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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 86, 28 June 1881, Page 2

'Frisco Mail.— The English Mail via San Francisco arrived at Auckland on Sunday. It may be expected at Foxton about Thursday. Examination. — The Pupil Teachers examination for Manawatu candidates will be held this day, at Palmerston. Ten are expected to be present. The Foxton examinees are Misses Nash and Howan. Assault with lotent.— A man named John Windle was yesterday arrested by Constable M'Anulty on a charge of assaulting with intent two Maori women named Riria Hoani and Arihia Karena, a separate charge being laid in each case. He was brought before Mr Russell, J.P., at 2.30 p.m., when the case was, on the application of Mr Hankins (defendant's solicitor), adjourned until Wednesday, at 10 a.m. Bail was allowed, accused in £100, and two sureties of £50 each. Messrs T. P. Williams and J. Futter became bondsmen, and Windle was accordingly released. The case will probably be heard before Mr Ward R. M. , West Coast Railway Co.— By advertisement in auother column ie will be seen a meeting of the shareholders in the above Company will be held at the Chamber of Commerce, Wellington, on Monday next, to adopt artioles of association and elect interim directory. The qualification for directors is fixed at 100 shares. In view of this, very few Manawatu residents are likely to figure on the directory. Next Issue. — An advertisement for Mr Fitzgerald, chemist, will appear in next issue. Ix Bankruptcx-. — At the Palmerston District Court, on Wednesday last, John Alfred Perreau applied for his discharge. Mr Hawkins appeared for the bankrupt., and Mr Hankins for the Trustee (Mr Robinson), who opposed the discharge, The debtor was examined at considerable length as to his affairs, and in the end went off, says the Manawatu Times, "into a long rambling statement in defence of his case, during whioh he broke out into tears. " The Judge adjourned the application for three months, the bankrupt in the meantime to file an account of his assets and expenditure, verified by affidavit. Campbelltown Sections. —As many persons are desirous of knowing how a title to the sectioas purchased at Messrs Stevens & Gortou's sale of Campbelltown land can be obtained, we publish the following letter from the auctioneers to a gentleman resident in Foxton, and who has kindly place! it at our disposal :— " Bulls, June, 10, 1881. Dear Sir,— ln reply to your favour of 31st ultimo, re title to sections in Campbelltown. — You will have to obtain a certificate from Mr J. M'Lennan, Oroua Downs, who is acting for H m Robert Campbell, that the money has been paid, whioh you muse forward to the Minister of Lands, Wellington, and you will get your proper title. — Yours faithfully, Stevens & Gorton. " Libel Case.— The charge of criminal libel preferred against Mr Alexander M'Minn by Mr J. B. Duogau comes on for hearing at PdlmeraUm thia day, before Mr Ward. R.M. Chess Cwa- Tha meeting for the forraation of a Chess Club at Foxton did not eventuate. Notwithstanding a large number of promises had been given to attead, at the hour appointed only three persons put in an appearauoe, and the meeting therefore lapsed. Dead.— Dr Skae, Inspector of Lunatic Asylums, died at his house at Karon, Wellington, do Saturday last. His death is supposed to have been brought about by gnefat the result of the reoent Asylum enquiry. He was only 39 years oi age, and leaves a wife and nine children. Public Hall at Sanson.— We are glad to see our reoent remarks on the necessity of a Public Hall at Sanson have aroused attention to the matter. A meeting will shortly be held to take steps for the erection of one. Highways Boahd.— The Foxton Highways Board held a meeting on Friday last. at. 2 p m., when there were present Messrs Thynne (Chnirnun), Gower and Carter, Mesa** Brace and Sherman waited on the Board for the purpose of endeavouring to secure a settlement of the accounts between thft Foxton and Manawatu Boards A lengthy dioussion ensued, at tim»s waxin? •a little warm, bnt eventually a eettlemHut was arrived at as follows:— The Palmer . ston Board to pay- 438-1, the amount of the award to the Foxton Board made by the RJi*i tiw to pay about £80 other monsys

since reoaived by them, and all law coals to date. Thereupon the Fox'on Board agree to dfotonltntie the actions. Contract. — The contractor for removal of the AVeriue Road sand hill has begun the work energetically. Local Government. — In this ißsue we publish a full report of the debate in the House of Representatives on the local government question. Cremation. — According to m\ official report lately forwarded to the Foreign Office, there have been eighty-six incinerations of bodies in North Italy since 1876, and the* process of cremation has been rendered both speedy and chtap. During the first year the furnace was heated by gas, but this arrangement was unsatisfactory, as not only was it very expensive, but it took five hours to reduce a body to ashes. Under the new system the flames consume the body,, and the furnace is heated by wood, the total cost being under £2, which inolndes all fees. Cremation is rapidly becoming the fashionable mode of burial in Milan, and bids fair, indeed, to become popular throughout Italy. Nationality.— An irrepressible Irißhman, waving his hat above his head the other day, and leaping into the air with a shout of " Hoorroo for ould Ireland 1" de> aeendod heavily upon the oorna of a man near him who was not a compatriot. The latter, after writhing for a few seconds in anguish under the infliction, growled between his teeth in disgust, " Hoorroo for H — !" "Quite right ye'r honour, quite right," quoth Pat in response ; " ivery man for his ouwn counthry." The Best Right.— -One night a judge, a military officer, and a minister, all applied for a lodging at an inn where there was but one spare bed, and the landlord was called upon to decide which had the best claim of the three; " I had lain 15 years in the garrison at I ," said the officer. "1 have sat as judge 20 years in R " paid the judge.- ' "With your leave, gentlemen, I hare stood in the ministry 25 years in M •," B*>d the minister. " That settles the dispute," said the landlord. "You, Mr Captain, have lain 15 years ; you, Mr .ludge, have sat 20 years ; while this old gentleman has been standing up for the last 25 years, so he certainly has the beat right to the bed." Centrifugal Movements. — A well known Paris scientist, Dr Delaunay, has made the curions discovery, that to ascertain the qualities of an applicant cook, it ia sufficient to give her n plate to clean, or sauce to make, and watch how she moves her hand, in either act. If she moves it from left to right, or in the direction of the hands of a watch, you may trust her ; if the other way she is oertain to be stupid and incapable. Similarly the intelligence of the people may be ganged by asking them to make a circle on paper with a pencil, and noting in which direction the hand is moved. The good students in a mathematical class draw circles from left to right. The inferiority of the softer sex (as well as of male dunces) is shown by their drawing from right to left; asylum patients and children do the same. In a word, centrifugal movements are a characteristic of intelligence and higher development ; centripetal, are a mark of incomplete evolution. A person, as his faculties are developed, may come to draw circles the opposite way to what he did in youth. Dr Delaunay has some further extraordinary conclusions as to the relative positions of races in the scale of development, from the way they wind their watches and mike their screws. Cheese. — At a meeting of the English Chambers of Agrioulture recently it was stated that American cheese was brought to London at the rate of 303 a ton, while it costs 50a a ton to bring Cheshire choese to the metropolis. Mollies Little Ram. — Mollie had a little ram, fleece black as rubber shoe, and every where that Mollie went, he emigrated to. He went with her to Church one day — the folks hi-la-rou3 grew, to see him walk de-mure-ly into Dea-con Al-len's pew. The worthy deacon quickly let his angry passion rise and gave it an unchristian kick between the sad brown eyes. This landed rammy in the aisle ; the deacon followed fast, and raised his foot again but, ah ! that first kick was his last. For Mr Sheep walked slowly back about a rod, 'tis said, and ere the deacon could retreat, it stood him on hid head. The congregation then arose and went for that ere sheep, but several well-directed butts just piled them in a heap. Then rushed they straightway for the door with nurses long and loud, while rammy struck the hindmost man and shot him through the crowd. A New Invention. — A watchmaker at Copenhagen, by the name of Sonderberg, is reported to have made a watch which requires no winding up, inasmuch as it performs the work itself by means of an electric current An electric magnet fixed inside the watch keeps the spring continually in a state of tension. All that is required to keep the watch going is to preserve the battery in perfect working order, for which purpose one or two inspections iv a twelvemonth are said to be sufficient. Astonishing.— Just fancy ! (the Gundagai Times says) thirty head of well-con-ditioned cattle offered in exchange for thirty good laying heps. This is a fact, owing to the want of grans on the northern bonier of the Gundagai distriot. Tall Talk.— We, in our "tight little island," are (writes Public opinion), after all, only pigmies compared with our offspring, if the Uuite i States, ia their largeness, will still permit themselves to be included among them. Our production of i> on and coal is known to be enormous, but what are they compared with those of the America of the future ? Speaking of the coal deposits of the Missouri, a contemporary says that there are 26.887 square miles of such deposits in that State, and a " calculating machine " has demonstrated they can supply 100,000,000 tons a year for the next 1,300 years, and still leave a kandsome margin for fnture generations. There is also an iron mountain in the State 228 ft high, whose base coven 500 acres ; and it ia computed that the quantity of ore above the surface is 230,187,375 tons. Adjacent to the mountain is a "knoll," 581 ft high, with an acreage at the base of 360, and the iron ores in it are estimated at 13,972,773 tons. It is all very well to overwhelm general readers with suoh stupendous figures ; bat w«, on our part, may pat haps be allowed to " calculate" that the above statements ought to be taken cum grano salts. A Flood op Immigrants. -The arrivals at Castle Girden, New York, during April were 60,000, about 1400 in excess of the imraiqrViion during April last year, and i upwards^of 4000 in excess of that of MayJ last year, when 55,083 were recorded.' This is the heaviest monthly immigration in the history of the port From Jan. 1, 1881, to May 2, the total was about 105.000, being about 25,000 more than was reported i during the first four months of 1880. The steamship companies say they are advised by their agents in Europe that the exodus from there will be even greater in the coming month from all Nortu>German and Scandinavian ports, and arrangements to put on extra vessels to provide the needed accommodation have been made accord* ingly.

The Political PLOQOHMEN.—T.:e,'I«wt, of the political ploughmen were released from prison at H »kitika ea Monday, and arrived at New Plymouth on board the Stella- on Wednesday, the 15th instant. They immediately started for Parihika, and reached the vicinity of that place on Wednesday evening, but instead of proceeding direct to that settlement, they stayed for the night in the whare near the fencing operations of last year, and went on to Parihaka next morning, they having been preceded by the prisoners who have b'ou staying at Opua lately by a day. The people of Parihaka immediately collected on the Marae to welcome thorn, and a general tangi ensued. The prisoners, those lately returned, were ranged around the marae, and first the previously released prisoners, afterwards the men, and subsequently the women, who had remained at Parihaka, visited each in turn and rotation, and rubbed noses with them, crying all the time in a peculiar silent fashion. The tears of the prisoners did not flow very freely towards the end, which was late in the evening, by which time their noses must have suffered in the prooess of so much rubbing and pressing, and each bridge of every nose which during the day h&d been a " bridge of sighs, " became in the evening a bridge of size. At dark the natives dispersed, but the returned prisoners were detained in the two speaking houses of Te Whiti and Tohu-; neither will they be allowed to return to their respective family whares Until the meeting disperses. — EiaweraStar.

Kissing the Duchess. — The srood people of Aberdeen have formed a committee to raise a fund for the widows and children of the men of the 92nd Highlanders killed in the Afghan and Boer wars. This, is as it should be, for the^92nd Highlanders are essentially an Aberdeen ra^itnent. It was raised in this wise : A regiment being required, Jean, the then " beautiful Duchess" of Gordon, sbood in the Castle-street of the city with the shilling held between her teeth, and the recruits as they passed took the shilling with their mouths, thus, as it were, kissing the Duchess. On the spot where this occurred there now stands a grauite statue of the " last Duko of Gordon." During the last stay of the 92ud In Aberdeen, the officers received permission to add to the inscription, "And first Colonel of the 92nd Highlanders."