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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3497, 16 March 1905, Page 2

A branch of (he Bank of New Zealand has bean opened at Raetihi. To-morrow, St. Patrick’s day, will lie observed as a general holiday in Euxton. Mr E. E. Snow, bootmaker, inserts a notice in this issue to which attention is directed. A telephone office and bureau has been opened at Himatangi in direct communication with Palmerston North Wanganui people have decided to. hold a carnival next Christmas week. Last year’s carnival proved a financial success, there being a credit balance of over £3O. At a poll taken in (he Healhcote road district up m rating upon unimproved L.nd values, the oroprosition to adopt the system was lost by 403 voles to 268. A local business firm has donated a silver cup for competition among the members of the Rifle Club. The conditions are not yel decided but it has been suggested that the highest scorer in a certain number of matches should take the prizg instead of the usual two wins in succession or three at intervals.

At Wanganui a settler named Low I was fined £lO and costs tor failing to clear his land of blackberries. Defendant, who is a lessee, pleaded that a covenant in tin Due provided that the owner should keep the land clear of these noxious weeds, but as the act makes the occupier liable the magistrate inflicted a fine. The Westland Land Board held an important land ballot yesterday, when 4.600 acres of South Westland and Koiterangi districts were offered for lease in perpetuity under the Bush Swamp Lands Act. Seventeen sections drew 312 applicants, the scene at the ballot being a busy one, the settlers showing every desire to avail themselves of the land offering. Of the £196,042 railway revenue for the four weekly period 7th January to 4th Febuary, £87,257 was yielded by the North Island lines, and £108,784 by those in the South Island. The Wellington Napier-New Plymouth line accounted lor £58,404. 'On this section 236,562 passenger tickets were issued in the four-weekly period mentioned, as against 215,430 in the corresponding period of 1904. The comments of (he newspapers on the evidence tendered to the Land Commission are various, but the Oamaru Mail has a useful corrective to conclusions too hastily drawn from it. If the evidence may be taken as a guide, it says, Southland “ must be a land of weed, if not of greed.” “Up to their necks in Californian thistle, and other choice products of the vegetable kingdom,” it says, “settlers spend their waking hours in seeking a bare patch in which to drop a pickle of wheat, an oat, or a potato, and dream of realms in which there will be no more leasehold —neither leasehold nor freehold —where the winged thistle seed will be fanned into oblivion by the pinions of contented souls. The courageous, lion-hearted men who have ventured into this Darkest New Zealand see only one way of frightening weeds into subjection. It is found that they but seldom grow on freehold land. Whether it is the imposing parchment deed in the. mortagee’s safe, or the effect of the owners indebtedness, or the influence of the money lender’s smiles as he gathers in s the interest, nobody knows,"

The M.uruvatn Comity Council's rood grader started work on a portion of Nob Line this morning. The local public school will be closed t,i irnrr !v/, in honour of Ireland’s patron Saint.

The Winimera yesterday brought to Wellington a consignment of /boo, non in sovereigns for the C lion Bank of Australia.

The Wellington-M mawatn Railway Company pay's :i .dividend of .j per cent forth; la it half-year, making j per cent for the year.

Burgesses should note that the Borough Council sits on Wednesday next, 22nd inst., to amend the district electors’roll; and that aggrieved persons have a fight (it appeal. At the inquest on the body of Kate Doyle, who was drowned in the M tmrahao, river, near Pahiatua, on Sunday afternodii, :t verdict of accidentally drowned ” was returned.

The Rev. W. R mmber, in the course of an interview at Christchurch on his return from Lngland, stated the education Bill at Home was a decided failure and,. after watching its operation, one is led to admire our own system where Still Tl? are secular and 'absolutely - free from bickerings and d actriti d d.ff.-roncea.

A charge again?! the licensee of the Brighton Hole!, Taieri; of selling liquor on a Sunday broke down, the witnesses all swearing they had no drink in the hotel. The charge arose out of a former ease against sqirie of the wit tie«ssr., ilaxniill bands, df being, illegally on the premises, and refusing to leave when ordered to do so. A new business is to be started in Fnxton, and will be known as the New Slide Sloi’d. The premises are situated in Speirs’ Buildings, opposite the Police Station, and the proprietors are up-to-date men who are determined to make things “hum.” An inspection of the stock is cordially invited. Fuller particulars will be found in the inset appearing with today’s issue.

The Public Works Department received (be following tenders for the Levin Industrial School, No. 3 contract.— Accepted—L. S. Humphries, Wellington, £1687. Declined —T. W. Hunt, Wellington, £1779; J. A. Adams, Levin, £1704.; Douglas and Whitaker, Levin, £1821; J. Renodf, Otaki, £1913; .A. Cooper and Son, Wellington. £1973; Howie and Matthews, Wellington. £2073. At a meeting of the local school committee last evening arrangements for the Projected excursion to Woodville were again under discussion, It was slated that the department re qnired a guarantee of £27 163, and the children who had already promised to go represented about £l4. The committee decided to meet on Monday evening next at the school house, when parents and friends will be asked to meet the members. If the balance required cannot be made up, the picnic will he abandoned; but it is hoped that (he people will not let such a disappointment nret the youngsters. The Governor opened a Maori meeting-house at Ohinemntn on Tuesday, in the presence of a large gathering of Maoris and Europeans. The Hon. J. Carroll was present. The Governor received an enthusiastic welcome. War-dances and pois were given. A loyal address was presented. His Excellency unveiled a monument to the great chief Patera to Pnknatm. The Goxermr made a speech, in which he referred to the King’s deep interest in the people of New Zealand, and to the need for observance by (he Maoris of the laws of health; otherwise, he said, tbev would rapidly die out. The Vicar of Rogate, Sussex, received a letter from Australia sometime ago in which the writer inquired if it were possible to find a man in the village whose waistcoat was stolen thirty years ago. The vicar, after a search found a man who lost a waistcoat and 10s .about the time mentioned, and he communicated the fact to his Australian correspondent. Another letter has been received, enclosing £lO for the man whose waistcoat was stolen, and containing an expression of gratitude from the sender who stated that with the proceeds derived from the sale of the waistcoat he was able to make a fresh start in life, and is now well off.

Last week a paragraph appeared in these columns stating that a Russian foreign correspondent, highly accomplished, was working at a flaxmill within a thousand miles of Foxton. Yesterday a burly specimen of humanity appeared at the Herald office and, having evidently, misread the paragraph and taken it to mean that such a man was required on the staff, made inquiries in that strain. He appeared very anxious about' the matter, and inclined to be agressive in demanding the berth, but fortunately the fighting editor was in, and having kept himself posted in Oyama tactics soon had Kuropat's alleged countryman in, as the cables say, full retreat, though this was effected in a masterly manner.

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