Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1893.

Manawatu Herald, 4 March 1893, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1893.

At the Police Court yesterday morning an elderly man named John Burke was charged with drunkenness, and was fined ss. Mr J. E. McMillan was the presiding justice. The Advocate learns that Mr John Maginnity. wine merchant of Wellington, has been asked by a number of settlers to contest the Otaki seat at the next general election. Mr Maginnity gave no decided answer, but it is thought that he will accede if Mr Millar, proprietor of the Otaki newspaper, does not stand. The latter will with, draw if Maginnity elects to go to the poll. Mr Maginnity would be run in the Government interest. Mr Duthie is in ill-health and may not contest the City again. Mr Dwan will be a candidate for the Hutt Mr H. Fitzherbert, M.H.R., will contest Otaki, and Mr F. Pirani for Palmerston for the Government. Mr J. G. Wilson iB not likely to stand for the latter again. Mr J. Stevens will be the Government candidate for Eangitikei. against Mr E. K. Simpson. Mr Bryce is also mentioned for this district. Mr D. Fisher and Mr Heaton will stand for Wellington.- Mr G. Fisher is reported to be looking at the Hutt, where there seems tobe a plethora of candidates. The Time* { says that all the Ministers will run for their present seatsMr T. Ennis has just received a nice assortment of Scotch, English and Colouiai tweeds, direct from the manufacturers. He advertises that he can execute orders for tweed suits from £4 4s, and other work at a great reduction. The programme of the Regatta ard Water Sports to be held on 17th March will appear in our next issue. They deal out strong sentences for drunkenness in Wellington. A presiding justice spoke thus to an elderly person who had just pleaded gnilty to a charge ol drunkenness—" You -are' discharged, but the next time you come up you will get twice as much." The Foxton Borough Council "meet for business on Monday. The Manawatu County Council hold i their meeting at Sanson on Wednesday. The usual tram will run from Carnarvon on that day, euabling persons leaving by the 9.0 a.m. train returning to Foxton by the 6.80 p.m. train. Mr A. Jonson is now engaged demolishing the old part of the building lately purchased by Mr Cawston, of the Manawatu Hotel. We hear improvements on an extensive scale are contemplated, The United Farmers' Alliance will hold iheir next Fdlding stock sale on Friday. 10th Match. The first fist of entries will be found in another column.

The usual moeting of the " Try Again" Lodge was held in their lodge' room on Thursday evening laßt, and was very largely attended. The attendance indeed for some time past has been so large as to again raise the question of the propriety of removing to a larger hall. If the att< nd- i a::c^ continues to increase as steadily as it has been doing of late, and there appears every probahility of its continuing - the necessity of change will certainly "come within range of practical politics " soon, j A system of coffee suppers has been inaugurated, which under the zealous and careful management of some of the sisters, has been found greatly promotivo of the comfort of members. This, combined \/ith the brightness of the meetings and the kindly feeling existing and manifested by the members to each other, .no doubt accounts to some extent for the interest taken in the welfare and progress of the lodge and order generally. And this proved by the very encouraging attendance. Three water-spouts were seen, in the offing at Patea on Thursday morning at about a quarter to eight. One struck the land near the south end of the town, and took a norfch-eas erly course, doing considerable damage. It unroofed three houses and several sheds, the debris of one house being carried fully a quarter of a mile before falling. The United Farmers' Alliance will hold .heir next stock rale at Palmevston on Thursday 9th Marc* The first list of entries appears to-day. A new advertisement from Mr Steinmuller, who has just started in business as a hairdresser and tobacconist mil be found in another column. The Customs duties collected in the colony last month amounted to £168,071 183 7d., as against 1 104,846 19s 5d for the corresponding montk of last jear, and £ 1 27,248 i)s 'Id for the previous month (January) of this year. The assertion is made that some New Plymouth storekeepers fill up their time ou the day the weekly half holday is held by hawking in the neighbour ood*. Provided satibfactory terms can be made with the Manawatu Railway Company, the Easter encampment will be held at J ohn sonville, but if not I rentham will be cboßen instrad Mr W. Stansell left Foxton this morning to take \rp his duties as teacher at Pemberton. .Vies Josephine Bay will return to Foxton to replace him. V- od era duellists are no doubt very fine fellows, and draw their swords in defence of iheir honour with all necessary courage; but when they find themselves face to fac with the ordinary alarms of daily life, they are very like other mortals. This was th. case the other day with two gentlemen of Mi l an, who, lia\ ing an affair of honor to settle, attempted to do it at the Swiss frontier. A riving at the station, the valient pair, ace mpanied by a couple of seconds, a doe.«r, and a s 'rvant, carrying a suspicious looking bnndlo conlainiug sabres, were stopped by thi> wisa police, and politely requested to go back into Italy. They did so, and selected a little village named Mnndrizio for the encounter. No sooner had they crossed swords, when a large St. B rnard" dog, which had been eyeing the poceedings with evident suspicion, took it in 0 his head to jciin in the fray. With thi- intention, he proceeded to growl so fiercriy at the two swordsmen, that he completely succeeded in striking terror into the hears of thfi two chivalrous combat ants. They th'Tpnpon I ought it best to unite together again.se the common foe ; and after putting the dog to rout, the whole party returned together to Milan very good friends. Mr H. Billens, of the firm of Billens & Bivting, photographers, of Palmerston N irth has arrived, as will be seen by the advertisement in another column. As this firm have a name already for turning out nrst-ela r 3 work, we have no doubt they will be well patronised during their stay in Foxton. Messrs. Hennessy. Westwood & Co. havirg complete their stock-taking, announce tlrfct t ie/ now have a few line* to dispose of cheap. Acting under instructions from Mr R. Stevens, Messrs Abraham & Williams will sell at Awalnui on Monday the whole of. the stock running on the Kopani Estate, in consequence of its sale to the Hon. Walter Johnston. At the Foxton sale-yards on Tuesday Messrs. Abraham & Williams will hold a stock sale. Further entries will be received by Mr Walter G. Robinson. A new Yankee newspaper thus candidly announces its mission — " Ou aim : Tell the truth though the heavents take % tumble. Our paper : Of the people, for Ihe people, to be paid for by the people. Our re igion : Orthodox, with a firm belief in aht 11 for delinquent subscribers. Our motto : Take all in sight and rustle for more. Our policy :To love our friends and brimstone our enemies. If thine enemy -mite thee on one cheek, 6wipe him with haste and detexerity at the butt end of |his most convenient ear. what we advocate : One country, one flag, and one wife at a ime. Our object ; To live in pomp and oriental splendour " One of Abraham Lincoln's tersest and iihiest sentences is in these words:— " You may deneive a'l the people part of h-i time, and part of the people all the ime, but not all the people all the time." t took a great mind 10 think that thought in that form. A Ballarat lady (says a Sydney contem- } orary) recently advertised for a first class governess. She received ihe following reply which is worth framing; — Madame— ] hear that you have a vaicensy in your school. I would like very much to get it. Although I have noi actually been teaching f have had a good deal of experance among children. I was four yeara assistant do mestic with Mr . in !-turt street. There 1 had to assemble the children for breakfast—to call the rool to see if they were all there. There wasil7 of them. If anyone was absent mine was the duty to go mustering, and bring him hvo ht3 me. la I have great command over chi'dien, and n<.ne ever daved to vesis-t me. lam 5 feet llfin in my bare feet and measure 14 in arm. so can have no fear, but that 1 can keep discripline all right. I could teach general subjects — wri ing, sums, sowing nd cetere.e. At a pinch I could teacli music. Although 1 htive not practise I for five years, I have been through Zurneg's study's and could boush it up if needed. A sensational suicide has occurred at Nice. The young wife of M. Mairargne, who is well-known in Paris, went a short time ago to consult one of the numerous fortune tellers who abound in this district. She was told she would die on the birth of h<r first child. She was very much upset by this answer, and informed her husband f what she had been told. He immediately replied that if it were so he ould die too, and ha at once prepared I ; s will. The wife was confin-d, and <iango to Biy, died a fr-w hours afierwards. U on the sad news being conveye l to the hiv band he went to hi? room, placed his win i » an envelopp in h''s desk, and then shot, himself through tha heart.

At an up coury concert. Chairman (a J.P.) : ' ih u next hitem on hour pro-' gramme, is a du«t by Mr Huptvees.' Mr Dptrees here approached the chairman with : ' I can't perform a duel by myself ! If 1 played by myself that would be a solo. Mts Jonep. and 1 will play the duet.' Chairman (rising with due gravity) : •Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Huptrees says 'es unable to pert >rm a duet by himself, but Miss Jones a:irl he will play a solo. { The other day a, man and n boy came into a shop to biy a hat. A. ter a time the man was fifed to on-. Looking in the glass he said to the y. t ng^er, ' How do I look in this hat? 'Like a thief,' promptly respond* d the bj. Th? innn augiiiy darted towards him, but the boy fled from the shop, pursued by the man. The shopkeeper laughed and thought it all very funny until their long absence made him realise that he had been robbed. Then he stopped laughing. The electoral roll of Raugitikei has undergone a thorough revision. The 1892 roll contained 1375 names. There were 1244 names struck off and transferred to the Palmeraon and Otaki rolls, 64 were struck off by the R M., leaving the total! number of electors at 2367. To these have to be added the removals from the Waitotara eleotora»e 539, making the grand total now on the Raugitikei roll cf 2906 voters. A billiard match between the champions Roberts and Peall, the latter receiving 9000 start out of 24,000, is attracting great interest in England. Roberts made 1320 while his adversary was scoring 77. A case interesting to publicans was argued before Mr Kenny, R.M., at Nelson last Thursday. Wright, a publican in the back country, also obtained a brewer's license and brewed his beer, 18 gallons at a tune, which he stamped and removed from the brewery to his publichouse, where he sold two gallons in a keg without a stamp. For the prosecution it was argued that section 3 of the Beer 'Duty Act, 1886, applied, and for the defence that it was never intended that the same beer should pay duty twice. Defendant was fined 10s and costs amounting to £10. Notice of appeal was given. Says the Taranaki News: — Acorrespon dent informs us that a general mix up oc curred at the celebration of a marriage ceremony in this district recently. Before the ceremony had concluded, the blushing bride, noticing the minister pause, lifted her veil. Thu challenge was accepted by the bi idegrcom, and the process of oseula^ tion was satisfactorily performed. The organist noticed the honey business, and volli> d forth the " Wedding March/ The parson was at •ea for a moment, but he rallied, and issued au injunction to thn organist to desist, which injunction was accepted without appeal. But now the spectators spoiled matters by squirting rice over the newly hitchsd, and the m nister ! became nearly frantic. He tried to choke oft' the waste of the Chinese delicacy, and was just beeo'uing successful when the organist thought it was time to take another hand. Mendelsohn poured his soothing soul over the congregation, but he didn't afford the minister much relief. Eventually matters were righted and the ceremony proceeded to a finish, much to the relief of the converts to Hymen, who, although they had mortgaged the- cus ' toniary kissing bliss, didn't care one jot, but went through the performance again with as much nerve as if the time-honored gains was a decided novelty. Every one will remember the famous Melbourne "Boom." That is a matter of history. All readers of New Z mland newspapers (and " their name is legion ') will know that the •' boom " ha* burst and that a terrible depression has settled upon that chy. To residents in all parts of the Province of Wellington it will be a matter of intense personal interest, which they will fully asceriain by a visit to the " Erupted Boom " Sale. Commencing on Thursday the 26th inst at Te Aro House, Wellington. The proprietor of te Aro House 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 the oldest stagers in the Drapery trade. The prices, a ! so. at which we 6hall offer this vast mass of new and seasonable goods will be veritable eye. openers to the most astute bargain hunters at the "Erupted Biom" Sale, Te Aro House, Wellington. Don't taik of your former bargains at surplus stock sales. This sale will beat them. Don't mention the cheap lots a* bankrupt stock sales. This sale will b far ahead of them. Don t trouble to recall pleasant memories of wonderful parcels a* salvage sales. This sale will give you some more wonderful still, Don't fail ?o pay an early visit to this astonishing " Erupted Boom ' Sale, at Te Aro House, Wellington. Don't forget that Thursday 26th January is the opening day of the "Erupted Boom " Sale at Te Aro House, Wellington. The Showroom is abundantly stocked with choice good 8 for present requirements, of w ion wo invite insp»otiou and com [ parison Ross nd Sandfokd, District Im« porters, the Bon Marche, Palmerston North, — Abvt.