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Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 29, 3 December 1878, Page 2

Assistant Clerk of Court. — Mf Forster lato Sub-Inspector of the Armed Constabulary, has been appointed assistant-clork of the B.M. Court, and arrived in Foxton per Jane Douglas on Sunday. The intention of the Government is, we believe, that Mr Forster should reside at Foxton, and that the whole of the clerical work belonging to the Courts in the district should be done here. We think a mistake has been committed in this. It is undoubtedly essential owing to the large amount of Maori business the Court has to deal with, that Mr Baker, the chief clerk, should reside at Foxton, as that gentleman's extensive ac« quaintance with the Maori language renders it desirablo that he should be placed in the centre of the native district. Bu^ we cortainly think the claims of the Upper District — Feildiag, Palmerston, &c. — are so Btrong, that Mr Forater should have been sent to one or other of those townships. The population is rapidly increasing in those parts, and a Clerk of the Court in that part of the district has become c. necessity. County Business. — Mr Macarthur, tho newly-elected County Chairman, leaves Foxton this morning for Otaki, .where he will make arrangements regarding the ferry, which has cropped up for discussion at nearly every meeting of the Council lately. Mr Macarthur' a early attention to this matter may be taken as a proof that he intends to study tho interests of the outlying districts. Otaki Court. — MrWard,R.M.,proceeded to Otaki yesterday morning for the purpose of holding the quarteily sitting ai the B.M. Court there. He was accompanied by Mr Baker, Clerk of the Court.. The proceedings will be reported in our next issue. CuonAL Society. - The abovo society will meet for practice to-morrow evening and it is requested that all members attend punctually. As the concert will be given in two or three weeks' time, it is hoped the members will see the advisablility of working well during remaining practices. City of Auckland. — On Saturday after* noon last, tho steamer Lyttelton left Otaki with her third cargo from (he City of Auckland. The HYnBABiD. — The unloading of the Hydrabad is being rapidly proceeded with. On Sunday the Isabella brigantine dropped alongside the ship from the Glenelg. and in a few hours received a cargo of railway material, and was hauled out to eea by tho

stcaiuir. We hear Messrs Howe, I'.irohley, ' and Co., wlio me doing tho carting from the ship to Hurlluy'H, nomphtin that they have been detninoct for somo days, and that their teams and men tiro kept idlo. Xatiyk Lavos. — Mr W. 11. Warren, who holds nn appointment uudt'r the Govern* nient in commotion with the Native Linds Department, will bo passing through Foxton .shortly, on official and other businoas. More LinEL.— Tho two following advertisements mysteriously appeared in a late issuo of a Dunedin paper :- -" Wanted the plaintiff and witnesses in tho case of Brown v. Inglis to lay information for per« jury, damages and intimidation, against Alexander Inglis. Wanted, oil weaklyi sick, and imbecile persons to beware of Alexandor Inglis, ho having thii morning been bound over to keep the peace, for intimidation, also for being a dangerous person." — Surely the unfortunate A. I. will go in for his pound of flesh. Honesty Rewarded. — Another instance of honesty being munificently rewarded was furnished to us thii morning. A recent arrival, said to be a aon of Esculapius, had been overtaken in the rain or some othor kind of moisture, and got into a cab. After ho left, the cabman fojnd that his fare had dropped his purse, which, it is said, contained something like onehundred pounds. He gave his horse in charge to' another, and hastening after the stranger, discovered him, and returned the purse. He was rewarded with a half-sovereign ; about a half per cent on the lost money. Some mercantile people think tho finder was worth five per cent at least. — Post, of Saturday. Naiuiow Escape. — On Thursday last, a young woman named Johnson, daughter of a platelayer on the Featherston railway, had a narrow escape. She was struck by tho buffer and knocked down. The engine was stopped with great rapidity, or she must fith«r have met with a dreadful death or experienced some terrible mutilation, Fire at Dunedix. — A large fire took place in Georgo-street, Dunedin, on Friday morning last, at 4.40. Six buildings wero burnt down. The insurances represented übont £4000.