Manawatu Herlad. THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1898.

Manawatu Herald, 9 March 1893, Page 2

Manawatu Herlad. THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1898.

The Rev. Mv Aitkens will be absent from Foxton next Sunday, as he will attend the ordination services at Palmerston. There will be no Mass in Poxton next Sunday. The artesian well at Tennaut's mill is now down about 220 feet. At a depth of 110 feet the contractors struck water, but it rose only to within three feet of the surface. Mr Perrett, of the Junction Hotel, Sanson. is getting up a new .stable in the place of the old one lately burnt down. He expects it to be finished before the race day. The Agricultural Department are issuing a leaflet to the settlers concerning the Bathurst Burr. By this means it has been discovered that there is a patch of nearly two acres at Parewanui covered with this pest. Additions are made to Messrs Abraham and Williams' Colyton sale. The entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams' Palmerston sale, and sale at Collingwood farm appear to-day. The United Farmers' Alliance have large additions to their Feilding sale to-morrow, and a' so advertise a sale at Ashurst for next Wednesday. Messrs Gorton & Son will hold their usual stock sale at Bulls on Tuesday next. They will also hold a clearing out sale for] Mr J. Gray on the 27th March. On Saturday afternoon the hands at the Paiaka mill are going to hold some sports, and in the evening they will give a concert assisted by the members of Mr Gardner's family, concluding with a dance. For the concert and dance a charge of one shilling to each will be made, the proceeds being given to the Queensland relief fund. We are desired to state that all visitors will be most heartily welcomed. Last night the down train was detained I over an hour at Palmerston waiting the | arrival of the Wangauui train. However ! as she did not make her appearance the Foxton train started without further delay. To those who were cooling their heels at the Carnarvon Junction this was no joke, and the time of waiting was beguiled in imagining what dire misfortune bad occurred, and what wore the chances of hay- • ing to walk the five and a half miles. | It is very satisfactory to notice the pro- ' gress which is being mads with the metal- • ling on the Foxton-Sandon road. From Clune's corner to some distance past the Oroua Dawns homestead the road is j gravelled, and from the end of the old metal this side of Campbelltown Statiou the contractor is continuing southwards. There is no doubt but that the County authorities have at last firmly grappled with this large and important work. It is extremely gratifying to learn how trnnt are being found in the str?am<? on this coast. On- 1 day last wepk, the manager of Mr G-nr's property at To Hnvo had ocension to divert the stream on hi* land, and there wi-p lef , many little poo's in the o'd bed. in which w-re. quite a number of trout, some of fair size.

The con trm -toy for int-ialting the FoxtonHhannon road has made a !:Lavt and expects to be through in six weeks. Two shops in the Square at Pnlmerrton, occupied by Mr Kirkwood, rcrtamunt, keeper, and Mv Hermann, jewel >r, were destroyed by fire on Tuesday morn ng. The Daily Timos Office and Park's s.atioiuy estiiiiislimems had a narrow e.scapt;. "lorl manns stock was insured for £800. and Kirkwood's stock for £]00 in the Hi aits Fire- Office, and the buildings were als,. insured, but the amount is uot known. Sheep did not command spirited bidding at the sale on Tuesday, there b irig a marked difference In the one held a month previous. Every hernpmiUer cannot exprct to get the top price for his tlax, therefore they need not feel annoyed at learning that one Wairarapa firm gets £20 10b a ton for their output. T An . ente rtainer, giving free shows in \\ elhngton, runs as near a public lottery as can be without coming within the meaning of the Act. The local papers say*s crowds attend, except, we suppose, the policp, and those whose duty it is to see that the laws are enforced. The pro cess, to place himself 1 right, in the eye of the law, is we believe frequently neglected during the rush of trade. It seems a long way to take metal, from Paikakariki to Wellington, yet the usual morning train takes a good many trucks, some for the Wellington Corporation, and some for Mr Saunders' sea wall which he is erecting for the i ■ arbour Board. Wellington people can never have too much of a good thing, and though liviug in a town bounded on two sides by the sea, they make trips out to Paikakariki in thp endeavor to discover which sea has the most saltness in it. The landlord of tlie one hotel objects not, and has his house almost always full during the summer, the other day forty guests being in the house. With our stretch of beautiful sands it was rather amusing to hear the loose shingly beach down there mentioned as "perfectly lovely. 1 |he remark might, however, have been made by a shoemaker, we do not know, but if by such a person there would be reason in it. The curtain provided by the present manager of the Foxton Public Hall, an attempt at an advertising medium, is as horrible as anything can well be. We have heard numbers exclaim against the Wellington Opera House curtain, but having seen our local one first, the Wellington one appeared " a thing of beauty I and a joy for ever "—in contrast. Such, therefore is cur local one. i Last Sunday a severe earthquake was I experienced at Sandgate, a small town on the coast of Kent, about a mile and a half from Folki'stonr. The gas mains were severed, roadways and seawalls crack-d, and upwards of 100 houses damaged by the force of the shock. The damage wifl probably amount to several thousands of pounds. N.) fatalities are reported, but people walking along the streets were thrown down by the force of the shock. By latest cablegrams the accident is accounted for in another way. Demp3ey and Beatty were each sentenced to seven years' imprisonment in connection with the Homestead rioo, Uallngher to live years, and Davidson to three. The drought in the Riverina has broken up. H nv.v thunderstorms are general ihrongiiout: the colony. The Czar has suspended the expulsion of .frnva, and is reported to be framing remedial measures. Mr .fusiice Williams, of Dunedin, has I written to the Government, says the N.Z. Tiiuef) stating that he is s ff •ring from an attack of pleurisy, and needs rest. The Government have therefore resolved to grant his Honor three months' leave of absence, and to appoint District Judge Ward to temporarily fill Mr Justice Williams' p ace on the Supreme Court bench. Thrice previously has Mr War! been selected to act temporarily as a judge of the Supreme Court. A rich lode has been discovered near Wangaratta, Victoria Fifty-five tons of siona yielded 4'J7oz of gold. The Pope has received gifts amounting to a qnarter of a million sterling from pilgrims This does not read pleasant for a man with a largo family and a small income.— The Lyttletou Tims assorts (hat the Ashburton Plains ar« breaking all previous r?cords in the smallness of the yi-lds this season. Many farmers on the plains are threshing out less than five bushels of wheat to the acre, and several under three. A petition to Parliament is in circula lation in Napier praying for the abolition of the totalisator. it is said to be signed by over a 1000 persons. The Queen has consented to lenl Lady Butler's famous pictnre, «' The Uoh Cal ," to the Chicago Exhibition. "The Roll Call," which is the privats property of Hhi Majesty, has hung for many years' in the corridor at Us borne.

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