Manawata Herlad.

Manawatu Herald, 2 March 1893, Page 2

Manawata Herlad.

inuo.iuai, iYlAtt' H. 2. 1898. Judgmeut was given by Mr Justice Richmond last Monday morning in the case of Witariliana v. Bailer and "another, ] a suit brought by an aboriginal native on behalr of himself and of-her Maoris to set aside as fraudulent a transfer by Messrs A. P. Stuart and J. Da vies to Mir Walter Buller of a piece of land in the Manawatu, con taining 1068 acres. His Honor held that the plaintiff had failed to prove that Sir *V. Buller had bei-n a concealed partner in th** transaction. The varioub alle«a tions or suggestions made on behalf of The plaintiff of professional miso uduot or neg igence on the part of the defendant, and of unfair preference of the interest of thf purchasers were, c c maidered, either irrelevant to the issue raised in th« present auk, or at the utmost could only a >rye to strengthen direot evidence that the defendant was a secret purchaser. He (Vlr Jus tice Kichmond) was bound to Bay that no allegation and <r that head had been made out to hi 3 satisfaction. H- had no domn that the native vendors fully understood what they were selling, and that the payments made on account of the purohaae of the block were £1 per acre. His Honour entered up judgment for defendant, with costs on the highest scale, as on an action for £2000. The Manawatu County Council invite tenders for different works. Specifications can be seen at this office. A special general raaeting of the Manawatu Rabbit Extermination Society is advertibedto be held at Oroua Downs on Saturday next, at 2 o'clock sharp. The Rev Geo. Aitkens will hold a morn, ing service at Shannon on Sunday next, and evening service at Foxton. Every Wednesday evening throughout Lent services will also be conducted at Foxton. William Joseph Smith, nlina Aldiidgp., ia quite a young man, having only just turned 23. He has a ruddy complexion. w : th fair hair and a light moustache. He appeared quite unconcerned when in the dock, except for a slight nervous twitching of the eyebrows when the charge was read out to him. On the voyage across from Melbourne the police were allowed a special ! c:*bin, and the two officers took turn and i turn about in looking after the prisoner. The right of pasturage on the Cheviot estate for a period of eleven mouihs wag oftVred at auction at the iip'^ct rental of t'B67 per month. There was no bid, an.J it was annouu ed that the estate would therefore be immediately subdivided and opened for settlement. An accid nt happened at W"lling»on rpcenfly to a young follow nampd GeorgEdmunds under rnthpr peculiar circumstance?. H<- was walking along Customhouse Quay cutting up a pipe of »o">acco with an ordinary pocket knife, when a gust of wind caught his hat and carried it away. He instantly made a grab, as he feH the hat going, quite forgetting the knife in hi«s hand I and the consequence was a nasty though ' not serious cut on the head. Mr J. I\'ppb has arrived at llunterville with hi* newa-viper plant, and exppcts to gut out the fint issue of thu new paper in the course of a wean or two.

Am;her h at for Mr Slainell's trophies ' ni connection .vith the Uowing (Jlub, was rowed off on Thes^a? aftem >on last. The competitors were Ho wan an,l Redmoni v. Potter ami Conk. nu<\ the former crew won very easily. At the Wanganni Education Board meeting at Wanganni ou Tue.-day nominauons of candidates for the three vacancies on the Board were fecpived houi a number of committees. A protest f ; s a'so ivci iv d from Mr Pirani, one of the candidates, against t'.ie nominations of the Wivngauni and Morion School Committees on thground that they had nominated threp. candidates instead of two, as r q-.irc-d by the Act. The opinion of Mr Fitaherbert the Board's solicitor, was ta'ter on the qu'slion, and he advised that no committee could nominate more than two candidates. After a long discussion Mr tfitzherb-srt's advice was acted upon, and M;ssra Beckett, Bridge, Notman and Pirani were declared duly nominated. ( A roiflei' oil a northern goldfield tortured with a cancer lifted the roof of his ln-ad with a rifle, but before making for the etprnal hourne wrote to his mate thus :— "Deer Tom,— l've gon to kingddrri-tSum. Can't live ally longer with this thing. You will find my carciis up the gully* Chuck some dirt on it and leeve it there. 1 think 1 11 cum an' see you wen 1 get my wings." This is what the Wellington Herald says of the Empire City— A number of God-fearing people wink at the looseness which is so prevalent in some religious circles in Wellington, and which ia generally patched up by marriage. Why, the drink traffic and the worst class of gambling is nothing to the immorality in this city ; and iv good circles*, too. The following is an extract from a letter written by a Christchurch young lady to her brother in the North Island. It runs : We had such a dreadful hurricane this afternoon. It twisted the croaa on the top of the cathedral towei 1 right round ; it blew an old woman into a horse and cart and she was run over. Trousers were flying all round the town from the different shops ; it wan such fun. The origin, it is staled, of the missing word competition at Home is an old and somewhat wearying pastime among the fair sex. viz., the missing husband competition. To make a contract profitable there is often tact required as well as real hard work. A labourer not one hundred miles from the Eangitiket River contracted the other week to sink a well on a property. His arrangement with the owner was a certain sum to strike water. The labourer worked hard for over a fortnight, and went down a good depth until he reached a very hard strata. The lower he went the drveV i wos the ground, and as he worked on the plan 'no water no pay ' he thought ho had made a bad bargain. At once a brilliant idea flashed across his mind. He got some clay and puddled the bottom of the well, and during several dark nights he carried wafer in buckets .some 200 yards from a a neighbouring creek, and rilled the well to a depth of four or five feet. Last Saturday he took the owner to see the results of his labour. The owner was delighted to see Mich n tin* well of water and cheerfully paid the labourer his well-earned cheque*. The ingeniouss well -sinker has deuarted for another part of the colony, and the owner of flic well will, no doubt, use hard words lipfore many days are over. — Mercury. Here is a tall story about a Greek miser who has just died in the small town of Caracal, in Rounania, after living for many years- upon the charity of his compatriots. On his death-b ■■<[ he made his wife swear that she would bury him in the greasy old coat which he had worn nearly all his life. She had to ask the Greek colony of the town to help her to provide the costs of the funeral. A good-hearted Greek went to see h?r in her affliction, and offered to give her a better coat to bury th? man in ; but she told him of hi< last wish, and refused the offer. The Greek, whose suspicions were awakened, suggested that sho might do well to examine the coat before parting with it, as he thought there must be some particular reason for the request. The widow did so, and, on unpioking the lining of the overcoat, found bank-notes to the amount of £1,000, which the miser had wished to take into the grave with him New York Society has been considerably startle! by the entry into the Salvation Army of Miss E.nma Van Norden, eldest daughter of the president of the North American Bank, in spite of the strong resistance of her family, which is the richest in Now York. The Salvation Army have been correspondingly elated by ih t capture, and have given the new recruit a most enthusiastic lvoiption. She is now appparing in public in her uniform, armt'd with a tambouring and h«r perform•inces ar* arousing no little amusement and curiosity among her old friends. The Minister of Justice has accepted the rpsignation of Mr Welch, J.P., of Palmerston North. He wa-> one of those whose action in connection with the Forest B-s <prves sppcial settlement was severely com nented upon by the Land Board. Mr Welch, in forwarding his resignation, ex pained that h > was not aware that h6 was doing wrong in acc a p>ing signatures in blank. The Minister has accepted the explanation. At the sitting of the R.to Court at Hawera last week, five settlers w»re charged with having in their possession sheep above the age of four months which veiv» not branded with the registered brand of the ownp.r. It was stated that an impression prevailed that thp Act did not app'y until the lambs were six month* old A fins of 4Os with cost was imposed in each case. News by the last mail Rays :— ' he London papers of January 21st reported more coroner's inquests of deaths from starva tion than has b«en known in the great metropolis for years. Thpre were four in one day in th<* week ending the 2lst. In its census, thfi panpers havp nasssd the 100,000, and now amount to 102,000. The incrpa*p. in public piupprs ovor last year is SflOO. There is no longor any dread of monster mfintinfjs ■of unemployed at East End. Nothing is h»ard now of tin mass meeting in Trafalgar sqnai-f. Tho poor are wrestling with starvation iv silence. A Marlborough pnppr thus report th<> appearanc° of another horspd^sdise n that district : —RpcfiiH-ij Mr H. Jellvmin was called in by Mr Nicholas, of to attend to a fine, draught mir° of his which soemod giing amiss. When ho arrived she was dpad, and to discover what thp cause of deaih was he made a post mortem when hp found that, death had rosnll «d from the Dink wire worm which te ev n n ninro dangerous than the bot-fly, which had paten through on<> of the skins of the stomach into the blood-vessels, and virtual'y speaking the animal had bled to death. These worms are often caused hy the drinking of impure water. • i One of the accomplishments of the Prince of Wales is ppncil sketching, and there is i ' still preserved at Sandringham a boyish . I effort of his. representing a sailor being I chased by a bull. A more recent skptch ' i is alleged to depict the Rev Hugh Price Hughes doing the hanker business at bac- ' rarat, bnt thia is of doubtful authenticity. * 1

Au alteration of Massrs Hennessy, Westwood & Go. 's advertisement will appear in next issue. Mr H. F. Davidson, of IK-atherloa, has lately imported ssme Cotswu.d shppp from England. A romantic iiinrriagr -c iv n my lias jus tak n place at the little 10 /<i of i 'one, in Corsica -the marriage of tin m generation* at the same time-. An o'A xan was' being married for a third ti.ru, onr of his sons for a second, and a grandson for the first. he curious pari of the hu-i ie,s w^, thai the youngest of (ho three bri.-'iis wju marry ingthegraudfather, whiie the e'dest of them was performing the same Mfice lor tho gmudson. The Empress Frederick certainly seems to inhe it her mother's abruptness and severit. of manner as well as her parsi mony in Bmall matters. Travelling the other dajr in the neighbourhood of Venice in the ordinary compartment, as is her wont, she took a place with hor daughter in a smoking carriage. An Italian was about to light his cigar, when a French man sitting opposite him had the courtesy before taking out his cigar case, to inquire of the Empress, whom of course ho did not know from Evei whether ale obj.cied to the smell of smoking. " I do not know the smell,-- Rir," she replied in broken French, ' for nobody has ever ye. presumed to smoke in my pr«senc •■." " Ah 1 well, who knowa but that you may learn to • njoy it ?" said the Italian, lighting an evil smelling cigar. Fred Leslie left Nellie Farreu a legacy of £2,000* It is rumoured that she is in despair with grief at his death. In Algeria thsre ia a river of ink. The stream is water un.il after the union of cwo of its principal tributaries. One of hese flo > s through a soil rich in iron ; the other conies from a p at-bog. When they unite the chemical action of the iron oil the gallic acied from the peat mattes a hpauiifnl writing fluid. A ti'ip to Algeria will verify the accuracy of this statement. The idea that the Native population of the colony is diminishing cannot be correct, as the Wanganui Herald, in the course of an article on the Native Lands Court, says : — One of the most important elements necessary in estimating the population of this colony is wMiout doubt the native P"ople who, faking the een-sns of 1891 a« a guide, totalled 41,993, and comparing thia with the census live years previously, when the population Was 41.960, it may fairly be assumed that the numbers are being maintained. This, no doubt, is due in a great measure to the fact, that the baneful effects of war are now atfs-nt, and consequently there has been no bar to progress in civifization, while it is worthy of comm-nt also that thpre is a perceptible decivasa in deaths from disease. There can be no contention as to to the fact that the Maori -s are particularly rich in the possession of land- the estimate being that they own something li c ten millions of acres, -this being rather below than above th* mark, but of course it must be boniHin mind that while some of it is vi>ry valuable, allowance has also to be made for m mntain ranges and other por ions where tht? Boil is poor. s a matter of fact the census of 1891 shows that th".y had in crop and grass no lriss than 75,823 acres, of 11,2 >3 were in whpat. 5.599 in nia.'z •, 18,033 in pota f oes, 16,220 in other crop*, and 33,718 in sown grasses. For the first time since the passing of the Education Ant the average attendance at the State schools of New Zealand exceeded 100,000 in the last quarter of 1892. The average for the whole year was slichtly over 90,000 Th« Hawera Star regrets to hear that the prospective trade in frozen pou try f _>r the London nrirkat has recsivjd a shoak from "charges." The cost is said to be a shilling a bird. Every one will remember the famous Melbourne "Bmu" f.iat is a matter of history. All readers of New Zealand newspapers (and " their name ia legion ') will know that the " boom " has burst and that a terrible depression has settled upon that city. To residents in all parts of the Province of Wellington it will be a matter of intense personal interest, which they will fully ascertain by a visit to the " Erupted Boom " Sale. Commencing on Thursday the 26th inst at Te Aro House, Wellington. The proprietor of Ie Aro Hhko has just returned from a visit to that city of the Erstwhile " boom " and subsequent collapse, where he made some large and fortunate purchases at prices that would thoroughly astonish ths oldest stagers in j the Drapery trade. The prices, also, at which we shall off * this vast mass of new and seasonable goods will be veritable eye. openers to th -> most astute bargain hunters at the "Erupted Bjom" Sale, Te Aro Hntis", Wellington. D in' t taik of your former bargains at snrpta? stock sales. ThU sale will beat them. Don't mention the ch-ap lots at bankrupt stock salea. This sale will bo far anead of th«m. Don t trouble to recall pleasant memories of wonderful parcels at ■alvag^ sales. Thi3 sale will give you some more wonderful still, Don't fail jo pay an early visit to this astonishing " Ernptpd Boom ' Sale, at Te Aro House, Wellington. Don't forget that Thursday 26th January is the op»nini? day of the "Erupted Boom " Sale at Te Aro House, Wellington. The "Jhownnrn is abundantly stocked with choice goods for present requirements, of w ich wp. invite inspection and comparison. Ross nd Sandfoud. District.lnporters, the Bon Marche, Palmarston North, — •■Vdyt.