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Manawatu Herald, 6 September 1900, Page 2

An advertiser wants to rent a moderately furnished house for four months. We understand that the Government has declined to purchase the Oroua Downs Estate. I The last of the Palmerston Quadrille j Assemblies will be held to-morrow night. The " Charwoman case " has ended j in the plaintiff, Mrs Margaret Hicks, obtaining a verdict for £150 from the defendant, Thomas Vincent Byrne, of Kumara. Tomorrow the sale of Mr A. S. Easton's milch cows takes place on his farm. The cows should realise high prices as they are both good in breed and in condition. Mr Easton had a buyer down the other day who desired to purchase the whole hundred for cash.

A wicked punster asks the riddle — " In what way does the State School resemble a tin of treacle ?" As it may trouble our readers too much to find the answer, we supply it, " Because its so sticky."

Mr F. Pirani, M.H.R., was presented on Monday by his admirers at Palmerston North with a framed portrait of himself. The presentation was made by the Mayor, who ejilogised Mr Pirani's services as member for the district.

The next English and European mail, via San Francisco, will close at the local office ™ Friday, 28th Sept., at 8 p.m.

Mr Stiles, succes ./, announces on cvi nrs. two weeks' clearing sale prior his new goods coming fofward* Ladies who understand the mysteries connected with the drapery trade will understand this announcement and will probably swoop down upon the establishment to the utter bewilderment of the assistants. Even if so, the proprietor will raise no objection.

Mr E. Edmund Smith, known as " The Tailor," has a new advertisement this ; RRiifi in which he thanks the ouhlic tor the support accorded to him. Since he has secured the premises next the Bank of New Zealand he has been very busy, and as he makes a point of giving good work, style and fit, he is sure to do well. New patterns having arrived customers will have a good choice.

Jimmy Governor, one of the outlawed Gilgandra murderers, gave a letter for the police to one of the settlers whose house he stuck up, offering to surrender if his wife was sent out to the ranges. The letter asks that a reply should be inserted in the newspapers, where he will see it.

M. do Witte, the Russian Minister of Finance, who is now in Copenhagen, is trying to negotiate a loan of twenty millions sterling with Paris financiers.

The anxiety of the Transvaal Government to get all the ready money they could get into their hands has never been so apparent (says the Delagoa paper) as in the cashing of a cheque left with the Court as bail for a well-known Pretorian, who was accused of having entered into arrangements for supplying arms to the British prisoners at Waterval. He gave a cheque on the National Bank for £*5,000 as bail for his appearing again when called upon. He has now learned that the cheque was cashed, and the money taken away by the Treasury officials when they levanted from the capital to assist in carrying on a government on wheels at Machadodorp. This is certainly low down even for the runaway firm of Kruger and Co. They seem now as if they would not stop at anything in order to get hard cash to enable them to continue the farce of bolstering up an Administration which is tottering for its last fall.

The following is the balance-sheet of the Foresters' second annual ball held on Aug. 22nd : — To cash received per T. Mitchell £18 ss ; ditto, £6 12s ; R. Baker, £5 us; total, £zg 18s. Expenditure — By M. Perreau, £it\ truit, £1 ; Rhodes, 4s gd ; hall, £2 ; lOarsley, £1 is: printing. £3 7s tod ; A. C. Stansell, £2 2s 6d • 2 musicians and train fare, &c, £t i6s6d ; stamps, gs ; cartage ferns, 4s ; W. Cameron, 10s ; total, £24 15s 7d. Balance in hand, £5 2s sd.