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Manawatu Herald, 16 May 1893, Page 2

On Thursday Mr Snelson sells some furniture in Mr Arnold's residence on the Motaroad, Acceptances fol' the Otaki Maori Bacing Club races close to-morrow at five in the evening. On the Sports day Mr Cawston will have lunch ready at his hotel at eleven o'clock. At the meeting of the Athletic Sports Committee last nigkt, the tenders for the privileges were opened, and those of Mr Border for the publican's booth at £4, and Mr P. Williams for the gates at £6, accepted. The polling day for the Wanganui election is fixed for the Oth .Tune and the nominations for the 2nd. The Wanganui Herald, not liking the acceptance of Mr Carson as a candidate by his party, asserts in a sub-leader that it has been a matter of " Hobson's choice." It may appear so to the Liberal party in Wanganui, where two of- the party are ready to fight one another for the position, and where it is difficult to say if one of them can be prevailed upon to stand out. " Hobson's choice " is sometimes best. To-morrow the polling for the election of a Councillor for the Borough takes place. The voting hours are from 9 a.m. to 6 p.rn We are afraid that but little interest is felt on an important matter, as neither candidate has thought it worth while to explain to the Burgesses what his views are. The election will simply be a personal one, which is not satisfactory. Messrs Abraham tfc Williams sell tomorrow at Feilding, dairy cows, the property of Mr Betemeyer. The Herald delights to call the party it is opposed to, the Land-grab interest/ It is a pity to go about fishing up objectionable terms, as the Herald may discover, as the Ministry, both by its leanings and actions might appropriately be termed " The Beer and Sack Ministry." Unkind— very. The reason that Sir Robert Stout is anxious to get into Parliament appears to be not to serve the people, but to secure a billet. The Tuapeka Times hints that the gaol of Sir Bobert Stout's ambition is the Chief Justiceship, and says that if Sir J. Frendergast could be induced to retire he would be quite agreeable to accept the position. Messrs Wickett <fc Co., of Palmerston, notify that they will have some startling bargains and request purchasers to wait for the announcement. , The Telegraph says :— " The familiar letters |8.M.,' signifying Resident Magistrate, will be seen no more in print, unless it is by mistake from long habit. Resident Magistrates for the future are to be called Stipendiary Magistrates, to distinguish them from the great army of unpaid Justices. A. Turnbull, Esq., S.M., will look queer at first, but we shall get uccustomed to it in lime, as we shall with the term Stipendiary Magistrate's Court. During the bank crisis in Melbourne at the beginning of this month, the banks were close fo* a week by a compulsory bank holiday. Two Anglo- Australian banks and the "Union Bank of Australasia refused to accept of the opportunity and kept open. At first a crush took place, but when customers found they were being paid in gold they thought better of it. " Most extraordinary Bank this," observed one perspiring customers to another, as he mopped his brow with a large silk handkerchief, " they will only pay in gold." He had presented a cheque for £1400, and was offered some thing like a quarter of a hundredweight of gold coin by the obliging teller in return for his piece of paper. " No, you can have it back," he said after a moment's reflection, "on second thoughts I think I will leave it here after all," and he elbowed his way out of the crowd again with his black bag empty. Boys will be boys, though some are hungrier than others, but all are hungry. At the Highgate Court, London, lately, a Hornsey tailor attended to oomplain of the appetite of his apprentice, whom he had acquired from the Foundling Hospital. The lad would appear to have, as Mr Fargeon put it, " a tiger in his stomach." Although well fed, he had for the last 18 months been continually pillaging the larder, and was not at all squeamish in his taste when the pangs of hunger set in. The disappearance of bread and butter the tailor could put up with, but when it came to a pound of lpaf sugar and a can of oocoa at one time, then he thought the line ought to be drawn. Just to show the lad's omnivorous capacity, it was mentioned that on a recent Saturday he consumed the raw Brussells sprouts got in for the Sunday dinner. Under the advice of the Magistrate, the tailor is going t« consider whether he cannot get the foundling's indentures cancelled. The Earl of Aberdeen has been appointed Governor General of Canada, in place of Lord Stanley of Preston. In a little paper called the Woman some ladies have been comparing notes on the question of " how men propose," and what light their experience has been able to throw on this subject has been reserved for the enlightenment of its readers. It records one amusing case, that of an ab-sent-minded young man who used notes. The young lady was giving a little rcoeption, and, of course, her time was much occupied. The young man perceived that this would be the case, and, to faciliate matters, he brought along with him a memorandum. " I afterwards," says the object of his ill-starved devotion, " found it on the floor, where he had dropped it in his agitation." It was : " Mention rise in salary. Mention loneliness. Mention pleasure in her society Mention prospects from unole Jim. Never loved before. Propose." A Bath kidney potato, weighing 41b 6oz, wa3 reoently exhibited at Bangiora by Mr Irwin, who grew it on his farm, adjoining the Rangiora recreation reserve. Mr Irwin states that tubers weighing 31b each are quite common in the crop. H.M.S. Lizard experienced a heavy gale on her voyage to Sydney. The draught in the stokehole forced the flamos out of the furnace door. Chief Petty Officer Dawson and three stokers were seriously burned, their clothes being destroyed and faces burned beyond recognition. The sufferers were taken to the hospital. At a large public meeting held on Friday night in Wellington the following resolution was unanimously agreed to:— That in the opinion of this meeting it is desirable that the movement to establish a lasting tribute to the memory, of the late Premier (the Hon J. BallanoeJ should be encouraged, and therefore agrees that the names of the following gentlemen, with their consent, be added to the committee set up by the Wellington Trades Council : —The Hon the Premier, His Worship the Mayor, the Chairman of the Harbour Board, the President of the Chamber of Commerce, the President and Secretary of the Wellington Liberal Association, and the President and Secretary of the Weilington Knights of Labour;

Everyone should be allowed to do and ! say Us muCh as they please, arid therefore we musn't object to some peculiar words, ' but to read of a meeting at which the audience gave " langourous yawns " sounds fresh if not pretty. A man liaiHed Fred Henderson a 1 member of the. London County Council bad been imprisoned for stealing three shillings from a prostitute. The Judge, in delivering sentence, among his remarks to Henderson Baid : " After patiently heaving the evidence on both sides, the jury find you guilty of this charge. You are a member of the London County Council, a body which has set up for itself the standard of the highest decency and morality, who have endeavoured to investigate and remedy everything in the way of indecency. What are we to think when we find yon, a member of that body, entrusted with the management of everything which makes life in this city dear and agreeable, with the whole power of municipal affairs in your favour, condescending to enter two or three public-houses in an afternoon, to get into conversation with a prostitute, and running away with her money ? I fear this will be a rude shock for the moral faith of all right-minded men in those who undertake to control respectability of living and purity of life. The evidenoe in this case creates suspicions which might tend to throw disgrace on the body to which you belong. In addition to this, you have already been convicted of break ing the peace at Norwich in 1887, and sentenced to four months' imprisonment." Having pronounced the sentence of four months, the Judge concluded : " I hope it will be regarded as the duty of the public to get you removed from the post you have so unworthily tilled." While the shipment of bananas 'brought from Fiji by the Taviuni was being landed at the Queen's Wharf says the N.Z. Times a snake, 2ft 7in in length, was "discovered coiled round the btump of one of the bunches. The reptile was quickly despatched by a blow from a whip. It is supposed to be a carpet snake, one of the most venomous of the snake tribe. The deai reptile was hung over the barricade at the Queen's Wharf, and was inspected by a large number of curious people during the afternoon.