Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, OCT. 24, 1895.

Manawatu Herald, 22 October 1895, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, OCT. 24, 1895.

On Thursday next theMANAWATO Herald wil! not be published. Adv rasen will pi ase note. Whenever an old id<m'ity mentions a fact, other old idntities have a different remembrance of the occurrence. Years have passed and particu ars are not always c ear. As regards the purchase of the land now In use as the State School playground we may mention that another old identity explains the n atter differently to what Mr T. U. Cook has done. During the time the i Natives were doing good work in Otaki in giving land for schools and timber and labour in erecting the well-known church, Mr Chare* Symons asked the chiefs, Iha kara and Kereopa if they would not do likewise for Foxton, and af er consideration, they intimated through the Rev. J. Duncan that they would give a piece of land. This was done and the late Mr Robinson and M ssrs Cook and Duncan became Trustees and paid a nominal aum of £5 to the chiefs. When the Education Board was formed the land was handed over to that body. The Chronicle states that th-re arp a number of wool buyers on the coa^t this t year, and a grower was offered BJd per lb j for his clip.

To-night the Faust Family p rform, and shou'd certainly be gi'eeted wi h a bumper house. We are seldom visit d by such .fc.lever en-eitainer-, and no one should niias the opportunity of having A genuine evening's amusement. Mr A. Fra«er's shop will remain open mvil 7.30 to-night for the convenience of thos; desiring front seat tickets, 1 All the Carnarvon Estate lying to the eastward of the tram line has been sold to Ml' T. Pottfi- Clarke, who obtained a portion near Cartipbelltown a ye*r or two ago. Thel'e will be more than 2000 acres in the area purchased. Mr B. Couplaud Harding writes from Wei ington to say that the stanza quoted in our issue last we k, co-nnlencng " And her of Stature's kinriiy care " is from " The I fipping Hunt" by Thomas Etood, author of " The Song of the Shirt." The next Engish &nrt European mail i»er Rimulaka, dv • in London on December 13th. via Monte Video, will dose at the local office on Wednesday, the 30th day of { Octob r, at 3 p.m. The N.S. Wa es Government analyst has made fun her exhaustive test* of the soot in Dean's chimney* and reports t-iat he has found distinct tiaceß of arsenic, showing that a conSidr-rab c quantity wag burned in the fire. Mi isters h-we consid red the cisc of John Keown, sentenced to death at the re* cent sitt ng3 of the Supreme Court a InVereargil, for tho murder of Hugh Stewart, a bailiff, at Balfour, and v was decid d io j recommend to His Excellency the Governor that the d .-vh sentence be commuted to one of imprisonment for life. This little chip is from the Wellington Government organ : —The Premier hopes befoie the end of the session to be abe to stat° some hing definite as to the necessity for the appointment of a Supreme Court Judge. The Native Affairs Committee reconv mends; in conn clidn with the pe'itioh of Seville Nicholson —who praytd that land in Horowhenua (No. 9) se! 'apart for him and his relatives hy arrangement with Sir Donnld McLean in 1874, and since awarded to o-hers, may b- returned to them —that the pe:ition be referred to th Government with a view to re:ief being grouted the peti ioner. The programme of the FoxJon Racing' Club's summer meeting is advertised totV>y. It will b> noticed the stakes for the iMt.C Handicap hns been increased by £50, and now stands at £150, an amount that should attract some of the best hacks io the meeting. We also notice an altera turn of judg ■, the name of Mr John Daviea now app firing in the plftde c*f Mr H F» Davidson, who has so long and efficiently occupied that post. The old so 1 tiers a 1 ways kept an eye to the g^orl of fieir successors. When the Block was being purchased from the Natives by th« Provincial Government mdiriy old settlers g'>t t-e Natives to set hside a reserve for a rnceeour-o, th j same pieco of laud upon whicn the Foston Bacing C ub have a way- he d their me tings. We learn tlmt tho pettier-' best ha- ks ai'e due to Mr Hartley, Mr Char es Symons, then a prominent " sporting " resident, and the •ate Mr Hector McDonald, of Horowhemuu So bit by bit d i wo learn how advantages now c jovel by us were secur d by fat* seeing men.