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Manawatu Herald, 29 August 1893, Page 2

Owing to the past bad weather Messrs Abraham & Williams have postponed their Levin sale to the 4th of October.

Nominations for the office of Councillors must be made before noon of the Bth Septembsr. The retiring members are T. P. Williams, J. K. Stanae.'l, and J. Ahem.

In a case at Palmerston la3t week where a man was charged with illtreating a horse, Samuel Howan was the principal witness, and testified he saw the man thrash the horse for fully half an hour when it then fell down. The man, owing to his representing he was only a. servant was fiued ten shillings. The three witnesses for the prosecution refused to accept their expenses, which called forth the remark from His Worship that it showed they came to the Court from a sense of their public duty. He further stated that the witness Howan's conduct in the matter was deserving of approval, and he did quite right in giving information to the police. The fact that he did not claim his expenses was all the more creditable.

The industries Committee recommends the appointment of a flax grading expert. Miss Braddon is reputed to have made £100,000 by her novels.

A wise mau ha 3 said : In one summer the descendants of a fly will number 2,080,320. A statement no one will feel inclined to dispute, unless it is to assert the number muist be larger.

The Greenland whale its a big-hearted creature. The organ is a yard in diameter.

" Where are you going, Edward ?" He : " My dear, a wise woman never asks her husband where he is going." She : " And yet a wise man way ask his wife." He : "You are mistaken, my dear. Wise men never have any wives."

A Bombay dealer in curios shows, besides a Chinese joss marked " lieathen idol," a #5 gold piece labelled " Christian idol."

One of the Courtney settlers who arrived in the colony by the Ruahiue, has found his way to Wellington (says the Time*), being dissatisfiied with the rough work of settlement ; and yesterday he applied at the Labour Bureau for a clerkship. The authorities there informed him that they could not give him one. The man, who came ,from a clerk's office in London, thinking apparently that he could without without difficulty enter another in New Zealand, intends to work his passage back to England.

In the House on Friday Mr Taylor read a telegram from Colonel Bailey, of the Salvation Army, conveying a resolution passed at the Sydenham Barracks, expressing indignation at a sentence passed upon one of the Army officers for playing a cornet in the street at Milton. The Hon. W. P. Beeves replied that, though one was tempted to wish sometimes that all people who played cornets could be dealt with, it would be grossly unfair to make any exception so as to press upon th« Salvation Army. Inquiry would be made on the subject. A good many will agree with Mr Beeves.

Somewhere about 13 years ago (says the Post) a triple crime, embracing burglary, arson, and murder, was committed in Dunedin by a criminal named Robert Butler, and at the time the horror created tremendous excitement. The victims were a man and his wife, who were supposed to have been murdered in their beds by Butler, who then set fire to the premises in order to conceal his wicked deed. Butler was tried, but got off on the capital charge, but subsequently, on the sth April, 1880, received a sentence of 18 years on another charge of burglary. He has been incarcerated of late in one of the Wellington gaols, and- a few weeks ago the Executive Council remitted the balance of his sentence, and he was shipped on board the Rimutaka, which steamer would call at Rio de Janiero, to which place his passage was paid. The Commissioner of Police is reticent about the matter, but that Butler sailed from Wellington as above described is certain. An application made v th* gaol authorities failed to elioit any miV

mation.

Writing upon the episode of the lights suddenly going out in the House of Representatives TiiUh says, and it is very much like the truth, that " The gloom which fell upon the House of Representatives this morning was no deeper than the total obscurity in which the country is plunged, when it tries to discover why it pays thousands a year in order that a lot of overgrown children may have a luxurious nursery in which to play the unmitigated fool."

George Harper, the prisoner who escaped from the Wanganui Gaol, was taken to Wellington to serve out his sentence of nine months in the Terrace Gaol. Sir Maurice O'Rorke intends contesting the Manukau general election. He states that one defeat in 30 years is not sufficient to relegate him to private life.

The officer-in-charge of the Salvation Army invites (he public to a meeting tomorrow night to express their opinion on the sentence passed at Milton on nil officer for blowing a Cornet.

Mr ftiontagtte held a rnoßt stiddessfui sale of trees tram Mi 1 Bettefle'.d's nursery yesterday, l'he trees Were all a first-class lot, but they realised capital prices in spite of Mr Jlontagtie endeavouring to assert otherwise:

Wd were shown a very great curiosity this morning by a lady. It was a double egg, an egg within an egg, the inner egg having shell hard and complete and totally unattached to the outside egg. The large egg, laid by an ordinary hen; measiired 3£indites lßrig by 8J jilches across. . The contents hart been withdrawn in order to discover what else might happen to be inside, but were the ordinary white and yolk of an egg, The inner egg had not been blown and was of an ordinary size.

The girl Dataiel has signed a document retracting the charges made by her against her father Dr Dalziel, of Pukekohe j and Mr Williamson, the latter's counsel) stated in Court yesterday that she had told him that she made the accusation under a sense of resentment. The Bench refused to accept the document, but the warrant for the girl's arrest is being held over, the defence having undertaken that she shall appear as a witness when the case cornea on again next Wednesday.

Samples of superior tarred roofing-felt made in Nelson were exhibited to the Industries Committee by Mr Haycock on Friday (says the Post) ; also some very good wrapping papers, of various strength and shades of colour. These are made from tow, obtained as the waste product of flax. The paper has considerable strength and a handsome appearance, and in some cases would do for strong bags>

The French gardeners are noted for asparagus culture, and ship vast quantities even to the London market, besides supplying their own liberally. What they do ship is always very large, and this is not obtained by " colossal " kinds as some would have one suppose who have seeds or plants for sale, but by giving each plant much more room to grow in. Here, as in England, it is the most common practice to have beds planted as close as one foot apart in the rows, and not over eighteen inches between the rows ; the consequence is that in a very short time the plants are crowding each other for room, and, as in the case of every other crop, a much smaller growth is the consequence. In France they are never planted at a leas space than 2ft apart each way, and for extra large specimens as much as from 3ft to 4ft is allowed.

At the meeting of the stewards of the Wairarapa Trotting Club, the secretary stated that he had been unable to get the nomination fees for Mr G. W. Smart's horses that he had nominated by telegram at the last moment on the day they were due. It was too late to send a reply or call the stewards together, and he had, therefore, accepted the nominations in Mr Smart's interests. The telegram read : — " Your club can nominate Dakota and Countess for Stewards, Wairarapa, Grand Stand Handicaps, and Countess for Selling I will pay for what I accept.— G. w . Smart." He had written after the {meeting to Mr Smart asking him to forward the amount due, and had received the following reply : — Wellington, June 6th. 1893. To Secretary Wairarapa Trotting Club.— I was surprised on reading your memo of 3rd inst., applying to me for the sum of £2 17s Cd for nominations for your last meeting. I telegraphed to you as follows : — " Your Club can nominate at their own expense and if I approve of handicap I will pay, not otherwise." So, uader the circumstances I do not owe you anything. Other clubs do the same, and accept as well sometimes. lam always handicapped out of it here in Wellington, and I don't intend nominating at my own expense any more, yours Ac, G. W. Sraarfr. After discussion, during which some of the stewards commented strongly on Mr Smart's procedure, it was resolved that the secretary be instructed to lay the matter with the whole correspondence before the N.Z. Trotting Association.