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Manawatu Herald, 21 January 1893, Page 2

I'he " correct card " of the races were handed lo the honorary secretary of the Foxtir Racing Club yesterday afternoon. The printing of the cards was done in this office, by Mr W. Cook and are a credit to him and to tho establishment. Five hundred i 3 tho unmbev supplied, and we have to thnnk Mr McMillan for the prompt manner in which he supplied the copy. The cards are different in got up ' fo atiy that have been supplied by the clubs on this coast, and live, we think, an improvement. The firing at Trentham is over and the championship has been won by Vol. A Ballinger, who holds the Champ;.-;!! Belt for a year and takes tho gold nifdul given by the Defence Minister and £3o ; Private McCarthy, of Dunedin, was second, and he gets a silver star and £25 ; Gunner Humphries, of Napier, was third, and takes a silver star and £20 ; Bom. Howe, of Wellington, was fourth, and also gets a silver star and £10 ; Gunner Henderson was fifth and takes a silver star and £10. Mr Kye's tomatoes, grown under glass, are now being supplied to the shops in the town where they are retailed at ninepence a pound. We oar. say that they are far snperior in flavour to those grown out of doors. Messrs Loveday Brothers have an altered advertisement over the leader which should be of interest to one and all. A further important announcement will be made next week. No price has yet been ascertained for sending flax to Chicago, but wool will go from Auckland to Chicago for £6 10s per ton of 2,0001b5, which includes cartage and Custom Houas fees ia San Fraucisco. The wool bales have to be compressed to not less that 191bs to the cubic foot. Mr Levin, we are pleased to be informed, has promised £5 towards the cost of forwarding a representative exhibit -of hemp from this district to the Chicago Exhibition. The Controller and Auditor-General has disallowed various sums, amounting to £35 2s 6d, paid by the City Council in connec tion with the rece tion of the Governor, for which, he says, there is no sanction of law. ( aptain Lugger alleges that the Indian castaway who stated that he had been robbed and thrown overboard, really deserted at Fitzroy Island. The Tuapeka Times ia glad to hear that Mr Scohie MacKenzie, M .H. 8.,. who has been seriously ill ever since the la9t session of Parliament, and has lately under gone a painful surgical operation, is now much improved in health, and is again able to be about. A boy named Mason, bathing in the Banvon liiver, was chewed into mincemeat by an alligator in the presence of his parents. Mr McMillan informs us that from a letter received by Mr J . G. Wilson from Mr Douglas McLean he is confident, if the flax is consigned, like the Hawkes .Bay wool exhibit, to Sir Rodnrick Canvron, Commissioner for New South Wales at the Chicago Exhibition, space will be found for it. 'I his is very satisfactory The Wellington Education Board con. sists of Messrs J. R. rilair, J. Young, F. H. Fraser, W. C. Buchanan, G Beetham, W. Me "ardell, VT. A. Fitzherbert. Dr Njwman and the U«v J. Paterson and they have become the subject.of the following aecu sation made by the angry editor of the Wangaaui'C/uwiMe. " W in^auai is not likely to allo > Us educational sta'us to be lowered to that of Wellington, which is the rpfuge for dismissed teaohers, who enjoy life under an easy-going Chi-f Inspector, and a second Inspector who was appointed ' larg'ly through influence, although he had never taught a class in a primary school in his life." -The Chairman of the Wanganui Education Board appears to believe the Inspectors rule the Wellington Boavd as much as the Inspectors do the Wanganui Board. The Post Rays the above is "excellent fooling."

The Ho'«t<l reports that on Tuesday the Wa:i«anui river was very high, being within three feet of the big flood 6f two years ago. The Celtic King has loaded oft Wanganui 7000 carcases of mutton, 400 bales of wool, and 110 casks of pelts and tallow. Mr Percy E. Danie 1 has started in BiV's as a commission agent; This gentleman was j interested in 1889 in the Solid hemp mi lat .\Jotoa H-j ought to make a good lnisinef*s in Bulls where he is we.l known and iked. With this issue Messrs Ross & Sandford, of the Bon March, i'ahners'ton North, inser, an inset of a somewhat novel character and is at the same time highly suggressiye of the Chop Down character of their periodical sale. We commend the same to the notices of all buyers of drapery in this district-. The sale continues for 21 days only. The Native Land Court closed its sittings yesterday and refused the rehearing applied for, thongh agreeing that the applicants had shown a good reason foe making the request. Some time last night some enterprising burglar entered our printing office with the idea of getting .fat; on the proceeds of the expedition l. Idiotic man I rio one understanding the least about the business of a newspaper would ever imagine " there was money in it." At any rate the burglar gathered but little for his pains and having spoilt a lock and his night's rest, departed with the few shillings that had not gone their different i'oads; The police are giving the Matter their attention as there is a cash box to recover also a few papers of very little value to the owner and of none to any one else. If this should meet ihe eye of him who made this mistake lie will kindly ilnderstand i that the few shillings are wi lingly his if he would return the box and papers. However this is in doubt, for though he cannot be a subcriber he may yet, having gone so far as to entel' where he was not Welcome, have go into the other worse fault of reading the paper without paying for it. Sti 1 we do not wish to be too hard upon him and therefore have sti" a doubt as to whether he has fallen quite so low. The death of Uutherford Birchard Hayes LL.D.is announced. He was the nineteenth President of the United States (1887-81). •Hp deceased was born in 1820. He graduated at Kenyon College, and was admitted to the bar three years later. He was made Major.General ior distinguished services uring the war, in which he was wounded four times and had four horses shot under him. He was elected to Congress in 1865 and was elected President in 1876, by a majority of one vote over his Democratic opponent, Mr Tildsn, and was succeeded by President Garfield in 1881, and has since retired from politics. Mr l\. Carter still continues to collect, and to present to the colonial Museum at Wellington, all books about or in any way relating to New Zealand, says the Press. The collecion when complete will beiuvaluab c and Sir James tJector, the director of the Museum, justly regards it as being even alreadjra national treasure. A little while ago Mr'Uarter's se ood instalment came to hand, and he has just advised Sir James ector thai a third is ready to be ■ espalched from London. ■ lie collection, when complete, will comprise from ZSOO to 000 volumes. Mr T. W. Kirk, of the Department of Agriculture, has addressed a memorandum to the Secretary of Agriculture (Mr J. D. Ritchie) on the subject of the Hessian Fly. In it he states that while in Masterton, at Christmas time, he made enquiries respecting the pest, which is attacking the wheat crop. He visited several fields and caught specimens, which, on examination, he pronounces to he the real Hes«iau Fly. Some noteworthy specimens of guano from the I glands are now to be seen at the Wellington Museum. Thoy contain about 40 per cent of broken and entire shells, and would, if ground fine, make a useful manure.