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Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1883, 31 March 1913, Page 4

By the Rotorua, due to reach Wellington to-day, 128 immigrants are coming to swell the population of New Zealand. Of the number 15 are farm labourers, 41 domestics, 24 wives joining their husbands, and 48 children!

Ths latest additions to the telephone exchange No. 725. O. Monrad, Grey street; No. 126, Nurse Carter, 91 Campbell street; No. 727, Geo. Burtenshaw, grocer, Foxton Line; No. 729, R. H. Spencer, 146 Broad street.

| The Prime Minister, Hon. W. F. Massey, and the Minister of Public I Works, Hon. W. Fraser, leave for Taranaki by Tuesday morning's train. The Ministers are to visit Stratford, Eltham, Manaia, Opunake, and New Plvmouh. They have consented to attend several local social meetings, at which no doubt the burning question of the route of the branch railway to Opunake will be raised. Afterwards Mr Massey has promised to arrange an interview with public men at Palmerston. The Wimmera, which sailed from Sydney for Auckland on the 26th inst., has on board an Australian mail, also a small English mail via Suez. The Palmerston portion is due per Main Trunk express to day.

fc Mr William Barton, a South Wairarapa stationholder, who has been on a visit to America with the object of procuring some high-class stock, returned by the Tahiti from San _ Francisco on Thursday, after making some successful purchases. The cattle—a valuable lot of pedigree Holsteins—were also brought by the Tahiti, being housed on the fore deck of the vessel. They consisted of three bulls and eleven heifers, and all arrived in very good condition. Mr Barton had taken great care in selecting the cattle, all of which were from long pedigreed stock and chosen from some of the leading h<>rds in the State of Wisconsin. They wore all descended from cows that gave from 1600 to 2500 gallons of milk per year, and care f,was also taken that they came from yearly tested stock, and each arrival was itself tested for tuberculosis. Three of the animals are for Mr Sievers, of Carterton, and the remaining eleven for Mr Barton. The stock was removed to the quarantine station on Friday. Ladies are respectfully invited to inspect the fashions of the moment at the Bon Marche to-day: several departments have been greatly enlarged to provide scope for the increasing trade at C. 31. Ross it (Vs. Ladies will lind the show room has been greatly extended, so that selection of rnillinory, furs and costumes can be made with every comfort and convenience. Fur coats, fur sets and fur hats are the special feature of the display to-day C. M. Ross it Co.***

'lhe Nursing Guild Committed will meet at the Mayor's room tomorrow afternoon at 2.30 o'clock.

Fifty pairs of Silver Wyandotte hens and pullets sold on account of Mr G. Potts at Mr Harry Palmer's sale on Saturday, fetched good prices. The pullets realised lis 3d a pair, and the hens 5s to (>s 9d a pair. Several territorials will be prosecuted at the Palmerston Court this morning for alleged breaches of discipline.

Complaints are being made abont the careless and reckless manner in which some drivers handle motor cars in Carterton district, the offence being particularly noticeable at holiday time. On Wednesday a valuable sheep dog, belonging to Mr W. B. Allen, of Clareville, wa« run down by a motor car and killed. The animal was engaged at the time working some sheep wnich were being driven along the main road at Clareville. On several occasions offenders in the same direction have been caught, and have had to pay a very substantial penalty.

After a further three months' trial of the cheap library postage scheme in tiie Wellington district, the concession has been withdrawn. The Postal Department agreed to carry books between one public library and another, or from a publie library to a subscriber at the rate of Id per lb or fraction. A letter received by the Municipal Librarian, Mr Baillie, states that the experimental scale was "availed of to suck a small extent as not to warrant its continuance in the Wellington Postal district or its extension to other districts."

A young man named Otto Koberstein, ageri 21 years, hailing from Palmerston North, was the victim of rather an unpleasant accident last evening (says the Southland Times). He was a passenger by a train from Riverton, aud, as far as could be gleaned, near Waikiwi a violent jar caused by the sudden stoppage of the train made his head come into violent contact with the woodwork of the window in front of which he was sitting. Koberstein, who wai rendered unconscious by the blow, was conveyed to the hospital, where inquiries made last night elicited the information that his injuries are not ot a serious nature, and he should be quite recovered in a couple of days. A paragraph has been circulated in the newspapers that Mr R. McNab, of Palmerston. intends, while in England seeking to secure election to the House of Common! for Sterlingshire in place of Dr. Chappie, the present representative, who, it is also alleged, intends returning to New Zealand to look after his financial interests, finding pclitics at Home too costly Interviewed on his return from Wellington last evening Mr McNab stated it was the first he had seen of the paragraph, and he denied tne statements entirely, He knew nothing whatever about any such move on Dr. Chappie's part.

A resident of San Francisco, by the Golden Gate, writing to a relative in Wellington, forwards the following clippiug emanating from Wellington, New Zealand, 26th February'' Terrorising the people of this city by its unheralded approach and its damaging effect, an earthquake to-day resulted in considerable destruction of property, but in no loss of life. The 'quake commenced with a series of minor shocks, followed by one loud explosion, which sotinded like the firing of a dozen cannons. The big shock was the worst ils the history of the district, residences being considerably damaged, and crockery, pictures, and other household necessities being shaken from the shelves and walls of the houses to the ground." Obviously, the cable refer* to the earthquake on tha West Coast.

Cupid drew a bow at a venture |in Auckland, and touched the heart of a man who deemed nothing too good (at other people's expense) for the girl he won. The unromantic side of the generous one's courtship was shown up at a creditors' meeting in Auckland the other day. The official assignee produced an engagement ring from his pocket. This, he stated, had been bought, but not paid for, bj the bankrupt. The price asked had been well over £2O, but the bankrupt had beaten the dealer down to the round figure. The assignee passed the ring round to the creditors, in case any of them contemplated entering the matrimonial state. As no offers were made the ring was returned to the assignee to dispose of as best he could. The eternal question—- " When can we make your wedding, cake."

Dustin's, Ltd., The Square, Palmerston N