Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1892.

Manawatu Herald, 16 June 1892, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1892.

The many friends of Mi' 3 McDonald, of Horowhenua will greatly regret to learn that her son Allan expired early yesterday morning. It appears that the young man had been suffering for some time so that death was a release to his sufferings. But the loss to his aged mother and family will be severely felt. We tender our sympathy to them in their affliction. Mr Bell received news by cable from London that his mother, Lady Bell, died on Monday. The news was reoeived with great regret in Wellington, where the deceased lady was well known Something like a ruler. Tho Ameer of -Bokhara has given a week's notice to his subjects that everybody neglecting to take precautions against cholera will be executed.

i , . 'I , Mr J. E. McMillan waited upon Ml' JjiAbant befoie the opening of the Court \hih morning and was sworn in as a Justice of the Peace, In the House of Commons there is a member who has a higher opinion of himBelf than any one else has. One night Mr Speaker was asked a question regarding some difficult case, of privilege or procedure. Directly the ruling was given with grave dignity and impartiality* up jumped this dreadful man, Whose name is Norton. With "Mr Speaker, I quite agree with you ! " It is said there was a moment's stupified silence, and then a Homeric peal of laughter such as one seldom hears in Parliament tvas heard. The tram came in yesterday, the wheel to the engine having been fitted with a new tire. A billiard tournament is now being played at Whyte's Hotel, in which the bankers and principal citizens are taking part. Mr J.G.Wilson, M.H.E., will address his constituents at the Public Hall ton ght at 8 o'clock. The young people are going to have a dance at the Hall on Tuesday week. Our new contemporary, the Horowhenua Times, mentions that the Otaki district has made wonderful strides of late. It must have done if its report of the Te Horo Road Board is accurate, as it states that accounts amounting to £6,134 were passed for payment 1 The Sydney Telegraph contains a long and appreciative notice of the late Mr Macarthur, M.HE, written by "A New Zealander. ' 'I he recipient of the free cold douche is keeping very quiet—angelically so—being busy drying his badly treated wardrobe. We are sorry to learn that dog 9 are again playing up with the flocks round the town. The Worker is again to the point. It says :—"Lord Rosebury is cute enough to sec that the impending British elections will have a new factor iD LabouHnpolitics. He says "the power of the Empire, is not in its armies, its treasure, «r its population, but in equal justice and liberty to all " Which aristocratic balderdash_ is expected to catch Labour votes." I he idea that Labour wants " equal justice and liberty to all is balderdash 1!! Our Queensland friends are worrying themselves about our probable weather. A week ago they predicted bad weather, and we have had it. We regret to notice they are at it again, and that the storm centre will ultimately pass near Hobart, afterwards travelling over the Tasman Sea towards the Bluff. The wind will probably blow harder in rear of storms from the south-west, and electrical disturbances are likely to be noted in all the southern colonies. One weather prophet, either in Queensland or New South Wales, was dismissed from a Government billet for predicting three years of drought in one of those colonies. Can this be the man who prognosticated such events. The Government had best send Sir Patriok Buckley and the Hinemoa to remove him sharp before our climate's character is gone. The most banquetted Ministry are still in it, Their quietest and best member is to have a spread, as the date of the banquet to be given to Sir Patriok Buckley has been fixed for the 23rd inst., the date of the opening of Parliament. The date has specially been fixed co that Messrs Seddon and McKenzie will be able to attend and lend their past experience, at the feasts with the Knights of Labour, to make the affair go off with success. At a publio meeting at Auckland convened by the Ministers' Association to consider the best means of putting a stop to the growing evil of gambling, resolutions were passed asking employers of labour to prohibit betting on their premises, and asking the Press to use its influence to condemn the spirit of gambling and disapproving of the praotice of holding raffics and art unions at bazaars held for church and oharitable purposes; petitioning the House of ttepresentatives to abolish the totalisator; recommending that circulars promoting betting and gambling should not be allowed to pass through the Post QUice, and that it be made criminal for a bookmaker or anybody else to bet with a youth under 1G years of age.