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Manawatu Herald, 3 October 1896, Page 2

The Borough Council meets on Monday. Next Thursday the usual sitting of the S.M. Court will beheld. M^eprs Abraham <5 Wi Hams hold a sale at Colyton on Tuesday. Mr S'ansell wants to rent a good grass paddock. Mr Bruce is paying the lower end of the electorate a preliminary visit. The Rev. R. Yonng will be away from town next week attending the Synod. Mr Lloyd, of Faiaka, hag a nice lot of well-bred pigs for sale. The Borough have finished the formation of the road to the Beach as far as their boundary. The Rev. B. Yonng will hold morning service at Shannon tomorrow and the evening servioe at A 1 Saints'. In 1894 amount of the National Debt of Great Britain Was 666 millions, whilst 965 mi lions were invested in English railways. The length of railways opened in the United Kingdom reaoh a total of nearly 2l s OOO miles. Beekeeping is said to be a most profitable industry. An advertiser gifes all a chance to make a oapital beginning, he having ten hives to sell. | Messrs Rhodes, Stansell and Curtis want to purchase at once three or f onr acres of land near the Main street. This is on account of the Dnnokley Fund. Messrs P. Hennessy & Go. announce they are importing % prime sample of black tartarian seed oats. This should be satisfactory news for those "about to crop. We regret to record the death of Hoani Taipua, at Aorangi. near Feilding, on Wednesday night* He was at one time an M.H.B. His body will be removed to Otaki, where he formerly resided. He was only 66 years of age. The number of miles travelled by trains in the United Kingdom in one year total to 333 millions. This is equal to these trains going all round the world every forty minutes of the year, day and night, without cessation. The directors of the Crystal Palace have decided to organise next summer season a series of national feteß to commemorate the 60th year of the Queen'? reign, and illustrating the progress made in arts and sciences during the Victorian era. Mr W. Col ing wood, a reporter on the Manawatu Daily Time* has been'appointed to the position of assistant Town Clerk at Pa'merston North. There were 80 app i» oanta for the situation, a large number of whom were from Wellington. Mr F. R Young's PJying Shot left by train this morning far Hastings, to take part in the Hawke's Bay Spring Meeting, which takes place on Monday anil Tuesday next. He is also engaged at the Napier Park Meeting on the 13th and 14th inst. Bir Robert Stout, whose opinion was obtained by the Horowhenna Oonnty Council, upholds the aotion of the Chairman in the matter of the readjustment of representation, and advises it be prooeeded with nntil prevented by some Court. The Mayor went down with Mr Allan Btrang to inspect the fieaoh road this morning and there met Mr Walter Robinson. We had 'h ■ pleasure of meeting Mr Strang after his return an i he says he think 4 there wiil be no difficulty about the matter direotly the loan is obtained, arvl he will do his best. to push it through. In the meantime he has instructed the roadman to open up the drains and get the water off. TIII3 is very satisfacory and the townspeople will appreciate Mr Strang's action The new Government steamer the Tutunekai arrived in Welling on on Wednesday from England under charge of Captain' Fairchild. Her dimensions are : — Length {between p rpendioulars), 205 f t; breadth (moulded), 30ft ; depth (moulded), 15ft 9in. She h. a been built throughout of steel to Lloyds 100 vl o'asa, under special survey, and also ful3U the requirements of tha Board of Trade for passenger steamers. Her gross tonnaga is 811, registered 412 tons, and nominal hone-power 205. On the first page of this paper will be noiioed a new order of things — perhaps a sign of the times. Mr Loveday, who since he commenced business in this town, has be*en continually en arging his premises and increaaing his stook, thus proving the hold he has obtained on the support of the settlers, now occupies an advertising space formerly taken by Te Aro House. Competition is good, for some, but at times makes great alterations, even to newspaper pro* prietcrs. Bull flourish local industries. At the last meeting of tha Eduoation Board the Inspectors reported that exceptionally good examinations had been passed at Jaekeytown Sohool (Mr G. R. Nairn, j t?aoher/, Apiti Bohool (tfias Ellen Prendtrga«», teaoher), and Pitzhferbert East j Sohool (Mr I. P. Thurston. teacher), and they recommended that the teachers be complimented. It is a pleasure to remember that Miss Prendergast and Mr Nairn were, at one time, on the staff of our local schooL , Qui^e recently, it is said, a young lady was travelling in a London omnibus. In her pane she had all her portable wealth, 83 !n coppers. Near her sat an ill-looking man, dirty, wearing a larga shiny ring, which cue supposed to be paste. When ahe alighted from the omnibus her purse was gone, her pocket was picked, and she with oonfnsion of face, had to go credit for har journey. Arrived at home, she 89iirci:.<t her pockets afresh, and therein • ws-' -fie seedy man's shiny ring. This was ' U.rly substantial evidenoe against her unknown fallow passenger, but somebody had the curiosity to take the ring to a jeweller. It proved to be an excellent large diamond, bat advertisement did not disoover the owner. He had stolen 3d and a purse and had ost a sma I fortune, probably dishonesty acquired, in the process. Mohamed Bea Aliened eV Benzerti, a native of Tunis, *-ho was condemned to death for the murder of a co-religionist, was hung the other morning at Bardo. After the body had been allowed to hang the customary period it was cut down, and the u-ual preparations for burial, but just as the attendants w^re about to wrap Mohamed in a winding' sheet, he showed signs of life, and, getting' up. said, " IMore you bury me give mo somv!iiat( to d. <; nk." Tha attendan s, startled, ran for 'h^ Governor of the Bardo prison, >and B<-nzT.i was removed to the hospital, where he i.s stated to be tittle the worse for Ins export- j enoe. The question which ia agitating the official mind, however, is as to whether an attempt will aga n be made to ex*suie the man. ->