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Manawatu Herald, 14 February 1895, Page 2

______ Both (he steamers ashore at Wanganui have been successfully floated, and (he bar has improved sufficiently so us lo enable [ fhe 'steamers detained in Ihe river, to ; Itave. In a loco,! in a Wanfeatiul paper f eref rihg io the polo-contest at Warrcfigate ft terrible hash htis been made of the names of the Orona Club team, which are given as Garner (captain), Strange, MeLellan and Eobinson. The Puke of Westminster settled £fill,« 000 on his daußhter who married Prince Tt-ok. Miss Elizabeth A. A. Dawes ol Snrbifon, England, has achievrd Ihe dislihttlioh o. being (lie llrst woman Who lias eVer obtained Ihe DotHorship bf fiit.erO.tUr_ ttl Ihe IhliVersily of London. The chameleon's eyes are situated in bony sockeis projeel ing -from the head. By thi* curious contrivance, lhe animal can see in any dirt c' ion without the slightest motion save of the eye. The Hoard of Education' at Mount Vernon, Illinois, has decided that cigarettesmoking boys may not attend public schools. They must give np smoking, or be expelled. Twenty-three shares of CIO each, £7 paid, in the '* Graphic" and "Daily Graphic " Newspaper Company were sold lately for £1,083. This is equal to a little over £47 per share, or a premium, say, of f>7o per cent. About 40 acres of good arable land near Lydd, Kent, which a few years since was valued at £70 an acre, has changed hands for £500. In another case an arable farm • of _7fi acres, mortgaged for £8,000 has been sold for £1,370. A new way of making, bread : — The Reef ton Times says '. — We are indebted to a local resident for the following explanation of the Tpper Buller poisouing affair. It appears that Beamsley. the cook of the stalion, was an adept at his trade, and having run short of soda, lie made the bread with the sulphur. This being eaten hot and accompanied by draughts of billy tea, had an effect upon the partakers which led them to suppose some arsenic which was at hand had been used by mistake by the cook. The London press generally welcomes the prospects ot the Federation of Australia. Typhoid continues to be very prevalent «!? Coolgardie. An official circular has been addres^d to the officers of the Railway Department directing them to make known to the workmen under their control that in eas a they should at any timo feel aggrieved they may address their complaints to the General Manager direct. The new Spanish corn duties liave become law. The True Blue Mine, Coolgardie, has been sold. The pvice asked was £120,000. Judy gives a too true sketch of even colonial life in the following : — Christmas Bills. — Hire System's Man: Yon know this money was due 10 days ago. If you don't pay down, we shall have to come and take the'things.— Mrs Sylvester : Well, you shall certainly have the money on Saturpay if the weather is bad. — Hire System's Man : What's the weather got to do with it ?— Mrs Sylvester : Well, if it's fin. we are going down to Brighton for the Christmas holidays. /The front pages of all the Russian : journals still appear with mourning borders. They will continue to do so for 12 months ;.from the date of the late Czar's death, ' The Government have just acquired from the trustees of Sir Henry Parkes a property of 47 acres in the suburbs pf Christchurch It is situated on the Heathcote road near the tram line, and is at present under lease t^Mr Wicks as a vegetable garden. Possession will be given for the purposes of survey and the formation of a street on the Ist of March, and final possession will be obtained on the Ist of July, by which time the crops will have been removed, It is proposed to cut up the property into sections of from one acre to three acres fronting the new street, and to offer them for selection upon lease in perpetuity at a rental of five per cent, upon the cost to the Government. This is the first purchase of land for settlement in the immediate neighbourhood of any of the large centres. The Spanish import duties on wool operate until the end of the year. Another try. Mr A. F. Jeffreys, member for Basingstoke, has introduced a Bill in the House of Commons to provide for tlie marking of imported meat. Mr J. Milne, MA., headmaster of the Waverley (Wanganui) School, has been appointed second inspector nnder the Wanganui Education Board. Yesterday we had the pleasure of viewing the bay-tree or bay-laurel (Laurus nobilis) the true laurel of the ancients, in Mr Howe's garden at Moutoa. The tree at present is full of fruit (not eatable) and as the fruit is the colour and the size of dark grapes, it has a pretty appearance. There are many varieties of laurels, the woodlaurel of England, the mountain laurel of the United Stakes, the Japanese, and the Tasmanian, West Indian and other laurels. However the Laurus nobilis is the plant from which victors were crowned, and • which the Grecians used to wear at their V feasts. It is uncommon in this district.

An advertiser offers a reward foi* the' finding oii a'rin'g. .vle-srs frorton & Son .-Id. Br B.nhblV. tho_.-ougb-bre*d slofek tj.S frilloWsj—Th. gteMing tie'san. ,wa_ puMa-ed for £jj) by Messrs Gorton & Son ; Priscillji. by H. V. | and W. Hammond, £14 10s; Eve. By Mr E. Shortall, £15 15s ; tlie brpo'd _iii*re Reyoke, with foal at fop. hy Fllnti-cft; was pU-'ebA-ed by Jylr A. B &Hiipi jts.£ls 15s'; Provoke-, by Mi 1 J. Ha.Haway for £21; .Finesse was passed in at £30. We refer onr readers to the notice of the Borough CJovu.cH re the Valuation List being now open for inspection, '. .fearker : ■; 1 don't _e$ the lenSe 8f _peil&- . Ing In 'one day wi-at it th,kes sou a .whole Weel to earn it GidHibb-y! " mil; I think lr. a good deal more unreasonable that I should have to work a whole week for a day'a pleasure 1" Amongst the names of the succ..-ful candidates who have passed,their pupil tett-hel. .X„ri_.__U6n_ undei' thfe Welling; t^n Education Soaru we nbtece the Mines (if: Third yefc-Miirgaret Dpntop; Levin; Sabina Jlllett, Ohau,; GeMiaeTftom^ton, pikafevlM. v Fill, year—*!-.--*- Low BboeH-oh, raraparaumu ; Will Henry Clark, Otaki. Sir John Hall's motion in the Anglican Synod to give women the right to vote at parish meetings, was thrown out, the clergy l3el_g against it. .Drily tHe % _>-l_n_Ji- And th. fii&nofl Df (___*i_lbk_.._. and tour eleVgyhieli supporting the. hiotioi- and five JSishops and. 13 clergy against it. Thirteen bf the laity siipporied and six opposed the proposal. We regret the decision.