Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JAN. 21, 1895.

Manawatu Herald, 24 January 1895, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JAN. 24, 1895.

To-day a pleasing wedding ceremony took place at All Saints' Church, Foxton. Mr Eddy has accepted £4000 a year for a seven year's term from the New South Wales Government to manage the railways. Better this certainty than the South Eastern Railway uncertainty. To-morrow at one o'clock, dinner hour and no lunch provided [illegible] lan will commence his sale of Mrs Honore's furniture. "Bide a wee, Meg, let's get a feed," we are bound to hear some bloated capitalist remark. On Saturday, Mr McMillan holds an auction sale of general goods at his sale room at 2 o'clock. Better, very much better. A hint that may be, if it is not immediately useful. In England there are now three ladies holding the office of churchwarden. Imitation is the sincerest flattery, and in some cases we know of, might be distinctly advantageous. The Bishop-elect of Wellington will be duly consecrated to-morrow. The Rev. G. Aitkens leaves for the city to-night to be present at the ceremony. On Wednesday afternoon the grass and rushes in Mr Duncan's paddock alongside of Mr Bradcock's house got alight and blazed furiously, endangering the building. Constable Gillespie early noticed the smoke and was soon on the spot rendering great help and on the firebell being rung a number of assistants arrived who soon subdued the fire. Miss Mary Pridham, of New Plymouth, fell off the platform of a railway carriage on Tuesday morning whilst the train was in motion near Johnsonville. She was picked up and taken to Kandallah where she had been staying. She is suffering from concussion of the brain. We have received from the N Z. Shipping Go. Ld., an almanac, on which is shown a splendid illustration of one of their fine steamers the " Rimutaka " under steam.

The sale of thoroughbred horses held by Mr McMillan on Wednesday morning was not a great success. Shortness of money was apparent, and only two were quitted. One or two other horses were offered and sold. Messrs Gorton & Son hold an auction sale of stock at Marton on Tuesday, and at Sanson on Wednesday, entries for which are published tcday. To-morrow Messrs Gorton and Son hold their stock sale at Feilding. Mr Palmer, the fruit expert, says Paraparaumu, in so far as insect pests and disease are concerned, he found the orchards to be in a very healthy condition, while the fruit crop is very promising. A correspondent thus writes to the London Standard- : — " I enjoyed for breakfast the other morning an egg imported from Australia — a sample of a consignment sent from the pushing colony of Victoria. The egg was sound and sweet, equal to the fresh egg which costs us 2 1/2d at this season of the year. I claim a niche in the Standard to record this. When fresh eggs come to us from far-distant Australia, we may make up our minds that our colonial cousins are in earnest in their determination to have their share in supplying the food wants of Great Britain. I hold that it is a standing disgrace to our rural population that four millions sterling should be paid away yearly for our egg bill (is it that the cottager and farmer are negligent in overlooking this industry, or is the system of distribution to blame ? ; but, if we must import the wholesome necessary egg, by all means let us have it from our own people in the colonies." The intensity of confined sound is illustrated at Carisbrook Castle, Isle of Wight, where there is a well 200 ft deep and 12ft in diameter. When a pin is dropped into it, the sound of it striking the surface of the water 182 ft below, can be distinctly heard. Governor Flower has decided to allow the body of the New York murderer Wilson, who is shortly to be executed by electricity, to be experimented upon immediately after the execution with the idea that life may be restored. Governor Flower has promised Wilson's attorney that in the event of resuscitation the man's life shall be spared, and Wilson himself clings to the only hope left him, and has expressed his gratitude to the Governor for the remote chance of life given to him. The Wellington half-holiday conference has been adjourned to Monday. Contracts have been made for the erection of monuments on the three Canadian battlefields on which the British troops were victorious over the Americans in the war of 1812. Maijoiemal, Prompter of the Paris Gaite, who has just died suddenly in his own box dnving.an operatic performance, was an ex communist, sentenced as an insurgent during the Commune to be shot ; and with others of the condemned refractories, he actually was shot, but, strange to tell, though shattered with rifle balls, not killed. Taken up for dead, and his corpse, as it seemed to be, handed over to his friends, they resuscitated him, so that when the trouble was over he appeared on crutches and obtained the post at the theatre, held by him literally to the very end of his existence.