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Manawatu Herald, 9 March 1895, Page 2

Thus saith the N.&. fflmes:— "The statement that the Government had ' directed ' the Magistrate acting as chairman of the Licensing Committee to postpone the sitting to suit Ministerial convenience has been completely exploded by the facts. It turns out to have been a question of the convenience of the lawyers iti the case ; an ordinary question for the Committee to decide in the ordinary course of its business. The parties being agreeable, the Committee decided to adjourn." In a few lines there could not be put together more inaccuracies. The convenience of the lawyers was not the point> as the telegrams passing between Messrs Gully and Stanford showed. The lawyers agreed, bat the clients of Mr Skerrett disagreed to the adjournment an--til the two Fox ton members got out of the train at Otaki. Even on the Otahi railway platform the majority of the Committee were not consulted as to the adjournment, and until the lawyers and Magistrate had settled matters they were left in the dark as to these peculiar proceedings. A turtle between seven and eight feet in length and three feet six inches in breadth has been captured off the New Plymouth breakwater by a Maori. It became hooked to a schnapper line, and the native was under the impression that he had secured a whale. Mr W. H. Nelson, who has been on a visit to Tomoana, informs the Examine}' that the rust in the ryegrass is again very bad this season on the plains, with the result that stock have not been fattening at all well. A New York doctor declares that of the patients applying to the dispensary, fully 10 per cent, are tea drunkards, and that tea ranks as an intoxicant only second to al> cohol. Havoc, the winner of the Australian Cup, was bred at the Wellington Park Stud, Auckland. Mr Wilson paid £2300 for the colt as a yearling, Port of Spain, capital of the island of Trinidad, a town of 20,000 people, has been partly destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at half a million sterling. Port of Spain is one of the finest towns in the West Indie 3. Lady Augusta Boyle, the eldest daughte r of Lord Glasgow, met with an accident on Thursday at Auckland. She was thrown off her horse, receiving a compound dislocation of the left ankle. It was necessary to perform an operation with the aid of chloroform. Professor Kirk reports concerning the potato diseases prevalent in the Woodville district and on the West Coast, that the specimens sent to him show two varieties of a fungoid disease. The remedy for one is spraying the vines with a Bordeaux mixture, and for the other soaking the seed in a solution of corrosive sublimate before planting. The export of hemp for the past year was only 9848 bales, whereas the year before 35,675 bales were sent away. The Government, from these figures, may get an idea of the goose they have starved to death. The N.Z. Times understands that Mr W. G. Foster has been offered and accepted the appointment of general manager of the Bank of New Zealand Estates Company, and takes charge at the end of the present month. The wife of William B. Vanderbilt has obtained a divorce from her husband on the grounds of incompatibility of temper. " Impartial " writing from Levin, in a letter to the N. Z. 7 ivies on the last meeting in Levin, says : — I have no hesitation in saying that the meeting was a farce, the audience being chiefly composed of Mr P. Bartholomew's employees, who came there to back him up in any resolution he might directly or indirectly bring forward, and to cry down anyone who might have the temerity to stand up and say a word against the transfer. At a meeting of the Wellington Benevolent Institute it was stated that the sum obtained for the year was £5300, and it would now be necessary to ask for £6000 in view of a severe winter. It was decided to ask the United District Board for £6500. Mr George Nye, son of Mr Nye of Sunnyside, is appointed master of the Oroua Bridge School. We understand, says the Standard, that Mr McKnight, one of the most popular and efficient officers in the employ of the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, who has for some years been stationed at Palmerston North, has been promoted to the Blenheim branch of the Company. The man who forged Mr Kebbell's name to certain cheques got two years hard labour at the Supreme Court the other day. Messrs J. R. Blair, Dr Newman and F. Bradey were re-elected members of the Wellington Education Board. The Advocate says :— Mr Duncan McKenzie brought an enormous sunflower into Birmingham yesterday from Mr Alfred Dick's place. It was measured by Mr Hayns, who found it to be 17 inches in diameter or about 4 feet 4 inches in circumference. Mr McKenzie said even this monster was not the largest Mr Dick has growing. Tenders must be in on Tuesday for draining for the Messrs Barber Bros. Acceptances for the Sandon races close to-night at 9 o'clock. The Manawatu County Council meets on Wednesday. All tenders must be in by noon of that day. Messrs Gorton & Son's Bulls sale is on Tuesday. The Queen has approved the appointment of Mr J. S. Burdon Sanderson, Wayneflete, a notorious supporter of vivisection, to be Regius Professor of Medicine in the University of Oxford. Experts in art are not always to be depended upon, especially with regard to the value of works of art. One of the most celebrated experts in the trade, after carefully examining the Adrian Hope pictures which were sold at Christie's last July, estimated that the collection would fetch £140,000. As a matter of faot, the total anly reached £47,892, so that the valuation was close upon £100,000 in error.

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