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Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 573, 22 November 1897, Page 3

Tho New Zealand Clothing Factory advertise for a shop boy. Mr W. Dunning wants a good farm hand at once.

Mr M. Caselberg, managing director of the W.F.C.A., is at present in Pahiatua.

Two advertisements in connection with tho next sitting of tho Court of Bankruptcy to be held at Masterton on the Bth December appear in another column.

The high prices ruling for wheat have induced the farmers throughout the Manawatu district to plant a much larger area of that cereal than usual. It appears that oats have been correspondingly neglected, and it is thought probably these may, therefore, not bo ho abundant next season.

Tho annual meeting of the Pahiatua Fire Brigude Brass Band is advertised for Thursday evening next in tho Fire Brigade station. Business—to receive report and balance-sheet and election of officers. Tho citizens are requested to attend. The band consider (and rightly so) that the institution is a public one and that the townspeople should attend the annual meeting. Mr F. G. Mooro, of tho Book Arcado, has handed us an advance copy ol the Christmas number of the Auckland Weekly NewH. Tho issue teems with pictures of New Zealand life and industries, together wiih a large amount of interesting reading. Tho number is sure to find a ready salo. Two pictures are also isssued witli the number; one, “ Luck at Bast,” by L. J. Steele; the other a sketch from Nature by Cady Kanfurl y.

The story goes that the governor of Dunedin gaol went on one occasion to inspect the work of tho convicts who were engaged on a new building. After contemplating tho proceedings a few minutes the governor, addressing one of tlie convicts, said : “ Soo horo, iny man, you are laying tho lathes too near together. That sort of thing will novor do.” Tho convict calmly laid down his tools and said, “ Guv’nor, I’m willing to bo turned off and discharged if my work don’t suit, f never applied for tiio job or the situation, and if tho work ain’t satisfactory, I’m willing to go.” A very mean trick was performed at Waikunae last week, says the Examiner. The school children were to have a treat. The commit!.! o ordered some tarts and buns from \V< llington, also some lemonade, all of which were duly sent by train. Soon after arrival at Waiimnao the good tilings were spirited away, and all efforts to trace them have failed. It was suggested that they might have been blown away, but our informant says lemonade bottles will not fly on the wings of the wind, even at Waikunae. Anyhow, it was a mean act to rob the little children of so very important an eloinent a- the pastry and “ Hi,"

On our fourth page to-day will be found articles on raising dairy calves, bacteria in milk, and other interesting reading. The Presbyterian choir has been engaged for some considerable time in rehearsing the cantata “ The Good Shepherd,” and have now decided upon placing the cantata before the public in the Presbyterian Church on Wednesday, December Ist. The choir and orchestra have been working together and the cantata will certainly be well worth hearing. Solos, duets, trios, quartettes and choruses, tuneful and melodious, will be sung, and altogether the piece is bright and sparkling. Miss Hall takes the principal soprano solos. The proceeds will bo devoted to the church organ fund. The cantata will be sung at Ballance on Thursday evening, the 2nd December. Very satisfactory progress is being made with the work of extending the railway from Mangatainoka to Woodville, and unless something unforeseen occurs the service between Wellington and Napier via the Wairarapa will be inaugurated on the 13th proximo. The daily train from Wellington is to leave at 7.15 a.m.. and is to reach Napier at 7.23 p.m., while the train from Napier will start at 8.5 a.m., and arrive in Wellington at 8.25 p.m. A reasonable delay will be made to both trains at Woodville so as to enable passengers to obtain dinner there between 1 and 2 o’clock. The completion of the line is to be made tho occasion of a great demonstration at Woodville, and tickets to that place at holiday rates are to be issued by the Railway Department on the 13th.—Post.

Before the notorious prisoner Allandale was sentenced for breaking gaol at Lyttelton he addressed the Judge, and said he would ask His Honor not to look at the matter from a strictly legal point of view, but from a just and humane one. He had a very long term Of to serve, and was it to be wondei?d that a man should take any opportunity that offered of regaining his liberty? The prl ßoner * were working two miles away from the gaol; there were two sentries posted over them, one of whom could not see them at all, while the other had only a view of a distance of sixty feet. The robbery from Mr Palmer’s store had been forced on him under the circumstances. He would ask His Honor to deal leniently with him, as every day added to his sentence meant 24 hours’ more suffering and agony. His Honor, in sentencing the prisoner, said that it was of course, necessary to the discipline of a prison that escaping from custody was made a crime, but there was a moral aspect as well. Sentence, amounting to 18 months’ extra imprisonment, was then passed. It having been publicly stated that Miss Bessie Doyle, the gifted violiniste, intended to sue for a divorce, the Auckland Observer states that her return to the colony revives the old story of her marriage which took place in Auckland under very quiet and romantic circumstances about three years ago. She was wedded at the Registry Office in Auckland to Mr Northey, a gentleman well-known in Auckland and who has been in business in that city since the wedding. The romantic part of the story is that the newly-wedded couple separated at the Registrar’s door, and have never lived together. As a matter of fact, Miss Bessie Doyle or Mrs Northey, returned to Europe to finish her musical studies The parties have not met since. There is nothing to reconcile—there is no question of reconciliation. There can hardly be any divorce there are no grounds for divorce. The affair is Mr and Mrs Northoy’s business—it is the business of nobody else. It may bo that they would be better satisfied if they had not married, but nevertheless the fact remains that there is nothing to reconcile, and there are no legal grounds for divorce.

Asters—Comet, Victoria and mixed ; stocks—perfection, ten week and pmompton ; balsams, dahlias, dianthus —double and mixed, marigolds—French and African, and other annuals now ready at Harding and Adams, Fernleigh Nursery.*