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Manawatu Herald, 1 September 1896, Page 2

The Rev. George Aitkeng and family leave town on Friday. The Australians won the matoh with Lancashire by dl? runs. On Thursday Mr Stanford wilj, hold his usual monthly court at Foxton. Messrs Abraham and Williams hold a stock sale at Palmerston on Thursday, The Temperance lecturpr Crabb recovered £50 and costs against Mr Ca6Bidy of the N.Z. Times, for libel. Our market gardener, Joe Tos, informs us he expects to dig new potatoes in his garden in a fortnight 1 To-night at eight, the adjourned meeting of the developement of the district committee, will be held at Mr btansell's hotel. Mr Anderson is now working the flax mill belonging to Mr Dudson on the bank of the river on the Motoa estate.

A Frenchman has invented an automatic indicator for telephones which, if successful, will do away with telephone lassies.

On Thursday Mr Byron Brown holds a very large sale of fruit trees and shrubs from Mr Benefield's nursery, at Foxton.

Mr John Walden was to have made a start yesterday at his flax clearing contract.

Petitions are be*>n got up in Auckland against the pausing of the Orchard Pest 9 Bill with its present schedule.

To morrow there will be a meeting of the Licensing Committee at Otaki, at which the application of a transfer from Mor tensen to Bradley will be considered.

The Observer says that a Lincoln ewe on the farm of Messrs M. and B T. Bond, of Belvedere, recently gave birth to five lambs, all of which are doing well.

The timber the Queen of the Sooth is taking to Wellington is from the flawkea Bay Timber Go's, mill at Danevirke, and is for the new public baths.

Mr Langdon, the manager of the Motoa est te, has let the most of the 800 acres of flax clearing for which he invited tenders for in our advertising columns.

Some offloer at the local telegraph office more religious than nautioal intimated on the shipping notices that the s.s. Anglican had arrivfd at some port. Possibly the 3.5. Anglian was meant.

A Scotch minister announced from the pulpit : " Weel, friend*, the Kirk is urgently in need of siller, and as I have failed to get money honestly, I will have to see what a bazaar can do for us."

Where, and oh where, is Mr Donald Fraser ? as the Mercury says : — The probabilities are that Mr Walter Bailey will be brought forward in the interests of the Liberal Party to oppose Mr F. L. Lethbridge for the Rangitikei seat.

Major McKinley, in acoepting nomination as the Republican o\ndidate for th« United States Presidency, denounced the dangers and falsity of the free coinage of silver, and favoured a sound ourrenoy in the strongest terms.

The Rev. George Aitkens preaohed his farewell sermons last Sunday at All Saint 9, Foxton, in which he referred to the work done by th» Church during his period as Vicar. The churoh was paoked at both services.

The House sat at night on Friday and adjourned at 7.10 a.m. on Saturday. The difficulty arose in members desiring an alteration in the schedule to the Aid to Publio Works and Land Settlement Bill, otherwise the Loan Bill of 1896.

It is stated in naval circles that plans have been submitted to the Admiralty for the construction of a flotilla of small gunboats to develop the extraordinary speed of 40 knots. It is .proposed that these vessels should be driven and lighted by electricity, twin screws being used a little abaft amidshipß. They are also to be made wholly or partially submergable.

Another very extensive fall has taken place in the Wiokbam (Bullock Island) Colliery, New South Wales, accompanied by a loud rumbling noise. A large area of the main street in Wickham has considerably subsided. The tramway and many houses are badly damaged, and owing to the dangerous nature of the latter several have been vaoated. No one is working in the pit.

At a large meeting at Feilding called by Mr Bagnall as a reply to the Rev. L M. Isitt, the following resolution was, the Star Bays, carried by an overwhelming majority, " That this meeting pledges itself to oppose prohibition by all legitimate means, m it would detract from the liberty of the subject and the freedom of the people, and increase the evil it is intended to alleviate."

Sir Francis Scott, the British commander of the Aahantee expedition, in a peech which he made to his troops when he reviewed them recently, Baid that they were no doubt disappointed because they had not a chance to fight, " but if there bad been any fighting " he added, " there would have been many absent faces here to-day."

"It has been argued," says an English contemporary, " that, owing chjefly to the introduction of knives and forks, and the consequent partial disuse of the teeth as agents for disruption, the jawbones of civilised peoples are gradually undergoing attenuation." Let him, Bays Truth, pay a visit to the New Zealand korerorium, and we guarantee he'll ohange his opinion. Jawbones undergoing attenuation, indeed. Not rauoh, my boy. They're getting thicker and itronger artrjr day.

At 10.80 a.m. thi3 day the Postmaster, Foxton, received word from Woodville that the Manawatu River is rising and a flood is expected.

Next Tuesday afternoon our Roman Catholic friends will hold an Arbor day all to themselves, as they intend to start planting their church ground.

Word has beeto received that the Bongo, tea footballers will visit Fox ton on Saiur day next and try conclusions with the local dub The Foxton team will be picked tomorrow night at the Manawatu Hotel at 8 p.m.

Last Sunday morning Mr William Trask got a nasty hurt whilst attending the entire horee Somnus at Wanganui. The horse bit his arm just below the elbow in the fleshy part of the arm, and tore all the flesh and sinews about. The doctor dressed the wound and then ordered Trask to the Hospital.

A week or two ago we reported that two specimens of a rare fish called the scopelus had been found on the New Brighton beach and bad been presented to the Christchurob museum. They are very muoh like a frost-fish in shape, and were supposed to be the first of the kind found in the South Island. We are indebted to the oourtesy of Mr John Walden in being able to supplement and correct this report. He Bays that thirty years ago he used to be fishing about the Kaikouras and in frosty weather he has picked np numbers of these fish on the beach. The fish are very much like the frost-fißh but are thicker in the tail, and measure from eighteen to twentyfour inches in length. Mr Walden says the Maoris know the fish well, and he thinks they call them " Parahaka."

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One of the drawbacks of country life, at least to the small settler, is undoubtedly the increased price he has to pay for any articles of clothing or general drapery, by reason of the extra charges for freight or carriage. This drawback need exist no longer, for extra charges are done away with under the new parcel system which has been inaugurated at Te Aro House, Wellington.