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Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 33, 20 December 1878, Page 2

j ■ - , > Train Skkyice. — In another column, Mr . | Eutherham, Lite General Manager of the j Riihva,?, announces that changed will take . ! place during the holidays in the time table. ' | Particulars are posted at the various railway 1 stations. | The Wharf.— lt has boon pointed out to ! j us, that the Foxton wharf, since tho nddii tion, are greater than those given by m in | our last issue. The old part of tho wharf j is 4'.ift long, and the new pari being KVJf't, I the total length is :100ft. Tho new put is ' [ thirteen feet wide, and there is now aecoaii modation for a vessel of light draught to ! ' lie inside of it. There aro thus at present three berths available for vessels visiting the , port. > ' j The School Treat. — It is hardly necesj sary to remind our readers that the F-xto:i school troat takes place to-day. Tho young- ? I sters are to meet at 2 p.m., and refresh i.ent j in the shape of cake, Hms, tea, kj , will be ' I served out at 4 p.m. In the evening, after i j the sports are concluded, tho prizos wi:l be i ' presented. The public have responded most , handsomely to tli.j appeal for subscriptions, , ; as over £2D has been given, in addition to the gifts of hooks, cake, &c. The treat ta ! ;cs 1 | place in Mr Why to' 3 pad.lock. j Native La>'d Couut. —Foxton is at pro- ! sent full of natives, who havs coaio from ! I?.angiti!cei, Awuhuri, and the Upper Matia- : watu District to attend tho Laads Court, i which will sit today. • j IIniATANGi Block. — Tlio Tlimatangi ! block was to have conic before the Native , j Lands Court at the. sitting about to take plice, but owing to a dispute between the ' surveyors aud native owners as to the cjsl ! of the work, the matter will b» lefi. in | abeyance for the present. AVo hear t!iat : Mr W. H. llecs has written to the natives : advising them to postpone the matter until ! Janu.-uy, when he will come over from i Napier and aet as a mediator between the 1 ! contesting parties. Mr llees is said to be a ' ■ very accomplished Mairi linguist. Local Wo'.ks. — The contractors for the Motoa Bond work'', Messrs Carr and Robinson, are pushing along with their jo!). Mr Cook, who is forming Main-street from the ' Bridge, is also making a big hole in his contract. ' Tendeks. —In another column. Mi Moinet, Engineer to the Local Hoard, calls for tenders fiv the formation of tlie road aud footpaths upon the Avenue. New Pavbu. — Wo have received tho , p/ospectus of the Lyttelton Herald, a paper to be published at tho Canterbury port on 31st December by Mr Wm. Bil-*y, a New 1 Zealand pressman of long experience, and lately proprietor and publisher of thu Westland Advertiser. For a long time past Lyttelton lias been growing rapidly,and though I very close to Christchureh, it needs a local organ to watch its own particular interests. Under the experienced management of Mr J

i liiley, we augur a long and prosperous . I ( career for our journalistic namesake. ll Tlie C ! piper," it is announced, "will bo inJopeu- , i: j dent, unconnected in any way with party i ! cries or cliques." We hopo it will not be j j wh it was said of a near contemporary, and j „ ! quoted by him as a compliment, that " it is | '; j ill most olorlea.-, in its political utterances." 1 j i What a compliment ! I j | CoiiHEsi'ONDExr. — We have received a: 3 very temperate letter from an esteemed j I correspondent in another part of the county, j J ■ upon the Loudon question. The matter has j ' been fully disenssed, and we therefore caii- , not publish " Impartial'* " letter. i Wine Merchant. — In another column, i our enterprising townsman, Mr A. J. . Whyte, announces that ho has added the business of a wine and spirit merchant to that carried on by him alioady. Mr Whyte has recently bad some large consignments of * wine, spirits, &e-, and will doubtless find r the new branch of his business as profitable < , as the old one has proved under him. 1 j lloiues.— The stillion Star and Carle , I * | an 1 eight mares and fillies, all Olydesdaks, j 'j I the properly of Mr J. (J. Williamson, of j Auckland, to which place they aro to go, j . : were landed on Fridiy lasc, ui "Millo.v.lale, j ,j at Lyttelton. They are in sp'endiJ condi- ■ j ion. * J ' i Cuioket Team.— A telegram from Dun- j i I edia says that the secretary of the Mel- ! ;"i bourne Cricket Club has written to the sec- ! I rctaiy of the Utigo Cricket Association to > : the effect that New Zealand i.-> not included \ in the programme of the English cricket " \ tevm, and he does not see how New Zealand <' ' can be visited. ; The Leau.nei) Professions —We have iu * j New Zealand 440 clergymen, the numbers 0 ! bsing as follows: — Church of England, t . l"»(i; Presbyter.au, 108; Horn in Catholic, j £'67; and other denominations, 129 — or | 1 onct> 380 of the population. There are : 13 j 202 lawy >rs, of whom Dunulin claims o!, : 1 j Auckland, 41. Wellington and Chris! church i u j each 3", tho b dance being pretty evenly ; n i distributed ; the proportion is about one to j ' every 1100. 1 h'- doctors muster 242, and j ( j Dunedi-i has again the lion's share — 28 ; j r j Christehurch following with .4, Auckland i ii : 23, and Wellington with lo— one to 12:10; \ it ' while of commission agents (thoso beings I abhorred by lawyers), there are something I . i like 360. ! j Jonson's Akt Union. — The whole of the j . j tickets in Mr J onsen's art union have been j I disposed of, aud the drawing takes place at j e j Whyte' s llotel, Foxton, to-morrow (SaturS j day), evening, at 7.30 p.m. ; n i Platkdavaue. — We remi-<d tho settlers of ' tl j Messrs '1 by imp, Linton, and Co.'s sale of j e Christmas presents, platedwaro, k:, on ' e | Monday next, 23rd December, at 2 p.m. I I As we have said before, the articles are : v j really choi«;c,and beautifully decorated, and , l " theru should bo a ready sale. | i It is GUNKU.vi.Lr admittei; by everybody i 0 j who has visited Jacobs' Athcnuuun bazaar, i }' j t'.at it is the only shop in Wellington that ! [I j contains a good and complete assortment of » ! Fancy G-oods and Jewellery suitable iov j | Presents, Birthday (lifts, or Welding Pre- \ scuts. Parties requiring any of the above | % | articles Avill save themselves a lot of trouble ! ■', I by calling and inspecting the immense as- i t I Hoitment, which is too gigantic to particu- j I. ! lartse by advertisement. — Auvr.'j !