The Pahiatua Herald. with which is incorporated THE PAHIATUA STAR. Published Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1894.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 138, 20 April 1894, Page 2

The Pahiatua Herald . with which is incorporated THE PAHIATUA STAR. Published Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1894.

The annual election of school committees throughout the Wellington district takes place on Monday evening.

The first sitting of the newly-elected licensing committee for the Masterton electoral district is taking place in Masterton to-day. Messrs A. Stewart and J. Dawson left last night, in order to be present.

Several important additions are made to Mr Crewe'6 stook sale which takes place on Tuesday next at 1 o'clock.

Mr Vine has completed the erection of the horse traffic bridge across the Makuri river at Makuri township and has made a splendid job of it. The iron work was entrusted to Mr C. Morris and gave com plete satisfaction. Mr Tvlee commenctd the use of the bridge by driving a mob of sheep over it. Pigeons are very plentiful in the Makuri and sportsmen should have a good time on the opening of the season. Mr Christiansen is having the old site cleared for the erection of the new Union Hotel.

There is £7O worth of rates outstanding in the Pahiatua Borough.

A smart shock of earth was felt in Pahiatua shortly after three o'clock yesterday morning. The next English and European Mail via Rio aud Teneriffe per Coptic will close at this office on Tuesday, Ist May, at 1.15 p.m. Mail due in London 12th June. The next direct mail is due here about 26th April.

In the libel aotion Haves v. The Australasian, the jury disagreed, and were discharged.

The Government have resolved to accept the offer of the New Zealand Electrical Syndicate Company for lighting the Parliamentary Buildings and general Government offices in Wellington. The arrangement of the details has been left to the Minister of Public Works.

Mr J. lorns paseod through Pahiatua this morning en route for Hawko'e Bay with a mob of 250 head of store cattle. This makes the second mob ho haa taken out of this distriot during this month. The lost handbag which was advertised for in our last issue has been found and returned to the owner. Though the bag was not locked the money and other contents were returned intact. An accident occurred at South Tirautnea last evening. A child of Mr Good win's fell on an empty bottle and cut its face, a wound two-and-a-half inches long being indicted on the right cheek. l)r Gault was called in and stitched up the wound, and the little patient is now doing as well as can be expected. Messrs H. W. Briggs and A. Birnie were making an active canvass of the town to day collecting subscriptions to wards the purchase of the fire engine for the local brigade. The amount collected and promised up to noon to day totalled £57 17s.

An advertiser requires rooms in the vicinity of the Bank of New Zealand. Apply ** Eim,” care this office. This evening a concert and social in aid of the funds of the Presbyterian Church take* place in the Public Hall, An ex cellent programme is to be presented, and bearing in mind the enjoyable nature of those which have previously been given, it is safe to predicta very large attendance. The members of the Church intend shortly erecting a new church building, and for that purpose require funds. Those who cannot ussist them in any other way can, at all events, assist them by their presence at the concert this evening.

Our readers are reminded of Mr Haw kins’ sales to-morrow. The horse sale is timed for one o'clock and the sale of furniture and sundries for 2 o'clock.

Tenders for felling 400 acres of bush in the Mangaone Valley for Mr T. Hodgins, close on Monday, April 30th. A meeting of the Cabinet was held on Wednesday, when Dr Cahill was appointed to succeed the late Dr Henry as chief medical officer of the Government Life Insurance Department. The vacancy in the office of Sorgeant-at-Arm9 of the House of Representatives was filled by the appointment of Colonel William Fraser, who represented the Thames constituency in last Parliament, Mr Thomas Bracken, the well-known poet and journalist, who represented Dunedin Central in the House from 1871 to 1804, was selected to succeed Mr E. D. O Rorke, who last session resigned the office of Bill Reader in the House. The Maori Parliament is now in session at Pakira u, Poverty Bay, anil the pah is be ng visited by a large number of Europt ans, who, however, are denied admittance lo the room where the deliberations of the assembly takes place. A large number of influential chiefs were present from all parts of the colony.

At the Christchurch Police Court on Wednesday, Edward Parkerson, accountant for the late firm of Harper and Co., was charged on six informations with embezzlement of sums amounting in the aggregate to £IOSO, the property of the firm. He was committed for trial, bail being allowed—himself in £IOOO, and two sureties of £SOO each.

A fire occurred last night in the premises of Morton and Son, Onehunga, where the surplus stock is kept. The store was completely destroyed. The insurance is £SO on the store, and £2OO on the stock in the Commercial Union. Mr Morton estimates his loss at £2OO over insurances. The cause of the fire is unknown.

Says the Manawatu Standard.—A case in the R.M. Court on Wednesday makes one reflect upon the new use to which Ministers of the Gospel can be put, as a clergyman of the most Conservative Church in existence—the Anglican—sued an acquaintance for commission on the sale of a property he considered he had effected for that gentleman. The reverend gentleman, who sued for £IOO, was nonsuited, but still there is a great element of danger to the large array of commission agents should this innovation prevail to any large extent. The possibilities of entrusting the sale of a property to a clergyman are immense, for he can put a quiet word in season during his visits to his parishioners in praise of the property he has for sale without the designs of the parson being at all suspected by the innocent object of his attentions. The publicity the case in question—Aitken v. Haselden—will receive, however, is likely to injure any clergyman who desires to follow so business-like an example, the amount of the costs (£ll 2s; to be paid by Mr Aitken. independent of his own costs, being a specially uninviting item.

The next English and European Mail via San Francisco will close at this office on Wednesday, May 16th, at 1.15 p.m. Mail due in London June 21st. The next ’Frisco Mail is due in Pahiatua 28th April. Lady Glasgow leaves for London via San Francisco by the Alameda on Saturday next. Her Ladyship expects to be back in New Zealand about September. The Kumeroa Road Board propose bor* rowing £1733 under the Government Loans to Local Bodies Act for the formation of roads in their district.

A meeting of the Pahiatua Chess and Draughts Club was held on Tuesday evening last, Mr Lee being in the chair. It was resolved to hold championship matches for first-class players only, entries to close on Tuesday, 24tb inst., play to commence on the Ist of May. The classification is as follows:—First-clan* : Messrs Norton, Beaufort, Godtschalk. Sedcole, Ma.yne, Smith, Turner. Secondclass : Messrs Lee, Levin, Hare, Rufherfurd. Ransome, and Cooper. Third class : Messrs Eccles and Dash. It was also decided to hold championships for draughts, open to all members of the Club, entries to dose on Friday. 27th, play to commence following Friday. Other business of minor importance was also done.

A Brisbane telegram to the Australian daily papers states that “ figures have been published showing the disastrous effects of the drought which has just terminated. One station in the North Gregory district, during the past two years, lost 80,000 sheep, another 60,000, another 52,000. and another 46,000 ; and one station alone in the Mitchell district lost 108,000 sheep. One cattle station in the North Gregory district lost 10.000 cattle, another 9,000. and another nearly 8,000. One cattle station in the South Gregory district lost 9000. A large consolidated run in the Warrego district lost 250,000 sheep.” The following is a list of tenders received and dealt with by the Pahiatua Countv Council on the 7th inst. Contract 225, clearing and trimming Ridge road : Kip penberger £49, Shadbolt £44 14s 6d. McMahon £139 15s, Parker £35 10 (accepted), McDonald £BS 17s 6d, J. Henrv £39 145. Contract 226, widening portion of Palmerston road tr*ck: Jensen £BS, McMahon £59 15s, Cornelius £SB, Carroll and Wright £49 (accepted), O’Mara £75. Contract 327, erection of three span bridges Tiraumea Valley road (near Whyte’s); Carroll and Wright £242 19s 6d, Vine £176. Dawson £2OO 15s 6d (accepted). Contract 328. formation on road 37 Mangahao : Kippenberger £42, Tworaev and Williams £6l 17s 6d. Scott Bros. £39 7* 6d (accepted).

Mr Jackson Patfner will auk for a scrutiny of votos rocorded at the Waite mata election, not with an idoa of upsetting Massey’s rlootion, but to ensuro voters remaining on the roll. It is as nerted that 150, who voted at the general election, found their names off the roll. Why pay other proplo 25s 6d for a suit* of olothes when you can get the same quality fur 15s Gd at Trewbv Brothers? They nave the largest and best selected stock of men's and boys’ clothing and mercery outside the large centres. The game season starts on May Ist, hut the season for blankets and Gunnels has already started. For A 1 value in these articles go to Trewby Brothers, family drapers. The following will interest the ladies— New jackets and mantles, new ladies’ macintoshes, new ladies' and children's ulsters, new millinary and trimmings now opened up at Trewby Brothers, next the Club Hotel.

We have this day opened up two hales of the latest patterns in sanitary wall papers, and have marked them off very low to suit the times. Scrims, tacks, glass of all kinds, varnishes, oils, leads, colors, and brushes in stock. Estimates given for all kinds of work and experienced workmen sent to any part of the district. Cooper and Co., opposite Bank of Now Zealand, Pahiatua. Children’s endowments without risk Table H.R.—This tablo removes the only objection to the ordinary form of Child’* Endowment, viz.,tue fear that in theevent of death of parent or guardian, the Premiums would not be kept up. It is therefore a combination of endowment and assurance without risk of forfeiture from any cau*e. Every possible contingency is covered, and a good rate of compound interest is guaranteed at the end of the term by the policy, which is also nonforfeitable while surrender value lasts. Example.—A father, age 30, endows his son, age 1, for £2OO, payable on his reaching 21 years of age, the annual premium being £7 2s 6d. If the father should die any time after the first payment as above, instead of the widow having to continue paying premiums, the endowment becomes a paid-up policy, and matures when the boy reaches 21 yea; sof ago. In event of the child’s death during currency of the policy, the whole of the premiums paid will be refunded.—Mutual Life Association of Australasia, E. B. Hare, resident agent.

The man in business who does not advertise is like a man who kisses a pretty girl in the dark : He miy know what he is doing, but nobody else does.