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Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 243, 21 December 1894, Page 2

Thursday will proliablv be tlio day selected for the half-holiday in Masterton. The sum of £l4 18s was collected in Pahiatua during Self-Denial week by the members of Ibo local corps of tho Salvation Army. Mr 0. Hall, M.H.K., informs us that the formation and metalling of the North Tiraimica Road is to be proceeded with at ones. This will be acceptable news to residents of Mangatainoka and district. We have received from Messrs Abrahams and Williams, local agents for tha National Insurance Company of New Zealand, n very us.,ful ollico calender for IHUS. Another very successful rehearsal liy tin, RsotU'uicn taking part in the concert t i be hold on it am!try in aid of the Fire It -ig .de engine ii.llil was h<J'/ f«*t evening i i the Public Hall.

A special meeting of the members of the Pahiatua Jockey Club will be held this evening to consider Mr Yule's notice of motion. Tho weights for the Pahiatua Jockey Club’s meeting will be declared to-night. Mr Walter Bentley passed somo very complimentary remarks on the scenery and stage properties at the Public Hall. He Baid the hall would be a credit to a much larger town. A correspondent sends us the following as a sure preventative against mosquitoes : Soak a piece of rag in spirits of turpentino and hang beside the bed. This has the effect of driving the troublesome insects out of the room. Horse-owners are reminded that nominations for all handicap events for the Woodville District Jockey Club’s New Year’s Day meeting close with the Secretary, Mr \V. Nicholson, at 8.15 o’clock tomorrow evening. Mr J. Dawson has kindly undertaken to build a Secretary’s office on the Athletic Society’s ground. The dimensions of the building will be lOfeet by Bfeet. We learn by wire this morning that Mr Barrell, of Mangatainoka, has been appointed a Justice of Peace. This appointment should give general satisfaction. The annual sheep returns have just been completed by the Stock Department, and show an increase of 850,460 sheep within the year ended the 30th April last. Elizabeth Egan, a nurse, and a child named Leila Ward, have since died from the effects of injuries received in the collision in Sydney harbour. The steamer Princess was floated on Wednesday. Mr Casey, agent for the New Australian settlement, is appealing in Sydney for funds to send several families to Paraguay whose husbands have already gone there. These families have suffered considerably through the collapse, and have been left practically destitute; and the organisation ’hero is absolutely without funds. A record hit was made on the cricket field at Napier last week. Lusk, with a fine sweep, hit the ball over the Goldman's head, over the fence, and through the window of a Spit train that was passing. It was brilliantly fielded by a porter at the Spit station, and the slow bowler said he will seud no more balls to leg. Says the Opunake Times :—We are pleased to hear that Mr Job Vile has secured the contract of the Opunako-New Plymouth and Opunake-Hawera mails for the next two years, as Mr A. Young, the lowest tenderer, failed to take up the contract. Mr Vile has run tho services during the past two years in an extremely satisfactory manner, although he had a lot to contend with owing to the state of the roads through flood damage. The travelling public have been well served in the past, and will be pleased to know their safe transit is still in his bands, j Referring to the Tichborne case, a later ! wire from Australia says that Cresswell is | at present an inmate of the Parramatta j Lunatic Asylum. Orton, the claimant, i lived for somo time with Cresswell, and I this, it is alleged, will account for his ' knowledge of the facts that Ims enabled i him to make tho claim. Some documents written by Cresswell, who had previously j known Castro, have been identified as in ; the handwriting of Roger Tichborne. j Fae-similes of Cresswcdl’s writing have j been forwarded to tbe Marquis of Zetland, Lord Potre, and the London Times. A medical examination of Cresswell reveals marks known to be on the bodv of Sir Roger. j The South Clifton Colliery in the Southern District of New South Wales has notified a reduction in the hewing rate to an average of Is 9d. A meeting of the Miners’ Delegates Hoard at Newcastle discussed the notices of reduction issued, and resolved not to submil to them. It was also decided to recommend the miners in the several districts to demand «n advance of 4d per ton, to take effect on January 14th. If this resolution is endorsed by the districts a general strike must follow. One of the largest colliery proprietors states that the action of the men will be the means of bringing the masters together again. Some understanding or'agreement must be arrived at to protect them from the encroachments of the men, and fix such price for coal as will return a fair profit, while winning back from the southern and New Zealand collieries the trade taken away while high prices ruled here. A visit to Messrs Nelson, Moate and Co.’s Tea Bond on the South Belt and their Indian and Ceylon Tea Warehouse, in Colombo Street, Christchurch, will go a long way towards confirming the statement that their business is one of the largest of its kind in Australasia, and a perusal of the Custom House returns of the colony show it to he one of the most extensive in the world in comparison with the population of the colony. One of the largest firms in England specially advertise that their sales are lib out of every 251 b sold in England; whereas Nelson. Moate & Co. aver that they sell, through the grocers, nearly lib to every 41b sold in New Zealand, and this in the face of the greatest competition, for there are far more packot teas oil the New Zealand market and more firms competing in comparison with tho output of tho two countries. The firm are direct importers of Indian and Ceylon teas, and possess the largest stocks and variety to select from in tho colonies, and supply tho trade first hand, so the public who purchase N.M. and Co.’s teas from grocers can depend upon getting an article as direct, from the garden to the teapot as it is possible to get tea. In tho Christmas number of the Sydney Bulletin appears a poem written by Henry Lawson while on a visit here some months ago.

For tailoring go to Trcwby Brothers Sac suits to measure, £3 8s (with extra trousers). Sac suits to measuro, superior tweed, £3 10s. Tweed trousers to measure 15s, 17s 6d. Ditto, superior tweod, 245. Finish, stylo and fit guaranteed.—Trewby Bros. The Gout’s Mercery Department at Trowby Brothers is now heavily stocked with the latest in scarfs, bows, shirts of all descriptions, silk handkerchiefs a very lino selection, kunmiorhunds for cricketers caps and belts. I lat.s, the largest and best selection in Pahiatua.—Trowby Brothers, outfitters. The newest in gent’s cricketing trousers, tennis shirts, straw hats, ties, etc., at tho W.F.C.A., Limited. By far the choicest display of trimmed millinery ever shown to the public of Pahiatua is nowon view at Trewby Brothers. Trimmed hats and bonnets to suit tho pockets of all. Ladies' blouses, fancy aprons, feathers, flowers and millinery. Trimmings in great variety.—Trewby Brothers, Family Drapers.