The Manawatu Times. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1877.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 96, 19 September 1877, Page 2

The Manawatu Times. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1877.

Last Sunday evening, ari^i&wngelistic service was held m the Public Mall, Pal-inWston. The spacious hall was well filled by nti attentive and respectable audience. The proceedings were opened with- prayer ; sing' , ing and bible reading followed, after which the Rev. Mr McGregor delivered a short and appropriate address. After another interval of singing Mr Bruce spoke* from Revelations, dwelling particularly on the truthful character of both. . the threatnlngs and promises of God's Word 1 . Towards the close of the service the Rev. T. G. Hammond.delivered an interesting and impressive address from Isaiah.. Sanky's hymns were sung through the service, accompanied by the harmonium. Some familiar and stirring tunes had been , selected. The service was interesting throughout, and 'we think the promoters of it may be fairly congratulated on the success they have so far achieved. We understand that the Bank of Australasia has purchased: a capital building site m Sanson. The' next probable move will be the erection of a bank. This looks like a determination on the-part of the agency to • take Sanson for better, or for worse; We believe their confidence tor be well-based. Manawatu Highways l?oarct.--^Ott ' the15fch inst. the following" tenders for' wort on Bayley's line at Sandon i were 1 tfpened :— Stuart and Eraser at 16s per chain, accepted: T. McCarthy at 28s and 6d, declined j T. Sanson at 15s formation, 15s for ditch, declined ; Good and Co., at £75 the whole, declined. . ' Mr Hanlon, while digging m his yard the other day at the Terrace- end, unearthed a lump of iron stone weighing about 301 b. It is a Good sample, of ore, and may be seen at this office. On Saturday last a man named Robert Graham, residing at Woodville, was injured . by a falling tree. We understand that Dr Akers was m attendance but we-have not ascertained the extent of the man's injuries. We notice that the Bank of New Zealand has. invited tenders up to the 25th prox. for the erection of Bank premises at Sanson. We wonder says the "Post" what new game Mr Alexander M'Donald is up to now, ,An ' Otaki correspondent : writes .— " Mr A. M'Donald held a lavgb meeting of natives at Waiktiwa on Saturday, at which most of our leading chiefs attended, viz., Matene te Whiwhi, Hoani Taipna, Hema te Ao, &c. The sftbject discussed has b.een kept secret." The annual report of the. Government Insurance Commissioner has jflgt been issued. It shows that during the year ending Ist September, 1877, 1896 proposals were receivedV for £789,564, of which 487 were declined or not completed, lea vhig 1409" policies issued for £563i928. The claims | during the year have been exceptionally fight amounting to only d 611,750, while .lhe r receipts on new policies alone show £20,777. The number of policies issued since the establishment of the Dopartmcßt is 8822,

assuring £3,166,213, of which 14^9 have been discontinued, leaving the liabilities at £2,734,602. The income of the year from all sources amounted to £91,995. and the accumulated fund ndw stands at £219,394 being an increase of £65,676 during the year. The ratio of the total expenditure to income has been reduced to 14.7 per cent. The " News Letter " thus amusingly discourses on the Wanganui Exhibition: — Thank goodness that the Wanganui Exhibit ion is closed.- If it had lasted another week it would have been necessarry to build a lunatic asylum, increase the police force, or do something extreme. Of course, we judge, the people as represented by their newspapers. Not a daily reached us that was not filled to overflowing with accounts of the most unheard of things. One of the weeklies contained six long and concise accounts, being one for each day of the wjek. It is a pity that the affair was not open on Sundays, for then there would have been matter for a special edition. The good people of Wanganui admired the various exhibits immensely. One gentleman exhibited one of his grandmother's back teeth, while another gloried m a bit of earth which was taken from the bottom of one of the . cylinders of the Wanganui bridge. A young lady deposited a button from the back of a soldier's coat, which she had found on the Rutland Hill, and it was said that many of the visitors Were moved to tears at sight of this relic of the good old times. Wanganui residents may^egret that the thing cduld not last, but readers of papers elsewhere gave a sigh of relief when they learnt that the exhibition had been closed. 'The "Post" says:— "Messrs. Pollock and Young, the well-known butchers, who have lately gone largely into the trade of importing sheep to keep up the supply for ithe city, concluded an agreement with the N.Z.S.S. Company to-day, for a series of ten shipments of sheep per s.s. Storm bird, from Wanganui. It seems that the supply of fat sheep m the Wairarapa district cannot be depended upon altogether, and .. therefore the necessity' to have recourse to the favoured district around Wanganui, which bears a high character for the quality of the mutton produced. " A correspondent sends us a letter from Otaki, m which he states that the natives there are disappointed because the. Native Lancls Bill was withdrawn. He says that the two natives who were recently fined for obstructing and stoppings survey, did not pay the fine as alleged, but cooly told the Magistrate m open Court that they would not pny. It does not appear that they have been m any way punished for contumacy and contempt of law. .Our experience tells us that law is ndministered.in a very .queer way indeed towards the natives; who can do i with, impunity many things for which a pnkeha would be summarily locked up; We shall be glad to hear from pur correspondent . again, but his N views on the native lauds question are diametrically opposed to our", own. — " Evening Post." A Wngga -{New South Wales) correspondent reports tJiat a singular accident ocv Stirred to a child'-oii its- way;to:schooK The 1 child had m apocktet qf herdress asharply pointed slate pencil; Meeting some compnriions on 't-he roifd, I"some1 "some play was indulged m, -at which tlie girl somehow received a fall, nud the pencil was forced into the inner" part, of the thigh, breaking, off and leaving over an inch and a half '•onipletely embedded m the flesh, so that no trace of it could be seen but the punctured, wound through which it hnd entered. Dr Kennedy was sent for", and was forced to perform the operation of cutting the pencil out. The Home News says tiirit d flue niar'bie . monument lias been unveiled m. Sty Paul's Cathedral, m memory of the gallant officers and men of the 57th Regiment who fell during the bloody and protracted New Zealand war. It is good, as a work of art, arid has given general satisfaction; The soldiers who died m New Zealand are thus com-.; memorated side by side with the victors of the Peninsula and of Waterloo* ■ An article appears m a ldte ndniber of "Fraser's Magazine," by Sir Julius Yogel, entitled, " Some" remarks on the xesparces of New Zealand." The article concludes: — " New Zealand, with its serviceable climate, its freedom from droughts, the extraordinary capacity of its lands, its splendid water carriage, and its capabilities to support millions of human beings, is the country of greatest promise to/- suitable, immigrants. : Its population at the end of 1869, including Maoris/ was 282J000. ' Its present populatiofi is not- far short of half a million. In "ten years it is likely to .be the most populous of all the Australasian Colonies.' Had it not been for the native, difficulties,. flow happily set at rest, New Zealand would probably by this time have had a larger population than all the Australian Continent. . ' The "Inangahua Herald says.:— -"From Rangitikei we hear the following taie of a scrupulous member of -temperance society, who was recently at . the house of a friend, ;; when he was asked if he i'-'would !Hke» drink of home-made wine. Answering is ithe" affirmative, he was presented witt a Ctip b"f delicious gooseberry, which proved so much to niß ttfste that he begged the recipe from his fair hostess. To his • horror he discovered that it had been fermented. He ifervously asked if there was a chemist near at hand, or if they kept ipecacuanha. In the absence of anything better he said that mustard and water would do. Much to the lady's surprise he quaffed about two pints of this, and hurried to the, door. She afterwards remarked that from tlie distressing;" soundsproceeding from the gentletaan, sue believes his tender conscience and his stomach were considerably relieved. ] Professor Holloway is probably the most . exteifeiye advertiser m the world. In 1842 he expended £5,000 m advertisements, and m 1845 £10,000% -At thetimeof the QTeatExhibition hi London, m 1851, his expenditure m advertising vrss £20,000 ; in 1855 it had risen to. £30,000} and m the present year it has reached: £40,000.— 'The "TaranakiNews."