Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1890.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 5 August 1890, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1890.

We have to thank tin Government printer for Hansard No. 9, and a batch of Bills. We are in receipt from the Railway i Department of August's tiniß»table. Mr Evett has been appointed handicapper to i\\e Manawatu Racing Club. i Gaudeur won the sculling championship '. of America, defeating riae oihe:;s. ' It is said that there are thirty thousand ; Buddhists in Paris. The population of Melbourne and suburb? ii estimated at 453,000. Mr F. Robinson has pnrohased Mr Bracken's farm at Campbelltowu, at £9 per aoro. A notice re the sale of Wormald's Mill for rent appears elsewhere. A large mob of horses p.r ived in town last n ; ght and left this mo-ning for Wellington, for the Welliagton t 'amways. Mr George Colevhas 3old his Star hempmill plant to Mr Watta. and us destination is somewhere south of the Manawatu. Mr Osborne has, on the front page today, ono of his public announcements, whioh is very interesting reading. Temperanoe teaching has be«n "ntroduod into the Stato Schools of Queenslaud. Japan now possesses a body of civil and cviiiiinal law ilipt will bear comparison with those of any country in the world. We p.re eveditably informed, by an eyewitness, thiit on Sunday morning as Ine people v,pro going to church there were four drunken men opposite t'.ie police staI tion bfthaving most disorderly. Just as a boy for one of the baker's was about to cims the footpath; Lhe po.iey shind p.t a passer-bye, and over we it ooy and basket of bread. As noting, and no one, was hurt, they' were *H'collect«d and placed on the moke.

Mr Thomas, the host, until lately, of the new public house in Otaki, has opened one at the mouth of the Otaki rive:', on the sits of the old, old house of days gone bye. A cablegram of July 31 states that tsvt* thousand bales of New Sealand hemp have been sold at an advance of about 10s per ' ton on last quotations. ! A Bill has been introduced into the Nor- I wegian Parliament to make seduction, accomplished under promise of mavviage, punishable with flue and imprisonment, The white-slp.ve traffic still flourishes in Europe. Young women are obtained, and, with many promises of goo<! situations when they arrive at their destination, exported jO countries outside Europe for evil purposes. Peter Her, the notorious Omaha distiller, is secretary of a Western Land Company that absolutely prohibits the sale of liquor on lots controlled or sold by the company. A convention of working girls h»s been held iy New York, with representatives from many of th« leading cities ia the States. The Auckland Chamber of Co amerce have decu ed i,o recommend the Government to offer a bonus for an improved plant for the dressing of phorm'nnn tenax, and to call iheir attention to the necessity for t"'e protection of growing flax. : • Palmerston probably has different views. The Feilding Star says: — "It is expected that FeiWing being the most .ce..itre.lly situated town»hip in the proposed new j Hospual District, will be selected fov- the 1 site of the Hospital. : "A branch Coi.ta.3e Hospital may be erected at Palmerston." The Wanganui Cattle District comprises Patea,. Waaganui, Ran^'itikei, and Miinawatu Counties. The members of the CaUle Board are : F. A. Campbell (chairman), F. Arkwright, James Livingstone, J. McLennan, and D. G. Poulson. Mr C. O'Hara • Smith hns been perman- j eptly removed to Auckland- on account of his failing health necessitating a change to a warmer climate. Mr Smith has established his reputation on this coast as a thoroughly capable and careful auditor. — Hawera Star. "The Weekly Thiirs and Echo announces that 't will give no more " Sporting Notes." It says : — " We do not see that we can any longer pander to the vile and dishonest gamming instincts which are so c 'af.i'y taken advantage of by the " Noble Sports-. mej " who live on the betting public. The great Tuddhist pagoda, at Pangoon, is ginlded from top to bottom, p.nd its golden spire contains at least £00,000 worth of jewels. Buddhists show us a good example of liberality in support of religion. We understand that Mr Hawkins formally severed his connection with the Eveiu.nj Press* on Satu"day lust. In- his retirement h« takes with him our good wishes and those of a la.'ge number of friends. During his brief editorial career Mr Hawkins has shown himselE a capable, public-spirited, hard-vfo .ki-Vf? journalist. His writing was always scholarly and his information wide, as well as promptly applied. He was ever outspoken without fear, and he never failed to be appreciatively generous even to opponents. In whatever he next may undertake we wish Mr Hawkins that success which his talents and high character deserve. — N.Z. Times. A model Sunday school teacher. Miss Aurova Ensor, of Wilbycoaibe, near Exmouth, England, a lady who is in hey SQth year, continues to take a class twice every Sunday. Miss Ensor began teaching in the Sunday school at the -age of '14, and "hardly remembers having missed a Sunday that the school was op»n during the last seventy-five years." In France, during the last fifty yaars, the number of culprits under nineteen years of age /has increased 140 per fe'fiijf., and the number between sixteen and twenty yerrs of age 240 per cent Public houses have increased, dens of infamy are more niimero.us than ever, the birth-rate shows a terribly suggestive decline, filthy novels and immoral prints pour from the press. France is dearly in need of a moral revolution. The New York Trihune. sent a correspondent to Bvaztt to jjive a report of tie causes ol the revolution. Senho: Ruy Bp.rb'oza, one of the Ministers cif the Provisional Government, said in an interview :— "The E .1 peror's darfihtev, Princess Isabel, was the veal head 0! the Slate. Surrounded by Jesuits, she had no will of her own. PriesLs were always about her, and clericalism was threatening to become a menace, to Brazilian liberty." A Borne correipondent of the Graphic writes : — " All the musical critics of Italy who hare been present at the first fouV representations of the opera, ' Cavalleria Rustioana, 1 agree that a new musical genius has been discovered. The author — a young man of 26, of Leghorn, teaching music at a school in Sicily, with a salary of i.OOfr (£4) per, month— composed the whole opera in 50 day's.' The structure is masterly, and the melody .rich, flowing, purely Italian.. Th« press salutes in the youn» man 'the codtinuator of Rossini's and Verdi's genius." Just a beauty, to some taste*. There is at -resent being exhibited in Eerlin a certain Misi Tene Woodwarc 1 , a yoiv.v» American, 20 years of a';e, who has hpd her body entirely tatooe.d by the Indians, who stole her when a child from her parents while living in th» State of Texas. The whole of her person is covered with 400. figures of animals, plants, flowers and symbolical signs. On her arms the has figures of Angels, hitC-s, butterflies, and insects. The face of the girl te arid to be ve;v r»rei!iy — -. me oy the redskins had sufficient charity to leave thet aloae. The artists evidently appreciated the ac". vantage , of a Willie surface over that of whi eybrovm, and made the most of * rare oppoi\uni;y.