Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, SEPT. 23, 1898.

Manawatu Herald, 23 September 1893, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, SEPT. 23, 1898.

The mail per s.s. " Kaikoura •will take specially addressed letters for the United Kingdom only. The Foxton State School will re-open on Monday. The cricket meeting is postponed till Wednesday evening on account of the Church concert on Tuesday. English apple buyers do not accept the fruit on the appearance of the top row in a package, but one barrel of each lot on sale is emptied on a platform in plain sight of purchasers. This circumvents tricky applepackers to some extent, and it is a practice which might be adopted with profit by fruit buyers everywhere. . The man who packs big apples and big strawberries on top is a deceiver and a fraud who should be most ruthlessly exposed. Women were at the office of the Registrar of Electors on Wednesday at Auckland at 8 30 in the morning, half-an-hour before opening, to enrol. All the day women were enrolling freely. There has been a deficiency of hot water at the Wanganui Girls' College, which has now been put right. In fact the girls have not been getting into hot water sufficiently, now they will, and this pleases the Board of Governors. If that's their style they should join our Borough Council when they would better appreciate the position. Poor girls. The whirli-gig of time. We notice that Mr Jarman, one time mate of the s.s. Jane Douglas, under Captain Fraser, lias now been appointed Captain of the Union Company's steamer Oreti, and Captain Fraser has been appointed chief officer of her. In hearing a case at Wanganui on Monday Judge Kettle declined to accept a doctor's certificate as sufficient evidence of the inability of a witness to attend, and explained that at Hawera the other day a certificate was handed to him to the effect that a certain person was ill and unable to leave his bed, whilst it was the man himself who brought the document and handed it to him in Court ! ! ! i At the meeting of the Paimerston Borough Counoil the Mayor stated for the information of Councillors that out of £1800 arrears between 1891 and 1892, £1023 had been collected, leaving £800 to be collected, of which amount £400 would be very difficult to get in. They were doing their best to pay everybody and keep on an even keel, and he thought the Town Clerk should be instructed to have the rates collected as soon as possible. The Mayor's suggestion was adopted.

It is gravely asaerted that the authorities at „neßoyal gun factories have pbnimoneed the manufacture ot <imck.firil# guns ( Says the Morning Advertiser) With a -c ocuy ot laodft pet and which will uot.-oftly ttaHy & shot over the highest 7jS£ IAl? lQ Enr °Pc (Mount Blanc), but 0482 ft above it, and are so rapid filing as to have five or six shots in the air at one tune- What is the good of a gun firing thousanda of-feet higher than the hipheetmountain in Europe, for Wlvdre Wit the enemy be? Up $„ «t toua^§ they want to improve that fidn &ml make it fire over the highest iikiiiMaln an,i down tne other cjde, anrt the»v Something might be gained.