Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, DEC. 5, 1896.

Manawatu Herald, 5 December 1896, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, DEC. 5, 1896.

Applications for the office of daymen to the Borough must be in early on Monday. Tenders for lamplighting must be sent in on Monday morning. Tuesday afternoon is the day set apart for our Melhodi3t friends' sale of work and tea. We hope they will have a Bucoeesful time for which, we understand they have worked hard to secure. Writing about the North Polar basin it sounds peculiar, knowing the intense cold that " so far from meriting the name of barren ground, the tundra is for the most part a veritable paradise in summer. But it has one almost fatal drawback— it swarms with millions of mosquitoes ! P. J. Tynan, the notorious "No. 1" of the great Fenian conspiracy is said to be unassuming, gentlemanly, and very sociable, and was a respected member of the Queen's Westminster Volunteers. , This latter corps was one in which Mr Thynne waa a member when residing in London. On Saturday, the 16th January, Messrs Abraham & Williams will sell by auction at Palmerston the variou3 Foxton properties notified in their advertisement. Mr Howan took the Sunbeam on a trial trip yesterday, and found the machinery to work we 1, and i he propellT though small drove her faster than it did the Ivy. He takes a load of coal to Symons 1 mill to-day. Mr Siamell has a letter to-day re Liberty v. Prohibition. The result of the poll shows roughly that nearly every voter for a candidate exercised their privilege to vote on the licensing poll with a most gratifying result.