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Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 236, 5 December 1894, Page 2

The members of the Pahiatua RitlnClub are holding a practice this afternoon.

At tho land Bale to-day the totar.i reserve at Mangahao was purchased by Mr 0. Gardner for £660.

Mr J. R. Graham, of the Anti-Monopoly stores, presenta to tho readers of the Hkkali.), in this issue, a list of special prices for the Christmas season. Three slight shocks of earthquake wore felt in Christchurch on Monday. A foreite factory in the city of Brussels hna been wrecked by an explosion, and 22 persons killed or injured.

A Gazette Extraordinary issued on Monday further prorogues Parliament to the 7th of February. The London Daily Telegraph says that colonial butter is taking tho place of the Danish article in the English market. Eleven hundred and eighty acres in Block 1, Mangahao, are declared a State Forest.

We are informed bv the Clerk of tho Court that tho now court house will not ho opened for the conduct of business till the Bth of January. Section 2, Block .7, Wairarapa Survey District, has been reserved ns a school site, and section 167, 10a. Ir. l!lp., town of Makuri, as a public recreation ground. Mr W. Niohoiscn is about to resign tho position of Town Clerk of Woodville in ortler to accept a position with a private firm.

Tho Public Trust Office will be prepared to receive during the next week applications for loans under the Advances to Settlers Act. It is understood that £1,000,000 is already available.

The London Times commends the stand taken by the Premier of Queensland on tho question of payment of members, and considers his presence in office has given confidence to the new loan proposals. Mr Clark, who represented Canada at thn World’s Fair in Chicago, leaves Van couvor for Sydney on the 16th inst., on behalf of tho Dominion in connection with the extension of trade with the colonies. Mr R. Blair, of Wellington, has purchased Messrs Radford and Harlow's stock of drapery, hoots nnd shoes, and judging from the large assortment of new goods received, and also from the prices marked ho ought to do a roaring trade. Anxiety is felt in Invercargill for the safety of tho cutters Anna anil Pride of the Ocean, which left for a sailing cruise at tile Southern Islands when the open season was proclaimed. Roth arc considerably overdue.

Mr R. L. Stanford, tho now Stipendiary Magistrate for Palmerston North, has been a school teacher, an Anglican clergyman, a leader-writer, editor and lawyer. Ho is said to bo a trenchant and scholarly writer.

Tho rabbit inspectors have laid informations against, a property owner at Makuri for failing to destroy tho rabbits on ins property. Tho cases will conic on on tho 7th January before the S.M., Mr Hutchison. This will bo the first case in tho County iri connection with the Rabbit Act.

It is stated that the Japanese are tempted to prosecute the war with China by their knowledge that a vast treasure, £210,(1011,ODD, lies in Moukdon, the accumulation of tile Msiiehu dynasty in the last, two centuries. That reads as if it wore nonsense, lull it is not to he so lightly disnii set]. The great Mandarins do accumulate large stocks of gold bullion; a million a year is not an impossible saving lor an Emperor of China, and it is quite certain that if the practice of lion riling became an Imperial ir; dilion, it would bo adhered to.

The members of the committee of the Pahiatua Rifle Club are reminded of the meeting to be held in the Club Hotel this evening. Mr Glasgow, the Government Audit Inspector, has completed the audit of the County Council books, and is at present engaged on those of the Pahiatua Borough Council.

The ltev. J. Dukes, of Masterton, is to occupy the pulpit in the Pahiatua Methodist Church next Sunday morning and evening, when special anniversary services will be held.

By mistake we mentioned in Friday’s issue that the nomination for the bicycle race on Boxing Day would be ‘2s and acceptance Is. Such, however, is not the ease. The price to nominate is 8s and to accept ‘2s. The members of the Pahiatua Fire Brigade intend commencing rehearsals for a minstrel entertainment to be held on the 3rd of January. As the evening selected is that prior to the race meeting here, no doubt the engine fund will bo greatly augmented by the performance. The concert arranged by tho members of the Anglican Church choir is to be held this evening. An energetic committee of ladies and gentlemen have had the matter in hand for some time. Several new performers will make theig bow to a Pahiatua audience for the first time, and altogether a most successful performance is anticipated.

A singular occurrence took place in Wellington recently. A horse attached to a spring-cart was seized with spasms. The driver procured a small bottlo of gin, and was pouring some of the liquid down the animal’s throat when the brute bit the bottle in two and swallowed one of the pieces, sustaining such injuries internally that it had to be destroyed.

In our reference in Friday’s issue to tho letter received by Mr V. Trewby, of Mangahao, from the Department of Agriculture wo omitted to mention that Mr Trewby had left at the ollice of this paper some specimens of the fly and a twig covered with the sooty smut, which may be examined by any orehardists who care to see them. Mr Trewby believes that ns the pest is new to the district it can easily be extirpated. It is to the interest of all orehardists that they should grapple with the pest before it comes too prevalent for extirpation. For tailoring go to Trewby Brothers. Sac suits to measure, £H 3s (with extra trousers). Sac suits to measure, superior tweed, £U 10s. Tweed trousers to measure 15s, 17s 6d. Ditto, superior tweed, ‘24s. Finish, style and fit guaranteed.—Trewby Bros.

The Viceroy of India, in a manifesto addressed to the Panjah chiefs in the Pamirs, asked them to unite and assist in assuring the triumphs of peace. The Government merely desired to solidify its position, and had no ambition for fresh conquests. The Ameer was a firm friend to England, and there was reason to hope, in accordance with Lord Roseberry’s belief, that the time was coming when Russian interests would cease to clash with those of Great Britain.

At the quarterly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce held in Wellington on Monday, the President in his address referred to the dairying industry as follows:—It wis to be regretted that tlie products from tho dairy industry were not making such progress as in Victoria. They appeared to have everything in New Zealand that nature could provido to compete with the world, hut apparently lacked the energy, enterprise and care of their Australian cempetitors. Whether the Dairy Act of last session would improve the character of the product was a matter for conjecture. It was of the utiino3t importance that a high level of quality should he obtained and retained, and if the system of grading was done in a thorough manner, the Dairy Act would be one of the most important that had been passed this year.

For A 1 value in lace curtains, toilet covers, carpets, linoleums, and floorcloths go to Trewby Brothers, Drapers and outfitters.

The Gent’s Mercery Department at Trewby Brothers is now heavily stocked with the latest in scarfs, bows, shirts of all descriptions, silk handkerchiefs a very fine selection, kummerbunds for cricketers caps and belts. Hats, the largest and best selection in Pahiatua.—Trewby Brothers, outfitters.

By far the choicest display of trimmed millinery ever shown to the public of Pahiatua is now on view at Trewby Brothers. Trimmed hats and bonnets to suit the pockets of all. Ladies' blouses, fancy aprons, feathers, dowers and millinery. Trimmings in great variety. Trewby Brothers, Family Drapers. For salo at half price.—three sewing machines nearly new in good order, also 1,*200 bricks; also one couch and one spring matrass, very cheap.—Radford and Barlow.

The actual monetary cost of a suit of clothes is no test of its cheapness or otherwise. Tho cheapest suit is that which lasts 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. jydl