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Manawatu Herald, 1 November 1894, Page 2

Before the sale of the Londonderry mine the prospectors, from four cub c yards of similar s-pecimens obtain- d by Lord Fiugal, ■ hnd secured r.o less than 4.33.000 worth of gold, There is trouble about water even in Coo'gardie. The Town Council blame the Government. There was ou 22nd September app'ication tor 31.000 gallons of water and tilt; daily output of the born was only 8000 gallons. Water was selling at one ' shi ling a gallon. The people at. Ninety-mil? (a place that distance from Coo'gnrdi- ) are, as they ever are elsewhere, dUappmn ed at a hotel license not being g.ant d for the district L >rd Fingill had the hole in the Lon- , donderry mine unc tvep-d in his presi-nc •, - and from it were taken 13 cw of speci;n ns estimated to contain £13,000 wortli of gold. The Coolgirdie Miner says tha' to comI memorate the sale of the L).id>nd'rry mine, the original pro-pec'ors presse.ni.fd to Mrs Shaw, who b. came interested in the claim -h inly after it was found, wiih a magniiici iu har of gold w.-ig'iing 70 uunc j s which had be n olvain 'd fro u so ue of he phenomenally rich sp ci:n<-ni rais d on the ground. Wk aeknowlfd<4 ■ the r c-ipt from ih • Registrar-General of the OlUeial Year Isotik. From the D^partmen' of Agriculture we ' have receive!) is second report, This .should be in the hands of all fanners. ! Messi'9 vbrah-iui & Willta ns announce that Mr Charles Wilson of O lau has been appointed Ivir per nan j ut iig'nt, and will have cnarge of their F.ixon, Levin, Shannon anil (Juki yards. Messrs Gorton & 4 on hold a stock sale at Waiiuna on Wednesday. The C >ronei's jury found rha'. th • fin on board the r.s. Maraioa was wilful, but there \va3 not sufficient evidences to show I by whom. The Government's newapip v description of some pu'ilic s-rvm s, •' tin Riiwav Co nm -sion rg hav • UMth'i' b-iwe s nor b aiua. 1 Pleasant ! when it is a'so Im nvn they are nor. allowed to reply to newspaper cri'icism, or abuse. Th> Premier on Saturday, says thr ■S7 in lard, expr ssed his burpri^e at tlvaci. tha^ although he was three dayF in P.-il'iierst-in he was never once approached i n poli'ical matters. He thought hat Pdhn^rs^onians must either b •■ a com. n ed lot, or their representative in P.irliameu- „ has attended to his duiiea so thoroughly as to leave no ground for complaint. Is it ei'h-r? It is said there are now only 10 Euro ■iean resid nts in Cabu'. the capital of Afghanistan, viz , a lad doc or (Mi-* '■ Hamilton), a veterinary surg on, his wife, his child, and his miicl, a milor and his ! wife, an electrician, a photographer, and a musical instrument maker. Something that is wanted h^re. A San Francisco resident, af er a run through l&urope, inf-irm d a San Francisco pap r i that the most curious thing h saw was ,h« manner in whio'i beer was served at Sfjn- ! gart. It is pip-id all over the city, just like wa'er, and the consumer pays a beer 1 rate, jus; as ho pays water and gas rates. i Two immense breweries furnish ihe supply, | and because of their po'itical " pull " th.-y have monopolised the en ire b j er trad^ of ihat immense city. Their mains make a perfect und rground n-'twoik, with similar 1 nip s tapping :h mat di.s ano-s of 20ft t > i 50ft. Thr! pip •is Iliads of u li-ad compo iion, and to pr serve he bever<ige from i upurities which the clu-uiical properties of ,he iieer would generate in c >ntuct with ih-; : metal, th* pipe is lin d wi h>\ thin layer of wood pulp. This mak '3 itpsssibe for , every man in Stungart to bd his own hattender. All he has to do is to turn the 1 spigot and the pipu does the ivst. This ! system of serving b -er cheapens it to tinI consumer, as it does away with an army of middlemen, for every family that patronises r he breweri-s g"ts the b-verage fiiMl hand. ' This uniqu! exp rinent, i'. i-i a 1.-x- d, his a ivadj b co ne an e-tabli .h^;d succ ss \a , S uttgart, and is proving in i> p ila ity so . fast thar .'wry large city i,t E-ir^p; is talk- , I ing of adopiing it. . I Mr Nelson advertises hat he will exhi' i i his tnulujing 'Machine a^ w ir!< at M -s-rs | Barbci', ruu oj Wwdaustla,, aud XiiuraJay > UfcXt.

Last night a most welcome rain fell. The Times has it on good authority that Mr J. E. FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor General, has sent in his resignation to the Government. The Post, on Mr FitzG^rald's authority, denies it. Couldn't wait. Mrs George Falconer, an old la'iv, (57 years of age, committed suicide by hanging Ivrself on "he verandah of her sister-in-law's house at Oamaru. Mr f-f. Fuming new London paper, FJbt Jol-a, will cost 3d. It will thus enter into direct competition with Punch. Romo ia retrogressive \vi h a vpnaeance. A kind of enrf-w is to be established there. A p 'lice order has been issued to close all doon of private lioti^s, so that no one slia!l !<?av<? aft.T 11 o'clock at night in summer and 10 o'clock in winter. M-rchan^s in Brussels and in Antwerp believe there i< a good op ning for Ausu'olian nva', owing 10 'he "lections resulting in n triumph for 'he pnrty opposed to the imp (sitio.i of ilu ies on articles of food. Th-> New South Wale-« Public Works Department ha-i dispensed with 80 offic-rs, thus saving £18,000 annually.