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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 124, 2 September 1887, Page 2

Mr W. Hull, who has been absent from Puhiatua for some time, returned last night.

Mr Howlett lias a few pieces of dress stuff for sale cheap. See advertisement, under head of drapery.

The cattle Mr Knight wishes to dispose of are Ayrshire— not Herefordshire. Mr T. J. James notifies that poisoned meat and grain is laid on section 10, Block XII., Mangaliao. The Pahialua Board meet to-morrow at 2 p.m. \Ye remind our read era of the entertainment to-night in aid of Mr and Mrs Marsh.

The fortnightly meeting of the Town Board lakes place ou Monday evening.

Mr Job Vile commenced his coach service between Pahiatua and Woodville yesterday morning with a turn-out that would do credit to any country. The coach starts from Pahiatua at 9.30 a.m., leaving Woodville on the return at 3 p.m. This morning we received tho following message from Mr McCardle, who is now in Wellington:—Polling-place at Mangauiahoe Ims been refusod, after all tho tune and money spent in struggling for fair treatment from the Returning Officer.

The Returning Officer for the Woodville electorate announces that nomination of candidates will take place at the Courthouse, Woodville, on the 17th September, and that the poll will be taken on the 2fiih. The varioui polling-places are also given.

Mr Michael Davitt decla-»s that Irclan 1 will be steeped in crime during winter il freedom of speech is stopped.

In the Mercantile Gazette for the 13th August, there were particulars of a bill of sole under which a man agrees to pay 15 per cent, for £ B, and gives as security six horses, five coivs, a trap, a tip cart, and also a waggon.

The postal department seems to have lost sight of its promise to do something in the matter of arranging that Napier aud West Coast mails should bo forwarded to Pahiatua every evening, instead of remaining a day and a night at Woodvillo. This important question might with advantage he brought before tho notice of candidates, commencing with Mr Smith on Tuesday evening. Mr Vile, for a trifle, is prepared to carry the mails, and if people here are wise they will agitate until our faulty mail system is remedied. The suspicions of the harbor master at Kaipara tliot the ketch Recamia had been wrecked have been confirmed. Captain F'airchild, in coming into Kaipara harbor with the Stella, saw the Recamia capsized in 13 fathoms of water outside Tory Shoal, lie ran alongside and endeavored to heave the vessel over with a steam winch, and was successful. None of the crew of the ketch were to be seen.

Mr Longly, the landlord of the Star Inn, Dover, prides himself on being Her Majesty’s heaviest subject. He is about forty years of age, and weighs over forty stone. Barumn, the showman, has mode him a liberal proposal, hut the Jubilee giant doclined, and looked upon the idea of making an exhibition of himself as an insult.

The will of Rabeilas has this clause :—“I have no available property ; I owe a great doal; the rest 1 give to the poor." Ilia last words when dying were—“ Igo to soe the great Perhaps.” A famous French ahhe had this pithy clause in his will :—“ To my steward 1 leave nothing, because ho has been in my service for eighteen years." The committee of tho Duniden Jockey Club have reduced the stakes at their four meetings by a sum of £755. This year £1305 will be given to the Spring meeting, £3330 to the Autumn, £450 to the Anniversary, and £950 to the May meeting. The Dunedin Cup is reduced from £IOOO to £7OO, but the Publicans' Handicap is increased from £IOO to £2OO.

The days of big profits in soap are past. There are two lakes in Nevada that will ultimately become the great laundry centres of the world. These are Mono and Owen’s Lakes. The waters contain soda, borax and other ruinorals in solution, and all that is necessary in order to wash tho dirtiest clothes is to dip them for half a minute in one of theso lakes. During a storm the lakes arc a sight to see. They fill up with soap suds to tho height of twelve feet. They are the only lakes in the world that really wash their shores. A Miss Ilenn, who was engaged to a Mr Pecker, recently broke off the engagement, because she objected to the marriage notice appearing as “ Henn-Pecker.” Says the Napier Telegraph :—-Mr W. C. Smith is rapidly developing a personal industry that, probably, requires no encouragement at the hands of Protection. This industry is known as " hair-splitting,” and m its manufactured state is much used by politicians of the lower class. Being asked the other day why he voted for an increase of custom duties, he replied that he did not vote for anything of the kind. On being pressed for a straightforward answer, lie saul, " I tell you I did not vote for an increase of Customs duties, hut I voted ill the interest of my party.” Now his partyproposed an increase of Customs duties, and it was on the seooud reading of tho Cutoms Dut’es Bill that the Government wore defeated. It will be acknowledged after this that Mr Smith has brought hairsplitting to a great state of perfection. Mr Ivess was also in tho same boat with Mr Smith, and we suppose he will purchase a pound or two of the stuff the late member for Waipawa is such au adept al manufacturing.

During High Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral, Wellington, on Saturday morning, Archbishop Redwood was invested with the pallium. Tho ceremony was performed by Bishop Luck, of Auckland, aud there was a largo assemblage of the clergy of the arch diocese. Haydn’s imperial Mass was sung by a powerful choir with orchestral accompaniment. Thero was an immense congregation to witness the ceremony, and large numbers were unable to obtain admittance to the Cathedral.

The demand for the great American remedy, Hop Bitters, in this part of the world has become so great that the Hop Bitters Co,, whose hoadquarters are ul Rochester, New York, U. S. A., have been compelled to open a laboratory in Melbourne. It is in charge of Mr M. 11. \an Bergh, a gentleman of several years experience with this Company, and the trade may he assured of receiving goods equal to the parent house, and tho most courteous treatment. The H.B. Co. have establishments at London, l’aris, Antwerp, Belgium, Breda, Holland and Toronto, and American Bitters are probably tho best known medicine iu the world.