Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1898.

Manawatu Herald, 28 April 1898, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1898.

In anoth r p ace wi 1 be found a notice from Me-srs _t.bh.son Bro9. warnii g persons from tie passing on their p.op.rty with dog or gun. Mr 3. It. Stansell *as sworn in to day aa a Justice of the Peace. Me.srs Heasman and Baker, tailors, have removed their business to those premises next to the Methodist Church. We learn that T« Horo is tbe place for school committees to flourish, as there the new committee start the year with a credit balance of £20. Mr Stansell was unanimously elected chairman at the annual meeting. Last month the Foxton creamery received 16,885 gallons of milk and the suppliers got in exchange £197 7s 2d. This was the largest amount paid to any of the oreameries of the N.Z. Dairy Farmers' Union for March. The Mayor informs us that he has seer\ Mr Fulton, th 9 engineer for the construction of the Wirokino bridge, and that gentleman has promised to have all the necessary plans prepared and laid before the engineer-in-chief within three weeks. Mr Q. Small has been appointed pupil teacher at the local school in place of Mr Kobson, transferred. Our old friend, Mr Mitchell, representing Fildes, Mitchell & Co., was up ia town yesterday hunting up flax. He has secured some and the prices he is offering are satisfactory, being £12 15s in Wellington for g.f.q a. The strike, which the Premier the other day declared to a N.Z. Times reporter to be no strike, still continues at the parliamentary buildings, and so, accoiding to the Times is developing into a farce. Why ? The Manawatu Bowing Club and the late Athletic Club a short ime ago voted a sum of money for the purchase of a suitable present for Mr Frederick Eure who for some period occupied a position of responsibility in thesa clubs. While in Wellington Mr Stansell selected a gentleman's travelling bag and a silver fla-k, both having a suitable insorip toa engraved un tbtni, and we understand these will be sent to Mr Eure under a suitable covering letter. It is stated that Mr James Crotty's bequest to St. Patrick's Cathedral will be nearer £200,030 than £100,000. Mr Crotty is a well-known mining investor, who le.ently died in London. The Mayor of Pa'merston received a com nunication from thi Government to tne effec that £1000 is now available for tbe alterations to the Fi zherbert Bridge, and that a similar amount wi 1 be p aced upon the e-timates for the House to sanction, making in atl £2000 for the work. A female inma c of Kingston workhouse was entertained at a tea party in celebration of her 102ud birthday. The Prince of Wales sent the centenarian a postal order for £1 and a message of congratulation. The Bishop of Manchester has cabled a message to New York sympathising entirely with the Americans. The British Resident at Hongkong certifies that Ah Chang and Fook On, the Chinese pair who were married alongside the We lington Wharf a few months ago. and c aimed remission of the immigra ion poll tax, wt re also married in China. The Government has therefore decided to remit the poll tax of £100 imposed on the wife when she landed in Wellington. A case of some importance (o farmers was decided in the Masterton S.M. Court on Thursday last. The .p'aintiff orought an action (says the Wairarapa Times) to recover for losses sustain d through purchasing sheep in the sale yards, over the wool of which thero was a mortgage of which he knew nothing, and the defend nt did not state at the time of sa c that th re was any lien upon the wool. He afterwards sent the wool for sale to the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Com puny, and they deducted £47, the amount of the lien he . by th^m. Judgment -was given for the £47 claimed with costs. "My Lord," said the foreman of an Irish jury, when giving in his verdict, " we find the man who stolo the mare not gutty." Djevaud Pasha has been despatched on a special mission from Constantinople to St. Petersburg. The / hnes states that the chief object of the mission is to study the Czar's actions closely and report to the Sultan. " The lady-help has been the ' black leg ' of the domestic s rvant." — Mrs Scott at the Women's Convention. And Miss Kirk said that she would rather be a cook at £30 a year than a lady-help at 6s a week, who took her meals wish her employers. " The thorn in the flesh of the servants," added Mrs Scott, " was that the mistresses had not themselves been good servants."— Post. An Irish soldier on sentry duty had orders to alow no one to smoke near his post. An officer wi'h a lighted cigar approached, and Pat body challenged him and ordered him to put it out at once. The officer, with a gesture of disgust, threw it away, but no sooner was his back turned than Pat : icked it up and quietly retired to his sentry-box. The offic-r just happened to look round, and observed a beautiful c'oud of smoke issuing from the box. He turned back, and at once ohaVnged Pat for smoking on du'y. " Smoking, is it, sor?" said the sentry. " Sure, and I'm only keeping it in, to show to the corporal when he comes round as evidence against you 1" The AustraMan steeplechaser Daimio has been shipped on the steam r Star of Victoria at London to return to Australia. A splendid flow of artesian water has just been obtained on Mr Gillespie's property in Kairanga, says the Manawatu Times. The water was reached at a depth of 150 feet, tbe flow being abund mt and the water of remarkable purity. By screwing on a cros9 pipe on the head of the artesian, and affixing a tap at both ends, a magnificent water supply is provided in three paddocks, which in the summer will be simply invaluable.