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Manawatu Herald, 16 August 1892, Page 2

■ The Wanganui Jockey Club, aooovding to the Herald, has determined to curtail the number of small race meetings in their district. They refused to pass the programme of the Momohaki Jockey Club &,t their last meeting, and have warned the \iarton and Feilding Hunt Clubs that in future theft* programmes will not be passed, and the programmes for the meetings next month were only passed as they had been advertised some time. All the fuss made about inspection of factories is proved absurd by the Secretary of the Bureau of Industries report : — " Few instances were found in which children under age were employed. . . . The general appearance of the workers in New Zealand faotories is of a most creditable 1 character." v If the Labour Bureau report is correct, there are only 482 hands employed in flax milling in the colony. There must be very few outside this district if this is correct, which we doubt. There are 1868 persons employed in the printing, publishing, and book-binding business in the colony. The shearing shed on the Motoa estate is being considerably enlarged, and when completed, though not a big building, will be much mere oon«euient. There will be room for nine shearers. Great outcry was raised a short time ago that " sweatiug " was common with employers. That great institution, the Labour Bureau, states authoritatively " there were few traces of anything which could be called ' sweating ' in the sense the word is used in Great Britain. The road from Paiaka to Kereru is not of the best, walking offering the means of quicker progression than riding, without the risk of losing your hor3e in a 6ort of amateur artesian well. An English paper has been asking for \ information as to which living European monarch has been most frequently married ? • He raised a rather astonishing answer, viz., that the King of Roumania has been married four times, but each time to the same woman ! It would never have done for the unfortunate man to have been nervous, or for his wife to be hysterical, as the four ceremonies were deemed necessary to make two, one. They were married by the German law, then by the Lutheran Church, then by the Roman Catholic Church, and finally by the Greek Church. This style of wedding would suit that M-H.R. who gave his personal scripture history to the astonished House the other day. The bachelors of the congregation of the Primitive Methodist Church astonished their lady friends last year by providing one of the best quarterly teas ever held. We are informed that having had twelve months to recover from the exertion, they feel themselves able to shortly repeat the experiment. 0 Maoris put now your trust in princes or in any of the children of men. They can all be got round in time. That extraordinary personage the Maori King having secured himself in comfort, the Government giving him a pension, now' tells his hearers — "Listen to my words, my friends, the chiefs, and all assembled; pay great attention to my words, for I will not hold back anything I have to say. The lands are the Government's now. In former days they were ours. The newly appointed Archbishop Vaug- J han will shortly be created a Cardinal.

Mr Charles Rood, who has been engaged on the permanent way of the local section of the railway for many years, has received deserved promotion, and goes to the Oroua Bridge. For this reason his very comfortttble little property up the Avenue is for lease Oil eSS? tSfnW. Tho Broken Hill strikers are drawing £15,000 worth of supplies weekly. The leaders assert.that they have sufficient to carry' on for three or. four months even if they received rid fdrtWer assistance. Gantier swam the Channel from Folkestone to Dover with his hands alia faet chained. At Dunedin Mr Justice Williams was asked id fcli^tnT'ers tOjjapprove of a settlement of the case 6T Fertnedy Wylie, corespondent in the divorce ca'sty who has agreed to pay £1000 damages, £500 id be paid to Thompson, the petitioner, and £500 to his wife. Wylie is also to pay &?stsj and he has deposited £2000 with his solicitors'. Steps will be taken to have the bankruptcy annulled. Mr E. G. Edwards, of the figtigitikei Cavalry, has (says the Advocate) made d most creditable pass in his examination for a Lieutenancy commission. In fact we hear that his pass certificate is sufficient to qualify him for a Oapjtain's commission. A lady resident- at Masterton recently had the pleasure of listening to the Otaki Maori Sniss Hand. Asked how she liked the musie she innocently replied "Oh they made plenty of noise, but I cmild not understand the music as it was pldy^d in Maori ! " The Pittsburg mills are employing 40,000 men, and with the exception of Carnegie's have Conceded the demands of the unions. The French have takett possession of the Gloriosa Islands, a small group id Mozambique Channel, 100 miles from the north extremity of Madagascar. France now declines to submit the, Congo difficulty to arbitration. The Post says the Ministerial mind, as expressed in its organ, is naturally incapable of unstanding the high motives and principles , underlying and inspiring Sir George Grey's political action. At Akaroa last Week a settler had the felicity of celebrating the flaming of age of his triplet daughters. Our correspondent informs us that Oti Saturday an exciting game of football was played at Paiaka between the Paiaka team and the combined Kereru and Horowhenua team The Natives won by one try to nothing, but the contest was a hard one. ' The passing a d running were specially noticeable on the part of the Natives. Considering that is the first game played by the Paiaka team, and that many of them were dancing all night till daylight the same day at the Kereru ball given by. Paiaka in aid of the Palmerston Hospital, they may be congratulated on their afternoon's work. Messrs H. Wickett & Co have succeeded in purchasing new premises having sixtysix feet frontage to the Square in Palmerston, known a Loveday's buildings. The price, though large, is considered satisfactory. We understand that the firm intend to considerably 'mprove the premises with the view of still further extending their business. We congratulate the married men of the district on the news that H. Wiokett & Co are olearing out of town on Saturday. During their stay here they have always been " clearing out," but it has been the pockets of " hubby " whose fond wife has worked on the soft Ride of. Bargains ! how women love them,, and a cold chill runs down the husband's back when he sees the frightful announcement in the papers. Luckily Saturday will end this excitement, then peace and contentment. The Paris correspondent of the London Times state that the Moorish Ministers who took part in the agitation against the British Commissioner at Fez, and who prevented the Sultan from agreeing to the terms of Sir Euan Smith, each reoeived 10 000 from the French agent. A mad wolf has lately raided a Russian village, 30 persons besides many horses, cattle, and sheep being bitten. The village is now full of persons' who have gone raving mad. The polioe authorities in London lately equipped a number of policemen with electric lamps instead of oil lanterns which they have hitherto supplied. The experiment is a complete suooess. The lamps weigh only four ounces each, and last seven hours. They will shortly be adopted for the whole police force. A smart shook of earthquake was felt in town on Sunday morning between' two and three o'clock Owing to the early hour very unreliable evidence of the true time can be. obtained. . : Painters are an intelligent body of men and therefore it is surprising to learn of the curious mistake made by one of their number as reported in the Pout. . "An amusing mistake was made to-day by a, sign-painter who was sent by Mr Allan Smith, " The Highland Laddie,", of Manj ners street, to obliterate che name of a Newtown grocer whose business Mr Smith had purchased. The sign-writer, uufortunately, mistook the shop, and went to that of a tradesman living at the opposite side of the road. He got to work, and had just finished the preparatory performance of il scratching out " the name, when the proprietor of the shop emerged and beheld the artistic operation of the painter. A very unpleasant ti ne then ensued for the painter, who left the place hurriedly. Before half an hour had .elapsed, , Mr;. Smith received a lawyer's letter' intimating that unless his name was at-onoe repainted upon his shop-front, and • the expenses incurred in writing the letter were provided without delay, legal proceedings would be taken. " The ' Highland Laddie " took the hint at once.