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Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 589, 31 December 1897, Page 2

The train arrangements for New Year’s Day are advertised elsewhere. Knife and fork banquet in Yile’s paddock to-morrow. The Borough Council and County Council offices open on Tuesday next. Two ladies riding bikes on the footpath this morning. Five shillings and costs. A further reduction in the cable rates is suggested by committee of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce. In consequence of the termination of the session the services of about 36 compositors in the Government printing office have been dispensed with. At the Mauriceville Sports on Tuesday “ Mate ” Yule won the hop, step and jump, was second in the hurdles and sack race, and third in the long jump. The Ballance memorial In Queen’s Park is to be unveiled on Wednesday, sth January. Sir Robert Stout is expected in Wanganui on the 4th. The nominations for the Pahiatua Racing Club’s meeting on the 12th instant, published in another column, should highly please the committee. Master Collins Grut has been appointed post and telegraph messenger at the Mangatainoka post office. The appointment is a popular one, as Master Grut is a general favorite. Cremation is not the lightning process which some people would imagine. A body weighing 140 pounds takes one hour to consume, the product being three pounds of ashes. On and after Monday, 3rd January, the private box lobby at the local Post Office will be ogen from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and the late mail by Mr Vile’s coach frem Woodville will be discontinued. A sixth standard girl recently went to the postmaster at Hokitika and asked him for William Shakespeare’s address, as she wished to send him her opinion on “ A Comedy of Errors.” A fire was discovered at Wellington on Wednesday afternoon in a bedroom of the Albion Hotel, occupied by Misses Maud Beatty and Zeigler, of Pollard’s Opera Company. The latter, who were absent at the time, lose the greater part of their clothing and effects.

We are sorry to chronicle the death at Pongaroa through typhoid fever of Mr Albeit E. Spring, fourth son of Mr Charles Spring of Foxton. Deceased was only 23 years of age. The death of one cut off in the vigor of manhood is exceedingly sad, and deep sympathy is felt for those left to mourn. The late Judge Windeyer, in his will, expressed the wish that his body should be cremated, “ as so doing may tend to promote a system of disposing of the dead that will benefit the living, and thus make use of the empty tenement vacated by my spirit on its departure for a future state of existence.” Thus the Manawatu {Standard : When it was announced that Mr Kenny, S.M., at Wellington, was to conduct the inquiry into the charges of grossly indecent conduct brought against Inspector Emerson, it was generally felt that the result would bo unsatisfactory, and events have justified this fear. The Hastings {Standard suggests that, in order to relieve the congestion on the Rimutaka Incline, the ordinary train should leave Wellington for Masterton at the present hour, and the express for Napier an hour later, the latter train to call at no intermediate stations between Wellington and Masterton It is stated that the Royal Humane Society of Australasia has awarded its silver medal to Mr Percy Emerson and a certificate of merit to Mr J. If. Hamilton for their bravery in connection with recovering the body of the lato Mrs Hickey from the surf off the Marino Parade, Napier. We have received a letter for publication from a correspondent re an alleged scene at Mangatainoka railway station. Sorry cannot publish it. Having successfully navigated 1897 without striking a libel rock, wo aro anxious to make n. fair start witli 1898. If the facts are as stated the Police Offences Act is available.

The extent and character of the settle ment that has been going on of lati years in tho North Island ns compare! with lhe South Island is shown by tin following figures: Number of sheep ii tho North Island in 18H6, 5,285,907; ii 1897, 9,540,717; increase, 4,254,810 Number of sheep in the South Island ii 1896, 9,878,356; in 1897, 10,147,237 increase, 258,881

One lucky Now Zealander seems to have come in for a pleasant little legacy (reports the London correspondent of tho Christchurch Press). In the will of tho late Itev. Washbourno West, of Notting Hill, who died recently at the age of 85 years, leaving personal estate to tho value of about £40,000 there is a bequest to tho testator’s great nephew, Tom Brown, resident at Levin, near Wellington, of tho sum of £IOOO. A passenger on tho Wellington-Napier oxpress yesterday, when travelling botweon Eketahuna and Pahiatua, put his /load out of the carriage window. His s,traw hat jylow off. On arriving at Pahiatua the guard handed the hat to tho owner. Thoroughly surprised, ho asked tho guard how it came into his possession. Tho guard replied that a man wl?o happened to bo passing when tho hat blew away picked it up, sprinted after the guard’s v.m, caught it, and handed in the hut. Tho sprinter was ovor 40 years of ago. Only the thought ijul will soo the point oi this hat episodo. Watorbury Watches l*2a 6d at the W-E.C.A.

Mr Matthew Henry inserts lint of stock for his Pahiatua sale on Tuesday, 11th January, 1898. Ladies are ieque3ted to note that Mr Benzie’s tea and refreshment rooms may be used as a private entrance to.the Trocadero. Refreshments at all hours. The programme® for the concert and drawing-room entertainment set down for Friday, the 7th January, is a really good one. Amongst the local talent aro Mrs and Miss Moore, Messrs Hamilton Moore, McKinnon, Morris, Mcßain and Starkly. Apprehensive residents are providing thomsalves with pick handles and shot guns in view of the old year celebrations. We trust our youth will contain himself within reasonable limits during the dying hours of tho old yea/ and the early hours of the new. A rather good-story is told about Mr J. C. Bryant, the ventriloquist who is now in Pahiatua. At the time the Burrangong Hotel collapsed in Sydney, Mr Bryant was performing at the Alhambra. A large crowd quickly gathered, and a voice was heard crying out from undernea}h the debris—“ Take me out, save me, I’m smothering.” A number of willing hands were soon at work and the rubbish quickly cleared away, when to their astonishment not a soul could be seen. A little news boy, who was watching the proceedings, laughed and sang out “ Why yer blooming ijots then’s Bryant, tho ventriloquist, and ’e’s jis walkin’ away.” Mr Bryant, with his wooden-headed family of six, will appear on Friday, the 7th inst., at the Olympic Theatre.