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Woodville Examiner, Volume 3, Issue 281, 7 September 1886, Page 2

Tho Ruahine Lodge, E.C., moots tonight at 7.00 sharp. Tho Misses Finlayaon have opened up their spring goods, and ladies in the district would do veil to pay them a visit.

A onc-acrc section, corner allotment, nearly opposite the railway station, Danevirke, was last week bo light by Mr Younghnshand for .l"i00 cash. The Library Committee meeting called for Friday last, lapsed, there not being a quorum present. Another meeting will be called as soon as the chairman, Mr Bickerton, returns to town. Tho following are the Waipawa. County Hospital returns for the week ending 4tli September, 188 b : —Patients in hospital, Id males and o females ; received during the week, d males and 1 female; discharged, 1 female.

The occasional flooding of the land ad- ■ joining the Maimga-atua stream is a source of groat annoyance to the property owners. A meeting to consider what steps should be taken will be held on Thursday evening, at 7.d0., in tho cottage opposite Mr Clark’s house on the Masterton road. i The following tenders have been rorfdlvay, Hnnterville contract: —-Accepted —Jessie Coates, Palmerston South, Declined —Eathoson Bros.,

Dunedin, £10,780 ; Alexander & Mac-far-lan, "Wanganui, £17,184 ; Scally it O’Connor, "Wanganui, £17,478; A. and D. and C. Wilson, Wanganui, £18,14;! ; M. Danagher, Wellington, £10,200 Mace A Rassett, Delgrovc, £20,848 ; Thomas Dcnby, Wanganui, £20,807 ; Duncan Sinclair, Wellington, £22,040. John Rocket, while engaged bush-fell-ing in the Tiraumea on Thursday afternoon, met with a frightful accident. The limb of a falling tree caught him in the loft side, and made a large hole just be-

low the ribs, piercing through to the bowels. All down his side was very much bruised. Rocket was convoyed to Simpson's boarding-house, Woodvillo, to be under Dr "Williams’ care. The wound is about three indies across, and two indies deep. The doctor was Jirst ut opinion that nothing could save the man’s life, but we are glad to say that ho is now progressing favourably. Tha u-nial fortnightly meeting of the Wellington Laud JBoard was held on Thursday. A schedule of Jam! sold. since last meeting showed that 17< 7 acres 1 rood 17 perches were disposed .of for

£250',) 4s 7d. Mrs C. Croft wrote with reference-to the clearing of the Mangaone Valley Road. Mr Marchaut explained that no information on the subject had been received from the Government. _ Mr Anderson and others presented a petition on the subject. The hoard decided to again call the attention of the Government to the resolutions already forwarded to then;, gnd ask that tenders be at oucc called for. T, ! t V Commissioner recommended that secttonik ivb; 80a, 01. and 81a, block 8, Mangaone, shokl be y.’ithheld from sale at present.

The Maunga-at.na Road Hoard will bold Its monthly modi ig 10-moiTO'v eveum"

Mr Bradshaw, member fm- Dunedin Central, died on Wednesday afternoon. We acknowledge receipt of Bishop's Monthly Time Table for the month. This useful publication deserves a large circulation.

Private telegrams have been posted today at the Sydney Eueliange. slating that the Kimberley is a complete failure, but furnishing no particulars. At a meeting of the Masterton-Manga-hao Special Settlement Association (Mr McCardle in the chain it was resolved to ballot for sections on September Mth, and that tenders ho called for foiling 200 acres of the township. Wo have received the mid-winter edition {of The World, published in Sydney. It contains a number of good illustrations besides a quantity of interesting matter. One peculiarity of the paper is, that it is published free. Encouraging reports continue to bo received from Mount Lyell, Tasmania. It is stated that four men in three weeks found IGlbs of gold. Many are proceeding from other parts of Tasmania to the new held, but nothing is yet published justifying a rush. Mr Shearer had on view a day or two ago a very handsome bedroom suite consisting of Duchess dressing table, chest of drawers with nicklesilver handles, washstand, etc., made of totara, stained and polished to resemble mahogany. The furniture was made to the order of a local gentlemen, who expressed himself highly pleased with the manner in which it had been turned out. Nominations for the Woodvillo Town Board, and the Danovirke Town Board must be in the hands of the respective returning officers not later than noon tomorrow. Ratepayers are reminded that unless their rates are paid they will be ineligible to nominate, or to stand as, candidates: neither will they —-in the event of an election —be entitled to record their votes.

Oil Thursday two of Mr Pinfold’s sons were playing with an axo, chopping wood, when the one who was wcilding the axe accidentally chopped his brother’s foot, nearly cutting off three toes. Dr Williams was soon attending the little sufferer, and found that the toes were only hanging by a small piece of skin. However the doctor sewed up the foot, and the little fellow is now doing nicely. So many accidents of this kind are reported that parents should see that the youngsters are not allowed to play with axes and tomahawks.

The Pahiatim Star says:—Great dissatisfaction is expressed in Woodville at the action of the Pahiatua Hoad Board regarding its refusal to allow the M’ood-ville-Tiraumea Association to supervise the expenditure of its deferred thirds. The feeling runs so high that an attempt will bo made to separate the Association Block from the Pahiatua Road District, and this we feel sure is not a step that is desirable. The Association considers, and with a great deal of justice, that their works could be supervised far more satisfactory by one of its members, who would be continually on the spot. It is also argued that tire Board’s overseer has far too large a district to attend to, therefore he could not give any great attention to one particular part. "We do not feel disposed to hastily jump at conclusions: but would suggest that the whole matter be reconsidered, as under the present arrangement separation is bound to follow. The chief obstacle that seemed to stand in the way of the request of the Association being granted was that the Board did not know its legal position in the matter, but from enquires made we are in a position to state that no exception would have been taken to the Board’s action had it acquisocd in the proposal. Looking at the question, then, as one that affects the whole district, we have no hesitation in asking the Board to reconsider the matter.

The following reply to a letter which appeared in the Mail Jins been published :—Sir.—l see a letter in yours of Thursday from some person signing himself “ Woodville, ” making statements about the Town Hoard, Subdividers Hoard, and Hy Laws ; then he asks if his information is correct. Iso, Sir, it is not correct'. In the first place the Town Hoard has not passed a by-law making persons who subdivide, make roads. First of all, thej' have simply enforced the law, as they found it in the Muncipal Corporation, Act, as far as it applies to Town Hoards, ami they have served all alike, Messrs Bibby, Webber, So wry and Captain Russell, who are the only ones which have cut up since the Town Hoard was formed. The Town Hoard has roipiired these gentlemen to submit plans of all. proposed subdivisions, and they have been approved subject to the streets being made in accordance with the Hoard nilrs, as printed and sent to each subdivider. The Town Hoard have not compelled any person to make the streets, first of a 11, hut they will all have to bo made and the plans, certified to that effect, before any plan or deed can be nvgiL.eiV'-i. i. can. nssuro ■■ V, couvd-O ■’ tbit oven the Town Hoard chairman (Mr Sowry) cannot got out of it any more than Messrs Hihby & Co., as tho officers at the Registered' Office, Napier, will not register his deeds without the proper certificate. — I am, ike., Old Woodvillk.

'• Is it true,” asked a Baltimore Sun reporter of one of the Baltimore’s bestknown modistes, “ that tight lacing is coming into fashion again?” “Yes, it is true. Yon sec it is fashionable for ladies to be broad - shouldered and small-waisted, and customers of mine whose clothes I used to make from twenty-throe to twenty - seven indies, waist measure, now have them fully five inches smaller. Only a year ago a natural waist, measuring say from twentylive to twenty-seven inches, was considered graceful and pretty, which it really is : but now it is not fashionable to measure more than from eighteen to twentythree. Of course, the lacing .is done by means of the corset, and sometimes I nearly break any fingers trying to fit and close basques that are so tight they will not meet without an effort. M bile everything else must ho very tight in the waist, breadth and fulness about the shoulders and bust are striven after, as they serve by contrast to intensity the seeming smallness of the waist. Do I use padding ? Oh yes, lots of it. r lhe hollows between the shoulders and under the arms arc filled out 'with it, and in some cases one whole shoulder is made ot it, notably wbejro opp shoulder is higher j than the other, Bverylhihg must fit .skin i tight those days, and if one lias n pi a ‘ good figure it must be made good. A I favourite method of proceedure is to fit I first on the figure a lining, on which the • figure is built out with cotton wherever j needed. Over this is fitted a second lin« lug. and then comes the dress material.”

Mr Miller Smith (ms decided m divide his horticultural prize ini" l''-'" siun-. "i ;’js each,‘one 1 ()i - a collection nllt'rn> and tli(‘ other for the best buttonhole houi)U(’t. Afore rain coining, accordin'; to C opt:iin Edwin. lie telegraphs warnings lor gales and heavy rains after Ironi 1- to -0 hours to all ))laces. It having been represented that the hour of closing the Napier mail at " pan. is very inconvenient, the postmaster. Mr Walsh, with his usual courtesy, is representing to the Department' the desirability of extending the time till 7.-”>0. 'J his will ho a. general boon to business people.

Mr Bartlett, who had large experience as a sawmiller in the Colony, has joined Air Harper in the Kumeroa sawmills. The proprietors intend adding considerably to the present plant and hope to be a,ble to meet the full requirements ot the district.

Someone at Kanneroa keeps a dog chained to a fence on the roadway, presumably for the purpose of keeping cattle from passing. This dog has no shelter of any kind and does not seem to be very well fed. This looks rather like a case ot cruelty to animals. On Friday morning while crossing the Alaunga-atua Jlivcr a horseman was washed from his horse and narrowly escaped drowning. The horse was swept to one side of the stream and the rider to the other. The stream was running hank high. Owing to the neglect of the I’uhlie Works Department in not forwarding the necessary progress payments the contractors for the Tamaki section were unable to pay the men punctually at the end of last month. A considerable amount is due the contractors for extras which was to have paid punctually, hut the promised payments have not been made. Consequent cm the late heavy rainfall there have been several heavy land slips throughout the district on the high lauds which have been divested of bush. On Messrs Bargh and Hewitt’s and Air (V. Gilbert’s land at Kumeroa there have been several extensive slips, and several chains of Air Gilbert's fencing have been thrown down, while part of Mr Hansen's fence has also been destroyed.

The shares in the proposed Examiner Newspaper Company promise to g» off very well, and wo believe will all he readily taken. This is not to be wondered at for there are very few investments now-a-days which show a return ot much over 10 per cent., ■whereas the actual working of the Examiner shows a profit of between 80 and 40 per cent, on the proposed capital. The adjourned meeting will he held to-morrow afternoon at 2.30 p.m., at the Theatre, and there should be a good attendance. On the road between Kumcroa and the Manawatu bridge great damage has been done by the late rains. The scrub fascia - mg erected by the County Council in the ditch running from Kumcroa to the river has been swept out, and a further portion of the bank has given way, encroaching still more on the roadway. Then the high tank «f the Manawatu river has given way in several place* opposite MiGilbert’s laud and nearly the whole of the roadway threatens to give way, the ground having subsided. Slips from MiGilbert's and Mr Hausen’s land came down on the road and blocked it for a time, but these are being cleared away. Harding’s road is also in a frightful state. One slip lias come down, and the roadway is in many places a hog almost impassable even for horses. The watertables and drains are idled up and the result is that watercourses have been cut in the road, and the metal washed off.