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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 15 November 1890, Page 2

The following candidates have been nominated for the Western Maori Electoral District :— Hoani Taipua, Kipa te Whatanui, Tatana to Whataupoko, Te Kahui Kararepe. Pepeno Eketone. Joe Tos, our local fruiterer, had some ripe strawberries in his shop yesterday. They were obtained from Mr James Ingram's garden. People are wanting to know, you know, why the Secretary of the Rowing Club has resigned his office. It seems to be a great pity, as he was a hard working official, and his place will be hard to fill. The last supplement to the Electoral Ro l contains the names of a good many Natives, who seem to have been run in at the last moment. The more the pity, as we do not hold to the Natives being the only inhabitants who are permitted to indulge in plural voting.

We are sorry to learn that Mr Rawson, the Registrar of Electors, is too ill to continue his duties. Mr Matravers has been appointed in his place. The third, and last, supplement of the Electoral Roll is now in the hands of the printers, and contains 136 names, which thus brings the total number to 3875. The want of a new census is thus pretty manifest. We regret to find by the letter Mr Gower publishes elsewhere, that he does not intend to seek re-election as Mayor. Of course we have advocated change of office, but still we think Mr Gower should have stood by the helm until another was nominated in his stead. Constable Tapp was yesterday removed from Foxton to Auckland. Constable Gillespie arrived last night to till the vacancy. Those who visited the Palmerston Show express themselves well pleased with it. The jumping of the horses and ponies was very good, Thirty-three horses and twenty ponies took part. Mr J. G. Wilson advertises next Friday as the date that he will address the electors at Fox on. At the last meeting of the Horowhenua County Council the following resolutions were agreed to: — That the thanks of the Council be tended to Cr Kebbell for the able manner in which he has conducted the business of the Council in his position as chairman during the past year. That the thanks of the Council be given to Mr McCulloch, the Clerk and Treasurer for his services during the last three years, also to the present Engineer and Road Board inspector. The Palmerston correspondent of the N. Z. Times says :— The public generally will no doubt, be interested in learning that the last link in the railway systems connecting Wellington with Napier, via Palmerston North and Manawatu Gorge, is all but completed, the rails being now laid throughout. Only a short section requires ballasting, which will occupy some five or six weeks from the present time. There appears therefore, nothing to prevent through passengers a d other traffic being an accomplished fact by the Christmas Holidays. Another unfortunate candidate has gone astray. Mr F. H. Fraser, a " labour " candidate of course, is reported to have said at a Wellington meeting. " They were told that the unimproved value of the land was about £75,000,000. Surely if that was taxed it would bring in a large round sum which would ease the customs and help them in every way." Once get a statement into these unfortunate men's heads there is no moving them from it, however absurd it may be. The Bishop of Chichester, recently speaking to the Chichester Diocesan Council, said :— " The Salvation Army has the energy, the impetuosity, somewhat also of the rashness of youth ; no Christian Church can afford to disregard or deprecate such an agency in the midst of us. Can we refuse to acknowledge them as fel ow workers in the cause of Christ, although not in our own way ? Let us beware of looking at them with indifference, or contempt, or disiike, lest haply we be found fighting against God." The revenue from tobacco last year in France was £16,000,000, representing no less a sum than 6s 6d for every man, woman and child of the population.

Mr R. Walden, is calling tenders for cutting flax and hauling on a train. The contract is for six months. Mr J. G. Wilson's Fox on committee meet on Thursday evening next. A portable engine has been seized for rent, and will be for sale next Saturday, unless the claim is sooner paid. Dr Rhodes, at the Social Science Congres at Leeds, stated that there are in England a sufficiently large number of paupers to form a profession, four feet deep of over one hundred miles in length, and that their cost in poor relief last year was no less than £8, 440,821, or 6 per head of the entire population. Lord Wolseley, in the Review of Reviewers, not only shares the late General Gordon's belief in the latent possibilities of the Chinese, but holds that they are the coming Power, and that when their able and capable men are no lonher beheaded, and a great General has arisen, they will, with their capabilities of endurance, sweep over Russia and India, and engage in war the English-speaking races. The Premier of Victoria has set apart a State School, in the centre of Melbourne, for the purposes of Salvation Army social reform work ; and the Government grant free railway passes, and free postage, and have put on the estimate an annual subsidy of not less than L100. The Post reports a mishap which resulted in the death of a seaman named Albert Weisner, which occured about 8 o'clock on Wednesday morning on board the New Zealand Shipping Company's chartered steamer Duke of Buckingham, lying alongside the Queen's Wharf. The man it appears, had been ordered to assist in painting the funnel, and was engaged in the work when one of the ropes used to haul up a temporary staging round the smokestack broke, and allowed him to fall to the bridge deck, which is of iron, a dis tance of about 20 feet. In his descent he turned a somersault an alighted on his head, sustaining serious injuries. Blood flowed profusely from several wounds, and it was at once seen that his condition was alarming. Dr Wake the ship's surgeon, was promptly in attendance, and attended to the unfortunate man whom he pro-

nounced to be in a precarious condition. An examination revealed the fact that Weisner's skull had been fractured, and Dr Wake was also of opinion that he had been hurt internally. On the doctor's recommendation the unfortunate man was conveyed to the Hospital. Dr Ewart and staff did all that could be done to save life, but without success, death taking place about an hour after the man's admission. The deceased who was a German by birth, was about 23 years of age, and joined the vessel in London. The rope which broke had only been used a few times, and any one, looking at it causally would never imagine that it could be so easily broken. A close examination, however, shows that some of the strands had been burned almost through, and it is surmised hat acid must have come in contact with it some time or other and rotted the fibre. We are informed that is the fifth accident on board the steamer since last July which has terminated fatally. An inquest will be held. Said Sir John Lubbock recently io English workmen : — It is remarkable how many improvements to which we owe the marvellous developement of our manufacturing industry have been due to working men. Watt was a mechanical engineer ; Henry Cort, whose improvements in manufactures were said to have added more to the wealth of England than the whole value of the national debt, was the son of a brickmaker ; Huntsman, the inventor of cast steel, was a poor watchmaker : Crompton was a weaver : Wedgewood was a potter ; Brindly, Telford Marshat, and Neilson were working men ; George Stevenson began life as a cowboy at twopence a day, and could not read till he was eighteen : Dalton was the son of a poor weaver ; Farady of a blacksmith ; Arkwright began life as a barber ; Sir H. Davy was an apothecary's apprentice ; and Bolton, the ' father of Birmingham,' was a buttonmaker. To these men, and others like them, the world owes a deep debt of gratitude. We ought to be as proud of them as of a y of our generals or statesmen."

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