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Manawatu Herald, 8 June 1893, Page 2

Tenders for the flax on the Himitangi run close to-morrow night. The Palmerston hoyse sale will be held on Saturday by Messrs Abraham ancl Williams. Messrs Gorton anil Son have to-day advertised the entries already received for their Bulls sale. The importance of the ' bar ' trade to a country public house in distinction to the pure hotel business in towns, was shown by Mr Stansell, of Whyte's Hotel, on Tuesday. He stated he had been in business in Foxton four years, and only 851 persons had slept at the house. This makes an average of four a week. Yet he admitted he had made money in the house and wanted £800 for the goodwill for the remaining three years of his lease. Yet in the interest of the public (which and what?) he thought there should be no more licenses granted ! Seleotions of witnesses is often oarelessly made. The opponents brought forward a person to object to further accommodation being granted who was unable to even state what accommodation i the house he lodged at, had. Useful | character this at a pinch ? The interest shown by the public in the meeting of the Licensing Committee was 1 very great, the Court House being packed. Just prior to the proceedings being renewed after the dinner adjournment there j were a large number of persons assembled i outside anxious to secure good places inside, and in the push Mr Bradoock unfortunately got his hand pushed through a pane of glass which cut it, and his wrist, .severely, so much so that he had to get it sewn up. Mr Jellicoe and Mr Larcomb endeavoured to reach Kereru in an hour and a half on Tuesday afternoon, and failed. They got three or four miles the other side of the ferry and then had to abandon the attempt, and turned round and spent the night in the town. Mr Jellicoe cross-ex-amined, very crossly, that horse, and arrived at the, conclusion he was a patent one that oonsumed its own smoke. How ,he arrived, at that we are not at liberty to 'state. Mr J. G. Wilson, M.H.R., will address his constituents at the Publio Hall tonight, at 8 o'clock. Some good sprint-running was witnessed last Saturday at Marton, the outcome of a match for a stake of £25 aside between J. H. King (better known as Parker), who won the handicap and 100 yards races at our late sports, and supposed to be a champion from Australia, and A. W. Watts, who has proved himself to be one of the beßt runners ir» the colony. The Advocate says the distanoes run were 100, 200, and 300 yards. The first distance, 200 yards, was j won easily by King; Watts stopping 50 yards from home. Watts scored a win in the 100 yards, beating King by a foot. ' The final, 300 yards, resulted in a win for King. The ground being heavy was more in ; favour of King, who seemed to bound along. V '■:.:■'. The widow of the late Mr Didsbury has been granted a compassionate allowance of j £750, being a year and a half's salary. J In the course of a speech the Marquis of Salisbury said the Home Eule Bill was beginning to look very sickly. It is reported that fifty men are out of work at Eketahuna, many of them in extreme want. A protest has been sent to the/ Minister for Labour against more men being forwarded from the Labour Bureau. The Government have reduced the rate of interest on deposits in the Post-office Savings Bank by a half per cent. The bodies of persons dying aboard an Atlantic liner are no longer buried at sea. They are placed in steel caskets, carried for/the purpose, and hermetically sealed.