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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 23 May 1891, Page 2

The parents of the late Mr William Coley desire to thank all those who rendered him a-.sistance at the time of his accident. Mrs Why te, Mr and Mrs Siansell, and Mr Thynne thank all those who so kind y helped to extinguish the lire oil Friday morning. Mr Speirs thanks those who rendered him assistance at his mill. The funeral of the late "William Co!ey took place on Thursday afternoon, and was most numerously attended. The Rev. Mr Jones conducted the service, ti portion of which was he d iii All Saints' Church, and the remainder at the Cemetery. We are glad to learn that by the foresight of the deceased the family will receive the insurance on his ife which is some £200. Services will be he'd at Al Saints' i hurch, to-morrow at 11 a.m., i> p.m., and G. 30 p.m. Vestry meeting on Monday at 8 p.m. The Standard says : — It is rumoured that one of the prominent residents in the Foxton district, who " dummied " some of the Government sections at Levin, is awaiting the resu t of investigations in that quarter with anything but the proper composure his position would warrant." Who can it bo ? It was recorded the other day says the Mauawatu Ttmex that a wild boar had been killed in Wairarapa with a hide lr]in thick,' and this morning we were shown that a still more formidable brute had been killed in I'itzherbert, on Messrs Wai is & Smith's property. While out hunting the other day with sheep dogs and a fox terrier belonging to Mr J. K. Tripe, the terrier gave evidence of his pluck by leaving the other dogs and finding an immense boar which the little dog tackled at once, and on the sheep dogs coming up he rushed in, but only to be severely ripped by the boar's tusks. Mr Wallis came up at this juncture and shot thn boar, and though severely wounded the litt c terrier at oner ran in and hung on to the boar with desperate grip. The boar weighed 4cwt., and the hid? on the shoulder was 2in. thick. He sported a tail more like a horse's than a pig's, and 20in in length. The same boar had killed several dogs on previous occasions. The Patea Press is being published by the late proprietor temporarily to oblige the owner of the plant in the hope that negotiations which have been commenced may lead to the paper being given a new lease of life. The Queen Regent of Spain sent a malacca cane to the Pope, who had no sooner touched the present than by some ingenious contrivance it burst open and a shower of gold coins fell out on the floor. Cloth is now being successfully made from wood. Strips of fine-grained wood are boiled and crushed between tollers, a d the filaments, having been carded into parallel lines, are spun into threads, from which c oth can be woven in the usnsl way. The Standard says: — We notice from the Melbourne papers that Mr B. L. Pirani, formerly in Palmerston and Foxton, is appearing on behalf of clients in the Victorian Courts. " My friends," said the clergyman to his congregation, " I wish to remove a little misapprehension under which the majority of you are apparently labouring. When 1 asked you to give largely to the collection last Sunday, 1 did not refer so much to the size of the coin as to its monetary value I mention this as I noticed that the majority of the coins in the plate were pennies ! " At Napier a drover got saddled with £18 13s 9d, besides his own expenses, for driving sheep through another man's run without giving the notice stipulated by the Act. Saturday Review, in an article on cooking, says that the Eng ish are admirable colonists but execrable cooks. The Mercury says : — lf; is not generally known that the Jewish mi lionaire (several times), Baron Hirsch, once had a little general store at the Thames, but he had. An English Court has decided that to call a man a convict after he has served a term of imprisonment, and is legally free, is libellous. The Ashurst correspondent of the<S7«ndard writes that Mr Hector McDonald, of the Pohangina, has been missing again since Thursday last, and a search party leaves Ashurst this morning to loolc for him. _ This gent'eman has upon several occasions gone away from home and stopped in the bush for days and nights, but hi-; long absence this time is causing anxiety, [since the above was in type we learn that he has turned up again, none the worse for his six days immersion in the bush.]