SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1889.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8535, 27 July 1889, Page 2

SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1889.

By this morning's train 189 sheep came up for shipment in the s.s. Glenelg on Monday. As tbe Pihama Football Team did not come by train to-day (Saturday), the local men had come to the conclusion this morning that the southerners bad forfeited. It is rumoured (bat Mr Edwin Hesketh will be promoted to the Supreme Court Benoh for the northern district. It ib stated that the freight to Wellington by rail for one ton of butter is £3 5i %&, aud for oue too of flax £1 8i Sd,

There is a current report that the freezing works at Waitara are going to be started a^ain, by a company, who intend to bring over the Bellinger, (which was running some time back) from Sydney, in order to carry the frozen carcases. The company is Snid to be an Auckland one, but is not connected with the company who had the works before.

Mr W. F. Hoskin's farm at Bell Block was put up at auction by Mr Newton King to-day (Saturday), but failed to find a purchaser, being passed in at £7 3s 6d per acre.

Colonel Curie, who was one of General Chute's force, which marched from Ketemarae to New Plymouth through the bush at the back of the mountain in January, 1865, is now on a visit to this town. He came by this (Saturday) morning'B train from Hawera, expecting to be in time to catch the steamer going north, but being thus detained he will have an opportunity of seeing the district under a different aspect to what it was some twenty-four years ago.

It is nndertood that the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce met on Friday, and appointed a deputation to wait on the Bank Managers to urge on them to keep open on Saturdays till 3 «.m. instead of Wednesdays; and that the Committee also passed a resolution pointing out the excessive freight charged #a butter as compared with other articles, notably fl>ix.

Recently some official documents, which had not been before the House, were published in the Government organ in Wellington, and on the Ministry being challenged about tbe matter the following discussion took place :—": — " The Premier : To tbe best of my knowledge and belief none of the members of the Gorernment either directly or indirectly supplied that information. Mr Seddon was satisfied with that statement. As, however, the Chairman of the Petitions Committee also denied having given any information on the subject, he maintained that the papers must have been obtained from tbe " big building." Mr Moss pointed to the differeuce in tone taken up by the various papers. The Southern pupore said "it is hinted," "it is rumoured," and so on. But the New Zealand Times spoke with authority. It wob generally inspired by the Government, and indeed, i£ rumour spoke truth, was partly owned by members of the Ministry. (Laughter.) The Premier laughed ; but he believed it was no laughing matter to own a share in this paper. (Laughter)."

A party of skilled workers in iron, arrived here on Saturday by the R.M.S. Zealandia, says tbe Auckland Herald. For some time past they have been working in one of the most extensive iron workß in the United States, and have come kere under an engagement with the Onebunga Ironworks Company (Limited). All those who have taken any interest in our local industries are aware that large quantities of rod and bar iron of various sizes, together with tee an>l angle iron, have been rolled at the Onuhunga Ironworks and supplied to hardware merchants throughout the colony for some time past. There is also a large and increasing demand for sheet iron of vaiious sizes and gauges, all of which has of necessity been im ported up to the present time. The opportune arrival by toe mail steamer of those workers, whose specialty is tbe manufacture and rolling of sheet iron, will add vary materially to the prosperity and permanence of this important industry, and at the same time will enable the company to supply the large orders they have on hand for sheet iron.

On Saturday last the persistent couple named Agnews, says the Post, waited on Inspector Thomson, in Wellington, representing that they were without a penny, and begged him to use bis good offices in obtaining passages for them to Dunedin. Subsequenty Inspector Thomson obtained a requisition from the Government to the Union Steamship Company to pass them per steutner to Dunodin, for which place they left per b.b. Ringarooma on Sunday. The Agnews, on landing, will be passed to their old holding, which the Goyernment has agreed they shall be permitted to reside upon and work, but as to the precise terms on which the privilege has been g muled nothing has transpired. Tluse sociul southern peuts have, however, gained their point. Thia shows what perfliitenoo wjH acoympliah,