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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 4472, 15 October 1883, Page 2

An entertainment in aid of St. Mary's Sunday School will take place this evening in the school-room. Members of the Philharmonic Society meet for practice to-morrow evening nt half -past seven o'clock. The Hon. Major Atkinson left this morning for Wanganui direct, where he will stop the night. Mr. W. L. Martyn, who is leaving the Hawera district, has sold out of his farm on the Plains, to a Mr. Neuring, a Wanganui settler of long standing. The arrangements for trucking cattle from Manutahi South do not appear to bo very perfect as yet, tho cattle occasionally receiving a good deal of injury. Owing to the stormy weather on the West Coast, Woodyear's Circus was unable to open either at Patea or WaverleyIt opened at Wanganui on Saturday night. A meeting o£ till those wishing to form a committee to consider the best means of receiving and entertaining His Excellency the Governor will be held in the Borough Council Chambers this evening at half-past seven o'clock. According to our Wanganui contemporary a young man from New Plymouth, having £58 10s. 4d. in his pocket, so allowed the Wanganui whiskey (?) to overcome him as to get " run in " by a " blue coated minion of the law." The s.s. Rotorua remained off the roadstead all Saturday morning until yesterday evening. It was impossible to tender her until about 10 a.m. yesterday, when muilß and passengers were taken oft and landed. The steamer was tendered twice, but owing to the tempestuous state of the weather no cargo was landed. On Saturday last there was a heavy snowstorm experienced between Eltham and Inglewood, the snow lying fully an inch thick over the rails on the railway line Passengers by the train from Hawera state that they never before wituesscd such a fall of snow in this Provincial District, and it is rather a surprising occurrence at this season of tho year. At Gisborne, a, Mr. Pcrcival Barker, wishing to " take a rise" out of the member for tbo district, told tho secretary of the hospital that ho would " give double any amount Mr. McDonald would subscribe." Tho M.H.R. was informed of the offer, although tho name was withhold, when Mr. McDonald put his name down at once for £100. Barker was thus euchred, and tho hospital richer by £300. Tho furniture and effects lately belonging to Mr. Joseph Gibbs, of Wanganui, were sold by order of his landlord on Friday last, and attracted a lavgo attendanco, with good prices as the result. It was extremely sad to a sympathetic mind (says tho Chronicle) to see the household treasures, especially presentation clocks and literature , given to its lato owner by a friendly bank manager, dispersed abroad into a cold and unfeeling world.