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Manawatu Herald, 21 September 1893, Page 2

To-morrow Messrs Gorton & Son hold a stock sale near Colyton. Particulars are advertised. A good many people will remember Mr Tansley when he was bailiff at the K.M. Court here. He then went South, and lately has received the appointment of clerk to the Court at Danevirke. His children have now grown up, and display niuoh musical ability, and as a company gave a concert, the performers being Mr and Mrs Tanslny, their three daughters, Messrs Thomson and Dull', and Mrs F. Cowper, and says the Bush Advocate, a more talented little company would be hard to get together in any district. It is probable we may receive a visit from them shortly. From Danevirke we learn that a " salesman " accompanied by two girls, appeared there and got mobbed," owing to the rubbish he disposed of in exchange of cash for " nothing.'- We believe'it is the same lively party who occupied the hall last week, and left on Thursday morning. Nearly two inches of rain fell in Woodville in a few hours on Friday afternoon. In Mr Howe's garden at Motoa are two Australian magpios, stated to he most useful birds for insect;? and apiders. These birds are considered so valuable iv Australia that there is a heavy penalty on those caught in removing them, £20, we believe. It will therefore b« easily guessed that a good deal of ingenuity must hava been practised in securiug the pair mentioned. This is o.uly another insi.ance of how easily women manage things to what men can, as Mrs Howe nlaoed these birds in a bonni't box, and thus passed them with safety. Mr Bradcock convenes a meeting of the Foxton Cricket Club for Tc iday night. The Rangilikei Racing Club notify their Spring meeting. "will be held' af. fculls on Wednesday" nejet; '."•' Mr Greenwood will pay ; his regular professional visit to Foxton on Tuesday. The next English and European mail via JRio de Janiero will close at the local Post Office op Monday,- the 24th day of September at 'B p.m. for specially addressed correspondence only per s.s. Kaikoura. At the meeting of the shareholders of the Temperance Hall last night it- was decided to put the Hall up for sale by public auction at an early date. The programme of the concert on Tuesday night is published elsewhere. : ..Ploughing is the order of the day in this district. Mr Wilson has had a number of acres ploughed on the Motoa estate, the contractors having just finished. The Messrs Dudson are having a good area turned over in Mr Symons's property on the VI otoa road, Mr George Coley is ploughing up a large paddook on the same road, while Messrs J; v ahd C. ; Robinson have had ploughed a good- sized padlock on the Lady's Mile. Mr Guerin thoughtfully announces that he will call only once for the dog tax, after which some other steps will probably be taken. Our contemporaries have been misled as to how the late Francis Savell met his death. It' was not from the effects of tin accident when bushfalling, bat arose from a sudden illness during -which he broke a blood-vessel which ohoked him. He also, died at his home in Pohangina, and not at Palmerston. Oar contemporary the Advocate has an article on Mr Haycock's waste products from flax and urges that • the Government should purchase his patents, stating that Mr Haycock is precluded from making a test in compliance with the Manufactures and Industries Committee's proposals. It will be news to our contemporary that Mr Haycock when last in Foxton was intro - duced to a resident who offered to assist him in making a practical trial of his patents, and who waited for some .weeks to give him. an opportunity to come to terras, without result. We have the pleasure of knowing Mr Haycock, but we have always found a great difficulty in bringing him down to a businesslike test, nor could lie at -any time mention what the Cost of manufacturing a sample, even, had cost. We so desire to see the waste products made of use that we feel assured Mr Haycock need never have left the town had he really been Beriousin desiring assistance . towards .thisobject. The fanlt lies a$ his door, and it therefore does not Took -well to see him wishing to sell that which he will not put to a thorough test.

The genial clerk of the weather telegrapher! the other day ihat heavy gales with rain (as though we hadn't had any lately) might bs expected between the 21st and midnight of the 24th. To make everyone exceedingly joyful we call attention to tha fact that to-day is the 21st and the wind is rising. At midnight the day and night will be exactly twelve hours each, viz-. i equinox. The police- in France have seized a factory iv lull swing that manufactured clover seed out of a specially imported .quartz sand from Italy, and which was colored with ochre so well as to deceive very sharp eyes, when it was mixed up with seed, to the extent of 23 per cent , so that a good profit was made, crimson clover seeds selling at 13 sous par lb. Eleven tons of the prepared sand were seized. The Vatican press advises France to attend to social reforms instead of getting up an excitemeut over the Russian fleet, owing to exaggerated fears of the Triple alliance. Thirty-thousand miners in Paade-Calais have struck for an increase of pay, but the Belgians still hesitate tp strike.