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Manawatu Herald, 15 December 1896, Page 2

Tenders for making bay on the Motoa Estate must be in by noon of Thursday. To-morrow the new Mayor will be installed in office. Messrs Abraham and Williams hold a sale ai Palmerston on Thursday and at Levin on Friday. Commenting on President Faure's cordial reception of Sir Edmund Monson, the new British Ambassador, Le Temps urges the establishment of an entente cordialc with Great Britain. A sitting of the Magistrate's Court will be held on Thursday, at which enquiry will ba held into the question of sale of poisons, and also into a row that occurred on Saturday night. The Court will sit at 1.30 p.m. | Dr Rockstrow ha 3 sold his residenoe in i Palmerston to Dr Keed, of Hawera, and will iherefo c give up his praotice in that town. We are informed that Dr Bock* strow purposes to return to Foxton for some lime if not permanently. His old > friend* m l!us district will be glad to have him onoe more amongst them. There is no prohibited licensing district !in the colony. Gluiha, where prohibition i reigned for a couple of years, had a licensed housa wihin its new boundaries and the Clutha people voted for things to remain 'as they were, with a licensed house. This upsets the jubilation just after the eleotion, that Clutha had declared in favour of prohibition after a trial! The Commissioner of Crown Lands at the last meeting of the Wellington Land Board stated that there were 2460 seleotors paying £34,429 annually in the district, of whioh 444 owed one instalment totalling £2777, 230 owed two instalments of £2944, 79 owed three instalments of £1381, and ten selectors owed £101. —It was decided to ask the Commissioner to look into the matter and report as to what was best to be done to get in the arrears. An old Scotsman, who had been hen' Secked all his life, was vicited on his eath-bed by a clergyman. The old man appeared very indifferent and the clergyman tried to arouse him by talking of the King of Terrors. " Hout, tout, mon; I'm no' scar't. The King o' Terrors! I've been livin' sax and thirty years wi: the queen of them, and the king canna' be ruuckle waur." Yesterday Messrs Gammon and Simmonds, of the firm of G. A. Gammon & Co., Bawmillers, Danevirke, paid a visit to Foxton for the purpose of securing a site for a sawmill on the river bank. We understand they have secured a oapital position. The firm have large orders from Australia for white pine, and they say they must have the mill in working order by the first of February. They have sscured bushes at the Oroua Bridge and Shannon. Tha mill will be of great advantage to the town, as it will give employment to 20 or 80 hands at good wages. We can only hope everything will result as the firm hope, and they can rely on the cordial support of all classes in this distriot. Mr J. G. Wilson informs the Advocate that the Duke of Westminster has Just completed, on his Eaton, estate a narrow gauge railway connecting the hall with the Great Western Bailway at Balderton. The length of line is 4$ miles including branches to the Estate works near Pulford, to the briokyard, and other points. The gauge is only 16in, and the rails are carried on cast iron sleepers coated with anti-oorrosive. No timber whatever is employed. The entire cost haß been £1,095 per mile exclusive of sheds. The cost of rolling stock has been £214 a mile. With an estimated traffic of 5000 tons per annum over 2& miles the cost of carriage per mile is Is per mile per ton, materially less than cart haulage. There are probably many other localitios in which'a similar railway would well repay construction. A warning from the Japanese Consul in Melbourne. " The fact was that ha represented there a nation of forty million? of warlike people, situated just off Australia's weather-bow, 5,000 miles away, and he hoped that no acts of Australian legislation would so irritate that people as to convert them from friends into enemies. The Britidb. Empire had treaties with other nations which Australians must observe. Australia had no sovereign rights in suoh matters, and, even if she possessed them, it would be well to use them with discretion. In the days to come there was not the slightest doubt that a federated Australia would, with Japan, dominate the Pacific, and, under these ciroumstonoes, he thought it better that they should have Japan for a friend rather than an enemy."