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Manawatu Herald, 24 February 1894, Page 2

In auother column Mr Satherley adver tises some good weaners for sale. Messrs McMillan Rhodes & Co advertise • a billiard table, and fittings for sale by i auction on Saturday next. When the N. Z. Time* ventures to _ report anything in the country districts it displays a woeful ignorance of geography. Eveu as to places so close to Wellington ha Palmerston it manages to get into a fog. In yesterday's issue it records that a lire occurred at Oroua Bridge, between Palmerston North and Lonybarn, which to say the least is rather hard to beat. Sister Mary Joseph Aubert is sueing O. I. Kempthorne for £500 for damages for I breach of agreement,' in the Wellington Supreme Court, and there is a counter claim for a similar amount. It is not yet settled. The Police Court was crowded yesterday to hear the charges against the lad* Dunn's and Mos--. They were small in statue but old in years and mischief. The youngest lad was over 10 years of age and the two others were II) and 20 years old. Their conduct app°ars to have been most extraordinary, eFp-cially vhrn i*: is known that it was not incited by drink. The fines though not heavy individually amounted to a large sum collectively but it appsared to the Bench better io be severe in this way rather than subjecting the boys to the infection of imprisonment. The power to order a good flogging appears wanting in such . cases. It is to be hoped parents will read a caution and b« more interested in their children's move* ments in the future. The Athletic Sports, which were proposed to be held on Easter Monday, have been postponed till Queen's Birthday when a good programme is likely to be arranged. On Thursday afternoon O'Connor's mill at Oroua Bridge was burnt. Six tons of fibre was destroyed. Loss estimated at £700. Contractors are reminded that tenders close on Monday night for draining on the Himatangi. A full meeting of the " Pinafore " com. pany was he'd at Whyte's Hotel last night, at which much business was discussed. A vote of thanks was passed to the Secretary. Mr .T. R. Stansell, and also to Messrs Hillary, Hotcp, and Startup. Mr McCrea was elected as the new secretary. It \va3 also decided to give a performance of the Opera at popular prices od Thursday next. The fete in the grounds of the Wellington hospital appvas to have been a success on Wedno day, the gate money having '; amounted :0 £75. The election petition against the return of Sir Robert Stout has ended in a " fizzle," the Judges ruling that there had not been a delivery within the meaning of the Act. The question of costs was to have been discussed this morning. We have received a cable message stating that Mr T. S. Horsfall has resigned and closed his connection with the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency • P^ >vi pany, Limited, and with the New Zruland Land Association, Limited, and has, with the unanimous approval of the directors and shareholders of Goldsbrough, i Mort and Co., Limited, returned to that I Cpmpany, of which he was formerly a director. This ensures a large addition to the business of Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., and has given much satisfaction in pastoral and .commercial circles. Mr Gladstone in reply to a question, said he was unable to_ treat the Brazilian insurgents as belligerents in the absence of any evidence that they had formed a Government or occupied territory. A Press Association telegram from Masterton slates that a writ claiming £1000 j damages for alleged libel was sewed on the Wairarapa Star yesterday afternoon at the instance of Mr R. P. Greville, engineer, Pahiatua. The English Midland Railway Company, ftß in previous years, has just distributed £150 amongst the stationmastera on their system for the best-kept platform and flower garden. Considerable interest has been 'aroused in Johannesburg by the publication of the correspondence between the Imperial^ Government and Mr Baumann, attorney of that town, who believes, the Birkenhead, when she went down off the African coast more thau^forty yeans ago,., had. on board 30O;00Q Sovereigns packed in two. Safes. The ' Imperial Treasury stated > that ; Mr Baumann may retain two-thirds of all the treasurer he"' can * recover, , ,Kir. Baumann has accepted these terms,, and in . all, probability the interesting enterprise ' will be proceeded with at an early date. Easter falls thte s year on Lady Day. The Catholig Times states th^(s this only^ap,^ peried ' once ; befdre in the t f century, ' .'via , in 1851... EasteronXady Day. ia. an unumaliy 'early 'Biaaterl -The only earlier Easter in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are the following : — March 22nd, 1818 ; March. 23rd, 1845, 1856, 1913 ; March 24th, 1941. * A deputation from the Public Service Association waited on the Premier, urging classification, security of - -tenure, of office, that the age under which officers be allowed to enter the service be altered, and that men should not be accepted for positions which they are not oapable of filling. The Premier discussed mxtters with the deputation, and promised to oonßult his colleagues. They manage these things so much better in Prance. Pew men can distinguish at a £»lanc n the sex of a baby in arms. An:'., of cciU'se, the question is unimportant until the baby lias reached years of indiscrfition. p ut mothers resent mistakes on the part of bachelor friends. Nor are they deceived when it is diplomatically alluded to as "it." In France,. as.-we lparn from a Paris, correspondent, the path of the bachelor is smoothed. The nursemaid wears blue ribbons in her cop when she is carrying a boy, and red ribbons when h§r charge is a girl. "" ; l ' . '• >l< The Mercury 'states on ; "good authority that a number of trout have been lately destroyed by dynamite in the Rangitikei River, a few miles above the Onepuhi Bridge. It is too bad, after all the expense i which has been incurred by the local i Acclimatisation Society in stocking the river, that their efforts should bi thffftttfd

- Experience (says the LCndon NevVsj lias shown lhat on the earefully : pi:epl. : ed wickets of the preseiit day it is often a j^noiis risk to bowl and field through two innings in succession, and opinion was slowly ripening on the subject when the much discussed incident in the Oxford and Cambridge match last year of Mr Wells bowling a no-ball and a wide to the: boundary to prevent Oxford from following on, at once brought the question to the front. From that time so in is alteration to iitu laws was inevitable. The balance of expert opi-iion, as far as it has been expressed, i.-. in favour of the optional theory adopted by -the -Maryiebone -Committee-,* but there- -13 .considerable divergence of view. The chief objection to the optional plan is lhat it increases the advantage of winning the toss. This it must be admitted, is undesirable, but as the law stands now a sid a may often — on hard wickets— suffer by its own good play, and often gaining a lead of eighty or more runs lose all its advantage by going through a second innings with worn-out bowlers. It was recently reported how a loa constrictor in the Adelaide Zoological (hardens, getting his teeth caught in a mat in his cage, swallowed the mat. The South Australian Repress of the 3rd inst., supplies the sequel as follows : — The snake story, which has been under practical illustration at the Zoo, has reached its linal stage. On Friday evening, after a vain effort to digest the rug which it swallowed on 3rd of January, the boa constrictor disgorged it, after having retained it just over a month. ' The rug i» considerably snsalkr in size, having shrunk 2ft. In di.-pensing with the article tho boa constrictor knocked out several teeth, which were found iv tin material. Mr Minciiiu intends to have rug, which is the chap. 1 of the reptile, enclosed in a glass case. There is a law in Italy that old pictures, at leant in tin valuable collections, must not 1-iive the couulrv, but in spite of this i^g'jlii'!on, Prinnc lUrb-'rini Colonna di Sciarra brought soum of his pic'.uros to Frauc -• and dis-postd of them. The I'alian Government has tried to get the French law to order tin pictures to be seized and returned to Italy, but neither in the Court of Appeal nor in the Supreme Court has the application been successful. The great realising sale lasting for 20 days promises to be a gigantic success. The whole stock is to be offered at genuine reduced prices many of the lines will be marked at less than English cost at Te Aro House, Wellington. During the Great S,a'e Ladies' aprons will be gold at 4£d. 4 buttons Kid gloves all now fresh goods at 1/11 per pair. White and cream laces at 9d per doz. Ladies' linen collars new shapes at 3d each. Boy 3' sailor collars at 3d each, sold everywhere at Gd, at the Great Sale Te Aro House, Wellington. It will pay country customers to take a run down to the Great Realising Sale they will save all the expenses and be money in pocket by buying all they want while goods are so cheap. Orders from the country will be carefully selected and sent carriage paid from the Great Realising Sale at Te Aro House. We are requested to direct the attention of our readers to the fact that the Annual Sale of Surplus and Summer Stock will commence at The Bon Marohe, Falmeraton North, on Saturday, 13th January, and continue for 21 days. Buyers in this district will do well to pay the Bon Marche an early visit. 1