Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JUNE 27,-1893.

Manawatu Herald, 27 June 1893, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JUNE 27,-1893.

On Monday, Mr Potter's, friends met him at Mr Border's hotel and presented him with a handsome marble clock as % a token of their good will. Mr Potter, whose name, bye the bye, is Johnson, left for New Plymouth by this mornings's train. Mr Border placed a very comfortable private room at the disposal of the subscribers, and Mr McMillan made che presentation in a happy manner' and then Mr Potter's health was drunk. Mr Potter suitably responded.

It is evident from the remarks of the editor of the Manawatu Standard that Mr R. Edwards' show for Palmerston is even better than we had anticipated, as the irate editor says that the advice we tendered Mr Edwards was only done "to counteract other people's ambition." We had believed Mr Pirani had boldly announced that ho was prepared to fight all comers hut it appears he does not like the idea of MiEdwards as an opponent.

Arau Arapera, wife of Tewiata Arapera, died at Poutou on Sunday last. The deceased was the eldest daughter of Heta Ngatuhi. A large tangi is being held at th« Poutou pah.

Messrs McMillan, Rhodes & Co. are keeping with the times and offer the large discount of three shillings in the pound to cash purchasers of drapery.

Mr Cowles conducted evening service at All Saints' Church on Sunday evening for the first time as Lay Reader.

On our first page is an announcement of the Union Clothing Company being the successful tenderers of a large bankruptcy stock, which they are offering at very low prices.

We again remind hempmillers that an important meeting is called for Thursday, at half-past one, at Whyte's Hotel. They should all make it their business to attend.

On Saturday afternoon and night the district was visited by a severe gale, which, however, died away early on Sunday morning. We do not remember seeing the glass fall and rise so rapidly as it did on Saturday and Sunday.

The Cadman-Rees libel case has been concluded, by the jury, after inquiring of the Judge what amount would carry costs, and being assured by him that in. this particular case he would regard 40s, returned into Court and found the damages to be 20s ! The jury's opinion of the Minister can be thus judged.

The United Farmers' Alliance held the annual general meeting at Palmerston on Thursday afternoon. The report and balance-sheet was adopted. During the discussion which followed Mr Gardner's desire for further particulars, he showed that the Company had at .present lost £1931 in preliminary expenses and £1328 as admitted by the balance-sheet, and this out of £4201 subscribed capital. It was also shown that the Company were paying 7£ per cent, on amounts borrowed from the banks. Wonderful what reverence ia showa to some old laws. It is said that not two years ago a woman was condemned under a New Jersey law to be publicly ducked in a pond as a " common scold " under a seventeenth century enactment. The sentence was set aside by the Supreme Court.

The total amount realised for the Palmerston Hospital by the CampbelltownLongburn bridge demonstration is £16, which, with the addition of the Government subsidy, will be ecjual to £35. A yery satisfactory • result considering the weather.

Sir William Fox died at Auckland on Friday. It was exactly a year since Lady Fox died. During the later years he took much interest m the. Salvation Army work.

Mr Can-, of Feilding, has been appointed auctioneer to the United Farmers' Alliance.

Some hitch has occurred in raising the loan for the road from .Shannon to the ferry, owing to the Government being disinclined to sanction the Manawatu Railway Company's land being further ratal. If this is so it would appear as though the Government were contemplating its ear!y purchase.

In a letter to the Aryn.* the writer mentions n fact that is strange, and that is that wiihin a, hundred miles of Sew York thpro are tluw. million of acres of pine forest scarcely inhabited at aIK

The unreasoning dislike the old people had to railways is shown by an old State Law of New Jersey which levied a tax of a dollar on every railway passenger until it was declared invalid by the Supreme .Court. There are, however, to this day, towns in New Jersey where trains have to crawl at seven miles an hour because that was the pace prescribed by the driving regulations of the locality, and insisted upon in the railway concession I

At Bremerton, a little village near Sails* bury, England* is a, medlar tree threehundred years old.

Women are a power in the land, or try to be. During the present session of the English Parliament a petition was presented against the Local Veto Bill from " one female from Scotland." It was unfortunate that such an announcement was received with roare of laughter, it might have been different, or their laughter might have been turned into sorrowing if the " one female " had been present.

Land is improving in value in this district. We understand that Mr R. Austin has negotiated the purchase of the property he resides upon from Mr J. T. Stewart at a satisfactory figure. The latter gentleman has also disposed of his Motoa lancVto the Messrs Strang Bros, who held it under lease.

A warrant has been issued to secure the appearance of To Whiti before the Bankruptcy Oourt.

One of the most curious journalistic feats on record is that now being performed by a Swedish gentleman of private means connected with the Copenhagen Danneborg, named Sven Otto Kichard Waldemar M^iren. He made a Let of £2000 with some acquaintance that he would travel round the world without money. He has a letter of credit for £25 with him, but this is only to prevent him from being arrested as a vagrant, for if he cashes it he loses his wager. He worked his way across the Atlantic before the mast at one shilling a day, then he got a free passage from Wilmington to New York, where he had no food for two days and had to walk the streets to keep warm, until the Salvation Army took him in. From New York he had a free pass to Chicago, but had to perform the journey fasting. A notice of a Norwegian hotel in Chicago in his home paper secured him a fortnight's board. Another free pass took him to Portland, on the Pacific coast, but the pleasure of the journey may lie judged from the head* lines which heralded his arrival :— " Three days without food on the Northern Pacific, fclis month raw with smoking. He smoked to stay the pangs of hunger.'' Now he has reached Hong Kong. In America he did without washing expenses by exchanging his linen with people who wanted to use his cast' Off olbthes -as advertisements. But he immensely dislikes to be called the " champion .dead-head."

Owingtb^he drought hay is at £7 pfr ton in England.

At a.reoeqtmeeting of the Royal Botanic Society, among the orchids and other flower plants showrrwas a specimen of Laportea —the " burning tree" of India. Both leaves and steins of this plant are covered with stinging hairs after the manner of the nettle, but of a far more virulent nature; when touched the sensation felt is as of being burnt with red-hot h'on, the pain extending over other parts of the body and lasting for a fortnight. The action Manawatu Railway Co v, Burr, Smith, Bramley, and others, which was set down for hearing at the next sittings .of the Supreme Court in Wellington, has been satisfactorily settled, each party to pay their own costs. In his weekly lecture on " Biology," at the Auckland University College, Professor Thomas gave an interesting account of a recent cxaminaiiSn of a 1 Bank of New Zealand £1 note through theiantern. .He first showed a photograph of the note, remarking it was chiefly characterised by its soiled condition. Next he threw on the sheet a view of numerous -bacteria obtained from it. There were. some ten or twelve different varieties, among them figuring very plainly the yeast plant, which was regarded as suggestive of the idea that at least one of the sometime possessors of the note had been a frequenter of public houses, or at least a lover of beer, or, to be more charitable, perhaps, only a baker. Then there was present a bacterium responsible for decayed teeth. Evidently some people count their cotes' with the help of the month. Altogether. the exhibit was a most interesting one, and demonstrated very clearly how readily paper money may become a means of propagating disease. — Otago Daily Times.