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Manawatu Herald, 29 March 1894, Page 2

Cable news is seldom exhiliratiug, but sometimes it is amusing. To-day we have an instance, a copy of Landseer's great picture of " Dignity and Impudence " in print. Denmark "to maintain the peace of Europe is ready to reduco the military expenditure " What a sigh of relief must have boeu fr'-i-u by Statesmen, as this magnificieni country possesses an army of (10,000 men! Germany has only an army of 1,500,000 and France, when the army is on a war footing has 2,000,000 ■men. If Denmark makes too serious reductions there will be hardly any army left. .... As a drop of water discovers a leak so does an inquiry for flax suggest a chance of better times. A flax-miller obligingly showed'us a letter from a Wellington firm, the first he has received for months, asking him to quote the lowest price for a small \::... !of his well-known brand of flax. A number of onr flaxmiller?' teams are now earning good pay at metalling contracts in the country round about. Mr A. Jonson who has the contract for the r-rection of two shops on ' Main street for Mr 'I hynne has made a fair start and hopes to have the framing up this week. We notice that bricks have been used instead of blocks for the foundations. The shops will have each a frontage of 24 feet with a' depth of 30 feet. Messrs Gorton and Bon's Sandon sale is advertised. To-morrow, at Peilding, Messrs Gorton and Son hold a large stock sale. A very neat, addition has been made to Mrs Burr's residence on tne Motoa road. A meeting of those interested in dairy matters, milkers and those holding land, is convened for Thursday next at Messrs McMillan, Rhodes & Co.'s auction rooms., Mr McMillan is holding a &ale of drapery at Shannon to-day. We said in our last issue that cabmen in London were honest, and we have no desire to withdraw the statement, but though it may sound passing strange we record that the inhabitants of this district are just a little too honest for the advantage of a newspaper man. On Tuesday we adver tised for a beautiful black plush jacket and the next day into our office it came, not, of course, by itself, but with a very obliging gentleman. Many thanks— next time, only just a hint, it is better to. be sure than rash, the advertisement would have made us none the poorer had it remained in a a little longer. The Gazette has repnblished for general infornjaiioij a v ,digost .of "-The AnimaU Protection Act Amendment Act, 1889/' which is., now,in force. Section 4 states that no person Bhall kill, destroy, or shoot at any game or native game with anything but a shoulder gun, and no gun shall exceed size No. 10 at muzzle, or be fitted with barrels more than 36in in length. No gun shall exceed 101 bin weight. The penalty for offending against this provision is £10. By section 5, any person exposing any native game for the purpose of sale without previously taking out the required license, to be obtained from the Secretary of the local Acclimatisation Society for £1, is liable to a tine of £20. It is always a pleasure to find a hot name for an old thing. " King " Reddon is getting stale, it is not polite to describe the Ministry as wooden heads, but from the discovery by the Pelorns Guardinnthat rimn or red pine drives bugs away, it seems almost appropriate to style Messrs Seddon & Co " the Red Pine Ministry " for i 3 it not their desire to be able to drive bug', the " big bugs " (a term frequently applied by their supporters to the class of large landholders), away ? Nothing to be excited about. The Anckland Weekly News commences a leader with " The Hon Mr Seddon is now pledged beyond the possibility of drawing back, to the opening of the King Country and the overthrow of all obstacles which may thwart or delay." Mr Seddou was | also pledged .to do various things for this ■ town, pledged months ago, but np to the preset we have noticd nothing different. The King Country .will probably be treated in the same way. It is " a way they have in the Ministry, and so say all of U3."

The London cablegrams say there is a ! steady demand for fiax, but the prices quoted are insufficient to pay the exporter. Poor man ! he might keep cool over his misfortunes but he does not. In the latest Fortnightly Itrvlen; Mr H. 0. Forbes (formerly of Christohurch), again discusses the theory of a missing Southern Continent. Tins colony baa been known to fame as the Great Loan Land, ana owing to the taxa..lion necessary to supply the interest and also to find wages for Ministers '■ unemployed " pets, many unfortunate settlers have lost their land, but the have never gone to that extreme length of expec.ing -to meet it once again in the Sweet By and Bye in an absconding continent. They know ccly too well who has got hold of their property. Mr C. B. Balfour, Conservative, and Mr Tennent, Liberal, have been nominated for the Berwick seat, rendered vacant by the accession of Mr Majoribanks to the peerage. Some of last week's excursionists are of the same opinion Benevolent old gentleman r " Dont yon think fishing cruel sport ?" Fisherman s " 1 should just think ir ivris, I'vp b?en Bitting h?ve fivi» hours and never had a bite, and I've got three wasp s'-ings, and boen eaten up with flie3, and the sun's taken all the skin off the back of my neck." '- Tomatoes are selling by the ton in Cromwell district. A judge hiis ruled that a husband, going to Hve away from his wife at his mother's house was rightly charged with desertion, but forgot to mention the right charge, for when the wife's mother came to stay at the husband's house. The Sydney BuUttln states that they have threepenny bookmakers in Melbourne now — individuals who look 'ike Joe Thompson viewed through the wrong end of a telescope. One of the most enter- j prising of them Is said to have started with a capital of a halfpenny. A very hard winter and great dearth of employment are expected in Melbourne. A story is told of the late Deau Stanley's poor appreciation of arithmetic. However an English paper gravely chronicles that 11 A Croydon gentleman, who sued a firm of solicitors to recover certain letters or damages, wns awarded one farthing. A« the defendant had paid £2 into court, the judge ordered the repayment to him of j £1 19s lli£d," upon the assumption that j either there was a doubt about the change or that it was " greatly to his (the judge's) credit " to do it so accurately. Yankee ingenuity has devised some kind of prescription known as " dope," by which a hoi'Rf! can be made to run n. furious rnce when he has a " shot" of ifc in him by subcutaneous injection, and will uot try without it after he has once been " doped." Several parties were caught at this kind of work during the San Francisco meeting, and indefinitely disqualified. When a horse 13 at 8 to 5 he gets no " shot," and does not run even 1-2-3. After his profitless outings on several occasions bring him down to about 0 to 1 then he gets a v shot," and tries to make a runaway race of it. They expel men at the East for having the article in their possession, whether they use it or not. Its price is 10 dollars a bottle, compounded by a Chicago rascal, who is making a fortune out of it. When Mr Irving leave 3 America on the 21st of this month, he will have realised a haudsome fortune by hi 3 trip in the New World. Up to the end of Dpcember his receipts amounted to £90,000, of which £12,000 was taken in San Francieeo, £29.000 in Chicago, and £40,000 in New York. Some very ancient books are to be found in the sacred relics of Ceylon. They are formed of palm leaves, written upon with a metal pen, and are bound merely by a j silken string. |