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Manawatu Herald, 31 March 1894, Page 2

The Borough Council meets on Monday; Tenders for ranging must be in by noon. Messrs Gorton & Son hold a stock sale at Waituna on Wednesday. Messrs Abraham and Williams besides Palmerston property will sell 70 acres of laud at Ohau aud the Kuku saw-mill, on Friday. Twenty large iceberg? are blocking the ocean road between New York and England. Mr Cox, the ;G!erk of the Manawatu County Council/ informs us- -that this Government have .the sum' of ..£ISOO for the Motoa road ready for the purposes to which it is to Jba. applied. This is exceedingly good news. Mr E. Westwood, says the Advocate, who, for the past few years, has been so favourably known as blacksmith for Mr M. Walker, of Bulls, has taken over the business formerly carried on by Messrs Spry and Green, opposite the Criterion Hotel. He enters on possession on the first of the month, and will, we have no doubt, receive a liberal support from the public. The many friends of Mr Bramley will regret to learn that his son about 14 years of age, alighted near the Post Office, Palmerston North, from a dog cart which he was driving, when the horse started off, and Bramley, who tried to stop the animal, was thrown violently underneath the vehicle, the horse striking him on the face, head and cheßt. Mr Weight, who was passing by at the time, quickly pulled the boy from his dangerous position. It was found that the mo3t serious wounds were nasty cuts on the head and jaw. Had it not been for the prompt assistance of Mr Weight, the boy would probably have been kicked to death. We have since learnt that he is making good progress towards recovery. We very nearly had a shock. We feared that the Melbourne Age had been " having us " as a colony, when we read the following commencement to a paragraph : — "A New Zealand weekly journal, recently to hand, contains information of a very interesting wedding that took place recently in that land of advanced muliebrity." The italics are ours, the last word has an unpleasant sound suggestive of a patient beast of burden. We, of course, are wrong, which we discovered on consulting our ponderous dictionary. " Muliebrity " all our readers will know (when we tell them) means womanhood. We are thank- . ful to state that our authority says the use of the word is rare. The Melbourne Argus, commenting on ; the opening up of the Maori lands, sugj gests that, as a matter of sentiment, it ! might be well for the New Zealand legist lators to wait until Rewi and the last of I the chiefs who fought so gallantly for the right of Maoris to hold the Maori land de- , part from the scene they are now fast ', leaving. , The Mesageries Mari times line has achieved another triumph. The Admiralty 1 has been so struck with the exceptional 1 steaming performances of the steamers | Armand Behic and Polynesian that it has , been decided to fit the new battleships Powerful and Terrible with boilers of the Belleville type, as they have yielded such satisfactory results in the case of the Frenoh mailboats. The boilers will, however, be made in England, and will oost for each ship about £100,000, of which sum one-third will go as royalty to the French designers. — Sydney M. Herald. What wo are getting used to. The Post says : — A family connection of the Premier's dwells in Ballarat, and is also connected «with the Fire Brigade of that city. This gentleman recently visited New Zealand. The Premier was delighted, and forthwith found a special mission for his oonneotion which should enable him to tour the colony at the public expense. There is a straightforwardness in the following announcement placarded in the window of an up country store, says a Melbourne paper — " We are Now Holding our Annual Sell " — that should commend itself to the sympathy of purchasers. There are larger and more pretentious establishments that no doubt may spell a little better, but the " sell " is what is intended all the same, although not quite so franklyexpressed. Interviewed in Sydney by a Daily I 1 degraph reporter, Mr James Mills, manager of the Union Steam Ship Company, gave some statistics that are worth reproducing. " When all our ships are in commission," he said, " we employ afloat 1710 persons, and and our monthly wages payment run to something like £15,000. In addition, of course, we have an army ashore in various capacities — officers, mechanics, coal labourers, and so on. Our vessels steamed during the last 12 months over 1,800,000 miles, with a total consumption of 170,000 tone of coal ; and in that period we carried no less than 160,000 passengers. For the 'Frisco steamers alone we purchase locally well on to 25,000 tons of coal per annum, and our annual Sydney disbursements in connection with that line amount to £50,000." Mr Mills pointed out that when the Australian companies reduced their wages of sailors, firemen, trimmers, and others of that grade by £2 per month, this company took off only £1, an arrangement the men readily fell in with. "As to officers and stewards, who are on a different footing from the other employes, no reduction as yet been made. Nor will any be made, unless pressure of failing revenue compels it."

Daring the Great Sa'e Ladies' aprons will be sold at 4£d. 4 buttons Kid gloves all new fresh goods at 1/11 per pair. White and cream laces at Hd per doa. Ladies^ linen collars new shap?s at Hd each. Boys sailor collars at 3d each, sold everywhere at oa, at the Great Sale Te Aro House, Wellington. It will pay country customers to| take a run down to the Great Bealising Sale they will save all the expenses and be money in pocket by buying all they want while <*oods arc so cheap. Orders from the country will be carefully selected and sent carriage paid from the Great Realising bale at Te Aro House. ' We are requested to direct the attention of our readers to the fact that the Annual Sale of Surplus and Summer Stock will commence at The Bon Marche, Palmerstoii North, on Saturday, lbth January, and continue for 21 days. Buyers in this district will do well to pay the Bon Maren6 an early visit.