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Manawatu Herald, 19 August 1893, Page 2

The annual dinner of the Foxton Racing Club has been fixed for Friday, the Bth September. Mr Cawston, of the Manawatu Hotel, has secured the catering and therefore the members will be assured that the very best attention will be paid to their comfort. Some time back Messrs McMillan, Rhodes & Co imported direct some goods from Messrs Maconochie, and now after sampling them we can most favourably recommend them. The tinned fish retain their fresh flavour and have no taint of the can in which they have been preserved. All the other lines of this firm are of the same excellent quality. The firm are oldestablished and well known, and they keep their reputation up. Competition is the life of trade. One miller is delighted, he does not belong to the Flaxmillers' Association, at what he has heard has taken place. A miller who does belong to the Association, as he tells the yarn, received an offer of £16 10s a ton for his flax. The miller instructed the agent of the Association to interview the purchaser and deal. The agent did so, when the purchaser admitted he had made the miller the offer, but, he said, t» the Association his price was only £15 10s. If this little story is quite true it show 3 that purchasers of flax do not view the Association with pleasure, and should show to the members of the Association the wisdom of the amalgamation. 'I hu young lambs are getting a very bad time with the rain, and unless the weather soon clears up the percentage will be very Tjnd. Some of the lambs have been actually drowned by the falling rain. We do many curious things in this colony, but we do not, as a custom, as the You»</ Ladies Journal says we do, take pepper with our strawberries. The mixture we make, and it is not a bad one, is with cream. Last Saturday night, we have not reported it before in order to think the matter well over, a distinguished stranger with one eye played certain musical (?) instruments in the public streets. The salvation Army marched out and also played ' musical ' instruments. The musicians met, they contested, and the din was awful. The stranger, as directed elsewhere, was " taken in " and locked up for being drunk. The constable had an idea that the stranger was disturbing the Army, but the venerable old man put that mistake right in this way. " I was playing at my stand when the Army came and endeavoured to play too. They ought to have been " run in " for interfering with me." There is something in that. The coutinued wet is very disheartening, but it is as nothing to the very lively times in store for us when the sun does burst forth in full splendour. Business may be business then ; but killing mosquitoes will be heavy business, as the water is a beautiful breeding ground for those very active and exceedingly offensive insects. A neighbour informed us yesterday that already he had seen some, fortunately they were dead, having, luckily, been hatched all too soon. May many more meet the same early fate. The following tenders were yesterday received by the Secretary of the Foxton Bacing Club for improvement on the course:— T Easton (accepted), £67; A. Jonson, £70 ; Liddell, <fc Sons, £87. The Licensing Committee met yesterday and granted a license for the Post Office Hotel to Mr G. Gray. Mr Stansell managed to get a buggy through to Kereru this morning, the first time for a fortnight. ■ The entries for Messrs Gorton <fe Son's Feilding sale are advertised to-day. Mr T. Wilson, the manager of the Motoa Estate calls for tenders for clearing and ploughing a number of acres of land. Our Minister of Lands asserted that Mr Duthie " was all at sea on the Land Question." A peculiar position to take up, and probably the assertion was no more correct about the fact than it was in illustration, but Ministers, especially Lands, must be hasty and it had better be in words than blows. Early in June a cuckoo was seen and heard in Buckingham Palace ardens, London. The Wanganui Herald reports a game in which an old resident of Foxton (Mr Foster) took part :— Fully forty gentlemen assembled in Mr T. W. Ferry's billiardrooia last evening to witness a match between Messrs C H. Chevannes and \V. H. Forster, the former conceding his opponent 50 points in a game of 500 up. The match was started at 7 30 and finished at 9.15, when Mr J. B. Peyman called the scores— Chevannes 500, Foster 392 — the former thus winning the game by 108 points. Some excellent all-roand play was shown by both competitors, Mr Foster being heartily applauded for a well earned 44, the largest break of the evening, his next being a 24, and then leiser ones of 10, two 17'», a 16, and a IS. Mr Ohevannoa' ■ooring. was very rapid throughout. His largest break was 88, then followed a 36, 25, 24, two 23's, 21, 20, 18, 16, 15, etc The play all through was very brisk and consistent, evidenced by the faot that 203 was registered in three-quarters of an hour, 300 in five minutes over the hoar, 400 in tftfout an hour and a half, while {he last aentury w«i compiled in ■•v«n't«en minuUit

One of the unemployed of Australia, speaking of his sad experiences, hit upon a very happy and expressive statement to describe a portion of his attire. He said that " times were stiff, in fact that was no name for it " as he had only " a pair of pagan boots." To some, even of our en-.ployed, this may not ' catch on,' but it transpired that " pagan boots " wei'e boot.? Without sol;?. Nothing could be clearer to those who have been properly brought Up. An English paper says j--What will the United States Government do with the precious stodk Of silver it lifts accumulated i There are now in the vaults of the American Treasury something over 71,000 tons avoirdupois of the metal, and fov all the use it is ever likely to be the huge hoard might as well be cast into the sea. If it were thrown on the market or converted into currency, tha immediate effect would be to utterly paralyse commerce and trade all over the world. I would suggest, therefore, that Brother Jonathan should devote his mountain of silver to the manufacture of popular spitoons. There is an enormous demand for that convenient article in the States, and our modest cousins would have something to boast of in being the only people on earth rich enough to afford silver for the purpose. Among the wedding presents to Princess May was one which attracted some attention from its novelty, and which undoubtedly possessed a characteristic not always found in connection with such gifts, namely that of being decidedly useful, It consisted of 1000 bundles of firewood chopped by occupants of the Church Army Labour Homes. Inquiry was made as to whether the Princess would accept the gift, and the following reply was sent by her Lady-in Waiting : "I am begged by Princess May to say that she will glad'y accept the bundles of firewood which the Labour Home Brothers wish to chop for her, and to say how much touched she ia at their wish to give her a wedding present, which she will value most highly.

Extraordinary success has marked our Great Salvage Sale at the Te Avo i ouse Branch, Main-street. But all good things come to an end and so will this Salvage Sale. We shall positively close it on ."Saturday next. A few days only remain in which our wonderful Salvage bargains can be secured, so look lively, awl uteure them without delay. Tiiose who are wise will profit by this announcement and hurry up to the sale during its last days and thereby save mouey . Those who are dilatory will miss this last chauce of buying cheaply, and will lament ever afterwards. But this need not be. There is lime yet to secure the biggest bargains of the sale, only a few days however. We cannot prolong the sale beyond Saturday next at the Te Aro House Branch, Main-street, Foxton. As showing the wonderful development and steady progress of Colonial Manufactures during the past year or two, it is worthy of note that Messrs Ross & Sandford, of the Bon Marcbi, Palmerston North, ara now relai ing to the public Men's All-wool Colonial Tweed Suits at the wonderful low price of One Pound, quite as good as what could be bought a short time back for double this money. This firm are now holding a gigantic Clearing Sale of the whole of their extensive and valuable stock and it will be to the interest of buyers of Clothing and General Drapery to pay them an early visit. — Abvt.