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Manawatu Herald, 30 July 1896, Page 2

Elsewhere appears the statement filed by S. M. Baker at Wanganut. Tenders for flax clearing must be in by the first of August.

There are so far 16 cases on the calendar for the criminal sittings on the Supreme Court which begin next Monday.

The Manawatu County Council holds a special meeting at Sanson on Saturday to consider the applications for the position of Clerk to that body.

A suggestion was made by the Liquor Trade deputation that prohibited persons should wear a badge One speaker said there were 50 people in Wellington prohibited and he on'y knew one.

Mr Gibson, the agent for the New Zealand Insurance Co., has handed Mrs Guerin a cheque for the insurance on the building lately destroyed by fire. This is a very prompt settlement.

At the Govent Garden Opera House during the season there was a huge bras3 phonograph fixed on the proscenium, so that the manager could preserve a record of all the best performances.

A meeting of the shareholders in the Temperance Hall Company was held last night in Mr E. Osborne's office, when it was decided to sell the Hall by auotion or by tender, the date of which will be duly notified.

The Premier is in a bad way. To a deputation from the Liquor Trade, he said he was in a very difficult position between the Liquor and the Temperance Parties in the House, and he bad the confidence of neither.

Gill, who fell from the gallery in the Trivoli Theatre, Sydney, and killed a man, has been sentenced to bix months' imprisonment on the charge of manslaughter. The sentence has, however, been suspended unded the First Offenders Act.

The Post says we should not be surprised if the election was forced on, and that the month of November saw the people of the colony face to face with a general election. In 1893 the election took place at least two weeks before the time that it had been stated by members of the Ministry it would take place.

A disgraceful melee took place on Saturday afternoon at a football match nt Collingwood, Victoria, between the local team and the North Melbourne. When play ceased the crowd rushed the ground, and seizing Mr Roberts, the field umpire, dragged him about by the hair of the head, while others kicked him and beat him with sticks. A party of players and police had great difficulty in rescuing him from the angry mob. Several women took a prominent part in the row, and renewed the attack when Roberts reached the pavilion, but with the assistance of a strong body of police he managed to escape in a cab.

One would not suppose that ants would make a very savoury dish ; some of the natives of India, however, use the red species as food, and seem to think a great deal of them. The insects build their nests of leaves in trees or bushes, and these the Indians take down and pound together the ants and their egga, and then make them into curry. Another extraordinary use that these people put the red ant to is for the cure of colds in the head. In this case both the nest and the ants are rubbed together between the palms of the hands into a powder and then taken as snuff. The scent is said to somewhat resemble ammonia.

The effect produced by cannon-shot at short range on solid masses of men was sometimes extraordinary. Thus Croker tells how at Waterloo an offioer received a severe wound in the shoulder, apparently from a jagged ball. When the missile was extracted, however, it turned out to be a huge human double-tooth. Its owner's head had been shattered by a cannon ball, and the very teeth .transformed into swift and deadly missiles! There were other cases of soldiers being wounded by coin driven suddenly by the impact of shot from their original owner's pockets. The sustained fire of the Fiench tirailleurs, too wrought fatal mischief.

At the Magistrate's Court on Monday afternoon Hanita te Awe Awe and three others aought to recover from J. V. Burr rent amounting to £15 3s 2d and possession of the land rented says the Times. The olaim for rent was not disputed but Mr Fitzherbert, for defendant, argued that as the necessary formalities in regard to native leases had not been oompiled with ; that as there were five owners in common and only four had signed the lease ; that as no partition order had been made in respect to the land, and as only four owners had sued for recovering, whereas it was alleged there were five owners, plaintiffs must be nonsuited. In any case as only four out of the five owners had signed the lease it must be held valueless. Mr Innes argued that in any case his olients had a right to the recovery of four-fifths of the land ; and as the fifth owner had not signed the lease he was unable to include him in the claim. His Worship said under the circumstances hs could not make an order for possession. It appeared to him that the whole of the owners in common must sue ; and the lease cou'd not be considered of value as it had not been signed by all the owners. Mr Innes elected to take a nonsuit to enable him to institute other proceedings. One guinea solicitor's fee was allowed.

A serious railway accident is reported from Delhi, in Northern India. Two trains collided in that district, with the result that thirty persons were killed and twenty others injured.

In the early part of the century there was a house and window tax, and a member of the finglieh House of Commons gave the following illustration aa to how it worked He knew a case in which a per so a bad a house at Tenbury, of the rental of £35 yearly. The windows were so numerous that the duty was £60. The Owner abandoned the house, but a person was put in to take care of the property. The taxgatherer oame round and demanded £60 for the window tax. "Oh " Baid the owner, " at this rate I had belter pull the house down." He actually did bo, and the material of his former dwelling that the year before had been valued at £2400, Bold for £200 only. Those who have come from the Old Country will easily recall to mind the curious appearance of many old houses from some of the windows being bricked up. This was done daring the period of the window tax to lessen the charges.

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In illustration of the system we will give an example. Take for instance No. 7 parcel, which contains 7 yards of double width stylish fancy check tweed ; 2 dozen buttons and silk and twist to match ; 2 yards of body lining and 4 yards of skirt lining. This complete parcel will be sent, post free, to any address on receipt of 15s 9d, from Te Aro House, Wellington.

One of the drawbacks of country life, at least to the small settler, is undoubtedly the inoreased price he has to pay for any articles of clothing or general drapery, by reason of the extra charges for freight or carriage. This drawback need exist no longer, for extra charges are done away with under the new parcel system whicn has been inaugurated at Te Aro House, Wellington.