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Manawatu Herald, 25 July 1896, Page 2

The date for the inspection of the Oroua Bridge school is fixed for the 20th August. Mr Kerr has left town and has decided to take up his residence in Palmerston. Tobacco is said to average for the male population as much as £1 13s 5d per head. Messrs Abraham and Williams will hold a stock sale at Palmerston on Thursday, and at Levin on Friday. The annual meeting of the Fozton Bacing Olub takes place on Tuesday even* ing next. The chess match, by wire, between Foxton and Palmerston, takes place on Tuesday evening. E. G. Cox was on Thursday, at Bulls, committed for trial on the charges of embezzlement He reserved his defence. Sixty-five and a half million pounds of sugar was eaten last year by the inhabitants of this colony. There were dose on five million gallons of New Zealand brewed beer consumed in the colony last year. The oldest painted windows now in England are in the choir of Canterbury Cathedral, which date from 1174. On Sunday the Rev. G. Astkens will (D.V.) hold morning and evening services at Foxton. There will be Holy Communion at the morning service. Mr Williams mentions the Cleopatra, Five Crown Pippin, Prince Alfred, and Ben Davis as good keeping, cooking and drying apples. Seventeen Suffolk horses have just been purchased from some of the leading breeders in England for the Russian Government. Professor Rontgen being asked what his new "Bays " are, replied as follows : — " Is it light?" No. "Is it eleotrioity ?" No. '• What iB it ?" I don't know. Word was received yesterday that the Eia Toa team of footballers would be unable to play to-day. Seeing what weather we are having the information is rather luoky. Last year our population drank 435,431 gallons of spirits at a oost of £1 14s 5d per' head of the adult males. This does not follow that some of this charge should not be knocked off for the shire the females had. At the meeting of the parishioners of All Saints', Mr A. S. Eastern, the Returning Officer, received nominations for Synodsman, and Mr J. T. Kay was again nominated for the position. If other nominations are received an election will be held, which will be duly notified. According to Dr G. Schatt, who has been making a speoial study of ocean waves, their speed in a moderate breeze is 16.8 miles per hour. Their siae and speed increase proportionately to the velocity of the wind. In a strong breeze they increase to 260 ft in length, and reach a speed of 36ft per seoond. In heavy storms their length inoreases to 400 ft and the speed to 28 miles an hour. Dr Sohatt does not think that the maximum height of the waves is very great; his maximum is just 82ft. He believes that in great tempests waves of more than 60ft are rare, and that even those of 50ft are exceptional. In the ordinary trade winds the height is sft or 6ft. The following is a list of the liabilities and assets in the estate of C. F. Mortensen, of Foxton, publican. Unsecured creditors — Wellington : Allen and Hartman, £40 3s 6d; Sargood, Son and Ewan, £92 11s. Foxton: T. Easton, £12; Fraser, 7s 6d; Hamer and Co., £2 ; Johansen, £25 : Harris, £1 Is; B. Spelman, £6. Palmerston North: Hadfield & < 0., £16 4s 6d ; Baker and Cooke, £8 ; T. B. Crump, £46 ; H. S. Fitzherbert, £14 ; G. F. Hawkins, £38 ; J. Olsen, £26. Danevirke : G. Lloyd, £36 13. Hunterville : A Cricksen, £21. Napier :J. Creswell, £26. Bulls : C. Bull, £36. Total, £439 11s 6d. Assets— Book debts, £1156 14s Bd, estimated to produoe £278 7s 4d ; cash in bank, 9s Id ; real •state, lease of plantation reserve at Carnarvon, Foxton, valued at £10. Total, £588 16b sd. Surplus £149 i» lid.

The Wellington Races have been postponed to Monday, owing to the rain. The Borne Beauty is said to be a profitable apple for drying. There was a sale at the Pound to-day of two horses. One, a half-draught fetched £5 10s, Mr M. Boyle being the purchaser, and the hack went to Mr P. Guerin for £2. t ruit-sizing oocupies considerable attention in America, numberless machines of various types being employed, some of which are capable of sizing as mauy as COO boxes in one day. The French authorities are sending an expedition 1000 strong, composed chiefly of white troops, to Lake Tebad, Central Afrioa, on the southern border of the Sahara desert. A Georgia justice recently sentenced a man to be hanged. One of the lawyers explaining that there was no law which empowered him to pronounce the death sentence, he replied, " That may be ; but I've hung 6 of 'em jest the same. The Mayor has chosen the name for the new township at the Heads as the " Wharangl," the old Maori name, and Mr Wylde, the surveyor, has been duly informed. We trust the title of " The Foxton Sanitorium " will be added as also desired. Mr James Williams, of Viotoria, says :— Among the best proved apples, from a dessert standpoint, are the Jonathan, CEsophus, Spitzemberg, Borne Beauty, Bed Canada* Sing of the Pippins, Shockley, Nicaj&ck, and Rokewood, most of these can be shipped to the English market. Cr Montague, of Palmers ton, has tabled the following notice of motion : — That owing to the unsatisfactory state of the Borough finances a speoial audit of the whole of the Borough books, vouchers, Ac, take place as soon &a possible, and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Auditor-General. The idea of a gentleman understanding how to reoognise the liability to a promise of seorecy is understood not by the Wellington Government paper, or it would not have published the following:— One thing has been definitely determined in this mixed up banking affair, tt is that President Watson prefers to pay fines rather than tell what he knows. B. Clough, postmaster at Te Aroha, was fired at by his assistant, Archie McKee, a messenger, who suddenly developed symptoms of insanity. He enticed Clough to the river bank saying a man had a fit there. He then fired two shots at him with a Martini-Henri rifle, but both missedi They were so close that Clough felt the concussion of the air as the bullets passed his face. McKee has been arrested. Two dootors are attending him. The Chinese Government is about to make a reform in the currency, by replacing the tael with a unit equivalent to the Mexican piastre. The tael of 10 maces or 100 condenn or 1000 cash is of the value of 1.228 ounces of silver, worth from three shillings and one penny to three shillings and seven pence. The piastre 1b more generally known as the peße from the Spanish " a weight " or dollar. One pese of 100 oentavos is equal to two shillings to two shillings and four pence three farthings according to th« market value of silver. There ia a man in Moscow, according to the Russian papers, who was born there in 1757, during the reign of the Empress Elizabeth, and is consequently 139 years old. From hiß 20th to his 86th year he was a coachman, and for upsetting his master he was sent to Siberia, where he lived until 1893. In that year he deoided to return home, and he arrived at Moscow in 1894. His eyesight is undimmed, his hearing is good, and he is a splendid pedestrian. Up to his 134 th year he had never tasted brandy, but now he allows himself a little.