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Manawatu Herald, 1 December 1896, Page 2

Mr Joe Tos has an altT^l advertisement dealing with the fresh Una recently to hand, as well as fresh Xmas ijoods. Mr McElwain has on view a splendid enlarged photograph of Mr Gibson, the Town Clerk. It is a oapita.l p ; ece of work

The first wool sale of the season will be he'd in Wellington on Friday. Yesterday Mr Thynne gathered a large crop of ripe cherries from the earliest of his trees. Air Bruce has been we 1 ! received all round the district, and is very confident of winning the seat. Cn Saturday Mr J. R. Montague sold section 198, Foiton, to Mr P. Guerin tor £30. The War Office has decided to test the utility of armoured motor cars to carry Maxim guns and reserves of ammunition. | The Levin Expresa says that Mr G. F. Roe took possession of the Wereroa Hotel last week. To-morrow night there will be a meeting at which the opposite view to national prohibition will be debated. All are invited. Messrs Abraham and Williams hold a sale of stock at Palmerston on Thursday, and one next week at Shannon. It will be noticed that Mr John Davies, the old settler eugotistically referred to by Mr Bruce at his Foxton meeting, is one of his nominators. Mr W. M. Mason, late ticket clerk at the Waipawa Railway Station, has been committed for trial on a charge of having stolon £17 183 3d of Government money. Pity the poor telegraphists. On Friday the Telegraph Offioeg will be open from 7 p.m. till 2 a.m. The particulars appear elsewhere. Tonight tho public will have the pleasure of hearing Mr Walker, a capital speaker, at the Public Hall, when he will dwell on the advantages to be derived from Prohibition. A sculling match for the Championship of the World and £500 a side has been made between Jacob Gaudaur, the present champion, and Barry, and will take place on the Thames in April. On the American coast a whale having been harpooned, dragged a small boat containing the harpooner for four days and nights a distance of 700 miles, until it was . despatched by another whaleboat. The new Commander of the New Zealand forces, Major Pole-Penton, and staffofficer, Lieutenant Maddox, both of the Royal Anillery, are expected to arrive from England this week. In Westphalia 12 bees were released at a dibtanca of -three miles from their hives at the same time as 12 carrier pigeons, to test which could cover the distance in the shortest time. The bce3 came in first. The Bishop of Manchester, England, has received for Church purposes within his diocese a legacy of £31,2(50 under the will of th.T la'e Mr S. Weston, yarn merchant, of Mu.'-Hi >t r. Ihe yoM'.c are informed that Mr Alf Fraser is ii-ting up a show room for his Xmas goods. What he has on view are pleasing and cheap, what he will have yet remains to ba seen. A purse was lost on Saturday between the foxton Post Office and the Shannon Ferry. A reward is offered for its recovery. The finder is requested to leave the purse at Messrs P. Hennessy & Co.'s. The proprietor of the Red House announoe new shipments of table potatoes and a good assortment of delicaoies. Notice about tho Xmas stock will shortly be announced. Mr Eellow, one of the candidates for Parliament in this electorate, announces that he will address the electors at the Publio Hall on Thursday night next, the night preceding the election. In another column will be found the balance sheet of the Football Sports. The committee are to be congratulated on the result, and the energetic secretary, Mr Harrison, should be pleased. It will be noticed that there is a sum in hand. A remarkable discovery was recently made in the Aasiot necropolis in Egypt. Among the objeots found was a whole company of wooden soldiers, 15in. in height. The soldiers carry lances, and give a good idea of their equipment in the Pharaoh's time. A Mavton correspondent wires that Mr Bruce addressed a crowded meeting at Morton last night. The Mayor was in the chair and every inch of standing room was occupied. He spoke for one hour and fifty minutes. The meeting was enthusiastic. His committee think that hi3 success is ensured by a good majority. A maohine has been invented for affixing stamps to letter?. Detaching, damping, and fixing are all performed by one revolution of a small wheel. About 5000 letters or ciroulars can thus be stamped in an hour, and the maohine will register the number of letters thus treated. A sensational inoident took place in a street of Perth the other day. A popular lady vocalist, on the strength of an alleged insult at a publio concert, induced a wellknown man about town, by the medium of an anonymous letter, whioh professed love for him, to meet her in the street, when in the presenoe of a large crowd she severely chastised him with a cane. Polioe-offioer O'Hoggarty: "Look at ihe luck of Mulrooney 1 Shure he's - been transferred to the mounted police." Friend : "Phat advantage is that?" "Policeofficer O'Hoggarty : " Advantage is ut ? Whin ther's throuble see how muoh quicker he can git out av the way than a poor divil on fut 1" The Order of St. Andrew, which the Czar has offered to Lord Salisbury, ia a very exalted affair indeed. Only members of the Russian Imperial Family, foreign Sovereigns, and prinoes of the first class, and a very few statesmen and commanders' have it. The blue eagle on the 1 8-pointed star will be presented by the Emperor in brilliants. The ribbon which Lord Salisbury will be entitled to wear is light blue. The Debats publishes a story about Li Hung Chang whioh is not devoid of humour; General Gordon's father was ao struck by the Chinese Envoy's action in placing a wreath on the General's Btatue that he wrote to him, expressing his thanks and sending him a present in the shape of a flue " pedigree " bull dog. The present was a remarkable one, but Li Hung's letter of thanks was muoh more remarkable. 11 Dear Mr Gordon," wrote the Viceroy, " I offer you my sinoere thanks for the superb dog which you have Bent me. It is, unfortunately, a kind of food which does not suit my delioate digestion, but my suite have done honour to your present and have found it delicious." The ' Emperor Francis Joseph in the presenoe of the Kings of Roumania and Servia and the high functionaries of the Empire opened the Iron Gates of the Danube early in October. The ceremony was a very imposing one, thousands of people flocking from all parts of the country to witness the crowning event of this great engineering feat. The Pope, the Emperor . of Germany, the King of Italy, and the Emperor of Russia all sent their congratulations. At the request of the Hungarian Minister of Commerce the j Sovereigns present consented to keep as souvenirs of the ceremony the golden oups in which they drank to the succeis of the Canal.

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