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Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 512, 21 June 1897, Page 2

An increase in the output of 7,646,061 pounds of butter was shown in 1896 as against 1891 in the North Island, and also an increase of 1,374 tons of cheese. Mr J. McDonald, of Pongaroa, advertises for tenders for felling 100 acres of light tawa bush at Pongaroa. See advertisement. The name of Mr Chin Ting was inadvertently omitted from the list of business people whose premises will be closed to morrow. Mr Herb. Vile, son of His Worship the Mayor, is paying a flying visit to Pahiatua. He is looking well and hearty, and returns to Patea on Tuesday. The main road from Woodville to Pahiatua is now in splendid order, and cyclists love to scorch from town to town. Messrs J. Mowlem and Co. will sell at the brick mart next Saturday, produce, drapery, crockeryware, miscellaneous gd&da, etc. We remind lovers of the sport of kings of the hunt club sports, to be held at Danevirke to-morrow. The full programme will be found on our fourth page. The Registrar-General has issued a leaflet showing the progress of the North Island from 1891 to 1896, from which wo learn that the value of all products has increased from £77,576 to £342,078.

A Masterton youth sent the following conundrum to the Star :—“ What similarity is there in a honeycomb, a honey* moon, and a pretty girl?” Answer: “ The first is a little cell, the second a great sell, and the third a damsel.*’ Mrs Locher, who was found guilty of having shot at Mr George in Harcourt and Co.’s auction rooms last year, will be amongst the prisoners who . are to be liberated this week in commemoration of the Record Reign. It is probable that the Government will take steps to recover certain portions of the honorarium drawn by Mr Wilford during the period after his election and before he was unseated. Mr Wilford is understood to claim that the statute gives him power to retain these sums. The three conundrums which were the fruit of a Mangatainoka correspondent’s brain, and published in our last issue, have caused another brainy individual to forward seven other alleged riddles. We hereby notify all those who contract the same awful disease that we are full of riddles and advise our last correspondent to make arrangements to lose himself for one calender month, by which time the record reign fever will have subsided. Coming home from the funeral yesterday afternoon a cyclist, when passing a crowd, endeavored to show how to straighten a necktie with one hand and steer a bicycle with the otner. The result was his machine ran into a bank and the performer fell on his left ear. Jack immediately remounted and pedalled home with his tie all awry. The Woodlands Hunt Club meet on Saturday afternoon resulted in a splendid run. A first-class course had been laid out providing jumps that would satisfy the most reckless rider. There were not so many riders as usual, but those who did not attend missed a splendid afternoon’s sport. All those who started were well up at the death and there were no mishaps.

Notwithstanding the fact that the hour for the interment of the late Miss Ruth Knight was only known on Saturday morning the news spread with such rapidity that yesterday afternoon a cavalcade of vehicles and horsemen fully half a mile in length followed the hearse. This evidence of widespread sympathy shows the respect in which the bereaved family is held in the district. The Rev. Father James Goggan, formerly with the Very Rev. Father | Devoy in Timaru, who has been residing I in the Old Country for some years, I arrived in Wellington by the Mahinapua i on Friday, having come back to the j colony by the San Francisco steamer. | It is understood that he will be stationed !in the arch diocese of Wellington, lie j is unole to the Rev. Father Goggan, well-known in Wellington. I Mr W. W. Collins, ex-M.11.R., lecturj ing on “ Irish Politicians and the Jubilee Celebrations” at Christchurch on Monday, referred to recent cable messages, and traced the continuous depopulation of Ireland, the decrease in wealth and prosperity during the last 00 years. From that standpoint he thought the Irish had not much cause for jubilation, and the Irish politicians were more than justified in their refusal'to take part in the celebrations when they considered the condition of Irelan during the record reign. The Rev. Mr Philips, preaching to a large congregation in the Presbyterian Church last evening, made touching rej ference to the death of Miss Ruth j Knight, over whose grave he had read ; the burial service in the afternoon. He ! said ho was in a position to say “ that I her last moments were calm and trustful j and the knowledge of this was a great solace to thoso that now mourned her loss.” The deceased young lady was a member of the Presbyterian Church and the Minister’s sympathetic remarks uiado many eyes moist for the memory of one who was loved by all. Tho San Francisco mail summary contains a paragraph that Mr Seddon on the voyage from Auckland to San Francisco sang “ The Wearing of tho Green,” which, being a song held in special aversion by all persons of loyal sympathies, caused much comment. A passenger who was present, however, when tho “ harmony ” took place, informed the Auckland Star that the song created nothing but favorablo comment nt tho time. No remark was made about it being unpopular until a letter appeared to that effect in a San Francisco paper. Mr T. 11. Hunter, of sewing machine, piano, organ, and bicycle fame, is now comfortably settled in his now promises on tho corner of Main and Wakeman street. llis display of stock catches the eyo and arouses tho interest and curiosity of the public eyo. Ho has added sheet music to his stock, and thoso in want of such can obtain it from Mr Hunter and thus savo tho trouble and expense of sending to other centres. Songs and instrumental pieces may bn bought from threepence each. Tho fine display of machines, pianos, organs, bicycles (with all classes of fittings), is. a credit to the town, and tho courteous manager should in eonßequonco swell his returns very considerably.

At a meeting a few days ago at the I Church House on behalf of tho Zululand j Mission, Bishop Selwyn spoko of Sir j Georgo Grov as probably tho most com- j potent of colonial administrators. The | Right. Rev. L’relate, writing to a friend i who asked him for further reminiscences, i says : — 44 Ho was very kind to mo when | J was a very small child, as ho was to all children. I saw him again in 1867, i when ho had ceased to be Governor (of I Now Zealand) and was living on his ; beautiful island of tho Kawau. Ho in- I vited mo down there, and we had a very 1 pleasant liiuo, and I again saw his ; marvellous fascination for children, as ho completely won tho heart of a little I girl who was with us, who cried bitterly when she lmd to leave her dear 4 Grey,' as she callei him. The only thing that I can recall is a word by Sir Bartlo Frero, no moan judge, who told mo when I called at the Capo in 1879, that ho had thoroughly looked into tho works which owed their origin to Sir Goorgo Grey, and that none of them which woro directly duo to his initiation lmd failed to accomplish its purpose.” Of Yery fow public tuou cuu this bo said,

The residents of Ashburton, owing to the cold weather, are indulging in the pleasant recreation of skating. Eighty-two applications from all parts of New Zealand have been received for tho position of Secretary to the Manawatu Agricultural and Pastoral Association. The Masterton Star says :—The District Manager of Railways advises us that the lino to Mangatainoka will not be open for passenger traffic until August Ist. Munro J. Douglas, toller in the Bank of New Zealand at Ashburton, has been committed for trial on a charge of embezzling £57 from the bank. In connection with the Jubilee the Sydney Executive has decided to remit three days off each month of tho sentences of first offenders whose term do not expire in 12 months. A parrot brought from abroad was given to a family in Genoa lately. The bird died from a strange infectious disease which also caused the death of the husband, wife, daughter, nurse, and washerwoman.

The local footballers feel indignant at the treatment meted out to them by the weather clerk. There were no football fixtures set down for Saturday Hst, consequently the aforesaid clerk sent along a splendid day. Every Saturday when a football match is to be played wind and rain accompanies the play. A small boy named Thomas Wood was fined and severely reprimanded at the Auckland Police Court for throwing orange-peel orj the pavements in Wel-lesley-street, this offence being a breach of the city by-laws. This being so, what sentence would the Auckland Bench pass on a Borough Council that pays men to shoot rocks promiscous like all over Main-street under its jurisdiction ? The Marigahao schoolhouse is fast approaching completion, and its opening will be hailed with pleasure by teacher, children and parents. It is Miss Birnie’s (the teacher) intention to celebrate the opening by holding a concert, the merit of which will eclipse all kindred gathering ever held in the country districts. The date has not yet been finally decided. An intimation has been received by the Melbourne Government that immediately the special Jubilee hymn is commenced in London the information will be flashed to Australia and to the other colonies. The news is expected at 10 o’clock to-night, and arrangements are being made to instantly despatch the information to the other capitals and New Zealand. A further batch of bookmakers were fined in Sydney on Thursday. One of them excused his second appearance on the ground that he had to bet in order to raise his first fine. During the last month proceedings have been taken against 326 persons for cash betting. The majority of the city 44 tote ” shops are now closed, and proceedings are being taken against the others. Many ot the Tauranga natives have received an invitation from the Urewera natives, residents of Ruatoki, to visit them for a tangi over Kereru Pukenui, one of the principal Urewera chiefs, who died some time back. The Maungatapu native brass band will also proceed there, and will be unable to attend the record reign celebrations at Taurunga on the 22nd inst. On Thursday afternoon last a woman named Mrs Janet Hepburn, who was liberated from Sunnyside Asylum on leave, was missed from her daughter’s residence on the South Belt, and later in the day she was found dead in an empty outhouse at the rear of the premises. Barney Barnatc first went to the Cape as a supernumerary in a theatrical company. There fortune smiled on him, and a successful investment in the Kimberley diamond mines were followed by a lucky hit in the famous De Beers Company, jje managed to become one of the monopolists, with Cecil Rhodes, of the De Beers mines. Every investment turned up trumps, until Barnarto found himself a million-

aire. The ship Speke, from Vancouver, Captain V ainwright, which arrived at Sydney last week, reported that when the ship was some distance off Sydney Heads a large waterspout was seen, which seemed to those on board to be about *2OO feet high and about half a mile long, working as a spiral column from south to north, when the outer edges oaused rain squalls to be thrown over the vessel. We remind our readers that this is the last week that Professor Elston, the phrenologist, will be in Pahiatua, therefore those that have not already visited him should lose no time in doing so. His charges are very moderate in proportion to the information of his charts and advice he gives. Parents that wish to know the particular talent and gifts of their children and what they are best suited for, and what is likely to be a stumbling block in their lives and how to check it should not lose the opportunity of interviewing the Professor, who holds some of the best testimonials from leading citizens of Wellington; and high personages from Government House, who passed under his hands, speak, according to the Wellington papers, in high praise of his ability in the delineation of character. Professor Elston will be in attendance at his office to morrow as usual. The death occurred at Melbourne on the 4th instant of Mr Peter Bourke, who saw active service in tho New Zealand w’ar of 1860, and could relate many interesting incidents of the Waikato compaign. On one occasion ho used to say, he was ordered to accompany a detachment of soldiers numbering about *2O to convey commissariat stores to the front. While treading their way through a deep gorge in one of the mountains the ; party was attacked and surrounded by a J large force of Maoris. Everyman forming the escort was massacred with the exception of Bourke. Whilst he was fighting against overpowering odds, and expecting every minute to bo cut down, an alarm was raised that the main body of the British was advancing. This caused tho Maoris to consult their own safety, which they did by taking immediate flight, leaving only Bourke alive of tho party. After tho war, for which lie received a medal, he went to Victoria and was admitted to the Permanent Artillery, and from there ho was appointed to Pentridge as a warder, which j position ho held until a short time pro- j vious to his death.