Established 1875 Manawau Times. MONDAY, JULY 9, 1883.

Manawatu Times, Volume VIII, Issue 306, 9 July 1883, Page 2

Established 1875 Manawau Times.

MONDAY, JULY 9, 1883.

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Professor Sample had a large attendance at his free lecture at Foxton on' Friday nigbt, and on Saturday gave one of bis horse-traininp seances at Mr S' M Baiter's residence, the pines, Foxton. He took m hand a nolt of Mr Baker's that had never been touched, and m less than an hour Mr Baker's little boy was riding the horse round the yard. . ' The date of election and lime for receiving nominations of candidates for the Ashurst riaina; of the Oroua County Council are notified m this issue. r The State schools throughput the district reopened toflay.'ifter the midwinter holidays. The Wellington iSchooh re open next Monday. In this issue will he found the advertisement of Lola Montes' Consultation on the Cup. The affair is 1 arranged m a very attractive form. Tenders are invited for the construe* tion of a further length of the Welling-ton-Manawatu railway. The first meeting of the Oroua County Council takes place .on Saturday, Julj 28, at 12.30, at Feilding. About 950 shares m the Feilding Dairy Factory have been subscribed for out of the 1000 necessary to successfully start it. It is expected that" the balance will be taken up at the* meeting on Thursdayjnext. Very substantial bequest? have been made to the Melbourne charities by one John Linar, who recently died at Hoburt, whilst visiting Tasmania fo r the benefit of bis health. Theextent of his wealth has proved a great surprise to his own relatives. The value of his property has been sworn at £35,499By his will he directs that £ICO be given to the Her, Charles. .Strom*, .-.his sole executor, and £50 to a charitable institution at Hobart. He also leaves LIOO «ach to six cousins m Scotland, and L2OO to a cousin m Fitzroy, with whom he lived for the pist 23 years. The remainder of his money, L 34,499, he has divided equally between the Melbourne Hospital, the Altred' Hospital, and the Benevolent Asylum.. I;inay, who was a man of very abstemious habits, arrived m Melbourne m 1858, and from that time until 1875 was employed as a clerk m the Victoria Insuranse Company's office. The Feilding Star states that the railway guard who recently levanted from Foxton left a number of fair ones lamenting hjs untimely departure. Messrs ShepwiH, Goodbehere, Skelly, and others proceeded to Wellington on Friday evening to attend the sittings of t c Supreme Court. The cage m which they are interested is an outcome of the ' Palmar- Jones case. I The time for receiving applications tor deferred payment sections m the Kopuaranga and other Blocks, expires to morrow, Messrs Stevens <fe Qprtqc's usual monthly Stock sale takes place at the Borough Sale yards to-morrow when they will offer cattle, sheep, potatoes, horses; pigs, &c. f Father Mqr^au, the highly-esteemed Catholic priest, who ; han been bo Jong siationed m this district, may claim to be a very old cplonisfc. At Feilding be furnished the information that he left ! his family fa JB4O »nd France inlsl2 for New Zealand on ft rnjs^ipatD.the Maoris. He is now aged 70 jetf-TB. and has again b-.en sent on a mis^iqn to jbhe Maoris of | Upper Wanjjanui, ..- MrR. J. Seddon, M.HU., h»« been on a visit to Palmerstou for the last few days. He loaves to-night for Wellington. At the Wesleyan Church, last eveuing, the Key. S, Q-riffith preached a memorial sermon, having reference to the recent decease of the Kpvs Messrs Hoobs and Buddie. There was a large o ngregation, and the preacher paid a grateful tribute'- to the memory of the dtcea ed ministers. Puriug the offertory, the choir performed the wellknown hymn, "For ever with the Lord." The whole of the country between Oroua Bridge and Jackeyt* wu is: at present under .water- W «" will something be done m that in&trict m the way of drainage P It is tnniunced that the regular monthly meeting of Lodge Mt»nawatu Kil winning, S.C., will be held on Thursday next. ;

A classified list of teachers holding certificates or licenses under the Ertuca* tion Act, 1877, appoara m the Gazette. It appears that altogether there are 1235 certificated teachers m the colony m addition to whom 82 persons hold licenses, and 26 district licenses. Tie death is announced of Mr W. fT. Rruwn, who arrive! m Wellington m the year 1840 by the ship Adelaide, the vessel m which \T r T M'Kenzie and a number of other old settlers came our to the colouy From the sixth annual report of the Minister of Education, just presented to Parliament, it appears that the total working average daily attendance of scholars throughout the colony for the fourth quarter of last year was 35,909 males, and 32 379 females— 6B,2Bß. The total working average for tht whole year was 66,145, showing an increase of 2410 during the year. The " working average " yearly incr< ase during the past five years has been 5^61. The number belonging to |the school* at the begin* ning of the year was 79,309, and at the end of the year 87,179 The returnr for the year show a much smaller annual increase m the school attendance than those for any of the first three years ° after the Act came into operation. ' At a type-setting match recently held m Berlin twenty-one compositors set, m sixty minutes, from 2,500 to 8,124 types each, the copy being reprint, am) the body bourgeois. In a second match which lasted three hours, and m which fourteen compositor « participated, Herr Kramer proved ihe winner he having set up 9,415 types within the given time. The Reporting Debates, and Printing Committee have " totted up "accounts m respect of the cost of producing SdnsWrd, which w»s larger last sea sion than m 1881 by £550, owing to an increase m the number of representatives and the size of the issue. The. cont of reporting debates amounted to £2570, and the cost . of priutiu-'. setting up, paper, corrections, binding. &*c, &c, was £2780. making a total of £5350, £107 being obtained as a sei.uft on account oi sales. Henry Russell, the well-known ; coin, poser and singer of his compositions thirty years ago, is to be seen daily walking iv the streets of London. He is,.oue of the jollie*t and htai'itst companions one could wish to have. At hi* home he will entertain his company by going to the piauoand tringin till f urthei orders the songs of another generation Louise Michel, the French female exponent of the. anarchists, is described as an elderly little spinster with coarse grey hair, twisted up into corkscrew curls. The remains of the officers who fell; during the Egyptiau campaigns will bremoved to a large graveyard "ear the Tel-el-Kebir railway station purchased by the British Government, and buri- d according, to the rites of the churches to which the deceased belonged. The Karere School has com; out execlleutlyin the upil teacher's examinations, and the published results musi gratify the late teacher, Mr Guthrie, and bis successor, Mr Flood. We ob serve that one of the pupils, Alexander Mat^eson, was Brut m arithmetic. English; grammar and history, anil second m writing and geography.. Lucy Randolph was also first m recitation, school management and reading. In the important subject of sewing she also obtained fall marks, and ia music she also obtained the maximum. Mothbb Swan's "Wokm Syrup—lnfallible, tasteless, harmless, cathartic ; for' feverishneßS, restlessness, worms, constipation, Is. Moses, Moss & Co.. Sydney, General Agents, Flies and Bugs.— Beetles, insects, roaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophers, jack rabbits, cleared out by JKougb on Bats. 7^d, Moses, Moss and Co., Sydney, General Agents, Wells' .Bough on Cob ns— Ask for Wells' Hough on Corns— 7£d Quick relief, complete permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions. Moses, Moss & Co., Sydney, Genera] Agents. Nevbb Retubn. — It is 3aid that one out of every four real invalids who go to foreign couutries to recover health never returns, except as a corpse. The under takers, next to the hotel-keepers, have the most profitable business. This excessive mortality may be prevented and patients saved and cured under the care of friends and loved ones at home, if they will but use Hop Bitters m time. ! Read. Lovely Climes. — There are lovely climes and places m which the evening zephyrs are loaded with malaria and the poison of fever a"d epidemics. To dwell there m health is impossible, without a supply of Hop Bitters at hand. These Bitters impart an equalizing strength to the system, and prevent the accumulation of deadly spores of contagion. Be sure and see.