LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 72, 6 September 1879, Page 3

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

iMPAmnAiiTY. — At the Licensing Court held at Foxton on Wednesday, when the application by Mr. Shultze for removal of j j&eine waif beipgj lifcarclf it transpired that several jta^ipa'^haa signed both petitions — for, and against, the license being granted. After this -who will dare to breathe a word ajj&n«t< the/bigh sense of. strict impartiality which exists m the Maori breast. Comino Saib.— Qn Tuesday Mr. JT. Mays--1 mor will sell by auction at tho Warwick street yards, draught horses and' saddle horses, plough, toots, &c, together^ yfi^h the lease of 70 acres of land at Awahun : and on Wednesday at T. Bradley!s Store, ' Cheltenfoiji $e/ stock-in-t&de o£ a general Store, a quazte* acre section m that township and an interest m 44 acres bush land. We need not add that lunch will be provided. 15ie above sales are by order of the> Triis^e c. m estate, TMfc S|, pieman. ? '' \ Not Eaie, Bttt ' FiAii.— One o£ those oases which illustrates the difference between " the manners and customs " of the Aboriginals and those of the Europeans was decided a$ a Native Court, held at Kafcariki on Tuesday. The case was one inYplving, a, breadh of the Seventh QqmWndmepV the accused being' both Natives. The charge was 'proved to the satisfaction of. .tha.^^ court, and the dusky Lpthar^o, a married man, was mulcted m the siiin of £2 9^., his dark-eyed partner m guilt being let off with the lighter . penalty of. seventeen shillings. THB JX^WSIXai; OV BKTyBE TIMBSV— W* i?&T e 8 ' Bl'ea*;8 I ' ea * ; pleasure m noticing any little matter which indicates the setting m of. a 'reaction from the long continued stagnation of trade from which we have been suffering. "As one of these we may may,mention that on Wednesday no less than 34 truek 4 ? were received and despatched by tlie station master her?. We tru^t wo may

accent this as an augury of a commercial remal. We are glad to learn, too, that matters are looking brighter than they were * fey we»ka ago with jbhe saw miile*s, and we way therefore fairiy hope that ws liw-e sees jtbe worst of the bad limes, Thk Awabtjbi Hotbl.— lt will be m the remembrance of our readers that at the Licensing Court held m June, the license for the Awahuri Hotol was not granted, owmg : tp p\ip application not having been }°^§ ed m time ' At tha licensing Court held atFoxtoa on Wednesday, Mr. Schultze again applied for a renewal of his license. Petitions from th.c Ifatives, fo* and against the same were put m, and the Bench after considering the matter very fully for neauly a oouple of hours, refused to grant it. The COmm .r * ionjJl>B **went were Ma. Ward, R.M. and Messrs.. and Sanson, J.B. i We shall have something moge to say on I this matter In. our next. I The Timbee Dutit.— As corroborating the views expressed last week of the probability of our markets being flooded with cheap, American timber, to the seriousi dotrixnent of our Colonial saw milling infcereit, we noticed m the joail newt i<eceired by the San Francisco steamer, the othea day, that a large vessel named the Hawkes' Hope had sailed for New Zealand " with an immense, cargo of lumber." This is not very agreeable flew? fcjr our saw-mUler*. Theve is one consolation, however, for them, namely, th,at the present state of affairs will not b> allowed to continue inucb longer. We have, reason for. believing that the duty will be, re-imposed at an eady pe.-iod of the Session,, whafcaYer th 6 VB.s^\\, of the election may be. ReehsedJ — Much sympathy was manifested for. Mr. IBe^lveej when it became known m the township that nis application for a license for the splendid hotel he has just erected had been refused by the Licensing Bench. Without comparing ouvselyes with smaller townships such as Bu}ls and Marton, which are allowed their three, and four licensed houses, it is generally acknowledged that two hotels are unabje to supply the amount of accommodation which the, over increasing num,h,i < rof visitor^, travellers, and residents require. The. season, for travailing is rapidly approaching, and we shall be having anathemas hurled at BJeildin^, by angry tourists, on account of insufficient accommodation, and we. shall be taunted with want of spirit and enterprise m not keeping well abreast of our grp wing requirements m this direction. It is. confidently e,xpeoted, however, that a renewal of the application for a license at the next sitting of the Court will be successful. In the meantime Mr. Bellvee is subjected to serious loss, without the slightest prospect of redress.