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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 7, 10 November 1877, Page 2

'.We notice that the Borough Council have moved 'm the direction of asking the postal authorities to make tbxae provision for the wants of bur neighbours residing 'at the. Terrace End. This is just what is required, and we have no doubt that the request of the Council will be granted j but it appears that<whafc is askißd for— a postal pillar-— will scarcely be: sufficient to meet the requirements .of about 800 of our townsmen. We think nothing short of a receiving-box m connection with some place licensed to sell stamps will afford the advantages and. convenience desired. This could easily be . arranged, we think, with one of the stores m that locality. Another great convenience to business men would be a telegraph delivery, as at present no telegrams are forwarded jto^ that part of the borough. The person acting as letter-carrier from the main ; post officer could at' the same time 'deliver telegrams. Any extra expense entailed through this suggested change for the convenience of . the public . might be arranged between the Postal and Telegraph Departments; : We -hope, ; to. see: this important matter receive due.attention. . : The township of Palmersfcon has asked for a second Constable, and the request has been refused., * The Borough Council now ask- the police authorities to provide in-; creased lock-up aceomodation for prisoners. The accomodation available at present is both insecure and insufficient. The fact is that only about two prisoners can be housed m the edifice which at present does duty as a lock-up. This was quite sufficient m days gone by, but now things are changed ; with our ; rapidly increasing population, crime! unfortunately increases too, and to meet the requirements of this state of things the neccessary aecoraodation must be provided. The Council ; likewise snggest that a residence for; the constable should be built dose to; the lock-up. -This is. a most reasonable and sensible " suggestion, as .that officer's duties - being chiefly about the Gir&rt:houßeV and he could;; more easily and . effectively ipeform theni if he were; located on, the spot, the Council may receive a satisfactory reply to their application. " . ' ' ■ While visiting pur"Bj.M; Court fpr the. purpose of taking notes of its proceedings, we have found a great difficultyin getting dryVshod into the building. This state of affairs .seems to be getting- gradually worse owing to the; increased traffic, L^whioh we presume means increased revenue- « ''to. our legal authorities. We would suggest taht a .small expenditure be incurred .for the purpose of gravellinga footpath from the street to the Court-house door. .We feel ; confident it this, is recommended from the proper quarter, that the matter will, at once receive the attention it demands. '-.' The {Right Bey. Bwhop. of Wellington will hold service m the. Anglican Church t to-morrow (Sunday) evening. : The Lydia Howarde Troupe, we understand, may be expected m Palmerston some time during next week. : . The" Raphael Gymnast and Acrobat .Troupe will perform m the Foresters' Hall, to-night and -Monday}, evening. From the varied entertainment promised byadvertisment and handbill we may . confidently predict a bumper house and well -pleased audience. " . Mr .George Bbydj ferryman at the Gorge Ferry, called at our office' yesterday -for the purpose of contradicting a statement made to us by Mr Fordham of VVellmgton, and which appeared m pur issue, of the ?fch inst. Mr Boyd asserts that, the statement made by Mr Fordbam as to the safety of crossing the river . is quii eincoiTect, and that he only refusedto put Mr Fordham and his company across whilst the river was m a state of flood and logs V-TfP. coining clown ; and asfpr the reports of drunkenness they are totally without foundation.. We give Mr Boyd's statement the publicity he desires, since, wherever the truth may lie, it is at all times favorable to the interests of justice that the public should be able to follow the maxim xmdialteram partem. In the House last night, Mr Ballance succeeded m having inserted in 1 the Local Option Bill the compensation clause, of which he had given notice. At a previous stage of the Bill Mr Fox had stated; that if the clause was adopted he would abandon the Bill, and this' promise he fulfilled, last night, when he moved that the further

progress of the Bill be delayed for another fortnight. This, of coarse, at this late period of the session virtually shelve* the Bffl.^«Times.° The Hon. the Speaker of the Legislatiye Council again" had occasion to draw attention yesterday afternoon to the great disrespect •hown by members of the House of tatives ni sending up their Bills without first securing some one in 'the Upper House to take charge of them, especially at fre-. quent complaints had already been made on this subject. Major . Richmond cordially suported what had fallen from the Hon. the Speaker, and suggested that Bills coming from the House of Representatives, and not being m charge of any hon. member, should be thrown into. the waste paper basket. "Times." . - r ' , Those persons, says the " irgiui^ : wlio imagined that the gale had blown itself out on Saturday must have been di»appointed to a considerable extent for m the evening it hW with redoubled force, and about three^o'clock on Sunday morning it:culminated m a hurricane of terrific violence accompanied with the most vivid lightning and deafening peals of thunder. The wind played sad havoc with a number of fences, and m one instance blew in 1 the window of a house m Austin-street. The damage it did at sea is recorded m another portion of thwJissue. Toth^north of Napier the gale appears to have lowered the telegraph wire and. interrupted communication with Poverty Bay arid places' north of it. Today the wires were connected and messages which had been "hung O p " were desp<^^id north. ~ We have not heard of any^s^K* damage down in^town up to the time of our goirig to press. ; ; The following tenders for the Halcqmbe contract (permanent way) were received at the Public Works G%e :~A;ccepted :- A^ Nathan and J. Wflkie, Wanganui, £4607. Peclined : W. S. Bassett,^Wanganui, £4697, W. Brown and Go., Wellington, £4937'