Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1895.

Manawatu Herald, 29 June 1895, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1895.

The Venerable Archdeacon Fancourt will preach morning and evening on Sunday at All Saints'. Mr Eavnshaw, M.H.E., in speaking on the Address-in -Reply said " The Government had absolutely failed in its dealing with the unemployed question, and the State Farm was an absolute failure." This we have always contended, and are glad to be endorsed by the most capable of the working-men representatives. Mr McKerrow has recommended the Government to purchase the Carnarvon Estate. Nice city Wellington. Rain has fallen there 21 days out of the 26 days of this month. When the total is known a few more wet days will have to be recorded. Postmistresses are coming into fashion, or is it, they are only being acknowledged though they have been with us under other names ? Sanson and Ashurst offices are now conducted by ladies. Messrs Gorton and Son hold a stock sa!e at Sanson on Tuesday. According to the Farmer another action has been commenced against the Wirokino Road Board on the same subject matter as was the cause of the last Court case. That case cost the Board nearly £500.

The Oampbelltcwn Factory paid 2Jd per gallon for milk in March, 2|d in April, 3d in May, and propose to pay 3£d for July and August. Some difference to the Dairy Union rates. The Borough Gourdl meets for business 9n Monday night, when the newly-elected Councillor wilt make the usual declaration and — — Mr J. G. Witson wants the Minister of Agriculture to place a substantial bonus on the estimates for the improvement of flaxdressing machinery. What next ? Mr O'ftegan Wants td know If the C-rdvei'iilnent will favour the change of the name of this coiony to " Maoriland." fhe tender of Messrs Rochelle" and Go,, of Palmerston N.j hfts been accepted for the eiTsttlftn ol an Anglican Church at Campbelltown. Subscribers are requested to pay their subscriptions to the doctor's guarantee fund. ¥he niorning and evening preacher at the Methodist Church tO-niOriw is Ml 1 A. 6. Herbert, 6f Shaihidfl. We have to acknowledge the receipt of the first batch of Parliamentary Papers and Bills from the Government printer. Mr J. G. Wilson asked the Premier a very fair question in the House as to whether he would insert a clause in the Act prohibiting a license being transferred from one township to another, but got only the very yague reply that he would review the question when the Bill comes up I According to the Mayor of Palmergton it is the usual custom of Boroughs to employ a perambulating rate collector. The Manawatu Daily Thntt has been objecting to this increased cost. Has it ever struck either party that County Councils manage these things better, and insist on rates being paid at the Council office ? Yet County ratepayers have far mere reason generally why they should overlook such demands than residents in Boroughs who have their; Tdwil dM'k in their midst in a manner 9f Sgcakliig. At the last meeting of the Wellington Education Board the resignation of Mias Ellen J. Howan, of Keretu, was accepted. Mr Charles Staff hag been appointed pupil teacher at the tevin School: Tile New Zealand Midland* Railway Cdinpiiy MS convened a meeting in London of the bondholders to protest against the attitude of the Government in resorting to the courts. The meeting at Campbelltown agreed to petHion the Minister of Lands to acquire the Carnarvon Bstatd There were a large number present. We are in much accord With the settlers in this matter, but we hold that the Government should buy Motoa as well, in common fairness to the Company, and, it is the view, when the purchasing value comes to be ascertained which will be made evident Motoa, as a large estate, must have Carnarvon aa part and parcel of it. Carnarvon is all right by itself but Motoa is not, yet, subdivided it would be. A teacher was explaining to a little girl how the trees developed their foliage in the springtime. " A.i, yes," said the wee miss, " I understand ; they keep their sum* mer clothes in their trunks." Brown : 'I, say, Jones, did you hear about Smith having a fit ?" Jones: " No, a fit ? He must hare changed his tailor, then." A bill to empower magistrates to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors to persons previously convicted of drunkenness has been read a first time in the House of Commons. The death is announced of the Rev. J. B. Macduff, D.D., an eminent Scotch Divine. The English Budget speech contained the information that there is an increase in the national consumption of tea and of cocoa, while there is a decrease in the use of coffee. In regard to tea, Sir William Harcourt stated that 86 per cent of the whole consumption was grown in English Colonies — India and Ceylon— while so recently as 1884 the ratio amounted to only 2 per cent, thui showing a remarkable development of the custom at home of drinking the teas grown in India and Ceylon. These teas are much stronger in their character than the Chinese teaa formerly popular, A reward of ten shillings is offered for the return of a lost horse.