NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 76, 20 September 1879, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

XTu'ACOOTTXTA'nT.B. — For some unexplained reason our usual telegrams did not reach us lnst night. The Oftwawd Svvz Matt,. — We kire hpen requested hv t^e postal nnthoriHp« to intimote that the "English mail, viA Suez. will close at Palmerston, to-morrow evening, at ' 7.45. St. Patrtok's Catttot.to fTrpRPK, — "We have V>(v»nrf>rm ester! to r/»riinr» the mpmhera of the Catholic concrrpsrntion at Plimpton that to-morrow, bpi'u? the third Sun^nv m the month, the u<s llf >l TW a<w> n nd devotional services will be held by the Rev. Father Morean. New Bt.ood. — Tn nnother column we reprint from our WHlm^on contemporary. the Post, brief sketches of t'ifi newlv-filpcteo l member* to the Uon.se of. "Representatives. As, however, that fonrr.nl is not the most reliahle anthon>v npon the political opinions or future notion of the arentlempn alluded to, our readers must receive its dicta upon these points cum arano milt. First Tw the FEtn>.— Tfc will be seen W advertisement elsewhere that Mr. David ■RnijrV , of Fit zherborfc, has plneeri his cple.---j brnted thoroughbred entire " 'Blair Athol," ou the road,' and it will -»Wt FoTton, Awahitri. Sandon, Carnarvon, and all the other townships iii the country at various times, the partiouliirs of which are recorded m [ another page. We havo so vp.rv recently eiven the pedigree of " Blab Athol," that it Is unnecessary to do so asyatn, still those who. wish to peiHue,lt_oan_dQ_sob.y taxiing Co'tyre "h-d vprtispment. A CATjriOTf to Absentees. — During the past week some enrio^itv has been excited by the piatfne.of oflhial-lookins: documents upon vacant sections thronsfiout the town. Upon inquiry from the Town Cleric, we were informed that fie prdcep'Tins was the last course to he adopted with defaulting rifepnyers. According to one of the provision* of the Local Act, iP rites remain unpaid af 1 er repeated applications, the authorities can cnu^e the Innd to be sold at auction, pay themselves, nnd hand the hnlsmce over to fcho authorised Government official. Wo send the intimation greeting " to our absent friends?' The Awahfbt TToteti. — A meeting of the creditors m the insolvent esrote of Mr. Charles Schultzo was held at the Courthouse, P.-ilmerston, on Tuesday. A proposition was made by Mr. Samuels, on behalf of Messrs. Jacob Josephs, to talce ovpr the estate and pay the creditors one shilling m the £. This was indignantly rejpeted, as was also n conn tor proposition from the creditors to Mi-. Samuels that the amount should be twenty shillings, and the lather determined to sell the property under the bill of sole. However, after the meeting Messrs. Josephs were telegraphed to by the creditors, and infor-raed that the public were .making groat efforts to have the license 're. stored, and the resu.lt has been that those gentlemen have telegraphed to thair agent to stop the. sale, pending the action now being tnken with regar-d to the license, Such conduct on their part is most worthy of commendation, and we. have not the slightest doubt will bring its own reward, as wibh the renewal of- the license Mr. Schultze will be able to meet all his claims m full. We are pleased to learn that the. petition for presentation to the LicQnsing Bench is being most numerously signed all over (he County. A Fowl Blow..— lt is not often that o.ur worthy R.M., Mr. Ward, allo.ws himself to be nonplussed by a collision between " Jaw '» and "'equity," but such was the case at the sitting of his court on Thursday. A brace of vagrant dunks had -wandered on to the land of an excitable foreigner, and worked up to desperat ion by the damage done and the lamentations of his better half, the exasperated Russ. seized hold of the first weapon available, and q.niokly endo.d the wanderings of their duckship^ on this sublunary sphew. As might b,e sworn, the. aid of. Justice, was invoked, and the difficulty which her. minister had to decide was whether or, not the vagrants had not forfeited their lives and liberties the moment they became trespassers. The, B.an/jh was evidently of that opinion, but Mr, Hawkins, counsel for plaintiff, argued strongly to the. contrary, and m the dilemma Mr. Staifce was appealed to as amwuseai'iiß. to throw some lijjht on the. .wubjent. . Although that gentlemaa related an anecdote of a celebrated "duck case" which- had occupied two weeks it was found that it bad not sufficient bearing upon the one at ...issue to form a precedent, and he candidly con fessed be- notild not assist tha ■C«»urt. Under the circumstances, ip the absence of legal authorities on the subject it was decided to allow the judgment to stand over until next Court day, when the Bench would deal with the case primed | wilfc CokeLvttelton, and " Co,qlw?."

WoNDEprui, — if True. — The latest pews from Victoria states that the extraordinary personation case at Sandhurst continues to excite great interest. The woman Evans is still carefully confined to the hospital. She no longer refuses food, and the doctors believe her health will soon be restored. The ; ev\denee stjows she carried out fche deception of being a male for nearly twenty year 3 almost without suspicion, as a skilful ploughman, carpenter, blacksmith, and miner — m fnct all trades. There is liltle doubt she married three wives. The first is believed to Lave soon separated from her. She married again, and fche second wife died but not. from ohild-birth as alleged. The third wife still persists, during her ninth year of married life, to have never discovered that her husband was a woman. Slio always regarded Evans as the father of her child. Evans continues Tery moody and uncoynmuniosit.ive. She states' now that they have discovered her sex she 'might as well end her life. A male acquaintance visited her a day or two ago. After feeling the muscles of her arm, she suddenly sprai g out of bed and grappled him, and tried to take his clothes off. She would have overpowered him had not help arrived, when she retired snddenly to bed. It is proved that she had a child herself which is since dead, She claims lo be a nephew of Sir de Lacy Evans. The features of the man pcrsonator are feminine, but wit h a masculine expression and clean face. Her height is about five feet five.