Manilla.

Manawatu Herald, 17 September 1896, Page 2

Manilla.

We do not want to rouse too great hopes, bat we believe there will be a slight revival in the flax market, for these reasons :- In oar issue of the 10th instant we published a cablegram that " Marshal Blanco, Spanish Governor-General, has proclaimed martial law in the Phillipine Islands. and imprisoned 200 leaders of the agitation going on there." This is the place the man ilia comes from, and if a disturbance of such a nature as necessitates the imprisoning of 200 men is going on there, the growers thoughts will more likely be devoted to war than commerce. We might say that this is a case in point for the appointment of an expert, for though the cablegram is nearly a week old oar Government does not seem the least interested in the matter, though the oost of making enquiries by cable to the English Consul at Manilla would be but small. An expert would understand such things and keep in touch with the movements of the world in the fibre producing districts. We have a Department of Agriculture, bat it seems unable yet to overtake the work it has set itself to do with-. { out taking up flax, and thus that j some one should be appointed to do so seems most important. We hope the Government will be moved to make all enquiries by cable from Manilla, as it would be the means of saving the millers thousands of pounds.

Always keeping pace with the times, our local constable has taken to bicycling. Mr J. C. Martin, S.M., has been ap- \ pointed Public Trustee. Taikorea is to have a new school in the place of the one burnt down. Mr Howan has sent the engines of the Ivy to be enlarged for a greater horse* power. We are glad to floe ploughing going on in all directions rortnd the Borough, both in small ttnd large areas. We regret to notice that Mr Pirani's motion to increase the allowance to committees by 25 per cent> was lost by 6 to 4 The House agreed to the reading of the Old Age Pensions Bill a second time by 42 to 0. Mr J. Symonß has ploughed Dp the paddocks for Mr Stansell at the back of the Public Hall. Mr Napier Bell is to be asked by the Government to prepare a scheme of drainage for tbetownship of Rotorua. The two paddocks belonging to Mr Easton and Mr Ofay at Ihe back of Main street have been ploughed. On the Motoa Road, the paddock next the cemetery, formerly occupied by the late Mr Langley, is being turned over. The Education Board has resolved that the present arrangement re the pupil teacher was the best the Board could make. Articles of the value of £2735 were found in letters opened in the Dead Letter Office, and returned to the sendees where practicable. The annual report on the Victorian railways shows a deficit for the year of £583,000, the heaviest shortage yet experienced. A boiler explosion on the Nile, at Eosheh, destroyed a portion of a gunboat connected with the Anglo-Egyptian expedition. The vessel's engines Were ruined. " Not quite ruined yet," said a Blenheim farmer after the recent flood. "Three times I have sown my land with see.d this season, but I will do it again." A visitor to Maflterton— Miß3 Nickless— has presented to the Masterton Museum a piece of Olive wood from the Mount of Olives, and a seed from a cedar of Lebanon. The local Bowing Club with two new boats and with such a good secretary a? Mr Eure, should soon possess a large roll of new members. Footpaths are to be formed at Ofcaki and Levin, though Councillor Venn, the candU date for the representation of the electorate, protested at the County Counciljdoing such work out of general County revenue. An opening for some of our local Prohibitionists. The deaths from alcoholism in Sweden amount to ninety per thousand. This is the highest rate in the world, says the Medical Record. Mr George Coley has finished the ploughing and sowing of the forty acres at Kawaroa, and he is now ploughing the paddook in Cook's block where he had oats last year. Another alteration in the teaching staff of the school, as the Board has transferred Mr Lyall to Terrace End, Palmerston, and Mr J. Bobson will be appointed in his place. The alterations to start from the Ist of next month. In another oohimn our photographic artist, Mr McElwain, notifies a reduction in the price for portraits. As Mr McElwain executes his work quite as well as any town photographer) patriotic residents should get theil* likenesses taken here and thus support local industry. The Wellington Racing Club has decided to recommend to the Racing Conference that the Wellington Club be allowed to amend the totalisator regu'ations, to the effect that the totalisatoi' investments be paid on first and second horses, in proportion to be determined by the club. The amount deposited in the Post Office Savings Bank was £2,794,506 16s, and the sum withdrawn was £2,369,333 6s 7d. The total sum to the credit of depositors at the close of tho calendar year was £3,895,543 0s 3d, as compared with £3,340,879 11s 4d on 31st December, 1894. Mrs Brown, a very old resident of Foxton, who has beeu in ailing health for some titne, was sent this week to the Palmerston Hospital and, we regret to learn, passed away early this morning. It has been arranged that her body shall be brought down to-nightVand interred in the cemetery beside her husband to-morrow afternoon. The funeral will leave St. Mary's Church at 2 o'clock. The annual report of the Post and Telegraph Department states that there was a considerable expansion of business in all branches of the department during the year. The revenue amounted to £365,---727 6s 6d, and the expenditure totalled £332,325 4s Bd, thus leaving a balance of revenue over expenditure of £33,402 Is 9d. The consumption of eggs by the people of New Zealand is estimated at £434,375 or 17s 5d per head. Last year Wellington imported from the South Island 174,734 dozen eggs, which should have been obtainable from this coast if only our settlers were a little more careful of the smaller lines of profit. The Advances to Settlers Offioe and the Public Trustee's Department are about to be separated. Mr McGowan, Commissioner of Taxes, is to become Superintendant of the Advances to Settlers Office. The new appointment will not interfere with bis present duties. The Chairman of the Horowhenua County, supported by the advice of the County solicitor, is going to hold the County elections giving an additional member to the Wirokino Biding. Hence strong disapprobation on the part of the Otaki Councillors. A very curious watch has lately been designed for the markets of Turkey, Japan, and the various Oriental countries. This watch has its hands moving from right to left instead of from left to right, and is made by Swiss watchmakers. The idea is that in Oriental countries the natives may read their watches in the reverse direction from the way common to Western nations, just as they do their ordinary alphabet. Mt J. W. A Marchant, Commissioner of Grown Lands in Canterbury, is about to return to Wellington as the sucoeeeor to Mr J. H. Baker, who will shortly vacate the position of Commissioner of Crown Lands in the district (says the Post.) Mr Marchant, who was Mr Baker's predecessor in Wellington, is an able and popular officer, whose return to this district will be welcomed by a very large circle of friends. The Cape Times says that " at Bitstown and Prieska the season has been so cold that over 1000 ostriohes, 10,000 sheep, and 500 head of cattle and horses have perished. To add to the troubles of the farmers, millions of springbucks have made their appearance, and not only devoured the veld that was left, but driven away the wild ostriches. Altogether, it is stated . that the destruction of farmers' property in J these districts is exceptionally disastrous • jvl-p. in theue "isajtrona times."

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