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Manawatu Herald, 29 February 1896, Page 2

Messrs Gorton & Son hold a stook sale at Sanson on Wednesday. Messrs Abraham and Williams' Foxton sale will be held on Wednesday. The Otaki Licensing Committee hold their quarterly meeting at Otaki on Wed* nesday. The Stipendiary Magistrate holds bis usual Court at Foxton on Thursday. During the first seven weeks of this year, the losses by fire paid by the insurance companies totalled to £70,000. The seoretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Mr S. P. Laogley, has told an interviewer that you oannot work by the Bun alone. It is by no means a regular body, as many people suppose. You would not give anything for a watch which should be irregular as the sun. The sun is sometimes fifteen minutes out of the way at noon, sometimes ahead and sometimes behind time, and it is only by averaging its irregularities that we know where to find it."

One local gentleman Ilaß, in a Contemporary, declared his intention of becoming t candidate to represent this electorate in Parliament. Mr Andrew Jonson has almodt complsted the alterations to the Police Station. The kitchen has been enlarged by 10 x 16 feet; rhftking cow a Capital rdbrn large enough to hold the whole of Constable Gillespie'i family, which is not a small one. A new scullery 10 xlO has also been built. The whole of the roof over the back of the house had to be stripped of iron and raised. Mr tanks has the painting and varnishing to do. Mr Nye has the superintendence of the work and bo* the work being passed, proves that Mr Jonson h&B done his share in a particularly good manner. The fire losses paid by the companies in New Zealand for the year ending 31at December, 1895, amounted to no lest « sum than £220,000; <* Mow about the heat of the sun, Mr LaDgley ? Cau you give me some idea of it?" said an interviewer. "Putting it briefly, it is enormous beyond oonoeption, for there is enough to warm two thousand million worlds like ours, and every minute there is enough of the sun's heat falling on the earth to raise to boiling thirty-seven thousand million tons of water. But this heat which falls on the earth is not a thousandth part of one per cent, of what the sun sends elsewhere, and all the coal becU of Pennsylvania, for instanoe, though they can supply the country for hundreds of years, would not keep up this beat during the one-thousandth part of a second. Sari Locber and his wife appeared at the Wellington Magistrate's Court on Wednesday morning to answer the charge of wilfully attempting [to murder George Norbury, and were remanded for a week. Little or no work is now given out to soldiers' wives in England. The soldiers who have plenty of food are cared for, Whilst the women are passed over. The half-fed women would often be glad of a good tea whioh is so generously provided for the soldiers by Soldiers' Homes. Many of the wives confess that for want of food they are driven to do wrong. This is a state of things that ought not to exist. The public should demand instant redress. England is a rich and powerful country, and ought not to neglect the wives of her defenders, Mr W. B. Rhodes has an altered advertisement in this issue. Despatch is now the order of the day, any article not in stock is " procured at the shortest possible notice." Tenders are invited by the Borough Counoil for eight contraota. gee advertisement. The usual monthly meeting of the Borough Council will be. held on Monday, at 2 p.m. Additions are nude to Messri Abraham and Williams' Foxton sale. . Mr Marter wants flounders daily during the season. See hi* advertisement. The Boston Citizen of December 21 states that the notorious fllan-na gael Society which murdered Dr Cronin, of Chicago, and ha 3 committed numberless other crimes, has revived in America and is organizing Roman Catholic regiments in all parts of the country. This new Clan-na-gael enterprise refuses admission to all except Roman Catholics. This afternoon Mrs Burr and her family leave Foxton. As the move is for the benefit of Mrs Burr's health and comfort we must be glad it i 9 taking place, other* wise a severance of associations with a town Mrs Burr has been so long a resident must be painful Under all the varying phases of life, as one of the early pioneers subdueing the wilderness and creating a farm, as landlady of the leading hotel in the early township, and, as afterwards, a private member of the community, Mrs Burr has always been known as a kind and hospitable friend, and liked by one and all. The Misses Burr will also be missed in very many ways, and we believe it is the wish of all, friends and acquaintances, as it is ours, that their new home may be a happy one, and they may enjoy the goodwill of those they meet as much as they have enjoyed the goodwill of those they leave. This "morning a lad named Danderson was arrested on a charge of theft by Constable GUlespie. He will be brought up before the Court on Monday. The ketch Reliance went ashore last night inside the Wellington Heads. All hands are believed to have safe y reached laud.