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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 17, 6 August 1886, Page 2

A sash and door factory is to be started here almost immediately. Tlie idea of going to Ihinedin to live must have completely upset his Excellency tin- Governor. No proclamation about tin- Town Roord yet. What does it mean ? We remind members of the Farliamentary Union that tlu lust meeting of tlu- session will be held on Monday night, and it is expected there will be a full attendance. Mr McCardle's Land Rdl w ill be taken in committee, and this alone should be sufficient to induce every member to be in his sent. Important matters connected with tho coming hall will be discussed after the adjournment. Sergeant Fox committed suicide at Napier on Tuesday by swallow ing half a pint of carbolic acid. The duceasui laid '«•< u drinking heavily lately, and went home .4 an early hour on Mon<lav night in a state of intoxication. Fox bail bee n a sergeant of the 14tli Regiment, and was decorated with the Crimean. Turkish, and New Zealand medals. On retiring from , tin service ho was appointed drill instruc- ! tor to the \ elunteors, afterwards depot ■ master, and lately lie was immigration ] officer, still had charge of the Refuge j under tlu- Charitable Aid Board. He loaves a widow and uuuicrous grown-up OtAuily.

yr = In the :iatof tenderers for addition* to tlw l’qs—Atua- U"t(J wo omitted Mr Kflt*.! 7Sa*d. was IHHS. Messrs Voots. Huteben. and Rlack waited 1 »Mr Wajpq.in Thursriai regarding I offer ofbri'.e fofapnldicjibrarv. The i id wmttsJM'-'ttd. and we end. ratal).l ib 4 m thy£P'lih u n of tup ociuvii Atoe to j that the site be *ccepterr. it being most suitable for the purtKise. and that arrangements be made for building at once. A public meeting is convened for next Monday evening, at the school.house, nt 0.80, when the report of the committee will lie submitted. yutVirs are ‘JoaVng nlsmt that CJovrq-n-' ment do not intend to adhere to their promi ** of advancing money to selectors t a: the Village Settlement for bush felling, > ike. XVe are nt a tewatiim to state tliat j there is no foundation for the statement, and that selectors will receive advances 0U Mr * rep.irt. Mr K 1 wards has disposed of his interest in the l’ahiatun coach service to Mr AilMnenu., A notice appears elsewhere, Measles are very prevalent ill the Mai vern district, Canterbury, and are attacking indiscriminately persons of all ague. At the religions servico of the Royal Orange Institution of New South Wale*, upwards of 5000 persons were present. A man in Rear Alley, California, started n fire in a chimney that had not been used for a year. There appeared to be some obstruction, and he understood what it was when 200]bs of honey melted and ran down his back. Thu bees had been using it for a hive. The Manchester papers note as an interesting fact the decay of Dissent m that city. The reason for this is said to be the vigorous and aggressive work of the Established Church, which has to a large extent become the church of the ]>eoplo in that part of England. Important news condensed.—There are rumor* of dissentions in the Cabinet.— Sir Robert Stout has been livid up with the gout.—Te Whiti is now staying at Petone. The Liverpool Weekly Courier says:— Four missionaries and 5200 gallons of rum left on the same ship to interview the native Afiican. We don't see how ho can get away front both. The following letter has been forwarded to tlie Post for publication:—Kimberley Gold Diggings.—Dear Harry, I am oil the diggings at last, and am likely to stop here, for I shall not leave till I have made my fortune, which 1 am not likely to do. There is a party of three of ns. and we are making from £5 to A.G a week ; but we can get very little water, and the climate is frightful. The blacks stenl everything we have got, nearly, and to crown all, we are frightened for our lives, as the place is reeking with venomous reptiles. * <■ Tho l’ahintua mail service is most inconvenient. i'or instance, the Palmerston mail arrives iti Woodv ille early in the day, and the Pahiatua portion has to remain there until the coach leaves the following morning, thus being kept within ten miles of ns a whole day und night. Almost the same may ho said of tho Napjer mail, which reaches Woodville about three o’clock in the afternoon, and is also detained until next morning. What is to prevent Government allowing these mails to be brought on the sauie day ? It need not interfere with the contract existI ing between them and Mr Macara, for we | believe residents are prepared to make the necessary arrangements with Mr Adamson, coach proprietor, provided permission is given him to bring our Napier and W est Coast mails dou u from Woodville in the evening, also taking one back next morning. W# trust that the redtape will he cut ossunder, so that the settlers of Pahiatua may receive what they are justly entitledto—a more complete mail service. Janies Munn, whose actions on Tuesday led to the belief that he was insane. Was kept under restraint at tho Pahiatua Hotel during that night, Mr Reaumont, : into whose charge Mr Stewart had con- : filled him, having on several occasions j the greatest difficulty in preventing him 1 from jumping through the window. 'i Munn has been in tho district about u i ‘ortnight, having up ty the time of his arj rival here been working on the railway contract at Mataivvi, and was considered j a most industrious man. He was succos- ■ fill in getting one of the Village Settle- : ment sections, on which he erocted a ! tent, where he and his family have hoen I residing. Mrs Munn says fie had been low-spirited for some time, and on Monday night caused her great uneasiness by repeatedly going into tho bush calling out the name of his brother, who was not in the district at all. She persuaded him to come into Pahiatua on Tuesday; but he managed to get away, and went back to the settlement again, and got into another man's tent. Here he made himself quite at home, and was undressing to get into bed, when the wife of the owner of the tent thought it was high time to interfere. She went for her husband, who was working a short distance off, and he brought Munn back to Pahiatua. Mrs Munu is placed in a most unenviable position through this misfortune, being left with four young children to provide for, and she cannot face the tent again i after what has occurred. The question is what is to be done for them. The family have beeu staying at the hotel since Tuesday, but that is no place for them, and if any kind friends can offer anv sug gestions we have no doubt they will be thankfully received. To Mr Stewart too much praise cannot be given, for there are few who would have taken such care of an unfortunate family os ho has done in the present instance. The Auckland Dairy Couii>any's premises. Remucra, were cempletely destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning. Tho buildings consisted of large wooden cowsheds, grain and milk stores, Ac. Stephen Spakluig, formerly employed as sul> manager by the Company, surrendered himself to tile police as having deliberately caused the fire. While the fire was raging, Spalding roused tlie company's employees, and told them that lie hod net fire to the buildings, and pul powder under them to blow them up. He left the Company’s employment some time ago, owing to a dispute about dismissing a boy, and since then had threatened the maiia Rer's life. Two cows were roasted alive. Spalding has been brought up at the Police Court and remanded. Ills behaviour is so eccentric that no doubt is felt that he is insane. Tlu Wairampa Star says We are not admirers of either Major Atkinson or Mr Wakefield, but we are in full accord with them in protesting against continued borrowing, ami we hold the firm conviction that New Zealand will not be able to right h retjf or remove the depression fr> ;n which she is suffering Antil a pretti clem sweep has been made <M the Public W irk I>-i4rtmc.it. J

It liaa been r- .-ord :- • Mr* Minin'*omr, tlmt Mr Burnett bo a*krd to jiiiow ft «obsrrq»iiotk to hr tdkoO Uj» on 'tight of bi* lecture. the proceed* to l-s • loT«itß<l towards assisting the unfortunate md family to reiu H Ihincdwv. whir. -wo mi lsrst.u I it it Mrs Mount looir' to jri.. The idea might iu- v with Mr Harnett'* approval; if to it ia more than likely sufficient fund* will bp miw-d for the tiurjioup, for if there is one thing more than another that the settlers ,if I I’ahiatna are noted for, it is a desire to assist those who, like Mrs Mnnn. have met with unavoidable misfortune. A private letter received at Chritn-ldirols states that the Kainpni WoolleiT ffnidpany's manufactures attracted much attention at the Indian and Colonial Exltilotion, and that the Prince of Wales hod ordered a suit of their materials from a West End tailor. The Mayor of Christi church sent a congratulatory to leer am to i the Mayor of Kaiajioi mi tin- subject. A fatal fight took place near Ootilbnm, N.S.W., a few weeks ago. A carrier * named Davis. and the keeper of a wine shop named John Jones, had a quarrel, ■ and they proceeded to settle their diffur- , ences by using an axe and a tomahawk. Jones was fatally injured, and Davis was i frightfully mutilated. Davis was arrested : in Tmnkey on suspicion of having niur- , dered Jones. Jones was quite conscious ; that his injuries were fatal and said so. and asked to be buried next to his wife in a private graveyard used by their family. A case of alleged ill-treatment by a pupil teacher is reported from North Canterbury. A girl ten years old was brought to the township suffering from two large and deep seated abscesses on the leg, causod, the father alleges, from a blow given by a pupil teacher at the school she hud been attending. A disgusting exhibition, viz., an arranged prizefight between two women, took place in Collingwond, Melbourne, on Wednesday, the Slst ultimo. A large crowd of the supjiorters of the combatants i witnessed the fight Isays an eichaugel ! and yelled out encouragement in the most liltliy expressions. Both women fought with the determination of infuriated I leasts, and displayed considerable scienco in the “ manly art,” and by their skilful tactios proved that they had been careftillv trained for the content. Each woman was severely punished. but they took the punishment with remarkable coolness. They hugged and tussle 1 and battered one another until it seemed as if they were fighting to the death. At the end of half an-hour one of the women was led off badly hurt, and the other was a disfigured, but a jubilant, victor. Pahiatua can boast of a funny man. This is how he writes to the Hawke's Bay Herald : —The name of the township is a great bore. No one pronounces it properly, and very few can spell it. A Woodville friend says it is really Piatu, the Maori name of a vessel of totara bark used to stow away preserved pijjt-ons. tor my part I say that the first requisite of a name is that it should be easy to spell, pronounce and remember. I grant that Pahiatua iH musical, but then it is never called that. It is I’artoo, Pye-a-twoer, Pee artvva, and so on ; and where is your music ? 1 remember a station in England called Crewe. Could you have . an easier name to spell or remember ? So here is a hint for a reformer. Let us abolish the nn*pellal,!. Pahiatua, and , substitute the very unromantic but j practicaj “ Crewe." It has a local application, as it happens to bo the surname of the last landlord of the local hotel, to whoiu I apologise for the liberty i 1 am taking. We (Post) have to heartily congratulate the Hon. Native Minuter on the successful passage of the Native Lands Adnimistratmn Bill and Native Land Courts liill | through tlieir final stages. Both are I important and naeful measures, from which greet benefits may be exj>ected to result. Tlieir passage marks an entirely new departure in regard to native land purchases, ami we believe Mr Balance's projKisals will prove beneficial both to the native owners and to the colony in promoting settlement. The forces he has hail to encounter in his effort to get these moasures passed into law have been numerous and strong, but he has met them with firmness and tact, and ha* achieved a signal victory, for which he deserves great credit. If tho session had , been productive of no other useful measure than these two Bills, they alone would have saved it from tho reproach of barrenness. The London correspondent of the Dunedin Star, asks :—“ How is it tlmt no specimens of New Zealand marble are exhibited in your section at South Kensington ? This query occurred to me through a conversation I had with that eminent sculptor, Mr Weldon McLean, at the Savage Club. Mr McLean was deploring the cost of marble, and instanced the fact that a block (tftt by 7ft), out of which his exquisite group ' Spring ’ —now one of great attractions at Urosvenor Gallery—was chiselled, cost £260. We went on to s|>eak of the marble fracturing that rendered the Casual Sound Company's stone useless, a.id Mr McLean remarked that it was quite possible that the New i Zealand folks have been premature in throwing up the sponge. Even the quarry from which the before-mentioned AMoO block came w as, he said, abandoned some years ago by a company ow ing to the stone fracturing. The foreman of the works, however, had confidence in tho quarry, and bought it for a trifle. After working on fruitlessly for some time, he found solid stone. He is now worth half-a-milliun of mouey. 1 The Post, under the head of “ Kochs ! Ahead." says:—Ministers should now strain every nerve to bring the session to an early close. Everything that is not urgently necessary should be abandoned, for the House is getting into a nasty temper, and if they cannot send members home within the next ten days their seats on the Treasury Benches will not be worth a fortnight's purchase. There lias been such want of tact displayed within the last week or two, such almost untiardoiiahle bungling, culminating in Friday night's defeat, that even the best (friends of the Ministry find it difficult tu «av any thing in defence of their recent actions, while the wavervra show a growing di». position to go openly over the other side. The recent division list is full of warning, and it only wants another such division to lead to a crisis even at this late period of the session. No one is particularly anxious to bring sueli an event tlout. and if Minislcra will confine themselves now to completing absolutely* tiovsun work and obtaining supplies tliev will be safe, but nut otherwise. Says the New Zealand Times :—At an rarl\ hour on Tuesday morning the New Zealand limi ltd! w as re el a third Intis and pa**.-.!. There was no real opposition to the Bill itself, although »u amendment

that it he read that (lav six months was moled and a division token on it. that being meant simply as a formal prut—i against borrowing. It was manifestly impossible for the Government or the House to aree|>t sueh an amendment even a|uirt from the fact that its acceptance would have necessitated either Ihe resignation of the Ministry nr the mumsliate dissolution of Parliament. Far if winy(thing at all is clear annd the haze ,*f c-»n fusion in whirh everything connected with Public Works and Finance has been involved by the protracted senes of the debate* which closed early this morning, • it is that the Government lmjierat:volj r.spiire at least a million and a quarter to , be raised to enable existing engagement* ! t*> he fulfilled. Therefore it would have been an act of madness to throw out the TTnan TfiTl. because such n pmereding ■ must have precipitated a most serious financial crisis by depriving the Government of the means of meeting liabilities already incurred.