Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894. The Bridges.

Manawatu Herald, 5 April 1894, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894. The Bridges.

Do not be alarmed gentle reader at Jfchf; plural loading,; /it is jasifc' as simple to build two bridges as it is one, and 'cheaper,,- as;.a vote can be taken for both' at the same expense that one ouly would entail. It has become evident to us that one bridge over the Manawatu is not to be so easily obtamed /is^ two,^and as two ,are v jusfc "so^jna^piore preferable ' than. "oneV"wts,.tirgjivtlly -advocate the building oi both the Wirokino and Shannon bridges. We desire our readers to loo 1 * at the. matter calmly and' Jfien'wß befie'Ve'' thl*y ; will agree with ''a?. 'Wfe "hbid vthafr^as* Manawatu .County, has pT : refoJution upon its Minut.e-b.ook> that : all bridges over th-'rfcy ieefc shall ■ be- built, by.', the CJ*Mnty; : ttiidfso' 'triany ; have- -been so built, towards which ;.the T'ate r p'ayers ! in the Borough in past years have , contributed, that the County should not suddenly rescind 1 ' its resolution when*- the' 'lower- ettA .pi the County can 'see its way to take" advantage of it. Fair play is bonny play all the world ovtH % . "ltiSOi.happens.ihat we believe the Manawatu Couuiy is willing to act fairly but its Council lors have. ; £o, consider the likelihood of the" ratepayers acLing up to their standard^ A large number, of.ratepayers desire to see a bridge erected at 'Shannon,, but Vgreater number desire to see the Wirokino bridge built. Under these circumstance-, proposing only the one.br.idgo to the vote of the ratepayers might result in their voting against it, and thus we -urge both, bridges, being undertaken "htthe one time: -ib- may -strike our readers that .the proposal is rather large; considering the time?, but it must not be forgotten that at both crossings ferries are kept tip, causing almost ; as muclr outlay as tliD bridges would. „ .- . -The whele ease- can be .reduced to a nutshell, and may.be placed thus : The Wirokino' bttdge* will"6ost £7000 and the Shannon bridge £4000, interest at five per cent on these two gu)H3<would^bo..£siO;a.year. The ferries roughly return in rents £200 a year and the wages of the ferrymaft./^Jch^tejM^reJ^^l^ow for, is' £400 from the £550 leaves only £150 a year to be found between the two Counties, of Manawatu. and Horo•wlienua and the Borough ,ot 'Foxton. This is not an. insurmountable sum even were it likely to remain at this amount; but it-goes; without saying Lhat bridges would induce much extra traffic. We are sure in tha case of the Wirokino. bridge such would be the case, •as'the'very-. large .numbers of.. stock jclesp.qjtchecl from Caraai'son- 4lation r.for;' Wellington woqJila be driven v . through.: .to I^evin , the, mileage for, drj,v;Pg; being only 15 as against very nearly 50 by rail. It is just this which will induce the farmers of the northern part of the County to risk ft small outlay for the. fn-sfc Jew years after the erection, of. tne pbrnd™* 1 'jMiop^rowheaua aouky^^pt v^abtyMrWt the proposal differently arid instead of taking the liability over the whole County ' arrange "it over iai portion . ■\Te : : know -that ' the STian non rate - , payers urea ! tixibus'f6r : a; l briage if itis built neau Shannon^ We; know that Jiiost. of thd.. setter?, in ; . the Wirokino riding . , M'e. .in faypr of either bridge, bub are chiefly in favor of one at Wirokino, and every townsnia.n in Mvin. should ,l)e, ( most en" ,|jiuawfcfc"'o n " ' &* ' q^iptj ,- y ■ rfs. it ( "'means la, gl'e'atlx^i.ncieaged .trade.-to-.them,.., . ;.*.-. • " K■' — - >:;; ■*"' W^ '"cffniio't 'see' .■wh^'tilfe; greatest harmony and unity shptfld'ntrt exist on this important matter of bridgiag, the Manawatu. All are. interested when it* is shown how easily fche 3be .^w^oliDlished all should- -werk heartily • together, and. promptly. We would suggest to our representative" •* oil- *• the Manawatu County Council that he proposes a meeting of all the local bodies at &<Mn <,j|fo'3sk\Me nfftjl|e|f(|\!eg and f#jQi how the work shall be initiated. He 1 would be doing a good act for the whole coast-by taking such a stap, and it being " an eminently practical one it. would be approved by all the irltereite'd- publftr- bodied ' ; -^ Shera .-is .Tib- ii fe|t it Hali :i tWrt- I the' -Mayor woviTd put every' facility in the way ni^ meeting and do all he could towavjfc making it "a" ""success. Unless some such meeting is promptly held the' question will get shelved through tali? .^nd nothing will Tfe done. No public ""representative is desirous of the appearance of unduly interferingon the boundaries oi a neighbor, and -we t^refor^freqnently hoarihat the matter had better be left to see what . move will be- taken by the other body. A conference would smooth all this over arid would be the mean's of/pitUrrig'spirit into the actions of i' the advocates of improved county communication.

' . The Public Petitions Committee of the House of representatives inquired into the matter of the Dundee Tramways Company, it, as will be recollected, fee'ing hurt at the Public Works Department refusing it the power to work the cars by electricity on the single-trolly system. Dr Lemon was the moving spirit in this order being made, holding that till 4 Wandering currents from the electric tram-service would interfere with the telephone monopoly. That there is a good deal in this goes without discussion as at Bournemouth, in England, a horse was killed by a wandering electrical current in the road, though it was several inches from the surface. Major Carrtew the Government Inspector did not fear danger to human life, but he admitted the occurrence was sniliciently serious to call for application of a remedy. On the Dundee petition Dr Lemon put the matter of the discovery of the earthreturn principal in the correct light. This principle was discovered by William Watson and others in 1747 and Steinheil re-discovered it in 1837. We have not borne across a ' life ' of Dr Lemon, but in a Government paper we have a few confessions from him. He has had over forty years experience in electricity, of which 27 years were in the Telegraph, Department. He also belongs to a private telephone association in America* ; = "Wheji found make a note of it," so said Captain Cuttle. Pure water is nearly a perfect insulator, that ts, a bad conductor ; but the moment it comes into contact with any substance, , it becomes a conductor. " ■'.■ Another fact from Dr Lemon. ' Steel polos are no good. There is no rigidity in them. An iron pole is not so rigid as a wooden one. Municipal Corporations are not always grasping, but one in England merely claimed the street from the ground to the heavens ? Thoy went to Court arid were defeated. Some waterspouts were seen off Kaikourn on Sunday, travelling from the east. One of them appeared to burst on the coast about 20 miles north. .. . Mr D. D. McKenzie has sold his farm at Carnarvon to Mr James McKelvie. The price at which the property changed hands was, we (Adroca(e) understand, £(> 10s per acre. Mr McKenzie, who has property in the Pohaugina, will probably remain in possession of the Carnarvon Estate for another twelvemonths. The Pu-4 says New Zealand imports annually some £88,000 worth of patent or proprietary medicines. On this large value il pays 2"> per cent. Customs duty, and than trade profits have to be added before the medicines reach the public. Altogether the public expenditure on Ins sort of luxury cannot fall short of £60, 000 a year. A sum of probably under £2000 would cover the cost of all the curative drugs thus administered in fancy form and under deceptive names. An English Dairy Company in Bombay has lately offered in London a consignment of Indian butter, free of all charges, at yd per lb, The police are taking steps under the Lunacy Act with a view to applying to the Supreme Court to commit Mr and Mrs Mulligan to a lunatic asylum, and to place their estate under the control of an official i'saeUerv, t -i - 1 t:x. .v ■-v ■. ■ : : ••;. From Oxford we hear of an ingenious . piece of effrontery on the part of a wellkngwn rnqmbei.' qf the /University. On Sunday night, after dinner, he proceeded to make a speech in the Broad, find thereby collected a large crowd; He then read tiie Eiot Act, collected a few friends to constitute- a "militia," and charged the crowd. Then' some constables came up, joined in the melee, and assisted the originator of the disturbance in dispersing the " unlawful assembly." An extraordinary' scene took place at the Prince's Theatre, Manchester. Keeping up an old tradition, the medical sludofits at Owens College went en masse to the afternoon performance of the pantolniinq. Taking possession of the pit, they practically made the performance impossible by their disturbances. Finally they were charged by a strong body of plain.-clothes policemen, arid bodily turned but" after a desperate struggle, Flowers, in a state of excellent preservation, have been found on Egyptian mummies 5,000 to /G;oQ>years old. Some are on exhibition in the Egyptian Museum, iGaivo, at. the. present time. Argentina has a "Wheat King" — an Italian ; emigrant of the name of Gnazone — whose lands is in the south of the province of Buenos Ayres. His last harvest crop of wheat was grown on 66,720 acres. A new method of securing a thorough circulation of air in' the cool chamber has •"b^err adopted on some of the steamers from the Cape, writes Mr Lowe, the Government expert. The cold air is pumped in at the upper corner pf the compartment, .and by means of a fan withdrawn at the opposite diagonal upper corner-; but to prevent it taking a^direct course from' ingress .to .qgress. p, partition. .. ia > ton diagonally acrbsst the -whole length of the compartment.tb witniri about a foot of < the floor. '.This causes the triangular chamber into which the. cold air is first pumped to be ; well filled. before the air escapes under the jiaf titiou into the other triangular chamber, -and as- it must ascend" to escape.' from the -top 'opposite corner,- it well envelopes every •paokagfc on itfe 'way. After pumping the .•cold. Hir In, at on© corner for a. few hours, the, action is reversed and cold air is . pumped 'in at the opposite corner ;so that ingress and egress alternate every few hours, The Spartan arrived the other day 1 from* the Cape with a' chamber containing grapes, -peaches," &c, ventilated in this mannas and her fruit was in perfect oon.difeiohr .The Erejach Gas .Company has thrown the oity of Athens into darkness until the municipality has paidthe arrears due to the ;SfoEit&ny/ t • ; '"-'■- .•.;."" '^ftfs stated' that written "objections have been lodged against Mr Massey's nominal .tion for Waitemata, on the.alleged-grpund that one' of the nominators is- ndt duly qualified to make suoh nomination. The following civil actions are 3et down;: for trial in the Supreme Court this month :— Field v. Wi Parata, claim v £46G»: fto sefvice? jenderad ; FaUrenbach da*mi£loooi~dttmfcge*.lor alleged breach of agreement and libel, by special jury ; Smart v. Phoenix Assurance Compony, claim. .£235 on an .insurance policy ; Thompson, v. McCarron, Bird and Cor claim £1000, damages for alleged libel; Wood v. Wirokino Road Board, claim £350, damages and injunction, by 'gpetotekjary* '**'* ' ■ - • - - ~ -'• ■ We are sorry to learn from the Standard thai Mr'Mathias, manager of the Bank of Australasia- at Waipawa, formerly of Palmerston, is at present in the Waipawa hospital, suffering from liver complaint.' The sentence of death passed on the chemist Ureen, in Victoria, for causing the cFeaftdf a woman by the performance of an illegal operation, has been commuted to imprisonnient for life.

One hundred thousand negroes are arranging to leave America and found colonies on the west coast of Africa. The Feilding Star says— The artesian well in Manchester Square is now down to a depth of 130 feet. At 122 feet the water rose to within two feet of the surface. The Cape Government lias imported a consignment of oysters from Whitstable, and has laid them down on some promising beds in the Zwartkops Eiver. On Tuesday, afternoon a son of Mr Proctor's (Frank) riding a horse, met with an accident from the horse falling and rolling upon him. Dr Dernier had to be called in and found that no bones were broken but the boy had been considerably hurt internally. We (Advocate) congratulate Mr W. F. Stansell on the cheerful appearance of his schoolroom at Pemberton. The well-as-aoried pictures from the illustrated papers, which are hung between the maps, etc., cannot fail to be interesting as well as instruotive to the children. Mr Hilliary is making considerable additions to his " Hill View '• cottage on the Motoa road. The great realising sale lasting for 20 days promises to be a gigantic success. The whole stock is to be offered at genuine reduced prices many of the lines will be marked at less than English cost at Te Aro House, Wellington. During the Great Sale 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 9d per doz. Ladies' linen collars new shapes at 3d each. Boys' sailor collars at 3d each, sold everywhere at 6d, at the Great Sale Te Aro House, Wellington. It will pay country customers toj take a run down to the Great Realising Sale they will save all the expenses and be money in pocket by buying all they want while goods are so cheap. Orders from the country will be carefully selected and sent carriage paid from the Great Realising Sale 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, Palmerston North, on Saturday, 13th January, and continue for 21 days. Buyers in this district will do well to pay the Bon Marche an early visit.