Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, DEC. 7, 1893.

Manawatu Herald, 7 December 1893, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, DEC. 7, 1893.

Father Patterson desires us to mention that there will be no service in Saint Mary's ohurch on Sunday. Tenders are invited by Mr Turnbnll, architect, for additions and improvements to the Manawatu hotel. Messrs Gorton and Son hold a stock sale at Bulls on Tuesday next. Mr and Mrs Strang arrived at their home on Wednesday, after their prolonged honeymoon trip. We regret to learn that Mr H. Bradcock suffered a severe loss on Wednesday, by losing his thoroughbred mare Antelope, whilst foaling at Baker & Co's stud farm, Palmerston North. Antelope is by Sator from aTraducer-marei.andia the dam of Minnie and the Dream, both" good performers. Last year Mr Bradcock was unfortunate enough to lose a yearling filly from Antelope .by Somnus, by getting entangled in a wire fence and breaking Us leg. Strange to say the whole members of the family are now defunct. A horse 'is impounded in the Foxton pound. The idea of fun seems very much distorted in the imagination of some of the Palmerston residents, judging by their actions after the election. On the morning after the poll visitors to Mr Snelson's office and auction room were much disturbed by the crying of a cat, which could not be found anywhere upon the premises. At last the poor animal was found tied up to a floor joist under the building. It says little for the better feelings of the person who thought there was fun in torturing an animal for the sake of annoying some one else. This was not the only annoyance Mr Snelson was subjected to, as a two- horse brake in the shed which was thought would probably be used to bring up voters, was, on the night before the election day dismantled, and the near-side fore wheel carried away and hid ! It was only discovered on Monday- It is evident Mr Snelson'i opponents did not hesitate at rauoh, and therefore we are not Burpmed to hear of the number of dual votes recorded. Such tactics are however adything but satisfactory and do not reflect credit on the party the offenders belonged to. Mr Edward Arnold, a well-known photo grapher of Auckland, and an old resident, dropped dead while hurrying up the Btreet to escape a shower of rain. At the inquest a verdict of death from heart disease was returned. Howard Dodson, the well-known brewer of Blenheim, was drowned on Monday morning at Mudford Flat, near Tua Marina, while driving from Picton to Blenheim. There was a great deal of flood-water in the .vicinity, and- it ia*. surmised . thal^hß deceased, who was alone, was jolted out "of the trap, and uha.ble ■to reach the bank. He left ftoton at 9 a. m., driving a dog oart. The horse and- trap went on to Spring Greek, three. jaUes, before the horse was stopped. There was no one . living in the vicinity of where the body war found, and the roadway was flooded. At the Supreme Court on Monday morning,. Frank .-Philpot, v aliaß . John- Henry. Smith, was found guilty and sentenoei.to two years' imprisonment with hard labour upon an indictment charging him with having on the Bth August falsely pretended to be willing to marry Rose Grangaui, that he was entitled to receive £175 from Eng' land, that Mr J W. Poynton (solicitor) had been instructed to receive these moneys, and that by those means he fraudulently obtained £10 from Rose Grangaux, the prosecutrix. Rose Grangaus stated that she was domestio servant at Mrs Duff's boarding-house in August last. Prisoner, whom sle hadijnowtf foVfour months previously and wijh whom she had been keeping company, went to live at Mrs Duff's at the same time. They had previously lived at Mrs Dempsey's bbardinghouse, witness as servant and prisoner as boarder. They became engaged there, prisoner telling witness that he had £175 coming to him from London, and that Mr J. VV. Poynton, solicitor, was to receive it for him. It was arranged that the marriage was to take place from Mrs Duff's : about- a fortnight after going there. Prisoner obtained from witness loans of money amounting in all to £10, and he promised to repay her as soon as his own money oame to hand. The money had not been repaid. Witnest hearing that prisoner had been in gaol before taxed him with this, and he then left the boarding-house. She did not see him until he was in the custody of the police. . The question of starting a Prohibition paper in Wellington was discussed at the last meeting of the Prohibition League, and referred tp the execbtive to nport at the next meeting, says the Timti.

The Hon. Secretary of the Otaki Maori Bacing Club notifies that acceptances close on Tuesday at 9 p.m. | Information from Hastings on Monday said it has been raining continuously for several days, and all the low-lying parts of the town are several feet under water. The j rivers arc running bank high> and serious I consequences are feared if the rain keem on."- ! ■■- ■ --•»"•■ - - - -- . ■• - - An unprecedentedly heavy rainfall, accompanied, it is believed, by a waterspout, \ burst over the Thames on Monday and i .continued-. -4a- pour. - -with extraordinary violence for several horn's, the result being an almost upiveral destruction of property. The oreeks which; trader ordinary circum-stances-are quite common place streams, bwame changed, into roaring torrents. I •'? 'iP.r.mge caiise.l throughout the town Vvns almost incalculable, places of business and residences being in«udated } gantena devastated, bridges carried out to sea or misplaced, and property ruined; The whole length of Pollen street was like a river, bearing with it tons of drift wood; rendering trafltc impossible-. Tile fcdunty main race has broken down in three places, and this will seriously interfere with the mining industry. The damage is estimated at several thousands of pounds.