Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JAN. 17, 1895.

Manawatu Herald, 17 January 1895, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JAN. 17, 1895.

. ■• iU.. U-Vi — I-.?.:; ■.-,^--: ,i ; Mr J. & McMola;i4 coadtgts an auction sale ot ;dr*p^ryj; efr CampbelUown '^ffi morrow. " -•''.'

It is good news to know that the catenng* of the lunch in the Grand Stand booth on the i race-day has. been placed by Mr Procter jajhe bandj.ofrMr T. P, JVilliams^ •A glad*s"mile f wfil *f risWre? ih&i&cea%€ Mff ■when they he^thJß..news. __ ; , f ; _. The N.Z.4)af ry-OniOh ? parpase^ -sinking £ .deep abyssinian well at the Foxton .(jjreamery.

Telegraph-poles are now made of paper pulp in the United States.

It was in the Lyceum Theatre, Sunderland, that Mr Henry Irving mtlde 'his first appearance 1 , di any f stage] |peaking : the first words fn the &< at part 1 - of the opening night (Sept., 1856). The words were, "Here's to our enterprise I"

The Czar has an income of 2J millions per annum.

An inoh of rainfall represents 100 tons of water to an acre* . :

I ;The 3um of £650,000 ia what the Prince "of Wales is insured for.

A gigantic lion's head of the finest Greek 'marble, 7ft. high and in excellent preservation, was recently unearthed by some workmen at Kertch, in the Crimea. It is supposed to belong to., the seventh or eighth oetatury before* Christ* It i? to be dent to St. Peterabargh and exhibited there.

Apples in scores of thousands of barrels were reported arriving at Liverpool by the ships from the United Sta'es and Canada in the month: of November. . A single Allan Liner bronght some 7,000 barrels of Cana.dfan apples in splendid condition.

Mr J. R. McMillan will sell by instruction of Messrs S. M. Baker & Co., on Wednesday next, some first-class horses bred by that term. Fall: appear in the advertisement to be fonnd elsewhere. * A special meeting of the Borough Council was held last night. It was decided to declare Tuesday the day for holding the half-holiday.

I Messrs Gorton and Son hold their usual stock tole at Feilding on the 25th instant.

At the meeting of the Wanganui Edacacion Board on Tuesday it was resolved' that a reply be sent to the Catholic Archbishop of Wellington agreeing to undertake the inspection of Catholic schools in this 'distrfef.-*- ----■ ' *••■•""•"-■ '■'-'■'■ -••■•■---

We notice .that the D.O. A. has declared "a ftrst and final dividend in the e3tate of G. H. 6oyle of eight shillings in the pound. •A-geod-many hero are interested in. -this statement.

Mr Guerin has an acre of potatoes for sale.

The following tenders were received by the BSroqgli Council for v clearing the Foxtoii, Cemetery :--W" H. Webb, £12 ; W. Nye, £8; T. Chamberlain, £9 19s; F. J.- France,' £6 5s (accepted). H. Procter's tender was declared informal..

Tenders are invited by the Borough Council for leasing about 250 acres of the Recreation Beserve. Tenders must be in by the 4th February.

Max O'fiell states in his latest book that he is chiefly struck in religious matters by the progress made, and the importance acquired, by the Catholic religion in the English colonies. This importance had also struck him in Canada, the United States, and the Pacitic Islands,

. Ah Wong, a Chinese gardener committed suicide on Monday. Efe was found dead in his bed with a pistol shot through his body. No definite motive for the rash act is clear says the local paper, but it was known that Ah Wong had been in a despondent state owing to financial difficulties'&nd loss of trade. He had also been suffering from a bad leg. Wong was at one time a . well-known member of the Salvation Army in Mlart6n\ being the standard-bearer, and was well liked by all with whom he came in contact.

Combined Australia beat the English-!: men at Adelaide, the scores being, Australians 649 for the two innings, and the lijng'ishmen only 267 for the two innings.

To morrow the N. Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., hold their second wool sale this season in Wellington.

Even another ohange. The Mercury says Mr Wilson, who lately conducted the Paraekaretu Express, has bought the Otaki Mail an.l will assume its management in a day or two. •

While cleaning a achnapper, a man up North found a half-sovereign of 1845.

Successful experiments have been made in Wellington in the presence of several stewards of the Wellington Bacing Club with the new starting machine, which has been invented by Mr Jas. Crawford, of the Imperial Hotel. The general principle of the machine -is mtioh the same as those which Have already been tried, but it appears to excel in simplicity and at the same time possess one or two important improvements.

, Ten thousand patent medicine pamphlets flooded the Najiier Post Office last night (says the H.B. Herald of a recent issue) and there was weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth amongst the officials.

A sensational gold discovery is reported from the Upper Gladstone district, Melbourne. Miners who have returned from Coolgardie declare that they never saw richer, stone. It is literally hanging together with gold. A fabulous yield is expected.

Seasonable. The. following appears in a contemporary. The joke about the Scotchman who was acting as judge at a race meetiug, and gave his decision of a race as a dead heat; because the crowd were shouting out " The bay wins t" reminds us of a somewhat similar decision given by another race judge. He was a portly individual, and had been having several " toothful 3 " before the races-started, in fact had only a hazy idea of what was going on. The finish of one race was botween a grey horse and a black horso, and was a desperately clo^.e thing, to decide, but the "tippling" judge \va3 perfectly happy, and - when asked for his decision he beamed on the excited crowd clamouring round the judge's box and said, " Sh' piebald won 1"

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Early in the year Mr Smith admits to a partnership in his business a commercial gentlemen who has long been associated with the London buying for Te Aro House. To thoroughly reduce and prepare the stock previous to the partnership stock■joking sweeping reductions will be made in «11- Departments, the stock must be reduoed by £15,000, and this splendid Drapery Stock at Tq Aro House will be offered to the publio at most tempting prices. -* .