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Manawatu Herald, 1 August 1896, Page 2

The Borough Council meets on Monday. The Australians won the match against Surrey by seven wickets.

Planting and transplanting can now be attended to.

Mr Callis, who relieved Mr Nixon, has gone to Otaki to relieve Mr Costello.

Mr Heard, tuner for Messrs Collier & Co., will visit Foxton on Tuesday. Orders e'an be left at the office of this paper.

Miss Winifred Bay left, this morning to take up her duties as pupil teacher at Cheltenham.

Mr Gower reports having had a few lambs nearly three weeks ago. Messrs Nye and Thynne also have some.

The Journal of the Horticultural Society of November, 1895, states that the import of green apples into England for the year 1894 was of the value of £1,376,000.

There having been no other nominations for Synodsman, the Eeturning Officer, Mr A. S.Easton, has duly deolared Mr J. T. Bay elected.

Mr A. E. T. Nixon returned from his holiday on Thursday night and has resumed his duties at the Bank of Australasia.

Love one another. In London, the other day, the Congress of the World's Socialist Workers was mobbed by Anarchists and compelled to adjourn.

Mr Williams Baid there were hundreds of viguerons in Victoria who would sell out their next year's orop at a halfpenny a pound !

Mr Williams told the Fruit Conference that he had grown peaches that had turned the soale at 21b. They were the Brandywine and Sussegaehana.

The N'Z. Farmer says if your land is warm and dry, and in places where the frost is light, you might chance a small sowing of kidney potatoes.

Dogs have commenced a sheep season of their own and are trying to support them selves on the flocks in the neighbourhood. Some seven sheep being killed on Wednesday night.

The D.O. Assignee in bankruptcy publishes a notice in the Palmerston papers that Mr Archibald Kerr was adjudged a bankrupt on Thursday and the first meeting of creditors is fixed for the 11th August.

It wa? decided by the Wellington Education Board to inform the Government that the Board strongly disapproved of the provisions of the Local Bodies' Constitution Reform Bill so far as they affected the election of members of Education Boards throughout the Colony.

A name named William Lambourne, who obtained relief from the Masterton Benevolent Society, was found to have £850 on fixed deposit in the Bank at Marton. He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Accused, who lately returned from a trip to England, excused himself by saying that he did not want to touch his banking account.

Otago registered the most births and most marriages, and Auckland the most deaths. There were 198 cases of twins registered, Otago leading the lint with 52. The September quarter has the heaviest registry of births. The proportion of births per 1000 of population was 26-76, the lowest on record in a decennial return. The proportion of marriages was 5 94, also the lowest on record, and the proportion of deaths 9/9J, the lowest for five yean,

Mr Robertson, of Taurangi, said his peaches, through the season, averaged three to a pound.

Next Thursday Mr McMillan will sell by public auction the Temperance Hall at 2 2 p.m.

To-morrow the Rev. George JAitkens will hold services at Shannon. At All Saints' Mr Bay will take the morning service, and Mr Eraser the evening one.

The population of the Colony on December 31st was 369,725 males and 328,891 females. There were 22,861 male Maoris and 19,132 females.

Mr Thompson, of Tasmania, says :— ln Sears, the Winter Cole, Vicar of Winkfleld, osephiild da Malines, Deurre Clairgear, and Easter Beurra hold a chief place.

The French are making Loango, in French Congo, the chief port of their West African possessions and also the Governor's station. The coastal telegraph through the length of their territory is almost completed.

Of the 81 suicides recorded for 1895, 72 were males and 9 women. Men choose hanging, fire-arms, and poison in that order for the purpose of self destruction, while women choose drowning and then poisofl.

Mr Martin Chapman has given it as his opinion that the Wellington Hospital cannot employ ony part of its income in building a new hoppUal-^flnywhere. This is in reply to the Horowhenua Oounty Council.

Spraying for Codlin Moth should be done with Paris-green when the pteals of (he flowers were just about to fall, and when the small fruit was less than the size of a pea. In a fortnight afterwarda give another spray, and again in about a week's time.

Mr Thompson, Government Entomologist of Tasmania recommends the following apples for cultivation :— Sturmer, Cleopatra, Hampshire Yellow or Adams Pearmain, French Crab, Scarlet Nonpareil, Cox's Orange Pippin, Stone Pippin, and Ribetone Pippin. A girl aged 14 years made a balloon asCent at Newport, Isle of Wight, last week, and all went successfully until she sought to alight with the aid of a parachute. In the descent she by some means relaxed her hold of the paraohute, and fell into the sea. It was her fi st ascent and her last.

The action brought by Thomas Popham, licensee of Coker's Hotel, against T. E. Taylor, a leading Prohibitionist, claiming £1000 damages for alleged slander, was concluded at Christohurch on Wednesday evening, when the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for £50. Costs on the usual scale were allowed. Leave was reserved to the defendant to move generally.

In the action brought by Edwin Faust of the Faust Family, against the Taranaki News Company for £300 damages for alleged libel contained in a paragraph in the News, it was agreed, reports the Hawera Post, that judgment be entered up for £15 and the 40s be paid into oourt, and an apology be printed. We have been informed that the Faust Family intend proceeding against Beveral other newspapers that published the paragraph.

Lundy Island, in the Bristol Channel, which so far has possessed neither work* house, publichouse, chapel, nor church, is about to obtain the latter through the generosity of the lord of the isie, Rev. H. E. Heaven, who has commenced to build one on the site of an ancient ruin, formerly dedicated to St. Helena. The island is 3 miles long by 1J wide, and is situated about 20 miles from CloVelly, on the North Devon coast. It has been a parish to itself since 1225, and has a resident population of about 60 persons. Lundy Island is the only parish in the United Kingdom which lacks both doctor, lawyer and polioeman.

The Prince of Wales speaking at the opening of the People's Palace at the East End of London, referred to his Derby victory as follows : — " I cannot refrain from expressing my deepest thanks for the very kind way in which you have just received my name in connection with sport. It is always a matter of sal if sf action to every Englishman to succeed, if possible, in anything he puts his hand to— (loud cheers) — but no doubt to have won with a horse which I have bred myself is an additional gratification to me. I wish to endorse every word that was said respecting the enthusiastic and kind feeling displayed on that occasion, which far surpassed to me all the pleasure and gratification I feel at haviDg won the Derby.