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Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 527, 26 July 1897, Page 3

Next Monday, August 2nd, the railway line will be opened to Mangatainoka. A list of stock is advertised for the next Pahiatua Farmers’ sale on Friday, August 6th. Tenders are called for stumping and clearing about three acres. See advertisement. Messrs Abraham and Williams insert list of stock ior the Palmsrstou sale on Thurday next. Two horses have been impounded in the Pahiatua pound from Scarborough. See notice in another column. A quantity of interesting reading will be found on the fourth page of to day’s issue. Messrs Harding and Adams,’ Fernleigh nursery, replace advertisement will appear in Wednesday’s issue. Tenders are invited for felling 200 liens of bush in the Mangaone Valley, j For particulars see advertisement in another column. Messrs Abraham & Williams insert the list of stock to be offered at their Pahiatua yards on Tuesday, 3rd inst. An advertisement from Crown Land office appears in another column re section of land open for selection at ; Mtkuri. The adjourned meeting of the Anglican parishioners will be held In the church Urie • aing at 7 JO. A full attendance is specially requested. Messrs Mowlem and Co. insert the list of goods for sale at the mart on Saturday ' next, also the list to be offered at the horse sale on the same afternoon. A ypung man in office wants board an i residence in a respectable private family close to town. Particulars in the advertisement. The Pahiatua Musical Society has disposed of its “ Pirate ” properties to the Wanganui Society at a satisfactory figure. Nothing like combining business with pleasure when practicable. The next English and European mail via Melbourne and I»rindisi will close >• t t)>. local Post Office on Tuesday, the ‘27th day of July, at .1.1)0 p in., due London Hth of September.

Mr Nile has received the following fnrther sabs to the Hawke’s Bay Belief l md through Mr 1 Idwin Hail: —Mr 11. Griffiths, 2s 6d ; Mr Judd, The list having been closed Mr Vile will hund these sums back to the donors on application. To morrow evening the Ballance and Maugahao Debating Society meets in the school-house ut the latter place to debate the question Protection v. Freetrade. Messrs Hodgson and Cornelius will lead the debate for the respective sides. Mr Walter Chambers notifies in another column that he has taken over the billiard table at the Club Hotel. The table has been provided with new cloth and cushions and now compares favorably w ith any table in the province. Townspeople to-day were shaking hands with themselves because of the weather. It is indeed a long time since we have had such a perfect day. After all, weather has an extraordinary influence over the htmm liver. What's yours ? At a meeting of the School Committee on Friday three applications were received for the vacant position of teacher in the Pahiatua school. After discussion the application of Miss Falla, late of Nelson (sister of Miss Falla, music teacher of Pahiatua) was accepted. Mr Perrin, who since Mr Turnbull’s illness and departure has acted as precentor in the Presbyterian Church, h.i-, finally decided to retire from the position. He will, however, undertake the conductorship of the cantata, w hich.

as soon as the books arrive, will be placed in practice by the choir. By Mr Perrin s retirement from the position of precentor the church will lose the services of a conscientious and energetic officer. Mr W. Bedmond, of the Queen’s H 4a), Maatarton, who la well-known in this district, inserts an advertisement in another column notfying the public that his hot* 1 has been thoroughly r« novated, and he can offer patrons the < rl first-ela houae. Mr Bedinond's friends visiting Muster ton will no doubt put up at the Queen’s for th< - tke o! " A old Long Syne." Ba-t evening Miss Powell, speaking at the d own Hall, stated that the secretary of the Liberty League at Christchurch said that tin proportion of deaths through drink in New Zealand was equal to 2 , per cent of the total deaths annually. Sh was quite prepared to accept that • Latement, and working it out it would prove that taking the population of the j iolonj at i'- l! 000, Pi,500 people wire doomed eventually to become the victims of drink. Mr W. McKinnon has been appointed I L N 14 O ( oil. go of Mu M 01 ifea rip: i i ntutive for tlu Forty-Mile Bush di-tiiet. The E.f’.M. holds periodical 4 Humiliations and awards certificates anil diplomas for proficiency in the theory and practice of music, and it is intended to hold such examinations at Pahiutuu, thus saving local candidates the expense and inconvenience of travelling to another centre for examination. Fuller particulars will be published later on, and meantime Mr McKinnon will he glad to give any information required by intending students. Now that the Premiers have been made Privy Councillors great interest attaches to the State uniforms worn in connection with that high office. It is not our intention to go into details hut there is much more significance in the golden loop adorning the ostrichfeathered hat that the million are likely to understand. In the way the gold capsule on Walker's Whisky bottle lias a meaning other than that of mere display. It is the s, mhoi of Poyalty among Whiskies denoting that Wulkci s Uttda. - v