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Pahiatua Herald, Volume VI, Issue 688, 29 August 1898, Page 4

QVZJMF'-'' , \\ Eov \\ «r rum- -•cs'® overcome thS b , i w British M.P., v rl ii i ht.ni ir y • , thing more lie. | , u n i, on tour ” tbr ;«d u visit to his co i i A Melbour Las i ? i an invention clai \u render post-V ’ >1 age v match fiend. .gram ,v that the lettf. ,t the tu; i r i of the pillar i. wire i , through wh lilted ni.t would fall in.. mber sej by a metal s rom that ]it ■> j the pillar into lich the F t , drop. Letters s over the ii | netting slide, but Hatches cams'.;. Christchurch is an undes. ul town to visit just now. It is ai id 1 j to bo infested with spielers, ca a ; trick men, trick o’ the loop i .u under-and-over men, three card 11 u. men, dumps, magsmen, swell me >a \ men, cracksmen, garotters and pi pockets. A man employed in a Neli m warehouse was burning rubbish the yard last week, when suddei l y j the whole mass went up into the with a tremendous bang, startli the whole neighborhood. It is su|> . posed that a dynamite cartric a ! i accidentally got into the heap. Some of the residents of Onehuri| i, • fear that the proposal to despa;, steamers from Onehunga on Sir days, in connection with the n. rangement for a more frequent mu service with the south, will Dec: sitate the handling of cargo as wi

as the running of trains on Sundaj ] The clergymen of Onehunga propc to petition against the Sund.i., | steamers. It is stated on good authori (says the Christchurch Press) that number of bales of wool sent in f. shipment on the Otarama were in damp condition, and it is said tha had they been shipped the wool it: two of the holds would have been 11 fire within a week. Miss E. Brown, formerly hear nurse of the New Plymouth Hospita has received the appointment Ol: Matron of the institution, in sue cession to Miss Fernandez, who diet, in Auckland recently. Miss Brown had been acting temporarily durir:: the illness of Miss Fernandez. Bishop Mules is to lay the found.; tion stone of the Suter Art Gallery about to be built at Nelson. Fourteen settlers in the Mail borough district wore supplied with grass seed by the Lands Dopartmen: in consideration of damage done b, bush fires—l6,s4o bushels, of the value of £276 9s 4d. The Hawke’s Bay Education Boar i has agreed that its Inspector to allowed to examine the Napii Catholic schools if time permits. A large number of cases of measli are reported in Greymouth at i Kumara at present, some cases beir:

second attacks, which is considers unusual. The attendance at Brunni School has fallen off so greatly the the committee has closed it for i time. Since the mine resumed wori business has been extra brisk 1 Brunner, but all the former hand are not yet engaged. The Sanitary Committee of tl. Tiuiaru Borough Council has resolve to recommend the adoption of th Wanganui bylaw relative to the inspection of milk and dairies supply ing milk to the borough. There were eight applicants for the post of truant officer for tin Gisborne district at a salary of £1 ;. ■ week. i Last month 51 cattle declared by . the Government Stock Inspector t: l be diseased were destroyed in thi Taranaki district. The largest num her destroyed in any one month wa 201.

The traffic returns for the Welling ton-Napier-New Plymouth section of railways for the four weeks endin ; July 23rd show the receipts to ha , been £24.999 19s sd, an increase > £4540 over the corresponding peri o last year. The valuation roll of the New Plymouth Harbor District for 18 11-99 99 shows an increase in value on ti> previous year of £1,122,110, or 37 per cent. The figures for last you: were £8,048,748, and for tho cun one £4,170,858. Mr William Oldham, a well-ki i Nelsonian, who has been intima try connected with the Nelson vii' Marlborough provinces since , <■ early days, died at Nelson aftei n. attack of influenza. At the Masterton B.M. Court ; week, Mr W. R. Haselden, fi.li!. said that the practise of issuing i> nesses subpeeanas by justices l i absolutely be put a stop to. i practico was open to gross abuse ; some other places it was becomin ; great evil. All subpoenas shnn bear tho Court seal, or other'. 1 great trouble would be given audit as tlie Court officials k;r: nothing of the subpoenas b< i issued. The death is announced in Cann of a Scotchman named Anderi who was said to have boon a ju man in tbo Madeline Smith trial Edinburgh, in 1807, which arou all over tbo Kingdom intense ex> ment. The theory of the prosed, i was that tho girl had adminisf . arsenic in a cup of cocoa, which < handed to her sweatlieart, a i of Jersey, named L’Angelier, <■; i, a ground-flour window of lie; donee in Glasgow. Ilor t] o earned fame for her counsel, n fnglis, Dean of the Faculty f dvocates (afterwards Lord P > ;nt of the Court of Session), w) . . ■ tter a brilliant piece of pleadin ; i imaged to obtain a verdict cl ‘ Not proven.” Lately it was st; - ihat Madeline Smith had died 4ew Zealand. But few believed i, her innocence, ami the popular diet whs, as sho had been sb mi illy treated by L’Angelier, that ato served him right. When h ?as cquittod Edinburgh was pru Uy fete, and cheering crowd. a--1 tho stroots. oss mannor in which , o no mem i.vo wasted tho tin e of tho ii. is session has cidied forth the . ng from a south contempori. r onoy is oil. . enough waai some people a inclined to tin. reporting th speeches of prosy rs when the businoss of the c > \ is really being dealt with ; bu o height of absurdity that tho 1 staff should ho called upon ' , tve a verbatim report of the twa ulo talked when the House has devoted itself to the congenial task of play' v, ybe