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Manawatu Herald, 3 September 1880, Page 2

are peculiar your conHonore's V7e arc glad Moutoa disrlosses by the to recover of real grit, and earnest since the that in a month or will present its old — A well-known Provincial Disbut better, known yesterday taken to the afternoon train. to be 82 years old, and about this coast for the some time past he has a week from the County been attended to most by Mr J. Cootea, of his infirmities have that it was not possible to I^^^^^^Hy longer privately, bo it was him in the hospital. Hay U P ro . m Otaki yesterday by in Mr Pads Anderson's both the Constable and M> did all < hey could to make the as co nfortable as possible on .his ■grille. Cattle. — A large tuob" of cattle were ferried at Fpxtou .yestefdajri im charge of Mf GiUies^XTpon this occasion the 6et>9ts'were driven along the rirer beach the yard, nnd tpok.tp, the water very mJl> .nil the trouble iocideutal to the unuftl of driving them along the road being The cattle, were a .very from Oroiia Downs station, r Gear, of Wellington. — A meeting of the oailled for Wednesday Athenaeum', at 7 p.m., four members attendover half an hour but as those upon them- ! deciding tht meetios' w" I to no'ic. ' very use:;-: ! ; |^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^b understand gentleman Waikato and Land Otaki abou 1 ' some;' ;' menbeing the the ' at to to rethan are t ; the on A sumshows Standing into From were of Public was 152; assent. Marriage. pleaor negaintroduced, . The total was 313. erftd , 61. There questions were were 1141 en* for papers ; lfi^of which formally pro- -> following are the ia letter regarding Mr 3. Duthie, of contemporary :— morninir, in a aermon.

that <&c tine* the another, defeated, that it incredible that retrograded or the Or to take the wno ast y 6 * 1 " T as bat on this occasion 150. It results are in my experience an opinion, confibelieve it." — An exghost has During fh& so abruptly, obaarved to le at the Wall of Lords ; while he was stop for a mo'earnestly at the It has the pause of this H^H^H^H^H^^Fa basement in the as of a lady, with her elbow on her hand. ulqtfysrory distinct, a bracelet, in diamond star flashed s Singularly beau' being characterised by ■■WxprcsHion of unutterable sudnesn. AH of disordered vision or " unconscious celebration " have failed tv explain the phenomenon ; for, as Loril GHfttnville is perfectly frea./rom;ipDinHons outside the Hou°e of Lords, it^fc evident what the " ghost " has to do %ith the locality rather than with the person-. Professor Tyndall has been applied to, and lms avowed his determination to clear up the mystery, but hitherto all his investigations have proved nnavuiliog. Meeting thr Difficulty. — According to the R&ngitiUei Advocate, " the school committee at Bulls have determined, for the purpose of supplying stationery, sweeping the school, providing firewood, etc., to impose a fee of 2s per head per quarter for each child, but no family will in the aggregate have to pay more than s*. The Bulls committee have set a laudable examp'e of self-reliance. For the past 18 months they have been charging 6d per head per quarter for each child, and this has been more titan sufficient to meet ail the necossary expenses. The parents have paid tha fees in all cases with the utmost cheerfulness." The Cape Colony. — Now that the troublos with the Zulus and the Boers are it an end, there is no doubt (says the Home • News) that the colonisation of South Africa will rapidly progress, especially a* great inducements are held out by the Capo Government to surplus humanity to go to those parts. Any mau with a few pounds can become a farmer there. 'I his is what the Cape Government offers to respectable agrU ulturalUta, married or singlo, not over 45 years old, desirous of emigrating to Cape Colony : — A free passage for the settler and family, and land in the finest .is»w | *»* r«kl•aai grnzing district of the Cdpt> at 10s per ncre ; the payment to be made in ten years, at Is the acre' per year. Iv some districts, where the poor rates are heavy, the moans of relieving the burden suggests itself to the advantage of all-comers. Perhaps the laborers will, however, want a sprinkling of diamonds in the soil guaranteed. With reference to the climate of Cape Colony the Evening Post of a recent date . says :— " A correspondent signinsr himself Chicago, wishes to know what kind of cliraite the ' ?ape of Grood Hope enjoy* — whether it is very hot in summer or cold in winter. At Cape Town, we believe, it in much hotter iv tho Hammer ; than it is here, but tho cold in the winter is about. th\3 ."»ap : IjOiuj droughts also prevail, aud I the ha it iv «umn»er is felt the more on that j !!ccouul, and jtls^' owing to the faot that I t be town is very little tUeltered from the sun's rays, and tho soil is of a very dry and hungry character. Inland, we believe the climate varies very considerably, but the emigrant may safely reckon on find • ing it very hot in sammer. There is one curiout faob about the climate of South Afrioa, which is worth mentioning. Owing to the peculiar formation of the mountain "fanges, the curious phenomen of a fcransjpositiou of seasons in the same latitude is .to be observed. The Cape is near the ' region of the trades, and south-east winds prevail during the greater purt of the year, except when the wind is from the northwest. From whichever quarter the wind somes, its moisture is usually intercepted by the mountain ranges, and rain is falling on one side while it is perfectly dry on the other. As in such latitudes, the harvest ilepends more on the supply of rain than anything else, people are reaping on one side of the oountry while they are sowing and planting on the other." Nativw Eccentbicities.— An extraordinary statement was made by some natives in town, They Bay that a man named Hoani and his wife a short timo since had been digging gum near- ?d*t Russell, on the Waikato. Tke wife took ill, aud immediately died, but a story became current that she had been bewitched by her husband. The relations of the woman reside in the King country. Two brothers came down for the purpose of killing the man who was possessed of suoli dreadful power. They found him quietly digging for gum. He had a large hole open, and the men killed h,im with a tomahawk, put him in the hole and covered him up. They then returned (o the King country, congratulating themselves on having done the Stite some service by. ridding New Zealand of a man who might be the death of anybody whenever he took it into his head. a?hese are the facts aa stated by the natives fiA town yesterday, bnt probsTbly it will not be thought worth while to enquire into the matter. It may be mentioned that ' Wiremu Reweti, r well known chief at Kaiparn— at present at Mechanio'aßay, on ■bis way to the King country — has be n ill for some time, and both he and hia friends are convinced that he hj;»s been bewitched, and that the only cure ties in a visit to a priest, resident among the Kingites, who can? remove the spell.-*,- Auckland correspondent Press Association. 'Works Stopped. —Our Feilding contain porary says: — We are informed that the Government are so digjafefe^with the progress that has bpfi-in&fa withthefrfinar ofl of the roodjfll& through the Wanganui Darbor BjaffjEndowment Block, that ope. Jfttigpararftto be suspended, the engineering BBKveyQr in charge withdrawn, and the broken up. It would' appear that it Hks come to the knowledge of the Survey th4t oonsi&fobly tea than <teo< of road lines in the Blook comprise

hits ||HHmmmTire^necau3e being the TOmnginofone of the shaft*, and the subI sequent death of some 100 Indians, who were hard at work below. An a c tempt made by the Spanish to force the Indians to begin again and reopen the shaft led to a rebellion, and probably was one of the causes whioh forced the Indians to an uprising, and the subsequent exclusion of their rulers from the country. The extent to whioh these mines have been worked may .bMionj«otur«dbyi^9Tast^ffiomitrisrSdt)flr lying arounj the old shaft, covering no less than fifteen acres of ground. The mine is the only turquoise mine on the continent, .ar.d, aa the.KemJja&alwaya a- market value, it will ere long be one of the recognised sources of wealth of New Mexico. N. Z. TlMBWtt IN LoNDOH.-rrThlS follow." ing wil! be of interest to those engaged in the timber trade : — A resident of Wellington received a letter by the last mail from a gentleman in the timber trade in London, in which tie thus speaks of New Zital.ind woods in the Home market : — " Tho New Zealand wood is now in the market and lias been for some time, but sales are slow, business in all timber being slack just now. Jtwillbnve, therefore, to take its time. It i< well recommended here for cabinet work aud polishing, and a gentleman is now in England introducing more in the market, and soliciting orders and establishing agencies. My opinion ia that in about three years cargo after cargo will bo making its way over. The wood i* so hard that it will do for yacht and shipbuilding and cog purposes." We presume the above refers to the shipment of timber Mr Halcotnbe sent from Manawatu. Mb Pyke's Escapade. — Referring to Mr Pyke'n recent ejection from the House of Representatives by the Sorgeant-at-Arme,tho Evening Post says : — •' There are several other members who at times have shown themselves not altogether disinclined to follow Mr Pyke's bad example. It is probable that the undignified and very humiliating figure he cut in the \&t>i disturbance will serve a good purpose by discouraging any would-be imitators. It is to be hoped that Mr Pyke's humiliation and leek-swal-lowing will have at least tliU useful effect. But, if not, then the House will hare to take the necessary steps to provide that the important interests confided to its care shall not suffer through the idle obstructivencss and silly vapouriug of such men as the member for Dunstan, by sternly repressing and visiting with the heaviest penalties any repetition of such conduct as that by which Mr Pyke has nude himself so disagreeably conspicuous."