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Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 210, 3 October 1894, Page 2

’ Mr Dilloe’s tender for forming 10 chains of King street lias l»«en accepted or the Pahiatua Borough Council. Mr J. K. Graham has one of Summer* lield’s patont fruit cleaners at work on his preniisca. The currants are plaotci in . cylinder and aro cleaned with rovolviu,' . » tlie cloanic of raisins. .Mr Graham informs u« that the fruit cleaned by this process is in great demand in Pahiatua. The Marton Mercury announces the marriage of Mr li. liaise, formerly accountant of the Bank of New Zealand • at Marton, and now of AYoodville, to Mis* Martha Gibbons, daughter of Mr S. Gibbons, of the White 11 art Hotel, M arton. The letter box applied for some time a > boW oi Mr P. G. Moore. The hours for clearI mg are 7*45 a.m. and 1 p.m. | Tire Brigade is taking piece as we go to ] press ihis afternoon. A report of the pre- | ceedings will appear in l’r .lay s issue. A new religious organisation has been ti n Saints.”* They intend extending their operations to the wholo of the Pahiatua County. The Tudor*Friedman group gave another Hi present fulls appreciated the efforts made iw amuse them. I . ’ the position of infant mistress had been 1 forwarded by the Board for the com raittsa’s consideration. anil after carefully going through them, the committee decided to agree to the Hoard s selection, viz., Miss Flora Petrie, who has been ni East Oxford School. Canterbury, for ‘2l year*, and has had a lengthened experience in the teaching'of young children. She hold-- ■ aD3 certificate. The other business wa , of a merely formal character. Arrange , | monts have been made with Miss Bee* • to continue at the school until tlie end ot the present month. We hoar on good authority that Mr Cook, the new proprietor of the butter factories, intends entertaining the old and new suppliers to the various creameries in • t i nt. the Public Hall. Pahiatua, on the Ulh . inst. Preparations are in progress to get , up ft pleasing programme. , The first meeting or the second Series of the r.iterarr and IVlvitir. Society w i held in the Town Hall on Monday oven mg. Owing to counter attraction* and the inclemency of the Weather there w.c a poor attendance. The Secretary, Mr D. i Taylor read n paper on “ Bridges.” A , short. discussion took place, Messrs Reese. Grevillc, Phillip, and others taking part. Next Monday s debate on the question of compensation to publicans will take place. Messrs Iveeso and Hawkins will take the load on either side. Tlv Alameda, which sailed on Monday 1 for Auckland from Sydney, brings XIOO.OOO worth of specie. The weather cleared up for the holiday, and there was an immense procession in 1 celebration of the Eight Hour.-’ system in Sydney. Beerbohm’s circular estimates that the win .it crop of the world at the beginning of {September 'exceed * the probable fi.inaud i by 2,000,000 quarters. Report* as to the (’r ir's condition arc conflicting. It is believed tho Impc el ! family and courtiers are trying to conceal tho truth. Some experts state there is no immediate danger. lie is almost 1 skel< | tou and hardly able to use hi* arms, fie spend* bis Flight* i < weeping for the co.i suniptiveson George, lie suddenly walked to the telegraph office at I o'clock one morning, and wired an inquiry to tie doctor attending the young Prince. Ho ■ waited shivering iu He fifties* office un , hour and n half, and, upon receiving bail new*, cried, “ l >h, God ! Wh.it have I done to be so severely punished ! ” Ouo bundled and eigntv noncemmis sioned offio r in a linnet > sc tool at ; n have been art i >r m l i , alarm* d, and i urround* d t n «< h the d« id "i ni hi theprieo out of their beds. \ great s»*ii I ion wa caused in the city b.V tins freak oi the Emperor. Very little interest was shown iu the debate on tin* third r< a.ling, of the vh< ap i I inn n i.

The Treasurer says the oxisting cheap money scheme is sounder than that proposed by Mr Macandrew, who provided a margin of only one-half, as against l.> in tho present Bill. A cable from Calcutta says that it is reported the Chinese have destroyed the ! frontier pillars in Cashmere, and set up ; others further on this side. While the steamer Corinna was lying | oft Napier on Saturday afternoon, a 1 saloon passenger from that port to Wellington, Mr Cornell, son of the member ; for Napier, fell overboard. Life buoys 1 and ropes were thrown to him, but he did not avail himself of them. A seaman named John M’Lellan jumped overboard ■ and held Mr Cornell up until succour arrived. Mr Cornell, who had been ill, was conveyed, ashore in the steal* launch. i The incident Caused some excitement j aboard. H.M.S. Champion reports that Neekar Island is unsuitable for a cable station, us I there is no landing-place. The Otarama has returned to Gravesend with the loss of her main topmast and severe damage to her bows, caused by a j collision with a sailing vessel in the Channel. Three of the crew ere missing. The funeral of Mr Joseph Gadsby, woo whs drowned in tho Mangatainoka River hist week, took place on Sunday afernoon. The cortege, headed by about 60 Druids, ! left the house of the deceased’s brother at the Taita, and nas the largest ever seen | in the district, over 1000 following, the , procession, which was fully a mile long, , being made up of mourners from all parts 1 of the district from Wellington to Eketahuna. Deceased was interred in the 1 public cemetery at the Taita, tho burial service being conducted by the Rev Mr 1 Gray, of the Hutt Presbyterian Church, afWr which the Druidic service was iinpresI sively delivered by Arch Druid Bra G. William, of tho Sta of Now Zealand Lpdge. A largi . i ■ were S'-nt, while the Mauri frifinds of deceased forwarded a beautiful flax mat to be 1 placed on the coffin.—Post. The Customs revenue collected at Wellington iu September amounted to £32,31 1 lbs 4d. as against £06,237 Pda in the corresponding month lafct year. The beer duty receipts were £Ol5 os sd. against X 543 12.? 9d for September of last year. An experienced miner who recently left Wellington for Coolgardie. writing to a friend there, says he has not a high opinion of the field. It is only good lot -i ■ claims, and a great many duffers. The Londonderry is just a shoot of gold, very rick, but six feet away from where they aro getting the gold yon cannot set the • | don; against investing in the Hold, and u# says he cannot advise people to leave New Zealand to go there.—Pont. Tin? total naval strength of the Chinese nation may be set down is : Battleships. 1 first-class, 1 «econd class, 3 third-class 9 part dofence vessels ; cruisers, 9 second- [ class, 47 third-class ; torpedo boats. 2 first-class, 26 second-class. 13 ‘hird-class. and 2 smaller boats. The Japanese navy consists of five ships, which may be ! classed as armoured cruisers, one being o wood : nin<- second-class cruisers between ! 2000 and 5000 tons : and 22 vessels which may be ranked as third-class ships. Tut . ilotiiia includes one fir*t-class boat—about 125 feet in length—and 40 of the secondclass between 300 and 123 feet in length. 1 There is an important naval department at Yokohama, and the principal dockyard is at Yokohama, while there naval Chronicle tho following **gen unas--1 sisted composition of .* Lond.ii School ! without previous preparation in an b '• png toy out 1 tv< ry plant in your garden. But the chief delight of fowls is to find ;i tiny 1 f onTv one fowl secs i* it wid goTnd ; find half a dozen more to help. Then • . ! garden, an 1 muck heap are all mixed up—at lens; the rrirden »«unu all muck neap. Expostulation with their owner, generally one of the British workmen type, is of no avail. All lie says is, * Why. n«»w did they really, guvnor ? I wonder ’ow they got , out! ' People say that fowls don't pay in Loudon as a rule : but our British work mail friend say - they io. Yet all hr 1 gives them i* s lian Iful of corn a day, thv ; neighbors’ gardens do the rest, and he i grows fat on the eggs lie receives. This is the only way fowls pay. People ought i to he ullowed to make chicken broth of any fowl they can catch which belongs to I him. for they themselves do really keep the fowls*!. Tho Sydney Morning Herald, writingon the Cheap Money Scheme, snvs : —We i may expect that the eagerness of farmers i to become debtors of « beneficent cheap ; money Government, in the place of the | ordinary unsentimental and tin queozable | mortgager, will be limited only by the j anticipate will he absorbed with much esse. It is not an unreasonable uxpectaI lion that in 10 years’ time the public debt of the colony will be increased by 15 | millions, ms against whioli the Government will hold the mortgages of » largo number of farmers. Tneso will also be electcra of members of Parliament ; and if some day after n general election some members of very advanced views should ittrodoei proposal for the remission of the iniquitous 5 per sent interest, which wa* suckiii:; the life-blood of the agricultural class tho true foundation of the country's pros perity the proposal would be closely analogous in principle to one which at tho ; present time, as we mentioned the other I day. stands on the notice-paper of tho Legislative Assembly of N ow South Wales. | W nh all <»l these progressive attempts t- - convert New Zealand into the Paradieeof : the burro* v a modern Arcadia- it niight ; bo expected that we should find every sign j of contentment and prosperity on the part of th •oloay, and also m influx into - > favoured a hind from al! the other less ad vauccd colonies. It is an instance of the : imparfectiou and disappointment which at j dating the month of July last the arrivals i at this {Southern T.den numbered 1220. tho ; departure* in the same period were 1619, mMil tho supply of labour is reported lo i>* . in execs-. of the demand. | Every ship from Rio that has recently ! arrived here (says the Nvdnev Merning I while at that port, anil it ; s not win prism that a shipmaster declares that T’lO.iHH) ns , ! lo hr pick*.. I off by “ YclUw "jaek!” . ed on 1 | and vejtsrdn.v tiio whip Almora, whioli i MidYhe captain a w tie hied. The Ahum-* ; of Rio. I n t eheih. n cotnjdelely paralysed ! mouths bcloro sho could get ch ar ol her The liwxt English and European mail yin Han Franei - - w 1! dof < at tho -»- I I i ).•!<>•' at LI- p.m. if • I. u lon th , f j November. Tln» next Frisco mail is «li.•»