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Manawatu Herald, 22 September 1896, Page 2

Messrs Abraham and Williams advertise i addition to their Pa'merston Bale. Mr Ho wan has sent the boiler of Ihe " Ivy " to Wellington, not the engines. Mr Anderson expects to have his mill in working order in ltaxton in a few days. Mr White has five acres in oats in his paddock just opposite the creamery. Mr Cuthbertson, baker, of Saoson, committed suicide by hanging himself on Saturday morning. Mr Whibley has made a start at plough* ing his paddock which he had under crop last year. Eighteen thousand visitors is the record of the attendance at the Wanganui Museum during the last nine monlhs. The United States warship Texas has been floated off Long Island without sustaining any injury. A good garden it a thing of pleasure. When in Wellington Mr Whibley scoured some new strawberry plants, new kinds of i gooseberries and dwarf beans. Messrs Hughes and Satherley are having an interesting and close race as to who will get new potatoes first. We offer to be judge, but a Bample must be provided. Mr J. Anderson i 3 expecting to be called to Wanganui any day this week, with his witnesses in the case in the Supreme Court of Perreau v. Anderson. Owing to the rise in the bank rate, only 70 per oent of the £6,000,000 loan placed on the market by China has been subsoribed. La Fleohe, the property of the late Baron Hirscb was bought at auction by Lord Marcu3 Beresford, for Sir Tatton Sykee, for 12,600 guineas. This, it i 3 stated, represents the record prioe for a brood mare. It may not be generally known, says an English paper, that the Mahommedan religion has been adopted by Englishmen in England, notably in Liverpool, where there is a Mosque with regular Bervioss. Mr Wilson, member for Otaki, is asking the Minister for Agriculture if he oaused an inspection of the reoreation reserves at Levin to be made, and if so will he say if the small area of bush may be felled, so that the Raoing 01 ub may go on with the raoeoourse ? Joseph Hooking's New Novel, " Fields of Fair Benown," may be expected in the Colonies during Oo;ober. It has met with such favour while running through the " London Christian World," that it has been followed immediately by another story from the same pen. Fifteen thousand " All Men are Liars " have been Bold in nine months. A highly important development has taken place in connection with the N.S. Wales Government artesian boring in dry country. At a depth of 1800 ft the bore in the Wilcannia distriot struck a splendid supply of fresh water, the flow being a I million and a half gallons daily. Experts I claim that the discharge of certain fossils | from the bore establishes the important geological fact that the water does not come from cretaceous rooks, but from underlying triagsio or Jurassic beds.

On Thursday Messrs Abraham and Williams will hold stock sale 3at Palmerston, and Levin on Friday. Though Mr Harris is away, Mrs Harris announces that she still Undertakes to rhako boots and do repairs, having secured a competent hand for that work. The Wirokino Boad Board office, which was also used as a Courthouse, was burned down on Saturday morning. All the records were destroyed. Mr Thonias Honey's Australian Novel " The Girl at Birrell's/' has met with a very kind reception, the critic* generally recognising the truthful and realistic pictures he has drawn of station and bush life: Mr Aif Eraser directs attention to the fact that he has sent orders direot to England for Christmas and New Year Cards, and he asserts these will be the best and cheapest ever offered for sale in this town. The remainder of the advertisement is also of interest. The Wellington Government Organ sometime ago astonished Mr J. G. Wilson by stating that the Cabinet had appropriated a large sum of money for the Bongo tea Improved Farm. He has had a notioe on the Order Paper for a long time to a?k the Minister whereabouts it was, and at last Mr McKenaie has discovered that it is at Bongoiti and has told Mr Wilson so. The first forest tree nursery to be established in connection with the newly organised State Fomt Department is to be on Eweburn township reserve, seven miles from Naseby. The position is well watered and in the centre of the proposed plantation, which is located towards the base of the hills surrounding the Maniototo Plains. The Mayor, chairman of the meeting, has received the following letter from the Seorelary of the Department of Agriculture:—l have the honour by direction of the Hon the Minister for Agriculture to acknowledge the repeipt of your letter of the 13 ih instant, covering resolutions passed at a publio meeting held in Foxton. and to inform you that they will receive , careful consideration. We havo received the first number of a new penny illustrated weekly printed and published by Mr B< Goupland Harding in Wellington, Its title the X Rays is to illustrate its determination to penetrate everything and everybody, rather an alarming announcement to most of us. Po itios are to be a leading feature, though municipal, mercantile, and social matters will receive attention. As the paper 13 printed by Mr Coupland Harding it goes without saying as being excellently done and the sketches by " Quiz " are good. It is a cheap pennyworth. On the 11th September the House was treated to one of the shortest speeches ever recorded in Hansard of only three lines, but tho point is further interesting as an illustration of the deficiency of education in certain members. The speaker finished the record speech with the quotation Quos Deus vult pei'dere, prim dementat. When a member rose and asked " is the honourable gentleman permitted to speak (o the house in an unknown tongue ?" " A bird that does not sing, A bel that does not ring, A gun that will not fire a shot, A horse that will not go a trot, And boys and girls who love not fun, Are worthless when all's said and done." Such is the leitmotif of a new story of Australian Child life, entitled " The youngsters of Murray Ho:ne," oopies of which will arrive this month. Written by M. Ella Chaffey, of Benmark, South Australia, it will be pub ished by Ward, Look and Bowden, and be illustrated and produced uniform with Ethel Turner's successful " Seven Little Australians." The aooident to Master Gay Bhodes was a pretty bad one, though luoki'y no bones are brokan He wa3 about to take a drive in a wonderful contrivanoe, partly of his own make, on four small wheels, whioh is designated a cart, but is simp y pulled by the pony with traces direct to the body of the vehicle. He had no sooner got into the Avenue Boad from his home, when the pony ran away and upset the cart and the lad at Sullivan's corner. The boy is considerably hurt by his face coming against a post and his arms and legs against the wire, and he is very sore and at present much disfigured. We hope he wi 1 soon reoover his usual health and strength. j