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Manawatu Times, Volume IX, Issue 1129, 10 December 1883, Page 2

A meeting of the Committee of tbp , Manawatu Racing Club will be held m ! the Commercial Hotel on Saturday I evening to receive entires and accept* i , ances for the forthcoming meeting. 1 The Bankruptcy Court knows no distinctions of race, nationality or creed Daring the last twelve months Messrs Hawkins and Son, besides piloting a number of Europeans through the troubled waters, have, filed a French-' map, a German, a ."Heathen Chinee," and hare now ah aboriginal natire named Hori Urupa, under their care. At last meeting of th- Manawatu Road Board some settlers at Bunnythorpe attended as a deputation to ask the Board to construct a road to enable them to gain access to their properties. After detailing the difficulties under which they labored, and which were certainly rery disheartening, one of the members of the Board instanced the Karere- Kairanga road as a vworse case He said this road was so bad that a settler who was erecting a house on the block had actually to convey tbe bricks for the chimney m a canoe. One of the deputationists remarked that this at least was smooth travelling. It is considered probable that unless some improvement is speedily effected, steps will be taken to form a "KarereKniranga Navigation Company," We. observe that Mr F, J. J,nes, " the King of Leather " has found business so brisk as to innuce him to remain, a few days longer. The sAc willbe continued m the premises next the Bank of New Zealand. 1 Mr G; M Snelson announces that he I will dispute of the privileges m counectiori with the Manawatu Races. The sale wiil take place at his rooms on Saturday next. A printers error occurred m Mr Jessop's letter published m last issue. In the last three lines the figures should be read as pence, and not as shillings, as printed. ' The missionaries of the Canadian Presbyterian Church are accomplishing a highly successful work among the coolies iv Trinidad. They devote special attention to education, having twentyxnine schools, attended by 1139 children, whose parents are from India and China. About. 100,00 Canadians are engaged m the lumber business, md it is estimated that they and those des pendent upon them constitute about oheointh of the population of the Dominion. The total product of lum. ber m Canada m 1881 was £7,708,350 or 9dol for each inhabitant, of which enough wa? uold abroad to bring into the country £4,798,210. - x A summoned meeting of Court Manawatu AO.P. is convened for Tue«» day evening next. Messrs Stevens & Gorton have an extensive list to dispose of at their sale tonrorrow, at the Borough Sale Yards. The list includes 273 head of cattle, 760 sheep, draught geldings, Hereford bulls and a thoroughbred mar*. "Alpha" has written to us stating that his debate will close on or about the 20th inst. Thoce who intend taking tickets will accept the intimation. A. man named Mullally was charged at the Auckland police court, last week, with ill-treating a horse by working it while it was suffering from lameness, and a sore shoulder. He was £ned L 5 19s. The boy Shaplofski wasconreyed to Wanganui on Friday evening to receive the six strokes with a birch rod, wbich were ordered to be given to him last Court day. The flogging was administered on Saturday morning and the boy arrived m Palmerston agrin by the midday train. It is notified that his Fxcellency the Governor has dismissed from the public ceryice of the colony William Argent Archer, a clerk m the Government Insurance Department. In his official meteorological report, for September last— only just published — Dr. Hector appends the following remark: — "A vivid colouration of the southern sky after sunset and before sunrise was observed during this month, due probably to vapour being suspended at an unusually great altitude." It is announced that a process has been discovered for taking photographs m natural colours, the colours being produced by the action of the light alonein ibe camera, and owing nothing to the pencil of the artist. In photographs taken the colouring was quite true to nature, and the dedicate tcnes and shades were clear to the view. It is not generally known, peihaps, that *• Mormon " is a pure Greek word, signifying a monster. How Joseph Smith, the founder of this troublesome sect, hit upon the word is not authentically known. To commemorate the completion or the twenty -fifth year of the shrine at Lourdas, a large church capable of holding 5000 people will be erected. The corner-stone has alieady been laid by the Archbishop of Toulouse. The Post says that an estimate of the cost of purchasing and erecting machinery necessary to light the wharves by electricity was laid before the Harbour Board yesterday by Mr W. C. Smythe, wbo has arrived m the colony as the agent of a London electrician Mr Smyihe explained that his proposition was to place the machinery m or near the new woolshed, and drive the same with steam supplied by the boiler recently fitted up. The wires connecting the electric machine would be suspended by poles or attachment. 1 to buildings, arranged so as to be clear of vessels' yards and masts. In his opinion sxteen lamps would be quite sr€icient to illuminate tbe harbour. Of this number a dozen would be erected on the Queen's wharf and the remaining four oh the Bailway pier. He estimated that to erect machinery to successfully light both structures £2127 would be required, the principal items being as iouowa: — Steam engine of 20'hbrse power, £220 ; dynamo machine, £500 ; insulated copper wire, £150; erection and instruction, £700. The consumption o( carbon per lamp per hour would be under hree*»fathings, estimating the cost of the article at 4d per foot. The quantity of coal necessary to drive the engine for ten hours world be a ton. The quarterly '" earthquake report" for New Zealand, for the quarter ended 30th September, is jast gazetted. It is to the following effect ;—July-rEarth-quakes reported at Wellington on 4th, after, midnight, smaic; on sth, at 3.30 a.m., slight ,• and ou 9k-h, at 2.40 ' p.m., slight. August— Nil, September-Earth-quake .at" >'.Wellih^bn- r -0-r- !; 27tti,'- ; tt 7a5 p.m,r ,: :y- •<• a y^y -yy Nkv^r ftsToatT. -r-Jt is wu'd'' thjat one out of every four real invalids *fflio go ttk> foreign countries to recover health never returns, except as a corpse. Th,e under* takers, next, to .the hotel-keepers, have the most profitable business. Thi*» excessive mortality may be prevented and patients soyed and cored; under the care of friends and loyed qnes at home, if they will but use flop flitters, m time: 1 4t^^TT*