Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, NOV. 28, 1896.

Manawatu Herald, 28 November 1896, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, NOV. 28, 1896.

Mr Joe Tob' altered advertisement will appear in our next issue. The Queen of the South took a very large cargo of wool away yesterday. The Post reports the death of Mrs Walter Tumbull at Wellington on Wednesday. We acknowledge the receipt of Parts 1 and 2 of the Official Year-book of the colony, from the'Registrar-General. From our cablegrams it will be noticed that the war likely to be of any use to us is progressingThe Rev. E. Young holds services at Foxton in the morning on Sunday and at Shannon in the evening. Yesterday the Borough Connoil accepted the tender of John Stuart for all contracts. No other tenders were received. Near the Caspian Sea there are several " eternal fires," go called by the natives, - where natural gas issues from the ground and has been on fire for ages. J. H. Eirby, of Marlon, late printer and publisher of the Mercury newspaper, filed hi 3 petition in bankruptcy at Wanganui on Tuesday. Japan, within five months of taking possession of Formosa, has built two lines of Decauvillo railroads, one thirty-five miles and the other fifty miles long. R. D. Jefferson has now completed his cycling feet of riding across Siberia on a bicycle. He has covered, per bioycle, either riding it, walking besida it, or carrying it, exactly 6,574 miles. Weather statement. — The heat has been so great that we are informed (on excellent authority) that the 'bus drivers all over London have been enabled to light their pipes on their own boxes. A New York rumour alleges that a man has invented and shown a contrivance by which he claims to bo able to develop and transmit 2,500 horse-power from an engine of 140 horse-power. A pedestrian starting machine was used at Auckland for the first time in the sprint events at the Auckland Amateur Athletic and Cycle Club's Carnival, held on Saturday, and gave every satisfaction. How did he know ? At Normanby, Mr Major, one of the candidates for Hawera, said he only knew of one oouhtry where no drink was procurable. In reply to a question, he said that was Hades. The Lord Mayor elect of London is a son of the late Sir B. Phillips, who was Lord Mayor in 1865-6, and is married to a sister of Sir E. Lawson. He ia a Jew, and a Unionist. A recommendation. — Mrs Cogie : Ay, that's the-new dootor, mem ; an' I'm sure it wad be an awfu' kindness if ye gied him a bit trial. He had a heap o 1 patients when he cam' first, but noo they're a' deid. In reply to a request that Stoddart's English team, which is shortly to come to the colonies, should visit Western Australia, Major Ward ell, secretary of the Melbourne Cricket Club, stated that it would do so it £1000 were paid for two matches. Mr Or. H. Engeli has been elected chairman of the Horowhenua County Council aud the offices are to be Bhifted to Levin, the Wirokino Road Board having agreed tc spend £100 for offices in conjunction with the Council. The Standard says Mr Crabb, who is so well known as a vigorous temperance lecturer, will begin a special No-License mission in Palmerslon on Saturday evening. He will speak in the open-air, and afterwards address a meeting in the Theatre Royal. This would be ft good opportunity to ask him what ha baa done with the " Fat Contributor." Mr Howan has got the boiler on board of the Sunbeam and hopes to make a trial trip in a day or two. He has scoured the services of a reliable oaptain to navigate the vessel and is now waiting for a temporary permit from the Marine Department to carry passengers. After all this we hope he will begin to rake ii the dollars, The full Manawatu roll, which was completed and in circulation on Monday, contains 4198 names ; that is, altogether on the Main and two . Supplemental Rolls. The Registrar of Electors (Mr Alexander Simpson, of Marton) is, says the Wanganui Herald, deserving of every credit for the expeditious manner in which the work was carried out, as evidenoed by the fact that the last Roll was only placed in tht printer's hands on Saturday last, and was returned to him printed on Monday. The following were elected on Wednesday to the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board : — G. W. Ravenhill nominated by the Manawatu Road Board. W. P. Kendall, nominated by the Fitzherbert Road Board. For the grouped distriots of Foxton, Feilding and Haloombe a nomination was not submitted and the vaoanoy vrill have to ba filled by tha Governor. Me D. Buick, Returning Officer, presided. Although not exaotly a novelty a musical gpider in n London house is a decided rarity. It cannot be put in the same oategory as a whistling mouse, for the sound from the latter is emitted from its mouth, whereai in the spider it is caused by Btridulatlng organs, Buch as are possessed by orthopterous insects—the orioket, for ins.ance. These organs consist of a raßh and a scraper, and the sound is produoed by the rubbing of them together. Although perhaps present in most species of spiderß tbey give off sounds only in a few of them. It is generally believed that the sound is a call note to the spider's mate, but it haß been .urged that the noise is made through fear or in self-defence. A Japanese soldier is allowed seven ounces of meat in his rations, an Austrian or Spanish private eight, a French, Turkish, German or Belgian nine, an Italian eleven, an Englishman twelve, a Russian sixteen. The ration in the United States army is twenty ounceg. The ration of bread is highest in the Austrian army, thirty-two ounces, and lowest in tha English, sixteen ounces. In the German army it is twentyeight ounces, in the French and Italian it is twenty-two, the same in the United States, and in the Russian Army seventeen ounces. All modern armies, save the i Russian have also a daily allowance of rioo. \

A public meeting will be held in the Public Halt on Wednesday night on Prohibition versus Liberty. A good attendance is requested. The best new potatoes we hare seen this year are those grown by Mr Osborne, a sample can be viewed in his son's A. Osborne's shop window. Our readers will not forget the Garden Party and afternoon tea of the parishioners of All Saints Church on Tuesday afternoon. Mr Thomas Walker, organising lecturer of the 1.0. G.T. in New Zealand, will deliver a Temperance Address, dealing with Prohibition, on Tuesday night at the Public Hall. Free admission. Mr Walker ia regarded as one of the best, if not the best, speaker in New Zealand, and he should be worth hearing if only a3 an orator, apart from the principles he expounds.