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Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 230, 21 November 1894, Page 2

The annual meeting of the Pahiatua Athletic Society wall be held next Tuesday evening, the ‘27th inst., at the Commercial Hotel. A petition for presentation to the Railway Commissioners, asking for some much-needed reforms in the conduct of the Eketahuna-Wellington section, is now in circulation in Pahiatua and is being very numerously signed. We have to chronicle the death of Hr J. 11. Topping, who passed away at his residence yesterday. Deceased was in business in Pahiatua for some years. Mr Job Vile was nominated for the mayoral chair this morning by Messrs D. Crewe and T. F. Hewat. As no other candidate came forward Mr Vile has been declared duly elected for the ensuing year. Sir Patrick Buckley has notified the secretary of the Ilogg testimonial committee that he will be present at the social to be tendered to Mr Hogg on the 28th iust. A case of poisoning through eating match heads occurred in town yesterday. One of Mr B. Hathaway s children, iff months old, was found to have eaten the heads of several wax matches. Dr Gault was called in and administered an emetic. The child has now almost recovered from the effects of its dangerous repast. The Pahiatua Volunteer Fire Brigade Band are going to give an open air concert in aid of the "Wairarapa Relief Fund next Saturday afternoon. The Mayor and Borough Councillors are going to preside over the tables. The Band have a first-class programme in preparation, and as tile object is a deserving one there should be a large attendance. Messrs Grace, Clarke and Co., of Wellington, Palmerston, etc., have a new advertisement in this issue, in which they give a list of agencies, which include knitting machinery, saddlers’ and bootmakers’ machinery, typewriter, etc. They are also agents for the celebrated Wertheiin Sewing Machine. Having considered the growing importance of Pahiatua and the surround iug district the firm have decided to place a resident agent here, and have appointed Mi T. B. Hunter to represent them. Mr Hunter will afford all further information required.

Our Makakahi correspondent writes : Something contrary to what is supposed to be the general order oi things at dairy factories happened at the Makakahi dairy factory on Monday morning, when the oldest milk suppliers presented Mr Overton with a handsome silver-mounted pipe as a mark of recognition of the able and

courteous manner in which he had discharged his duties during his stay at Makakahi. Mr .1. Gritfith. in making the presentation, said lie was expressing the feelings of all in stating that they desired not only to recognise the efficiency with which lie had discharged his duties hut also his collide-v and gentlemanly behaviour, f hey trusted that while lie remained in charge of the new factory at Hiuvera there would he the same good feeling between himself and the suppliers there. Eighty persons were killed by the earthquake in Sicily and southern Italy. The Maori race has been brought under tho operations of the Destitute Persons Act.

The American President will submit his plan for currency reform to the December meeting of Congress.

According to the Westport Times. Captain Mclntosh, of tho Wairarapa, had on board a library worth .£6OO.

Th.e P. and O. Company’s dividend for the year is per cent, per annum on preference shares, endo J per cent. 011 deferred shares.

Mrs Yates has been re-nouiinated for the Mayoralty of Onchunga by General Stoddard. She is opposed by Mr Donald Sutherland.

A quantity of wreckage bearing the name “ Coral Oueen” ill yellow letters on a hluo ground lias come ashore at Mackav. Brisbane, on the south bank of 111# Pioneer River, 625 miles north of this port. The Sydney Typographical Association has officially declared the printers’ strike off. ns tlje men are prepared to accept the 1111,..-, tfi A i,crips for a minimum wage of L2 12s a week, A deputation of prominent residents waited on Mr To.-.-will this morning, asking him to stand for the mayoralty. After careful consideration MrTosswillsaid that as lie had notified his intention of not standing, lie could not go back on his word.

A cable from Zanzibar states that, about 200 Somalis from the Lana River np. pronrhed li,e Mission Stationnt AVitu with a hostile intention. They were attacked by tho Puit-ish and 10 killed, the station being saved by the promptitude of the defending party.

The Now Zealand Insurance Company has joined the scheme to reconstruct the New Zealand and River Plate Company on condition that £200,000 is written off" tho capital. The liquidation of the latter company is to proceed. The Court is being applied to for power to extinguish

the 1 Ring .{<•; , ntures, bin not rt duce the capital till January. The Company rlso desires to carry out its own policy of reconstruction.

The St. James' Gazette says the lYomiov’s explanation of his lvfvnl nojiinlci concvniiiitf tli*s Now Zealand Cove, mu: nt ami Samoa shirks tlio leal point at issun. Times, roferring to n, cablegram published there stating that the remarks of the lion. .1. 0. Ward in the closing hours of the Jttst session of the New Zealand Parliament, that Ministers would visit Samoa, Wliro intended jocularly, condemns the behaviour of Now Zealand politicians. An export iu diving, named I’nller. sprang from Iho roof of thy 'Pow er Bridge, London, into the water, a distance of ~.>Oft. Uo was injured internally, and before a istane arrived was dri>\\ n< d. I’here are two Gothic towers to the bridge, and it is apparently from one of the: ; .inn Lnllcr took his foolish and fatal plunge. The Tower I’.ridge is an immense structure, the two piers in the bed of the r:vn” |*eing deHorii.ed as the largest in the vVoi ld. | Kummerhunda, eriokotiug caps and blazon* (Pahiatua, elub colors., v hile Ten m 1 liii i and ii< user .i. .;: ii. oai him r etfe, crope and silk stiipe .* hiri■- in every ’ m d • • l I tl ti -