Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1896.

Manawatu Herald, 4 June 1896, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1896.

The following ia the team pioked to represent Foxton on Saturday ntfxt in the football match with FeUding on the racecourse :— Full-back, H. Ljall ; three-qnar-ten, P. Robinson, B. Bobinson, W. Mcln* tyre ; halve*, J. Wytey, B. Wallace j wings, H. Wood, A. Symona ; forwards, A. Shadbolt (cant.). P. Warner, W. Liddell, J. Desmond, R. Wallace, D. Gardner, J. Webster. Emergencies :— Baok, O'Loughlin, Chuck ; forwards, Lee, Allen. The construction of the railway from Wady Haifa to Akaaheh has been cornpitted as far as the Ambigol Wells. A sample of American huraeur. " And there I stood," said tha young man who had been to Europe to the young woman he was oourting out West* he was making sure of impressing her. for she waß hair«Bß to cattle on a thousand hills. "As I flay, there I stood, the abyai yawning at my feet." "Was it yawning before you got there ? Or did it begin after you had arrived ?" And then he foued that he had only just time to catoh his last train. Not pleasant reading. " Hemp is unchanged." However mnoh we are interested in the matter the Government iie apparently the rertrtt.

Mutton in London is only realising 3&d for first quality, and 2£d for second quality. The growers cannot be getting mneh\

The Government talk about cheap money, but how does their talk compare with London practioe. The market reports state that three months bills are discounted at 17b Gd I We could do with that kind of business here jnst now.

Mr Martin, the Wellington S.M., said that a man must be held to be drunk, no matter how small the quantity of liquor he may have imbibed, as long as the liquor caused him to aot to the public annoyance ia auch a way as hft would not have done had he not taken any. It is quite refreshing to get another definition. Mr Martin's decision seems to be a reasonable one, and it would be well if it could be made law.

Some new torpedo boats which have been lately built for China are 128 ft. long and 15ft. Bin. broad, with 1,200 indicated horsepower, which at the trials gave an extreme speed of 24.4 knots.

The house Mr T. Easton iB building for Mr Seabury on the Avenue is a five-roomed one and is in a forward state, the outside walls, roof and some of the partitions being up and floor laid. There will be two chimnics. The site is on a ridge away from the road, and is nearly in a line with another of Mr Seabury's houses occupied by Mr James Dudson.

It ia now stated that the worjd will be over-peopled at the end of 176 years. This briug9 U3 to the year 2072, when the population, at the present rate of increase, will be 5,994,000,000 people.

It is Btated on the. authority ot the Duohess of Cleveland that the great hearth fire in the hall of Baby Castle has never been suffered to expire, but has been kept up for hundreds of years. This castle is, perhaps, the noblest and most perfect specimen of feudal architecture in Britain.

If all the tobacco smoked in the British empire during a year were rolled into a rope an inch in diameter, it would form a snakelike roll, which, following the line of the equator, would go 30 limes round the earth.

A most unfeeling wretch.— " You'll be sorry for this,' 1 exclaimed an an&ry passenger subjected to the imposition of a new rule of the road, '• 111 report you to headquarters. I want you to understand that my husband is the chairman of this railway." " Indeed, ma'am," the conductor replied, " I have always understood that even the great and powerful have their sorrows like the rest of us."

Mr G Seymour Foot, Private Secretary to Lord Loch when the latter Was Governor of Cape Colony, asserts that Mr Cecil Rhodes supported the Jameson raid, as he had positive knowledge that President Kruger was arranging an Anti-English Alliance.

The French Income Tai Sill exempts income derived from rents held abroad.

A man named itudd has paid rather dearly for playing the gho3t at Adelaide. While a peaoeably-disposed citizen was wending his way past a oemetery, a figure clad in white garments emerged from the burial-ground and in sepulchral tones said : " Thomas Meddall, I claim you 1" Meddall waa willing to be claimed, and invited the ghost to take him, and struck him with a stick. The ghest closed, but Meddall disarranged the sheet, and identified Rudd The Magistrate -charged the laltar £4 53 for th» freak.

Do not forget the Church Social at the Public Hall to-night. Good musio and a pleasant evening may be anticipated. Refreshments. Doors open at 7.30.

Tenders for works for the Borough Council must be in by to-morrow at noon.