Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 10 July 1894, Page 3

Notes and Events.

A society like they have in London would not be amiss in the Colony. On Whit Monday a parade takes place of cart horses, under the control of the London Cart Horse Society. This year there were 500 competitors, all drivers of cart horses within a seven miles' radius of Charing Cross are admissible as candidates for the prizes, which are numerous and in some cases valuable. In addition to the money prizes granted, a handsome diploma, or brass tablet, suitable to be fixed on harness, is awarded by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and these tablets are given to those drivers specially recommended by the judges for such distinction. Awards are also accorded to those who show the smartest set of harness, and in the case of every competitor a small gratuity is allowed to reimburse candidates for any expenditure in ourred.

Things appear somewhat mixed in matters Municipal in Wellington. The City Council is carrying out a very much needed drainage scheme and in the Act authorising their raising a loan it was set out that land-owners who had not proper connection with the drains would have make them. The City Council hay« ing considered that in many cases to compel the small land-owner to pay for this expense all at once would be

a heavy burden, considerately applied to Parliament for an Act permitting them to charge the cost on a system of deferred payments, in twelve half yearly instalments. To enable them to do so they sought power to borrow toi just so much as they would have to lend. The other night at the Opera House the ratepayers very foolishly objected to this action, upon the representation of Mr T. K. Macdonald, and the City Council have decided if Parliament refuses them the power to borrow money for these advances, to have the clause empowering them to charge on the deferred system also abandoned. The amusing part of this little rumpus is the easy manner a public meeting can be beguiled qto vote against its own interests at the bidding of a plausable stump orator.