Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, SEPT. 23, 1899 Police Protection.

Manawatu Herald, 23 September 1899, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, SEPT. 23, 1899 Police Protection.

We desire to call the attention of the authorities to the urgent need there is for more police protection for this town now the flax industry is in full swing. We have nothing to say against our ordinary population as they have always been orderly and well conducted, but now we have a repetition of what occurred nine years ago when flax was booming. The ordinary population has been all absorbed, and the needs of the industry has brought from outside places men who do not know how to conduct themselves and who do not care for the strong arm of the law when it is only represented by one constable. We have already had one or two instances of very disorderly conduct, and we know that unless this conduct is instantly checked how easily it becomes developed into a minor riot. We believe the department will do what they can to keep order, and we suggest they should send an extra constable down from Palmerston on Saturday mid-day to Monday morning as being the simplest and cheapest plan to adopt. This was done at the time we referred to. That extra help is needed is no reflection upon the present constable, as we hardly know that one constable could cope with the numbers that fill the town on the pay nights of the mills. We desire to impress upon the autho- | rities the urgency of this matter, and trust no time will be lost in giving effect to our suggestion.

Messrs P. Hennessy's coal boat is expected in to-morrow, and they trust customers will be prepared to cart from the ship's side early on Monday morning. Mr E. P. Osborne has an altered advertisement in this issue to which we direct attention.

At the adjourned licensing meeting at Marton yesterday the publicans were found to have complied .with all the conditions except that of providing balconies, and this was left over to the next quartely meeting. The firm of Westwood and Buckman have dissolved partnership, and the new firm will be known as Westwood &Co. " My experience with regard to men who drink is that they don't drink their creditors' money 30 much as their wives' and children's food and clothingi" said Mr Haselden, S.M., in the Wellington Court on Monday, in dealing with a judgment summons case, in which the creditor alleged that the debtor drank. — Post. The Sporting Review gives an illustration of the jumping pony Ranjitsinghi. the property of Mr Lincoln Rees, ot Gisborne. Ranji was snapshotted in the act of jumping a fence sft 2in high at the call of his master. Ranji stands just over 14 hands*, and will jump close on 6ft high at the call of Mr Rees} who states that the pony will jump the tallest wire fences on his property with ease. A thief, who lately broke open a grocer's warehouse excused himself on the plea that he only went to take tea. A good paragraph is going the rounds that from Napier were sent for the Speaker of the Legislative Council dinner, new potatoes, rhubarb, and asparagus. Our market gardener has had rhubarb for sale for three weeks, and Mr England has had a cutting of asparagus. Napier cannot get far ahead of Foxton. Teacher : Now who can tell me the biggest county in England ? — Tommy : Lanky shire. . Mr Walter Freeman has secured a renewal for two years of the rights to the dining car on the Manawatu railway and the railway refreshment rooms at Otaki. Says the Rangitikei Advocate : — The trustees of the Heaton Park estate' recently paid a visit, and as a result have decided to let 3000 acres for dairy farms, in 20 holdings of 150 acres each. The portion to be offered is that lying nearest to Bulls and Marton, and consists of first-class land. The sections will be offered to public tender early in January. Valuable books in mediaeval times always had iron clamps, to which chains were attached, for the purpose of securing the books to the stand or piilar where it was kept for use. The clamps were put on by a blacksmith. These people were wise in their generation, as some such steps are needed even now to make sure your books do not get " borrowed." Mr Blair has decided to retire definitely from the City Mayoralty. The Hawera Star has the following : — On Friday afternoon Mr Adam Bissett had a narrow escape of being killed owing to an attack by a boar. He had called the animal, usually a quiet one, from the lower end of a paddock and was intending to drive it into another field, and as it seemed disinclined to move he touched it gently with a stick. The boar snarled, and Mr Bissett taking his eye off him for a moment., the next thing was that the animal sprang at him, struck him in the shoulder and knocked him down, and ripped him round one thigh, severing an artery. Next it inflicted a gash to the bone lower down in the leg. Mr Bissett's two dogs attacked the boar, and one of them was badly rent. However, this diversion enabled Mr Bissett to crawl a little distance away, but the boar came at him still again. By this time the attention of Mr Bissett's brother had been attracted and he came up. Mr Bissett was bleeding profusely, but fortunately Mrs Bissett was able to improvise a tourniquet and so stayed the bleeding until surgical skill was obtained. But before Dr Sloan had arrived and bound him up properly Mr Bissett had fainted four times from loss of blood and shock. Sir Jame9 Vaughan, of Bow Street Police Court, though as urbane a magistrate as ever gave a wrong-doer " three months," could scarify a witness or even a lawyer when it was worth while. An instance of this occurred a little while ago. An energetic but somewhat bumptious young barrister asked the magistrate to re- 1 turn to him certain documents. Sir James replied that he had already done so. The barrister persisted that he had not ; Sir James was equally positive in the contrary sense. At last the former somewhat excitedly said, "In that case I am a liar." " Well," said Sir James smiling blandly round the court, " it is scarcely for me to contradict a personal statement of that kind !" On Monday next the Railway Department will bring into existence some new regulations with respect to passengers' luggage. Passengers may, at their option, have luggage checked between any two stations at which there are officers in charge, and such checked luggage will therefore be held and conveyed at the risk of the Department, subject to the following regulations : — Each package must be distinctly addressed with the name of the passenger and the station to which he is proceeding ; and if it is desired to check the luggage, the person delivering it must obtain a check for each package delivered. Luggage to be checked must be delivered at the railway station from which the passenger is proceeding at least fifteen minutes, and luggage not required to be checked at least ten minutes, before the advertised time ot departure of the train by which it is to be conveyed, or the Department will not be responsible. Luggage (whether checked or unchecked) on which excess rates are payable must be delivered at the railway station at least thirty minutes before the advertised time of departure of the train by which it is to be forwarded, or the Department will not be responsible for its despatch. The checks obtained for the luggage must j be surrended by the person who takes delivery ot the luggage at destination. —Post. McKee and Gamble, Photo-Engravers, and Lithographers, Wellington. Send for [ quotation.

The sum of £3786 was put through ! the totalisator at Bulls on Wednesday. 1 Mr T. Lind, at one time a resident of Foxton, but lately carrying on his blacksmithing business at Shannon, has sold but in order to devote his attention to fruit culture; We wish him all success, but he will find a smithy pays besti The well-bred mare, Richmond Gem, fell dead in her box at Hc-mes/ Stable, Bulls* just after returning from the course where she had competed in the Hack Flying, The mare was a highly valuable one being a half sister to Irish Twistj and the loss is a heavy one to the owner, Mr W. R. Tuck, of the Provincial Hotel, Wanganui. There is a yearling foal out of the mare by The Workman* — Advocate* On the motion of Mr Beauchamp, a member of the Wellington Harbour Board, it was . resolved : i; That the engineer, Mr Ferguson, be instructed to proceed to Great Britain, and elsewhere, with the view to obtaining the fullest and most up-to-date information respecting dry docks, floating docks, and all other contrivances for the docking and repairing of vessels. That he also be instructed to pay attention to the methods used at the various ports he visits for the working and storage of cargo, and generally to take note of all matters likely to be of importance to the Board. 2. That, having obtained this information, and upon his return to Wellington, the engineer be requested to make a definite recommendation as to what kind of dock, or contrivance for the docking and repairing of vessels, should in his opinion, be adopted by this Board. Mr H. Downey, one of the most popular engine-drivers on the FoxtonNew Plymouth section of railway, is about to be transferred to Auckland, but we understand that nothing definite has been decided as to the position he will occupy there, although, of course, it will be in the locomotive department. Mr Downey has been 23 years 9 months on this section of railway, and before that he was some time driving an engine for Mr Peter Stewart, contractor for the Palmer-ston-Bunriythorpe section of the line. We hope that the promotion will be substantial, and that Mr and Mrs Downey will benefit by the transfer. They will leave the members of their family who have reached the adult age in Palmerston, where they are all comfortably settled. Mr and Mrs Downey have taken a prominent part in many social functions, and are esteemed for their genial and kindly demeanor to all. We feel sure a very large number of residents will join with us in wishing them every success. — Standard. The Wanganui Herald states that the late Mr Nelson Mcßae recently insured with the National Mutual Life Association for £500, and it is a melancholy coincidence that just about the time of the accident the policy on his life was being posted to his address in Palmerston North from the branch office in Wellington.