Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1895.

Manawatu Herald, 18 May 1895, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1895.

■ A Maori named Fene, living at Mahoetahi Pah, Taranaki, on Wednesday killed his wife and little daughter, set fire to the whare, and then shot himself. On Tuesday at Otaki, Mr G. O'Loughlin, proprietor of the Central Hotel at Otaki was fined £5 for keeping the hotel open for the sale of liquor after hours on the 27th ApriUast. On Friday, the Queen's Birthday, the Otaki Eaoing Club hold their Autumn meeting. The acceptances are published to-day. The doming hedge, so Mr James Laird says, is the seedless furze, it grows fast and is very dense. There is some considerable difference between a Hindoo and a Christian, as the following fact illustrates, much to the Hindoo's advantage : — A Hindoo withdrew a sum of money from the Warnambool Post Office Savings Bank oq Saturday, and refused to take the interest with it, remarking 'Me ddn'tf want any money feut my own.' The interest was placed in a poor box. It is to be hoped that the cablegram of the Bishop of Salisbury's statement is in' correct Likening the action of colonial clergy to hotel competition is neither dignified or true. " "Mr Hogg, M H.R., has been reappointed to the Wellington Land Board, though.the Commissioner had so strongly objlewa 1 to turn a i-finf fitoott months ago. • " " '*

During Mr Gascoigne's cross-examina-tion on Thursday some slight alarm was created by, after a great flourish of a silk handkerchief, a hard patter was heard on the floor and wonder was, what was iVa bomb, or some infernal machine? Satisfaction was experienced when Mr Gaficoigne calmly said " It is nothing, be not alarmed, they are only acid drops, I have a bad cold." -—"It happens that people, perhaps not often enougii, get a sinecure." The 8. Magistrate in relation to a claim which it was urged nothing had been done to earn it.. _ vTlist a bit too clever. From Victoria we learn that a settler on the Cann Eiver, named Palmerston Sewell, met his death j under singular circumstaheijß, t tto M 4 && ' impression thai Soiheijnfe ftiight bi;eafc jintd [ his htit, an<d\ with a VieAV. to pjrotecting Himself, fixed a loaded gun inside the hut so that when the dopr ,was opened, it wduln jpttll a wire which, lie bad attached to the trigger. It is believed that Sewell must have accidentally touched the wire and been shot by his own contrivance, as he was found dead in the hut, lying upon his bunki and with the charge fMn \m gun longed to hid bVeast. At the Magisterial enquiry a verdict of accidental death was returned. A money oi'dev(, on & Jiosfc 'carii H \M fetefet h'oveliyi The French Minister of Posts and Telegraphs has brought in a Bill for the introduction of a system of postalorder cards, payable at the residence of the addressee. These cards are to cost only a penny more than the ordinary Jiostal 6ildevs, ami it is expected they Will be largely used by the public. Mr James Needs, school teacher, of ClarKSdn's Crossing, Wallamba Biver, New South Wales, did a wonderful ride one day lately. Hearing that his father at East Eempsey was dangerously ill-, he rode the 108 miles between the two places in 13| htturs on dn'e hoise. The tiitie included several short stoppages as '* Weathers." Ah average df over eighi miles an hour for i3| holh's Is a good bit of hard riding. In Berlin there is a great bakery where 2c\vt of wood bread is turned out every day for popular consiimptloni The bread is made out of sawdust and i'ye flour—thi'eefourths sawdust. A chemical process takes away the texture and taste of the sawdust, and liberates the saccharine and nutritive elements and, with a little rye flour, it makes nutritious bread, which is sold at 4s 6d per cwt. To-day the Borough Council publishes a list of the income and expenditure for the year. It is gratifying to note that there is over £300 for new works. Notice is given of the intention of the Borough Council to strike the usual rate of Is 3d in the £ for general work, and one penny in the £ for the Library. The Mnkaka Biver Board gives notice of its intention to make a general rate at ils next meeting. The services at the Methodist Church to-morrow will be conducted by Mr S. Collis, of Longburn, at 11 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. The vicar of All Saints' Church will hold service at Shannon on Sunday morning, and at Foxton in the evening. A black fur boa ha 9 been lost, and advertiser requests finder to leave it at Mrs Burr's when a reward will be paid. The Woodvllle Knftminer is informed that J the objects of the Labour Bureau are being grossly violated on the Woodville-Eketa-huna line. Two instances are mentioned of single men having been employed who i had landed property and considerable money at their disposal. Again, there are two men who occupy good dairy farms, which they ought to be working, instead of keeping more deserving men off these relief works. A lawyer, noted for his ladonb style of expression, sent the following terse and witty note to a refractory client, who would not succumb to his reiterated demands for the payment of his bill: —" Sir, if you pay the enclosed, you will oblige me. If you do not, I shall oblige you." I " Mercutio "in the New Zealand Herald I fitates as follows:—Mr Seddon has made a lot of the presentation to him, during his visit to the Uriweras, of the taiaha belonging to the old chief Kereru The poor old man appears to have thought, when he reluctantly parted with the taiaha, that the Premier was curio hunting. He had no idea, he said, that the gift was to be used for such a curious purpose as that to which it has been put, ana the Union J ack which was sent as a return present was so unappreciated that it has never been hoisted. Mr P. Guerin has a rather disturbing advertisement in to-day's issue. Those who have dogs unregistered had better note what he says and act accordingly, A bay mare has been impounded in the Borough pound, and will be sold on Saturday next, if not previously released.

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