NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 148, 2 July 1881, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

St. Patrick's Church. — To-mor-row being the first Sunday of the month, Mass wilt 'be cek*>ra+;d at- St. Patrick's Church, Palmeratou, at 8 o'clock, aud at -Feil*m£ at . lUo'clc^. , •, ... ••■■■ . . R&mallded, — .named John: Windle ;wa3 cha*j|efl^j'n .thejß?th', at Foxton witb criminally assarting ( two Maori womentfc The. accusr:d\w'asf remanded m order that the charges might be heard by Mr; Ward, R.M. ". . ■.".... .V " . All Saints' Churchy^- To-morrow, being the third Sunday after TrinitY, the followhic; will he the order of tho Kervices : —Morning- — Responses ; P-ain Kong ; " Venite." Bjyce ; '• To Deum," EWey ; " Jubilate." Rogers ; Hymns, 4, 175; and 298. Evening— Response ; Pl»in Song ; " Magniticat," Woodward; "Nunc Ditnittis," Aldrich ; Hymns, 19, 225, 436. Footballing.— T Q e g ame ot football must be a pleasing one to the players. Any man who enters a game of football need make up his mind for a knocking about, and must not be afraid. At Greytown, the other day, a player ijot his leg broken maa gams, and last Saturday a man named Govan, a footballer got his shoilder dislocated. Thus two young men have within a week succumbed to the vicissitudes of leather hunting. The Highways Board out of TrbtiblC-^Wehftvo been, informed that the Koxton Highway Board have agreed to discontinue the action brought by them, against the Manairatn Highways Board on the following conditions :— The Manawatu Higbw&ya Board to pay all law expenses, arid also the' £380 awarded at the time of the subdivision of the Manawatu Highway District, and also the £80 of rates collected oy th-.-m since. Still Sore.— On Bit, says the Hawera Star, that Mr. Bryce is still "sore," on the question of the Governor's despatch relative to his resignation from the Ministry, and that he "till holds the Ministers reponsible for for the sending Home of that. despatch. ft is father s -Id- that he is ia correspondence with the Government on the subject, and 'hat if they do not take sttpi to* set him right with the country he will take some | decided aciioh himself. .' So states the writer of " Parliamentary Gossip " m the Wellington Evening Pott. The Fitzherbert Reef.— News, of a very encouraging character has been received from the Fitzherbert Quartz Reefing Companies* Mr. Duncan f'oole, accompanied by Mr. T. R. Walton the secretary of tha Manawatu Company's claim, paid a visit thither last week. The former gentleman beir'g a geologist and mineralogist, the visit was m a tense, a professional one. Mr. Poole's report, however, is of a very cheering character, and has had the effec of laising the hopes of our townspeople not a trifle. An Improvement. — The settlers, and resident* m the Karere direction, will, we are snre, feel grateful for the great|J improvement made by the County Council, to th^ K»wa Bridge. This struotnre heretofore was only about ten feet m width, or bardly wide enough for a dray to pass over, and this annoyance the settlers have been, for Tears, obliged to put <>p with. The new addition to the.brid re. makes it more than d< •ahle its former width, it being now fully twrtnty-four feet wide, and capable of takiag two vehiolei at once, with room to spare. : A Disagreement —At the r.M' Court on Thursday, VTarearet Walker, wife of D. D. Walker preferred a charee against Wilii*m t M'T)owell of ".using abusive and. .tbYeatening Ikngurtge "* to^erself and hnsb^nd. 'Reforfe the a'cKb'A *as entered into Hi« Worship ipaid the*<*ase'4f/ heard, wo'itd not 'end t» heal the, disagja^ment between ;h<» two parties, but ; t^he contrary, and adviser! counsel to bring toe mattei to an amicable issue.: Thereupon, a ghort consultation was held and the partips aereed to =ettle the matter qiuetly^find m future to live on .more ' iieighborly, and agreeable terms./ • . ; . .-::-. Meat Freezing Scheme —A well attended, and most suocessfnl menfinif wan ■held at Bulls, on Tuesday evening la^t for the puvposp. of appointing a prAvi=ional commi-tee to obtain information and generally act m concert with the Wairarapa •Ommiftpe, ip connection with thepropoeid formation of a meat 1 f reeiing company. Mr. Stevens wasthe prinoipal sppaker, and who went into the matter fully. A committee of 47 .gentl«men was formed, to carry out all th<necessary preliminaries. Five delegates were also appointed, tc ivroceed to "Welling' toi to meet and confer with delegate* from :ofb<RT parti, on the advisability of forming a m" at freezing company. A Presentation. : ~ A t the' half yeat ly meeting of the, Foresters, m Palmeriiton, on Tuesday evening, the Secretary, Brother R. N. Keeling, was presented with a silver inkstand, m redognitii»ri of his past valuable services to tne Lodire. Mr! Keeling has filled th« offloe of seoretarv to the. Lodee for (he past four years, and has alwalyi* given the utmost satisfaction m that capacity His untiring: energy and pefsorvernnc« m promoting the welfare of the Lodee m our town, has earned him the vctv higHost esteem of his Brnthern Mr. Keeling from tho office he has'-so long and ably filled with the Lodge's deepest, regret, but havinsfbeen prefsed to take the office if Chief Ranger, be felt be could not consfiien^iously accept both it and the secretaryship, hence his reason for resigning. The Price of Bread—We are very pleased to be able to inform oar readers, that m consequence of our reference to the orice of bread m Paltnerston, m our las* issue, th» bakers have very Vindly reduced fieir prices to three pence, the 2'b loaf, m stead of four pence, as before We feel sure f>r this confession, the bak°fs will have arnt the er^titude of the working classes -eferrine to the subject, w« haH n« idea of liurlinora stone on our own account. w° always pay the. Drica charged iftQgt wUUngly '

but we spoke purely on behalf of tha working classes, with whom one penny per loaf on bread, extra, it a serious consideration. We are glad our bakers .at once, saw the 1 matter m the same light* and. hastened to I make the reduction, and. it is certain that their losa will be, their gain, jbectusej poor pepple^vrill bs better able to take more bread tftan before./' ' : .! Effects of the Earthquake, cSay the Advocate :— " Th« brewery at Bulls suffered severely from the , earthquake, the big chiney it cracked from . ! top to bottom i and will have to be pulled down, the iron bracing have prevented its falling on to the roof. The chimneys of the cottages surrounding the brewery have suffered m a like manner; Lower Rangitikei felt the shock with great force and many of the chimney there came to grief. The earthquake filled up twenty feet of bore-hole at the borough well, and thus caused consid r able delay, as the whole distance has to be b:>red again. -..-'*• Those Telegraph Poles.— Those telegraph poles planted so nicely m the centre of the road leading to Karere, which havej so long, been a source of danger and annoyance to travellers, either with ye- ! hides, or on horseback, are at| last to be transplanted into the places whera they j should have been, put m the first place. In j consequence of continuous complaints hay- j ing been made to the Borough Council, on ! the matter, that body Tv-rote to the Govern- ' j meut requesting that the poles be shifted I [to the side of the road. The appeal made ! to the ever obliging little soul, Dr. Leiaqn, j was not lost, but men have beea despatched i I thither, armed with all necessary tools and ' appliances to carry out the Council^ request. Now the posts will be shifted away to the nnussd side of the road, at any rate to the extent of the Borough Boundary. i • More Earthquakes. — Since the heavy earthquake occurred on ' Sunday morning last; several more of iesa vidTenotj have been experienced ; m fact we may gay tbat every few hours a quake may be felt. The natives of Awnpuni, are terribly afraid that the one of Sunday, ia but the advance guard of the roaiu army of earthquakes. They even go so far as to prophesy floods, and oestrnction to Wanganui In this belief the Wanganui natives join, and many m that district intend clearing 1 but to higher and safer ground. They say that where Wanganui now stands, was, about eighty years ago innndated, and we may this year expect a recurrence of the flood. If these prophets are true then Wanganui will have a " moist " time of it. The recent earthquake has again roused the prophetic abilities of the Maoris and given them causa to float more of their superstitious stories, , , A Blunder. — The Council, having found it necessary to protect the new paling fences, now being erected by them on absentee's sections m the Borough, resolved upon putting down the wanton nuschievousneu of those parties, who, too lazy to walk round the enclosure, would rather resort to pulling down the palings. Men have been fouud the necessary appliances, and wt to work to stretch tw» wires, and staple them along the outside of the palings, so as to render it impbssible for these people to. pull them off. The wires have been stretched, and we may»ay, well, but unfortunately for the short-sightedness of the workmen, they hare not acted according to instructions. Instead of driving m the staples between the palings, as was intended, and as they wpre directed. Iher hava just done the other thing, and driven the staple into the paling. The consequence ia, and doubtl ss will b-, that the paling is now as easily removed as before We feel sure, the. Public Works Committee of.the Council will agree f _with us m saying that their work men Save made I a most unmistakeable blunder. ~ "

Another Volcano-^Tiie rumor is being freely circulated that another volcano has burst forth — the outcome of the earthquake. It is stated by many, that they «^en th-' smoke issuing from a peak ia the Tararaa Kanges. and others even avow that flames have been Ken by them, from the same tpot, We, like super--Btitiou» mankind, have plied our glasses, and straintd our eyes, m the vain endeaver to discover the the hew volcano, but perhaps we have sought m the wrong direction. However, be the rumor an illusion, or what not, still there are things more improbable, and we confess we would not at a' l be surprised to see such occur m the Ta r arua Ranges. The alleged v ilcano is said to ba situated m the Ranges, ahout midway betw-en Palmers ton and Foxton, so, if the weather would clear : enquiring minds would have an opportunity of seeing for themselves whether or not the report is a reality or a myth, for our part we cannot at present say.

The Queens Plate- — The custodianship of her Majesty's goH pantry atWindsor Castle, just rendered vacant !by the death of Mr. Goring, is an office of great trust, as miy be inferred from the faciihat when 'the Qneen entertained the Emperor nt Russia, shortly after the mar- i riageoftheDukeard Duchess of Edinburgh goM plate to the value of some- £2.000 000* ip BaW to have been used. At a rough % >ess, the Royal gold and silver services at Windsor P ilae. are probably worth about £3:000 000. and include some very fine I specimen a of artistic workmanship. An Unprofitable Border —In regarrijjto the appetite of Chang, the Chinese giant. Who visited New Zealand Pome 'me ago, the National Republican, Wash--ington, has the following ;~ For breakfast, when h«..wa« feeling well, he: drank a. large pot of coffee, a pitcher of milk, he ate three pounds of steak. :t«o doaen largesized trouts, a doien hot rolls, with a fe-v • ! (v'«ran thrown m, and a jot of frnit to. taper off thrse dietetic contests smiling. The landlord felt relieved when Mr: Chang had taken his departure. He was a very pleasant, quiet guest, but 4s per 'day' • foes not. as a rule, balanoe his table performance. ■'.'-•■ : A Terrible Disease.— -A', ten ibjeldisease hat broke, out annng the Chinaman employed on the Canada Pacific Railroad works m" British Columbia. The ease of a Chinese : cook will serve to illustrate the p»iaa»s of this strange malady. He sat down, apparently perfectly well to eat hi* dinner. His feet began to swell, md the swelling extended itself up his legs and body, reaching tB« vital part m about ten minutes, canning his abdo nen and ch*>st to «xp*nd in.a most una'ural: manner, and he' tumbled dead, all m less than fifteen mimntea from th 3 time the disease attacked him. iln this way these people , are dyin g jn dozens, A Pleasant Trip.— The second ctess p-isscngers by the Wairarapa traio to Well-, ington the other day. had ample reason to complain of their discomforts It mined heavily through the day, and the tops of the carriages being very leaky, a contiual stream of water foand its way throngh, th^ne p«>f«(»ng«r^ who were not woll provided. with waterproofs being very soon wet through, Their misery wan ndded to b 1 ? two iurs' delay between Kaitoke :vnd the Snmmifc. The plight of a number oP females having been presented to the guard, he permitted them to occupy seats m the first clang compartments. The apolication of a little paint or putty to tb© tops of some of it:© oa-riagns would prey vent the recurrence of what is certainly n : -very aißOred.it»,W% «t^ ot baia|a. mmm

B»t3.— A most daring attack is reported to have bean recently aade. by a swarm of large rats ou John Ailing of O.ipe Bgmv*nt. Ailing says a correspondent of the Taranaki News, lives m a. wbSM Bet far from the. Capo Camp, and a short (ieat ago complained of rats being very nnmet* ouß about his place, but not considfftae them dun^eruus ho did not trouble himself; about them. About 2 o'clock on. Bun*day| morning, however, he was awakeiaed frona* sound sleep by a dreadful sensation, an^ toj his horror found several monstrous rifts' busy disfiguring his'f oe. He did all m his power to frighten them away, but they clung to his bedding until V light was secured, when they made away -lik« a pack of hounds. Al ling's flesh wounds are not of a aerioHS nature, his «au haring been bitten the most. He ihlends^to^quit hispreient quartern ar soon as possible. ; AC Lever Trick.— The Preu t&\\u the following story :— A gentltm-in of the Upper House, who, I believe, is called the Hon.Thom, is a great jokest. H« was travelliug once on the railway with two companions, and found ho bad forgotten his pass. His friends chaffed him, very considerably, and told him it would be awful fim to see him part. "I'll bet you si crown apiece I doa't parti" said. the Honorable. " It's a w&gar, "'tkey both cried m one breath. To the trio m due courss. of time entered the guard. When he came to tHe Hon rab'e, the M.^ C; whispered some* ag m. his ear, and the guard bowing, low passed :ou with a covet glance at the two friends, who looked on with much astonishment. As . he' passed . on his , way back through the; carriage, the guard'again.surveyed the two friends with great interest. When they got out, they -paid, the. Honorable the two crowns, ap4, requested some information as to his- course of . action. ' Well, ' said the Honorable, '.'lvwhispered" to the guard that --I was a ' detectiv*; and watching y<m two; who were' two well-' known thieves/ 1 ' Tableau. ; ' '■ "