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Manawatu Herald, 23 June 1892, Page 2

Messrs Stevens & Gorton hold a clearing out sale at Mr Eichard Hammond's Killeymoon estate, Bulls, on Monday. The honorary secretary to the Manawatu Rabbit Extermination Society notifies those desirous of obtaining payment for rabbits killed, can obtain the same on Saturday afternoon at the Oroua Downs. The secretary of the Eangitikei Hospital Fund has convened a general meeting of the subscribers, to be held at the Town Hall, Bulls, on Wednesday, the 6th of July, to further advise the Trustees in the management of the said fund. We are informed by Mr McMillan, that our member, Mr J. G. Wilson, has testified his atpreciation of the many excellent qualities of Mr J. E. Eussell, by subscribing two guineas towards that gentleman's testimonial. It is rather rough on the N. Z. Times, after devoting so much space to decry the action of the person who handed the eele Ibrated Eangitikei bridge letter for publication, to discover that it was Mr John Stevens, the Government candidate for the Rangitikei seat who did so ! £he disgusted editor cannot now understand how there has been " made so much out of nothing." Nor can most people. It is not on account of the prevalence of diphtheria, so the Palmerston papers would have us believe, that the State schools in that town have been closed, but is due " to the fear of parents in respect to the infection of prevalent complaints !" What other infectious disease is disturbing that thriving town ? Captain Edwin states there are very strong evidences that the weather will continue unsettled to about the 28th inst. Pleasant, very ! Others have felt that way. The Otaki paper says : — Several of the business people 1 are discussing the advisability of getting a I bank to do business in Otaki, as it is very inconvenient only to be able to make deposits. Mr W. Toomath is starting in the carrying trade at Palmerston, having purchased Messrs Sutton & Co.'s late business. In a hurry. The Egmont Settler, which is not two years old, cai tions very backward subscribers not to permit their daughters to wear the paper for an "improver." Their being so much due on it, there is danger of taking cold. The Coroner's jury has returned a verdict that the buildings of. J. E. Montague and John Sorwall, at Palmerston, were burnt accidentally, and the fire was not caused by any wilful or unlawful act of anyone. Elsewhere the creditors of the late Christian Honore are requested to send in their claims by the 20th July. The Grand Cross of the Bath has been bestowed on the Khedive of Egypt. Mr Thomas Emerson, stationmaster at the Waireka Junction, has, he says, discovered a method by whioh the rabbit pest can be subdued in the Colony in five years. He wishes his system to be tried by the various Colonial Governments, and if it is successful he thinks that he should be assured of an adequate reward. If it is not a success he asks for nothing. An offer it is believed will be made to the various Governments on these conditions. Mr Emerson refuses to reveal his system, but wishes to work it himself. Of Deeming, the Windsor murderer, a Melbourne correspondent writes: — 'Although the Chief Seretary refused to allow Deeming's brain to be disposed of by that criminal himself, and declined to take any steps not usually taken with regard to murderers, yet he did not issue any order whatever to prevent the gaol authorities from using any discretion they might possess, and, in consequence, in spite of the succinct and detailed accounts of the burial in quicklime, the brain really was removed, and is now in very good scientific hands, whence in due time will be given to the world such particulars as may be useful ; and I have good authority forsaying that the brain showed lesious which probably had their rise in an advanced state of the prisoner's disease There was, of course, no reason to believe that he was at any time insane, but it is beyond question that the progress of the malady made his originally brutal nature still more ferocious and fiendish. 1 How old settlers used to travel is well illustrated by the following extract from a letter by Major Brown to the Taranaki Herald. It is in correction of a statement that it took seven days of hard labour to accomplish fifty miles through the forest on foot. Major Brown says : — Walking long distances in those days, before horses were in common use for travelling (aaJ could not travel the Mountain road), was thought nothing of. In 1854 I walked to Auckland, with Sergeant Dunn and Karira, the policeman, in seven days. It was nothing to me compared to Sergt. Dunn and Karira, as they carried heavy swags, not allowing me to cany anything. The late Bishop Selwyn did it in five or six days. The police of early days can say what they did, and thought nothing of. Mr Langman, on one occasiou, by himself, took 500 sovereigns from New Plymouth round by the coast to Wanganui for the Governmrnt, on foot, in loss than a week,"

Smallpox has broken out at Melbourne Owing to passengers suffering from the complaint being permitted. t.o-, leave tti.e stqainer- Oroyf.. tt -is alleged that the ship's doctor treated the patients for eczema and prickly heat | The German Emperor's Imperial train, which has just been completed, has cost £150,000 and it has taken three years to construct. There are twelve carriages, all connected together by corridors. The library saloon is hung with Gobelins tapestry from the palace of Charlottenburg and the dining saloon is furnished and panelled with oak, while there is a drawing room furnished entirely in white satin, and t\vo nursery carriages ; a receptoin saloon, which contains several pieces of statuary ; a luxuriously fitted smoking room, and three sleeping saloons, each of which is fitted with a bath. There is a large kitchen, and accommodation for the suite and servants. Eudyard Kipling says : —Look at India. " In the cast system there you have trade unionism drawn out to its logical conclusion with a polish of 3000 years upon it. Caste began with trade uniopism, and now the man who cleans your boots won't brush your coat or draw your water, and you must have a dozen servants instead of one."