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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 9 October 1890, Page 2

Sixty convicts are reported to have escaped from New Caledonia. To-night the Rev. Mr Ward lectures on the religion of Charles Dickens. Tlie admission is free. We understand that Mr J. G. Wilson is likely to pay a Hying visit to this town tomorrow. The Manawatu Company have decided to resume traffic on Thursdays, but Government will only connect between Longburn and Palmerston on these days. The German Residents in Wellington intend to entertain the officers and men of the German men-of-war at a ball. At a meeting of Mr Henry Eedwood's creditors it was allowed that his bankrnptcy had been caused by bad luck in racing. His discharge was agreed to. The Editors of the Wanganui Herald and Chronicle have begun their election contest. Both have spoken, and both have received votes of confidence. What will the ballot box say ? At a temperance meeting in Auckland, Sir William Fox, in reference to members of Parliament, made the following remark : — " Members of Parliament are as a rule, humbugs. I have been one, and so I know." The Labour conference has ended. Result nothing. The Hon. Mr McLean left on Monday night for the South. The Unionists insisted on Union hands not working with free labour and this could not possibly be agreed to. So much more the pity for the Unionists. i The rowing season at Wellington was opened on Saturday with a procession in which about forty boats took part, headed by two cutters manned by members of the Naval Brigade, the Garrison Band being seated in one of them. The water was choppy but there were no accidents. The man Wiley, charged last Monday with an assault on one Brown, was brought up yesterday before the Justices and disj missed, as the party assaulted admitted t having given provocation and desired to let the matter rest. Germans are endeavouring to make artificial tea, from the leaves of the wild strawberry plant, to which they add the young leaves of bramble and wood-ruff. The beverage brewed from the mixture is said to be of nearly the same taste as the tea of India and China. The man Wiley gave a brief outline of his domestic troubles when in Court yesterday. About nine months ago his wife left him and took up with a fisherman, and his daughter, then only fifteen, left him to co-habit with the man Brown, who is old enough to bo her fjraiulfathei-. The row was caused by the father of the girl endeavouring to get Brown to legally marry her. At the experimental scent farm established by the Victorian Government at Dunnolly, eighteen varieties of flo wers and shrubs have been planted during the course of two months, and they are showing a vigorous growth. A perfume manufacturer at Melbourne, intends ascertaining whether or not it is possible to extract perfume from wattle blossom. A lady correspondent sends the Li/ttdton Times the following clipping from the advertising columns of the London Dally News, as a now departure in the overstocked labor market:— "A lady requiring a gardener is willing to engage a lady who has practical knowledge of gardening ; advice would be given and assistance in the rough work ; must be strong ; £30 with board and lodgings." A rumour comes from Lyttelton says the N. Z. Times with respect to the line of action taken by Mr T. A. Millar as the result of the Conference. It is that on Monday Mr Millar telegraphed the Christchurch labour bodies (and presumably those in other parts of the Colony (that the only course lie saw was for the men who are out to go back to work as occasion offered. As to the future action of the Maritime Council, Mr Millar says the strike will be continued, especially among the wharf labourers, seamen, and miners. The idea seems to be that if this policy is maintained the necessities of the approaohing busy season may strengthen the position of the Unioni ts. It is believed that the greatest achievement in the way of telephonic communication is that of the telephone between New York and Chicago. By this medium audible converse is held between two persons standing just 1000 miles apart. _ The telephone between Paris and Marseilles only oovers 562J miles, which is a long way short of that between New York and Chicago. Ticino, the scene of the recent revolution in Switzerland, includes the southward slopes of the mountain regit-n from the summit of the St. Gothard to the northern extremity of the Lago Maggiore. The smaller lake of Lugano is also chiefly within its limits. Nearly the whole Can- , ton is mountainous, but it is nevertheless magnificently wooded, while in the plains vineyards and olive grounds alternate with fields of waving corn. The towns of Bellinzona, Locarno, and Lugano arc alternately the seats of the provincial government. The New York Sun has been wrestling with the question. "Dons a college education pray?" and is disposed to answer ia the negative, quoting Andrew Carnegie to the effect that the college man is almost wholly absent from high positions in the business world. " The graduate," says Mr Carnegie, " has not the slightest chance entering at 20 against the boy who swept the office or who begins as shipping clerk at 14."

The usual railway services will be resumed all over the North Island next week. The Co • missioners have male arrangements for the supply of coal, and anticipate no difficulty in running to the ordinary ! timetables henceforth. j We are informed by a spectator who was standing alongside, that when the. howling ' commenced at Wirth's circus last night, the i officials foolishly fired two pistols at the | crowd, which, fortunat ly, were not loaded, j One of these pistols wa3 fired cl->ce to Vp | South ey Baker 1 :: f ace, a> ' li^ remon^ r " ' " f l with one of fhe " Wild West" hoys on his act, wh»n Jin received a volley of very indecent language from the person addressed. Before this man had uttered all he desired to sap a stalwart " bushwacker " dealt lvm a blow on the face that laid him low. Some of the other hands connected with the "show" made a rush, but not liking appearances turned tail and made tracks for the " bright moonlight." This is one of the incidents that, as the advertisement says "you will never care to see in any show that follows." So say we. We believe the visitors will not forget and will "keep it well in mind." The Mexican Post-office department is about to adopt a novel device. A phonograph is to be placed in each principal office in the country for the accommodation of the numerous citizens who cannot read or write. The illiterate Mexican will go to the post office, talk his message into the receiver of the phonograph, and when the cylinder reaches its destination the person addressed will be sent for and the message will be repeated to him from another machine. A mass of 90,000,000 tons of pure and compact rock salt, located on an island one hundred and eighty feet high, which rises from a miserable sea-march on the route from Brashear to New Iberia, up the river Teche. Lousiana, is one of the wonders of the world. How this island, which contains over three hundred acres of excellent land, ever came into existence in such a locality is a matter of conjecture. Vegetation is prolific, and the scenery is beautiful and varied. In the centre of the island, which is the only solid spot in the vast expanse of seamarsii for miles around, rises salt Peak, the largest body of exposed rock salt in the world. Having never been surveyed, its exact extent is, as yet, unknown. An engineer who has but recently visited it, estimates that there are not less than ninety million tons of pure crystal salt in sight. The dazzling clearness of Salt Peak forms a striking contrast to the sombre lagoons, bayous, and salt-marshes which surround it on all sides. One of the prettiest sights of the season was the gathering of hospital nurses in the garden of Marlborough House, on July 4, to receivo their pension fund certificates from the Princess of Wales. As the (500 nurses came marching down the long paths in their neat uniforms it was easy to see they were accustomed to discipline. The Princess was charmingly graceful in her reception to them, and put aside all ceremony to come down and walk and talk amongst them Both she and her daughters walked round the refreshment marquees seeing that the nurses were properly attended to. The band of the Guards was in attendance, chairs were grouped under the trees, and probably these nurses will remember with pleasure their garden party at Marlborough House and the welcome accorded them by the Prince and Princess of Wales. i In 43nnection with the coming census a correspondent reminds the Times of India of an odd story which went the round of the latest census period. During the taking of the census in 1881, in a district in the Central Provinces, some of the tribes took fright and ran away. The district officer finally induced their head men to listen to explanations. Belying ou the fact that wagers «f various kinds figure extensively in Indian folklore, he solemnly assured them that the Queen of England and the Empress of Russia, having quarrelled as to which ruled over the most subjects, had laid a big bet on the point. He went on to explain that the eeusiis was being taken in order to settle the bet, and he warned his hearers in a spirited peroration that if they stayed iv the jungle and refused to be counted, the Queen would lose her money and they would be disgraced for ever as traitors to their salt. They story served its purpose, and the tribes came in. In Chamber's Journal we find a paper, entitled "Natural Barometers," which contains the following: — "With my breakfast I drink coflee mixed with milk. When poured into the cup I gently drop in the lumps of loaf augar, and shortly after tne fixed air in the sugar rises to the top in small detached bubbles. Now watch these ; I call them my little people, who will tell me if it is going to rain or not ; and although the coffee is perfectly still these little bubbles will be on the move, almost like life. It will be noticed that if it is going to rain very hard they will almost rush over to the side of the cvp — as much as to say, ' I shall get under shelter as quickly as possible.' If the rain is only to be gentle downfall, then the bubbles all meet together, evidently to deliberate on the matter, and then quietly move over to the side; but if it is not going to rain, every bubble that comes up remains stationary in the middle of the cup." Denmark, says an exchange, has organised a new system of State Butter Shows. The scheme includes a continuous Butter Show at the expense of the State during several months in each year, where fresh samples of butter will be received every fourteen days, the judges' decision to be given on the butter as received, and its condition at the end of the fourteen days. The samples are to be sent immediately on the receipt of a letter or telegram, so that the dairyman will not be able to make a special cask for exhibition, and the lamples are to be repeated as often as required. Competing dairies send in a return of the feeding and system generally followed on the farm, with Rpeoial reference to the week during which the samples are sent in At present the number of dairies entered is 360. Nine judges have been selected, and these act in groups of three each, each group recording an independent opinion on each sample, which is checked by those of the other two groups. Each group will consist of two butter merchants and one dairy expert. The exhibitors are paid the usual market rates for their exhibits. The shows will be held at intervals of a fortnight during eight months of the year. It is not generally known (says Vanity Fair) how very much married the Sultan is. He has five first-clas wivea — valide's —twenty-four second-class — morganatic — wives, and some 250 third-class partners in his joys and sorrows, variously described as " favourites " and " slaves." Every year it was the custom of his mother to present him with some rare specimen of Georgian beauty to add to his place of fair— and dark -women ; but this year his aunt, the Sultana Adiii\ has had to perform the delicate maternal office, the imperial mother having joined the houris ia Paradise. The care and attention of the Sultan's female establishments require the services of 6000 person's who art said to be the only people in Turkoy who receive their full pay with regularity.

A bunch of keys is advertised for. Our arrangements for the present spring season in two of the most important departhients in our warehouse are now complete in all their details, at Te Aro House, Wellington. The departments alluded to are dresses and dressmaking. With regard to the former, we may say that we are now in possession of a very full supply of the most fashionable fabrics for spring wear, and without going into particulars it will be buiiLieiuto say th .. • ''• Krvrv hnyerhas displayed excellent taste and judgment, both in fabrics, and colourings. We invite an early visit of inspection of our beautiful spring dress materials at Te Aro House Wellington. Miss Valentine, with a large staff of dressmakers, stills occupies the commodious site of rooms facing Dixon-street, and will be happy to see all her lady patrons as early during the season as possible. It would save disappointment if ladies would make their selection as soon as convenient, and place them in her hands at Te Aro House Wellington. The dressmaking departments have always been the most successful in the city, and our arrangements for the present season are such as will keep up the prestige already attained in these rooms, at Te Aro House Wellington. Miss Doioxt, recently arrived from the studio of Madame Beattie, George-street, Sydney, may be interviewed in the suite of rooms fronting Cuba-street. In both rooms we are prepared to do the fullest justice to all requirements, so as to ensure the utmost satisfaction with our dressmaking skill at Te Aro House Wellington. Patterns of the new Spring Dress Fabrics will be forwarded with self measurement charts, post free on application to .Tames Smith Te Aro Honse Wellington.