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Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 38, 7 January 1879, Page 2

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Wellington, Monday, 6 pm. It is said the Government have replied to tke Chairman of Palmerston meeting re railway route, that they have no option regarding the question, as Parliament has definitely fixed Manawitu terminus at Foxton, according to schedule of I "uil way 8 Construction Act.

(per pbess agency.) Napier. Karatiana, the member for the East Coast, still remains in a precarious position. He will not converse but with his old friends. He has agaiu been removed from his hapu at Pakowhai and taken to Napier, and occupies wi h hi* family, the Maori Club, in which Mr White late editor of the Wananga_ resided. Colonel Whitmore accompanied by an engineer, is to-day taking soundings near his estate at Clive. It is proposed that a company should be formed (Murraj", Common, and Co., with Mr Miller, are at the head of tho movement) to purchase the Grange Estate to form a township and erect a breakwater, and so make a harbour. It is supposed that in such an event Napior would have great competition. The continued drought causes much apprehension in the farming districts. Auckland. Hennessy, of Opotiki, was tried this session for shooting a settler named Baonivetch. Whiie fording a river on horseback Hennessy was drowned, his horse rolling over him. Tho b^dy was found last c'unday. Christchtjboh. The through traffic with Dunedin will be resumed to-iuorrow. The large American engines will not cross the Rangitata bridge, but the small shudtiug engine, Kiwi, will be employed for that purpose. The railway authorities consider that the breakage of this bridge during last year through floods cost the country several thousands of pounds. OAacARr. Notwithstanding the fact that the season has been more dry Uian usual the cereal crops ar* now looking* remarkably Veil in this district. Should favourable weather prevail between now and harvest time tho average yield of grain is expected to be higher than for years past. Considering that the grain yield in other part's of the colony, particularly iv Canter* bury, is not expected to be so large this year, the farmers here look forward to obtaining good prices, particularly for oats. During the past week little business has been done in grain, and breadstufis are at quo* tations as last given. "Will the boy who threw that pepper on the stove please como up here uud get a present of a nice book '?" said a Sunday sohcol superintendent in Iowa; but the I oy never moved. He was a far-seeing boy. '•I ak a broken man," said a poet. "So I should think," was the answer, "for I have seen your pieces." A New York paper has this advertisement : — " Two sisters want washing." We fear that millions of brothers are in the same predicament. ***