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Manawatu Herald, 22 December 1892, Page 2

We notify our readers that next Tuosday thpre will be uo issue of the. Manawatu Hebalh. We ask advertisers to kindly note.

The nominations for the Foxton Racing Club are coming in very freely, as up to the time of our goiug to press, though the closing time is not till 0 p.m. tho hon. secretary has received over 50.

Attention is directed in another column to the Post and Telegraph notice for Monday and Tnesdav nest.

The Railway Department; advertise their train arrangements for Boxing Day.

A sensation has lieen created in Vienna by tho discovery that there has existed for for a long time, in Austrian Galicia, a regular organised .band of kidnappers, who make it their business to ■ supply the demands of wealthy Turks iv Constantinople with white slaves. The gang was composed of men and women who have made large sums of morfey through its traffic iv young girls If they could not persuade the girls to accompany them by glowing descriptions of fine clollios, lives of leisure and plenty of money, they would kidnap them. How many girls fell into the trap will never be known, but the number is certainly large, for since the discovery of operations, sixty victims have been released The' stories told by some of the girls of their treatment are horrible enough to be almost incredible. Twenty seven members of the gang have been arrested aud are awaiting trial.

The mysterious ehieftainess, Majajie, supposed to be the original of Rider Haggard's She, has at l?ngih been soon by a European. Commandant Hennin« l're toriouß has had an interview with her, and has related )n"s experience in the Transvaal 'Jimes. The woman, he says, was strangely ducrepit, and apparently over a century old. What surprised him most was that she was no Kaffir, her complexion being transparently whi c, with bright blue eyes and long whico hair. She received the/commandant, in a very dignified manner, but so weak was .she that when he ottered to shake hands with her, h&r hand had to be placed in his l»y ono of the attendants. She stated to him that he was the first white man she had ever seen and called ;him her husband and deliverer, and thanked him effnsely for rhe part he had taken in the lve-nl troubles between her people and the Government at Pretoria. Sho also expressed the hope that when he next came to see her she she would be stronger in bodily health, and better able to show him hospitality.

In connection with the World's Fair at Chicago thi-'i'e are eleven buildings devoted to exhibits of nn absolutely material nature, in which 3,440,240 square feet are taM j n up y this c ass of exhibits In buildings not far from 50 acres, 1,873,000 square feet, are allottpd for live stock. In three buildings dt>*oted to fine arts, women's work, and administrative affairs, 347,000 square feet are given to exhibits of a higher order.

" A. sound, practical education is just aa n?ce3sary for the man who works in his shirt- sleeves as for the man who works in a black coat," says the Duke of Devonshire.

The Bayasths, an important Hindoo caste, are actively identifying thennelveg with the temperance movement in India.

Messrs (rorton (fe Ron hold their sale of stock at Bulls on Saturday next.

Some Sydney jokers wired a Queensland country postmaster that he had drawn the winning horse in a big sweep. The post, master at once sat down and wrote out his resignation. Worse, he sent it into headquarters. Next day his friends wired him the truth, telling him that the first telegram was ' only a joke." Ha is now waiting to see whether Minister Unmaek will take his resignation as a joke.

Much attention having been attracted to homing pigeons by recent articles in the Canterbury Weekly Press on the subjeot, it may interest fanciers to learn, Bays that paper, that one of W. H Jakins' pigeons was released from the Takapuna off New Plymouth, and reached Cnristchurch safdly notwithstanding very thick weather and adverse winds. The spin of nearly 400 miles is, it is believed,' the longebt flight recorded in New Zealand, and is especially noticeable as being across very broken country, and from one coast to the other.

An artesian well at Winton, Queensland, has been sunk to a depth of 2241 feet, and gives a flow of water of 1,250,000 gallons per day. Such a magnificent supply of water, in a hitherto waterless waste, such as in the Ayrshire Downs district, must indeed bo a revelation.

We have to thank the Hon Ssc of the Rangitikei Racing Club fpv- a complimentary ticket for their New Year's meeting.

In New York Dr. Talmage's Tabernacle has heen seized for debt;.

It is proposed to hold a World's Fair iv London in 1895.

A Napier paper reports that the Hon. R. J. S.d.lon, through his wife, has come into a considerable property between Melbourne and Williams-town, on the railway line connecting those places. It is on account of this legacy that Mr Seddon is goiiig to Australia shortly." "

A careful French astronomer, M. Trouvelot, has been observing and sketching the changes which periodically occur on the surface of Venus sinc^ 1876. A very large and curious gray patch occurred in that year, and it reappeared in 1891. What can it mean ? It resembles those areas on the moon's surface usually called seas, although we know there are no seas on the moon. Venus goes through similar changes (to us) that out satellite furnishes us with -new, quarter, half and full. Careful watching of each and alt of these for nearly twenty yea.i' 3 ha* enabled M. Trouvftlot to study the physical change 3in the north and south polar ice caps, which on Venus as vroll a 9 on Mars sewn to repeat the extrfiire climatal conditions we are familiar with on oar own planet.

Nominations close to night for the J?oxton Racing Club's hack meeting, and the horn secretary desires us to state that he will be in attendance at the Club's office between 7 and i) p.m. To-morrow we shall issue an extra with the nominations. We have been requested to state that the single fares by the government line Foxton to Wiinganui are first class 17s lid second class 12s.

We have to thank the Secretary of the Feilding Athletic Sports for a ticket for their meeting.

The Offensive Publication Act of last session comes into operation on January Ist. It provides that persons establishing or distributing by sale or otherwise indecent pictures or literature are liable to a fine or imprisonment. Also advertisements relating to certain diseases are declared to be illegal and subject to penal, ties.