lay f of the case pretty accurate.

One of the younger novelists of the day is at present engaged in a curious oocupa tion. He is working on a ship now lying at the London docks, doing duties which fall to the lot usually of dockers and sailor men. Mr Morley Roberts, the story writer in question, has gone to the docks for local obr and for material for a tale which he has in view, and cuts rather an unrecognia able figure in his overalls, aud with paint smears on hands and arms, and other marks of the rough, dirty works which (alls to the lot of the working man at a London dock side. Mr Roberts has had a career of much variety. He haa worked in the Lackland back blooks of Australia and tramped through the states, and over to the Selkirk range through British Columbia to the flea, wording as a labourer on t c Canadian Pacin'o Railway in the famous Kicking Horse Paaa.

An exchange says.— A Bettler who has had some experience with " bolters " says that if a horse gets away and nothing else stops him, get hold of his ears, pull them, and he will go no further. It reads like a funny notion, but the gentleman who re commends it has got out of a difficulty more than once by adopting this expedient. On one occasion he got out of a cart and crept along the horse's back and successfully carried out the idea.

Lord and Lady Rook wood have presented a fine specimen of the " Vinegar " Bible to the Church of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex. The volume is one of the famous edition printed at the Clarendon Press in 1717, which received its name in consequence of the heading to Luke xx being printed •• The Parable of the Vinegar," instead of " Vineyard-" The offest of the printer's error and of time has been to give the Bible a special value.

Messrs "Ross and Sandford, of the Bon Marche, beg to intimate the arrival of their first shipment of spring and summer goods ex cargo steamer Ruahine, comprising the largest delivery ever received by them at one time. 1 hey are now making their first show for the season in all departments fuller particulars of which will appear at a future date. Ross and Sandford. The Bon Marche-

All persons contemplating a visit to Wellington during the month of December may combine plea«ura with profit by call ing at the Wholesale t amily Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House.

Our stock of Summer Drapery in all departments is large, well selected and extraordinary cheap. Our warebons3 is just the place where a good parcel may be bought at lowest wholesale prices and wherein addition the purchaser may select a Christmas present, free of cost in accordance with the sale in the next paragraph, at Te Aro House, Wellington.

Specially notice this sale of amounts purchased and value of gifts :—

Purchase 10s gift 1/- Purchase 40s gift 4s Purchase lfo gift 1/0 Purchase 50s gift 5.3 Purchase 20s gift 2,'- Purchase 00s gift Cs Purchase 25s gift 2/6 Purchase 70s gift 7s Purchase flOa gift 8/- Purchase 80s gift 8s Purchase 4-is gift !)/(> Purchase 90s gift fls Arid so on in proportion up to £50, £100 or more at Te Aro House) Wellington.

Orders b 5" p"ost if cash is sent at the same time, will receive every attention and gifts according to value enclosed with the parcel from Te Aro House, Wellington.