LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 51, 2 July 1879, Page 2

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

The PtTBWO B.MVL. -— The.tendtri wer* opened, at a meeting of the committal held op Monday night, for the Public Hall.- $he result has -not yet *tr»napiredi farther than that a Palmerdton ;nwu » the - successful tenderer. : ' f OppFKLMyfs^iP. — Oiring to fclii incle-r ment rain on Saturday night, the attendance of persons desirous of; joining the _ lodge which it is proposed' to^eitablifh m '-.'. Feilding, was limited, ibout^ a dogen names were received, and this oonw prised the whole of ■ the bujineM of the/ meeting." * • ■■.■ V y ■.■■■.-.-, . . Tbitoeb^j —r^teh^ram was received ii) town on Ijftmday, stating that the tenders for cutting theIOO.XXX) sleepers on the Gh>- . verninent .Reserve, which had betid accep- \ ted was at Is 3Jd per sleeper ! The name • of the unfortunate tenderer was not given. We.shall bavp * little ; pior» to', say ; pn th* . subject m a future isßuei.';; ,•:;,' ; , I'hb: Womak-In^a¥t.— Tlfotwithßtandmg. the uninterrupted down-pour of rain, on., Saturday-nighty not a^w^of3s* towns* people and settlers found ;; tbe|r; way tq Maysmor'sHall to see the woman on whom, nature has practised such curious , freaks. , The.ir astonishment at beholding a huntanjj being of mature agej with a fully derelope^l womap's head ani.only an infant's body, was great; one gushing individual declaring that liis faith m the non:existence .of imer*. maids l)ad , sustained a rude shocks at seeing; . ■ tfi* .exhibition. - ... - TJO| BSQINHIIIGk :0? IHH EKD. ~- N<* . : little surprise, we might almost say ponster-. nation, was, manifested the other evening •by ' a party of ' sawn^iilara whep informed - ; that one of th«ii> craft Tfaso#ering dressed .- timbai -"at Bs. : per 100 f6«t, = and? undressed, at 2s. -slesß. Withr'tha .present '-i-ofc--Wages, and interest on capital intasted,,;: • these prices will ltar«' butl » lorry tmarjia of profit 'to ■■ the r- party most interntstsd.; This is tlve; beginning of tbe end, that tlje v abolition of tiio duty; on foreign timber i» bound to bring about: ; •' > •: / <C/, -. .„ ;. T ENTEBTAi^MBifT.-^ri'. and^Mw. . jAltxander gaye one of thai* ; entertainme'n^ ; »^ = Maysnibr'a Hall, on; Monday- eyehing." "There was a large attenda'ne'e, thevNatiTe!- . eiement,largely, predominating, with whom >■■ the great centre of /attraction 'wa» thei>per-; ; forming pig. The audience Beanie.d strongly. : - idibixed with larrikin procliYitiesj and threw: $ ' some potatoes on the sifcage before, "Porky " made his appearance. TJiis had ; thf':effaofe ' : contemplated, for the. porcine p.orfornierV nttontion wM thereby djs(»acte[d ? >nd h»; (lid riof go. through his tricks with tys usual cleverness .and skill, losing game of euchre which he rplsye.! -wilh ' qn^Apf 'tho.^ audience'; T-hj entertainment r w*9' brougjii,--? to -a ekw'e^ with ' a iVlaori STahd -■^hioh was : gene'rallj'.%bßd' v tW:b^^pa^;. : .bf''^;' : pcr a i . ■forinapce. Lost axd FoxriiD.^-rOin- BaturdaT; laait, 'Mr. Rdsinskj, of Haltnerston,. wishing jkov; .tender for the Public JiaUihWe, W*s allowed r ! -to take home the plans; ." On .aaching home, ho^e!Ti>K, he found that he ha 4 not .got then\ Svith' 'him. ," Thiak^ng that' h»T<i lef t-'tuem' at the li)enbigh Hotel, he; rodft; ovec.on7S.unday,.tb findthat th^ey ;sr«J» ; iqt:^ there. " The only course; open iraa to issu* iiandbills, offcying » rpwasd^of £2 for^theie recoye^ry. ■'.'This T&ad. tha \deslrea['6ffecti. J f<)r. , within a very short titiifL the plans were d*% liyereaand the reward .paid. ; Jt Befonßthais a' tfide.Bman- of : tbe -tq'wn. nickod them ur on the road to the Station.' frobaljy think-. : ing that a Wwarfl ;them_hy liira : uti'til uls^kpectationiß m thit; respetit wore realiaed: t 'GFree cemments oi^ tho "low tone "of' morality. , thus disclosed hare ? b a een pretty nj|in^roqsi and weVxau assure "tlie finder that lie lias ;%ot risen in.— the' estimation of his fellow-townsmen ".'ini^, ronsequenceof the. course, he thought propeKV "to adopt. . . . 5 ,. ; . :■; " . t -/.;....'. -... 4 "i .;./ '.''./' ; v^MisTA^^^On^S^urdajfyoni . settlers; residing, some six miles from 1 the; ; towmship,: Tece^d,-^hiie ji^ Feildißf » * y telegram, infprming'bi^ 6|^hip / bT?cHer'< *' death; sin England:' T^ffe "colifiid 'Ml.'. Roe, of the DenKigbi and ; ; ttsked7Him to Wv' a .frienci r wis ' '^p^ing; ttvliir * whare that evening that hft. cotildiee him, i as his bipthej^as de^d- Having ft broth#t ; .'esidingwitft i him, it iyns>ugpos'ed that/hefc referred to him, an;d sejeral at ;otir.;*cifcizeni; ; :i,t' once rode out. Oopstable Price wapin^ formed of kb*^^circuinjstftnee^but thinking if wa* too. late to visit ilie #isre, wliich i». .'about a ; mile; and a. half m the buah, deievred- gpifig tlieri : 101 l the%ixt'm6rningS hut telegraphedat once' to .the Ooronor, andi quite, a gloom was cft*t oycr t^e town by.this supposed case ofisudden death. Whea our tpw^man who had ridden' put Mtornodj, tlii &ue facts of thefcase were made knbwn, and the Constabla wrote to the Coroner, jinforming him of the mistake,' - ■