Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1894.

Manawatu Herald, 12 April 1894, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1894.

On Monday Messrs Abraham and Williams hold a sale ,at Bunnythorpe. : ; The usual horse sale at Palmerston will ..be-Jield-by-Messrs-Abraham, and.Williamson Saturday. The W.an]gan.ui> Education :Bp^d notifies in our advertising columns" that £he annual meeting 6f : householders- for the school districts of Foxton, Campbelltown, Oroua Bridge, Carnarvon and Moutoa,- will, be held on Monday, the 23rd of April, in the school house in each district. The Advocate says the last rain caused a flood in the Pohangina, which altered most of the fords, and has rendered travelling up the bed of the river dangerous after nightfall, owing to the numerous soft sand banks which were formed. During the case at Bow-street, in which a man was charged. with sending a threatening letter to the -Queen, one of her private secretaries said he knew that a number of letters received by the Queen were of a more or less mad character. It niaf'W of interest tc parents and ohildren : to. lear.n that. the way to employment on the State. railways lays through .the school. .Np person will.be eligible as a labourer or platelayer who has not an education equal to the Third Standard, nor as.ajpQrter, .shunter, or, cleaner, whp has not an education equal to the Fourth Staodard, uor as a cadet who has not passed an examination equivalent to the Sixth Standard. Roberts, the English champion billiard player, in his game with Peall, ended it with breaks of 340,327, 2G3, 206, 157, 104, 107, and 277 unfinished. Now that the Manawatu Eailway Com-pany-are proposing to start their morning train later for Palmerston, people say that the alteration should be resisted to the utmost. The stock sale at Foxton will be held to-morrow. A Dagnerreotypc (old fashioned photograph), in perfect preservation, was exhibited at Chicngo, dated 1840. Mr John Walsh has made great progress in his amateur photographing, and obtained some pleasing views of Kapiti on the fishing excursion of the Queen of the South to that Island. Moody and Sankey's hymn, "Hold the Fort," was suggested by a telegram from General Sherman, who, surrounded by an overwhelming force of confederates, General Corse managed to send him a telegram : "Hold the fort, I am coming." He did and Corse broke the investing lines and turned the tide of battle. We noticed the other day that a distinguished Frenchman had arrived at the conclusion that fish' could talk. It may be a discovery to him, but somebody else had very much the same opinion when he penned the following lines :•— ' : " When the sun's perpendicular rays Iliumine thn depths of the sea, The littli iishes exclaim By Jovt; ! how hot it-wilT be." To show how early the season in England was it may bo mentioned that tho first cousignmenLvpf vStijaiwfaerrjas grown in the 1 open faYri^ed* from * CJtfdjYafl jii Covent Garden oh 2nd'ft3fay.' The history of the Coal War in England has been put concisely thus : — Nearly one million of workmen idle for more than three months, 250 million of invested capital producing no return, and a direct loss of no less than thirty million pounds. All the observatories that have been made in recent years upon the deposits of the oceaufloor point to one conclusion, namely, that where the materials had once passed into a state of solution in the waters of the sea they can only be separated from it in the open ocean by the wonderful action of living -organisms. Dr" Dermer has secured ii consulting room at Levin, in a portion of the new hall now being finished,- and he purposes making regular visits to that township. This should be a great convenience to the settlors. On the 7th February, 18G3, fi.M.S. Orpheus, a new steamer, was wrecked on the Mauakau bar, and 190 of the crow were- drowned. A participator in that catastrophy- has just died at Sandwich, England. He was a veteran named Stupple, one of the famous naval brigade which assisted to land forces at the, siege of'Sebastbpol! He bought in the trenches throughout' -the Biege," inckfa'iri'g' the final bombardment' and evacuation by the Ruesions, and received the Turkish and ■Crimean War medals,- the latter' with 'the Sebastopol clasp, , . Subsequently -he was one of the crew of H.M.S. Orpheus. .. . " Disease," said Sir R. Quain, to medical students at Cardiff, "must not be treated by filling a physic bottle or a pill box wlthi;a great .variety -of "agenti -''pot together, as a sort pf medley shotfrom a "scatter gun,| aU firmed off at ,tb.e. game •m'onietit with thtf t liope"that r some brie or the 'other ' of its -pelletfe might prove Effective. Wo have now disoS'rd'efl 1 --those weapons, and use those of precision." The music in the parks under the jurisdiction of the London County Council cost. At an inquest at Mermondsey a girl, 11 years\&ff?g<£ $$10 3£ree.&j£ a&QitJftd that she had never before seen a Testament, nor had she been inside a church or chapel. The admissions drew forth the remark from the Coroner, ""We" Want our missionaries at home, instead of sending them to foreign parts." fTfie Wt &T tfiCfcofeglock^jvei? ntines &An#* at ?*«#*? 3 ? 7osy s .sp .rat that men cannot work there more than 10 or 15 minutes at a time. American sealers allege that Great Britain has been guilty of putting a clause . into the Behring Sea Settlement to enable ships leaving port before the regulations .wer.e published to engage* in pelagic; sealing with^mpunity^, „ ;; ;i .. ;. ; ; •■ The Union Steam Ship Company have been advised that the Moa was successfully : floated at Gisborne. The vessel is quite ]■ uninjured. ~" Mr Anderson, of Foxton, says the Manawatu $im6&il} mc#ing[ fttisfttctpily progress with his metalling; contract on the Kingston road, near Shannon* about three-quarters of a mile having already been completed since the work was started. One of the workmen employed on the contract had a narrow escape of- being killed on Thursday. He was working in the gravel pit, when a fall of earth came down and buried him up to the neck. Willing hands soon extricated the unfortunate man from his dangerous position, and as he had sustained^ some severe cnts-'ori the ; head'- and 'faoe' it was deemed advisable to remove him to t | Shannon. We learn that the injuries are not so serious as at first anticipated.

A serious trap accident occurred on the Karori road, Wellington, on Tuesday afternoon by which Miss Henry (eldest daughter of the late Dr Henry), her sister, Miss G. Henry, and Mrs and Miss Graham were injured. Miss Henry was found to have received concussion of the brain, and Mrs Graham received a considerable shock to her ncrYOjis system. Miss G. Henry was bruised, and Miss Graham received a black eye. Awkward for Mr Burns. We quote the following from the St. James's Gazette of Feb. 8, 1894:— "Mr Williams, the 'paid "orga'nTser ' of the unemployed meetings held on Tower Hill, explained on Feb. 7 that his reference to sending policemen to heaven by 'chemical parcel post 1 was borrowed from a speech delivered by Mr J. Burns, M.P. A correspondent of the Times reproduces the passage of the speech, which it seems was delivered by Mr Burns at Battersea in April, 1887. Referring to the attitude of Mr Chamberlain towards Home Eule, he said ' henceforth they would mete out to traitors that punishment which their treachery justified. Great sorrow was evinced at the attempt to rid the earth of the Czar. He was sorry too, very sorry, that they did not succeed. He asked those present if they deprecated force and extreme measures, if some of them did not like the idea of Joseph Chamberlain following the Czar and Lord Salisbury to heaven by means of a chemical parcel post.' " 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 Sale Ladies' aprons will be sold at 4£d. 4 buttons Kid gloves all new fresh goods at 1/11 per pair. White and cream laces at 9d per doz. Ladies' lincu collars new shapes at 3d each. Boys' sailor collars at 3d each, sold everywhere at 6J, at the Great i?ale Tc Aro House, Wellington. It will pay country customers to take a run down to the Great ltealising 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 Marcho, Palmerston 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.