Manawatu Hearald. TUESDAY, JAN. 23. 1894.

Manawatu Herald, 23 January 1894, Page 2

Manawatu Hearald. TUESDAY, JAN. 23. 1894.

The 7 imea understands that Messrs Midland Hamlin, Maori interpreters in the House of Representatives, have received notice that their engagement terminates on the 31st of March next.

The Rimutaka took from Wellington for London 317 tons of butter and 38 tons cheese. The total quantity of dairy produce taken by the vessel was 452 tons.

At the Dunedin Education Board meeting, Mr T. Mackenzie, M.H.R., asked if any regulation existed preventing children from attending school barefooted. Receiving a reply in the negative, he said an instance of children being sent home because they had no boots on had come under his notice. Several members thought it was a very good thing to see children going to school barefooted.

The girl Lizzie Price, charged with in fanticide, has been committed for trial.

The French press is publishing reports to the effect that the King of Italy is seriously thinking of abandoning the country. Queen Margherita is represented as being always in tears, and passing whole days in prayer.

It is believed that Russia will rent Poros. permanently and fortify the island.

It is reported that the Chief of Police in Jacksonville, Florida, has sworn in 400 special constables to arrest the State militia if the Governor's orders to the militia to stop the Corbett-Mitchell fi^ht are disobeyed.

Mr Blake, M.P., appeals to Irish sympathisers to raise £48,000 of which £9000 is wanted for payment of members.

Fair Play says : — Donal 1 Fraser, who tried to oust J. G. Wilson for the Otaki seat but failed, talks about running a paper in his own interest should he again contest the seat. Take ouv advice, Donal dear, and don't. You'll find the "saxpences" going out at a perfectly terrible rate, and in nine cases out of ten it does a caudidate more harm than good to have a rag of his own eternally cracking him up and running down the other fe'low. Also, we might ask, what's the matter with the Manawatu titamlard, and the Shannon paper as Liberal journa's ! There are far too many papers already between Wellington and Wanganui without another being started. Keep your " saxpences " in your pocket, friend Donal. If you just bide a wee, 1 you may beat J.G., but having your own particular rag to run you, won't help you one iota.

The present Railway Commissioners have been informed that their services will not be required after the 27th instant, and Mr McKerrow is the on'y one re-appointed, Mr Maxwell, so it is said, not desiring reappointment, and Mr Hannay is to be found some other position. Mr Thomas Ranayne. at present district manager at Greynnuth, and Mr J. L. Scott, of the firm of Scott Bros of Christchurch, have been appointed in their place. These appointments ar^. only for nine months.

The late Dr Puspy, an early director, if not the founder of the Rituali tic movemont in th« Church of England, and whr died in 1882. in his •• manual for Confessors " recommends as a " mortification," that a Fa'htor Uonfesaor shall impose upon Sisters of Mercy the " Diccip'ine " foj about a quarter of an hour a day ; that if> ninety-one hourg of hard whipping pel annum, on thpir bare hacks with a cat-o 1 nine-mils. The "Dipcipline" Dr Pusey first proenrrd from the Continent, and he dtscrib- a it as " of a very sacred character ; five cords each, with five knots, in memory of the five wounds of our Lord."

Professor Tyndall, who signalized himself by writing against and denying the credibility of miracles and the efficacy of prayers, and to whom Agnosticism owes much of its present influence and whose death- on the 4th December last was announced by cable, was a descendant of William Tyndall the translator of thp Bible who suffered martyrdom at the stake in 1536.

The Pope does not intend to quarrel with Hungary about the Civil Marriage Bill. He will merely protest.

Mr J. Townsend, French J.P., a member of a well-known and aristocratic Iripb family has become a maker of patent medicines.