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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 27 January 1891, Page 2

The Mo»t Beverend tho Primate is now in Mastevton and Carterton, where ho will hold eonrtrmations. Counsel advise Prof>v,or Huxley that General Booth's trn.-U deeds are illusory, and enable him to give away anything ho pleases. Messrs Robert, Gardner of Piaka, and Frp/leriokjSfncMy of Levin have been included in the. list of now Justices of the Peace 'ftjely gazetted. > The Duke of Bedford whilst ill told two nurses who were attending him to leave the room. He then entered an adjoining lavatory, and instantly shot himself. An inquest was held on Saturday afternoon on the body of the lad Twist who met his death by drowning in the river. The evidence was very short and the jury immediately returned a verdict of drowned whilst bathing. The funeral took place on Sunday, a large number attending. The tailor John McCarty who committed suicide at New Market the other day, by jumping upon his shears, was an Irishman and an old soldier of tlfc 2nd Battalion of the 18th Royal Irish. Our " Local Tailor " knew him well, having taught him his trade. He be'ieves that, having years ago been punished by the military authorities, it has caused him to brood over the disgrace and when in, a low state to have urged him to destroy himself. Lord Onslow seemed compelled to give his son born in the Colony a Maori name. He has chosen " Huia " with the assistance of Sir Walter Bnller, because it is easy of pronunciation and is never associated in Maori history with anything coarse or barbarous. The. little boy's full name will be Victor Alexander Herbert Huia. Sir H. Atkinson has issued a financial statement, addressed to the Governor, dealing with the position of the colony. It shows the receipts from ordinary revenue estimated at £4,250,238, and expenditure £4,150,578, producing an excess of revenue amounting to £110,fi7<7 .for the current years transactions, to this is to be added £36,474, which was carried forward after providing £78,600 to extinguish the deficit outstanding in March Inhh, thus leaving a probable surplus • at -the end of the current nnanoial year of £150,244, The Governor has summoned the following gentlemen to tho Legislative Council of New Zealand— via,, Mr John Blair Whyte, Auckland; Mr Francis John Davies Ormond, Hawkes Bay; Mr Charles John Johnstofl, Wellington j Mr Charles Chris, topher Bowen, Canterbury ; and Mesara James Fulton and William Downie Stewart, Otago. The latest application of electrioity to the use of daily life has been invented and perfected by a New York physician. :He has oompleted telephonic connections between the wards of the City Hospitalfend the reception-rooms, so that phjjients suffering from infectious ma aclies may Bafely communicate with their visitors. A board in the reception room contains the names of the patients, and an attendant has only to put the plug into tho hole beneath any name when any f rii-n 1 e-tires to speak with the oocupant of a cot upstairs. This has been fonnd to work with great success, and the plan is to '.)■> adopted by the other hospitals. Some advantage in a wife after all ! The Poat Bays :— lt is stated that one of the lucky seven who drew the £131 5s dividend from the totalisator upon Moonee's win in the Hack Handicap yesterday, only backed the horse because his wife's maiden name happened to have been Mooney; and the fancy took him of " standing by the old rivl'h namp "

Messrs Stevens & Gorton announce a stock sale at Sanson on Tuesday nexr,. On Thursday evening the Eev Mr Watt will give an address on his Mission work, for the past. 20 years, in the New Hebrides. A subject like this is bound to be interesting, more especially as he will illustrate it with views of the Islands. A second-class passenger by the afternoon train on the Manawatn Company's line on the 22nd had a narrow escape from serious accident at Manakau. Ha appeared slightly the worse for liquor when he entered the train at Otaki. He had been sitting on the step of the carriage,, apparently half asleep, and the guard, thinking he was liable to full off the train, got him inside the carriage, which he told him not to leave. At Manakau the man left the carriage as the train was backing, and very nearly staggered off the platform under the wheels of the train. He seemed to recover himself almost by a miracle, and the guard noticing his condition refused to allow him to re-enter the train. The action of the guard was endorsed by all the passenger.-! who witnessed the occurrence, which occasioned quite a thrill of apprehension for the moment. The escape which tho man lind should be a salutary lesson to him. After the train left he walked down the line to his destination, about four miles distant. N. Z. Times. The usual first meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of Samuel Charles Buckman, naxmiller, Piimmerton, was held in the Official Assignee's Office on Friday morning, Mr C. C. Graham occupying the chair. From the written statement furnished the Official Assignee by the debtor, it appeared that the latter commenced flaxmilling at Plimmerlon about a year ago with a capital of £200 His brother was at the time a partner in the mill, but in April last the bankrupt bought him out. The debtor attributed his insolvency to the fall in the price of fibre. He filed his petition at the request of his principal creditors, who assisted him with money to pay the necessary Bankruptcy Court fees. The bankrupt states he kept no books of accounts. The Official Assignee mentioned that the only asset in the estate was the flax mill at Plimmerton, which the debtor valued at £150. Under examination, the debtor said that he had received £12 advance per ton from Messrs Murray, Koberts and Co., whose account sales rendered showed that the fibre fetched £19 per ton. He did not know what the loss per ton amounted to as he. had lost the account sales. The creditors present having decided to call for tenders for the purchase of the debtor's mill and plant, the meeting closed. — Post. Now that " the loaves and the fishes " of Parliament are being divided it may interest our readers tp know their value. The Speaker of the Legislative Council receive < £600 a year, and the Chairman of Committees £300. The Speaker of the House receives £600 a year and thcChairman of Committees £400. It is satisfactory to know that four gentlemen, at any rate, will be able to live comfortably. By the English files we have further particulars of the sinking of the Serpent which is interesting in itse'f, as Avell as an illustration of the weather one of our settler's experienced, the mail boat having been in close neighbourhood to the man-of-war that day. The- Serpent had been driven somewhat out of her course by stormy weather, and when near the coast off Camarinas on the coast of Spain it is said that she got into a fog. She struck on some outlying rocks before it was known that the peril was so near. The n : ght was dark, and no help was obtainable from the shore. While in the rocks she was repeatedly swept by enormous seas, and the crew were swept away. Although no men-of-war have been wrecked there, many cases are on record of the total loss of merchant ships. The currents which crossed the Atlantic would naturally be accelerated by strong westerly gales. It is supposed that the officer of the watch must have failed to make the Cape Finisterre light, and was thus set into Camarinas Hay, where, if lie failed to make Vilanno light, there was no alternative but total destruction, as nothing could survive collision with the rocks. Cape Villano, is about twenty or thirty miles to the north of Cape Finisterre, for which the vessel would be making. All along the coast for many miles, there are a great number of outlaying sunken reoks, with strong currents. Numerous wrecks have taken place in this locality, and it is supposed that the local attraction caused by the mineral character of the soil exercises a considerable influence on ship's compasses, and has been the cause of many disasters. The Australian vocalist Madame Melba has scored in " Borneo and Juliet," an enormous success in St Petersburg. On the first night she was recalled thirty times, and was specially thanked by the Czar. She was made the reoipient of numerous and valuable presents. She took the part of Juliet. A story is told of iSir John. Gorst during his oareer in New Zealand, which is good enough to be true. The Under-Secretary for India was at one time editor of a wellknown Maori Journal, and the King of the Maoris did not at all sympathise with his journalistic enterprise. One night a body of them decended upon the establishment and confiscated the plant, and only with difficulty did the editor and his staff escape to the pakeha settlements. At the battle of Orakau, the 65th Royal Irish were greatly put about to discover what strange ammunition it was that came from the Maori camp. To Mr Gorst it was left to solve the problem. " Good gracious," he is said to have exclaimed, as a galley full of solid|brevier bursted over his head, " there goes a column of my spring poetry !" In the trenches, close at hand, adds " Heteka," a young subaltern was flattened out by a couple of "sticks" of Gorats " Essay on Christian Fortitude." The Cash C'eaiing Sale of Jobberns &' 00. Bankrupt Stock by Boss & Sandfqrp, in Main Street, Foxton is still proceeding with unabated interest, Cash purchasers of Drapery* Clothing are Invited to pay an early visit of inspeotion. Boas & Sand-

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