Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1893.

Manawatu Herald, 29 June 1893, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1893.

The next Eng ish mail for specially addressed correspondence per " Aorangi " will close on Tuesday next at 8 p.m. The 'Frisco mail closes on 11th .Tulv.

We iusert in this issue onr monthly calendar, on the back of which will be soen a very interesting notice of cheap bargains to be obtained at H. Ramsey & Co.

It is intended, says the Timee, to withdraw 1750 acres from a State forest near the boundary of the Wellington and Hawke's Bay land district, as the area is required for settlement purposes.

The Po*t says .-—Should Mr W.C. Smith's attempt to abolish the totalisator again prove abortive, the Government will take steps to see that the jockey clubs are not allowed to charge the public moro than 10 per cent. Whitebait were being offered for sale in town yesterday. Wehave to thank the acting-Government Printer for the first batch of parliamentary papers. To-morrow Messrs Gorton & Son hold a stock sale at Feilding, and on Saturday at Hunterville. During the cross-examination of Young at the Hawera E.M. Court it transpired that he had made a clean confession in writing, and the solicitor for the prisoner Gibson wanted it produced. After much argument it was decided not to make it public as "the statement included names of persons conneoted with the cases already dealt with, and also names of persons not before the Court at all." Possibly some of these latter persons will be missing when " wanted." His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Robert Duff, speaking at a public dinner on Saturday, expressed sorrow at the disaster which had befallen the British Navy in the loss of the Victoria. Ho and Admiral Tryon had been shipmates for four years. At Dunedin on Tuesday O'Eeilly, a solicitor, was being conducted out of Court by a constable, at the request of the usher, who evidently did not recognise that he was a solicitor, when he deliberately struck the constable on the nose with his fist, right in front of the Judge. The pair closed and came to the floor, and then the constable carried him out bodily. A violent scene took place outside, but after being handcuffed O'l.'eilly was released. Later in the evening he was arrested for drunkenness. The funeral of Sir William Fox at Auckland on Monday was well attended. The temperance organisations. Salvation Army and public bodies were represented. The coffiu was covered with wreaths, including two placed there according to telegraphic instructions from Sir John Hall and Mr Brown, the ex-Eegistrar General. At the various city churches references were made to his death and life. On Monday the N.Z. Times says :— -Mr Winterburn was appointed manager of the new State farm at Waverley. Mr Winterburn is a farmer in the Otaki district, and has had considerable experience to qualify him for the position for which he has been chosen The new farm comprises 1200 acres, the greater part of which is under grass. Mr Winterburn will come to Wellington to discuss with Mr Tregear the mode of operations before commencing his new duties. R. Brown, a surveyor, was found on Monday morning hanging from the branch of a tree in Newtown Park.

The Victorian Railway Commissioners have written to the Minister Ktatiug that they are unable to fetommend the payment of compensation to Mr Alison Smith. The Government has sent a cable message to the Admiralty expressing the sympathy of the people of the colony in regard to the; calamity which has befallen the British Navy. No trace has n.% yet been found of the man Harper, who broke away from Wangiiuui prison, although the most rigorous .search has boen maintained. Concerning the escapee, it may be interesting to many to learn that he is an ex-policeman, having served under our Sergeant-Major some 17 years ago in Dunedin. From thence lie was transferred to Oamaru, where, after a while, he left, the force and became a publican ami a railway guard, though in which capacity he ih-st blossomed has been forgotten. Laf.pi- nn hn re-entered the force and was appointed to a station at Wellington, which, curiously enough, was under the charge of Sergeant-Major Anderson. ■Ultimately, he was dismissed for misconduct, and has since contented himself by occasionally serving Her Majesty free of charge or rather at the expense of the eouutry. The last charge for which he was arrested —previous to the one for which he was serving when he escaped — was for wife desertion at Lyttelton, for which he was arrested at the door of the Wanganui Gaol, some months ago on completion of a sentence, and remanded. — Chronicle. The other day in the French Chamber of Deputies a deputy was reported to have accused M. Clemenceau of having been bribed by the British Government. He read in the Chamber, amid great uproar and shouts of derision, the documents said to have been stolen from the Marquis of Duft'erin by a subordinate, including a list of bribes alleged to have been paid to members of the Chamber of Deputies. The letters plainly indicated that a hoax had been perpetrated or that they were forgeries. The Govei'nment declined to recognise the stolen documents, and referred them to the Judiciary. The Chamber however, insisted that they should be read through, though the vote of 389 to 4 showed that the attempt to crush M. Clemenceau had ended in a complete iiasco. Lord Eosebery, the Koreign Secretary, declares that the documents are gross and palpable forgeries.