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Manawatu Herald, 31 March 1898, Page 2

Messrs P. Hennessy and Co. have just landed a large and varied assortment of crockery, which deserves the in-pection of all householders. There are some unique afternoon tea sets, and the be V. oora sets are something much out of fie i ommon.

Cons able J. Forste", watch-house I eeper at the Lambton-quay enpofc, has been appointed to thrt charge <>f the Foxton district, and arrives here shortly. Constable Salmon has been tra^slerred to Wanganui.

The new launch " F'nwr of Kent," to be used in the river tvado-, uv ived in port this morning.

Mr Lionel I Stansell, who lately resigned his pupil teachership with the Wanganui Education Board, has received an appointment on the Wellington-Napier section of the Government railways. He left for his new duties this morning. The Stipendiary Magistrate being unavoidably detained, Mr Thynne, J.P., adjourned the sittings of the Magistrate's Court to-day (6 the 2S;h April. Mr Boyle has almost completed the sanding contract for the Manawatu County Council on the road across the Motoa Estate. It has been decided to hold the next polo tournament at Palmerston North. The next sittings of the Dis rict Court will be he'd at Pa'inerston on the 14th April. Messrs Abraham and Williams hold their Colyton sale on Tuesday. Justices everywhere are constantly exhibiting thesr incapacity to execute the very little demaoded of them. The other day, in Wellington two of the Great Unpaid, after hearing the evidence in chief of the defendant, the Bench said they were inc'ined to dismiss the case, but Inspector Pc ider claimed that they shou'd hear the cross-examination ; if they would not he wou'd bring the case on again. Happy-go-lucky style is this, and what makes the case more absurd ia that having permitted the cross-examination the Justices committed the accused for trial. The Government have decided that a survey of the proposed alternative rou>e3 for the Woirarapa line shall be made, and Jmve selected for that duty Mr Dobson, one oc their engineers, who has been engased fov some time past at Oiira. Heir Eorcbgieviuck, who visited the Antarctic regions a few years ajo, Bails in July in command of Sir George Newnes 1 expedition to the South Po'e. Three new nove's on an average are issued daily by London publishers. The British nation has £100,000,000 invested in American ra^ways. The first wefk's tral of the Wellington city drainage scheme has been pronounc°d eminently satisfactory by the drainage engineer, who visited the outfall near Lyell Bay on Saturday, and found that the operations inaugurated at the beginning of the week had proved very successful. A grey mare is impounded, and if not released, will be sold at noon on April 9th at tb.9 Foxton Pound.