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Manawatu Herald, 8 June 1895, Page 2

Tenders for cutting manuka on the Moutoa Road must be in by Monday evening.

Tenders for contracts for the Mukaka River Board must be in early on Tuesday morning.

We have reliable information that the sum required for the construction of the Levin-Greatford branch railway is now in the hands of the brokers in London, and will be available for the work if the concurrence of the Government is secured. We must all hope that this will be obtained.

The Christchuroh case of Wil.iams v. Dombrain and others, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for £300, for damages received in the Switchback railway.

Mr Harold Beauchamp has been elected a member of the Wellington Harbour Board by 1877 votes, defeating Messrs McLellan and Tanner.

The fveetrade policy of the Premier of N.S. Wales has been carried by a large majority.

The design of the new £5 postal note is as follows : — Upon a pale yellow ground on the face of the note there is a view of Mount Egmont and the country sloping from it to the sea, and at the sides on a blue grouud beneath this sketch there are vignettes filled in with native birds, nikau palms and tree ferns. The lettering is also upon a blue ground, above the engraving beiug printed the words " New Zealand Postal Note," and in smaller letters " To the Postmaster in charge at any money order office withm the Colony of New Zealand pay on demand the sum of Five Pounds Sterling. Dated at Wellington, New Zealand ." The denomination of the note is boldly printed in white letters on a blue ground and is also water-marked after the ussual fashion of bank notes. In the lower left hand corner there is a circnlar space for the stamp of the paying office and there is a corresponding space in the lower right hand corner for the stamp of the issuing office. On the back of the note its value is displayed in the centre of an ornamental figure of convential design.

In the Legislative Assembly the Premier of N.S. Wales moved the resolutions imposing a land tax of a penny in the pound, with an additional twenty pounds for every hundred pounds of such tax for absentees, and an income tax of sixpence in the pound wit £300 exemption, which were carried.

Can it be possible that the Premier has ever resided in China? In an acknowledged work we find it calmly stated " no trustworthy statements as to revenue and expenditure exist." Or where did he learn the "wrinkle?"

The vicar will hold morning service at Levin, and evening service at Foxton on Sunday. There will be an evening celebration, being Trinity Sunday.

The Rev. Mr Russell at the Church concert at Campbelltown on Wednesday said he hoped the new church would be com' pleted and QongecraM in October n«zk

So heavy was the snowfall down South that the weight of it on the rdbf.df the Moa Flat Statiorl woolsliea caused it to ttoUstpgei though" the shed was one of the itidst modern improved.

There was a marked fall in alcoholic liquor on Thursday, all on account of the granting of an extra license to Levin. The public will, however, hardly "be the gainers, unless thole in the near neighbourhood of the fall; again instancing the advantages of being always dn the spot. With mtich joy much liqudi 1 Was packed into a vehicle at Manakau to be conveyed to Wereroa, in other words, Levin, but during the passage the horse felt the wrong he was doing, and perhaps saw a vision of Mrs Ostler, anyhow he upset the contents on the road-side. The landlord having engineered so difficult ft matte? as the removal of his license through the Committee was easily able to get over the minor difficulty with the horse.

Thomas Mclntosh, charged with having on the Bth April attempted to murder MutU Aperahama at Faikakariki was tried at the Wellington Supreme Coui't on Thursday and found not guilty.

The Rev. George Aitkens has shown us the plans of the now church at Levin, designed by Messrs Clere, Fitzgarald and Richmond. It will be a very good building and we understand tenders for labour only will be called for directly. The church measures in the main portion 31 feet by 23 feet.

There is a difficulty existing between the contractor and the Wirokino Road Board about the execution of the contract for metalling the Heatherlea road. When we passed over it on Wednesday we cdtlld see ildtliirig to complain of in the way the work had been carried out, and that was the opinion expressed by the others with us. The metalling is an undoubted improvement, and unless there is more of a difficulty than meets the eye, the wonder is why there should be a difficulty.

On Wednesday nominations must be handed in for the office of Councillor *or the Borough. Who is it to be ?

The quantity and quality of the oil obtained at Moturoa, New Plymouth, continues to be satisfactory, and Mr Fair has now pegged out sites for several new bores. Numerous applications are being made from other parts of the Colony to Mr Fair, and he states that he finds it impossible to answer" correspondence. Messrs Samuel and Fair leave by the Botomahana for Sydney on Wednesday.

The Canadian House of Commons, by a majority of 58, rejected the proposal to confer the franchise on women.

Services at the Methodist Church tomorrow will be conducted by Mi 1 H. Westwood in the moi'iilng, and the Rev. S. Barnett in the evening, his subject being " Light."

A Christchurch special jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs, and awarded £200 damages to the husband and £400 to the wife in the case of Pyne and wife v. Black, Beattie and Oo , foi' injuries* sustained by Mrs Pyue in October last, when a roll of cocoanut matting fell through the well on the first floor and struck her. She sustained an injury to the spinal cord, and complete paralysis below the seat of injury.

In the Palmerston District Court, George Storey pleaded guilty to a charge of opening a letter which was being passed through the Palmerston office, and was remanded for the report of the Probation Officer. Mr Hankins, addressing the Court on behalf of Storey, said that the accused felt very bitterly the position in which he found himself. He had never committed an offence of the kind previously, neither had he been charged with an offence in this or any other Court. He had been 19 years in the service of the Government, and during the whole of that time, so far as he knew, he had never been known to carry out his duties in an improper manner.

On Tuesday last the officials of the Methodist Church held their quarterly meeting. The Rev. S. Barnett presided. The report showed spiritua l and numerical progress. The financial portion being in keeping with the times, somewhat behind, but, special arrangements were made to wipe off the debit balance during the coming quarter. At 6.30 a capital tea was partaken of by a number of friends, and the evening spent in saored concert. The choir rendered half-a-dozen choruses, and the solos were contributed by Misses Symons, Harley and Simpson. The meeting closed with thanks tendered to all helpers.

Mr Gascoigne conducted a case on behalf of his son in Court on Thursday, and was so carried away by the " exuberance of his own verbosity " as to refer to the defendant's counsel as " my learned friend !"

To-day a meeting is being held at the Moutoa Schoolhouse between the members of the Mukaka River Board and a deputation of Shannon residents.

The Bank of New Zealand will open a branch at Campbelltown on Friday. The Bank will only be open on Tuesdays at Sanson, and on Fridays at Campbelltown.

During a dog case in the local Court on Thursday the Magistrate decided that as the dog had not a registered collar on, the damage he received was lawful. The counsel demurred to this statement, which caused the Magistrate to slyly ask, in reference to the Act requiring a collar to be worn, "if not by the dog, who then, the owner ?" This created a collapse on the part of the counsel.

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