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Manawatu Herald, 19 November 1896, Page 2

Acceptances for the Football Club Sports must be iii by Friday (to-morrow) night. We have to thank Mr Gibson, agent for the N.Z. InHuranc9 Co., for oopies of almanacs. The Australian colonies produce gold annually to the value of ten millions sterling. The Tecoid lor high jumping stands at the remarkable height of 6ft 5 5-Bth inches, and a running long leap has been made of 25ft 6£ inches. Cotton 'spinning in Japan in 1889 only gave employment to 5,394 women and 2,539 men. In 1890 over 30,000 women and 10,000 men were employed. Doctor : " Now, what did your father and mother die of ?"— Applicant : "Well, sir, I can't, Fay as I do 'xactly remember ; but 'iwarn't nothing serious 1" Mr F. H. Yonrg's Fiying Shot and Steel Sholl-t. !i.; Wellington this morning to take part iu the Exhibition Meeting to be held at the Hutt on Saturday and Wednesday next. Mr J. J. Bagnall, of Feildine, delivered an address under the auspices of the Liberty League, on Liberty v. Prohibition, at the Opera House Wellington on Monday night. It is not generally known that by the Turkish Loan Act, 1855, England and Franca jointly and severally guarantee interest at four per cent on a Turkish loan. Next Saturday Messrs Abraham and Williams hold their usual horse sale at Falmer3ton, and on Saturday week they hold an unreserved sale of horses and sheep. Speaking at Warrnambool, Lord Brassey said he hailed with deep thankfulness the Venezuelan settlement, and trusted that the Court of Arbitration would become a standing Court of Appeal in all matters of dispute between England and the United States. Becently, at Bordeaux, a young man beat the record in stilt-walking, by covering 275 miles in 76 hours and 35 minutes. The stilts usid were about six feet long and weighed 16 pounds. He took steps of four feet in length. New Zealand has a debt of £C1 12s 4d per head of the population, South Australia one of £03 Is Id, and Queensland one of £69 43 2d, all the other colonies havo debts £20 per head lighter. We shall soon top the tree it we retain our "nonborrowing " Government. The Australian Eleven has had a great financial success in England, the takings are said to have been nearly £15,000. The expenses amount to about £4000, leaving the balance for division betwixt the fifteen members of the team. The South Australian Parliament, by a majority of five, added a olanse to the Licensed Victuallers' Bill practically abolishing barmaids. Women employed as barmaids will be licensed to continue in that employment if they wish, but no new barmaids are to be licensed. 11 What to do with our boys ?" writes an English paper and replies " I think there is a distinct . temptation to make them professional cyclists. It is said, with some show of authority, that the leading exponents of the art earn their £1500 to £2000 a year. One well-known "draw" gets £80 for winning a raoe, and £60 for losing it. The chairman of the Moutoa Sohool Committee informs as that the committee has withdrawn the resolution and that Mr Stevens will be able to have the use of the schoolroom. It is evident the committee acted previously in ignorance of the Aot, and they have done well in so promptly withdrawing the ill-advised resoluffcn. Thirty motor-cars, fitted with all sorts of tires, started on a raoe from London to Brighton on Saturday, the distance being 50 miles. Both the roads and weather were unfavourable to such an experiment, and 17 of the machines were disabled. The rest (were fairly successful. Two of the"Bolee" type oooupied four hours on the journey. One autocar occasionally ran 25 miles an hour. The body of the man Alfred C. Bowe, who was reported missing about a week since from Carterton, was found in the Buamahunga Biver on Monday, a little below Eokotau Bridge. At the inquest a verdict was returned that deceased was drowned in attempting to cross the Buamahunga Biver on the Ist inst. while intoxicated and while the river was in flood. An expedition is to Akassa, at the mouth of the Niger, in the middle of December, to subjugate the Llarans, a powerful tribe which is harassing the British colony of Lagos, on the Bight of Benin, formerly one of the great centres of the African slave trade. This is a colony that was permanently occupied in 1861. Up to 1886 it formed a dependency of the Gold Coast, but now is a separate Crown Colony and Protectorate. The Protectorate comprises the kingdoms of Pokra, Okeodon, Ilaro, Addo, Igbessa, Awori, Jebu, Bemo, Ogbo, Mahin and Jakri.