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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8270, 17 September 1888, Page 2

On our first page will be found the corrected railway time table, and it is so delightfully complicated that persons desirous of travelling will find it most inconvenient in every respect. There are no trains to meet tho steamers culling regularly here; oven the Saturday afternoon train has been made useless by altering the time. Steamers used occasionally to wait for the train when it came in at 5.20 p.m., but they aro notlikely to do bo now, as it only arrives at G. 45 p.m. This train is a very usc-Icas one, und it' it is a question of lLileage to be saved, might very well bn stopped, for no one is likely now to travel by it. Mcners Solo Bros., butchers, have hud reported to thorn thut the skins and i n trails of five sheep have been found on v pioco of land thoy leaso at Mangorei, and whereon thoy are running sheep, and that two more of the nu nber that had been put there were missing. The slealers are at present not known, but the police are investigating the affair. Tho Wholesale Drapery Co. announce that they aro now opening up a large shipment of spring and uucaraer goods, j

Mr Meadows, the dairy expert, went north by the Rotorua on Saturday. He will return to this district in a few weeks, and will then go to Hawke's Bay. The Alexandra Hall Rink will be open open on Tuesdays, Thursday?, and Saturdays, during tho usual hours, with the Rifles Bind in attendance. The return ! polo match between this rink and the FrooiP'isonfl' team, that was to coma off oo Tuesday nis:hr, has been postponed to Thuisday night. A. party of gentlemen," who drove down to Purihal>a for a trip on Sunday, state that tho meeting which was beins; held thoro was a pretty numerously attended on", th^re buinjr, it was estimated, fully 1,000 in the settlement on that day, drawn from tho "tmncjas up and down the coast. Tho two Maori bakers, who have ovens at the settlement, wero turning out 3,000 buns on Sunday to be eaten at this feast, they having already made a laigo stook of bread. The settlement also boasts of a tonsorial artist and several storekeepers, the natives aro apparently endeavoring to imitate a European to»vn as much as possible. , On Wednesday next Mr Newton King will sell by auction at the Hon. Mr Scotland's residence, on the Hospital Road,' the whole of his valuable household furniture and effects, full particulars of which will be found on reference to the advertisement. The goods will be on view on Tuesday afternoon and on the morning of the sale. It has been decided to dispatch the Maori Haka Company to Melbourne about the first day of next month, and between this and then it is probable they will give a performance in town. ' The company numbers 20 (half men and half women), each of whom will, it is said, will receive £1 per week wages and travelling expenses (including board and lodging), besides being decked out in new clothes before they start. All the troupe are Waitara natives, and are busily engaged practising daily the haka and the poi game at the Manakorihi pah. The trip will extend over the large towns of Australia, and will last 12 months, that being the time for whioh the nativeß will sign articles, to use a nautical phrase. On Saturday afternoon last the Mayor presentud the Carnival prizes to the winners at the Alexandra Hall Rink, making an appropriate speech, in which he eulogised Mr Price, the manager, before doing so. The prizes were as under: — Mrs Capcl (Robinson Crusoe), a gold watch for tpost original dress; Miss T. Cunningham (Satanella), received a sealskin bag for moat elegant dress; while Miss Teed (Buttercup) got a gold brooch for the best sustained character. In the gentlemen's classes Mr E. Cunningham (Tui Bird) took the prize, French gold signet rink, for the most original costume; Mr T. Furlone: (Cavalry Officer), a gold scarf pin for the most handsome; and Mr Harrington (Baby), a handsome meerschaum pips for the best sustained. A boy named Cole, 13 years of age, was drowned in the Manawatu River, at Foxton, on Sunday morning. He fell out of a boat and was drowned. "Atlas," in the World, writes :— With regards to tho ParneU letters, the statement of tho Daily Neios that these documents were hawked about the newspaper offices for sale before the Times got hold of them is absolutely destitute of foundation. The letters in question were never at any time offered to tho Daily News or to any other newspaper. I will sot gratify Mr. Parnell's very natural desire to know how thoy got to the Time* ; but the channel through which they reached Printing House square afforded a very definite guarantee of their authenticity. Numerous cures of rheumatism by the use of celory have recently been announced in English papers, but tho following, more in detiil, is piven on the authority of the New York Times:— 11 The fact that celery is always put on the table raw prevents its therapeutic powers from being known. The celory should be cut into bits, boiled in water till sofl, and the water drunk by the patient. Put new milk, with a little flour and nutmeg, into a saucepan with the boiled celery, serve it warm with a piece of toast, cat it with potatoes, and tho painful ailment will soon 3'ield. Such is the declaration of a physician who has again and agiin tried the experiment, and with uniform success. Ho adds that cold or damp never produces but simply develops the disease, of whioh acid blood is the primary and sustaining cause,- aad that while the blood is alkaline, there can be neither rheumatism nor gout." The proper way to eat celery is to have it cooked as a vegetable after the manner above described. The writer makes constant use of it in this way. Try it once and you would sooner do without any vegetables, with the single exception of the potato, rather than celery. Cooked celery is a delicious dish for the table, and tho most conducive to health of any vegetable which can be mentioned. What tho head of the Roman Catholic Church may say and think on the subject of Ireland, says the Home News, is of as little consequence to the leader of tho English Home Rulers as aie the views of the Duke of Argyll. The Pope has addressed another important letter to the Irish Bishops, which shows that His Holiness condemned tho Plan of Campaign and boycotting only after earnest inquiry and strictly in the interests of morality and justice The scope of the original decrpe line, Leo XIII. writes, been "perverted by forced interpretations,', and he points out that the course pursued by so many Catholics in Ireland has tended " rather to disorder than to the relief of distress." The Pope has been freely charged with indifference to the Irish people. He replies to the charge by declaring that ha yields to no one in the earnestness of his desire to see them in tho enjoyment of peaco and prosperity, but counsels tho Bishops that tbis is not to be secured by the violation of obligations. Ho warns those who have "urged on the people to excitement" that they " may couio to regret tho rashness with which they have acted." The Ilou. G. F. Riohardscn, a contemporary says, is quite jubilaut over tho success which he states has attended the working of the Land Act Amendment Bill. This is the Act which has caused a deficiency iv tbo land revenue of tha New Plymouth Harbour Board, and tho reader will say no wonder when ho reads the figurr-B below. Tho following is a return showing the 8.110 of Crown lands for the three months ending August 30:— Last yoar 5432 acres were bold for casb, wnile this year 17,061 acres wro disposed of, 5247 ncrea being sold- in August alone. In 1887, 92 selectors took up 11,G44 ucres on deferred payment, while this year 9637 acrrs wcro taken iv by 72 selectors; 18 sekctorß taking up 2626 acres the month oC August. For land Bold under the perpetual loase system, the figures are :— In 1887. number of Belectorp, 111; land disposed of, 20,294 acres. In 1888, number of selectors, 1941 ' aud disposed of, 44,533 acres, of which 16,915 acres were taken up last month. The total number of acres dispoßod of in 1887 was therefore 37.371, whilo this year tho figures reach 71,187 tiores ; 24,799 acres being dißpoßed of during August, generally considered the slackest month in tho year.

Mr Samuel has been retained to defend the baker Langlay, who was committed for trial at Hawera last weak on a charge of arson atjthnt place. Messrs Stohr and Jackson, of the "Ideal" Kink, are going to close their town room, they having disposed of the majority of! the rollers to Mr James of Insrlotvoorl, who intends to carry on nt the Httcr place the session opened by Messrs Stohr and Jackson. It will be sen on reference to an advertisement that the late proprietors have a few pairs of laiies' skates for disposal.})' The Wan.aka arrived nt the breakwater from Mapukau at 6 o'clock on Sunday morning, and, after landing the 'Frisco mail and passengers, steamed for Wellington. The southern portion of the mail was sent down the coast by this (Monday) morning's train.