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Manawatu Herald, 17 March 1894, Page 2

T v ol.ls*l *o-c 7 v? if: "i Patvlclv-' ">•}' '■>' ! the- r'orn'-i «tre Jtcepia- op-3&. &~d vri!l be • closed al. day oa .Tuesday, ins.cad of the usual half-holiday. The nominations for the Foxton Racing Club's Autumn meeting appear elsewhere, and the Club and honorary secretary, are to be congratulated on the number received. • Our local firm of" auctioneers, Messrs McYlillan, Rhodes & Co. have been very busy this'week, Mr McMillan, the auctionneer, having held a sale of drapery at Otaki on Wednesday and Manakau on Friday. It is evident that the firm is getting its hold on business" of this kind in this district. • Both sales 1 Were very successful. Messrs Abraham& Williams hold a sale at Otaki on Tuesday. Mr Stansell is determined no one shall remain .^away: :from the garden party lot want of means to get there as he has fixed the fares at the low irate of one shilling for the trip there and back For many-minutes b'efcfre the curtain rose for the performance of "H.M.S. Pinafore " last night, says the Star, one of the players came so close to it that his boots were " a prominent feature," while the tip of his nose, uiakiiig a little * projection on the doth indicated; that-' 1 an eye " was inclose proximity thereto -watching the audience. The boots excited, the most eager attention of the spectators for they (the boots) had seen some service, apparently in a garden, and were marked accordingly. When the curtain was raised. the occupant of the boots was looked for eagerly, and a sigh of satisfaction wa# given by more than one fair lady when*lie was discovered. Who he was this deponent sayeth not. Batting on the University boat race is how at seven to two on Oxford. , A Palmerston. paper says :—A local resident was presented by his wife the other day with their 2ist child. ... The shooting season for native and imported game in the Waoganui District opens on the 23rd inst. There is great scarcity of provisions at Goolgardie. Flour is unobtainable at £6 per 501 b bag. The camel teams charge £60 to £70 per ton carriage. In Dunf din the Other evening, the Salvation rmy (says the Daily Timts i had a " novel-burning night." In the centre of the ring on a bier were placed. " yellowback" of all kinds, ranging from "Bluecap, the Bushranger;" to some of Besant's works. The proceedings were under the leadership of Captain Chappie and Lieu-' tenant Mathers. The former declared if persons gave their time, money, and admiration to novels they were idolaters quite as much as the heathen who worshipded his ugly elephant. Works like ) Bnnyan's and " Uncle Tom's Cabin," written for a purpose, Were excepted; but the average religious novel was denounced in scathing terms, and was a "yellow* j back " without the cover*, with a dash of ; religion tacked 6q/to gall professors of religion. After some singing and addresses, : ioiUj 300 books and periodicals were, do*--1 iroyed. j A contemporary says:—Mr Hannay, ! late: Railway Commissioner, ■ intends to j take up pastoral pursuits. Tie Government are considering the ad- J vis"ablene3s of abolishing the post of Chief Judge of the Native Land Court. . Mr Justin McCarthy has been re-eleoted chairman of'the Irish Party. . The Belgian Government is buying up the frontier railway?, with a view to enabling rapid mobilisation. Xiii, a messenger from the chief Rewi, interviewed Mr S.eddon at Auckland in reference to a 'memorial Rewi wished raised, and of whioh he recently wrote to Sir George Gray. Kiti mentioned that they had met to select a suitable time and arrange for an inscription. A suggestion was made that the monument should on one side bear a of. the signing of the Treaty of WsiUDgi; that on the next side tliei-e should be a scene representing fighting between the two forces; on the third, partial peace, and on the \ last a Maori and European shaking hands j behiud the figures of Sir George Grey and Rewi. Rewi had also expressed a hope tha,t when he died a brass band should go to Puriri and play the Dead March " in " Saal." Mr Seddon readily undertook to do ail he could in the .matter...,.■_■' A colonial farmer now in Australia writes:—lt is impossible for farming to ! pay a' present prices. Up coumry wheat is an low as Is 8,1 and U per bu.shi.l. 1 Th-r«? nv son**, rpry. ■»arg? wiy«t.fields now in Viotoria, as much as 9,000 acres in one fiftld in the Mallee country,. whioh, a few- years »go war «'■•. rabbit homestead. The Government'offered special advantages to seleotors to take up this. Mallee country for .the purpose of eradicating the rabbits, with the result that those selectors can grow wheat of tne best quality in any quantity at a cofltttftabout 7s 6d per acre for.putting in, ya&f&e ajngper isateo* for harvesting. The price of threshing is very much redac^-oats i \0» per. 100? tfushelß and wheat 12* (that is exclusive, of Übour and board for mfcn), -and with «om« maohtoe owner* frQm Bj|^t9 p.er. cen» IeBS. ' •••_:••-•■•■ A Chinese merchant at Futschau has discovered near thHoreign colony there a large treasure buried in some ooflJua on the slope of a hilk r It ttWllopg >wa soppo9ed that a considerable treasure must have been hidden since the rebellion id Tftiping, but hlthprto all researches were in vain. Now om Wong Hengeli has found about 2.000;000dolB.. and intends to give a festival in honor of his patron cod. to whom, as he says, he prayed tp ihave the.place of the treasure revealed. Some documents were 1 also found, saying that more monpy was buned in the neighbourhood, and people are now busy digging up the hill. The bottom of the Pacific between Hawaii and f alifornia is said to be so level ♦hat a raiVnod could b» laid «vithoot alter, iDg :he g.ad-- anywhere. This faot was rt'se-wrd hy 'h»U>ft»d "tat.e<« •nirvevjn? Tassel engaged in making soundings with the vi*>w. of laying » oable* An advertiser: wants to purchase a good second-hand -portable steam engine from "2% to 4 horse-power. On: Monday Messrs Gorton & Son hord a clearing-out sale at Catnpbelltown. The throne of Behanzin. is now in the Ethnographic fifnssttm, ftt t^e;Trooade¥(^ It is a single block of wood, slightly curved at the top, and covered with rudely-carved

The garden party on Tuesday promises I to be a very pleasant gathering judging from the number who are talking of going. The more the hleMei 4. We have been asked to mention that Bhould the day prove pouring wet the party will be held the following day, We trust, however, that the | day will be all that is desired. Arrangements ia the train service for tho Easter holidays appear elsewhere. From Vienna comes news of a strange malady with which a young lady in the Austrian capital has been seized. A short time ago the lady in question noticed a sdufi'l proceeding from the internal organs of her body. She caw some physicians and was assured by them that the I scuudn. v.'L.eh wst? (nareu—.y ni-5..:*.., were the resul. ot the extraordinary action of her heart. The young lady has been greatly annoyed by the strange phenomenon and declares that if they do not soon cease, she is certain she will become insane. The smallest school in Prussia is undoubtedly at Schulpforta, where there is a rudimentary school with just one seven-year old pupil and three teachers —namely, one Philologist, a music direotor, and*a writing master. • The catalogue of the books on the shelves of the French National Library has at last been completed, and numbers upwards of 2,200,000 volumes, which figure does not include the unbound pamphlets, etc., of which there are about 100;000 more. The returns just published for 1898 show that there were 117.013 readers in the hall reserved for ticket-holders, and 48,504 attendants in the Salle Colbert, To the former no less than 430,875 books were delivered, and to the latter 77,146. It is evident from the foregoing figures that the number of reader,, as well as of books, has nearly doubled within the past decade.