The Pahiatua Herald. with which is incorporated THE PAHIATUA STAR. Published Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1894.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 153, 25 May 1894, Page 2

The Pahiatua Herald. with which is incorporated THE PAHIATUA STAR. Published Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1894.

Leading and other inattor is crowded out of this issue.

Mr G. Bottomley has returned from Wanganui much improved in health.

Isaac Pitman, inventor of Phonography, who has been included in the list of those upon birthday honors have been conferred, is uncle by marriage to Mr C. Brown of this town.

Mr W. J. Saunders, of Bunnythorpe. has purchased from Mr Boddington hit section in the Mangah&o.

We refer our readers to the sale in llawkins and Oudaille’s Mart to-morrow at 2 o clock sharp. Drapery, boots and shoes, slippers, mouldings, carpenters' tools, and a lot of sundries. All lines are to go absolutely without reserve, so that good bargains should be the order of the day.

The Criterion Comedy Company have been compelled to postpone their \isit to Pahiatua (which had been fixed for to morrow evening), owing tc illness of some members of the Company.

The Pahiatua Football Club took over £2O at the gates at the football match yesterday and at the public hall in the evening. After paying expenses there is a .credit balance of about £ls. This satisfactory result was in a great extern due to the energetic efforts cf the Secretary, Mr H. Perham, and the members of the committee, to whom the thanks of the ( lub are due. The th—Hfß ot the Club aie due also to Mrs W ood and Miss Gowing, who gratuitously supplied the music at the dance last evening. Several firms engaged in the carrying trade between Woodvilie and Eket.ahuna notify that on and after June Ist the price of cartage will bo raised 25 per cent. This action has been forced upon the carriers owing to the very bad state of the roads during the winter months, and also to the restrictions of the County tyre bylaws.

Mr \V. J. Reeve invites tenders for logging up and stumping about acres land.

Mr S. Webb requires a smart lad to learn the tailoring. Messrs Radford and Barlow will publish with our next issue an interesting inset.

The Deputy Official Assignee give? notice of a first dividend in the bankrupt estate of Henry Stevens. Messrs Abraham and Williams advertise their list of entries for fcho Palmerston stock sale on Thursday next. They also notify a number of additions to the Pahiatua sale list.

A disputed will case, in which Harriett Eli/a Bradford sought to obtain probato of the will of Charles Henry Thomas, who left property worth about£7Uoo, concluded at Sydney last week. A will in favour of Miss Bradford was alleged to have been found in the top of an old bureau by a lawyer’s dark, and the application for prohate was opposed by the relative of the deceased, who was a resident in Adelaide, on the ground that the will was a forgery. Miss Bradford was the adopted daughter of Thomas, and had kopt his house and attended to his shop for years past. Thomas was known to have publicly stated that he intended to leave her his possessions. In the evidence in chief it was stated that the will was drawn in the Cardigan Hotel one afternoon, and confirmatory evidence was called to show that this was the case. Mr. Justice Manning gave judgment in favour of Miss Bradford’ and directed the property to be handed over to her.

The trial of the Bennett No. 5 stump extractor at Hawera, on Wednesday, should satisfy everyone of the immense power placed upon the stumps. It was truly amazing to sec the simple way in whiefr two ram can extract large stumps in so whorl a time, three Lawns being taken «>iii and up-ended in 1 hours, which the company present admitted would take three days in tiu.* usual way by hand labor. MrGenn, who is *inhibiting the machine on behalf of the Walter A. Wood Company, of Christchurch, explained )»i« anxiety to do business in a genial niarnw/’ with all classes of land holders, adding v/rjl the Company have a full line of machine to lift up to 50 tons by hand and 150 tons by horse power. We have seen orders booked by several enterprising settlers at Hawera, | and after seeing this very interesting j exhibition can heartily recommend more ' o 1 the same sort to go ahead likewise. It j is v.»»tainlv a hit slow to leave these uglv I stump*, tiboiil the homestead wlu n such a ina.cJ.Ki' iy within easy much of most | settler*. j

The Timaru Court was occupied most of Wednesday with a curious case. Two men driving along a country rood left their vohicle on the roadside for a few minutes, but on starting again missed their whip, which they had left on the seat. A hawker’s van had passed meanwhile, and as they suspected the hawkei they overtook him and demanded the whip. He said he knew nothing of it. One of the men, Mulhem, a publican at Teinuka, and an ex-polioeman, pretended to be a police officer, and assaulted the hawker, taking him into custody on a charge of stealing the whip. The whip was afterwards found on the road the men had traversed. Plaintiff's story was corroborated at several points, and the jury gave him £IOO damages for false arrest.

At the Dunedin City Council meeting on Wednesday, an intimation was received from the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board that £1951 were required for charitable aid and £951 for the hospital. The general opinion was expressed that the jost should be defrayed out of the consolidated fund. The Mayor said he would bring up the financial position after the meeting of the Licensing Committee, when the loss of revenue was ascertained. He thought it would be necessary to strike a special rate. A young man named Harry Corskie, son of a blacksmith at Waipawa, while out shooting in the Umutaoroa Block on Wednesday, was olimbing over a fallen tree, when the gun caught in some fern and was discharged. The charge entered under Corskie’s jaw and killed him.

The five o’clock train from Auckland to Onehunga accidently killed an old man named William Thompson, aged 70 years, on Wednesday last, at Te Papapa Crossing. He was somewhat deaf, and it is supposed he did not hear the sound of the approching train. The cowcatcher struck him, inflicting mortal injuries, and he died in a few minutes. The man was a sort of tramp, and so far is as known, had no relatives in the Colony.

A Press Association wire from Port Chalmers says: ** Mr Cunningham, Health Officer, proceeded outside to the Rimutnka which has been signalled from London. He was informed that scarlet fever broke out amongst tlie steerage pasengers shortly after leaving Capetown, and that the doctor had isolated, the whole of the steerage passengers. There are now about 10 cases on board. The vessel will be quarantined and the stoerago passengers removed to the Island. The ship will be fumigated, and the saloon and second class passengers will probably be liberated to-morrow. In the Sydney Divorce Court, Horace

Poussard, violinist, sought to obtain a dissolution of his marriage* with Felicie Poussard on the grounds of desertion for three years and upwards. Mr Alfred Shaw appeared for the petitioner. There was no appearance for the respondent. The petitioner, Horace Poussard, deposed that he had been married in Chelsea, England, on Ist June. 1874, to the respondent, according to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church. He had been living in this colony for seven rears. His wife had come out with him, and they had had one child. She had left him and gone home with Aubrey McLean, who had since died of galloping consumption, leaving her in England with two children. The decree nisi was granted, with custody of child, to be made absolute in six months. A few days ago as a workman named Devine was engaged in the demolition of the old George street Markets, Sydney, he was startled to see a snake push its head through a hole lie had made in the roof. Another hole was made, and again the snake showed its head, and was immediately secured by Devine and killed. The reptile was a beautiful carpet snake, and measured eight feet in length. It is supposed to have escaped from a collection of snakes deposited in the market some time ago.

Our local Choral and Orchestral Societs had a very successful “ Pinafore ” rehearsal on Wednesday evening, every number going remarkably well, and there being a very marked impiovement in the acting, dialogue, and tripping. At the meeting held afterwards it was unanimously decided to stage the piece on Friday, tin* Bth proximo, and the costumier, Mr Harrison, announced that any member of the company who had not as yet completed the details of his or her costume would oblige by consulting with him without delay, as next Wednesday’s rehearsal should without doubt be a full dress one. There is a whisper of the piece being staged at Woodvilie and Danevirke. and we may say wo hope there is truth iu the rumour, as from what we have seen of the Company’s rehearsals and know of their previous performances, wo do not entertain the slightest doubt as to the success of the venture should it be made. Practices will bo hold next Friday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

At n meeting of the Christchurch Charitable Aid Board on Wednesday it was resolved to appoint an honorary lady inspector to investigate applications from women and children for relief. Tin- chairman denied the statement mado at a meeting of the unemployed re relief in do serving cases, or that any harshness had been shown to applicants. A young man named Giles Keelev was run over by a plough at Springalon yesterday. His recovery is doubtful. William Clark Watkins has been com

mitted for trial on a charge of obtaining money by false pretences by means of a receipt purporting to bo signed for buggy hire at the general election. Watkins was arrested on warrant yesterday at Palmerston North. Jamos Maloney has been fined 10s nnd costs for entering the Aramobo train while it was in motion.

Normon Gustav us Ifall. a litis G. E. Smith, who went into a Napier clothier's shop and bought a general outfit, presenting a forged cheque in payment, purporting to be signed by the Hon. J. 1). Ormond, has been committed for trial. Mr Tsaac Pitman, (he inventor of the shorthand system which bears his uonie. has been knighted.

Sir W. Harcourt stated in the House of Commons that lie had much sympathy with the views of the Imperial Federation Defence Committee.

The coaling coolies at Port Said have struck, and many of them have been in

j u red in riots which have occurred. British gunboats are held in readiness to suppress the disturbance if necessary. Gaudaur has issued an open challenge to any oarsman in the world to row him three miles for two thousand dollars a side. The Grand Lodge of South Carolina, I .8.A., is the Intent, supreme governing Masonic body to extend recognition to the Grand Lodge of New Zealand. The Kangitikei Advocate states that a Masonic lodge under the New Zealand ( onstitution is likely to bo opened at Birmingham. The work of compiling a catalogue of tLo books in the Parliamentary Library lias at lcvagfch been completed. There are more than 30,000 volumes, and it is estimated that ntbout £IOOO would be required to issue printed catalogue. A public meeting m comicutting with l ie I'nliiatint Prohibition League trill Ir held on Monday

Mr John Morley, addressed ft meeting at Newcastle, said the Marquis of Salisbury and Lord llosebory having failed to carry out the reform of the House of Lords, steps must be taken forthwith to s trictly limit the power of veto of that Chamber.

News has been received that the steam j ship Calisto, bound from Sunderland to ; I ‘.altiraore, ran ashore at Horse Cove, ' Newfoundland. The crew were rescued by means of a life-boat. A gloom was cast over Palmerston on Wednesday when it became known that ; at 3 a.m. the wife of the popular and genial town clerk, Mr Keeling, had died. Deceased had been ill only a few days, end her death was quite unexpected. Great sympathy is expressed on all sides for Mr Keeling, who is left with a large family, most of whom, however, are grown up. Mrs Keeling was 43 years of age. The Post referring to the recent earthquake says:—“ A man who was working on the top of the Government Insurance J buildings was in a bad way. The unfinished tower swayed considerably, and the man had to throw himself Hat on it and lie down. There were many diverting incidents. In one case a man was being shaved in a Manners street barber’s shop, and whew the shake came had his face covered with lather and the usual towels round him, but he did not wait to consider this and simply made a bee-line for the street, lather, towels, and all. The shipping i;i harbour felt the shake severely, those on board describing it as similar to the shock experienced during a collision.” Owing to the warehouses being ove - stocked we have bought some exceptionally cheap lines which we shall offer during the next few days at less than Wellington competition prices. Turkish towels, at per pair , dress lengths, at ‘2s lid up ; umbrellas at Is lid, ‘2s lid, and 3s lid ; white quilts, 3s lid and 5s lid up ; colored quilts, 3s 6d, and 4s 3d ; bleached sheets. 54 inch, and 38 inch, 3s 9d, and 4s 3d per pair ; unbleached sheeting, 38 inch, B}d per yard. A stock worth several thousands to select from. Trewby Brothers, Pahiatua.

The depression of trade in the large centres will be a boon to people residing in the country. Drapery is now being i-old at Coburg House at less than landed cost. Six largo cases have just been opened up by Trewby Brothers which will be sold during the next few days at the following low prices for cash. Lace curtains, at Is 3d, Is 3d, up to 10s 3d per pair ; flannelettes, in 3 yard lengths, at 104 d, Is 3d, and Is 3d up; shirtings in 31 yard lengths, at Is 9d, and 2s 3d : bush rugs, from 4s lid ; heavy colored blankets, os lid per pair. Trewby Brothers are the people for bargains. For job printing of every description in the latest stylos and at the lowest rites !go to the Pahiatua Herald Office. The next direct English and European I mail per lonic, specially addressed, will ! close at the local post office on Monday, the 28th day of May at 1.15 p.m., due

London. 11th July. The next direct mail is due Pahiatua 25th May.

The next English and European mail via San Francisco will close at the local post office on Wednesday, the 13th day of June at 1.15 p.m., due London 18th July. The next ’Frisco mail is due Pahiatua ‘23th

May. A much felt want is now supplied ; we have had in the past to pay 30s to 35s for a pair of trousers made to order. We notice in an advertisement which appears in this issue that they are no in be obtained from 18s 3d at Trewby others.

A splendid assortment of even! ng shoes, in blacks and tans, are now to h ml at the

W. F. C. .4., Ltd., all our own importing, splendid value, and by well-known makers. An old saying goes that “ fine feathers make fine birds.” This may or may not be true, but it is a fact that the effect of a picture depends very greatly upon the flame. So come and inspect our new stock of mouldings and get your pictures framed by us ; and while you are on the spot also take the opportunity of seeing our new samples of wallpapers, marked cheaper than ever ; and our large stock of paints, oils, brushes, glass, scrims, artists' materials, and all kinds of painters’ requisites. Cooper and Co., opposite Bank of New Zealand. The actual monetary cost of a suit o clothes is no test of its cheapness or otherwise. The cheapest suit is that which lusts longest, fits best and looks best, and this combination you can only secure by patronising a thoroughly practical tailor. A. BLAIR will fit you to a nicety with a suit from his large and firstclass stock of goods. jyßl Bankrupt stock prices; Babies' boots and shoes 3s 3(1. now reduced to Is lid. gents’ 7s, now 4s Gd. boys’ and souths 8s 3d, now 5s 3d, ladies lace-ups 12s 3d. now 7s Od. ladies’ walking shoes 7s 3d, now 4s

lid men's best shooters 14s 6d, now 10s 3d. men’s balmorals 15s 3d, now 11s 3d. strong canvas shoes 4s 3d, leather shoes 3s 9d at Radford and Barlow's great sale now on.

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