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Manawatu Herald, 29 April 1893, Page 2

Notice is given to-day that the Foxton Licensing Committee wi 1 hold on Tuesday 6th of June their annual meeting. The 'Borough' Council witl meet t>h Monday at two o'clock iv the a£tet'u.6h. The Mtt_a*.vatU County Council gives notice that the Electoral Rolls and Defaulters Lists are now lying at the County Office for inspection and copies, at the places mentioned, In oiu* Stock and Piaditee Coliinm thei. apprara fttt _ttVerti_e_ie_t recommending 0«r iead..s to." beep pp .your peeked," hilt tt refers to " peckers-,'* feathered bip.*c\e .f various ages wjya .ab easily discern chaff fr.m fe_.h. Kead, mark, and you will learn all it means. The Rev. G. Aitkens will hold morning and evening service at Foxton t.-__...ow-. Messrs Billens & Bunting announce that the studio will positively be Closed on Friday next. Messrs fcoVeflay Br_B. have an altered advertisement over the leader lo day. Messrs Abraham & Williams hold a sale on Wednesday at Levin. The Union Clothing Company advertise a big lot of blankets and rugs which the firm have bought at a big discount off re^ gular prices and they are offering them to the public of Foxton at a Very lo\V figure, The Resident Magistrate WAs unable to hold the Court to-day as he had intended doing, so all the cases set down foi- hearing were adjourned to the 11th _lay; On Wednesday tl. _.. tt. J. Reeves, M.ttiß., Was adjudged a bankrupt at Nelson, pn the petition of the Hon. J. M. Larnach, of Dunedin. It appears that some time since M,r Larnach „ obtained judgment against Mr lt-'.'ve_ for £50, Whi.t- With 6d3ts now amounts to over »7a. Mr Reeves offered to settle the matter by paying £50 cash, and the balance in four months. This Mr Larnach refused, and Mr Harley, who appeared for Mr Larnach, stated that his positive instructions were that the whole amount should be paid at once, or the order for adjudicating would be issued, Uis Honor Judge Kenny said under the _ircdmstan.es he had UO other course open but to grant the order, saying at; the same time he could not but consider the action of Mr Larnach as seeniirig very harsh. li-l'd Mayor Knill, replying to a deputation of Ulstermen, said he believed the Home Rule Bill would work great mischief, but condemned armed resistance. The Herald's Opotiki correspondent states that the body of Te Kooti has been surreptitiously removed from where it lay at Ohiwa. It is supposed that his friends among the Uriwera Natives have taken it in order to have it buried- in their country. The Rev. Mi* Isitt, speaking in Welling, ton on Prohibition has had a ' dig ' at the Post and the Times. This is what he says of the last named paper:— Sometimes, however, a man would tell him that he was in the habit of reading what the New Zealand Times had to say about Prohibition. When ho (Mr Isitt) ...heard, that statement he was more surprised than ever. He would, perhaps, say to the man who had read the limes article on Prohibition, " What have you made of it ?" and the reply would be " I don't know." He was not surprised when he heard the man say that. For the last four weeks the Times had been struggling to make up its mind, and had not yet succeeded. It seemed to him that there were two writers on- the Times pulling in different directions. The Times had for som.. time past been wibble-wobbling, sitting' pn a rail as it were, unable to make up its mind which Bide was going to win. The Times, however, could make up its mind that the Prohibitionists were going to ., win.. At the Pahiatua RiM. Court on Tuesday, E. A. Haggen was charged with having, on the 3rd March, published a defamatory libel concerning James Pirie . Clark, of Pahiatua, draper, implicating hirrrin the introduction, of poison into the food partaken of by a wedding party at Pahiatua on dr about the 26th day of December, 1891. Mr G. H. Smith appeared for the informant and Mr Haggen conducted his own defence. After evidence had been tendered by the complainant, Mr Haggen said he had an objection to make which must be absolutely fatal to the information and on which their Worships must dismiss the case. The information charged him with publishing " The Woodville Examiner." Now the papers put in were entitled " The Examiner." The law was that there was no proof " of publication unless the title of the paper was the same as that in the information. He showed that the point had been successfully raised by Sir Robert Stout in the case Seaborne v. Wilson, and supported -by .'Judge . Prendergast. The Bench stated that after very careful consideration they concluded that the point, .raised by Mr Haggen was fatal to the information, and they would therefore dismiss it without prejudice, plaintiff to pay defendant's costs. The Post says the Assets Company has decided to cut up the Carnarvon estate of 7000 acres into small farms, and form a special settlement upon it. Messrs Richardson and Reardon have been entrusted with the work. An exchange writing on different styles of newspapers properly places them as friends and says :— ln every community there are several kindß of " public," and it is for the paper to decide which element it shall serve. '■ By their fruits ye sha } know them," and the man who desires to select his taper as he chooses his friend has no difficulty in determining what paper is most congenial to his tastes and most in harmony with his intelligence.