Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1898.

Manawatu Herald, 3 October 1893, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1898.

An obvious error appeared in our leader in Saturday's issue, passed by the reader, in which 100 acres and 200 aores were allowed to pass for 1000 acres and 2000 acres. Mistakes happen in the best of regulated families, but we do not for one moment suppose our readers did not at onoe notioe the omission. A Government paper, in referring to the week's going on at Cheviot, says that " Some of the land is valued at £6 and £7 an aore, but a great deal of it, especially the hilly portion, is not considered to be worth more than 10s or £1 per acre. The country is overrun with wild pigs.-l'. A case heard at Woodville the other day by Mr Turnbull, 8.M., was rather peculiar. It was that of Scally v. the Waipawa County Council.^ Complainant tendere4 fol'Ttwo c'dnFraStsvandi-sent (m one^epeslt to cover both tenders': Both his" tenders were accepted, but Mr Scally. decided to only proceed with one of them. Therefore the couiidil forfeited the 7 deposit, f. The Magistrate (the correspondent of the Wellington Post says) upheld the council's action. The Auckland Charitable Aid Board obtained judgment for £38 the other day from a woman who had been in receipt of charitable aid and had become possessed of money but refused to part when requested. ! Dean^bveUjtof Napieiy iif mentioned as the sucdeasorOdßuhop Stuart, of-Waiapu, who lately resigned charge of the diocese to ta^kg up missionary work in Persia.- „ ,- t * ThV-pa'ssage olf the 'Queen or the' 'Soutif last Thursday 'from Wellington was not at l all a pleasant one, and was the roughest [ experienced, so the captain avers. Mr W. L. Coe, with his family^aa decided to take up his residence amongst us, and arrived by the boat. , At the Wilson College, Bombay, ah institution connected with the missionary work of the Free Church of Scotland, the Profesßor's chair of history and h\.tin is held by Mr Julio Rebeifo, M.A., a Roman Catholic. . A young Maori, named Dick Mahapuka,' died at Hastings lately, and left £40,000. He was married to a white woman. • It is stated that farmers in the Manawatu and Rangitikei districts will get slightly over 100 per cent of lambs this season. Despite, the wet the mortality amongst the ewes is astonishingly small.

There i*a young lady i rt Christchurch so , High chureh that she discharged the family physician the other day for saving she nad ; nn attack of low fever. I A meeting of members of the Foxtoil Rifle Club is convened for Friday next. The place of meeting j.w Whvtc's Hotel, and the time 8 p.m. A noirce inspecting the horse Spear will .'"j^Utfd advertised. Messrs Abrahams and William«* sale ft stock at Kevin' tulce;; jiloce to-morrow-. A grand butchering tournament is to be hpld.i.H Chicago. The contest Will ha for tha championship «f tho world. The quickest time- «. bullock has ever been dressed in a go-as-you-please is 3min. 4O.**>, by .ToluvMalone. of Chicago, while Mir quickest time a bnllook has been • Vi)\pt\ and .litocpil {(.y market is 4min. I 2R?Pf\ Ts»i- Mneatinn Hoard of the Wellington District has decided to raise the salaries of the female teachers all round by about 10 per cent., and also to increase some of the male salaries to the amount paid previous to the reduction effected six years ago. The extra cost will be about £1,400 per anniun> but as schools in the country districts not now paying are rapidly increasing in attendance it is expected they will before long .afford some relief to the strain on the Board's funds. A Christchurch man, flushed with triumph at the victory of female franchise, took home- claims for enrolment for the feminines of his house to sign. His wife signed freely. His governess signed wiih some slight shade of suspicion. But the cook was not taking anj', thank you. "No," she said, "women voting indeed! Next the gentlemen will want to come into the kitchen !" Then the housemaid was invited to attach her autograph. She " w ould rather not, please." She opined that the housework and an occasional walk with her young man about filled her aching void for political excitement. The nurse, when solicited, blushed, but declined, also with thanks. She opined that she would think about it, and consult her husband that is to be. The boss made a really eloquent speech about the duties and responsibilities of female voters, during which the housemaid yawned, the nurse ran off to a crying child, and the cook suggested she should "get on with the' dinner, if so be they didn't want it spoiled." — Truth. The Judge, at Home has sauctioned the raising of the £50,000 loan authorised by the unsecured creditors in the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency for carrying on the business. The manager at Melbourne has received a cablegram stating that the telegram from London, dated September 27th, reporting that Baron Schroder is pressing his claim against the company for priority over the asset3, &c, is absolutely without foundation. The New Zealand Times understands that it is extremely probable that Mr Walter Johnston will be a candidate for Wellington, and that Mr Bruce intends to contest the Marsterton seat is incorrect. Mr Bruce says he had definitely decided to stand for neither the Masterton nor any other seat. A very dignified and smart young man the other day marched into a brickyard not twenty miles from Feilding, and observing the long rows of newly moulded bricks all ready to be put in the kiln, went up to the astonished proprietor with "an air of effusion " and said : ' Dear me, sir, do you make all your bricks white an Ino red -ones ?" The brickmaker sat down on. a convenient spot and reflected deeply for a few moments. Then he replied : " Young man, bricks are like crawfish, they get red in the process of cooking." 'I he young man looked green, and the bricklayer blr.ck — Stnr. A swindling firm once advertised that it would send for the small sum of 2s 6d a recipe which, if followed to the letter, would keep folks-front' growing 'old. Some credulous persons answered the advertisement remitting- ihe required fee, and received the following reply : — " We would advise such fools as you to commit suicide at about the ago of twenty-five. An inquest was held in Parewauui on Friday afternoon touching tho death of a Native woman named Neta te Huke Palumoana. In the absence, through illness, of the Coronei-, Dr. Bennet acted as coroner with the following sworn jury:William rewire, George Whebley, Alexander Macmaster, Silas Locke, Thomas Cameron, and Walter Bowlands Mr A. Macmaster Avas elected foreman, and Mr A. McDpnsir acted as interpreter. The evidence given was similar to the statement of the • case' already published. The deceased and her husband had quarrelled owing to her jealousy of another woman, and they had a short struggle for the possession of a ohild before they retired to rest. The deceased hung herself during the night to ; a hook only five feet above the floor. The verdict was that the deceased committed suicide by strangulation while in a state of insanity. — Advocate. Mr A. H. Tripe,, surgeon dentist, notifies that he will pay his next professional visit to Foxton on Friday, October 13th. Humphries,.. ihe lion-tamer at Fitzgerald's circus, was terribly injured at Albany the other day. His clothes were torn off and his" arms, body and legs were almost bitten to pieces. The struggle be tween him and the lion lasted eight minutes before he was rescued. The incident occurred in Hayes' circus. A. contemporary seriously-asserts that a special tax on bachelors over a certain age will be one of the plonks in the platform, of the ladies at the coining election' .Mr W. ToomfttK^has' been appointed manager of the. New Zealand Dairy ■ Union's? Crearroerj(. a^'Kairanga The VVairarapa Star says : — Mrs MeKelvie, widow, of . Squatter McKelvie, of Kapgi.tikei, „wh,6, died, last ..year, , leaving £160,000, was niatped on Monday, but the; grpora^naijiie I have not heard. |We can supply the omission, it was "a Mr Bonald Danvers.] • One of the best hits of the session has been made by' Mr Buckland. Mr J. McKenzie had been speaking of himself. He had landed in the colony 37 years ago with little more than the proverbial sixpence in his pocket, and the clothes he stood up in. " I,'' -said Mr Buckland, "am three years short of nO, I came into this colony 47 years ago, stark naked, and look at me now." The House roared. The Parliamentary correspondent of the Hawke's Bay Heridd says: -I hear on good authoriiy that Mi W. C Smith, the member for Waipawa, has definitely de cided not to stand for re-election to Parliament. Hansard costs £4000 a year, according to the Chairman of .the Reporting Debates and Printing Committee. Among the electoral claims sent in by women, there are a few who describe their occupations somewhat peculiarly. The best we (Marl borough Expresi) have heard of is that of a married woman, who sets down her occupation as " spiritual adviser to my husband." This surely must take the cake. We pity the poor husband.

Lord Glasgow has been confined to his bed by a severe cold. I An exchange Bftys tliat some husbands arc going so far as to have their names struck off the rail because the ladies are to ba enrolled. Such lunatics should never have been placed on the roll. Sir B. Stout has accepted the requisition j from Wellington residents, . and will be ai candidate for the City of Wellington Seat at the cdmirig election-. bv E. H. Mnvsinlil, of Wanganui, who hns !fev?h hi practice there for twent.vjyears, was committed for trial at Wanganui yesterday, for an attempted indcr-enl n :••.;■ nit on a girl 11 years of nm>: Tom Sullivan, who beat Bubear the other day !or the rowing championship of England, was born in Auckland on 18th of September, Itf6B, and ha? lived alongside the water all his life. He rowed his first race in 1882, when lie won a race for lads under 14 in Auckland. Up to the time ot his first professional race he had won 44 out of 40 races-. The time for his race last week was within one second of the fastest time recorded in a championship race, viz., 22min. 29sec. by W. Beach. He is now to row James Stanbury for the Championship ft! the World. Sullivan during his connection with the Wellington Bowing Club had many admirers, and they sent him over to Australia where he embraced rowing as a profession, and was for some time under the cave of Neil Matterson. His first contest as a professional rower was with Bubear in April, 1890, and was defeated. On the 11th May, 1891, he met Stephenson, for £200 aside, and defeated him. Ha again met Bubear, and also Dutch, and beat them both, These victories brought him into prominence in Australia, and he had no difficulty in arranging matches. Then came his match with Stanbury for the championship of the world in May, 1891, in which, however, he was beaten. A cable states that the Bev. Dr. Jowett is dead. Messrs Boss and Sand ford announce the arrival of their first shipments for the spring and summer seasons ex s.s. Duke of Devonshire, Matatua, Tanmi, and Kaikoura, which are now being opened up, and of which they propose making their first display in all departments on Thursday next, 14th inst, and following days, and respectfully invite the inspection of purchasers at the Bon Marche, Palmerston North.— Advx. Shopping at Te Aro Rouse means setting the choice of tne largest stock of new fashionable Drapery. It means you are buying at the lowest cash price and getting a bonus discount. We make special efforts to please our country customers. All goods are charged at Wellington cash prices and carriage is paid on all parcels of 20s and upwards. Send for patterns of our new Dresses and Delaines, our new Prints and Crepons, you will find the choice large and the colorings select. Enclose cash with all orders and they will be promptly executed and a bonus of 5% will be returned on all purchases of 20s and upwards from Te Aro House, Wellington.