NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 97, 3 December 1879, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

Concert. 1 jn Aid of St. Patrick's CIfTJROIJ. — Wo understand the committee of the above Church purpose giving an entertainment m aid of its funds on the 22nd of January, and that most of those ladjes and gentlemen who so generously gave their aid upon the last occasion, have kindly consents:! to again. coate forward. Tub -District Court. —The first sitting of .the Palmerston District Court will take place on Monday week, the 15, th instant. Sfo far thwe is o^ly ona case set down for I hearing — that of Benjamin Pepper, charged with perjury, — but it is more than probable I it will be supplemented hy one of horsestealing, the preliminary hearing of which takes plane at Feilding on Friday. The Aruival or the Wanderer. — In a yeconl issue, we. published the account of a wonderful discovery of a relative by Mr. ■JqrgtMiscn, of Terrace End, and that the long-lost one was on his way to Palmerston from the West Coast. On Su»u|ay lie arrived m the Stormbird at Poxton, and on Mon.laj was united witfy his sister, from whom ha ha;} h^aa separated for. seventeen years. "Yorxa Buioset "— Tb will be seen by our advertising eolu-nns that, that pure bred Clydesdale how, " Young Baronet,"/ lias i bstn lodged at the R.iyal Hotel stable 3, I where it will remain f.>r the rest of the sea. »ofi. The howe whi«h is m-.v ri.--ing ftve yeais old, took the first nv'ixo as a two-year-old at the =ihow held at ilirlon m 1876, and hi^s bw'en locked upon as se.jou.l to nona m t^e Rangifcikei district. The Pai-mkiiscox School. — Tlie annual examination by the Sc'.iool Inspector, will take place on Monday and Tuesday, t!ie first day bv»ng devote. I to the. juvenile and the second to ihe, more advanced clashes.. In ju.-itii-e to t!\a s-hool, and the teach er.-i, IV^r. ai\d Mrs. Watson, parents of pupils should he caruful to . scad. (heir children upon each day, so that the TnspeetoK may b.^able to see the real strength of the suhool. TilH D,rSTJIICT COHRT CO^SUI(TA.TIO«H[.— T)ie following are the nam.ss- of the (un) lqcky indiyiduals whose names have been drawn to aasi3t ut the District Court ConsuUatiqn, which upcus on the loth instant; prizes, i^ye, sihillings a day ; — Messrs H. fojonrad and Jeffries, from Bun,nytho.rp.e ». and h'i>a\ Pal morstibn Messrs Hoe, Hartley, Haii&s, P^iYdy, Mitfop.t|, i^earso^, Bar^.eß, Evans, Chester, Davyick, Oha,rles, Muujfond, and Milverton. \Foop ?ob tub* Law-sehs.— jit is soraor .what af a coin,oid,enre that the coming irourts afc!Fo3fton, Feilding. and Palme,rsson,, (to-day,- toiinorroxv, a\id Friday) have interesting cases sot down for heai-ing. At

of the Fourth Estate and a well-known Counfcj Councillor, m which the litter will be the defendant, -will come before the Bench. At this court it 13 move than probable a ca3e for defamation of character will be hoard ; while at JTeilding the ense of alleged arson against; Mr. Halcombe is la be dealt with. The DRaitEßs of Cojipabisos.— A. bibulous and pugnacious character with tlie musical appellation o£ John Bell, w.n broilght up on Saturday, before Messrs. Dalrymplc and McNeil, upon three charges— Being drunk and disorderly jjusing obscene language and resisting the police. Upon the first, he wa3 mulcted to the amount of fire shillings, oi 1 twenty-four hours 1 imprisonment ; or the second, ten shillings, for forfcy-eight hours -, and for resisting the police, he was fined £1, or one week, the terms of imprisonment to run concurrently, Mr. Bell elected to'suffer the incarceration. This Rabbit Trustees.— Tne following circular has been received from the Colonial Secretary's Office with regard to the election of trustees under the Rabbit Nuisance Act :— " Sir,— The ratepayers m the Palraersfcon Nopth Rabbit District baring failed to ele^t trustees, it now devolves on the Governor, under Section 5 of c The Rabbit Nuisance Act Amendment Act, 1877,' to appoint them. I am accordingly directed by the Colonial Secretary to request you to be so good as to inform him at your earliest convenience whether you have any objection to your name being suggested to his Excellency for appointment as one of the trustees, to act with the other four gentlemen named m the margin." The above was forwarded to Messrs. R. Linton, Jf.89.33 Linton, George Snelson, Henry M'Neil, arid John Taylor Dalrymple, all of whom, we beliere, hare signified fthejr acceptance of the trust. We have heard that two of the gentlemen named are ineligible, inasmuch as they are not possessed of one hnndred acres of land m the|district ; but we imagine that an honor which they by no means sought would not hare been thrust upon them by the Government, if such were the case. " STTN3HINB."— "We have received from 1 the publishers,, Messrs. Woodfield. and Jolly, of Dunedin, the first number of a new 1 weekly publication, entitled "Suushine.'' As its name denotes fi\e new applicant for patronage is a messenger of fun and frolic, evoking smiles of j commendation upon pe. rusal, and wiling -away a pleasant hour with its witticisms. In enunciating their programme the editorial co-partnership — who, by th,e way, dub.ba;! by the antithetical appellation of Saint and Sinner— state :— " man and his follies will be our subject for amusement ; his politics, his social absurdities ; his mental delusions, his moral weaknesses, his endeavors to attain perfection, and the foolish, attempts to uci-ive at definite ideas on indefinite subjects." "Sunshine is apparently designed to shed ifc3 rays upon all, without any politicial biasi and, consequently it may escape the fate of it* predecessors m the satirical line, which dilated upon the" foibles and ridiculed the aitions of but one class. * Our new contemporary is as yet small m stature, but we $rus.t that basking m the sunshine of popular favor, it may increase m size, strength and the sinews of war.