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Manawatu Herald, 20 March 1894, Page 2

In consequence of the Easter holidays the Manawatu Herald will not be published oa Saturday. Qur economical Returning Officer has not thought fit, to give the usual public -no ificat ion of holding a poll for tVie Lie npinj; Com nittee, nor publicly in this tlisrrict who have been nominated. We hay} supplied the omission, but.it id a grgv want of consideration on the part of the Returning Officer, to the electors. The poll will be held to morrow. There is such a thing as" being too economical. The .largest exporters of Californian trails to the East "shipped close on 4,000 car loads, last. year as against 1,600 car loads in 1892. ' " Aboui 100 m<;n, women and girls find employment in San Francisco in the manufacture of inaccaroni. The Christchurch Press publishes a. very good portrait of Mr' J: E. Henry, the'welK known handieapper. Gloso:on JBfitfO more was invested in the machine on the Wanganui Cup than on the Dunedin Cup. The Salvation Army hold hold a tea on Good Friday. Sportsmen will be glad to learn that the shooting season for the Wellington district has been gazetted as from the: first day of May, aud ends on the 31st day of July. The particulars of Messrs Gorton and Sons' large stock sale on account of the Messrs Mansou are advertised to-day. Messrs Abraham & Williams hold stock sales at Palmerstou on Thursday, and Woodville .next week. Messrs Spelman and Spe'rs, who have been sinking an artesian well for Mr Edwards, at Motoa, struck a fine flow of water last evening at a depth of 150 feet. The water rose 15 feet above the surface. A party of the name of Anderson, lately in business in Masterton, has been wanted The ab.ienre has been declared a bank rupt and the Official Assignee has ber-n looking into this matter. It appears Andersojl .has/ been Ttnown' under other lmnv'sin- Mlfo*iZ?aland. He originally came from ustralia and went back there in th • Taruw m, having tak mi a steerag-pn.-sfige und^r tin nann of Boil, and iranafevred.ro the saloon on the*way ov"er. With the money in the banks, book debts and stock, which -U a valuable one worth from £600 to £800, there will ba more than 2p* in the £ for the creditors, whose ..c\u'.-is only amount to some £1800. The cheerful editor of the Manawatu Times who inferenlially doubted our statement about the size of an onion, has now, graphically speaking, " gone off bis onion " about some. large tipples grown by a .Mr. Voss which weighed, so at least our ye racious contemporary says, 25)7,4, 28ozs and 33ozs respectively. The Po-tf- statea that Mr A. W. Brown,-ex-Mayor of Wellington, who disappeared a oouplfi of years ago under peculiar cir cums'anoes, has written from Japan to a relative here, intimating his intention of returning, and explaining various matters. In a tcffMf M-H-R. for Rangitaia.^ fh<r Railway ttoftimisajoners say that they* cannot reduce the grain rates. Tho \la«terton correspondent of th? Times nays — Information reached the. pplicd aboutrmidday on: I'hutsilay' ; that a couple of lad^were engaged in, matching trout in the Waipoua Riw by a method not usually practised by angleVs of repute. The implements u?ed, although primitive,* were highly successful. . Mounted-Qop-stable!iTay prpc'i^ed-tb-the place indicated but the boys, who had divested them«elve» of the greater part of their clothing, seeing ♦he constable approach.-made " tracks " (or the bush, nnau« their wearing apparel. The, constate, fodod; aboaHwettty. SrdutKta ' a saofc, which, -with the lads/, clothes; -he brought to the Police , Station.- JHe, in compair^ttF rffterwsr^s'«eafbhc^iihrfl>uslf«it«*fl*it«Oßd'lo the river, but no trace of the bdyir'ftdnld be found. About noon oa Friday, two boys made application at. the Police Station for the clothes and fishing implements, wtych -were;, handed; oßer, ip^<%h r s»# wflV h> pfoceedeff against by " summons for illegal fishing^ r; : r ,, f . a .■*,, y It is expecteU' th'aV the Orient and P. and O. S'eamship Companies will obtain a renewal of the Sues mail service to Australia for three ye«rs-afttit . the. China and India contracts expire. There have been eight baukraptciea in Wellington- this mbnthvyi r, ■'■"' 1 .-' ft is ■< reported" frpnv Sardinia thst an EnglismmWiind'Tvis sister "were attacked by brigands, their hOfses being shot under them, bat that eventually they succeeded in making their escape. MoKip, one of the proprietors of Fair Play, was ou Friday committed for trial at Wellington for alleged .cciminal libel of David ' 6'ifri, ' ex-President 'of, the Tern / peranc>Uriion,b.r republishittK a» ariicl* from tho Licensed Victuallers' Ga»ett* referring to a pamphlet published by Gain, respecting certain incidents in his career. In a similar case against Fair Play Company, judgment was reserved. The CkmnMi saya : --..NVe aw inform-' I that\lr,UiikxiJiV B -nara wa* oITtjI £1)3) lately for Bangipulii; but that he rpfosed, Raving that he would not take less than £1500 for the horse. . _ . .. From th-jVtunawatu. Times m -tfg/4 * p l«afn* thaTMr *R'. ''B. Abraham bas been taken ill at \Vanganni and bis condi ion is such as to oanse hisTriettds much anxiety, j Mr L. A. Abraham proceeded to Wangauui I to see the sufferer, and we *inoerely ; tv ust we may be. able totr^goet better news as to the condition of the" 'patient very soon. Mr \braham is believed to be suffering from the effeots of a severe attack of iofla- j •Bsa.

jyj.ii week a ten-year-old son of Mr J. A. Smith, of Motoa, sustained a fracture of both bonos of the left fore-arm by a throw from a young horso he was riding, and aKfii" on'Sunrlay last, n little daughter of Mr C. Nelson's' hfi-d a nasty fall through climbing; dislocating her left elbow. Both patients have been attended by Dr Devmer, and it only again proves tho necessity of Jmving a dootor in the distict. Three of the youngest lads we ha\*o ever Roen "on tho wallaby" passed through (Jreytown on Friday evening last, says the Greytown Standard. We were informed by one of them- that they had travelled from Canterbury in the South Island, aud tha f th»v wore th"re infirmed fiat work in iriii-: j[r>j;i.r:ii \\:\.< pi.;ij:ih;i, '• :n /«c:, 11oa-; of them observed, " w« were told that the squatters ran after anyone on the road, and were only too glad to get them, but we •have not di'Oppett across any Of these kindhearted gentlemen yet." .Their ages were 15, 16, and IS years, and ithey were on their way to Masterton. Ou remarking about their youth, they replied, "Oh! there are plenty younger thau us down South humping their bluey." A serious accident happened at Godalraing, in Surrey. Five hundred pupils of the Charterhouse School were assembled for the purpose of being photographed, when the platform on which they were arranged suddenly collapsed. Thirty persons were injured, but it is hoped that no fatal results will ensue. I i i