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Manawatu Herald, 8 December 1896, Page 2

There is a capital opening advertised in onr columns for anyone wishing to be their own landlord, as two houses, well built, are i to be Bold cheap on deferred paymenti. I Particulars can be obtained at this offloe.

Mr Nyo finished shearing on Saturday. Mr Gower commenced shearing today. In another column Mr B. C. Bruce returns thanks to hia supporters. A severe shook of earthquake was felt in town last night at 8 o'clcok. - The cheese ex Aotea, from New Zealand, arrived in excellent oondition, and ii realising 46s per cwt. Messrs Abraham & Williams hold a sa'e at Palmerston on Thursday, and at Shannon on Friday. The London Missionary Society's cutter Hanamda has been totally wrecked in a gale at New Guinea. The crew were saved. Mr Langdon, the manager of the Motoa Estate, offers a reward for a sheep dog by name " Monday." He was seen going out Carnarvon way. In our advertising column* Mr A. 8. Easton publishes reduoed prices for meat for cash. The amounts are low and it will be to the advantage of our readers to note them. Just before the Stormbird moved away from the wharf on Sunday morning someone on board fired from a rifle aoross the rivet with the result that a sow was shot. It will be a loss to the natives as ehe bad a litter of nine suckers following her. On the 18th instant the members of the Anglioan Church at Bongotea hold a bazaar to reduoe the debt upon the building. Mesdames Robinson and Taylor are among the stall-holders, and many visitors from Foxton are expected. A capital game of polo was played by the members of the Oroua Polo Club on their ground on Saturday afternoon. Ow. ing to its not being well known that a game would be held, there were but few spectators. Mrs McLennan provided the afternoon tea. Two candidates for Wellington, Messrs J. J. E. Powell and A. Warburton will forfeit their £10 deposit. Mr Warburton polled 99 to Mr Hutcheson's 6942. Mr Powell raked together 194. It is a fact, and may be open to a just explanation, that che London market oablegrama are deficient in news about the hemp market whenever flax is rising. When it is falling we get a monotonous repetition of the fact. Captain Kemp is now in charge of thf» Sunbeam as chief officer. He is a most experienced officer having been for twelve years in tho service of the Union Company. He holds both captain's and pilot's certificates. He is married and has a family of three. Now open —such is Mr Alf. Fraser's advertisement. What is now open in the new show room where Xmas novelties fill the shelves Bnd (ab.'fs. All who want to make s « i>,?.-.nable present should pay Mr Fraser a vis:'. On Sunday Mr Bradey's house at Carnarvon got on fire, but with hard work the fire was subdued, not without doing considerable damage. The building is insured in the Northern Assurance Company, for which Messrs Hennessy <ft Co are agents. We have to congratulate Mr Stansel), the proprietor of Whyte's Hotel, for bis catering in the interests of the public as to the results of the election. On Friday afternoon he had two of the windows in the bar parlour set out with the names of the electorate, the names of the candidates, and names of the polling places, and during the evening as the returns came in he poßted up the numbers. The paper used being transparent, and having a powerful lamp inside, the whole particulars were easily read, even across the road.