Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1893.

Manawatu Herald, 22 April 1893, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1893.

The Manawatu County Council insert a notice relative to the exchange of roads in the Motoa Estate. Mr Bartholomew offers a reward for the return of a brown and white Lavaric slut which went astray on Monday last at the race course. Acting on the general principle of concentrating business the A.M.P. Society advertise that the Foxton Agency will be closed from the first of May. In a letter notifying the fact to their agents, Messrs Thynne Linton & Co., the Secretary thanks them for the care and attention bestowed on the Agency during the period they have held it, many years now. The annual meeting of householders will be held at the school house on Monday evening to receive report from the outgoing committee and for the election of a new one. The N. Z. Times gets "off some funny remarks at times, quite unintentionally, however. In yesterday's paper, in which appears the account of the Judge's remarks on Mr Jellicoe's motion for an injunction, it has a leader commencing thus : — A man of much experience once said, 'Have nothing to do with public companies in their earlier years, because they are like children — as children are subject to croup, measles and other infant sicknesses, so young companies have their special maladies, through which they must go,' Probabiy the late " incident " at the N.#. Times Company's meeting suggested it. The new relieving R.M., Mr T. Hutchison, is now holding courts in the Wairarapa. He was pretty well known here, in conjunction with a storekeeper, some years ago. He seems hardly to appreciate the position to which he has been appointed, judging by a report of a case appearing in one of the local papers. He seems to think it necessary to be, or to try to be, funny on the smallest joint. A witness had described being thrown from his horse on to a bridge, the R.M. said, " I suppose you got off to inspect the place." Again another .witness asserted he did not know of any cure for a horse's broken knees, when the B.M. again " chipped in " with "not even Elliman's embrocation.". An extraordinary explanation was given by a' man in London charged with wife desertion. He' said he was a member of "King Solomon's Sect," and gome time ago received a " divine" message to leave his wife and live with another woman. Many husbands, during the course of their married bliss, reoeive a " divine " message from their better halves to leave, but it goes no farther. Fortunately very, few men, though sworn " to love and obey," do so. It would appear that heedance given to the promptings of this Sect would lead to much more matrimonial trouble. In Australia researches are being made into the wheat question A committee work during the wheat season testing the tensile strength of the flag of various varieties. Each wheat plant was marked, and, when all had been tested, those plants which gave the highest tensile strength were harvested separately, and will, during next season, be sown separately, and further improved, and used in securing new wheat by means of crossing with the view of getting new and more productive wheats, especially those of a rust-resisting charac ter. Frank Mulligan, a small farmer near WestClive, Napier, and his mate, name unknown, have been burnt to death. Their cottage was discovered totally destroyed^ and in the ashes were the remains of both bodle8» fcmoke issuing from their

The Judge refused Mi- iMlftoe's motion for ah interim injunction against the N.Z hmna Company, but under the circumstances he thought it would be.beUe.i- that the matter should be relegated 'to & further' meeting of llie shareholders, in orler to set at rest any doubts upou this point. His Honor made an order that Messrs Beeves, WaiburloD, Harris and Samuel should carry on the business and that they should convene a meeting of shareholders-, in ac^ corilar.c" with the raiui.siuori of the shareholders already lodged-, subject to any modifications that might be necessary, fr>r the purpose (1) of appointing a director in ;hc piace of Mv Macdonald (retired) ; (2) of appointing a director in the placa of Mr Viimmer ; (ii) of removing Mr Jellicoe as a director ; (4) of appointing some other person in his plaee-, the meeting to be held on the S'.-h of May at- such time and place aa Messrs Itucves, Warburton, Harris and Samuel may appoint, notice of the meeting to be f»iven,«is provided b,y. lire arlicles of the Company." A romance in real life has (says the Stu.) just been brought >o a happy denouement in Auckland. One of the sons of an Auckland family had been missing from home for nearly twenty .yeavfy arid had loag ago been given, up foe dead. Many years ago he was concluded to have died abroad, and his family had gone into mourning for him nearly two decades back. He was a very young r^n , vnen hc Mt home . A i:* : clays ago the mlsslbg s&h kiiocked at I his parents door 5 and wias rtdt recognised until his overjoyed 1-eiaiiVes heard his explanAtion. It may be imagine'd that he was welcomed as one back from the dead. One of the most singular features df it all was the wanderer's ileturn to the same house which he had left so manv years ago. Mrs Soler, of Wanganui, is petitioning for a judicial separation from her husband by reason of his adultery and cruelty. 'Ihe case has only been partly heard. More than half of the hops grown in England are cultiva'el in the county of Kent, on 34,000 a crep. The case of Blaramberg v» ' Wanganui Education Board, whioh.was to have been heard at the Supreme Court at Wanganui on Thursday, has bee.u postponed for one month. That necessity is the mother of invention, was illustrated the other day at Oringi (says the Bush Advocate), where the station manager wished to. transfer 2,500 lambs from one side of -the Manawatu Eiver to the other. ]f there had been a bt'idge there the matter would not have required much thought, but as there was no bridge they made one. Three drays were taken into the river and placsd at equal distances, planks were laid where necessary, and the lambs were crossed Without mishap. The idea was ingenious and' its practice quite Satisfactory. A novel memento of the Thii-sk disaster has been received by Eowland Ewart, the driver of the Scotch expres-. One of his fellow-workmen has made, entirely from the brass of the' wrecked engine, a perfect watch with lever movement, and bearing on its case an illustration of the ill-fated engine. • / . Mr C- A. W.'Hnnt, who recently disposed of his property at Pohangina, was entertained at a complimentary dinner at the Ashurst Hotel on Tuesday evening. At Lyttelton, Joseph Flynn, a storkkeeper, and William Mackin, captain's steward on II M.S Katoomba, were charged with smuggling 7500 cigarettes. Flynn was fined £100, and the ease against Mackin wa| djs'»i&ed. '&'' r <■'" Ah official of the Imperial Bank (in liquidation) has" 'been arrested in Mel bourne on a- charge of embezzlement. It is alleged thaf Qjrave irregularities have been discovered T in connection with the institution. A -win rant has been issued f.r the apprehension of another official on a Bimilar charge/ In the Court of; Aldermen, of the city of London, notice has been given of a motion regretting the 'disloyal toast' moved by Lord Mayor KpilV a"t the banquet tendered by him to Cardinal Yaughan. Mr Hadfield's ..Palmerston property ad - joining the Church of England was sold on Wednesday to Mrs S. M. Wilson, at the vendor's price. : The sale was effected through Mr 6. M. Snelson. Some premises in Threadneedle-street, City of London, put up to auction, were withdrawn from sale, as the owners did not think the highest bid — something like £175,000 or £45 afoot— sufficient. Sir Patrick Buckley has arrived at Auckland from Eotorua in excellent health, after a course of .baths. Good progress is being made, says a New South Wales .jmper, with the erection of rabbit-proof wire fence from Narromine to Cowra, a distan.ee. of 407 miles. The fence follows the railway line via Blayney and Harden. It is not geperally known that rabbit-proof fencing has already been erected between Barringun, on the Queensland border, to Bourke, a distance of 84 miles ; also from Bourke to Narromine, consisting of 208 ni§es, so that upon the completion of the line between Narromine and Corowa, there n \vill be a continuous fence from the Murray to the Queensland border, through the centre of New South Wales, the line extending a total distance of 694 miles. Two brothers named Denham, bankers, London, are on trial for frauds in connection with the London and General Bank to the extent of £49,000. The bank is in liquidation. A woman attempted to throw herself into the harbour' at Oriental Bay on Thursday night,;.; but- was: prevented by her friends from carrying out her rash intention and was conveyed to her home. Alexander Black, proprietor of the Pahiatua Star, filed in bankruptcy on Thursday. A singular . and fortunately unusual circumstance-was reported 1 by a farmer in 1766. A wheat field of seventeen acres, near Kingston, was fSurid to have no grain in the ear, and was consequently cut down for straw. . -i? The Post reports that a boy named Eastwood accidentally shot himself on Wednesday afternoon when out pigeonshooting with an old. rifle, at Eketahuna. Deceased was a son of Mr Eastwood, of the Wellington Special Settlement No. 1. It appears that the boy Eastwood— whose mother was absent in Wellington and his father away fencing — was at home with his little sister. He got an old-fashioned muzzle-loading rifle, and loaded it with blasting powder and a revolver bullet. His sister states that he went outside to shoot a bird, and when it flew away he returned towards the house, dragging the rifle behind him. Just as he passed some logs the gun went off, shooting, him dead, the bullet entering his left breast and coming out of his back. An enquiry will be held either this afternoon or tomorrow.

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