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Manawatu Herald, 6 April 1895, Page 2

A nnmber of volunteers from Picton and Neson are ooming over for the Feilding camp at Easter, and they should land on the wharf on Thursday morning when probably a special train will convey them to their destination.

We are sorry to notice that Mr John Macdonald's horse Wheriko, which be had only purohaaed recently for over £100, fell at a hurdle at the Woodville races and had to be killed. .

In about a week's time a capital concert will be given in aid of the State School Funds.

We remind all the Church of England members ihat His Lordship the Bishop of Wellington will visit Foxton on Tuesday and a garden party will be held in the afternoon. We understand services will be given both on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings at All Saints Church, Foxton, when the Bishop will preach.

Mr John Walsh after having had considerable alterations made to his new homo in Norbiton road, moved into it at the latter end of last week.

There was no bid of sufficient value made for the house and land otferred by auction on Thursday. The Auctioneer poinu d out that the property had a tenant, but this statement did not s>-em to en* courage the bidding if it lid not do the other thing. There's tenants and tenants as the old saying is. Still the terms, and the reserve should have led to business.

The other day a pure white skylark was noticed flying in the neighbourhood of Motniti.

Mr Battenby has be«n engaged sinking a well at the Creamery on the Mouioa road for some time and hat now struck » I good yield of water, bat it will not rite to I the surfac. The well i* down some j 190 feet and Mr Gray inform? us that he bad the pump connected with the engine at the creamery at work for two hours and a half and it made no difference in the height of the water. The wat-r in the wfell ia within 10 feet of the surface.

Tickets for the services at All Saints Church nest week can bt obtained from thtTioar.

The Rev. S. Baroett will co'na'htjt divide service tvrloe to-morrow at the Methodist Chttrth-, and administer the sacrament of the Lord's Supper at the evening service. the vicar will hold a serVitte at tieyin tomorrow morning, ana at Foxton in the evening.

The garden party on Tuesday is free to adu ts. The ladies of the congregation will do all they dan to make everyone Welcome. A pleasant gathering can thus be lookid forward to,

At last. The Chairman of the Mattawatu railway told the shareholders on We inepday that they had got four miles of the Tokomaru river cleared of logs and snags, so as to permit of the. Working of a dredge to widen mi deepen its bed. How many years ago; it is; we are afraid to say, when that same company had two large punts built at Fditoti td hbld the Priestman dredges which were also landed on the wharf, to be used for this purpose. The punts alone coat £250 and laid where they were built until they rotted to pieces. That so much work has now been accomplished may be satisfactory.

Patrick Cookery Was sentenced to four years' hard labour at Wanganui on Tuesday for attempting to carnally know a young girl of 11 years of age. This man hat had a very severe and salutary lesson taught him, as the day of the attempt the child's mother, attended by two men, Went to the place where the prißOtter Was flleepin& and the men having palled him out of bed brought him outside and laid him on the ground and the mother thrashed him with a stock whip "as long as she could." The prisoner admitted that when being thrashed it became "so hot" that he called out " Help " and "Murder." Was very frightened that his life would be taken and was glad when the constable came.

In another column our correspondent Mr B. Coupland Harding sets right the authorship of certain songs attributed to the Queen. We are much obliged for the communication.

We notice one person urges upon the Burgesses of Palmerston to adopt " Pamu> tana," Btating it to be the name in Maori. This is the worst suggestion yet made, as it i» not the Maori name of the place, but the translation of the English name into Maori.

Mr Broadhurst, M.P. has introduced into the House of Commons a Licens pg Amendment Bill to abolish all tied public* houses and to require that a license should be granted only to the actual tenant and occupier of a public-house.

During the severe weather experienced in Europe in February last, at a village near Halle, Germany, a woman and two children, who had begged in vain for shelter, were all three found next day frozen to death under a heap of straw.

Messrs Gorton and Son hold a stock sale at Bulls on Tuesday.

Mr T. V. Procter secured tbo transfer of the license of the Post Office Hotel to himself at the last meeting of the Licensing Committee. The building has not long been converted into a hotel, and everything about the premises are clean and tidy. MraProCior p rdonally attends to the housekeeping, so that a mistresses' eye is used for the comfort of the boarders. Mr Proctor is well known in this town, having been born hoie, and inftkea an obliging and attentive hoat<

The Directors of the Welling, on and Manawatu Railway gave Mr Wallace their late Secretary £650. The shareholders at their annual meeting on Wednesday voted that gentieman an extra £350, and said very nice things about him. He deserved it all.

A dividend of six per cent has been declared by the Manawatu Railway.

The Secretary of the Palmerston Hospital Board, Mr W. Rutherford, has received a cheque from Mr S. H. Wrigley for £26 10 a, as a donation to the hospital funds, being proceeds of the sale of ammunition, &?., th« property of the Bangitikei cavalry corps, now disbanded,

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be announcement made in another par of this paper that a sale of greater magnitude than ever yet attempted by Te Aro House is now being held should arrest, the attention of everyone in this part of the Colony.