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Manawatu Herald, 23 February 1893, Page 2

In our report of the cricket match between the Carnarvon and Foxton State Schools given in our last issue a remark-able-oversight occurred. No mention was made oj the kindly service rendered by Mr Blake, in acting as umpire for the Foxton team. Mr Blake, is an enthusiast in " the manly game," and it is to be greatly regretted that there are not many more like him in this district. A 'replace- advertisement from Loveday { Bros., the cash drapers, will appear in our next issue. This energetic firm are offering wonderful bargains in all departments. The following notification has been received from the Secretary of the General Post Office— " Telegrams from banks remitting by telegraph money collected for sufferers, by Queensland floods will pass fkee over all lines if written in plain language." Rather late in the day. The Hon. Mr Seddon pointed out at Pahiatua that the Government was not always going to provide work; for men. They should be selfreliant,, and not depend so much on the Government. . . : - . .. Mr Win. Hunter has again gone into the hotel business, having bought the pire Hotel "at Hafrera. " ' We have been requested to notify that the performance to be given by members of the Foxton Brass Band on Sunday next in aid of the 'sufferers by the Queensland floods, will be held near the Manawatu Hebald Office. The members have been practising for some time past, so that we may confidently look forward to some new and enjoyable items. As the object is .a'mosi deserving one, we trust those who-; have not already subscribed] will' not miss this opportunity. -A Polo CIuJJ has been started in Palmerston. Mr J. L. Morrison is erecting a flaxinill on. Mr jfaanes Bull's property, near Bulls, and expects; to fie iii readiness for a start in a couple of -weeks' tinted Mr Henry Andrews, who was for many yeai'3 in the employ of Mr Rutherford, is to have the management of the mill. Messrs Abraham and Williams, under instructions from Mr W. Toomath, hold a sale of his carrying plant in Palmerston on Saturday... HorsPß will also be offered on behalf of other clients. Wp remind those interestpd of the public meeting to be held on Friday, at 8 o'clock, at Whyte's Hotel.for the purpose of pass ing the programme for the Regatta, and to transact any general business. Up to MondaV£3lo had been sent to Bri-ban° from Wellington.— Auckland, up to the 20fh has sent £1000 to Queensland, —Well done. Pftlmprtton. The Mayor has forwarded £100 worth of produce to Wellington, to he forwarded to Brisbane to relieve the victims of the disaster. There are seventy-nine lawyers in Weilinctton, the odd nine of whom do more business than the other seventy. The Railway Department notify by advertisement an alteration of the time of the train leaving Palmerston for Foxton on Ist March to 7 p.m. A very silddpn death took p'acie at Colyton. near Feilding, on Tuesday. Mr G. M. Taylor, schoolmaster, dropped dead while sitting at breakfast.

The most approved system of cooling a dairy is to have au inlet current of air admitted by a duet made underground. The ! air passiug through the duct becomes cooled to the temperature of the earth. Dr Davenport has reported several cases of diphtheria in Woodville. Diphtheria is also troublesome at Feilding... The Star : reports :— We greatly regret to hear that Mr Phillips, of the Kimbolton road, has lost aaother of his family, a daughter, aged IS ysars, from diphtheria. This makes the third death which, hit* lomily has sustained within the past few weeks from this malignant complaint. It „is intended to introduco a Bill next S3ssion for consolidating the law relating to magisterial jurisdiction. The Christchurch Press of Thursday says :— ln the course of the argument yesterday of the appeal case in connection with the walking totalisators, Mr Solomon, of Dunedin, made a somewhat startling statement. It was to the effect that all the Jockey Clubs in the colony were liable to prosecution under Clause 11 of the Gaming and Lotteries Act for allowing their premises to be used for other betting than by the totalisator. Mr George Harper, who was on the other side, corroborated his learned friend's statement in this respect. Several recent anecdotes of Mr Gladstone are current. Last year he was dining at the house of one of his supporters, and among the guests invited to meet him were several members of the House of Lords of his own creation. As the gentlemen rose from the table to join tho ladies, Lord Hamilton of Dalziell who was in front, drew baok, saying :' After you, Mr Gladstone. 1 The latter replied: 'No, after you. I respect my peers ; there are so few of them.' Lord Hamilton persisted in drawing back, saying, as he bowed : ' No, after you. I respect my maker. 1 The Wanganui School Committee have nominated two of the old members, Messrs Bridge and Notman, and one new candidate, the Rev. James Treadwell, for the three vacancies on the Education Board. Mr A. W. Watts, the well-known Feilding sprinter, has, during the past three months, put up a record as far as winnings are concerned. Since November last he has won £65 in cash, and trophies to the value of £10. In the majority of the races he has won Mr Watts has been placed at the scratch. — Times. In a car on a down train sat a richly dressed young woman, tenderly holding a very small poodle. Madam, said the guard as he punched her ticket, I am very sorry, but you can't have your dog in this car, it's against the rules. I shall hold him in my lap all the way, she replied, and he will, disturb no one- That makes nd difference, said the guard ; I couldn't allow my own dog here. Dogs must ride in the baggagecar. I'll fasten him- all right for yon— • Don't you touch my dog, sir,' said the young woman excitedly ; ' I will trust him to no one !' and with indignant tread she marched to the baggage-car, tied her dog, and returned. About fifty miles further on, when the guard came along again, she asked him : • will you tell me if my dog is all right ?' lam sorry, said the guard politely, but you tied him to a trunk, and he was thrown off with it at Otaki, the last station. The Government have been endeavouring to take over the Woburn Estate, Hawke'g Bay. at the owners valuation — £100,332, plus 10 per cent, but Mr Russell appealed under, the Act .to the Board of : Review, who finally fixed the value at £129.994,- the amount originally assessed by the Land Tax valuers, and this Mr Russell had previously unsuccessfully contested. Mr Geoige Slater, who has lately severed his connection with the railway department as relieving officer, was presented with an address and stop watch by Mr Crawford, on behalf of the railway officials, at the Newmarkit Hotel, Wanganui, last Saturday evening. With a view of augmenting the funds now being raised in Wanganui for the relief of the sufferers >by the recent Queens land floods, a committee of gentlemen have undertaken the promotion of an entertainment. Most certainly the object is a worthy one, and deserving of the warmest support. The arrival of the first railway locomotive within view of Lake Rotorua was made the occasion of a great demonstration amongst the Maori workmen and Europeans employed on McLean and Son's railway contraot last Saturday-; war /danoes and hakas were dano d by the 'natives, and a great deal of gun firing and speech making took place.— Herald. During January, the number of person* who arrived in the colong was 3418, and the number who departed 1593. Last week there was a flood at Otaki which was the worst experienced for 25 years. It is attributed to strong westerly winds causing a high tide, this blooking the flood water. Considerable damage has been done to property, and several settlers lost a number of sheep and cattle. In the hearing of the case Colonial BatiK v. Mi' 9T. K. Mao Donald, Wellington, j one of the points raised by Mr Hutchison for the defence was that the contract of Mortgage was illegal, banks being precluded from taking real property as security for advances. Arbitration respecting the Behring Sea difficulty will open,, in Paris, on .Thursday next."? U; ■■'■l f .-i' "■■ : ■ • ••" : -- I Six thousand, people,, half a of whom were Pilgrims, Including a thousand Kaglish and Irish, attended in and around St Peter's on the occasion of- the Papal jubilee. His Holiness officiated at mass, and gave his blessing strongly and clearly to Catholics, and to the members of the Royal Family. On ;Sunsiy, «t( Wellington; the-fcevV ! Father ■Gbp;s?an announced that," a sum of £550 had been raised clear of all exp nses by the recent Fancy Fair in aid of the Nswtown schools. The accounts will not be completed until the meeting of stallholders and others interested on Tuesday evening. Miss Kate Marsden is being "bowled out " in regard to her alleged Siberian leprosy mission says the Post. She has been forced to admit that she saw only 75 sufferers from the disease, and that there were only between two and three times that number in the whole Yakutsk district. It may (says the British Medical Journal) not be generally known that the qupstion of leprosy in Russia is reoeiving, and has been for some time, considerable attention on the part of the authorities, and that real'y competent investigators, like Drs. V. Petersen and Hellat, of St Petersburg, Professor Munoh, of Kieff, and many others, are devoting themselves to the work, and are doing what they can to organise suitable homes for lepers and i collect funds for their support. What special claims the comparatively few Siberian lepers have on the charity of the British public it is no: easy to see. Miss Marsden might appea' to the wealthy , princes, landov ne 9, and others in Russia k to support their owe lepers.

Mr B. Spelman was the successful purchaser of Lot 18, comprising one acre, situated on the Avenue for £39, at Messrs Harcourt and Co.'s land sale at Wellington I yesterday. Judge Bichniond has delivered judgment in the suit brought by D. McKinnon against the Wellington Racing Club to recover the value of the Telegraph Stakes, won by Mr Freeth's Rebollion, whose nomination was sent to Dunedin in error. He held that the receipt of the nomination at the Post Office did not fulfil the conditions laid down, but that they should have been iv the hands of the Secretary at the Club Hotel by the appointed time. The action of the stewards hi accepting them was ultra vires. Judgment was given for plaintiff, with costs on the lowest scale. The decision involves the Club in the sum of £190, exclusive of costs. It ia understood that this was a test case and will govern several other instances iv which the Napier horses ran first. The New Zealand racehorse, St. Hippo, is a strong favourite for the Australian Cup. His latest quotation in the betting market is 100 to 20. We remind horse-owners and others interested that nominations in connection with the popular Sandon Hack Racing Club's annual meeting, which takes place on the 17tjb.- March, close on Saturday next, 25th inst., at 9 p.m. We • learn that the residents of the Borough are subscribing freely to the fund for the relief of the Brisbane sufferers. Things must indeed be in a bad way in the town of Napier, if the following from a late Napier paper is correct : There does not seen! to be very much business doing, and if there is any there are too many people who want a share of it. At one time to-day the only evidences of habitation in • the main-street were half-a-dozen people; a bellicose bull terrier, and a few sun-heated cab horses. From the Wellington Press we extract the following :— One of the most striking personage? at the recent meeting of th» Presbyterian Assembly was the Eev. J. Duncan, of Foxton. This venerable divine is now over 80 years of age, but such is the wonderful vitality that one would hardly distinguish the octogenarian in the unassuming, but strictly punctual attendant at each sitting, of the Assembly. Mr Duncan came originally from Bothesay, Scotland, and for 50 years has laboured in New Zealand as a member of the Gospel. His first efforts were directed to the Manawatu, uutil Hauhauism drove him to seek safety elsewhere. The Bey. Mr Duncan is a thorough Maori linguist, and has achieved great popularity with the natives. At last night's sitting of the Assembly, the Bey. J. Paterson brought up a motion to the effect that the Assembly offer its congratulations to Mr Duncan on the attainment of the jubilee of his services in the ministry, and express its appreciation of his personal worth and services. Needless to say, this was carried unanimously. A squatter named Glass, living near Northampton, in Western Australia, shot his two daughters dead, and poisoned himself, because one of them, encouraged by the other, decided to marry against hi 3 wish. The following anecdote is from the store of Sir Wilfrid La WBon, whom it personally concerns. Sir Wilfrid was romping one day, in a house of a friend, with a little boy, to whom he said, "Well, my boy, we have been great fiends, but its odd we were never introduced. I don't know what your name is, and I am sure you have not the slightest idea who I am." " Oh, yes," said the small boy, " I know very well, you are the celebrated drunkard." A son of Constable Pennefather was the means of rescuing two boys from a watery grave in Wanganui lately. With his clothes on he jumped in and pulled one boy out, and then saved the other. The stables at the Junction Hotel, S mdon, destroyed by fire on Monday last, were injured in the Commercial Union. Co for £100 Mr Perrett estimates his loss at £20 over the insurance. No time is to be lost in their re erection, and the proprietor expects to have them finished in good time for the forthcoming race meeting. Messrs Gorton and hold their ram and sheep fair at Feilding on Friday. The Wanganui Regatta ha 3 been postponed from Feb. 28th to Thursday, March 2nd. According to a correspondent of a Wairarapa paper, Mr Bruce, M.H.R. for Ban- | gitik"i, has, definitely decided nqt to enter politics again, a fact much to be regretted. Mr Lethbridge, of Feildiug, is mentioned as a probable oandidate in the Opposition interest at the next general election, Mr J. Stevenß standing as. a supporter of the Government. Captain Edwin sent the following on the 21st :— Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings for easterly gales with heavy rain have been sent to all places northward of East Cape, Taupo, and Baglan, and for strong easterly winds to all other places. A girl nineteen years old committed suicide in a shocking manner in Melbourne recently by throwing herself on a railway line, and a passing train, mangled her to death; Sheliad a quarrel with her sister and left a letter in which she stated that no one cared for her, and that her " brute of a sister " thought she was nobody because she was younger. She directed that her clothing and trinkets should be distributed in a stated manner, and she continued, "Do not think i do this for the sake of a man, because there is not a man in this world that. I love, perhaps if I. could love someone X would not do, what I have done When I am- dead do not -Jet my father bury me, but bury me where you like. Give my bent love to my poor mother ; she is the, only one that will mourn for me" At this point the girl's courage deserted her for a moment, and she broke short off in her letter. But lw hesitancy was only momentary, and on another sheet she added in trembling characters, ' Good bye. mother dear ; you will hear of me.tonight.a^aljoiut^a quarter-past ejght, on the" railway line. 'Pray for me., that God will forgive me. Give my love to Mrs Benson. She is my only friend. The Showroom is abundantly stocked with ehoica goods for present requirements, of w ioh we invite inspection and comparison. Boss «nd Sajjdfobd, District Im-. porters, the Bon Marche, Palmerston North, — A byt.