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Manawatu Herald, Volume 06, 6 April 1893, Page 2

Tenders were received from A. Jonson at £5 and B. Gray at £5 5s for the office of custodian and sexton of the cemetery. The Council accepted Mr Jonson's tender. The meeting of the Council yesterday was characterised by a large amount of warmth which it is as Well not Id report. " Tenders ftfe invited for clearing out drains for the Borough. The Rev. G Ailkena will hold service at Levin oh Sunday morning and At Fox-tori in the evening. There will be no Mass in Foxton uext Sunday, but on the Sunday following Mass will be held at 8 and 11 a.m. and evening service at 6.30 p;m-. Messrs Gorton & Son will hold a sale of stock at Bulls on Tuesday next. Messrs Greer, Scott, Mowlam and Luxford (skip) won the Champion Itink match at Wellington". The repairs to the dwelling opposite to t the Library have been finished by Mr Jonson, and Mr Cawston lias accepted the tender of Mr Webb for the painting and papering. The Palmerston District Court bttd ndt the power to try tho accused in the case of grog stoaling, and all parties will have to proceed to Wanganui next week. The receipts of the gambling establishment at Moute Carlo during the year amounted to nearly a million sterling) and the dividend was il per cent, the highest on record. :■■ A contrast to the 41 per cent business. A distressing scene occurred in the gambling rooms at Monte Carlo Casino on February 10, when a player, who had been losing heavily, suddenly became insane. The incident created much excitement, as it was some lime before the unfortunate man,, who was raving incoherently, could be removed from the room. Messrs Abraham & Williams hold a clearing sals at Pohangina to-morrow. Next week the United Farmers Alliance hold a sale at Birmingham. There appears to be some little trouble looming up in connection with the Aorangi bridge if the Advocate has got tho " hang " of tht question correctly, as it says : — At the time the commission of inquiry was being held as to the necessity for a bridge over the Oroua at Aoraugi, and the proportion each local body interested should boar of the cost, an understanding was arrived at that in case the bridge was built the Manchester Road Board should borrow the necessary sum under the Loan; to Local Bodies Act, and each contributing body pay its proportion of interest to the Manchester Board. The law officers of the Crown, however, would not admit that the Manchester Itoad Board was empowered by the decision given following the enquiry, to borrow the whole amount required, but only the proportion of the cost it had been directed to bear. Application was at once made, on the receipt of this notification, to the other contributing bodies fcr their share of the coat. In the meantime, the Manchester Board is compelled to pay progress payments on the work: from the overdraft at the Bank. The Feilding Borough Council have taken proceedings to raise a loan to cover the borough share of the cost, but the Manawatu Road Board, judging from their letter on the subject, appear to demur to the demand for their proportion of the principal instead of interest. The condition on which a bonus of £250 ia offered by the Government for a means of eradicating the Californian thistle appear in the Gaaette. Mr Trengrouae, a butter expert, has informed Mr Wilson, the Victorian expert, that it will be impossible to glut the London butter market with a superior article. A mushroom was picked up at Matawhero Station, Wairarapa, this week, that measured 89 inches in circumference and weighed l^lb, and that not an isolated specimen. A new explosive has been tried by the German military authorities with success. It is almost smokeless, and there is little recoil or detonation. The material does not explode by a blow or an ignition from a spark, but only upon the introduction of fresh substances. Madame Melba has appeared in Verdi's opera of ' ltigoletto ' at Milan. The Italian newspapers pronounce her the biggest success for twenty years. The New South Wales Minister of Justice has recommended the release of those imprisoned during the Broken Hill strike, when the following sentences have been served : — Heberle, six months ; Hewitt and Bolkinghouse, 12 months ; Sleath and Ferguson, 16 months. Not so strange coming from a doctor. Dr Moloney, M.L.A., Melbourne, suggests that all doctors should be paid by the State at the rate of £600 a year each, and that they should give their services to the public free of charge. Cardinal Vaughan considers that it is the duty of the State to reform the condition of the masses, and provide labour at fair wages, and proper dwellings. Mr Wilson, the Victorian expert, declares that an investigation aboard the s. s. Cuzco proves that colonial butter for tke last two years has been carried at a temperature 15 . degrees too high. He recommends from 25 to 35 degrees Fah. at the proper range. He expresses himself confident that the English market for best Victorian Chedder cheese and the demand for butter will not always remain unlimited. W« thank the Railway authorities far g, enpy of the timetable for April. I

. The United Farmers' Alliance^ advertise their first entries lor their Feilding sale. . A meeting of Ahe Sports bdnitillttee will 1?3 lieM at iir border's hotel to-night. The distinguish A President of the Be.Republic of Hayli, who proceeded the other day to a bank for a sum of money, which he obtain .'d not on the .strength of the security of his overdraft, but on ttCeolltH of the draft (of soldiers) .that he took with lliiii; hits iidw excused his action as being simply the' enforeVnient df the l'ftw I Vcvjr BUVtJi' Moils', liyppdlite; bttt Hot doila highly politely. The district over whibh he presides is .the western or French pttrtion of tlio Island of San JE)omin«O; The position to which Bishop Selwyn has been elected at Cambridge is practically a college but is termed a " hostel," and this Selwyn hostel was fduHded in y.^o) aitd it iia:i is" uiiiier-gradiiateß. the ttort. and Key. A. T. Lylteiton was the previous head. Owing td Gerniitby's refusal to increage her army, AtUttia has docidecl td in^rea»a all branches of hers, and to rajs* the peact strength at a cost of two million sterling. The present army has 334,473 men on its poace footing and the war establishment with a LancUttirm of 474,981 men, consists Of l,fWtl2o officers anil liietl. the Pithiatua Sktr says:— Mr J. P. Clark has instructed . Mr Maiiis'ty, of Wdodvillet tB. take criminal proceeding* against Air B. A; Haggeii; Of tile Wddavijl.e' Era miner, .for libel in .connection with articles written 6d the Pahiatiia Boxing Day poisoning calamity. We understand the writ will bo Served this \yeek.' It is not surprising to find a late leading article in th« Woodville Examiner commencing this way : —Referring to the law of lib«l, the St James Gazette says— "Libel actions a.i-e really getting something more than ridieulolij;