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Manawatu Herald, 2 June 1894, Page 2

The Manawatu Road Board lias suffered considerable damage from the floods, nearly all the bridges in the district having been damaged as well as portions of the roads. Feilding has also nmcli work to do in repairing. It is not likely that through train communication between Palmerston and Wangnnni will be restored for three or four weeks. One hundred feet of the Aorangi bridge are washed away which will need rebuilding, and many slips on the line have to be cleared. Messrs Gorton and Son hold n sale at Sanson on Tuesday next. The Borough Council meets on Monday evening for the dispatch of business. The flood has fallen considerably, but the weather appeared to be bad over the ranges yesterday. The Moloa swamp is however full of water quite as bad as duriug the flood last winter. It must be exceedingly harassing to the manager. It is ajso unpleasant news to the ratepayers in the Manawatu County to learn that the approach to the Awahuri bridge has been swept away. The many friends of Mrs McDonald will learn with regret of the death of her son Neil Alexander, at Woodville, on Wednesday last. The funeral was arranged to be at Horowhenua this morning early. Messrs Barraud and Abraham have an altered advertisement in this issue wherein special lines of seed pola'.oes, fencing wire and other leading lines are enumerated. The dates of Messrs Abraham and Williams' sales have been altered, an adjournment having been occasioned by the flood?. The Wellinglon City Council are alarmed at the stale of the Public Library building, and appointed Messrs Ciiatfield and Turnbull (o raport on it. They say the build ing is fractured in several places to a serious extent. They recommend tying the building with iron rods. It is ?aid that the Minister for Labour has in hand ton measures dealing with labour matters which are to be introduced into Parliament during the coining season. Three of these proposed measures remain a secret at present. The well-known trainer Potto had a narrow escape at the Palmerston railway station last Tuesday evening, says the Standard. Just before the last train left for Wellington ho was discovered lying across the rails between two carriages of the train, in a state of intoxication, and was rescued from his perilous position without mishap. The bakers in Sydney have begun a systematic): canvass of the customers of the masters employing non-unionists, urging them to deal only with those employing non-unionists, urging them to deal only with those employing unionists. A writ claiming £1000 damages against the Eveitin)/ Post for alleged libel was taken out on Wednesday at the Supreme Court by Mr SkeriPtt, actiug at the instance of Mr F. Or. Thompson, says the Times. The complainant formerly carried on the business of an insurance agent in Wellington, aud recently obtained a verdict for £250 damages in an action against McCarron, Bird and Co., of Melbourne, publishers and proprietors of the Attsti'alanian Jnnuranee and Banlclny Record. At. an informal meeting of the Palmerston Licensing Committee, committees were appointed to inspect every licensed house in the district. We hope no similar mistake has been made nearer home. A Feilding man was looking in the Star on Saturday afternoon for the list of new appointments on the Commission of the Peace. In his haste he read the list of gantlemen who had taken out game licenses. He put down the paper with a sicrh of intense satisfaction, and remarked piously : " A jolly good selection, aoyway." His name was there. On the authority of th« Journal of Labour we state that the Jewish inspectors reject as improper food for their people 35 per cent, of oxen. 25 per cent, of calves, and 25 per cent of sheep. The whole of this rejected sustenance finds its way into the Gentile organism. We regret to learn that Mr Morse, who was attached to the Bank of Australasia here, and lately to the Bank in Otaki, has had to go to the Wellington hospital, hay* ing contracted typhoid fever. In the French Senate a motion by M. Deniale, to the effect that the sons of di- ) voiced womon ahould be free from military service— a concession enjoyed by the son 9 of widows — was adopted by a vote of 166 ; to 144. I

Mr Stansell notifies that the mail coach will leave for Kereru every morning at 5.15 until further notice, which is due to the amount of flood water on the road. The Fox Commissioner was occupied this morning (Wednesday) in the examination of Messrs Peter Georgeson and Eobert Kirker, counter clerks in the Erenhij Post commercial department, says the Post. They were examined as to a certain letter which it is alleged the Head Messenger's register shows was sent from the Covernment Buildings to the Eimniuj Post office on the day upon which the Fox correspondence appeared in these columns. Mr O'Hara Smith also sought to examine them as to points pertaining to the etiquette of journalism, upon which his examination of Government messengers and clerks has not yet satisfied him, and upon which he is amassing a large number of possibly interesting opinions. The witnesses declined to enter into the subject, which they stated was entirely outside of thwr department and knowledge. Mr Smith also strove to pledge these witnesses, as he has pledged previous witnesses, to secrecy regarding their evidence and the questions asked them — possibly to prevent further ridicule being expended on the Commission — but they declined to give any Buch pledge. This afternoon Mr Stubbs, accountant, and Mr Beaglehole, ledger clerk, also of our commercial staff, were examined in similar directions. Each of these gentlemen received 13s in expenses out of the colonial exchequer. The New South Wales Executive, after deliberate consideration, has declined to allow Montgomery and Williams, the Bridge street burglars, to appeal to the Privy Council against the sentence of death passed upon them. [Since the above was in type, a cablegram announces that they have been hanged.] DeJGalezowski, the well-known eminent French dentist, at the repeated request of the Shah of Persia, has left for Teheran, to attend professionally the Shah's eldest son during three months. He is to receive the regal honorarium of 175,000fr., besides having all the expenses of the journey and during his stay in the Persian capital defrayed by the " King of Kings."