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Manawatu Herald, 13 June 1893, Page 2

We' libderstand that,, steps are\ being taken to 'place the conduct of the Licensing Committee befor_e_an impartial tribunal with the ol>jeef"of obtaining a reconsideration of the . application which was refused'at the aiinual -'rtfee'ting. >;^ The Chief Justice on Saturday delivered judgment in the case of the Colonial Bank v,^T^JCM(ue4y/i^ffpdojml(J- Wad wife. The juat»bient>;a% .wholly in favour", of the bank. We notice that Mt Macdonald has a column advertisement in the N.Z. Times in which he says " the bank has, however, sacrificed me and mine; on the- advice and for the gratification of the personal malice of my political foes. Mr C. Symons has fifty acres of turnips for which jlie is calling tenders to feed off. An advertiser wants to rent a small house or furnished.apartments. Additions are made to Messrs Gorton and Son's Campbellta^n salei :-.' ; '•■,:' •■''. Mr Webb has the painting of the woolsheds at the Motoa. Estate. ' . ." c: On" 'Friday evening- a very interesting •eptertaiument will be giv?n by Mr Woodnorth , on' _ the art of .glass-blowing. It should be '"witnessed by one and all. The receipts are apportioned ia such a way that the school fund, whioh is in need of money, will be considerably increased by a large attendance. There will be seme talk about glass found in the ruins of Nineveh, etc, and then^soiue actual glass-blowing. Gorresiionde,nce^foV^the;; 'Fiisjei mail must be posted by eight o'clock to-night. At the annual meeting of the Palmerston North Licensing C, ommittee last woek- the 'applicams onj^tted to apply for an, extension ! of hours to 11 o'bl ! 6ok, as beforehand Consequently- tiiti hotels will be' closed at 10 p'clook after Ist July. , • , „ The, , reduction, in the , passage; rat^s, tp New Zealand' Has induced 80 "farmers' .w^th' capital to emigrate to this' colony. There is on view..at.. the rooms of the Canterbury A. and P. Association, some •portions^ of., the. toner- ■jaok,efc,of ( ; a? sheep killed/ at ( the,' ' Belfast freezing . -Works, which is-'fiill. pf 'the', seecls^of wive grass. These seeds' hid penetrated .the. outer -skin an 4 Ipdged 3ti; the -inn" ec; jacket. •-•..■.. <■< : The Timaru Herald is informed' that a pair of martins have made a home at the freezing works, and are to be seen daily flitting about in all directions. No doubt thetiej ii^SrQflfirjgj^ittle, ; ;atHng%n9 ipi t $8^ feathered trfße were meinDers of the colony of New^hri^ton^ibQii^whiQb so;muoh has appeared*- of the a Ch\^tchurch j papers. The men at the, works are jealously regarding their new visitors. At a meeting'- of "tUS" 1 A smmrton County Council, held on Friday, a return was laid on the table showing that for the year ending jfijfav. 3|st,-r^9Bjr|the m9ipbjrAofif am^ll' bi^ds* eggs indHheada' cpnloteq .and! tatwHlle^ftie SBscaU4fity» bodies in the county amounted to no less than 506944. The amount paid was £253 9s 3d for the heads and eggs, in addition to a sum of £117 Its' 83" paid for poisoned grain. Dr Barnardo reoently had a very queer pre'Benfirbm'a' lady Sympathiser; ;: ; -n»tj< r^. sending ;.you,t'.Bhte' Siid 1 ,'.-", tt'very pecaliar package— "l,loo hahdkerohiefs. they wore picked up by my husband, who suffered from epilepsy. He had quite a mania for handkerchiefs." I I' If I had not been brought up a dean," said Dr Hole v oi, Rochester,, "there are | three oth^r aypcartfcW t should have liked to .have" -^f olio Wefl— master of a pack of hounds, head gardener in a large nursery, or a bookseller. I think the last is the best office of the three." ; 'fij i. ;i t a-[ , d&M\tyf .Qazetjejthe.;)-esignatiQil)of theHons. Rigg,' Wellington, and F. Jenkinson, Christehurch^jyLL.C.'s., are gazetted. Their re-appointment as members of the Legislative Counpil appear ip the same Gazette. This course lias ! been adopted I to £)Wi<ie against their possible disqualification on account of Laving been, when first appointed, ia receipt of Government pay within the limits of the time preierib«d>

Messrs D'jdson Bros, advertise for a lof?t { cheque, the payment of which has been stopped; at the Bank. ' Writing about the Company that appears at the Public Hall to-night, the Peihling Star says : — The Good Samaritan Variety : Company gave a free entertainment in. tHe Assembly Rooms last iiighfc to a crowded ( audjence;. 1?H;e Vehtrilpqmal powers of. Mr J <STIJ*. Brytfrit avc of a high order, and -were ' Sapitally. recc-ived. Mr J. Cullen, who claims <to bs the funniest man in the world, is undoubtedly very clever, his topical r .sougs. are good and his drolleries .are sidesplitting while free from vulgarity. The i second part of the entertainment is devoted to business, and~serves to ~bring into prominence the virtue of ft medicine callecl the ' " oooct Samai'iliftrl.' 1 Every purchaser received a present, some of the articles being valuable, for instance, Mr Somerville re- . ceived a stop ; watch, Mrs Foster a cruet and fruit dish, Mr Walter Giesen an electroplate teapot, Mr Barry a watch} and ;■' many other valuable preseaUvW^-aifi^ tributed-, ,-c:^> T '• ; ""- ; C;O-:.- ..." $he North Otago JVmes has heard of a line of 2000 sacks of wheat— l4oo Velvet, and 300 each pf Tuscan and Red Strawbeing sold at the- siding at 2s lOd. Another farmer liasbeen offered 2s 9d at the siding. The same paper has been told that a Timaru firm; has offered 2s, 9d on tracks for certain classes of; wheat. These figures are much better^han. anything that could be done b^'s|n^^t^^A^lt^pme..' The Post is '^ptl%n^tn^a^^'tif'; : otthiej;''of; the candidates'. iOrVW^anganaii "It '^ays ' " We are oertaihly'noi jpWased at tne'eleO.tion of Ml' Willis as'us representative of Wanganui, nor are we "by any means sorry' that Mr Carson was not chosen." The article concludes with " Wanganui should really employ the interval between the present time and the general election in tryiDg to secure the services of some candidate who would do the constituency credit and be worthy of representing so important a district. Mr Willis can only be regarded as an indifferent stop-gap, and Mr Carson's ambition rihould/vbe/ satisfied after yesterday's poll.", J '■-' ' -^ '-'' ''■.. :; -- " ...:'■■ There was'some very unpleasant weather about on Saturday morning. Marton, Feilding and Palmerston experienced a thunderstorm in conjunction with a snowstorm. Snow also fell at Masterton, Bulls, Danevirke, Woodville and Waipawa. In Dunedin the snow laid six inches deep, and is regarded as the heaviest ever known there. ; A young woman at Auokland named Catherine Henderson obtained a verdiot for £50 with costs on the lowest soale against W. T. Smith for breaoh of promise of marriage. ' .< . , After all the fuss and bother about the 15 foot right of- way adjoining the M C.F.A. stores in the Square, at Palmerston, the Borough Council passed a resolution on f Thursday evening, " That the Counoil has no objection to the proclamation of the right-of-way." •" • '■• Tt ', - '" It is reported thai; quite'aT thriving business has sprung up in Melbourne in the purchase of receipts for deposits in, the. suspended banks, and a great many sales have been effected, though at sad,s.aprifices.. In many oasfrs depositors, urgently in need of coin, have disposed of their deposit receipts ot as low a rate as 10s in the pound* The receipts bear interest at 4$ per cent, per annum}* and ,ai'e-vjedeem^bje- in the course'of a year,~so I that > "for a man who has spare cash to invent, and can afford to let it* be- looked, up ft ori a little ;whUe,' the op portunity is realty a'fino one. - Mr W. H. Russell, at present private Secretary, . to \he Colonial Treasurer,, has been appointed to tire Hansard reporting staff, and w^ll enter, upon, lub new duties at the opening of the session. In theN.S.W. Parliament the Postal Bill, which prohibits the carrying on of sweeps through the medium of the Post Oißce, has passed both Houses. ■ ' ■ ' ' ' : Cliff railways in England grow more and . nitee popular. ' Clifton has opened a remarkably steep line,; cut in a tnnnel from the gorge of the Avon to the summit of Clifton Rocks. The gradient is one foot in two feet, and the tunnel is 27 s 18 feet. An American journal* states that the famous evangelists, Messrs Moody and Sankey, h.avp reoeived £200,080 in royalties from their numerous editions of Gospel Hymns, the sale . pf, which (as Lord Benconsfieltl wrote of " Sidonia's Fortune ") | l can only be counted by millions." •' ''Mr'-'FfsTieY l lias published a letter in the Prem worth reading in reply, to the Rev C. X: Ward's statement in a sermon, " that the Roman Emperor Constantine embraced Christianity for the same reason that George Fisher embraced Prohibition — because there were votes in it." t seems, ; in the words of the venerable chairman ,of onr local Licensing' Committee, that if Mr Ward can be funny,. Mr Fisher can be funny also. ;:The.,,JFiprW. states that as the result of long litigation., half the English estates of . the twelfth Earl of ' Caithness have been decided to belong to Mr : Murray MtiGregoiv o£i Olive, I Australia. ;<ThV Post says v H'.A mo^e precise, address, would be H.M. Gaol,. Napier, N.Z., • . .: : . ,The'..Tongar,iro. which .left for London laßf.we'ek'Wok from' New Zealand 18 first", saloon 1 , : 35 ; se"eond ;saloon, and i: i59 • steerage' passengers;; !>:•■. ;,.■;>: ■/:■*. C : - ;i <; -h;. •...•• Afe-Bhbwin'g'the -wqnclMul 'development arid ■ steady" p,rog&Bs J of* ' Colonial ■= Manufactures during the past lyesr/or 'two,' ifc^.is worthy, of jnote^that Messrs. Boss :# Sand- (;- ford, '61 the'Boq ifarche,. Palmeraton North, are now i-etai ing to the public' Men's All-woo] Cpjonjal Tweed Suftsat the wonderful 'low'p'rio'e 6f One' Pound, quite as good as what.GOnld.be bought a short time back ior ; double this money. This firm are now'h'olding a gigantic Clearing Sale of the whole of' their extensive and valuable stock and it wilb.bjfy^^94fl^^y>f buyers of Clothing and General Drapery ,fo pay them an early visit.'— 'Aiy^-f.i-^.^'.f--;;.;'^ We have the largest 'st^ci : of • New Zealand made_Flarineis inthe/Brovince. We can show over 10,000 (ten" {housand) yards inVfwihlfe, 'shejl.and.grey and'bth'er colors at Te Aro |loiise,/Wellingtoni • These Now' Zealand Flannels are well ;made, well finished, all pure wool and 'guaranteed to give every satisfaction in Avea^.j isend;for patterns to.Te Aro House, ;W;eJJington. ,„•.: : , .. r ; ; ,■: 7 We' will send the /following parcels carriage paid' to any address' on receipt, of ardei' and cash at TeAro House, Willing:tQnc, ... .■ : ! ■: ■ : . •.•::' : oNew0 New Zealand, Flannels,. Parcel No, s— | %ds whitefpr 6/9, 6yds Shetland for 6/9, and 4yds grey for 4/6, 2 Jyds Plaiding, either :whife''br grey, for 6/3. The lot for 24/3; carriage ; paid, from Te Aro House. This is a good useful parcel. j ♦Parcel No 6rr 4yds each. of white and Shetland Plaiding for 20/-, 6yds white Flannel- 'for ti/K The lot,' oarriage paid,' for 29a. This is a- splendid 'parcel for .winter use. Send for it at Te Aro House, .-Wellington. ■ ,->,., , :; i Paroel No. 7— 6 yds white Flannel for ; 6/9, 6yds white Flannel fpr.9/-,,6yds white ; Flanne^o"r 'lo/6, 3yds fitie white Flannel !for 8/-. The lot for 32/3, carriage paid. •This-. j|, a mixed parcel of the various qualities we keep in New Zealand Flannels At Te Aro Roue*, Welltaftton*