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Manawatu Herald, 16 December 1893, Page 2

Mr Wright Stewart holds a meeting ou Wednesday re the direct route. Mr Ward has been appointed Minister of Trade and Commerce. On Tnesdny Messrs Gorton and Son hold their stock sale at Marton and Messrs Abraham and Williams theirs at Awahuri. Messrs McMillan, Rhodes & Co. announce their Xmas hampers at a very low figure. They have also a large assortment of choice groceries and fruits for the season. The Manawatu County offer a reward of £5 for information of any .person found damaging the property of the tramway. We have. to thank Mr C. W. MacLeau the Secretary . of . the Rangitikei Racing Club fof a complimentary ticket for the New Year's Meeting. * •The-property v atfvei I tfB"dT)y tlie:Wellington Trust and Loan Company has been withdrawn "from" §aleV r ' ' Messrs Spelman & Speirs made a start yesterday at sinking an artesian well for MrD. Whibley. Everyone living in the country should be interested in a.garden Those who are should see the excellent kitchen garden that Mr D. Whibley has, it is a pretty picture. Oddly enough whilst all his neighbours are deploring a shortage in gooseberries his bushes arc -wonderfully loaded, though quantities have been constantly picked for the townsfolk. His scarlet runners are six feet high, a mass of flowers up the stems, and small beans forming. The strawberry bod is kept closely picked, the demand being greater than the supply, the berries are very large and of excellent flavour. We noticed that the raspberries were cropping hoavy. There are abundant vegetables/>f what may be termed the commoner kinds. The cucumber bed is however another sight, covering a large space, with the shoots either bearing cucumbers or else in thick bloom. There will be many hundreds cut off this palch before the season is over. Mr Whibloy has sown some linseed which appear* tjgjjfijdjiijgj.well, beiugall Jjlossoms or s?(ds. We may remark that it bears a very pretty blue flower. One other lot of seed we must just mention, and that i* some Canadian Buck Wheat which.!* now in liower and seed, which, when ripe is a thick black and three sided. When ground it i-; much fancied for cakes. Th? girden is over an aero in extent and is in a capital state of cultivation and the soil is very rich. The life of every man is a diary, in which he means to write one story, and writps another ; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as m it is, with what he vowed to make it. " -St. James Gazette states' that it is expected that.the Admiralty will expend the sum of .six millions sterling in the construction of vessols of the Royal Sovereign class, though on an improved scale. Dr Lamon has formally signifi d to the Government his desire to retire from the public service as soon as arrangements can conveniently be made to relieve him of his office as Superintendent ofTeJtigraphs. The salary "of Mr Tr R. Fleming, Assistant Inspector of Schools in the Wellington district has been increased from £350 to £375 per year. The intense heat which has been experienced throughout the colony of New South Wales for some days' past has been followed by very large grass and bush fires in the interior. The Bynya Station, in" the Narrandera district (about 350 miles S.W. from Sydney), has been ' swept by a bush lire, and 90,000 acres devastated. At the end of last week the fire extended over an area of 40 miles, and unless rain falls the flames. ,,-wiU :,sjyeep ; the . -country. .north to Laohjan Ri,Yer. The Murell Creek Station lost * all its' grass and building*;. ■ with eiceptionr*. of ' the itipniestead, and* rone selector lost 1500 she^.«^KHwWWtt'*ion, in the Jerilderie district, about 60- miles south from Narrandera, over 70,000 acres have been laid waste by tire. Probably Mr W. Gray, Under-Secretary of the Postal Department will b^ appointed to the office of Superintendent of Telegraphs conjointly with bis present office. The Admiralty has informed the AgentGeneral for Victoria that the statement thatH.M.S. Cresent is to replace H.M.S. Orlando is not true, and that the latter vessel is to be retained on the station. A miner writes from Coolgardie as follows i— 11 The heat is Fbraething terrible, and; the blacks are very treacherous. J t is snakes", blacks, heat, thirst, litt c tucker and hard work— all for a chance, and a poor one at that. Stay away." George Henry Coyle, contractor, Foxton, has been adjudged a bankrupt on his own petition. The liabilities are set down at £184 10s, and the assets at £70. Truth says the "Great American Salesman " was artistically and exhaustively thumped in Auckland. Again and again. . The first lady Deputy Returning Officer in ths colony was Miss F. Broberg, of Matamau, who officiated in the Wajpawa election, and to. her credit, be it said, her papers, which ware in perfect order, were the- first to oome in on election night. Thus saith the Feilding Sttv; rathei 1 rough but also very true : — In Norway when a man becomes bankrupt he is not allowed to commence bushing* again under any circumstances whatever. In New Zealand the reverse is the case, because no sooner does a bankrupt get h,is olearance, lhan even the people he had '• slated" rush to start' him afresh. If they do not, i it ia generally found that the " poor ' fellow " has enough capital of " his own " { to float him again on the calm seas of " legitimate " business;

The Standard reports that last night about six o'clock Mr Robert Cobb's house at Raukawa with stabling was entirely destroyed by fi e. No explanation is yi J t given fur the outbreak. Mr and Mrs Cobb and family were away. Only the piano anil a few article-* of furniture were saved. There were insurances over all. _ A menib'T of Lord. Salisbury 1 ? late Minis* try, Sir John fci-orsf, Ml 1 ., recently visited the Salvation Army City Colony, and the Industrial Elevator institutions at Uattrr 3v.-a, London, tind inspected the books and \ general ., .system, of. oversight. After, thoroughly noting the methods at Butlersea by which (ho subinci'K'vl are helped, he 3at down to a dinner of the same food as that partaker! of by the men. In a series of special Methodist services lately held in a Yorkshire parish, a noteworthy feature has been the heart}' sympathy shown by the Rev J. W. Dunne/the vicar of the parish. Such sympathy and active cooperation in our midst would tend to the advance of religion amongst us. | Mr W. L. Roes writes from Gisborne to the Native Minister as follows : — " I have been requested by many of the hading chief of the district to inform the Government that one of the candidates for the Western Maori Electorate is distributing flour, sugar, and other things widely among the natives to induce them to support and vote for him. : They ask the G-overnment to announce to the native people that such proceedings are illegal and improper, and, if possible, to punish those who are guilty of them." The Native Minister has given directions that an extract from the Corrupt Practices Act be published in 1 this weeks Kahiti.