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Manawatu Herald, 10 December 1896, Page 2

======== < Mr John Stevens thanks the electors in a in advertisement in another column. 1 Mapleson's Opera Company' has col- a lapsed in New York. Its season's losses J imount to £23,000. The Manager of the Motoa Ectate in- v piles tender* for mowing, making, carting md stacking about 250 acres of oaten and ? [rass hay. Tenders to ba in by noon of i he 17th inßt. y The peach trees trained by Mr Imrie on E lis dwelling are a pretty piotare, having f, »en well attended to and full of fruit, so ull, the peaches being in such thick raQohes, that Mr, Imrie has decided to thin I a tarn out. • a

I I'he State schools close on Friday, the 18th instant, for the Christmas holidays. Several Europeans have died in Bombay from the bubonic plague. Mr Arthur Thynne is now in Foxton for his annual holidays. The Messrs Robinson finished shearing yesterday. They hava had the best time for many years. Dr Temple, the new Archbishop of Canterbury, who (9 a strong temperance, advo- I cate, does all his work upon tea. He is said to be the greatest tea-drinker since Dr j Johnson. Some more drink than honest beer requires prohibiting, as at Napier the other day Louis Cantle, aged about 30, committed suicide by cutting hia throat with a table knife. The deceased was a prohibited person, and had been in the habit of taking chlorodyne and painkiller. A report has been received from the Saored Heart Mission in New Britain that' smallpox is ravaging the group, and has swept away vast numbers of the natives. Cannibalism is also rampant in some of the northern portions. In one village over 50 natives have been killed and eaten. The Post's Greytown North corespondent tates :— It is understood that owing to the action of the Beturning Officer in closing the list of nominations a day too soon, and the consequent exclusion of his own candidature, Mr Coleman Phillips intends to petition for the upsetting of Mr Buchanan's election for Wairarapa j also that in hii contemplated action Mr Phillips is backed up by some of the Government Party. In the came connection there is a further report that if the election is upset the Premier will be a candidate for the seat in opposition to Mr Buchanan.