NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 49, 19 June 1880, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

The Public Vaccinator. — We hare been requested to intimate to the public of Palmorston that Dr. Maclachlan, the G-o---vernment Vaccinator, will be afc the Palmeraton North School-house, this afternoon, afc two o'clock, for the purpose of operating in that official capacity; Important Meeting op Lioensbd VicTUAIiIBRS. — A meeting of all the publicans in the counties of Eangitikei and Manawatii will b« held on Monday, at the Junction Hotel, Sandon, at two o'clock. We have not beard the precise business of the meeting, but as the notice convening jt states that it is of Vital impoi-fcance to the trade, it behoves every member, to put in appearance. REQTTiMNa Looking- Avter. — Very grave complaints, have been made to us of the damage being done to the. Stoney Greek road by a number of vagrant cattle, which have taken up their, grazing ground on the aide of the road. We understand, that the cattle to the number pf thirty pr. forty, have been placed in a paddock without a fence, and that consequently the animals stray on to the roadside. As our informant assures us that the injury daily being done, is of a most sei'ious character, we should recommend . the Engineer of the County Council to take action in the matter, GRoas Neglect.— We have again to complain of the gross carelessness displayed by some oflHal in connection with tho Pnlmerßton Railway Station, in neglecting to forward our issue of Wednesday tp Foxton, and nlon£ the line of railway. It i3 only a week since th& same thing occurred, and the natural conclusion is that a similar culpability it exhibited concerning tha parcels of the public. On the list occasion we refrained from preferring a complaint to the Greneral Manager, but we rau«t now ask him to inquire into the matter, and replace or punish the offender, who is evidently wilfully careless or. grossly incompetent for his position. The Masonic Halt.. — The contractors for tho Masonic. Hdll— Messrs. Ewing and Ghirdmer — are pushing on. fast with that building, which is now verging toward completion. The. contract time, we believe, terminates on the 30th of this month, and it is more than probnble that notwithstanding the large amount of time lost by tha broken weather, the. building will be out of the hands of the carpenters by that time. Aa the Hall has now assumed something : like its definite shape, an idea pan hegleanod of its architectural design. The building, when finished, will be an improvement to j the town. 'hi general,, and Main Street in particulai*. A Wasted Life.— :The mnn Holms, who on Thursday was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for obtaining money under false pretences, is a molancholy example of a life, wasted through a cursed infatuation for drink. The prisoner, a highly-accomplished man, a graduate of a Danish university, and master of several languages, is 'the son of an ex- Danish Cabinet Minister j. bat instead of employing those, accomplishments and abilities of which he is possessed to. his advantage, he t preferred loafing and drinking at publichouse baw. He is now branded with the stain of crime, and although his sentence has been comparatively a very light one, there is little hope that it will prove a lesson to, or. arresfc him in, his downward, career. Thk MooßHOtrsK, Memorial — As it ia more than probable that some of our readers may not know the nature of the honor sought to be bestowed upon Mr. Moorhouse by Sir Cj-eorge Grey's porposed Bill, we may explain that it is of the. following nature.:— " That it shall be lawful for. the Governor 1 to cause, a gold medal to be provided, bearing thereon a suitable inscription. .Such medal to be presented to Mr. Moorhouse^ and be recognised as a free pass of .■ the. ft,rsti class over all Government railways in New Zealand to William Moorhouse and his de- i scendants for aver." It-appears not to have dawned upon the grateful framer o£ the Bill," that ia the year l9Bo there, is a propabiity of the descendants of Mr. Moor.house beibj reckoned by hundreds, • and there; appears to be no provision made for an unlimited supply of golden medals, or special trains for the favored progeny. ' ' T ; hb' I)isTßi6i 'Court.-— The next sitting •of theDistiict Courtywiiropen at the Town Hall on Monday, but it is not expected to : be ; a'very protracted' one, a's— thanks to Mr. Ward, the Resident Magistrate,— there are no criminal cases. It now appears certain that unless the Minister of Justice intervenes, Mr. Ward will continue to defiantly ignore the existence, of the District Court at Pahnerston altogether. It maj be reoollected that when Pepper was committee! for trial the case wap sent to ttw S»Drems Qwjffc ;

at Wanganui, which, however, sen<- it back to the proper tribunal at Palmertson. Only a few weeks ago, a fiiniilau charge of perjury was sent to the Pistrict Court at Wangdnui, J although thereby three times the expense was entailed upon the Crown and. the prisoner. We understand that the matter is about to be brought under the notice pf the Minister of Justice, with a view of compelling Mr. Ward to follow the rule laid down by the Chief Justice for., committing Magistrates—leaving them no option in the matter, but insisting that the prisoner. he committecl to the nearest tribunal possessed of jurisdiction to deal with the case. Throwing a Serat, andi Catching a Mackbbbl. — A little while ago we pointed I out how the Wanganui Education Hoard by calling for tenders, for the B.ulla' schoolhouse in this paper, saved twenty tithes the price of the advertisement. We can further point to a similar result with regard to ; the school desks, which are to be made by Mr. Venn, of this town. With such b,enefio;al results before it, we are a little surprised thiiA the same Board are now calling for tenders for job printing, and school requisites, and confine their notifications to the Wanganui papers. It may seem presumptuous to say so, but we can assure the members of the Board that P.dmerston could safely compete with Wanganui, either in the quality or prices of its job printing. We'certainly think that when the Board are in want of a supply of materials, every firm within its jurisdiction should have a chance of competing. - Gold in thb Taeabua ,Bangbs.— For some considerable Dime a party of ' p'rospeetorß under the command of an experienced minor, named Rankin, have been searching; for gold amongst the creeks and gullies on the Tararua Ranges, which so far have been found in small but not payable' quantities. The leader, however, is so firmly convinced that there is a rich vein somewhere in the vicinity that he and his party toiled on in hope until their provisions, gave' out. On Wednesday there was a. meeting of the principal men of the town, who in order to thoroughly test the matter, gave a guarantee to a storekeeper for provisions for the party for the next. three months. The place where the search is being made is fourteen miles from PUmerston,' and;. this- party are most sanguine of their efforts being ultimately crowned with su.oces.s, Tl\e : abovei ■particulars were gleaned from Mr. Rankin himself; who is particularly anxious that no inflated or false reports 'should be spread abroad, which might be calculated to. mislead or. im duue persons to imagine that matters are other than they really are.., ,As the party have, been out' all through the recent wretched weather, as may have beeja expected, they have undergone some privations, and, the whole of them more or less suffer from rheumatism. So far they have expended some £60 in the venture, and now that their efforts are being backed, they start away again on Sunday. A Sharp Customer. — Those who seek the refuge of the Insolvent Court a.re not always swayed tp such a step by compulsion, and in eight cases. o,ut of ten the " unfortuuates." tak.e. to the " whitewashing " voluntarily. In fact, so acclimatised h,as the practice become, that when a demand for payment is made, one naturally expects to hear as a reply, " Oh, if you press me, I'll file." There is one gentleman of our. acquaintance who has "had this stereotyped reply as. his stock answer, and has been suueessful in, staying off payment hy it on more occasions than one. A few,days ago he wa9 pressed by.a creditor, against whom, however, he had a small contra, and assuming an air of great secrecy, he informed him he was 'going to file next dayj but as th^y were neighbors he did not believe in "lotting him in." To avoid this, he proposed that they should square accounts by contra, " for," says lie, " between you a,nd me my estate won't realise a. boh in; the £, while you can, he. aued by tha trustee for the full amount of your debt to me. V The bait took, the argument 'was a most convincing one, and five minutes later receipts were exchanged, and thus the wily one got rid of a£7 debt for £2. As the impudent' trickster happens to be. a debtor- of ours, he will have a chance of- putting hie longpromised threat into execution, for assuredly if he does not enter the Insolvent he will be forced into the Police Court.