Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, FEB. 17, 1894.

Manawatu Herald, 17 February 1894, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, FEB. 17, 1894.

The managar of the Tramway has made arrangements to run a si3ecial train on Wednesday for the "Pinafore " performance. The train will -arrive at six and leave after the performance is concluded. A stja'-v sab will b 8 held on Tuesday a Awahnri. The Borough clerk notifies where the Valuation Lists can be inspected. Messrs Barber's invite tenders for making drains. Tenders close on the 2Gth in.st. The Messrs Loveday have an altered advertisement over the leador. The "booking" for Pinafore has been excellent, every reserved seat originally set apart has been taken up, and to meet the growing demand further accommodation is heing provided. - Edison has already had granted to him 720 patents, and has 150 applications oa the file ! In answer to a question as to what was the practical speed limit on the horizon of electrical locomotion, Mr Edison said | " perhaps 150 miles an hour ?" A man named Wyndham Carter, who. was at one time confined in a lunatic asylum, was charged at Bow street Police Court on February 12th, with having threatened to kill the Queen unless his claim to an earldom was recognised. He was remanded for medical examination. Nice young men. The unemployed agU tators iv London are urging that the Duke of Westminster and other aristoorats he ' hanged from lamp-posts, as was done in Paris during the Revolution. It is said that one of the strangest bo* tanical curiosities in the world is the " Wonder- Wonder " flower found in the Malay Peninsula. It is simply a blo3sotn, without leaves, vine, or stem, and grows as a parasite on decayed wood. This extraordinary flower is something like a yard in diameter, and has a globular cup in the middle with a capacity of five or six quarts. To encourage any others. A Eussian officer has been hanged at Odessa for divulgiug army secrets to a foreign Power. Where are the Good Templars ? The War Office experts report very favourably of Victorian brandy. Another injustice to New Zealand! An English dairy company in Bombay is .offering to sell Indian butter in London at9d per lb., free of all charges. A trial ship:ment has been ordered. William Stewart, second engineer of the steamer Waikato, has been committed to gaol for a month with hard labour for disobeying orders. Mr Poster, chief engineer, deposed thai; on returning to the ship he found the defendant drunk in his berth. The refrigerating engines were going slow, and the temperature in the meat ohambers was raised five degrees. Mr Foster Btated that there were no firemen in the stokehole and the fires were dying away and in another hour if this condition of affairs had lasted there would have been a probability of 2200 tons of meat cargo on board being seriously deteriorated, if not utterly ruined. His Worship informed the accused that it was lucky for him a more serious charge had not been preferred by the master of the ship, as in that oase if conviction had followed not only imprisonment would have been inflicted but the certificate of acoused would have been forfeited.

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