NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 50, 18 June 1879, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

Outward San Franciscan Mail,.— We have been requested to intimate to the public that the Engl'sh Mail, ma San - Francisco, will close at Palmerston to-mor-row evening, at a quarter to eight o'clock. New Firm.— Mr. Herman Wollerman has made arrangements with the proprietor of. the Crown -Brewery for the transfer to him of the bottling, business and private trade of that, establishment,; and intimates that he has now"_ commenced business. In another columrT he invites an inspection of his price list.' Serious Accident.— As Mr. S. Davey, sen,, was driving home on Monday night, the horse becoming frightened at something m the road started to run, and Davey being unprepared for the sudden motion, was 'thrown off- the cart, fall'^g heavily to the ground. He was picked up and conveyed to his residence, hut we regret to say he has experiencedinjuries which will confine him to tlie bouse for some time. •- 1 Onob More m Harness— Mr. W. F. Baker, so wall known from • one end of the West Goast to the other, has purchased the good-will of Prosser-'s Club Hotel, Marton, and next month will recommence the role ■ of Boniface, during what, we trust, will be a lengthened engagement. "Mart m his time plays! many parts," and Mr. Baker can safely lay claim to that experience. In such skilful hands we have no doubt that Club will prove the 'krect, card and turn up Ir limps. The Palmerston Library. — A. second meeting of the committee nominated "by tliev.Counc'l -was convened for Monday evening, but we regret to state it shared the fate of its predecessor, and lapsed for want of a quorum. As at present constituted the oominittee numbers nine members, and as it seems a physical impossibility to get 1 five to put m an attendance, we would therefore suggest that it- should be remodelled and redh'ced to three, who bearing the honor mighebe inclined'to meet and , work. ,In any case a reconstruction w'll have to take place, as we heaM a couple of the twicedisappointed attendants declare they would not accept the nomination to an office which was nothing more or less than a mere waste of time, without the ghost of a chance of doing good. : The' ' District " Court. —. Miv, Fbrster the, worthy Clerk of the Court is certainly doing his share to provide conveniences and riecessaries for' the . newlv-defelared Court, and although it has undergona such a ti^ns-fqri-patipu,-ripd'iriterrinlly does riot look- like tlie same hni}ding,|still'po qne can saythere is a single item -.provided -which is not^abso- j l'ute'y necessary. Indeed the reveraa is the case, and there are still many wants wliich- 1 from compulsion have to.be left unsupplied. If the new Court were furnished with all needful requisites, and still retained its 'pre3ent;-dimensiQ.ns' we opine the Great Unwashed would have to enjoy tbe proceedings from an alfresco position. Commendable, Liberality. — During the service of St. Patrick's Catholic' Churbb, Palmerston, pri Sunday, the revernd pastor, Father. Moreau, stated that a letter- bad been received from a Mr. O'Brien, m Wei-" ilirigfcbn,.- donating a :piece of, land ip thistown for, school purposes. The section was - .situated m College street, a corner section, one acre arid a half m size, and partly fenced m. He recommended that the Camputtee of the church should, meat and confer. -'-■■>- Kgether with a y.iewiof having it fenced, and let, so that the revenue might be available for the very necessary object for. which it had been bestowed; ' : '•"'.''' The Wanoanui- j Stbp-lbohas». — : We would direct especial attention to a notification to another column regarding the start-, ing and return of trains to^and from Wanganui on Friday,, on which occasion the! Annual Steople'chase will take place. The General Manager, with his usual thought- i fulness m catering for the public, has given I instructions for singletickatp to be issued from td-morrpw until next Monday inclu- -. *ive. We certainly cannot commend the ehort-sightedness of the club] which has studiously ignores publishing j>he event m journals circulating' m the districts from , wheuoe we, presume it expects to draw it 3 patrons.. For our. own part, until we ro"ceived the, advertisement from the Railway Depnrtmant, we were m blissful -ignorance of- the, 'cbriiing event. It's My.Tua.N NEXT.-7-Erer since Constable Gillespie took river "the- lock-up. from the contractors, and it hecanie known; that it was available for- lodgers,; he has been perfectly pushed by tenants. William S.mii h, who, while. under s the influence! of his libations, had beisn engaged m: an impromptu, bout at fistcuffs with Thpipas Symbns, w.as arrested on Saturday, by Constable, and lodged m durance yilo. L;>ter on ip the day, whe.li the effects of his carouse had '..worn off, he was .liberated on, his bail of Jtvl, to ajjjpear f or sentai^ce oriMoriday niorn'ing.' Hia opponent, was' "summoned fordis-. orderly conduct, but not answering to the [ charge was fined by Mr. McNeil, J.P.; m 'the sura of £1. On-Monday, a foreignor, named, Shrubb, beccAne a prey t p the. Constable, and occupied the ap irtment vacated by Sriiith, wjhile 4 the other available doi\ni;tpry was engaged byPeter.Gwy.opalen.se. ■pf five months. Owing, however, tp the, da:mand, Peter had to be passed on to Wanr ganui, though Shrubb has taken root for forlvreight hpijifl, " ! '. .!*'!■-

Bunn? -AOAlN—^Those namesakes of the member 'for Wairarapa would appear to be pests and nuisances dead or alive. For some little, time past it has been the custom of a resident of Woodville to' pay periodical visits to Palmerston, upon, which occasion he utilised the opportunity by bringing with him a few brace of rabbits for sale. On Friday a well-known townsman became a purchaser of a piir, which upon being cooked were liberally partaken of by the different members of his family, all of whom were immediately prostrated with a deadly sickneps,. and violent retching. One of the yictims — a jouni girl between fourteen and fifteen— is still not only suffering from the effects, but her face and hands have all tbe appearance as if .blotches of red paint were plastered upon them, Of course we do not pretend to account for such extraordinary results, but it has been suggested that the rabbits may have come to their deaths by arsenic, wliich of course would make heir flesh poisonous. Whether this is the true solution of the mystery or not we cannot say, bnf. as U'ness has followed every time the Woodville gentry had been partaken of, our informant is pretty well convinced that bunny is as, the bottom of the mischie"\ ' Improvements at Terrace End.— Those who remember the locality of Terrace End as it existed some four years ago, if they have not witnessed its gradual progress will scarcely recognise.it m its altered and improved appearance. Then the houses were little better'tn'ari' whores'-— plain and unpretending m the extreme. Then there was no hotel, the only' ptoce where a meal or bed could be obtained was Deard's Accommodation House. All this is changed now — -tasty and ornamental residences stud the road. on. .eitJie.Mid.es, a handsome apd well regulated hotel^has been, erected, arid the old Accommodation' Houseo use converted into a handsome shop! Within the last two years Mr. Marsh has'effected such improvements that all traces of the old house or shop have vanished. Then it was a 9mall store 16 x 12 ; now it is a handsome two-storey building, 36 feet square on tbe basement floor, with a warehouse and offices at the . back. Upstairs is the millinery department, 17 x 35 ; and four tidy-sized bedrooms m the front. Mr. Marsh's emporium mny be styled a co-operation store m miniature, where nearly everything required m a household can be procured. So much for spirited enterprise and stetfdyattention to business.