NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 156, 27 August 1881, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

The New Court House.— The pub'lc of Fitlmerafon will be glad to hear tbht. ihn new Court House is now finished, and thattbe next re uUr sitting of the Resident Magistrate's Court will be held therein, Mr. Sne^soo's Sale.— Mr. Snelson's s^ of Mr c. S. Gatton's hou~ >Wd effect, on Wednes'lny. was well attended, a.>d every article offered, found purchase s, at very fnir prices. Thee wn me Veen competition for the pm-e-<bred fowls offeree 1 , and the fi^ui-ei at which they sold we^e very satisfactory to the vendor.' Mr. Gat n left ye«terdn.y roo.-nng for WeHinglon, where lie bassfenved a permanent situation as machinist iv a large boot faefcy. The Manawatu Highways Board— The Hangifikei Advocate, last Tuesday, devoted two nrtitfes *o Ihe abu c of 'h • working p inciple of th° M>nawatu Highways Bo T d, and making b ;ecipl mention of the difficulties with which tbe Boa'-d hps had to contend m the cbim of £400, due tbe*n by the Sanion-Cnrnprvon Board and by tbe Jatter to the Foxton Highway Board, which claim still remains unsettled. The writer says, c 'tte financing of the Map awatu Board is ps irreat a mystery to ordinary mortals as the fifteen gem puzz'e," A G Other Bolt. —On Wednesday evening last, an excib"r>i» boH occurred r\ the Square, Mr. Pait.-idg-e, acft"t.;r, w,*s qn-eily along tbe st-eetueat the Palmerst n Hote', wbf n by some miscbancp, t'?e p. op- dick feU down, gtWln'ng thelior c's heels, which gave tbe beast a - ight, and off be bo'ted. The driver, m attempting to be'ze tbe reins, was thrown t > the ground, aid the horse made forborne, just at tbe rear of Wolcock and Ho king's smithy; but on turning the corner slip.rply, Le crae to grief, the whpel of the cart Coming m contact with a fencing post, the c?rt and hort.o were capsized. Some l'ltle daxn^e was done to the dray, but the horse was none *he worse for his escapade. Municipal Corporation Acr.— There appears to be agenda impratsion existing, tiiat a burgess, to reoder h« ose't elegible to contest a teat m the Borough Counc'l must be paying rates to tbe amon it of £25 per annum This was ?:>, under t)e old Act, but tbe Clause making snch p^o» vision has some time since been repealed, and the clause inserted reads " Any bnvgess en'-o'ltd m re.peot of rat2ab 7 e prope: .v, be qualified to ba a Council oof aey Borough, or any Wa-d tbereoV Thrs ii will be s^.en that any rpfeonye, 1 m fie Borough, however small the amount of rat :s contiibuted by h'm. is q i iite as elegib'e to become a Councilor, as he who pays the £25 a under the old regulation, Tenders accepted.— At the meeti - rof the PnhHe "Wo k<? Committse, of tl-e Borough Council, held on Tuesday last, tb*. following tenders for fo.matioa of t'.<e I various unde; mentioned streets were accepted. Fitz^oy street, Section 1, F. [ Basset, £22, declined ; Section 2, F. Bpssett. £76 7s declined ; Section 3, F. Bnssett. £42. declined. ATr. L. R. Bryant was the lowest and successful tenderer for this street, ai r,ho follow n? figure —Section 1. £20 ; Section 2. £C»K ; SecUo.) S. £33 17s 6<\. Fur G'-ey. Vicioria, and Dnlce stiee^, only three tenders were received, and that of P. [ B.t ett, at £l da per chain wa<? accented, [ whilst that of K. F. Chpvles at £\ 5s 8d pec chain, and £H 10s foe culverts ; and a M'Mara. at XI 19s 6d per chain, were declined, An Accommodating Rarger.— A pw* story is go'n'r the rounds jn«tnow. m Falmerston, with reference to e^rav cattle, and the alleged reason why the ranger does not "nvi <bern 'n," bnt xvi do not vonch for the truth of the bta! ment. If is resetted that the ranger is the bappv novessor of two ov jpoe milch cowp, \vhicb for convenience sake, are of m to be foond m and abont the neighborhood of Taotiui-. street. The nei'vbbcrs of the r"nc;erhave cow« a^o, and < hey are pevinttted *■> roam. Bnt as the s' ■ 'y goes, someone wished tbe ranger to impound some stray stock, which wag ne^ec 1 &. So, not to be done, the" watched, for 'U'r. TJanffer's own cowi. and. ran them '•}. and thus 'is the cause| o Jthe ranger beiti? sn aero «moi'?t''r i g exn'riijec l . If such astrta ofj-ffairs rer>lly c'oei e~itt, then it ?s time tbe Council to^k *tern to procure a man more suitable. Complaints a-'e beinp 1 continually made of tbisnipsance, ! vnd it ought, by s».H means to be stopper. i the chances are, if it is not that lh« Con acil will one of th'-so days be mulcterT m a heavy fine for damr c*. Two draught horses were actually s*en by tig, and many other percons, inside of the Square a few mornings apo ,n,nd several of the trees just planted have been destroyed by tlaem. Row is it out ranger cannot see such things? Manawatu Mining Company.— The Manager of tin's Company not'fies elsewbere, that the Directors have de 1 ' rmin^-d to nt once oomTuerc 1 ? opening np thereefß. This will be satisfactory info^nT^ion to shareholders m the Company, ? s there has for some t.me existed a qn'etns wbidh b?i had a denreosincrtendencvupna subscribers, and ha* probably prompt d some to withbo'd their subscriptions. But now, ps a vigorous pttnmpt is to be mide to discover the piecinus metal, it is requested that a 1 ! fiubscintiotiß Pnd ca M s be at onne naid un. It must he rememhp' > ed that tbo dipfnyevy of a payable gold fi^Vl m our midst will. noV on ly benefit a few, but every individual m ?nd it realy would bato^e greatest advania c of cve-yoie. to subsc ibe to t"i<\ woi-king fund as libe )- a!lv ?s porsinle, Mr, Poole, <he Man^i'ei" and Tr-no^'rice' 1 , is ' quite sanorume as to the rf^nlt of t^e wo^k now to be nr-der'aVen under bis direclion, Imt it rans 1 b^b-irne m rojnd, th^t the work will cost mon,ey, and cmoj: rar.ied on, unle?3 calls are prompH-r p^fd x\p. We bone the appeal now rupde by the Wana?6'\ to shaveholde''sand snb«cribers, will meet with aheartv ronnonce and that eveiynna who can, wi'l pus their shoulder to the wheel.