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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 55, 11 March 1881, Page 2

Otaki Assessment. — By a perusal of our report of the Otaki Assessment Court it will be seen that the valuation list for the Otaki Highways Board has been thrown out. Arrangements have been made for the making of a new valuation. TENDERS. — Tenders are invited in another column for several works for the County Council. PHOTOGRAPHY. —Mr Kirkwood announces in another column that as he wil leave Foxton this month, those who in tend having their portraits taken had better visit him early. Singular Accident.— A most singular accident occurred to a child seven months old at O aki a few days ago. B some means it placed a two-shilling piece, which had been converted into a brooch into its mouth. It eventually passed into the child's throat, to remove it from which all efforts were unsuccessful. After some time a quick-witted matron devised a fishing line on a small scale, which on being lowered into the little sufferer's throat, fortunately h oked on to the obstruction, and it was then easily withdrawn. A Heavy Day's Work. — Sheep Inspectors have some pretty stiff work a times, as the following day's work recently performed by Mr Walter Simpson, the well-known Manawatu Inspector, will show. That gentleman left his residenc at the Oroua Bridge early in the day for Sandon ; from thence he proceeded to Awahuri, and carefully inspected a mob of 2,500 sheep there. Palmerston was next visited for the purpose of Mr Simpson wiring to a brother inspector that the sheep had been inspected. He next proceeded to Ashurst and inspected a mob of 3,500 sheep there, and then returned by way of Palmerston, reaching the Oroua Bridge at about 9 p.m. The distance covered, would, we are informed be about 75 miles, and this, added to an inspection of 6000 sheep, forms a day's work that not many would care about tackling. Foxton Champion Crew Medals.— On Wednesday morning last, Mr J T. Stewart, Vice-President of the Foxton Rowing Club, accompanied by several other members of the Club who had gone to the Wanganui regatta, waited on the Foxton crews, who stayed at Ferry's Hotel, and in a few wellchosen words presented the senior crew of the Club with the medals previously described by us. Mr Howe, the stroke, briefly expressed the thanks of the crew for the present. The crew wore their medals during the day. . Still A other. — In another column Kipa te Whatunui gives notice of his intention to apply for a slaughter license at Otaki. This will make the fourth license of the kind in that township. If the butchers of Otaki only had a " row," we should imagine the residents would enjoy the benefits of competition to a very great extent. The old Foxton Cemetery. — Our att ntion has been called to the state of the old Cemetery, adjoining the School Re erve We are informed the dividing fence is broken, and that calves and horses are

fr quently feeding amongst the graves. The matter is one that the School C m mittee should at once bring before the Edua tion Board, wi h the view of obtaining funds for the repair of the fence. The settler who has brought the matter before us suggests that the Local Board might with advantage spend a few shillings from time to time in keeping the old Cemetery in good order It appears there is no Board of Trustees nor other body authoris ed to look after it, and it would therefore be money will spent if the Local Board were to see that it is maintained creditably. A Laughable Story. — Mr Rotheram has learned during the last few days the value of advertising. He placed a special train on from Foxton for Wednesday, Thursday, and this morning, starting at 5.30 am. But no one used it, because no one knew of it. An advertisement announcing it was inserted in this journal last Friday, but though the proprietors pointed out the folly of not inserting it again on Tuesday, Mr Rotheram replied that " One insertion only was necessary." He had his reward ; and so had we ! On Wednesday one deadhead started by the early train,and yesterday morning no one! The cost of advertising the special in Tuesday's paper would have been half one second class ticket to Wanganui ! Ah ! Mr Rotheram, you should never let your spite against papers that show you up ruin the traffic in this way. Think you, would an auction er or theatrical agent, advertise as you did? Verily not. They always adver ise the day before the event they publish takes place. We are very sorry for your defeat, but we must laugh at you ! You did not get that "local" in Tuesday's paper, you expected. Never mind. Expericatia docet. Obiti „xiv. — Two well-known W .llingi.-.. settlers — Messrs Beujauiin Ling and Robert Port— have died during the last few days. In each caso death occurred unexpectedly. Hn.AT.-NV.i Races. — In another column the Railway Manager announces alterations in the timetable on I-Timataugi race day. AN" ArPLE. — Mr A. Jonson informs us that an apple thrown on his premises was weighed by Mr Honore, and turned the .eale at 22 _ ounces. Vagrancy. — A man named Walter James R. Barsley, pretty well known in this district, was on Tuesday last arrested by Constable M'Anulty on a charge of vagrancy. He was brought before Messrs Thynne and Stewart the same day, and by them sentenced to 24 hours' imprisonment, ith hard labour. It appears that on Monday Barsley went to the house of Mr W. R. Howe, of Moutoa, and informed him tha he was visiting the district with the view of obtaining the mastership of the Moutoa school, and upon the representations he made obtained the sum of 7s. The Bench considered the charge fully proved, and, as already stated, gave him 24 hours' physical exercise in the vicinity of the police station. From what we have learned we gather Barsley made a tour of the Moutoa district on the occasion referred to, and endeavoured to "loaf " on the inhabitants. Getting Wet.— Mr Thomas Unsworth had an unexpected immersion yesterday in the Manawatu river. He had been handing a lady down to the Jane Douglas just before she left the wharf, and leaned up against the iron rail which surmounts the taffrail. But alas ! it proved a delusion and a snare ; for no sooner did Mr Unsworth's weight go upon it than it gave way, and he fell into the water. However, he soon got on to the stringer, and thence on to the wharf, none the worse for his ducking. Fruit Cißowxxn. — The Marlborough Times says : — " We now turn to another industry which might bo profitably embarked iv, and which his been hitherto almost enitrely neglected. It is well known that certain p irtionsof M irlbomtgh aro well adapted for fruit growing ; and. as a matter of fact:, a considerable quantity is vow produced, though, we regret to s*y, but little use is made of it. Wh_n we tiud that iv 1ST!) the sum of £67.445 was seat nut of tlie Colony for green fruit, and that -40,400 was paid for jams aud jellies imported, the duty on which latter articles am united to £8000, it is worth while to ; reilect whether ao effort cannot be made to turn the deniind to our own advantage, i The amount of capital required to start a jvm factory would nofc be very large, aud it may safdy he presumed, from the prices we pay for the imported article, that the profits are ex"eodve. In Tasmania the ! industry has assumed large proportions, and in Australia one firm, tho Red Cross Fruit Preserving Cimpany, last year put up ii i less tnan 20 090 cases of j.ms, exclusive of jellies, bottled fruits, Sec, ami the whole of tha fruit preserved by them is grown in the Colony." The Circular —The Manawatu County Council has passed a series of resolutions to be considered at a Conference it proposes should be held at Wellington before th session begins. We quite concur in the desirableness of holding a Conference, and trust the local bodies in the district wil respond in favorable terms. No one ought to know the wants of colonisation better than the local bodies, and the small expense incurred in sending a delegate would be amply recouped in the results. W shall take an early opportunity of reviewing the resolutions. — Wanganui Herald. 'N. Z. L Sf M. A. Co. —The annual meeting of the New Z aland Loau and Mer. c'intil- Agency Company was held in L uidon on the 4r.h February last. The report stated tha'. the net profit for th" year 1880. inclusive of £3170^ 10. 21 brought forward f 'ran the preceding financial year, was £63,163 15< 91, which the Directors recommended Bhould he applied as follows, viz. : — To payment of a dividend as the rate of 10 per cent, per annum, and the interest on calls paid in advance oa old shares £31,376 9. ; payment of bonuf at 5 jier cent., £15 637 10s; reservo fund, £10 000; to bo carried f.irwarl. £6154 16s 91. Iv July last an ad interim dividend was paid at the rat> of 10 percent, par annum, amounting, with iuter'wn on cdU paid in advance, tn £15,638 4 61. so that th-.r » nmiainod f.». oi- triouiion tho sum of £15,480 lis 31. Th" divid nl and bonus prop wed were equal - i the maximum of previous years, anil the addition of £10 000 to the reserve f._nd raised that fund to £170,000. Nelson Hors. — Hop-picking iv and ar mud Nelsou is now iv full swing, but. unfortunately, the long drought has told with bad effect upon the crop. The colonist . says that . latterly tho red spider mule its appearauce, and as the rate of multiplication of this insect is something " prodigious " in the short space named, the damage done has been great, one grower alone estimating his loss from this source at £500 at least. Tho hope ia that tho country growers are less unfortunate. The Don Tax.— The following extraordinary resolution was passed by tbe s.trl ra in the Waipu (Auckland) district lately: — " That any collector of the said dog tax visiting Waipu be considered socially on a level of degradation with tho common informer, and be treated as a voluntary ontoast from all possible association wi*;h any respectable member of socioty." Mr Hannaford, the collector, his protested against beiug insulted iv this manner, and requested protection from the Government.