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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 64, 30 May 1877, Page 2

We are requested to Btate that a meeting; of the members of the Beading Boom will take place m. the room th.is-.eyening at 8 o'clock. Jtfiill attendance is desired. We remind ;those interested that the term of grace allowed to persons indebted to the estate of E. and W. H. Brightwelb expires to-day. : ' ' r - . .. \ The Wellington coach .whiqh started from Foxton at five o'clock yesterday morning with eleven passengers, had again to leave nine behind on account of insufficient room. Two of these started on librae back, the remainder preferring to await the arrival of the Napier and goby her. The s.s. Napier arrived in^Eoiton yesterday morning with a full cargo, and. about six passengers, she was to leave again the same night, but cannot, be expected back to Foxton until Saturday, on account of the . official .enquiry into the late, collision with .the-Tui. ' , By warrant m the- "N". Z. Gazette " ;of the 18th instant, Henry. St. 1 John Ghristo- , phers, of Wanganui, has been .appointed Gt-eneral Manager of the Wanganui portion of the Wanganui to Manawatu Bail way. The following is the traffic Beturn on the Foxton to Manawatu Bailway f or the four weeks ending'the sth: May, 1877 :-—Passengers (1,436),,£226 10s 6d; parcels; &c, £15 7s 9d; freight (490 tons), £409 lls 8d — Total, £651 9s lid. .'. By advertisements m our present issue the Trustee m the assigned estate of Mr J. S. Somers, of Foxton, instructs creditors m the above estate to send m their claims duly proved, not later than June 14^ ; Debtors are requested to pay their accounts before the 2nd of June ; and the Trustee further notifies that tenders will be received from persons desirous of purchasing the stock-in-trade up to Wednesday the 6th June. Through the pressure of local matter upon our space last issue we omitted to notice the receipt of a letter from " Settler." After carefully perusing this letter we find that we cannot insert it m. its present form, as the grave charges it contains would be considered libellous ma' Court of law. We are qnite m sympathy with the object which we bejieve "Settler" had m view when writing the letter m question. It is quite right to expose wrong doing, and endeavour to remove a source of temptation from those who are top weak to withstand its influence, but m doing so it is neccessary to act upon facts of which., we have had cognizance, or the authenticity of which are vouched for by eye witnesses. We do not know how far " Settler" may have had personal observation of the matters to which he refers, or to what extent ho may be guided by hearsay. If personal observation be his basis, we think that he should have communicated with the police before leaving Palmevston. However, we shall be happy -to insert a communication m a modified form from " Settler,' 1 or if he should happen to be passing through Palmerston soon we should feel pleased if ,he would call upon us.

Mr Gr- M. Snelson held an auction sale at the Oroua Bridge on Monday last of limber and other effects m the bankrupt estate of John Munro, but owing to the threntsning aspect of the weather the attendance was not very large. Messrs. Capper and Whitteni notify by advertisement m another column that Mr Maysmor, of Feilding, having assigned his estate to them for the benefit of his creditors, the business will be temporarily carried on under their supervision. Mr Grimes will represent them at Feilding, and m conjunction with Mr Maysmor, manage the business. Persons indebted to the estate are requested to pay their accounts at once, and creditors are instructed to furnish their accounts, accompanied by customary : proof of claim, to the trustees. The "New Zealand Times " says :— Mr F. B. Passmore, Inspector of Constructed Railway s in the North Island, has just paid a visit to the lines m the Wanganui-Mana-watu districts. He was. present at the opening of the Turakina line, and has organised the staff necessai'y for the efficient working of the line. He has also ordered thereballasting of the Foxton andlFeilding line, and the replacing of heavy raila for the light ones used by the old tram on the Foxton-Palmerston line, which is being done gradually, so as not to impede the traffic. The line from Foxton to Feilding is almost level, its. steepest gradient being 1 m 80. The steepest gradient of the Turakina line is 1 m 35. There are some queer characters among" those who composed the crew of the ill-fated ship Ocean MaiL> Three were yesterday con-., fined m the gaol for perjury ; a fourth was this afternoon brought to book on a charge of robbery. About the end of February last Mr Henry Mace* of this city, lost a valuable gold watch under somewhat strange circumstances. He was playing cricket on the Basin Reserve, and had left his waistcoat, j containing his gold watch, m one of the rooms of the Grand Stand. On the game being concluded Mr Mace went to the room forhis waistcoat, and found Ins watch gone, while the chaiil was dangling out of the pocket. He gave information to the police of the lossljand also a full description of the 'missing timepiece, but, although every search was made, nothing was discovered till-to-day. This afternoon a man named Jordan, late steward of the ship Ocean Mail-, went to Mr C. Broadbent, watchmaker, Mannerastreet, and asked the value of a gold watch, which he presented.' Mr Broad bent at once noticed that the watch was the one stolen from Mr Mace, as he had previously cleaned it and taken its number. Putting the watch m his pocket, Mr Broadbent asked Jordan ; where he got it, arid the latter pointed to a i young man named Sturges outside the shop as the person from whom the watch was received; Sturges,"who had been second steward on the Ocean Mail, was at once "collared" by Mr Broadbent and handed over to the tender mercies of 'the Police. He was"~ brought before the Resident Magistrate at half-past 2 o'clock andremanded till Friday. There can be no doubt as to the identity of the.watch, for it corresponds exactly with the description given. Shakespeare has said, " There is a divinity which shapes our ends, rough-hue them how we may." This is apparently the case with Sturges, for he seemed safe from detection when the Mail . left here. It was unfortunate for him that he went to Mr Broadbent first, for there the watch was bound to be detected at once.— -Fichange. Synder thus moralises m the" Poverty Bay Standard " on Preachers and players : — " There are more things m heaven and earth, Horatio, than were dreamt of .m early philosophy. I think I could tell my friend there are things m this world which if his philosophy did dream of, he would •; have to call m a' first-class interpreter to make them understood. Here we are m ; the midst of dull times. I know it because all sorts of people tell me so. Things never were -so bad; never, sir, upon my honor. You couldn't, sir— you couldn't get change for half-a-crown all over the town, and what a pound note is like has faded oufc of my memory like a vision of the past.' I hear this and "more of the like ; but then I can't understand it. A theatrical^ troope passes by, and puts out some flaming placards ; a charge of five, shillings is made for the right of occupying a few inches of rough planking, with'ever so many splinters about it, and there is a rush of people — mad to' be first for. the buying of tickets. In a few minutes after the doors of the hall are opened there is close upon a hundred pounds of money stowed m the place, and probably' two hundred pounds of millinery. I don't object to this any more than the proprietor of the theatrical Company. But what Ido object to is that, while we can spend at the very shortest notice, a hundred pounds to hear the singing of songs, we allow our churches to remain m a state of indebtedness, and our ministers to wonder whether there is a probability of the^current quarter's being paid, the said stipend being considerably less than a journeymen carpenter makes upon a bit of contract work. I don't think if very creditable, but I fear it is only too true — that a clever actor of the present day will draw more, money than the most eloquent of preachers. I heard one little story m which, when a dramatic company- was announced. to appear, that upon an elderly laundress applying for her washing bill, to a ; young gentleman, instead of receiving the money she was asked for, the lban_of five shillings for the purchase of a ticket, and the laundress lent like a cherub." Poor Cooky. —We clip- the following from the "Argus:" — "On Monday night last a valuable cockatoo, the property of Mr Frank Ledbury,. hotel-keeper, lately of Wanganui, was taken away from an hotel m the city, "where he was temporarily residing, by a cook who had been previously m his employ, and, as the result shows, the bird" was most brutally killed by the fellow afterwards. It -seems from what we have' learned that the man. whose name is Winterj called at the hotel during Mr Ledbury's absence at the theatre, and having previously known 'poor rocky,' succeeded m getting it away without much notice; and took it home, and~being then m a drunken state, it seems he there commenced to divide his fisticuff attentions between his unfortunate wife and the ; harmless bird, as - the latter was fo^md ; shortly; afterwards -about the place dead, with the head fear-

fully bruised. Fortunately for his wife a neighbour interposed, and the scoundrel was locked up, and on Tuesday last he re- ! ceived a sentence pfa month's impi'isonment for his brutal conduct. This, however, is no recompenoe to Mr Ledbur} for the loss of his valuable bird, which, it seems, was a general favorite with everyone who knew it, and he will likely proceed against Winter m a criminal action, as soon as his term of imprisonment expires, for stealing the bird v We understand that, Mr Ledbury refused a sum of £20 for the bird only a short time, ago, its continual chatter rendering it almost invaluable as " an attraction to a bar."