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Manawatu Herald, 21 July 1896, Page 2

Dr Skerman's house at Mavton was destroyed by fire on Sunday. Messrs Abraham and Williams hold a stock sale at Palmerston on Thursday. The land under orchards in New Zealand amounts to 19,362 acres. From Tasmania we imported £473 worth of preserved fruit. The annual meeting of the Foxton Bating Club is fixed for next Tuesday evening at the Club's office. The battle of. Trafalgar, which the Navy League of England is desirous that all colonial municipalities should celebrate, was fought by Nelson on the 21st October, 1805, off the coast of Spain. A young man named John Cranwell went into a closet at his father's house, Kingaland road, Auckland, last week, put a cartridge of dynamite in his mouth, and b'ew his head off. The Manawatu County Council are inviting applications for th* position of clerk. All applications must be in by the Ist August. A copy of the conditions oan be seen at this office. The charge again<>t 'Carl Matßon and Hannah Bertha Clark of having, mv dered Mary Matson was continued at Lawrence on Saturday, when Matson was committed for trial, bul«Olark was discharged. We learn that there are more charges of sheep stealing. to be investigated at Palmerston soon, two young men living at Pahiatua being' concerned. One, Herbert Scott, was arrested at Auckland on this charge and remanded to Palmerston. In our advertising co'umns appears a notice from the- Clerk of the District Court at Palmerston North, giving notice that the Liquidator of the Longburn Freezing Company to make a call of £3 per share on all the contributories of the Company. Mr Watson, President of the Bank of New Zealand, was called to the Bar of the House, not of Bellamy's, on Friday night, and on his still refusing to disclose the particulars of certain accounts, was deemed guilty of a breach of privilege and fined £500. Mr Andrew Jonson has just completed another pleasure boat. It is eighteen feet in length over all and five and a half feet in beam She is built throughout with kauri ahd is copper fastened. Mr Jonson reckons she will, prove a good sailing craft, and with her beam a very steady, handy and safe boat. She is for sale. Last night a good many from town went on to the beaoh north of the bar for frost fish, but were unsuccessful in their search, whilst a large number on the south beaoh obtained a good haul. We are told that the beaoh on the south of the river, to the wreck of the Hydrabad, was almost a line of fires, lit by those who went down. ' A Maori brought some into town this morning and asserts he obtained twenty-nine of these fish. During the hearing of a charge againßt a man named James Mitchell, with having stolen a gold ring valued at £1 10s, whioh had been left in the gaol lavatory by a warder named W. G. Rlddick, the head warder of the gaol deposed to having stripped and thoroughly searohed the accused when the latter left the gaol, but Btated that the ring might have been on the man notwithstanding. He had known a case when 20 bank notes had not been discovered, though the prisoner had them and was thoroughly searohed. The accused's explanation of the matter was that he bad found the ring on on«4f the streets.

The New Zealand Shipping Company's dew steamer Waimate has been launched. During the year 1895 over 2$ million pounds of fresh fruit was imported into the colony from Australia. Mr Campbell, of Now South Wales, says we can produce a great variety of all the oold-climate fruits If 19 Bt&ted, Says the Manawatn Times, that on account of failing health Mr s M. Baker has decided to dippo3e of his valuable, stud. The Levin Lodge of thel.O.G.T. dcoided, by a bare majority, to defer pledging themselves to support Mr Ransom's candidature until all the candidates were known. tt may be interesting to mention that most of the engines at the gp'd mines in Western Australia are oil engines, worked by explosion of kerosene, thereby making a saving in fuel and water. Mr Williams, of Victoria, during his tour ronnd the colony declares he travelled over a small portion of the finest land be had ever seen in his life, and he had travelled dyer the whole of Australia. Mr Pirani's Bill to amend the Marriage Act provides that 24 householders of any religioUß congregation in which there is no officiating minister may nominate a petson to officiate at marriages* A Queensland member of the Fruit Con* ference said he did not think anyone could go through any part of the world and find land of a better class than that of Queensland and New Zealand. Stanbury has challenged Gaudaur to meet him in a eoulling match for £1000 a-side, either on the Thames or tbe Parra* matta. It is reported that Gaudaur is willing to race at Vancouver in September. At the Pomahaka inquest, the jury returned a verdict that they were unanimously Of opinion that Mary Matson came to her death by murder, and that twothirds of the jury find that Carl Matson was guilty of that murder. Here is someone worthy even of our looal Cheß? Club— Mr Thomas Sexton, of the Woodville Chess Club, has won the first and third prizes in the Leeds Mercury ohess problem competition, open to the world. Mr Bailey appears to have hit the nail upon (he head when he told the conference that we were badly in want of an experimental orchard, so that people oould see what we oan grow. He said' " I think, in regard to what Are called ' experts,' there has been too much ' talkee»talkee.' " To inquiries whether there was any pro* babilily of England being involved in war, Lord Salisbury's unvarying answer has been that he could not say— that no English Minister could say. Given a certain condition of public feeling it would be impossible for any English Government to keep the nation out of war as it would be, if an opposite moda prevailed, to foroe them into it. There is on exhibition at an Auckland hotel a wonderfully carved model of a Maori war canoe. It is, says the Herald without doubt the finest sample of native carving ever seen in the colony. It has been carved by Patara te Tuhi, one of the chiefs of the Ngatimahuta tribe, and it has taken him. six years Jo complete it. This model 'is a representation of the canoe called Taintii, the first that, according to Maori tradition, -arrived in New Zealand . about twenty-two generations ago. Mi Iheo Cooper, who appeared as coun.gel for Mr Watson at the Bar of the House, said, during his. earnest ;. address, that it was an imperative duty on the part of Mr Watson to refuse the information sought for. He was sure no such case had ever been investigated in a Court of Justice, and he had been unable to find any case where a Court by a roving commission had ever sought to go through the books of a banking institution. Mr Watson was willing to produce the gross amounts written off in each year sinoe 1883, but the very foundation of his position wa3 attacked by the question he refused to answer, and he honestly believed thai if he answered that question it would produce the downfall of the Bank of New Zealand. He wished if possible to save that calamity, and that was why he refused to answer those questions.