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Manawatu Times, Volume VIII, Issue 151, 3 January 1883, Page 2

An extraordinary general meeting of shareholders, m. .the r'almcrsdon Brewery Company,. Limited, will be held m the registered, office on Thursday, 11th January, at 4 p.m., to confirm the resolutions passed at. the meeting. held on ■lbtli Deceuiber. ' According to an excKange, the latest astronomical observation has discovered vast canals connecting the great lakes ami inland seas of. the planet Mars, which Mr Proctor declares to bo the work of intelligent labourers. We understand a Quaker lady named Mrs.liauuiih Hall, an .American, will shortly visit New aland, on a preactiV ing tour, accompnnied by Mr James Cotton, a Tasmania Friends The lady is npw m, Taßmania, and will probably vi-df Pslmer^tou .m. due course. Predei iqk Willesci'oft, junior, of Peilding, late oiAsliursJ;, lahprer, bas sought the sanctuary of the Bankruptcy Court. The first meeting of -mourners will take plVi.ce at the Courthouse, Palmerston, on Tuesday next. In another column Mr J. : W. Konah invites Christians of .all denominations to join the Palmerston Young Men's. Chri'tiau Association. In our report of the Friendly Societies Sports we omitted £o give the result of the consolation race. Fonr starled fur this event. Owing to a inissunderstandK ing one 6t the competitors, Laiug, was under the ioip'restion that the race was twice round the course instead of once, and m the first round he saved himself for. what he thought would be the fiqal struggle. She'eran, however, came m first on the first .round, and the stewards awarded him , the. prize of 30s. Laing wa< also awarded 20s. All the protests entered during the day v/ere either withdrawn or settled amicably. The Societies Handicap was won by Bennett. Settling for tlie Manawatu Races takes place at the Royal Hotel at 7.30 this eyeniog. ' " : A nev; ( atholic Church was onened at Kelson, on Sunday last, by Bishop Redwood, assisted by several priests. The election of a Councillor to fill the vacancy m. the Palmerslon Horongh Council, caused hy the rosigrution of Mr F : .- Jenssen will take place on Wednesday next. Nominations will be received up to noon of Tuesday. B is announced that. Ggneral Lord Naiuer of Magdala has b^en appointed a Field Marshal. '-" A recent, arrival m Wellington,, who visited the Basin Reserve yesterday, received more attention than he seemed to care tor. lie. appears to be a Hindoo, and his gorgeous purple turban and garments of plum color trimmed, with gold braid aroused the admiration ot every small boy and girl on the ground,; Everywhere the unhappy man wei^t l^e was followed by 300 or 400 children, and when he sat down they surrounded him and stared^at him openmouthed.—N. Z. Times. A letter from the Lyttelton. Harbor Board was.' read . at, the AncManc? Harbor Bflard meeting, m which the former su,^e?ted the formation of a Hiimane. Soci-. ty for ISTew Zealand and.. Australia." The Auckland. Board is averse to the, proposition, and m favor of a society for New Zealand only. - IVfessrs Grave? and Fleming's new adveijk'i'sement will appear m to- morrow's Jissue, | This morning's Chronicle says: — The \jockey James Rearse, wno rode Wilb^r./force ia the I^aripn-Rangftikei Handicap and was sev^erelj;. injured by the hor^e slinping and fawing.ov.er the rider, was sufficiently reco.vere'd yssterday to alpw of his remov>il into town by. the night train. JCearse has sustained more than one severe accident of This kind during the past few months, but there is every prospect of bis recovery from the la/est, I fall.

"We notice several of our contemporari.s have stated the Branding Act came iu:o operation on the first of this month. Thitt is quite wrong. The Act ca:ue into operation over a year> ago and only a. few. days since, a man, was ; heavily fined; a* Foxton f . ij. a breach., of i It. Certain provisions, relating to brands ' already m exist nee came into operation on the first of, January. This fact has probably led to the error we have pointed out. " ■• . • , Oa the Auckland racecourse some gentry who attempted the pound note and watch trick vr.ere mobbed, and had to take refuge. : The Rey. J. C- Andrew, m a letter.to the Pose, calls attention to the inadequacy of the notice given respecting the date when the Property Tax must be paid, He says :. — I seek m vain for a reason why that notice did not appear earlier. I fipst find it m. the Gazette of 14th December, in which we are informed "that by Order m Council.,. at the Government House at Wellington, this 14th day ef November, 1882," the 2sth, of January is appcigted by his Excellency .ttie Administrator of . the . Government for pay-up day. Why was this notice suppressed for a month ? About Christmas many people leave their usual residences for several' weeks. The Gazette came into my hands at sea after 1 had started for several weeks' 'absedce m the i;teii>r wilds of the country. I have escaped surcharge so far by an accident, but numbers will not be so fortunate. ' The law inflicting a penalty is enforced as Sijylpck might have read it. The late publication of the notice is tither a blunder of the Government printers or of the Ministers." ' Many'settl'ers ie the Sounds and up country plases, ; away 'from railways and roads, will probably be mulcted an extra 10 per cent., because they are out of riach ofc.the benefits for which the loans were raised which have'made this taxation necessary. It seems only fair that the time for payment, should extended a mon f h. By so doing the Government will (S-'ape the suspicion of having delayed the notice or given it late with an eye to an extra haul of 10 per cent, surtih'arges.

A London correspondent says the Married' W omeu's Property' Act is a measure which comes home to every fireside m th^ Empire. It Wholly revolutionises the monetary status and relation of husband* and 'wife! There is no equivocation about it. Ift simply places a married woman m poss^siori of . ; her own property, original, acquired^- or earned, precisely as if she were' a single woman. It enacts that a married woman shall be "capable of'equiring, holding and.disposing, by will or otherwise of any real or personal property . as' her separate property, m the same manner as if she were femme sole, witnouVthe intervention of any trustee." She may enter into any contract without the intervention of her husband. She can sue or be sued without her husband being ' concerned." She can carry on bus : ncss or trade for herself, and she can even-have the benefit of passing through the Bank- uptcy Court without rjoiberihg her husband. And an bci-esa may now.marry a rake, and he does not hecome entitled to a farthing she has; and she can keep hi^n od a string, and bind hira,pyez; to gooJ behavior. A shopkeeper doing business, m Ohristchurch, finding himself compelled by temporary pressure to file liis schedule, closed his doors and stuck up m the window a ; notice,^ " Closed for le-decora-ting." This description of . the process is good per se, and sounds infinitely better than if the debtor had given out that he wus going to be "whitewashed." The Wairarapa Star of Saturday last, contains the following : —Rather along an 1 adventurous bicycle 'rHe was performed'the other, day" by Mr Parks, school teacher of Turakina.' On Wednesday morning, he mounted his wheels an-i before .evening he had parsed through Feilding, Palmersfcon, and Woodville, reaching the. residence of Mr Hughes at Pahiatua, where he retrained for the evening, having completed with ease a journey of 60 miles. Nex^ day, Thursday, accompanied by Mr Hushes, who rode a trusty charger, the indomitable teacher wended his way to Masterton, and on Friday morning he was on his way to. Wellington. Mr Hughes informs us that the effect of the biijysle m the Forty Mile Buih was tliiihtly alarming. " A.s they came up i with the Maori pahs at. Havrera, the children eyed the man oa wheels from a distancp, and then like mountain deer bounded into the wbares. 'A. nearer approach sent the youog of both sexes flying m all directions, and. .finally., the ag d, barefooted, b'anket^clad) grey [ haired, chiefs, with hair on end, hobbled .up the hillside, as if the enemy of mankind with his pitchfork were after them. At the Scandinavian; 'settlements,, the juveniles particularly seemed 4 to., be partly pleased and greatly astonished, for they ran heltej- skelter m all direction. The schoolmaster abroad/ on this, occasion, has evidently taught the young idea how to shoot, and he is not likely to readily forget the sensation that hie bicycle ride of over a hundred . miles m two days made on the denizens of the Forty Mile Bash. The petition praying for a new trial m the case of Francis Williamson was sent down to Wellington yesterday for the consideration pf tbe Government. Mr Ward.R.M., held the usual sitting of the Court at' Foxton, to-dsj. We learn from Mr. £L\ L Jones, whose weather records hav.e lon's been the established authorities m thisdistiict, that the mouth of December last was the hottest month experienced m Wanganui; for twenty years. — Chronicle. Now. that the Xmas anl New Year is drawing near and as it is. the . recognised custom to make presents at this time,anyone desirous of making a present .would do well to iuspecr, the" many pretty' things now en view at McDowell Bros., which would be very useful as well as mementos ol; the festive Season. M"Dow\Ei/L Bros. — J, M'Dowell, Manager. Good News fou Fablers. — In order to mcjt the growing demands 6f- ; this district, we have imported 150 Threequirter Wool Bi^es,. selling at 3s 2d J 100 Fs/U. Size do do, at.3s lOd. Also, just to hand, fifty coils Barbed. Wire of the best makers, selling \t the low prive of /52s (3d per LOOlbs. Oils and paints at Wellington prices, at the PaliJlEEston Keiapi Mosex, S^oftE^— [Advt.]