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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 86, 7 August 1878, Page 2

The Hon. the Treasurer made his Financial Statement last nignt, but as, of course, it was well on for midnight before it was wired through, we were unable to refer to it m this issue. Owing to the exceedingly tempestuous weatherexperienced on the Coast, the Wellington coach missed the train at Foxton on both Saturday and Monday evenings. Oh the latter, day the river was unusually high, a perfect hurricane was blowing, while the: surf ldashed against the sandhills the whole distance from Paikakarika to the inland route to Foxton ; it was therefore not deemed prudent to proceed with the pas- - sengers, so the mails were sent on to Foxton on horseback. With most commendable forethought Mr Whyte despatched a mounted messenger to Palmorston, via Sandon, m order to catch the Napier coach -before its doparturo at^four o'clock yesterday morning. Notwithstanding the wretchod state of the roads, and the severity of the weather, the horseman delivered his freight an hour before the; starting of the coach for Napier. *. ' ; .A man, named Rose-, well known in.Pal.merston by tho sobriquet of " The Doctor," was. locked up last evening by Constable Gillespie on two charges of forgery and uttering. One was passed upon Mr Leary, chemist, purporting to be drawn by " W. Patterson," for £3 3te ; and a second, signed •by" Duncan A. Ppol.e," for £3 10s. Both cheques were presented at the banks, and declared to be forgeries. Th© accused, who had been drinking heavily during the past few days, will be brought up at the Police (Court this morning, and no donbt remanded until to-morrow, tp appear before the Resident Magistrate.: : -. An extraordinary vacancy m the County ; Council has been created by the resignation of Councillor Loudon,_ the representative for the Awahou Riding. At the last sitting of the Council a resolution was passed which Councillor Loudoii. considered reflected upon him, and he ,corisequently;handed m his resignation , to the chaii'manr The Re-turning-oflicer has appointed the 16th and 22nd instant as the days of nomination and election respectively. Bo far we have not beard positively -of any candidate being m. the field, but it is" rumored that Mr Crowther will .put m aa appeai"anco. A meeting of the Palnierston Beadingroom .Committee washeld last night, at which Elibt.Warburton, Esq., presided. A somewhat lengthy discussion, as to the condition and prospects of the society, took place,, which. resulfeE m the; formation of certaiu committees, and the meeting was adjourned for |a fortnight to receive the reports of their transactions. One of Governor -Hunia's /wives, whohad been stopping at the Royal Hotel on Monday night, took her departure yesterday morning bythe first train for Rangitikei. After she had gone, Mr Batcljelar went into the bedroom, and picked up. from the ground £\ 50' m nqtesj which , ' she had . evidently dropped. On the arrival of tho 10.50 train, or three hours later, the owner returned m great consternation, but fortunately to receive back her lost property,^ and thank herluek that it had fallen into ■the hands of /an hbnest person. .. There has been a regular gathering of Natives m town for tho last few days* the cause of the;visit being a strange one. Some six months since a chief of the Rangataiifw died, and Ins brother who is now located m Napier being anxious to marry tho widow, a great Tcorero has been held for the object. The tawny object of the negotiation has been stopping at the Clarendon, and evinced great enjoyment at the length of time and clamor made over the treaty, m which by the way, however, she was not allowed either voieo or wish. Last evening the matter was finally aetlled^and to-day she takes her departure for lie* new home, accompanied by a rather lasting memento of her lostlord, m the Bhapo of a mature male "olive branch." A meeting of the Foxton Local Board was held at Whytc's Hotel yesterday. Present Messrs. Liddcll (chair) Cook, Gray, White, and Loudon. The chairman stated that the Board had Jjbeen m office fully ten months longer -than it was entitled to, itsterm of office having expired on the 27th of \last September. 'He. however, produced a Government Gazette, m which tho Board was gazetted for two years longer, dating from last September but suggested that the members should resign in' -a body, so as to give the ratepayers tlie chance of electing a new Board. After they had appointed E. S. Thynne, Esql, Clerk and ReturningOfficer, the. various members acted on the suggestion of , the chairman, and resigned inglabo. If it bo true that " Cleanliness is akin to Godliness, than certainly the highly-ima: ginative individual who guides tho destinies of the " Wanganui Herald" must have reached the odour of sanctity, for a •cleaner t piece of gratuitous impertinence than his endeavor to drag the Timiss into his unseemly chronic squabblo with its local contemporary, can scarcely be imagined: With the internal working of the journal we know little, and ear 6 le3s. It muttors not to us whether it has a circulation of two hundred or two thousand ; neither do we care tjo increase our circulation by gratuitous distribution. Wo pay for our correspondence, and expect, to get paid for our paper, and would .prefer to have a bona fide circulation of Viva hundred. on those terms, than be. able, to boast that we distributed five thousand, rind the mailer to end with the. djpribution. We do not for a moment wSslßtp shy ono singlo word m depreciation *of tlSfe. " Wnnganiii Herald;;" far from it ; but we wish to remark that if it has a circulation of one. thousand, and that the recipients ]ay > r or it,-— well, then, there are just one thousand move fools m the world than _. we imagined/ We would request the pugnacious editor' to continue ;•: his cloath. struggle- with the -" Chronicle," and perhaps the community would berejoiced some of those days 'by being rid of a nuisance a la the Kilkenny -Cats. It would appear that ..the timber, of tho the Mariawatu is becoming daily more known and appreciated m- the South Island. In another column an advertisement will be '■•fb'iiwa calling foi' tenders for the supply of 75,000 Bleepersfbr;tlie Duntroon-Hnkatera-mca line. The timber is wanted to forward the work pn the line startpd by the Hon. Campbell ; liuder the District Railways Act. : " .. ;;.:.v .:';-. ■■■t ; '' V'"'" '

After a considerable spell of idleness the Foresters' Hall is to be occupied to-night and to-morrow night, when Smith's Panorama of the Franco-Prussian War will be exhibited; We have been asked to direct especial attention to the fact tluvt the prosent viows have not, nor never had, any connection with a panorama on the same subject shown six months since. From ourselves we are unable to speak of its merits, but judging from the very flattering notices which it has received from the Press of the; towns m which it has been exhibited, we' should deem it well worthy of patronage. The schooner Argus had a narrow escape from fire on Saturday evening. Mr Gibson, the Government Wharfinger, was strolling to the end of the pier, when he discovered the mainsail of the craft to bo m a blaze, and immediately giving the alarjn, the fire, was put out. The galley is stationed right •under the mainsail, and the latter not being protected, became ignited. It was a fortunate matter that Mr Gibson noticed it, as there was no watch on .deck, and the wind was blowing pretty strong at the time. A most impudent robbery and attempt at incendiarism was perpetrated at Foxton on Monday morning. While Mr Hillary, the ferryman, was taking the Wellington coach across the Mana»atu on the punt, his house waa entered by some thieves; and money to the extent of £18 extracted therefrom. After the robbery had b^eii committed, tlie sconndrels m order to hide the evidence of their crime, made a determined effort to.-b.urn the premises down, with that intention rolled up the; carpet, and gathered; together the bed clothes, saturating thenwell with kerosene, and. then setting them alight. Fortunately Mr Hillary, instead of returning m the punft, re-crossed the river m a dingy, and consequently interrupted the. scoundrels before their diabolical operations had been completed. When,. he enterad he found the floor m a blaze, 1 arid large hole about five feet m circumference ;. burned throqgh. After much . exertion]; howeveiyhe succeeded m getting the fire under con-; trol, and then, of course, missing the -money, discovered the object of the robbers. We believe Constable Purcell is i on the track of the; thieves, but wo deem; it better m the interests of justice that the clue. should not be disclosed. '■-"'.''. HUNDREDS OF DISREPUTABLE speculators have sought to palni off upon the public, fiery and adulerated [drams 'for a benign Cordial, to which the weak, the nervous, the dyspeptic, the sleepless, the despondent, owe more than to any other restorative of a century most prolific m remedies. But these vile imitations can never deceive those who have once used the Great* Original, TJdoi/pho Woite's Sohiedam[Aeojtatic Schnapps which is at once a donor and preservative of health.