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Manawatu Herald, 24 September 1896, Page 2

A man grubbing flax on the Moutoa eatate got bis foot badly cat. The Meßßrs Außtin have oommenoed flax-milling again. The committee of the Foxton Racing Club meet to-morrow night to consider a programme for, their summer meeting. Professor Max Mailer says Msojpa Fables oame to us from India, as the prinoipal characters and the whole surroundings are Eastern rather than Western. A letter from the Pope has been published, in which he declares that the rite of ordination in the Anglioan Church is absolutely invalid. In anoient Rome houses were run up to 70 feet and some of the palaces to 150 and 180 feet. To-day in Berlin the maximum height is 86 feet, in Vienna 45 feet, and in Paris 63} feet. A young kangaroo has just been born at the Chriatohurch Acclimatisation Society's Gardens, bred frdta the pair which were placed in the gardens a coupe of years ago. This is the second young marsupial born in the gardens. * An item of news in an American paper just to hand is alarming, and it is to be hoped that it does not foreoast a new fad to occupy the attention of West End young ladies when the bicycle craze shall have worn off. It appears from the journal that a young woman of eighteen summers, resident in California— Miss Elaine Teifor by name — has studied bagpipe playing to Buch good purposes that she has become an adept at the art, and is ' sought all along the coa«t to give colour to the gatherings of the men from Burns' land.' It is explained that Miss Teifor, though an American by birth as well as residence, comes of Scottish stock, her father being an Ayrshire man • who traces his ancestry to Robert Bruce.' Miss Te.'for is a slightly built maiden, but 1 she carries herself with the proverbial statelincss of a piper, and marches to the tune she playß., She is fairly ablaze with medals and decorations which have been bestowed upon her by the admiring Scottish societies of California. All this is very far from reassuring, and as it appear:? that 1 Miss Teifor was in her earlier years • fond of Scottish legends and tales,' the moral for West End mammas seams obvious.

The D.O. Assignee advertises the date of the public examination of A. Kerr and H. Cameron. The Messrs Stra'ng Bro3 have given £3 3s as a special prize at the next Manawatu A. and P. Show. The committee of the Foxton Football Club desire to acknowledge with thanks a donation of 30s from Mr Tbynne to the funds of the Club. The Princess of Battenburg plaoed a funeral wreath on her husband's coffin inscribed— " Till dqath us do part— till death us do unite again." Mr Abort Chevalier, the London Music Hall artist, must get well paid, as he refused an engagement which would have brought him in £8000 a year t On the 3rd October, Messrs Abraham and Williams will sell by public auction at Palmersfon, sections 336, 337 and 368, Carnarvon. For further particulars see advertisement. Twenty-two years ago there were only from 15,000 to 20,000 Jews in Jerusalem, but there are now between 60,000 and 70,000. The increase has come mainly from Russia. The Pott saya that in the Foxton case of Kirby v. Herbert, a claim for £160, money lent, and for the speciflo performanoe of a contract, his Honour Mr Justice Edwards entered up judgment for the plaintiff for £150 with cost*. ' A sheep worrying aase was heard before the B.M. at Feildlng On Friday last. The partners to the suit were settlers in the Apiti district, and judgment was given for plaintiff for £19. The costs amounted to £9 10s. Id order to introduce a "change of blood" into the fish in the Canterbury rivers, the Christchurch Acclimatisation Society has this season obtained 160,000 trout ova from Wellington, and they have been very successfully hatched out. The following story) illustrative of the retotfc discourteous, was told of an officer who had risen from the ranks. Meeting a lady who muoh dißtiked him, he said : •' Good evening Miss , you ara looking very handsome to-night." . " I wish I could say the same', Major." "Oh! but you oould if you were to tell a lie, as I did." At the inquest at Sandon into the death of J. H. Cuthberteon, the verdict of the jury was that deceased had committed suicide while temporarily insane. Two of the witnesses stated that deceased had on previous occasionj expressed an intention of doing away with himself. A young man named Arthur Perreau was taken to the Wellington Asylum by last evenings train from Palmevstofl, in charge of Constable Griffiths. The unfortunate young fel'ow haß been an inmate of the Palmerston Hospital for some little time, and while there has been under the delusion that attempts have bsen made to poison him. As will be seen from our advertising ooltimns, Foiton is going to be favoured with a visit of Edison's latent marvellous developement "The Kinetoscope.'' This exhibition is the first and only one of its kind 111 New Zealand, and has been received with pronounced sudoeas in every place showp. We have no doubt that our readers will be equally pleased to have an opportunity of seeing this emanation oC scienlifio genius. The Bey. S. Barnett has instituted a very good idea to raise a little more money for his ohurch. He has obtained tno assistance of friends and has broken up one acre of first-class land in Nor bi ton, part of the church paddock, in which potatoes are to be planted by a working Dee, and worked also by volunteers, th? prdceeds beiog sold. Mr Ho wan did the first ploughing and Mr Nelson did the discing, and harrowing of the part already planted with early potatoes. Mr Coley has promised to disc the remainder. The seed is also donated. Under these oircumstanoes the result should show a large profit. Very few people are aware that th? actual Sultan of Turkey is descend d from a Frenoh lady. His great grandmother, Naohasadil Sultana, consort of Abdul Hamid I. was born in the West Indian Island of Martinique in the latter quarter of the eighteenth century. Her maiden name was Airaee Bnbuo de Rivery. She was cousin and companion in cbi dbood ol another lady, Jospbiue de la Pagerie. who esoaped from the guillotine, on whtop hai first husband was beheaded, to become Empress of the Frenoh. Mile, da Rivery, on (the completion of her education at a convent in Nantes, embarked at Marseille for the West Indies. She was shipwrecked and rescued by a vestel on its way tc Algiers. The vessel was captured bj Algerian pirates, and the lady was tokos prisoner and sold as a slave, to the Bey who in his turn made her a present tc Abdul Hamid I. By him she became the mother of Mabmoud 11., the Reformer and grandfather of the present Bo! tan. In 1889 the Sultan Abdul Aziz gave the details of this story to Empress Eugenic, than in Constantinople on her way to Cairo, and very gracefully claimed her as i cousin. Certainly the most effective medicine it the world is Sanders and Son's Euoalypti Extract. Test its eminently powerful effect in Coughs, Colds, Influenza ; the re lief instantaneous. 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