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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 367, 28 January 1890, Page 2

Item of news on fourth page. The Pahiatua Post Office will be dosed tomorrow. A watch pendant is advertised for. Tenders are invited by Mr Crimp for the erection of a cottage. Plan and specification to be seen at Mr Briggs' office. We are informed that Mr G. Whitcombe has lost over a hundred bushels of grassseed through the wet weather. The grass was cut, but the seed rotted on the ground. An announcement will be found elsewhere regarding tbe Woodville Jubilee demonstration. Tenders are invited by tha Connty Council for various works. It is announced that the next sale of wool st Napier by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company will take place on the 7th February. Mr J. R. Brandon, who is well-known in the district, announces that he intends to start a first-class butchery business in Pahiatua about April. The weather would now appear to bava taken up, as since Saturday- we have enjoyed real summer days. Grass-seed will be very scarce this year, the continual wet having ruined most of it. Fully 15,000 people joiaed in the Jubilee procession at Wellington on Wednesday. It was one of the grandest sights ever eeen in the colony. The second day's proceedings were considerably marred by a sad drowning accident, a very old settler (Mr Kebbell) being the victim. Two granddaughters of deceased were drowned near Otaki the same morning. Mr W. H. Payne loft a lady's hand-bas-ket at our office on Saturday, which he found near the ford at the Mangatainoka river. The owner can have same on application. A curious application for n patent is that of Hannah Weber, a tailoress and clothier at Hokitika. She seeks protection for improvements in the manufacture of men's trousers. Go it, Uaunah. We remind settlers of Mr S. G. Scott's sheep sale at Woodville to-morrow. Mr W. A. Warreu notifies that he has 300 unshorn lambs and ewes for sale. We understand that several sites have been offered tbe Athletic Society for a sports ground. The question will be discussed to-night at the committee meeting. Despite the weather, Messrs Hall and Hughes succeeded in saving exceedingly fine crops of oats, which will be turned into chaff. We omitted to mention in our report of tbe J übilee procession in connection with the Pahiatua sports that Mr Hall, sen., and Mr John Hughes (the pioneer settlers of this district) joined in the march. An exchange says that nearly one-half of the 487 medical men of Boston University are women. Strange. Mr Sam Keats, who has been very ill for some time, left with his wife "and family for Canterbury this morning. The Assistant County Engineer is busily engaged taking levels, Ac., preparatory to commencing the main road improvements in tbe town. There are no plans of the Government laud sale advertised for the 81st to be obtained in the district. This is a matter that requires attention at the next meeting of the House. Tha same complaints have to be made every time land is put in the market. The Nelson Evening Mail has heard of four veteran couplet now living in Nelson whose total ages amount to 870 years. They are all members of tbe pioneers who landed in the province 48 years ago. The committee of the Pahiatua Athletic Society meet this evening at Stewart's Hotel, when the protests entered against Ellis will be fully considered. It is absolutely necessary that the Society should protect itself against imposture, therefore the charges should be goue into carefully, and if there are any grounds for them such an example should be made of the guilty one as will act as a wholesome check in the future. It is not always safe to say “ come in” when a knock is heard at the door. Last night our reporter had occasion to go to a cottage adjoining a well-known hotel not a hundred miles from Pahiatua. He knocked at the door, and a happy vioce exclaimed “ come in." The staff opened the door and was going in, bat the consternation depicted on the countenances of the occupiers brought him up standing. There was A. T. on a chair with a nice voung lady sitting on his Jap. •• By heavens,” was the cry, “it is the Star man ; I thought it was one of the girls.” The staff beat a hasty retreat, remarking that it was all right; nothing would be said about it. Messrs Lowes A loms, tbe well-known Masterton auctioneers, have their eyes to business, and for this reason they have determined to hold periodical sales of stock in Pahiatua. The first sale will be held in Mr Briggs' yards about the middle of February, and already 8000 breeding ewes and a lot of rains havo been entered. We hope the auctioneers will receive every encouragement in their new enterprise. Pahiatua was visited on Friday evening by a gentleman who arrived from Eketabuna—not by tbe usual coach road, but by water. The gentleman we refer to is Mr George Park, tlie Hokitika canoeist. He arrived with his Bob Roy canoe at Eketahuna by train, and launching his frail bark in the Makakahi, succeeded in a few hours in reaching Pahiatua, where ha stayed for tlie night. Early on Saturday morning he left for Palmerston, going