NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 71, 3 September 1879, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

A Rabbit DisTEjCT.-r-Mr. Dalrymple, ! the Chairman of the public meeting held -souie time ago toitake rnpasures to prevent, the influx- of rabbits, has yeceire^d a com--munieatiori?froiii,.-,the Q-pTerninpnj;, stating that m accordance ■with. the. petiiiion this district has been duly declared under the Rabbit, Nuipunco Act, a notification of which ! fact will appear inWcpming Gazette. ,A. Chance.— Those who are desirous of possessing their own property had better make nofe of the land and cot-tage m this town to be offered for sale by Kennedy, Macdonaid,r&r Coi, on next Monday, -at their auction room, Panama street, Wellingr ton. The property is situated near the centre of the . town, haying a. foontage of I 88 Tept by a depth of . 250, pp.* which is evected a conifortable ' and ' cotn'inodioiis dwelling. 1 !' •• ;;' ' „' J< ;■■■'* :. A CoßßECTioir.— lb oiir notice ' of the Makino Mill, vwliich appeared m our issue on Wednesday 'last, the cost of the plant, was, by a tjpbgraphical -mistake , put down as £300, ih'steaH of £3000. 'As > the mistake I is calculated to convey a ; wronjs impression of the resources of tlie mill, we regret that ! it was not detected before publication £30.0 I wonld not much uiore than cover the cost of the planing mill, which forms but a very small item of the plant; •, .-_ Tbeasttre Teove. — "We understand thaq the police: have . hit; \ipon a plant of goods, which -were forwarded to Wanganui by Mr. Pepper, prior to his filing his sche- j dule. The goods consist of pack* saddles i and other art icle's amounting to about £30. | This will be a nice little Avindfall for the creditors, and a civcumstance for which the insolvent will have to satisfactorily account, 1 should he get clear of his; present difficulty. : . ; ; ; The : jRoYA£ Ixltj.sion : I?ts. : — . Messrs Thorne andDarvin gave their second entertainment at the Fcresters' Hall, on Saturday night^t o a very fair , attendance. There was a complete change. '6f f programme, and althoughVthe: tricks and illptsiona w.er.a n^t numerous, they were of an eiceedingly high order of merit, and invoked frequent and loud, applause. Perhaps the trick which caiised most astonishment was performed By Mr. Dary;p of.not.only getting his^hands through a'pahvof - handcuffs, but fixing one of the bracelets iround ;the round of a chair, and" thp 'other through the handle of a can. The enteyfavnment was a most enjoyable one and w,§s assisted by the " business" of of Mi. \ " CoxjßTSHrp A»i> Mabbiage." — It will be seen tMt Mr. 1 B. Short, travelling agent for the Aiistr/ilfan Mutual Provident Asso - ciation, will deliver, ( a" lecture to-morrow evening u,pon the above subject, when the married, the siugle, those who mean to marry, and those who do not, are invited; admission being free. ' Perhaps it may be imagined that because 'Mr. Short is, connected with an insurance company, liis lecture will be composed of dry facts and figures,, but we can assure o,ur readers it is 'nothing of 'the sort. -We have elsewhere had the pleasure of listening to h'mj -and must confess that his powers as, a lecturer are of no mean order, while the mariner m which lie delivers his address is calculated to am usg as well as instruct. . He Weites a Dashed Bab Hajtd. — There are more Handy Andys than Lover's hero, and Hibefnianism is not an indispensable qualification for the character. A d>y or twp:ago we were stuck up by a valet de chambre wlio had received a' telegram from an absent muster -with; a request ' that we woiild ' reacl it for him. Having done so, it evidently dawned upon the applicant that some excuse for the request was necessary, for pointing to the word " Wellington " — which happened'to be the longest and most formidable lookjng m the message — ; tbe shrewd fellow replied " that was the word that slewed me, and you \know the master ; writes ad— d bad hand!'' The perpetrator of the bull, was not an Irishman, but is a cctunlryman of the gentleman after whom the blunder was .named. ;The '.'. Bobqttgh Eiections. — "We are very -much afraid tliat the excitement of the general Elections has been of such a nature as to make the burgesises lose sight of the fact that tlie nominations far the municipal -vacancies' take place to-day at noon. Unlike the contest for the Houee of Represent ulives, tli6 vofciug will be under the new system, which ' provides that ■. the nominations shall be m. Writing instead of verbally. We have not heard for certain whether Mr. Jenssen will allow himself to be iiominnted, Mit we trust, that he rwill make no objection, as from his professional experience bis opinions m the Council give them the weight of nn expert on many subjecia, beside which he has done hard yoeman's work as a member of the Public Works Committee. Mr. Manson, we know, will not 'seek le-electipn, but ueitUer Mr. ,Lin-'

ton nor Mr. Jonssen can be spared from the Council, arid we trust '&tcp v 3 will be taken ; to secure their consent before it is too late. The Nomination.— The of ' the various candidates for the representation of Mann watu took place a£; the Court- : Hous.e, Fbxton. on Saturday, before the Keturning officer, Alfred Eoss, Esq. The proceedings were of an exceedingly tame nature, only tiyo ou6 of the three candidates beins; present. Mr. Snelson was proposed by Mr. Henry M'Neil, and seconded by Mr. Eliot Warburton ; Mr. Halcouibe was pro--posed tyy Mr. Macartliur, and seconded by Mr. Robert. Linton ; and Mr. Johnston was proposed by Mr. James Whisker, and seconded by Mr. A. Gray. We believe it had been the. intention of Mr. Thynhe to have taktn Mr. Q-ray's office, but it was found that he was ineligible, as upon reference it wa3 discovered he was not upon the .old roll. Upon a show of hands, thirtyseven were held up for Mr. Johnston, four for Mr. Halcombe (being thefour who had gone down for the purpose) and two for Mr. Snelson. Oi course a poll was demanded, which will take place next Saturday. More. Than he Bargained tor. — There is a well-known professional musician, who has a perfect mania for the collection of .specimens of timber, indigenous to New Zealand. .Last week: while,employed prof essidnnjly with a traveling cbmpatiy, during his leisure 1 Kqura he wandered into the bush, and struck upon a perfect patch of curiosities, which after considerable trouble and help was landed at the railway station, ready for transport. Wlio,n the manager of the troupe was overseeing the removal of the .luggage and apparatus he found that he whs charged for two trucks, wherein upon his advent- all his good and chattels had .easily fitted into oneImagining that there was.some mistake, he interviewed the porter and shown a truckful of scraps of woods of various sizes and shapes, which he was injForm.e.d " was the forun gintleman's specimens." This was too mu,ch (jven for. sluggish Teutonic blood, and the porter was informed by the manager, that " when he engaged the forun gintleman'9 services at £t per week, he had not bargained for carting 'a truck loajj of firewood about with him." The Monsieur's specimens, have not yet left the glace at J which they were gat hered. ' Comparisons are Odiott?!.— Mr. Snelson addressed the electors of Halcombe on Saturday .evening, and we regret to , have to record that the proceedings were interrupted, m a most unmanly and cowardly mariner. During the- day application -wag made for the uge of the schooMiousiepbut that was denied unless £1 were paid, a demand which was complied with; nevertheless the building was packed witha-tlqt of roughs who would not let the capdijdate- be. heard,;/notwithstanding that a numberiof the respectable people m the town tr,ied,.to get Mr. Snelson a fair hearing. Tins' speaks volumes, particularly when we mention that at Palmerato.n. neither Mr. Johnston por Mr. flalcombe had to pay one single penny ; ■for the bajl, beside getting- 'a fair. land tentive hearing.^; We' are: ; quite sure that; neither of the geritlemap just referred, to; would be party to the" brutal conduct ofof their cowardly •partisan.s-TrConduct which has cans pd .a ' blot to- - rest upon';' Halcomb.e.r for we feel asspred that in..the,pWsen't' I (;a8e, as m all similar ones, the 'disturbance was the work of scoundrels who have no voice; or stake whatever m the country. In spite, howev.ev, of fclie plot; Mr.= Snelson received a hearty vote of thanks, togetljerivSithmaiQy assurances that t liis:; ungvaciojis : reception should be amply atoned for at the ballot box. - "' ' :--"■- '•-._ '■• ■ A TpiiißiE.. WAB3y;N^.— We haye repeatedly written v against, the; influx of Chinese into the Colony, and the words o f caution we have uttered have been supplemented by the following, penned by Mr. EobertiDreighton, opce a prominent legis r lator and journalist m 'New Zealand, but now holding an importiint post' in'Sah Francisco. As Mi*. Greightbn is r in a : position to view the evil- in all. its naked deformity, > his words will carry weight with them. He says, ma letter to Mr; Swansqri, lateimember for Newton :— " I have simply-' : to say that I examined' it minutely '-and dispassionately. I saw it illustrated industrially, socially, morally, an 4 intellectually, and I can conceive no • greater vcurse to any Anglo-Saxon ccmuluiiity than a^B?f?aVm of Chinese cooließ.' It is worse than a dry-rot. You cannot conceiye of [any thjljg so utterly destructive of our civilisation, methods and results. There are more adult male Chinese m California fchan there; are. American citisens on the. great register of the' State, and they are coining-it the rate of 1200 to 2000, a monlb' ; wliile" the white 1 immigration has . stopped. That means a rapid absorption of the coast by r the Chinese, who preserve, . their own. ciustoms, observe their own laws, practice r their , o wn i iddlatrou^ rites,, and have fifty per cent, more felons' 4nv prison " m proportibli to" population, than any other , race. This is not a pleasant state of things ' to contemplate: -Keep-it out of New Zealand."