Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, DEC. 17, 1892.

Manawatu Herald, 17 December 1892, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, DEC. 17, 1892.

Mr A. H. Knowles. formerly manager cf our local branch 61 the Bank of Australasia, ami at present stationed in Waipawa, has Imoii promoted to Featherston, Mr Robison, of Napier, being his successor. - Mr Bramley advertises horses for sale in our StocK.aud Produce Column Messrs Gorton and Son* hold a Btock sale at Sandon on Tuesday next. The veoent band contest held in Wellington resulted in a loss of £65. The different bands are now giving open-air concerts to raise enough to liquidate the debt. The New Zealand Bine Association meeting at Trentham is fixed to begin on the 9th January, and end on the .1.4 ih January. We are glad to be able to record, that the man W. Coleman, who had the misfortune to break his collarbone, beisides come of his ribs, by falling through the roof at Gledhill's mill, has so far recovered that he is now able to leave his bed. Captain Edwin (says a Press wire) states that there are strong indications of heavy gales from the southward, with much colder weather between the 15th and 17th instant, and that they will be experienced throughout the country. Mrs Lily Langtry, the London actros<=, has bought Lord Ashburton's yacht Lady Mabel, and intends to do some winter cruising in the South Seas. She says that being now forty years of fige, she intends to enjoy herself. A visitor to Mr Norton's boat building establishment at Wellington states : On the premises I saw a relic of past racing days in the shape of the Dolly Varden, whose name will bring back recollections to many old acquatic men. During her career she was fairly invincible, and won more money than any other boat in New Zealand, including two interprovincial races I believe her crew consisted of W. Hearn. Walker, Woods and McGrath. The old boat — it is now a pood many years since she was rut together— is at present the property of tue Manawatu Rowing (Jlub (Foxton), and is to undergo a thorough overhaul prior to b ing used as a practice boat for pi eparing a crew for next season. She is wor n a visit of inspection if only to prove what improvement has been madtin bont^nilding in recent years. — Wan. ganui Chronicle. The Woodville paper says :— Mr R S Abraham has tak<n into partnership Mr A. Williams, of Hastings * Vl r Williams will take charge of the firm's Wuodville business. In the Mawhanga licensing case, Mr Justice Richmond has held that the Committee in granting the license went beyond their jurisdiction, and ordered a return of the certificate to be quashed. The man James Catt, who was arrested for horse stealing in the Wairarapa, ap pears to have entered upon a systematic plan ( f travelling the country by stealing and selling horses. Stealing a horse at Otaki, he rode to Wellington, and there sold it. He then took a steamer to Wan ganui. where he stole another horse, rode it to Palmerston and &old it. At Palmerston he appropriated a third horse, belonging to a resident of Featherston street rode it to Carterton, and sold it also Hid criminal career was here brought to an end by the police getting on bis track and arresting him. He was brought before the R.M. at Wellington on Thursday, and remanded until Tuesday next. Jem Ryan, champion boxer of South Australia, who came over to Wellington a short time ago to right Harry Laing, New Zealand's champion, has loft for America, via Auckland. Through difficulties that had arisen, the contest hud to be aban rloned. The notorious Te Kooti is about to pay • a visit to the natives at Awahuri, near Palmerston North. A great number of visitors are expected to meet the ' hero * of the Poverty Bay massaore. Mr Cemino's offer to instruct the mem • bers of the Maori Brass Ban i at Otaki for another year at £84 has been accepted. William Henry Smith, alias Philpot, who was found not guilty of robbery and arson at Otaki a short time ago, was not so lucky on another charge of stealing a watchguard, as he was sentenced to six month's imprisonment. They have a peculiar may of amusing themselves at Carterton, says a contem porary. Being hard up for fun the other day they suspended a domestio cat to a telegraph wire by the tail and used it as a target at whioh to practice shooting. There are many evidences of the truth of the statement that the Princess May of Teck has been betrothed to the Duke of York. Miss Hiokford, of Carnarvon, who was recently injured by being thrown from her horse on the Foxton road, is to be taken to Wellington for medical treatment.— M. Times. All the Ministers assemble in Wellington the week after next, on the recommendation of the Minister for Public Works. According to the Daily Telegraph, the profession of teaching is not a popular one amongst the growing lads of Hawke's Bay judging from the fact that there are only seven boys to forty -one girls going up next Tuesday for the pupil teachers' examination. The first match of the season between the Woodville and Pahiatua Tennis Clubs was played last Saturday, and resulted in an easy* victory for the former team by 18 sets to nil. The Australian nightingale, Madame Meliia (Mrs Armstrong), is again singing at Covet Garden, and is the recipient of unqalified praise. Some of the criiics hail her as incomparably the first of living artists— a recognition which verifies the prediction that the day would come when she would he recognised as superior to Patt*. She also sang at Manchester recently, when one enthusiastic critic declared she had the voice of an angel. The charm and dramatic power of her Rcting are admitted to be equal to her singing. The Union S.S. Company arp advertising cheap special fares for the holiday season. From Wellington to either Melbourne or Sydney, via Northern or Southern ports, the fare is only £4 10s saloon and £3 steerage, and to Sydney direct £3 and £1 10*. The faros to interprovincial ports are likew ii« reduced.

A peculiar incident, Arid one which to* innately happen, d rtt tho. right time (for the lady's sake) is reported U having ocCurreiTat tUki last week The lady in i 'Jiipsiion was walking home drie night, j when she stumbled, find li.-.fove she could recover herself, found shs was bcin« lifted into the air — oil the Bac't ot a co\v that had been lYing down on the road The lady to keep from falling off, as the cow look its course through the town, held on fast lo the ears of thr beast. Her cries, which were many, brought champions from all directions, and thpy were sncce^afiU .irt releasing her. from the uiicotnforianie dilenmift hi whlSh she had. b^en placed. . Th.' Stanrhml ha 3 the following :— Polo is advancing in popu arity in the Co ony, and there is a demand for suitable ponies. Mr A E.G.Rhodes, MH.R-, and Mr J. (>. Wilson, M.H.E., are both getting pqlo ponies from Calcutta for their own use. Efforts are being made by the AgentGenera in London, to ensure the early shipment to New Zealand of 4,000,000 salmon ova, obtained from the Scotch rivers. Four pairs of white swans are also to be sent out. The Advocate, of a few days ego, had the following pitiable paragraph : -Dr Isdell, of Marton, rode out to see the Maori we referred to as lying helpless in a tent. He describes Ins condition as being simply horrible, and thinks It is Hot possible, nor nor for that matter desirable, that he should live long. He lias been lying on a rotten mat for the past two years, having been unattended to, and being unable to moVe, and his state is. almost too horrible to discuss, his foot being honeycombed with maggots. Dr Isdell made arrangements for moving . him away from his prescnj position, and instructed those who have undertaken to do so how it should be done ; but even this will be a work of some difficulty as the least movement causes him excruciating agony. Dr Isdell also gives Mv Tompkins great credit for what he has done for the young follow, recognising, that to a layman especially, the task of attending on such a patient must have been in* tensely disagreeable. At the Colchester Bankruptcy Court, in October last, some extraordinary revelations were made in course of the examination of John Henry Mack, a butcher of Harwich. It transpired that. Mack 'oft Norwich Grammar School at the age of 17, and enlisted and went to India. On his return he married an English o ergvman's daughter, who inherited a fortune of £17,---000, but the whole of this amount was lost on races in a space of two years. He then became a po'ic man, and was stationed at Watford but left on his wife coining into a farther sum of £800. This money lasted bin five mouths, and Mack then became a publican at Tolleshunt-Darcy. His next venture was made at Colchester, where he i set up in business as a pork butcher. Subspquently he was a cloth travel er at Ipswich, and then a butcher and tripo dresser. Another of Mack's esperi nces was twenty eight days' incarceration at Ipswich for deot, find iv Maldon, in 1885, he was sentenced to three months' hard labour. In January last he started in business as a butcher with a capital of £200 equeathed to him by his wife, and now at the age of twenty-eight, he fiud.s himse f in the bankruptcy court with liabi ities amounting to £•228, and no assets whatever. Truly some extraordinary vicissitudes. Mr T -T. W. Gale has been olected chairman of the Harbour Board at Wellington, in tho place of the late Mr J. H. Cock. Mr Gale was warm y welcomed by the members on taking his seat, and suitably replied. A reduction has been made in the price of the a munition served out to the members of the Volunteer corps of the co'ony which has hitherto been a great drain on the pockets of shooting men. Dowager Lady Tennyson, widow c-.l Lord Teunyson, quitted Haselmere on October 2lst, to go to Lymington for a change of scene. She was prostrated with grief, and her son Hallam was obliged to carry her to a saloon car. The Public Hall was offered at auction on Thursday afternoon and purchased by the mortgagee at £230. In our next issue we shall give a sketch of the attractions offered by our storekeepers for gifts for the approaching sea son, which we understand are many and curious. A watch has been found and can be ob tamed by paying expenses. Mr, Mrs and Miss Arkwright, of Overton, Bangitikei, who have been absent from the colony ior nearly two yeara. return to New Zealand by the P. and O steamer Australia, which left London on the 25th November. A bay mare is impounded and will be sold on the 31st instant, if not sooner claimed. We hava to thank Mesers Hennessy Westwood & Co. for one of the Northern Assurance Co.'s almanacs, for which company it appears they are agents. Mr E. S. Abraham has been instructed to offer certain Educational Reserves for lease early in January. Yesterday the Advocate appeared in an enlarged form. We congratulate our confemporaiy on the support it has scoured justifying this additional expense. The outfit whioh the Benevolent Trustees are to provide for the inmateß of their new Home in to consist, in the case of men, of one pair white moleskin trousers, blue shirt jumper, blue twi I shirt, grey flannel pants and shirt, grey socks, blucher boots, leather a ippera, and cap. For the women there will be provided underc othins; of unbleached calico, grey flannel petticoats, grey stockings, grey "linsey woolsey " dress, light lace-up boots, and leather slippera, Seventy stretchers and a like number of mattrasses are amongst the furniture requisitioned. The Benevolent Society Trustees hope to open their new Home in about six weeks. We are informed that the Carnarvon State School wasc osed for the midsummer ho idays on Friday, and that the annua sohool picnic is to be he'd on Monday next. Mr Harper and his pupi'a come to Foxton on that day, and propose to try the fortune of war on the cricket, fle d with the Foxton sohool boys. The Fox.on boys have aoeppted the Carnarvon challenge, and if defeated we have no doubt will accept the defeat with as good heart as they have accepted the challenge. Specially notice this sale of amounts purchased and value -of gifts: — Purchase 10s gift I/- Purchase 40s gift 4s Purchare 15s gift 1/6 Purchase 60s gift 5s Purchase 20s gift 2/- Purchase COs gift 6s Purchase 25s gift 2/6 Purchase 70s.gjft 7s Purchase 30s gift 8/- Purchase 80s gift 8s Purchase 45s gift 3/6 Purchase 90s gift 9s And so on in proportion up to £50, £100 or more at Te Aro House, Wellington. All persons contemplating a visit to Wellington during the month of December may combine pleasure with profit by calling at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House.

.The Showrtiom is abundantly. Stocked I with choice gobcta for present reciitireirientSj J of w iish we invite inspection and comparison. Boss and San]>forp, District Inlporters, the Bon Marehe; Palmerston North, — A DVT. . . , puv stdclc tif SmrUner Fnipery in all departments is large, well selected and extraordinary cheap. Our warehouse is just the place where a good parcel may be bought at lowest wholesale pvices and whera in addition the purchaser may select a Christinas present, free of cost in accordant? with ihe sale in the next paragraph, at Te Aro Hous=e, Wellington. Orders by post if casl\ is sent at the same time, will receive every attention p.nd .gifts accordipg to value enclosed with the ! parcel from Te Aro House, Wellington.