Manamatu Herald. SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1894.

Manawatu Herald, 21 July 1894, Page 2

Manamatu Herald. SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1894.

To Mr Ray belongs the honour of first issuing the provisions for immediate hearing of a debt case under the last Magistrates Courts Act, and the proceedings were taken under Section 72 There are also new proceedings for attachment of monies which Mr Ray also availed himself of for the benefit of his client.

On Wednesday two trees were struck by lightning and set on fire in the Fitzherbert district.

The direct English mail per s.s. Gothic will close at the local office on Tuesday next at 8 p.m.

The annual meeting of the Poxton Lawn Tennis Club will be held on Monday evening.

Messrs Abraham and Williams hold a sale at Colyton on Tuesday next.

The honorary secretary of the Foxton Racing Club, Mr J. R. McMillan, is to be congratulated on the able statement he prepared and laid before his club, as to the position it holds in comparison with other clubs.

Stockowners had better notice the warning the S.M. gave on Thursday about the provisions of the Act relating to diseased cattle, and before selling them, if they have the slightest doubt about their health, to have them inspected. The action of Mr Blundell is much to the advantage of the health of the district.

During the negotiations as to terms of settlement of a debt c»se on Thursday in the Magistrate's Court, the fortunate pluintiff created much amusement by the doubt he showed as to the proposed terms being carried out, and this so worked upon him that he secured the attendance of the defendant alongside the defendant's lawyer and thus interrogated him "Your intentions towards me is honest, is it not?" to which he received a reply in the affirmative, without however, we regret to say, being sufficiently assuring him to at once accept the terms.

A sign of the times. A cook at a flax mill gave evidence that he found the mill deficient in provisions, and had therefore eent up some jam and such other necessaries !

The meeting of the Foxton Eacing Club on Thursday was b tter attended than has been the case for many years. There was an expression of regret at Mr Gillies retiring from the position of starter, which he has for so Jong and so well filled.

The ways of witnesses are wonderful in the idea of evidence. A witness was asked why he supposed a certain person intended to do a certain thing, and he replied, as his reason " that he fancied he had an idea." Needless to remark this was not accepted as conelusro.

In ans-.ver to Mr Wilson, who asked for a subsidy of £1 for £1 for the road from PaikakarUd to Otaki, the Miuis'er of Lands said that many settlers in the Colony would be only too glad to make their own roads if they got a good railway such as these settlers had. It was the doty of the company to assist their own settlers.

We congratulate Mr Pirani on securing the second reading of the Pohangina County Bill by such a large majority.

Mr Wilson is to ask the Colonial Tiva~..v:3i; If he will refer the whole question of the Trust Accounts, as to the mode of investment of the funds and securities held, to the Public Accounts Committee for investigation, so that the Committee may report to this House ?

Mr Wilson is to move, at the first opportunity, That a Select Committee, to consist of ten members, be appointed, to which shall be referred all Petitions and all matters relating to the railway system of the colony, or railway management, and to report thereon to the House ; the Committee to have power to call for persons, papers, and records ; three to be a quorum ; and to be a Parliamentary CormnUtee. The Committee to consist 'of Mr Buchanan, Mr Carncross.Mr Earnshaw, Mr J. W. Kelly, Mr Lang, Hon. Mr Mitchelson, Hon. Mr Seddon, Mr Tanner, Mr Willis, and the Mover.

Mr Wilson is to ask the Government, If they will put a sum of money upon the estimates sufficient to carry out the recommendation of the Native Affairs Committee on the Petition of Hana Pewene in 1893?

Mr Wilson is to ask the Premier, If he will confer with the Railway Commissioners to see if a more convenient train service cannot be given to the settlers of the West Coast, New Plymouth, Auckland, and Napier, by arranging with the Wellington Manawatu Railway Company for a faster mail train, leaving at a later hour than the present morning train, and that the down mail should reach Wellington earlier than at present ?

Mr F. Dignan, for some years manager of the Bank of New Zealand, Temuka, was entertained last week on the occasion of his leaving the district to take charge oF the Marton branch. There was a representative gathering, the ohair being occupied by Mr M. Quinn, who, in a brief speech, referred in eulogistic terms to Mr Dignan's many excellent social and business qualities. The members of the Cricket Club took the opportunity to present him with a bat as a souvenir of his association with the club. - Mr Dignan acknowledged the kindly remarks made *■ and the proceedings were enlivened by some music and songs.

Messrs Gorton and Son hold a stock sale at Feilding on Friday and a horse sale on the following day.

" It's an ill wind that blows nobody good " is a very old saying but none . the less true. Whilst the great depression existing at Sydney at the present time, has caused a deplorable amount of misery, yet the people cf Wellington and the surrounding districts will reap a gigantic benefit. During his visit to Sydney recantly, Mr James Smith purchased at absurdly low prices a large stock which is now being sold at the Wholesale Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington.

With a view of making this sale the event of the year, two special buyers were despatched from Te Aro House, one to attend the great sale of Edwards, Bennett & (Vs. wholesale stock, and the other to pick out bargains from the manufactures of the well-known Kaiapoi Woollen Co. Both these gentlemen have returned after a most successful trip, and the total result of their efforts is to be 3een in the astonishing bargains now being sold at the Wholesale Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington.

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With all these advantages in purchasing, it would be strange indeed if the sale was not one to be remembered. Any attempt to enumerate even a tithe of the cheap lines now at the disposal of customers, would be worse than useless in the space at our command, but a price list which has been printed will be sent, post free, to the address of any person applying t.o the Wholesale Drapery ! Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington. -;' : .