Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, DEC. 19, 1895.

Manawatu Herald, 19 December 1895, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, DEC. 19, 1895.

The littljs son of Mr Henry Bradcock succeeded ji^T to the commencement of this week inputting up a record attendance at the StatevSehool, never having once missed. "He was assisting big father on Monday in viewtog the- racecourse and boy like mast be "up in a free" and jumping down he unfortunately, cut his heel very badly, which kept him away from school. The lad's name is Walter. "• ".Ten ljftle nigfcers" will be sung by small boys tonight , at the hall. To-morrow Messrs Gorton & Son hold a sale at their Feilding yards. Tenders for the erection of the. Anglican Church at Levin must be in by to-night. We have another inset for Saturday. Just now Our readers are kept busy watching the treasures enclosed in their Herald. To-night at 7.80 the doors open for the School Concert. At a quarter to eight the hall should hn full, and at 8 o'clock the concert should commence. The Shannon Sports Committee received very good nominations. These we published on Tuesday. While snooting at Sir Edward Lawaon's, the Prince of Wales received a spark in the eye, but the injury is not very serious. To-day we publish as an inset a 'Xmas notice from Messrs Westwood A Co. The paper on which the announcement is printed is peculiar, as well as the coloured border, and in its ordinary state is a Japanese pockethandkerchief. It is not likely to be used for a similar purpose now, except in so far as it illustrates Messrs Westwaod & Co.'s intention to " wipe the eye " of other competing storekeepers. • On Tuesday Mr James Wallace was presented with the addrss and illustrated volume by the employees of the Manawatu Railway Company. At a ratepayer's meeting at Shannon numbering twelve persons it was decided to recommend the Government to appoint Messrs Wallace and Wood, J/s P.

Drapers would never agree with Lord Lyttelton's advice, unless indeed it was udcLessed by them to a very pretty girl. It i 3 this :-— " Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet ; in short, my deary! fetes me, and be quiet." Over the leader Messrs Loveday IJros. point to some of the many of the latest novelties for the season which they have opened up* which certainly would cause the fair purohaser to bti anything but " plain in dress." English merchants in Calcutta still have push and they are sending an expedition to SxpWre the Chinese proviaoea of Saeobuan and Yunnan, which are contiguous to Surmah. Other movements for developing 1 trade with China are also going on, an expedition fi'om Tonc[uifl having reached new districts and opened f lesh mafketd. The money raised at the concert to-night will be placed to the school fund" in the hands of the School Committee. Jlissidnaries ai'e hajiog a lively time of it. A mob destroyed the liritisn" iiiigsidn station at Beainaninandro. The missionary and his .family escaped. A strong antiforeign feeling has been aroused in Madagascar, and the Europeans in the outlying districts have been ordered to the capital., The N.Z. Times, says '.—There is a mining camp at Matakitaki, not far from MaroWea, the inhabitants of which are seldom seen outside their district, except on ta'e festive occasions. They are in fact outside the pale of civilisation, as there are no means of communication except river-beda and bush tracks, which are impassable for months. Being owing to these circumstances so seldom seen these people are known on the coast as " The Lost Tribes." As some of the mining reserves which are so much in evidence just now are located in the vicinity of this camp, several members of "The Lost Tribes" are now in Wellington to give their testimony on the subject, and we understand appreciate the comforts of civilisation and are having a good time generally. Mr Gladstone in a letter to Mr Chaunoey Depew, the well-known American politician, declining to visit Chicago in aid of a fund which is being raised to assist the Armenians, states that the handwriting on the wall has visibly warned another despot of the imp -nding crash of his impious and iniquitous government. Mr Crick, the partner of Meagher in the Dean case, has been found not gitilty by the jury, arid the Judge, addressing the jury, thanked them for the great consideration they had given the case. Although there were one or two matters which required exlanation on Mr Crick' 3 part, he thought the verdict just, and fully concurred With it.