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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 18, 10 August 1886, Page 2

We have to acknowledge receipt from the Government Printer of several batches of Parliamentary {wiper*. It i» stated that the Directors of the Waiino* Plains Railway Company are not likely td sell the railway on tne term* as altered by Parliament. Mr Beaufort insert* a business card over the leader. It is expected that the extension of the Wellington-Mauriceville line to Mangnmohoe will be ready for traffic before the end of October next, in time to bring down next season’s wool. Mr Howlett makes an alteration in his advertisement. It will be seen that the Makaretu Cash Store is now open. The monthly meeting of the Road Board will be held on Saturday evening, when a rate of fd in tho £ will be struck. A notice of transfer from Messrs J. and P. Morison to Mr William Brazil of section 10, Block IV., Makuri, will be found in our advertising columns. Mr Best mokes an alteration in his business notice. The Alexandra Cavalry, at a meeting held at Wanganui on Saturday night, | determined to take steps towards forming o special settlement in the Otsmakopua block, under the small grazing runs condition*. Forty name* were handed in, all young fellows brought up to farming and bush work. A verdict of found drowned has been returned at the inquest on John Hancock's body, found in Lako Wokatipu. The medical evidence wont to show that there wero no wounds on the body to cause death. From an advertisement elsewhere it will bo seen that the Woodville cricketers intend giving a hall in tho Theatre Koval to-morrow night. The price of tickets has been fixed at la 6d for double, and 2s 6d for single (lady only.) Munn, on tho medical certificate of Drs l Husking and Beard, was committed to the i Wellington Lunatic Asylum by Mr Strat- : ford, R.M., on Friday. On the way from Mas teflon to Wellington, Munn became very violent, and caused a deal of trouble. Wo remind our readers of the treat in store for them at tho Templars' Hall tomorrow evening, when Mr Burnett, the popular temperance lecturer, will deliver an address on “ Pictures from Real Life.” Tho Eketahuna concert ia fixed for Friday, 20th instant, and besides the local talent, arrangements are being made for securing the assistance of friends from Masterton and Pahiatua to take part in the entertainment. Should the weather be at all favorable, we learn that Pahiatua will be well represented from a visiting point of view. Tho Examiner asserts that the railway workshops are without doubt to be at Woodville; and the Manawatu Times is equally confident that they are to be at Palmerston. Knowing our contemporaries as we do, we must accept both statements ; but still, where are operations to be commenced first 7 Wc back Woodville. A meoting of the Parliamentary Union ball committee was held last evening, when it was decided that, owing to the large number expected to bo present at the ball, Messrs Briggs A Gibbs' auction room be used for tho occasion. The price of admission was fixed at 5s for gentlemen (members of tho Union only), ladies free (by invitation). The tender of Mr Hicks for supplying refreshments was accepted.

There is every possibility of a Horticultural and Industrial Society being formed hero, and several gentlemen interested in its establishment are gathering information as to tho best course to be adopted. No doubt valuable hints could be obtained from Woodville. A mooting should be arranged, so that a strong working committee might be sc-loctod, comprising settlers from various parts of the district. Tho boundaries of the Town District of Pahiatua are described as follows in Gazette : —All that area in the County of Wairarajia East, bounded towards the north-east by soctions Nos. 10 and 11, block VIII.. Mangahao Survey District; towards the south-east by sections Noe. 18 and 22, said block VIII.; towards tho south-west by tho road forming the northern boundary of sections Nos. 28 and 27, said block VIII.; towards the west by section No. 1, block VII ; and towards the north-west by the Mangatainoka River. The Good Templar body have ilecidcd to hold a promenade concert and ball oil Thursday evening, the proceeds to lie devoted to the relief of Mrs Munn and family. A very good programme is being arrangeil, and considering the object no doubt there will be a large gathering. Mr Birnie informs us that he has sent word to the railway employees at Mataiwi, with whom Munn was working, of the circumstances, and it is more than likely substantial aid will come from that quarter, which, added to the proceeds from Thursday night, ought to bo sufficient to enable Mrs Munn to reach her friends in Dunedin. The heavy rains of the past few days have flooded all the creeks in the district, and during yestrday the Mangaramarama overflowed its banks in several places. The rood and land in tho vicinity were covered with water, making it diffi cult for traffic. It will be remembered that at the last meeting of the Road Board notice of motion was given that all timber be cleared out of this and other rivers by owners bounding on to them, the main reason for this being to give the water a clear course, and thus lesson the chance of an overflow. The Road Board meets on Saturday night, when the notice of j motion will be dealt with. At a meeting of tin- Parliamentary Union last night, Mr MeCardle's I-and Bill was considered in committee, but it was found impossible to get through the whole of Uie clauses, and it was therefore decided to meet again next Monday even- j mg for tho purpose of pushing the bill j through all its remaining stages. Mr , Met’ardlo was himself unavi idably absent on County Council matters, but the bill ■ «a* ably "fathered by Mr Beesc.

Mr Crowe advertises a house and land for sale in a prominent situation. Msssrs H. King and J. Robinson have entered into partnership as {winters and general decorator*. Mr Sedcole, Returning Officer, having public! v notified that the election of seven Commissioners to the Pahiatua Town Board will be helil on the 3rd September, we take the opportunity of stating that every " householder " in the town district is qualified to be elected, and every |>ersim whose name ap|x>ars on tho Pahiatua Ruling roll (having property within the Town District* is entitled to vote at such election. The roll is open for inspection at Mr Bimie's store, ami all names thereon underlined with rod will bo accepted on the polling day, if such is found necessary. We might also state that a new roll comes into force on the 16th instant, on which a number of new names will no doubt bo found. These will be added to the roll now on view. A Timaru telegram says A fearful sen was rolling in the harbor on Saturday and Sunday, accompanied by very heavyrain. In consequence of the sea the ship Lyttelton, so far as can bo seen from the shore, is all smashed up, and the northern beach is for miles cnvereil with wreckage, portions of the ship's cargo, Ac. Three valuable engines that were in the fore and main rigging of the ship have, with the inaste. gone over the side, and the loss to the contractors who hail the raising 0* the vessel will be a heavy one. So far the rain has done little damage, but if it continues, the outlook will be rather a dark one, os lambing is now general.

Signor Forrsri, ft fie r making observa tions on between six anil seven hundred thunderstorms which occurred in Italy a few years back, has noted tiiat every thunderstorm is connected with a barometric, hydromotric, and thermic depression. We were always led to believe that Old Nick was the author. A writer in Vanity Fair thus takes up the cudgels in defence of Mr Gladstone : He stoop to juggling or trickery 7 He bribe, or threaten, or cajole 7 Is it likely 7 On the contrary, one's only regret is that such an innocent, spotless old turtle dove should ever have allowed his unsullied name to got mixed up with such dirty work as politics. He would have been more fittingly employed hod he passed his life in reading the Bible to fallen women, or leading blind monkey* of a managerie out with n string for exorcise. The chief Sheep Inspector's approximate classification of sheep in the colony is as follows :—Merino —Males, 8,165,711 ; females, 4,067,754. Longwool—Males, 457,061; females, 869,644. Crossbred— Males. 2,178,833 ; females, 3,50T. 708. Total Males, 5,802,380; fema1e5,8,744,421. Grand total, 14,546,801. At the annual meeting of the Ilawke's Bay Jockey Chib, it was doeided to increase the stakes for the ensuing yoar from £SOOO to £5560. The autumn meeting will bo a three days' meeting instead of two, and tiro Burke Memorial Stakes Handicap, of £2OO, six furlongs, will be run then. All Hack and Hack Hurdle Races have boon abolished, and Selling Races substituted. A new racing club has been formed at Napier called the Park Racing Club, and will hold meetings on the Napier Park Company's ground, threo miles from town. Fifty members have joined. The first race meeting will be held early in October. A grandstand capable of holding a thousand people is in course of erection, and a first rate course has been laid out over a mile and a distance. In the course of a few remarks on tho Land Estimates on Friday evening (says the N. Z. Times) Mr Taylor, at a loss for the moment to describe some land, was supplied by Mr Heddon with the word ‘‘undulating.” "Undulating!" said Mr Taylor, addressing Mr Seddon, “ I think you ought to be the last to talk about undulating. 'Undulating!' Well, there's one thing—l never deal in personalities ; and I've yet to learn that' undulating ' is a parliamentary expression." Mr Taylor’s apparently peculiar interpretation of the word caused a considerable amount of merriment in tho House. Tho Government were very badly advised (says tho Post) in attempting to tamper with the rate of wages to ordinary laboring men employed by the Railway Department. Economy is no doubt desirable and possible in many directions, but the rate of pay per day labor is not one of them. The proposed reduction of sixpence a day would have been severely felt by the men, while the total saving to the Treasury could not have amounted to a very gTeat amount. We are exceedingly glad to notice that the Minister of Public Works has quickly recognised the impolicy of the proposed reduction, and has intimated an intention of withdrawing the circular making it. Sophia, the well-known guide to the Terraces of Rotomahana, has petitioned Parliament for relief. She state* that, owing to the recent volcanic eruptions st Tnrawern, she lost her house and horn*, and suffi-re 1 so much through fear as to be unable to do any manual work, and i* now without means of support. The Public Petition* Committee, to whom the petition was referred, stated that Sophia had no claim against the Government. So many contradictory rumours have boon current of late respecting the sin gular disap|>earanco from Wellington of Mr A. L. Levy that we (Times) have been somewhat loth to refer to the matter. We have ascertained, however, on trustworthy authority, that Mrs Levy has received a letter from her husband, dated from Sydney, in which he states that some person paid £'s for a steerage passage for him by the Hauroto for Sydney ; that the ticket was made out in the assumed name of Mr Kings; that lie remembers being on the Queen's Wharf on th* afternoon before the Hauroto sailed (Thursday, July ' 8), but remember* nothing more until the following Tuesday, when the vessel or rived at Sydney, he having been in a state of coma in the meanwhile, and verv sick. He avt-rs that it wu quite impossible for him to pay his passage money by the steamer, as he was without funds. At the time of w riting he was almost dealt- ! tule, but had hoj>e* of raising money j | enough to enable him to go to Melbourne | in search of employment. His story is | certainly a most extraordinary one, and needs considerable explanation before his | friend* and the public will credit it. Louis Thompson ha* been committed fir trial on a charge of aiding and abetting ’ Mary Jane Dougherty to set fire to hi* 1 house in South Dunedin. Dougherty j gave evidence to the effect thsl Thump - on had s|w»keu to her about setting a match to tin- building. He informed her that I he would like her to "do it,” and as he I would arrange everx thing all she w oliM i have to do wmuld be to light a piece of |

candle which he gave her. Accused iwnl her it letter containing the word “ yes,” | which by previous arrangement was to mean that she was to set fire to the house. The evidence of the neighbours was given, allowing that Thomson and Dougherty had some words about money, and Dougherty threatened to tell on Thoms,>n. He liad given her £lO which he borr.iwed to furnish another house. Some of the furniture had been removed from the house. The prisoner »m admitted to hail, but as yet has found no bondsmen. About 500 were present at a meeting of the Anrkland unemployed on Hatunlay morning. The following resolution was proposed in an influumatitt speech which was loudly applauded, " That the dovemment open up works withont delay, or we shall have to take some ate;« for ourselves whieh will cause trouble at large.” Some speakers objected to this resolution, which, however, was carried with a slight modification. The meeting was a Ijoumed till Friday next.