Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, FEB. 20, 1894.

Manawatu Herald, 20 February 1894, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, FEB. 20, 1894.

A gold watch has been lost, and the finder is requested to return it to the office of this pnptr. In another column Ihe Drapery, Clothing and Importing Co. announce that they will open up, for one week only, at the Tramsheds, to-morrow, a large and valuable stock of drapery. The Mayor had a drunk brought before him yesterday morning, known as " French Charlie," and extracted from him the sum of five F.hi'liuKS for the benefit of Her Majesty the Qaoen, as it is call id, but really for a -part of the Colony's revenue. A sharp and white frost was experienced here early yesterday morning. Mossrs- Abraham <&• Williams advertise entries for the Colyton ?ale. A fatality appears to be attached to Mr McCloskoy's public acts, causing them to bo placed before the public incorrectly. In putting the resolution proposed by Mr McC!os!;ey before the meeting the Mayor read it wrong, which might be accounted for by the want of light, but to such a wholesouled Liberal as Mr McCloskey prides himself upon being, it must be galling to find that ever-perfect Ministerial Wellington morning journal lend a hand to further mix matters up in its report, by again giving a wrong rendering of it. As a sample of the energy shown by Mr and Mrs Stansell in preparing the banquet for the Mayor, we may mention that the order war not givrn till Tuesday afternoon, yet on Friday night the following bill of faro was presented to the guests :— Roast duck, roast fowls, steak and oystpr pie, gib'ot riml hr>m pi', vrwef saddle of mutton, must eir'mn of !>-{, 'Pongiv\ haul. Sweets — Jjiaue m tinge, stewed fruit, mince pies, tartlets, jellies, trifle, tipsy cake, boiled custard. Fruits — Grapes, peaches, plums, apple?. The Right Hon. H. C. Gardher, President of the Board of Agriculture, in answer to a question in the House of Commons, said tho merchandise Marks Act was sufficient to prevent colonial meat being sold as English. We acknowledge the receipt of a pamphlet by Mr A. W. Bevan on clover growing. It is a compilation of information gained from all the be3t authorities. The crop is strongly recommended as it leaves the land better for the crop, it only occupies the land for four months and leaves a lot of feed for ths rest of the year, and that the average yield of seed is a sack to the acre, ■which at Gd a pound equals £6. The total length of the waterway of the Manchester Ship Canal, which was opened on New Year's Day, is fifty-five and a half miles, with an average width of water level of 172 ft, and at bottom of 120 ft. The depth throughout is 26ft, and this can^be increased by 2ft. The length of the quays at Manchester are one mile and threequarters, and at Salford (a town adjoining Manchester) three miles. There is, also ample accommodation at Warrington. Daniel Adamson, the projector of the undertaking, and Mr Walker, the contractor for the works, did not live to see the fulfilment of their labours. Li .tie people and wicket! people should never pla.r vi'.h edg.d tools. A p'ayiV. Anarchist, now only known to fame, alas too late for his personal glorification was found terribly shattered by soine'substafide intended ~to shatter someone else. 'The report goes that- the keeper of the park, near Greenwich Observatory, heariug a report, proceeded in the direction of the scene. This was at 6 o'clock in the evening. He found the man with his left haud and wrist blown away, his legs shattered, and his stomach torn open. The clothing of the man had been torn to shreds. While suffering terrible agony he gasped, " Take me home !" He was removed to the hospital, but died in a few-minutes. In his pockets were found cards engraved, " Marshal Bourden, Autonomic Anarchist Club, Great Lichfield-street," also small packages of an unknown powder, the properties of which have yet to be analysed..^ As it should be. The Rev. W. G. Ha-lse*. Vicav of Holy Trinity, Bridlington Quay, Yorkshire, arranged for a series of mission services in his parish church, from the 3rd to the lOfh December last, of a unique character. It was a practical effort in the direction of re-union, the preachers being drawn from the ranks of the clergy, Dissenting Ministers and others. Thus on ©n Sunday evening the 3rd December, the preacher was a Baptist, on Monday a Primitive Methodist, on Tuesday the Vicar of Chri3t Church, on Wednesday the Vicar himself, on Thursday the Rector of Bridlington, on Friday a Baptist, and on Saturday a Congregationalist and on tho 10th Deppmbpr TV F. C. Brett, a layman. M>- W-hh U- ."v ; "i! tlv "Rink of &'i«st«<i.. : lasia a new copi of paint, the previous ones having suffered by the fires which him lßteljr oMUffc&

[ We very :nuoh regret to have to record I that Mrs Xlhodes lies very ill in Wellington I and Mr Rhodes left on SiUnrd"." ' j *•;■). hrr - vVe '..«« tftat weVy have I ' '. to 'report a*, to her health next | i:':SlU'. j Tiie new building of the Young Men's | Christian Association of Chicago wa? ! opened on 12th November last. It is thirteen stories high and will cost, wlvn furnibhcd compUje ) ..9O.0 J ooCLtk>ls.. .The value I of Uie »rountl is 705,000 dol*, making a j rj.-nnd total of 1,(105.000 dols. It is the '■ I'uK-.st V.M.C.A. building in the world, j Amongst its new attractions are cycling i room, pwimrjing bath, photographic dark room, industrial room, tennis courts, observatory, clay modelling", science, carpentry, and forge rooms. ' The three oldest members of the House of Commons are Mr C. P. Villiers, who is ninety-one years of age, Mr Isaac Holden who h eighty-six, and Mr Gladstone who is eighty-iive. Mr Gladstone's official career opened in 1834 as a Lord of the ! ' r -.'T.-un- !V> the Ar!m : r.:7*v?,tior. of S"r ' ! \>b"r P •'•!. T?, -v ftF :;io- i n v.i-fev- Conservative, a strenuous supporter of Church and State, and, generally .--peaking, held the opinions which he now repudiates, and denounced those which he now holds. Between November Ist. 18'J2 and October 31st. 185)3 the. number of meals supplied by the Social Wing of the Salvation Army was 3,580,.59G, and men sheltered l,ot)i,o7iS. Such a work has never before, - \vi> should think, been accomplished by any philantropic organization. ! The Pope in his last encyclical agrees , with St. Jerome that ignorance of scripture is ignorance of Christ. At Lhe beginning of the present year no 1 le?s than five Bishoprics are vacant in Australia and New Zealand, two being in the ! former, viz., Grafton and Armidale, and Perth, and three in the latter, viz., Wel- , lington, Waiapu and Melanesia. The British Revenue Returns show a decrease ip every one of the three quarters of ' the financial year up to 31st December last, in the last quarter the decrease has been £572,000. The deficiency on the three quarters ampuffts to .£1,843,301. It seems • • provable the Chancellor of the Exchequer will have to announce a deficit of two millions when he makes his next : Budget statement; .