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Manawatu Herald, 28 February 1893, Page 2

The full amount that has been handed in to the Borough Clerk up to to-day for the relief of the sufferers in Queensland is £83 8* 4d. Several other lists have yet to come in. It is intended to send away £20 to-day, which will make a total of £S0 sent from Foxton. It is confidently hoped and expected that the fund will swell to £100. The members of the Foxton Brass Band gave an open air performance last Sunday afternoon. The day being beauti ully fine, a great number of persons made an appearance and listened to the selections played. The object of the performance was a very worthy one, the proceeds bring given to the fuud for the relief of the distressed in Queensland "I he members individually are to be congratulated on their playing, and many were the expressions heard on every side of the improvement the band had made of late. Mr T. P. Williams was indefatigable in his efforts in soliciting subscriptions, not an easy task by any means and was very successful, collecting a little over £6, which, considering the demand already made in behalf of the fund, is most creditable. M Cawston.of the Manawatu Hotel, provided the band with refreshments, and also had erect >d for them the necessary band stand and sitting ac commodation on the' verandah of the property he has lately purchased, which was much appreciated. A supposed case of poisoning from eating honey has occurred ah the Thames. Bobert Doonan, his wife and two children partook heartily of the honey on their bread and butter for tea, and shortly afterwards were taken ill with pains in* the stomach and severe vomiting. Doonan and the children are recovering, but Mrs Doonan is st 11 dangerously ill, she having eaten more of the honey than the others. As will be seen by their altered advertisement in another column, Mr Billehs, of the firm of Billens & Bunting, photographers, of Palmeraton North, intends visiting Foxton on Wednesday next, where be will be found in the old studio, Clyde-street. His visit will extend . during the month of March. The travelling reporter of the Manawatu Times has- been out and about the Pohangina district. He pays : — Mr Woodham has recently sold his interest in the ferry reserve to a Mr Hodges, from Canterbury, who has quickly erected a small house, thus making another desirable settler. Mr P. Spelman, who was one of the pioneer settlers of the Blook, has now a very nice farm, and is reaping the deserved fruits of his industry. His section was one of the p'ums of the block, and when the road is completed will be a most desirable property. He works his brother's (Mr B. [ Spelman) section in connection with his | own. In addition to a full average of ' sheep to the acre, Mr Spelman has some : cal tie, and has a number of nice nuggety three-year olds fit for the butcher at any time. | It, will be remembered that, a short time back the Shannon residents made an attempt, to raise a loan under " The Loans to Local Bodies Act," to make, and re-form the Shannon Ferry road, a much desired work We notice the Wirokino Road Board have been petitioned again on the subjpet, and at their last meeting the Clerk was instrncrcd to take the necessary stpps to raise £500, the petitioners undertaking to defray expenses if the loan is not carried. i We notice by an advertisement in a Wellington paper that the lease of Mcßeath'a Family Hotel, Otaki, is to be sold. As the lease is for 10 years yet to run, at a weekly rental of £4, there is likely to be brisk competition.

The total area of Crown lands di *posed of since the Ist April last was 94,872 acres, 1 rood and 19 perches We are glad to notice by our exchanges that the health of the Houi Mr Ballance continues to improve. News has been received thi.t King George, of Tonga, is decid; Messrs Syniona Bros.' hervp mill had a narrow escape Jrom total obstruction yesterday afternoon. It is thought a spark from the engine must have found its way into the scutcher, which caused all the trouble. At one time the finnies f: om the scutcher reached almost to tiie ceihng, and it was only by hard woi'k and having a plentiful supply of water near at hand that saved the mill; The damage done fortunately does not amount to much. Additional entries are added to Messrs Abraham and Williams' Foxton stock sale. The Foxton Borough Council invite tenders for clearing drains, and for the erection of a lean-to to the ferry-house at Wirokino. A notice to all carters not having licenses is also advertised. His Honor, Ml* Justice Richmond has delivered judgement for the defendants in the action brqiight forward by the natives of Poroutawhao against Sir Walter Bnller and the Registrar of Deeds. Costs were allowed on the highest scale. A young man named Leonard Cloke, employed atH. Coley # Co's mill met with a painful accident on Saturday afternoon last. He was in the act of lacing one of the i belts w.lien tile accident happened. He had the misfortune to get two bones of his left hand broken, and also sustained a severe fracture of both boiies of the right fore-arm. jJr Deriher was it once sent for, aud did what was necessary to alleviate his sufferings. He is now under the doctor's oare n town, and we learn is progressing satisfactorily. A curious divorce case was heard in Sydney the other day. Catherine Watt, of Richmond, applied for a divorce from Peter Watt. They were married at Richmond by the Rev. A. Hardie, Presbyterian minister, on the 28th November", 1882. Petitioner was only 10 years of age at the time. The marriage was never consummated. On the night of. the wedding respondent got drunk, finct rejoined H.M.S. Nelson, of which he was an officer. The vessel left for the other colonies, and petitioner had never seen respondent since. She had only been acquainted with him for about five weeks before the marriage: A decree nisi with costs Was granted. — Wanganui Chronicle. The Feilding Star says : — Au easy solution of the difficulty in connection with the identification of " prohibited persons " under the Licensing Act, would be to supply all lioenrietl victuallers in the colony with photographs of the former. The cost of preparing and distributing such " counterfeit presentments" to be borne by the " prohibitee." This mode would not only be a great safe guard to publicans, but would have a powerful deterrent effect on " those who drink not wisely but too well." A statement emanating from Mr Solomon, barrister, of Dunedin, having gone the rounds of the press to the effect that all the Jockey Clubs of the colony are liable to prosecution under Clause 17 of the Gaming and Lotteries Act for allowing their racecourses to be used for betting other than by the totalisator, wn here repr'n the clause: — No house, office, room, or o h'v place shall be opened, kept.,>or used for the purpose of the owner, occupier, or keeper, or of any person procured or employed by or acting for or on behalf of any such owner, occupier, or keeper, or of any person having the care or management, or in any manner conducting the business thereof, betting with persons resorting thereto, or for the purpose of any money or j valuable thing being received by or on ! behalf of such owner, occupier, keeper, or p 'vson aforesaid, as or for the consideration for any assurance, undertaking, promise or ngivement expressed or implied to pay or give thereafter any money or valuable thing on any event or contingency of or relating to any horse race or other race, fight, game, sport or exercise, or as for the c >nsideration for secu-ing the paying or giving by some other person of any" money or valuable thing on any such event or contingency aforesaid. Every hoU3e, office, room, or other place opened, ke.pt, or used for the purposes aforesaid or any of them is hereby declared to be a common nuisance and contrary to law." I By the death of a millionaire named Crouse, at, Syracuse, New York, his cook receives £5,000, his attorney, valet, housekeeper, and another servant £10.000 each, his private secretary £38.000, hi* stable manager £10,000, and each of his ntahte hands £200 each. Eight sums of £1,000 are left to charities. The Longburn Freezing Company on Friday finished the freezing and shipment of 7,500 carcases of mutton for the b.p. Matatua, which will shortly leave Wellington for London. A farmer correspondent to the Press points out that a simple method of pre venting stack tops being blown off is to place a hoop of wire round the roof of the stac , between the top and the eaves, and to this attach four drooping wires, to which may be attached weights of any sort that are handy— either large stone, old iron, or rough boxes or old sacks filled with shingle. The suggestion appears to be a practical one. Society in Washington has be^n highly edified by the result of a little tend betwepn the^layor and the Chief Commiscioner of Police. The former functionary persuaded the Council to cut down the Chief Commissioner Vsalary, and gave his own casting vote in favour of that measure. Not long afterwards the Chief Commissioner received information that the Mayor was playing i poker in a gambling saloon. He organised a raid, and captured the Chief Magistrate, and his Worship was in due course " had up," and ' fined. J-7V«$. • : A religious lectnrer told an audience in Oklahama that if "a man had sufficient faith he might pick up a rattlesnake and the reptile could not bite him. Instead of accepting the statement on trust, one man went out and put the matter to the test, with the result that the creature bit him aud he died. An American paper which tells this story remarks, " The fools are not all dead yet, but one of them is." The folllowing paragraphs appear "v the Woorlvillo Examiner:— lt is reported that Sir Bobert Stout is urging upon the Government that they should com ensate Mi W. B. Edwards for depriving lim of his Judge.Rhip and for his conspquent los 9 of practice.— lt is stated that the Government propose to compensate Mr W. B. Edwards to the extent < f £2000, but this he will not accept, a d asks that the amount of compensati -n to which he is entitlei should be aettbd by an independent commission. Imagine a cheese which weighs over 22,000 pounds ! Such ib the colossal sze of the cheese to be exhibited among the Canadian dairy products at the Chic igo World's Fair. It contains the cur lof one day's milk supplied by 10,000 oowa. Owing to the high price of cattle in the ! district, the Mount Egmont P.-r ez'ng Works at Waitara hai ceased operations.

The Wairarapa Star records that a stand up fight between two women \< as witnes«ed in Queen-street on Friday. One fair damsel, with '■ two lovely black eyes," commenced proceedings with an umbrella, with which she beat her opponent unmercifully; After d regular rdUgh and tumble, the ntYair ended up in an appeal 1 to the onlookers for help. A Bill promoted by a Company which has in view the ultimate construction of a bridge or viaduct over tli • tUngli-L'Ciiauuet with a railway therein, has bei-n u^posited in the Private Bill office pi the House of Commons. The Bill, which contains but thirteen clauses, merely asks Parliament to empower a Company) either alone or jointly with other Companies, to procure surveys and make soundings under ihe bed of the Straits of Dover below low-water mark, for the purpose of ascertaining the practicability of making a bridge over the English Channel, as a means of communication by steam or otherwise between England and Prance, Laura Cushion, aged 15, was indicted at the Norfolk Quarter Session on January 4th for maliciously administering pitts to Bernard Bob BWham; the eight months old child of Mr Barcham, veterinary surgeon, North Walsham, Norfolk, with intent to endanger his life. The evidence showed that the prisoner, while acting as nurse-maid, dropped pins into the baby's month, afterwards giving it the bottle to wash them down. The mother observing pins protruding ffom various parts of the child's body, questioned the girl about them whereupon she admitted that she did not like the child, and said she thought that if she gave it pins it would die. The child was taken seriously ill, and for some time it was in danger of losing its life. It was now, however, better. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment, and to be afterwards detained for five years in a reformatory. Queen Victoria has been greatly delighted at receiving front a Belgian officer a relic of her famous relative, the notorious Duke of Cumberland, commonly called " the butcher." It is a small seal, discovered on the battlefield of Fontenoy by Captain Grade, when walking there the other day after a heavy shower. The place where the seal was picked up was the site of the famous charge made there by the Irish contingents. The battle was fought in 1745, and the seal had consequently been hidden in the ground, for nearly a hundred and fifty years; County Parson (to bereaved widow of a doctor in Yoru shire): "I cannot tell you how pained I was to hear that your husband had gone to Heaven. We were bosom iriends, but now we shall never meet again." A burglar on his trial at Christchurch, when addressing his Honour said — " Your Honour, this is the first time I have bad the ' pleasure ' of being in the Supreme Court." Some people have a left-handed notion of what constitutes pleasure. About seven months ago an elderly Chinaman, named Gin Gah, was married at the Trinity Anglican Church, Adelaide, to an English girl named Florae Wilmott, aged 18, the ceremony taking place unknown to her parents. The couple have since lived in Registrar street, the husband being apparently well-to-do. Early one morning the police were searching for Gin Gah on a charge of stabbing a Chinaman named Ah Dick, and found the dead body of Mrs Gin Gah in the. house, with her throat cut from ear to ear. Gin Gah, when arrested, was in a state of stupor, caused by opium, and, being treated at the hospital said he had stabbed Ah Dick, believing him to be too familiar with his wife. Gin Gah afterwards died in the hospital from the effects of the opium, but Ah Dick, whose wounds are not serious, is recovering. Apropos of the coming marriage of Princess Marie of Edinburgh to the Crown Prince of Roumania, the weekly papers are just gloating over the young lady's outfit. The trousseau is said to be extraordinary. There are a number of petticoats, and the lingerie, more useful than ornamental, after the solid German style of handwork in linen and lamb's wool, is said to be a marvel of delicacy and beauty. Combinations of chamois leather and silk form the wear for mountain climbing, for which exercise she has also received bifurcated garments and two pair of serge top boots. Pink seems to be the favourite colour of the young lady. The papers are full of minute details. For instance, Marie will start on her honeymoon in a grey gown and wearing shoes very pointed at the toes. All her footgear is to be very plain, having neither fancy colours nor embroidery. Every one will remember the famous Melbourne " Boom." That is a matter of history. All readers of New Zealand newspapers (and '• their name id legion ") will know that the "boom "has burst and that a terrible depression has eettled upon that city. To residents in all parts of the Province of Wellington it will be a matter of intense personal interest, which they will t'ully ascertain by a visit to the " Erupted Boom " Sale. .Commencing on Thursday thf 26th inst at Te Aro House, Wellington. The proprietor of Te Aro House has just returned from a visit to that city of the Erstwhile "boom" and subsequent collapse, wh.-ro he made some large and fortunate purchases at prices that would thoroughly astonish the oldest stagers in the Drapery trade. The prices, also, at which we shall offer this vast mass of new and s<;asinable goods will be veritable eyeopeners to the most astute bargain hunters at the " F.rupted Boom " Sale, Te Aro House, Wellington.