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Manawatu Herald, 18 April 1893, Page 2

On the course a man excited some attention by running with all his might towards the horse paddock, then through it, and then acro3s the open, stopping now and again to see if he was pui'SUed. The man is at present in confinement having used insulting language to Mr Redmond at Mr Border's booth; The man is one who two and a half years ago received a heavy sentence for the Use of similar language, his name being F. Becker. The cause of his run being to escape the clutches of the police whose aid had been invoked. -He was remanded this morning till to-morrow.

We regret to learn that Mr Orowther of Shannon lost a son by drowning yesterday. Mr McMillan, J.P., went out to-day, as acting coroner, to hold the necessary inquest.

Messrs Wylds and Luxford have opened the flax mill lately run by Mr W. Wilson at Carnarvon. ?

The son of Tippo Tib confirms the news of the death of Eniin Pasha, and asserts that the whole expedition was massacred.

At New Plymouth the jury handed in a paper, and asked the Judge if he would accept the verdict in the form written, as follows : — That the jury found the accused guilty, but with a strong recommendation to mercy, on the ground of the laxity of the Government in not prosecuting beforg. His Honor deferred sentence until the next sitting, in October, pending the law point raised by Mr Samuel being settled by the Appeal Court. Mr Samuels point is that the" chargos were laid under the Land Act of 1885, which has been repealed by the Act of 1892, and in the latter Act there is not sufficient authority in the savings clauses as to cases that have been laid under repealed Acts. Pease was liberated on bail.

A cyclone in the Mississippi Valley destroyed a school and "killed 25 childreh.

The Argentine Government reeon* sidered the request for the extradition of Jabez S. Balfour. and have now agreed to allow his being sent to Eugland to answer the charges of fraudulent conspiracy in connection with the Liberator Building Society and other institutions.

The poll for the loan for Municipal buildings at Palmerston was not carried.

The Rev. Mr Ingram, of Chnrch House, London, has been recommended as successor to Bishop Hadtield.

King Humbert, of Italy, paid a visit to Queen Victoria at Florence last Thursday, and lunched with her. Queen Margaret was unable to accompany the King on account of illness.

The Daily Chronicle says that Russia, has agreed to a Joint Commission being set up to delimit .the Pamirs. . :

It is rumoured (hat Sir Samuel Wilson and Sir Thomas Elder will be created Peers in connection with the opening of the Imperial Institute next month.

What is believed to be a valuable find of coal has been made on Mr H Warren's property, Tiraumea, in tke Wairarapa.

The liquidators of the new Oriental Bank hope to pay a dividend of two shillings on sth June.

The Argentine Government refuses to extradite Jabez S. Balfour, ex-M.P., to England, in the absence of an extradition treaty, on the ground that Great Britain refused to extradite an Argentine offender.

The Queen's Wharf was even more than usually busy on Friday morning, Bays the Post. In addition to the two big steamers Kuahine and Tainui, several of the larger vessels of the Union S.S. Company, together with a host of smaller fry, were berthed. All the available labour was employed, and yet the supply was hardly equal to the demand. There was considerable difficulty in obtaining suitable berths for the larger class of steamers, and the Mararoa, which arrived shortly after noon from the North, had to wait in -the stream until the Grafton, at No. 2 berth, took her departure. The sailing of the latter vessel and the Euahine somewhat relieved the pressure. The total tonnage in port exceeded 27,000 tons.

A Syrian manuscript of the Four Gospels has been discovered in a convent on Mount Sinai. It is said to be the oldest extant H