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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 87, 10 August 1878, Page 2

- r Wo are compelled- to holdover our report of the Borough Council- meeting,-and-other matters, until next issue. We notice that Mr Johnston .a§kod the. Minister of Customs- on Tuesday -evening}" if it was the intention of the Government to deckro. the port of Fbxto'n r a''Por^ of Entry and .warehousing port. Jn speaking io.the question, the hoh. member pointed oufc l tltat the port of Foxton, and 'the -district surrounding it was becoming ii'piacj qfj considerable importance. The town and district contained; a very large ing about eight thousand Europeans'" and Maoris, who contributed nearly £25,000 a year m the way: of Customs -^duties.-"; The reply of Sir George Grey was substantially the same as that published "by'tis some few weeks since m the contents of a letter received by Mr Johnston from Mr Macandrow on tho same subject, to the effect t>Kat",fal-~ though thp establishing of a"Pbrfcot"Entry would entail expense on the revenue without a corresponding profit, still the matter was under consideration, the growth and importance of tho place being taken into account. An awfully sudden death occurred m one of the railway carriages on Wednesday, a few minutes befoi'a tho departure of the ..aftornoon train. It appeared a young Maori women went to Mr Q.uin, the stationmaster, and telling him she was very unwell, asked to be allowed to rest m the par; riage until its departure. With most -praise-'' worthy kindness and humanity, he not only, saw her seated, but gave her the ticket, so that sho would not be further disturbed until at bar destination, Great ford. • Shortly before the bell rung for the starting of the train, it was found tho passenger had died m her seat. Mi; Ward, the Resident Magistrate, arrived on the scene, and his presence was much needed, as tho Maories, of whom there were fully one hundred present, wore considerably excited at tho occurrence. Of course, the body could not remain m a passenger carriage, and the matter then cropped up that the corpse travelling m the van should be entered m the way-bjll at a cost of transit of £2 l<ls. The Natives, however, strenuously resisted the increased demand, maintaining ' that as the woman had paid nine shillings for her journey, and had taken her seat, she should be brought to her destination. In this quandary the station- master was at a loss to know what to do, but eventually, acting upon the advice of Mr Ward, he had the body shifted into a van and sent on to Greatford. The .deceased wa3 a young girl named Terita, a niece of a chief of the Ngawaka, and .wife .of Neville Nicholson, a half : caste, living at Kakariki, about four inile3 from Halcombe. Mr Anthony Nathan, tho late contractor for the Halcombe.Station, and a section of the Manuwatti .Railway, has been committed" for trial by the Wanganui Bench on a charge of fraudulent bankruptcy. Although Mr Hardcastle, the Resident Mag'strate". appeared to think there was a friria facie case made out for committal, the amount; "'of bail fixed seems extraordinarily small— the principal in '£50, and two sureties} of £25 each.

It i? our painful duty to annouuce the siidden demise of Mr Hector McDonald, of Horowhenua, who may be fairly classed as one of the "Old Identities." Notwithstanding his advanced age he was a most energetic member of th& community,, and was actually on a visit to Ofcaki to attend a Road Board meeting when he dropped dead m the streets of that town/. In earlyjife ,Mr McDonald followed the occupation of whaler, and on relinquishing the seay settled at Horowhenua many years since,, where he became most successful as a sheep-farmer. He was a member of th? ana HSi u u - n teCpuncil for the Riding of "Hbrowhenua, and at its last sitting, only a week; since, a unanimous vdte "of thanks was passed to him 6y that-body iorirherpaTe-hehad "te"stdwedTip^ on the Otaki road, and the trouble he had ta^en to see that the repairs had been faithfully carried out. He was a most energetic representative, and by his good-humored pertinacity always succeeded m getting the Council to endorse his outlays m excess of the funds voted to his riding. Although 'M|r McDonolJ had reached the patriarchal ago of three score and ten, hjs activittand bale heartm|Js/wpuid}not:ieadmnyono,^ expdct hia'end- was'^o^'eaf, "ancl v nts . suddeii -ai^d unexpected demise will be learned with dejep regr.et..;byall;who%iow-himr ; ; ' s>'/Al IWO dpi not - kuow ;wheth?rjithe, riE^ijferayo js under the. impressioh that without ladies or oßher^s^/ : ; !jvfe but certainly; if^^hpiatlej^weimasne-T it | |should make" somef effort Tto'aTtend ta their comfort. Notwithstafiding the fact that the^e, is^ room attacheb^to.tiig station, ontthei door: 6f^which/is "painted inj -mosti conspicWous'leite^i, ''Haafeir wai£ing"r6oin,^ we! are bound to say that a Freemasons' Lodge is not more innocent of the pre3euce of la lady than -is that same waiting-room alluded to. Perhaps, however, the; room -is b'hly open m winteii.iine,.and Jisjia have been enjoying suchsplendid weather for the .pas.t two mdnjhs, it was not thought necesr jß.dry to place it at the command of the gerttler sex. It is just possible we might have some bad jrejifchef^ and. jfc. wftpld be just as well to !^te}tße;Jrjp.omijinirjßadineßs" for; the purpose for which wo presume it wa3 intended.^ . .- „,*< %l' .„,.■„ .«-.>-;« regret to hear that Mr Baker,- the. Clerk of '-the 'Police' Cburt, has been cdnfihed to his bed for some days through illness, and? as a; consequence Tie was unable to attend tfie"., last: sittings ;of either' tjh^Kß'oxtoriJioi' "®*lP mei'ston Courts. As, however, the ResidentMagistrate had to deal with the charges of forgery pi'oferred againsb William Rix Rose, at Palmerston, Mr Ward was compelled to telegraph to Marton and secure the services: of Mr Deighton. Most of'tho principal witnesses were unablotb" attend on Thurs-. dayj and the further. hearing :yvas*emanded to Marton. And here perhaps! we. might be allowed to inquire when Palmerston is likely to be provided with a resident Clerk of the Court. . If we remember aright the matter vvasjbrought under the notice of the Bench -by Mr Staite sbm'e;time agojiwhen lie Ifbriiied by Mr Ward that the Gdvernmenthad'been communicated with upon the subject, 1 since which, no action appears to: have been taken. ' .. .^ : : „, ( . ""*- ■.■■=_■. ■■-■■ inl'oiXTho Panorama .of the Frando-Prussian War, according to ; 'ah"nouncomeht7 was exhibited Foresters]' Hall, '.on, Wednesday jand^TOttrsaay evenings "t6 tafr houses. Ther views .were" of but aveiageL. orders of .merit, but what they lacked m;quaUtywas 4inp(ly compensated for by the ' quantity? Perhaps: the greatest attractiqn r 'c}n;she:firßt nighlt was the appearance of a youthful lecturer, scarce m his teonsjjjyhojriii Jthel mqstj stilted style went "through by rote the lesson he had learned, some of the author's raciest; jokes being delivered .with a; Solemnity, gravity, 1 and impressiveriess worthy- of^the funeral service. As thespea^r'was'ofMre Teutonid race,. and: his acquaintaßce:"#ith the English tongue exceedingly limited, we question if he understood one word of his oration, but certainly if he did, he had a decided advantage over his audience. By yesterday 's Wellington papers we see that ' an influential meeting of merchants and jOthers was held m the Chamber of Commei-ce on Thursday for the purpose of organising a company to construct a railway |to tne West Coast. MrrWariiig-Taylor oc.ciipi^d the chair, and M^slrs'Elranddn; TraI vers, j Wallace, Nation, Pearce; Q-illon, "Watt ' (Wanganui)! ; StfairßucUleyl the speakers. Mr Travers, By whom the imeeting was convened, entered very fully into the subject, and submitted a plan of ppjarations which proved that he had given tlie gutter mature corisideratiori. ' Finally^ a^committee of the' r "follo"wing"gen£lemen was: appointed to take further action m the mat-■teri-j-Messrs Dransfield, Walter Johnston; iildiiuall Johnston, Kruli, Levin, Mills, Tra'vev.3,i.Pearce, Sir William Fitzherbert, Nathan,} Wallace, (Muekdey/ -"Thomson;: 'and") ,lTfingham. In consequence i of ,tlie late..hpur; jit- which we received oi\r-exdh ! ariges;weiai:e* iinablis to give more than gjpftssingjnotaoeji but -v^ill deal with the report mor,e T fully m? out next issuer a'o.'lrii. i-: e>• : A sad example of the ruin and degrada- . tion to which "the curse of drink..wili(lrag.a_;man, 'was given m the-Police Co r nr6, Palmer;ston, on Thursday^beprWiUiam Rirßpse,--betteij known as Dr. Rose, vyas placed in.the^ felon's dock charged 1 -wibii l the crinle'bi'foVgery. j Tho accused, who appeared-, tp\feel> his position most acutely, was m a pitiable , condition, shakings Mke)anaspeVleaf,-hardly-E able t6 stand, and ashamed to/JiffejliisiHiead. Even jin his degraded state and wretched position it was evident that his gentlemanly instincts wore not wholly dead, and none could lielp pitying one who through such a .cursed} infatuation had been led into blasting hw character, losing his liberty, apd L for ever placing, himself outside the pale of; that class among3t whom, under other> eircum-j stances, ho might have occupied an honorable position. ' ; r ..■-.;; Those who -wishrto witness some, fine disr play of scientific muscularity-had D'etter'be presenf; this afternoon r when the grand match |betwe'eh -thePalmerstbtf a'nd'Fe'ildin^ Football Clubs takes place. Should the,,visi£or3 not be able to leave Feilding by the ten o'clock train, they will drive over m time td commence the match at two sharp.The following are the players who will, do battle !for Palmerston j— Turner, • JPirani, Cottam, Tyerman7~Mountford, Callapan, Cox, Staite, Jones, W, Lyon,. W. Nathan, H. Q-oodisson, J. Nathan, Holcrofti and Dimond. | Our team are m splendid form} and have. been at hard practice for somo time past, a tough struggle iiisj expected, ds the Feijding Club numbers some bf.-the very best players on the Coast amongst their team. \ ■•• • > : a- { : - :i ■ : '-.''~-- ;■;■.:'/■■. Two of the sharpest shocks of earthquake which nave been experienced iii_thi3:district for past ton yesirs, were felt at 7.55 on, Thursday. . Th6-flr^t- was ushered iivbyjlie;: usual rumbling movement;, succeeded; by a isecond land-by far the mo>e severe/ which; caused buildings. to,, wt^e .and shaketfrom foundation -tb-rdof? V'lt appeared to be travelling north-east to south-west, and must have lasted for fully half a minute.: r We have not heard of any very seripus effects, [■ although the ohinihey of :Mr Da wick's boarding house retains a memento of the unwelcome visitor, and we hear that Mr l Eliot ■ Warburton's briiak mansion m Main street baa not escaped scatheleaa. '

. MOUBXD APiJJSTITB FOfi iiXOITEMBM' 13 the only effect of the untnedicaled and adulterated spirits frequently used under the . impression that they nro wholesome stimulants. Abandon such " burning fluids'* Jit- once and forerer. If yon are weak, low Bpirifed, dyspeptic nervous, or suffering from the effects "of l exhaustion, use that genuine recuperanfc of bodily energy, that real stomachic and nerve anodyne, Udoipho Woidßftts- Schiedam Ahomaiio Sohnap ps