Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1894.

Manawatu Herald, 15 May 1894, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1894.

Father Patterson informs us that he will hold Mass in Shannon next Sunday at 7.30 and in Foxton at 11 a.rn. Evening service will also be held in Foxton at G.30. Messrs Gorton and Son will hold a clearing sale at Mr McHardie's farm, Bulls, on Tuesday next. Mr Greenwood will pay a professional visit to Foxton on Thursday. The Secretary of the Otaki Maori Racing Club gives notice that acceptances for the Hack Meeting on the 24th May close at Otaki at 9 p.m. an Thursday. Messrs Abraham & Williams hold a sale at Palmerston on Thursday and one at Woodrille on Wednesday the 23rd. Messrs McMillan, Ehodes & Co. will sell by auction on Saturday a billiard table and fitting's, and the furniture connected with the hairdresser's. shop. Over the leader to-day appears a notice that on Saturday next Messrs .Rosa and Sandford, the well-known firm of drapers in Palmerston, will open a clearing' Yale in Foxton of the stock of drapery and olothing in Wickett's assigned estate. This will naturally cause much interest to the public. " Waiter, by Somnus— Barmaid; was 1 '"sold the other day in Australia for 20gs, T. Corrigaiib'eing-the purchaser. , =. It is reported that 5000 burghers at Johannesburg have organised an expedition to. punish the "Swazi. chiefs for opposing annexation to the Transvaal. Another burglery occurred in Wellington on Sunday night, the premises entered those of Mr F. Cooper, seedsman, Manners street. A purse containing about SOs.or £2 was missing, together with a £5 note which had been left lying on the top of a lot of clothes in a box. The intruders had evidently been searching for the caeh box, but their efforts in this direction were unsuccessful, the box, which contained about £40, being, found in the place where it had been left. Another sum of money dowi»staira, was also overlooked. The thieves had evidently opened the front door by means of a skeleton key, and locked again from the insida, th9 burglars taking (heir departure by the back door. The matter has been reported to the police. The Electrical Syndicate in Wellington consume twenty tons of Westport coal per week. The number of lights supplied to private buildings total to 4000. Georga Anderson pleaded guilty at the Wellington Magistrates" Court on Friday with having concealed upwards of £10, to wit £900 within two years of his bankruptcy, and was sentenced to six months' I imprisonment. He ha3 been committed for trial on the charge of having quitted I the colony, taking witn him upwards of £20 which should have been divided among his creditors, defendant being • bankrupt.

The Sydney Trades Council supports the I boot trade strikers. Only one factory has ' declined to abide . by the employers 1 decision to blose down unless the men resume work on Monday. Over 3000 men will be thrown out of work if they do close. A linen collar has been put to a strange use by a resident in Gloucester (Mass). Upon clearing the letter-box at the post office there last week, it was discovered that a letter had been written upon one side of this useful article of apparel. It being properly stamped, the missive reached its destination. Plans have been submitted to the Queen for extensive additions to Oaborne House, including 24 bed- rooms, at a cost of over £5,000. Nearly half the exports of wheat from British India for the last two years came to the United Kingdom. In the British Museum there is a very old Chinese bank-note. It was issued in the reign of Hung-Woo, the founder of the Ming dynasty, who died in IS9B. The face value of the note is about a dollar, bnt it is one of the only issue of paper currency ever guaranteed by the Chinese Government. Young opposßums have been occasionally seen in the bush near Paraparaumu, so it is evident that those which the Wellington Acclimatisation Society turned out in the district last year are increasing. A committee of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce has resolved that the Alcoholic Liquors Sales Control Act, passed last session, places ample powers in the hands of the electors of the Colony for effecting reasonable and necessary reforms in the liquor trade, and considers that the Aet should have a fair trial before any further alterations are made in the licensing laws. The lonic brought 10 English wild ducks, pouchards, Carolinas and gadwalls, for the Acclimatisation Society. Twentythree birds were originally shipped by the steamer, but 13 died on the voyage. An electric hand fan for theatre-goers has been devised which is likely to take the place of the present mode of cooling auditoriums. The fan is very light, and it may be hung on the baok of the theatre seat. A push bottom on the side of the handle turns on the slight current needed to revive the flukes, which compel a steady rush of air without making the least noise. Baron Hirsch, the great Hebrew millionaire and emancipator of the Bussian Jews, has always had a predilection for grey horses, that is to say, for driving purposes. So far as his racing stud is concerned, he does not bother himself about either the colours or the pedigrees of his thoroughbreds, all that sort of thing can be left to manager Beresford, for the Baron knows ever so much more about carriage horses than racers. One day he dropped his weather eye on a handsome grey which the then Lady Brooke (now the Countess of Warwick) was in the habit of driving. It so happened that the Baron had one himself as like it as two p's, and being intent on making it a pair, at once instituted inquiries if that grey was for sale, so that he might have a handsome match pair in front of his mail phreton. Her ladyship, however, declined to deal at any price, much to the surprise, not to say pique of Baron Hirsch, who, however, not to spoil the pair, very generously handed over his own grey to her ladyship as a present. As a consequence the Countess of Warwick became possessed of the handsomest matched pair of greys that have been met with for many, many years. Cardinal Manning had a story to tell of a predecessor — Bishop Bramstone. One day a male member of his flock approached the Bishop, saying he wanted a wife, adding the usual modest conditions— she must be young, rich and pretty. " Oh, you are mistaken," said the Bishop ; " ray name is Bramstone, not Brimstone— l do not make matches." A florist in the Boulevard St Germain, Paris, says the Daily Ne.w«, has this year had the idea of attracting people to his shop by organising what may be called a tableau vivant of Christ in the tomb. The tradesman's back shop, converted into a chappie ardente, is decorated with garlands of roses and white lilac, which hangs in profusion from the ceiling, and are attached in festoons on the walls. Enveloped in a white shroud, lying in the position of the Christ of Philippe de Champaigne, with bare arras, feet and hands stained with stigmata, the forehead apparently bleeding from the crown of thorns, with disordered hair around his bowed head, and with a pale face and sunken eyes, a figure — that of Jesus — is shown to the public, not in wax, but in living flesh and blood. Tho man who lies thus in the florist's Bhop during ten hours of the day is a painter's model. The crowd of persons outside I anxious to witness the spectacle was so great that policemen had to be told off to keep them in order while awaiting their turn to enter. Apropos of the fascinations of golf (sayi Mr Labouohere in Truth) I heard the other ' day of a Scotchman, a retired minister of J the kirk, who was deploring the tendency of the game to become a. ruling passion, and also, to induce bad language. "In fact," he said, " I had to give it up for that reason." "Give up golf !" exclaimed hU: friend. . " No " said his reverenbe, " the meenistry." At the annual meeting of the Australian Mutual Provident Society at Sydney pn Friday, the teport was adopted. ' : A correspondent of the Oxford Observer, from Obristohurch, vouches for the 'statement that evidences the habita of a prominent prohibitionist, who ostentatiously took a drink of water at the fountain in the Square. When the goblet was full he glanced around, for approbation, and then proceeded " to blow the froth off " before drinking. According to Woman, several members of the royal family are patronising a new form of /'.-banting," which in consequence has becojne.the. rage of .the moment,, and it is quite amusing to hear the comparisons (hat are made by certain stout members of the .smart set as to how much they have reduced in weight since their last merry meeting. The cure, however, is an expensive one, as the first fee, it is said, is 25gs. The bookmakers of Adelaide have appealed to the Labour members in the House to assist in securing trie abolition., of the tolftli3ator in South Australia, on the ground that the machina is a monopoly, and that tne Labour members aro opposed to' monopoly. In one of the London workhouses is a former prima 1 donna of the' Royal Italian Opera, a woman who made thousands of pounds annually by her voice, and ultimately^ dame down to Ringing in low publichouses in seaport towns. She refused the offer of a charitable person to take her out of the workhouse to teach children singing. Another inmate is one who was a sort of lay preacher. He gave away every penny of £15,000 amongst the poor, is of singular habits and will not leave the workhouse.

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