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Manawatu Herald, 21 June 1894, Page 2

Messrs Gorton and Sou hold a stock sale at Marton on Tuesday. On Saturday Messrs Abraham and Williams hold a horse sale at Palmerston. The Invercargill Licensing Committee declined to grant renewals of seven licenses. Mr Gilbert] is now engaged well sinking on the Kopani estate. The Christchurch Licensing Committee has closed nine public houses. The Kaiapoi Licensing Committee refused four liconses. Work at the Qiiren'K Drive, Wellington, started on Tiu-.-ilay niornin;.';. The Taieri Licensing Committee have refused two applications for licenses. Mr and Mr.-; Washington Stewart are spending a portion of their holidays in Wellington. The annual meeting of the Oroua Polo Club will be held in a few days, when proposals will be made to enlarge the number of its members. J. Finney is credited with having stayed the longest time under water, viz , 4miu 20 l-4th sees. This was in a tank at the Canterbury Music Hall, London, in 1886. Mr Saunders of the Johnsonville hotel has been fined £5 with !J9d costs for refusing a meal to two men on the 3rd April. We were glad to notice that down the Lady's Mile the Messrs J. and C. Robinson have had macrocarpas planted as a hedge along the road line, and as breaks across the flat. Planting is ingrained in the inhabitants of Foxton, as we can safely assert that no other town can show so much or any of such growth. It is difficult to find where to plant for the future. Who says Foxton is not going ahead ? Mr T. Westwood is showing his faith in the town as he has commenced the erection of a new store opposite Whyte's Hotel, on the corner of Hall-street, where Mr T. I Westwood's shop stood. The police have arrested a man named Isaac Barker on a charge of conspiring with others to defraud, by " salting " the Mount Huxley Mine in Tasmania. Other arrests, on a similar charge, are expected to follow It may not be generally known that the " best on record " in jumping has been done by amateurs, who passed professionals in all except the standing long jump. The record for running long jump is 23ft Gin ; standing long jump, lift ]in ; running hign jump, Gft 4£in ; and the standing high jump, sft B Jin. Au illicit still, about five miles from Reef ton was seized by the Collector of Customs and the police this morning. Six hundred gallons of liquor in the process of fermenting were turned into the creek. No arrests have been yet made. The Collector says it was one of the most complete stills ever found in the Colony. At last, and none too soon. On Tuesday the owner of the vacant section next to Joe Tos' new shop at last employed a man to erect a fence from that building to the end of the fence from Whyte's Hotel. It is satisfactory as it was an ugly eyesore, but why left so long has been the mystery. One happy man will be Mr Stansell, as the erection of this fence at last encloses his garden from the public. Colonel Pat Boyle, who recently returned from New Zealand, is (says the London correspondent of the Otwjo Daily Tiitv-i) a veritable walking advertisement for the i colony, which he " booms : " with entliu- I siasm on every possible occasion. He f>eems thoroughly delighted with New Zealand and with his sojourn there. This sort of thing does the colony much good.

How dangerous ! A further precedent for our Premier. The police raided a Nihilist printing office in Warsaw, shooting three of the workmen and arresting seven. Some Babylonian tablets which have reached the British Museum prove that faith iv one God existed in that part of the world as far back as 3000 years before Christ. Lord Esher, Master of tho Rolls, says the late Lord Coleridge possessed consummate genius, and that his cross-examina* tion of the Tichborne C aimant before the Court was the most masterly of the present generation. Mr Quong Tart, the well-kuown Sydney merchant, who is at present visiting China, has taken measures to inaugurate a wool importing company. The Hongkong papers say tho venture must succeed. The tiekl open for operations is a great one, and the demand in Southern China will be almost limitless when the people replise that woollen goods are superior to the cotton article. " When found make a note of," as our old friend Captain Cuttle used to say. It has caused some mild surprise, but it is good for landlords to know. Rent — the covenant to pay rent must be performed, notwithstanding the destruction of the premises by fire or other cause, whether preventible or not, for the land remains and the lessee should have provided for the contingency by express stipulation. The Russian authorities have intervened on beha'i' of the nightingale. The police of Kiev found some birdcatchers who were on their way to Moscow with 600 nightingales in eage3. The birdcatchers were captured and fined, and their little victims were taken to the botanical gardens and released. It is said they rose in the air in song, which was responded to by the other birds around. A new use has been discovered for aluminium, which is likely to cause a great demand for the mental. It has been found, that aluminium is preferable to zinc in the process of extracting gold aud silver from the refuse ore. This new process has been satisfactorily tested for nearly a year, and is now to be introduced in the Transvaal, whence a large order has been sent to the Ncnhansen Aluminium Company in Schaft'hfinsen. The other day the historic chateau of Monte Cristo, buiU, owned aud immortalised b % v Alexaudre Dumas came under the hammer, aad was finally knocked down at lo2,ooofi\— a sum far smaller than the price it cost its original owner to build. Monte Oiisto is situated at Port Marly, and while Dumas lived in it nearly every Bohemian of note found a shelter and a welcome within its hospitable portals for a period more or less extended. M. Berthillan has nearly completed an Anarchist album, which will contain 500 pages of full face aud profile portraits of every suspected Anarchist, as w^ll as the anthropometrical measure necessary for their future identification. A sufficient number of thesa albums will bs prepared, to distribute a copy to each of the chiefs of the watch brigades nf police, to the Commissaries of Police in Paris and at the frontier station, as well as to the chiefs of police in each of the capitals of Europe. They know a thing or two in Tasmania. The Government geologist was sent samples for testing, he tested, and pronounced them " salted," that is to say they hail had gold placed in them. The mineowners were " surprised," and desired the geologist to examine the mine. He has done so aud now declares that the tunnel is " salted;' from end to end, and that he has proved beyond doubt that there is very little gold in the virgin country. The miners knew something, the geologist more. It sounds surprising, knowing the charges made by Wellington cab-drivers, to learn that one has become bankrupt. We should have imagined that the greater fear was of iheir becoming millionaires. To a country, man visiting town their charges always appear extortionate. At the meeting of this very unlucky man some of the creditors appeared surprised, and ventured to hint that the bankruptcy might have been brought about by niakinti these hi»h charges, and he mentioned that his wife and himself were driven from the Manawalu Railway Mation to Austin-street and were j charged 13s. May this be a warning. Ilipe tomatoes ! These were to be seen on the table of Whyte's Hotel yesterday. Mr Stan3fll, the proprietor, is always to the fore in providing the best for his boarders, the dinners being hard to beat anywhere. But ripe tomatoes, fresh picked, seemed rather singular. Mr Stansell very confidingly showed us where there were plenty more of them, growing in his garden attached to the hotel, the plants climbing up the fence, thick with fruit in various stages of ripeness, and also in blossom. We have to thank Mr Stansell for more than a view as some of the ripest he gathered for us to sample at our leisure. Considerable interest is taken by the artistic section of the community in the design for the new French postage stamp shortly to be produced. Fifty designs have been sent on approval to the authorities, but none of them seems to be the production of any well-known artist or designer. Desigus will be received until May 1, and the management intends to hold, from May o until May 14, an exhibition of the designs submitted to them for consideration This exhibition will take place at the Ecole des Beaun Arts, and the committee of judges will consist of two painters, 2 sculptors, and iwo engravers, as well as several of the port-of-fice officials. Joseph Burke oharged with being the keeper of a common gaming house at Wellington on the 10th was sentenced, and Mr Martin, S.M., said this was a most serious offence. This gambling was a curse that was undermining the whole community. Small boy 3 came befora them who had put their half-crowns together to bet on races, and the curse seemed to run through the whole community. Here at the present time, while the place was groaning under the cry of the unemployed, and the difficulty of getting work, they had a number of working men who Btayed for hours iv this gambling shop from '11 on Saturday night till 1 o'clock on the Sunday. The Bench were going to make it very uncomfortable for the keepers of these places, in order that they might be cleared out of Wellington. Accused would be sentenced to three months hard labour. Mr Skerrett applipd for leave to appeal on the facts, and asked His Worship to fix sureties. Hi 3 Worship said the sureties would be two of £100 each, but subsequently tnc case was ordered to stand over till 2 p.m. next day for the purpose of allowing Burke time to find security to proceed with the appeal. Bail was fixed at fwo securities of £100 each.

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