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Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1366, 8 December 1884, Page 2

Frank Evans, some time proprietor of a hotel m Wanganui, has filed his schedule ; m Auckland. Inveniiye geniuses m this district will be glad to leain that the District Court office at Palmerston North has been app dntad a loral paUnt office, and that Mr A.. R, Theodore Haultain has been, gazetted a patent office agent. . Mr D. H. Macarthur, M.H.E., was offered a seat on • the Waste Lands Board for the Wellington provincial district, but was compelled to decime the honor as he would be unab]9 to regularly attend the sittings of the Board.— Star. A certain print found out on Satn rd ay that the Catholic body had purchased the .property known as Peete te Awe Awe's. which fact wa3 recorded by us two days. previously. In due course the enterprising' newspaper will perhaps also discover that Mr Goodisson'B property, adjoin ing has been -. Last week another engineer arrived troiir Dunedin to engage m the survey of the Gorge line. We. are informed on reliable authority that although Government do not intend starting the survey h\>va both ends simultaneously the nc ; xt best thlngwill b done, by commencing from Ashu st . and Working' m both directions. . .The Examiner » says : — 'We regret te hear that there is some talk :of opposition at Ashurst to the scheme for raising mohe> under the Eoads and Bridges Constrnct'on Act for fhe erection of the bridge at the Lower Ferry. We hsve Mame'l Manuwat u people m the pastfor iheir apathy m r gard to this bridge, and-now when ths work is on the verge- -of hting carried our. -.it is- to tshoped that they will now show a little'gene- • rosity." :. -•< ' •■ The Salvation Aimy inarched out m the Square on Saturday night. Thei-3 was no earthquake and no violent convulsion of nature m {my other re*pfct. Aa a mafcfer of factj the "Army " wag compose i, a'] told, of a captain, lieutenant, corporal, standard bearer, one coldier, one smn]l toy, who should have been m bed, and a dog, which latter, we are informed, was not '' saved " bpftwbich was probably attracted t by the melon holy howling of the muchofficered Army ""■ The surrey of the first section of the Main Trunk Kail way line (says the Au.ck.-v land Herald) has beeri: commenced . m ear ne»t, Mr Holmes and party taking the first live miles, Mi' Hursfchou?e and party taking. the second, and Mr Rochfort and part v't'he thirdly* m.ile3, .so that the survey will be Completea. by Christmas. The same expeditious system will be used m the office as m "th.e'/feld, and. advertisements, be. tissued early-for the tenders,. so that no time, will be lost. ' . It ir suggested m one of our Wanganui contemporaries that the public should sub* scribe the amount of Mr Spurdle's fine, or that it should, be voted to him as an honorarium at the conclusion of his term of office as Mayor. .-If . our contemporary wil lifer to the Act, we lalieve it will conce !e that Mr Spurdle- is,, unfortunately, not- the J Mayor elect of Wanganui at the present time. The Act -lys plainly that any [-31---son whe does that for which Mr Sjurdle was lightly or wrongly, fined, shall be incapable of being or of 1/emg elected to he a Councillor. 'Another clause says the Mayor shall be a Councillor m virtue of his oillt'e, aud, to still further strengthen this argu inent,^it is provided that the di qualifications of Councillors apply to Mayors also. The Court b.r~ held that. Mr Spurdle is disqualified a-id has fined him for being so, 1 he. action. has been, brought, and the fineinflicted, since his election as Mayor. There appeals, therefore, to exist a reasonable doubt a? to whether that gentleman can hold office as Major. At the Police Court this morning before Me*B s Bnelson andWaldegrave.J.Ps. John Scott, a boy flged 1 l-ycar? and 4 months, was charged with haying on 6ih December, with intent to defraud, forged and uttered .1 cheque for £S' 6s, purporting to bear the name of A. Southey Baker. Th* father of. the boy, for whom Mr Hawkins appeared, offerad no objection to the case being dpalt' : with summarily. Accused admitted the offence! and- the evidence disc osed that du'ing last wtek he had been employed at the ptdce of Mr A. S. Baker, solicitor, w'icre. he had access to a cheque book, from which hehad t*kena form and filled it m. Th*.' cheque was on the Bank <>f Australasia and .read, "Pay 479, or bearer Three Pound six shillings and* no -pence." The csrviees of anotber loy were then obtained by accusaii and the ooup'e went to six stores endeavoring to get the cheque cashed. ConstableManning having stated that although n • seper »te accomadation was piovided for juvenile criminals m Wanganui gac'., a recommendation from the Bench to have aocused kept apart . 110 m other prisoners wo'u d be attende i to, he wr 3 sentenced to fourteen day's imprisonment and t • receiv six strokes with a birphrod, On the next visit of the X.M,. the "boy will be brought before him and applica'ion to made for his commital to the. Industrial School at Ne'son, his parents being of the. Catholic religion, In sentencing accused the justices recommended that he be committed as abore, ano that m the interval he be kept apart from other prisoners. ■ • Additions are made it the advertieemant of Mesws Halcombe and Sheiwill's stock sale to take place at Feilding on Thursday Advertisers who have taken spaces. in our Sheet Almanac for 1885 are requested to forward copy for tame at once, to avoid d«laj m publication. '

Mr J. Walkley c^ntmues to improve an'l we trust to soon be able ta report bis complete recovery. We are glad to learn that Pator Gatistad's health is improving, and t iat Mrs Saustad is also progressing favoiably. A summoned u.eeting of Court M&na- | watu, A.0.F., will be held to«jaorrow evening a*. 7 p,m. ' A livr^e portion of ground this side of the Awabur; briiigc baa b?en washed away, and traffic is again cut off. Meetings of creditors m the estates of P. Sheridan, C. Siegel, T. Taylor, and P. ; Beaven were held to day. Nothing of im* po 'mcv to tbe public transpired at any of the meetings Mr McElwain, photographer, advertises a nove'ty m ibe shape of Americ n Gem Portraits, a doz' nof which he offers to f-upply for half -a- crown and to take pictures 'while his customers wait for the train. The Friendly Sports' Committee meet this evening at 8 o'clock, acid we agaiu remind intending competito s that nominations for Handicaps Nos. I 3, 7, 11, and 12, close at 9 o'clock this evening', at'Mr Moslem's office, the Square. ' ; ■'■ • • ' •--'■• The Feildirg Star gays :r— The present creuin separator at the Makino Batter Faa* lory has been found very inadequate. It only separates 20 gallons per hour, whercr.3 the compr.ny require^ fche .means of separating at icr.-t 60 ga lons m that time, and are importing another machine that will do ; 40 gallons more.; This i- almost daily ex*; fccted, ahd-.in the the work of, Ttrhe -jEaetfliry.js su?jiended. On F iday afternoon Mr Ebenezcr Baker, as Sheriff of the -Supreme Court, granteddischarges to the following persons con*, riecfed with the Porirua illicit still cases :•— . George Thompson, Henry Thompson, and -W. Thompson, John Morgan, Thomas BJorgan, and Henry Morgan. The amount due by these persons, amounting to nearly £300, was of course paid before the prisoners were liberated. -.-Mr Brandon, jun., made tlie application.— N. Z. Times. ': .■ ' Mr J. Sheuhau is at present at Tahoraite, where he has held a meeting of the natives regarding dealing with " theu 1 lands. Asa iosult the Examiner understands several of the native leases m the district, will I 3 tested as to their legality shortly ; 30Oac.ei of ihe 1 ahuraite clearing will be cut up into town sections j th^ native lands m the Seventy/mile Bush will be thrown or 3n for settlement, an I a .land Court will shoitly be held at Woodyille for individuelisatiou of titles.... . ' • ; . . tir Shailer, photographer, has lately succeeded m doing some excellent work with his instantaneous apparatus, Ho has been engaged m taking a series of picture! of .various places m P&lmerston and m some of thes' the Effect 'could not be better. One particularly good picture is that of a busy scene m front of Mr Snelson's auction mart where the artist has exposed the plat* juit as the . auctioneer is m the act of knocking* down a lot to an exoitri biddei*. , Another picture worthy of not ; ce is that of the Llub Hotel, the very flogs flying on which come out m full detail, though the plate must have been exposed for but .the smallest fraction of a seconi. Ther l^ is an excellent opportunity for any tiamp who is lost to all canse of honor to start at Invercargill without a penny and finish his tour m Auckland as a millionaire . —that .is if he' does not get shot or hung by the way. The case of Timms v. Spurdle leaves no doubt as to the practicability of this. We venture to say that there are not half.adozan Borough Councillors; m New Zealand who are not equally as amenable to fche.law'.as was Mr Spurdle, and the Act save ; distinctly that for any- "breach such aa his a penalty of £50 may be recovered by any iperson (not necassarily a ratepayer) "in'any court of competent jurisdiction, together with, costs of suit.. - There isa - fine openine in-jNew- Zealand for a partnership between ►ome briefless barrister and- a common intJQEmer._ _ ; • . The following letter appeared m Satur day's Evening Post .—Sir— A train leaves Wungauui for Foxton md vice versa each morning, failing at all intermediate townships.' "It is scarcely credible, but neither of these carry a. mail, 1 th • only'seivjce being that m the evening both ways. Moreover, on most railways there is a letter-box on the v?in for late letters, but for some reason this loHtr length of line is without one, I fe 1 sn c 'hat, on these ma.teis leingrepresented m your valuable paper, at the seat of Government, they will be vemfdied, j thereby conferring a greatly-needed boon j on business men and that large and useful j . clasa • -conimercial travellers. — l k aril, &C.,'( Business; Marton, 26th November; 1884. Of a truth (remarks a London paper) the Admiralty wants stirring up. Thirty hours elapsed after the disaster to the Wasp, and Admiralty was not only ignorant as, to who wasjclrownen, but they did not even k< ow the, names of the crew I Or-e would imagine that the list of names of every vessel m her Majesty's service d' ! ght to be at the finger e;id.s-.o.t'. ,the Admiralty. If they are so helpless m a disaster off the coa-t of Ireland atV time of peace, . what kind of muddle : would they be m during. war ? A STe.w York journal announces that there are m that city 30 widows who isre each -of them .worth, more than a million do'lars. Mrs A, T. iStewmt is the richest of them, bu'. 1 h ere. are two others Mrs Commodou Stephens and Mrs Moses Taylor, who are each oE them possessed of over £1,030,000, while- -Mrs "'Edward D. : Morgan and Mra ■ Comniodoifi ■ Vanderbilt just touch that ranbunt. Tlie "journal m question goes On •to parra'e how Mrs Jariies Brown is worth and r Mrs R; L. Ptewirt and Mrs :Wiliam Colemah £500,000 each, with wiabws. Do'ge, Grcerv, and Hammersley olcfse .n their heels with #*p,COO a piece. Fiial'y, the natE33 of 19 oth-r wi 'osvs are given whose worldly possessions amount m each cnse.to'more than £200,030. ; From tjie.beginning of next year, the time o'<?ay may be.giyen as " half-past 13," "itwenty iniriuteVtoai" &«., the.Greenwioh authorities having adopted the . American principle of going up to '" 24b' clock." . : Diesse3 reqnied to be made up for the coming holidays should fc_3 put m hand without another r^ayg delaj at The Son jSiarclic. ■ The ability. of our dressmaker is now sufficiently estabHshod to reiq[uire no conioient. -Suffice it to say that we 'yjiatyntce entire] satn/fiepipii -in style, fit ami workmanship, while charges are maintained strictly moderate.:, '. Mrs Francis is assisted by a full staff of qujalified assistants,' fiot-«ithstanding.wriich :itlwill be impossib'e to vrevent a number Vf ,' dicsppbintr -ment unless orders are placed.at pnce.-r-C. M. Ross & Co. \ . '."■:[.. ..' ■ ' '„., ][ : _ ■./ . Now Complete our extensive shipment <6r*ilii Summer Season. We are howshovring the mb9t complete and best as orted Stock of Drapery and Cfdthtng m tbis : district, most of btir s ii.iuents being direct Imports * a Saving ail intervening profits" we are m a position to offer Better value than elsewnere to be found m the Manawatu, Our <:lass of goods have gained sufficient to warrant inspection. — Soliciting an early call— ?We are, yours truly— J & W. A. McDowell.— Cash Warehouse. CHRISTMASr-Th at great season of rejoic ng, is near. AH of our customers will .be pleafed to know that during this month we shall offer a few special lines suitable to the season at prices far be 'ow: any other house m tbis tow . Note — Men's silk dust Coats, 8s lid eacu ; Men's straw Hats, Sd; Griildren's and- La ties' btraws, 3d and.6d » ,lace collars, 6d each ; Men's regatta Shirts, 3s. lid-; Prints, 4£d yard Also a choice assortment of ladies' Dolmans and Trimmed Hats at. Prices to. quit. — Beniibt BeOS. Marlborough House.— Adv.t. Lovely Climes.— There are lovely climes and places m which the evening zephyrs are loaded ;vith malaria and the poison of fever -iind epidemiof . To dwell there m health is impossible, without a supply of Hop Bitter* .ut hand. These Bitter ■* impart an equalizing str ngth to the sys'em, and prevent the accumulation of deadly spores of contagion Be sure and see. M alariai Peveb.:— Malarial fevers eonatipation, torpidity of the liver »nd kidneys, general debility, nervousuess »nd neui algic ailments yield readily to this great disease corqufror. Hop Bitters, It repairs tho ravages of disease by converting the food into rick blood, and it gives new life and vigour to he aged and inlxab ie%