Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1894.

Manawatu Herald, 3 April 1894, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1894.

Early on Monday morning, between 1 and -2 o'clock a.m. a smart earthquake was experienced here. The shake was long but even, and was preceded by a loud rumble. There is a big fresh in the river .to-day. Mr Bennett, of Palmerston, is at present camping on the beach with a large part of his Sunday school class. They return on Saturday. Mrs Anreason has some lodgers who are down to enjoy the health-giving breezes of the ocean. The railway authorities have agreed with the Hon. Sec. of the Kacing Club to collect the gate' money to the course at Feilding and Palmerston. This concession should prove of great advantage to the purchasers of those privileges. An infant, five days old. the child of Mr Peter Young, of Carnarvon, died la»t night from convulsions. A message was sent to Dr Dernier but he was away but was seen last night at the railway station. No inquest is considered necessary. The next English and European mail via San Francisco will close at the local office on Tuesday, the 17th April at 8 p m. ; also at the same time the mail via Rio de Janiero per Ruapehu. Mesbi'3 Loveday announce that they have still a few hundred pounds worth of goods saved from the fire which must be sold before the arrival of their winter goods. Messrs Abraham and Williams hold a Btock sale at Palmerston on Thursday. Dr Dernier has an altered notification about accounts due to him. " If ifs and amis were pots and pan 3 " what would the Farmer do ? In a notice about Foxton the Shannon paper writes— " If Foxton is ever to be a port of significance ; // the town is ever to bs the scene of business activity ; " just so, but there are too many if* to save the pleasant intention of the writer from being seen. Foxton we know is only a Borough with a population a little over 1200, whilst Shannon is the proud possessor of a Nation within its boundaries, and it would appear as though the Fanner was content to be the representative of that Nation and nothing more. The notice we inserted prior to the excursion to the Kapiti has had a wider effect than we expected. It has brought life and hope to the editor of the Advocate. We have stood the test and have so worded the matter, as Shakespeare puts it, " which madness would gamble from." The previous opinions of editors by the editor of the Advocate appears to have been that they were mad, all mad, but he breaks out now with the knowledge that we " cannot be incurable;" From this O ! Advocate take hope. In M elbon: ue there has been a discussion as to lighting the Albert Hospital with kerosene in place of gap, the mover of the motion asserting that kerosene would show a^nft*V Igiof1 giof' < pp < UJ5r oentt- (The President belfewkSu p«*<Jnt> iv\»dl4 «&& saved. The manager of a large lodging-house stated he had used kerosene in placo of gas for six months and had effected a saving of 70 per cent, including breakages and the work of a man for lamp cleaning. It U now probable that the German national monument to Bismarck, for which />!>oufc £00,000 has already been collected, w.il be erected somewhere near the new Imperial House of Parliament on the Konigsplatz, where also stands the Victory Column commemorating the three campaigns which made Germany one: But, much to the regret of the committee, the statue will not be allowed to take an equestrian shape, such a form of monumental honour, in Uerlin being only granted to Bqyalty. A Berlin wit once remarked that the Prussian idea of Heaven was for a man to be on horsebaok ordering about a less fortunate fellow creature on foot. As indicative of what can be done in the way of loading the direot boats lying at the roadstead, (says the Chronicle) we may mention that the Wanganui Freezing Works put" on board the s.s. Hawke's Bay no less than 14,683 carcases of sheep and lambs between Saturday night and Wednesday morning last. There was also shipped 200 casks of tallow and 140 bales of wool. This is not a bad record when it is remembered that our tenders have to work by tides. When in Tasmania (says the South Australian Register), an Adelaide politician was told of a coincidence which in a novel would appear too improbable. The greatest bully and fighter in Hobart was the son of a convict who had been found guilty of the murder of a gentleman in England. An officer landing from a man-of-war for the first time' in Tasmania, by interfering to protect someone from the Hobart bully, had to fight the latter, and gave him his first good thrashing. It subsequently transpired that this officer "was the only son of the man the bully's father had murdered. : customs*, are exceedingly barbarous,' but judging from what we learn of them from, the Bey. D. Carnegie's article " Among the Matabele," appearing in the " Sunday at Home " of last December, they do not appear unwise. This i 3 what he says : — :" Lazy persons who will not help in sowing or reaping are driven from town to town. No work, no food, is the motto for them. The queens themselves -dig their gardens, and everybody who can must help to prepare f of the dry season." In the Vancouver province is a fine fruit-growing valley amongst the snow-olad peaks of the Bookies at an elevation of 1,200 ft above sea level, where it is neo«s« gary to irrigate, owing to the very limited rainfall. This is the Okanaghan Valley, and the Governor-General of Canada, Lord Aberdeen, has bought several thousand acres of land, and has planted a large area with fruits, especially prunes. Referring to the establishment of dOgracing as a popular sport in London (it having been until recently confined almost entirely to the north country), the London Sportsman of 30th ' January says:— 1 Whippet racing ha 9 come to stay, and judging by the success of the meeting held yesterday at the Kensal Rise Athletic Grounds, the sport will become much more popular in the near future. The card arranged was a £25 Handicap promoted by the proprietors of the Sportiny Mirror, and for this 121 dogs were entered. These were divided into 23 heats, so that before the final was reached a good afternoon's I sport was provided. The winner turned I up in Red Rose, 28J yards start, owned by J. Wiustanley, of Blackpool " The Administrator of New Guinea reports the discovery of a splendid seam of , coal near the Binary river.

Radicalism does not "a gentlemanly tone implant" in its professors as at the annual meeting of the Council of the Liberal Badical Union on March sth, Mr (ieo. Hoirell) M.Pi, an advanced Liberal, in favour of Home Ruie, seconded ft motion, but said he did so with regret, because he thought Mr Gladstone had been hounded out of political life. (" Ohs.") Mr Howell said it was useless to disgnise matters! btit the supposition tfas that the old lady of Windsor— (hisses and "oh ") —desired his retirement, and that some of his old colleagues had not been as strong \ as they might have been in keeping the Grand Old Man at his post. How convenient it is for Ministers to have an " organ " tf only the Wellington Times. It gives them an opportunity to show off their " laming" and the reporter's also. On Saturday an interview with the Minister of Education ended thus, thrown out, we may be sure offhand and without " any playing up to " as the ' pros' would say "To judge from a discussion at its last meeting !> concluded the Minister for Education, "the members of the Wellington Board are about, to refresh their memories with a perusal of -' As You Like It.' The statements I have been referring to irresistibly turn one's thoughts to the companion play of ' Much Ado About Nothing." At any rate, Mr Eeevos," remarked the reporter, " you seem from this statement to have given them ' Measure for Measure.' " The Wellington Education Board are a set of nincompoops by the N.Z. Times leader. They have dared to frame a report contrary to the wishes of Ministers and their newspaper declares —" There is only one thing for the Board to do if it wishes to preserve the respect of the public. It must withdraw its report, and compose a fresh one, specifically withdrawing the misrepresentations and apologising for the same. In common honesty, in common decency, in common justice, we call upon the Board to take this course. If it does not make its withdrawal as public as ils most unwarrantable charges, the public will withdraw its confidence irrevocably and deservedly." If the Board should do anything of the sort we wonder how much confidence would be placed in it for the future. A mob in Texas placed an innocent negress accused of murder in a spiked barrel, and after closing the ends rolled her down hill till she died. Miss Mary Krout, correspondent of the Inter-Ocean, has arrived in Auckland by the Alameda to write up New Zealand for American journals.