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Manawatu Herald, 5 April 1892, Page 2

An Irishman was drowned in the Horowhenua lake on Friday. As yet the body has not been recovered. •■ . ■ ■» • ■■ ■ On Saturday a disastrous" fire broke out in tyiiwherQ Quay, Greymouth, by whioh damage 1 to the value* of £23,000 was done. Messrs Strang Brothers , warn persons frointre. fassin&on th^ir Okaua estate. ". . j iWeremiOdouvieaders that on Thursday, , ; th£ i privileges in conneotioft; with the' . Foxton Races will be sold by publio auction. The entries' aro very large and a most successful meeting oan fairly be ex,l peoted.. • •■. .■■•-. ■ i ■'. The stock sale at' Shannon will be held to-morrow. Messrs Stevens & G-orton announce their , monthly sale of horses will bo held at 1 Palmerston on Saturday, 16th April. The Besident Magistrate will .hold his court to-morrow. Many cases are down for hearing and the sly grog selling cases 1 are likely to take up a greater part of the day. Two men were locked up on Saturday night for using obscene language, but were released on bail on Sunday morning, to appear at the R.M. Court to-morrow. An advertisement of the Eucalypte cxi tract appears elsewhere. The preparations are said to nave no equal for very many of the complaints flesh is heir to. The dissolution of partnership between ; Messrs Williams arid Robinson is notified in: another column. The Unionists have decided to contest ■ the whole of the Irish constituencies; against the Irish Nationalist Party. ' The ; N.Z. Tinxes gave half a, column to show the danger that existed in the Victorian Banks agreeing to assist one another. The English financial journals, however, approve the action of the Vie- ' torian banks in agreeing to mutually support one another. The Manawatu County Counoil invite tenders for ; the supply of metal, and for the purchase of the old Shannon punt. Mr Thorpe wants a feeder for a flaxstripper. Messrs Pascal Brothersinvite tenders for fencing on their property at Kereru. There will be no Mass in Foxton next „ Sunday. , ... A reward is offerred for the return of a small gold brooch. ' The hon. secretary of the Foxton .Racing Club reminds owners that acceptances for the Autumn meeting close on Thursday next at 9 p.m. , - at Ban goon,is stated to haVe done damage to the extent of fivs '< lakhs " 1 of rupees, so the cablegrams, spell it. Other Authorities' spell the wotd " lac." However, lakh or lac means in . India the sum of 100,000 rupees, and a rupee is of the. vajue °f >9 ne shilling find sixpence and-., a fraction. Worked out into English mori&y ■ the damage wonld represent £37,500. - ■•' v ' ** Fire has beeh very destructive in the two "' -ohiet 'towns ix>f Burma.) -Mandalay, the chief town, pf Upper Burma, has been . • nearly JburriVtQ the ground. The buildings rrrriorliKly tdKjfvtfbeeh teVyfobstantial, , but the town must have been of a large : - 'sise' as< it -possessed- a population of i jl&7>9(Hk; Bangocmfis the chief., town pf; Lower Burma, ana is distant' from, Mandalay 386 miles. Rangoon has 'a' population 01181,200» YT , f JbftelS^<W§ for {toefi^lt'jfear of Great. TJruaih iT £90,600,06(_-' Lftst year it was £89,282,228, and the year previous £89---804,318. Evidently there is a slight improvement. ;" 'JTofif Colorado; mines rhave shut down, . sowing to the cheapness of silver, throwing 250,800 men out ot employment." Apart from the copyright of his sermons .arid bookstand liis library, the property left by Mr Spurgeon' only amounts to"£2000. The Eev. Canon Grainger, a well-known Irish clergyman, some time ago presented a choice selection of antiquities valued at £12,000 to the Belfast Free Library. When the canon died last August a public subscription was promoted for a memorial portrait. Two contribution boxes were placed, among other places, in the library building. These have just been opened by the city officials, and have been found to contain nine library free tickets, eleven pieces of blotting paper; a piece of blacklead pencil, nve small buttons, a portion of a bad half -penny, a lucifer match; a spurious farthing, a brass ticket, and tive .shillings i and twopence ; in , coppers aud small silver. . • A peculiarly cruel libel appears in 'the' World: on a recentlyrdeqeased brother of the new Bishop of Carlisle: — "When (lie late B|r Jamefc Bardsley (says Edmund) resolved to send his seven sons into the Church, he was probably regarded as a very bold man. Wisdom was, however, as usual, justified of her children ; they are al, with the exception of one who died in the course of this year, very comfortably-placed ecclesiastics." So far as I beeu able lo I ascertain, there is not the slightest ground for - the • insinuation that .the deceased eclcsiaatio&e . »<. eferred to i« at present not very aorafortably placed.

On the Ist page of this paper is a striking announcement of special shipments of English made Blankets imported for the present season's requirements at Te Aro House, Wellington. Now these Blankets are specially good value, that is to say, the prices are exceedingly moderate and the qualities are exceedingly good. Our London buyers consider themselves experts on the matter of Blankets, and that is the reason why we give such excellent value and do so large a trade in them at Te Aro House, Wellington. We have an immense stock of these Blankets in all sizes, not only English but Colonial, and we have a large variety of Colored Blankets, Austrian Bugs, Newmarket Rugs, &c, &c, at Te Aro House, Wellington. It is very certain that in all drapery articles of house furnishing it would be impossible to find elsewhere such advantages as we are abla to offer the public such as large variety, such moderate prices and such an excellent Carpet and Furnishing Department as there are at Te Aro House Wellington. Housekeepers, hotelkeepers, stationholders, and all those about to marry should without doubt for their own advantage write or oall at Te Aro House, Wei* lington. Messrs Ross and Sandford, of the Bon Marchd, elsewhere direct the attention oj cash purchasers of general drapery to the advantages to be secured by making their selections during the present clearing sale at the Bon March£. The goods being disposed of. are all fresh and new, and the difference between present prices and ordinary prices is considerab'e. A large quantity of stook has already been disposed of, but there still remains a good choice of thorough bargains in Cotton Stuff, Dress pieces and Remnants, also Calicoes, Sheetings, Shirtings, Flannellettes, and Household Drapery, while Mantles, Millinery, Dustclpaks, and Sunshades are being disposed of at nominal prices to effect a complete clearance.