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Manawatu Herald, 17 December 1896, Page 2

Applications for school cleaning mast be in on Saturday. As the State schools dose tomorrow we take this opportunity of wishing the teaohers and schalars " A. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year." The N.Z. Loan and M.A. Co., Ltd:, qnote hemp at £11 to £11 10s per ton f.o.b. with a fair enquiry. Mr Gilfedder, the successful Parliamentary candidate for Wallace, ia a school teacher, and hU election is held not to in erf ere with his holding that position ! i- ur readers and advertisers will kindly notice that this paper will not be published on Saturday, 26th December, in order that our staff may take lull advantage of the Christmas holidays.

We have to thank Messrs A. Osborne and W. B. Rhodes & Co. for almanacs. Fruitgrowers bad better look to their plum and cherry trees, aa the leech will probably be now found on themi Two deaths have occurred in LoDdon frdm the effects of the bubonic fever which has been raging in Hongkong and Bombay. A caterpillar in the course of a month will devour 6000 times its weight in food. It take 3 a man near'y three months to eat a quantity of food e(Jual to his Own weight. Major McKinley, »he Presidentelect of America, favours intimate and cordial commercial relations with Canada, but refuses to pledge himself to a reciprocal treaty. Army surgeon says that the expressions of the faces of soldiers killed in battle reveal the causes of death. Those who have perished from sword wounds have a look of repose, -while there is an expression of pain on the countenance of those slain by bullets/ The Horowhebua County Council have split thejr advertising very much up, giving that needed for two Hidings to the Otaki paper, the advertising for the Wirokino Hiding, which includes shannon, to the Levin paper, and gives the Tokomaru Biding ad' 9 to the Shannon paper. We hope they are a'l pleased. More Bteel is now used in the manufacture of pens than in that of swords. It is even said that the metal annually turned into pens weighs more than all the metal used during a year in the war-implement factories of the world. Should this be true, it emphasises the saying that the " pen is mightier than the sword." The County Office is to be removed from Otaki at once to Levin, to temporary premises, the Clerk having been instructed "10 move the safe, office fittings, and i papers to Livin, bo that the next meeting of this Council may be held there." The new Councillors were determined that Ocaki should li»e in no false hopes of being able to get; round any of the members. With this issue Mr Alf Fraser, oar local stationer, takes a pleasing and appropriate way of wishing bis many customers tha greetings of the season. He likewise combines business with pleasure, and adds the reminder that his showroom is now fully ! stocked and open for inspection. Our advice is, go and inspect it, and there will be no need to send money away. The food of the swallow i» composed of inseois alone, and the number these birds destroy in a single summer is incalculable. They are in summer on ihe wing for fully sixteen hours during the day, and the greater part of the time making havoc amongst the millions of insects which infest the air. Our new representative in Parliament woul 1 nj. employ himself amiss if he worried tie Government to hand over the loan applied for by tha Mnnawatu Couuty Council. The season for carrying out road woiks is now on; and will soon slip away, and dekiy means loss of money and comfort to the borrowers— the ratepayers of the County. The bafcaar on Saturday at Bongotea promises to be a great success, as the ladies have spared no labour to make it so. We truit thir bopes will be achieved. Tha bazaar, it is almost unnecessary to state, is for the funds of a church, as that appears to be the use of bazaars, and the particular church is the Anglican one lately built. The congregation do not like there being a debt upon the building and are thus making this effort to find funds to pay the same off. A Kansas lady, who was pestered, aa many people are, by other folks ohiokens scratchiug up her flower brd* and littering up her yard, hit on a novel scheme for conveying a gentle hint to neighbours. She tied a lot of strong pasteboard cards with Bmall threads to big kernels of corn, and wrote on the carcte, " Please keep your chickens at home." The chickens ate the oorn, and carried the message to their owners in a fashion that was startling and effective. The " big boots " of the late Sir Harry Atkinson sink into insignificance when compared to the " stockwhip " of Cr ! Davies. It is reported in ihd Mail that Cr I Bartholomew, during the disoussion of | office site, got very ' wobbily,' as he dared to think it best to allow present arrange- [ ments to continue for six months. Cr ! Davies did not think so, and he expressed surprise at hearing Ci* Bartholomew support allowing offices to remain at Otaki after pledging himself to Levin. After this expression of Cr Davies' opinion, Cr Bartbo omew voted against thcamendment he spoke in favour of. This is an admiri able illustration of how some local bodies make their members toe the line.

The traffio in human flesh in the New Hebrides is graphically described by a visitor to the group. He says that at present natives are actually sold like sheep at £6 to £8 and £10 a head on some of tbe trading vessels, and that many are subjeoted to great cruelties. A dealer will board a vessel and offer % lump sum for the natives aboard, afterwards retailing them to hiß onstomers at an advanoe of from one to three sovereigns per head, according to the quality of tha natives At one of the stations he al'eges that he law natives in shacklei, and with ankle chains, whioh were affixed to a bar that was run from one end of the shanty to the other. They had been placed there because it was said that they had not done sufficient work.

Elsewhere our townsman, Mr Furrie, well known for the excellence of his horehound beer, has added another useful drink to his credit, that of samparilla. It is said to bo both an appetiser and a stimulant, and its use will be found valuable for many reasons, mor9 f u ly set out in the advertisement. We bg to acknowledge the receipt of a sample bottle, and we have to report that it is q tita up 10 its pretenlions. Those who have been in the habit of using this preparation whould most certainly give the local manufacture a trial, and we believe they will afterward* take no other, not because it wih be fatal, but because they will easily r cognise which is best. Mr Furrie only asks fur a trial, having confidence in its being its own reoommendation.

Mr Hallow, in a letter to the Advocate, bears oui our interpretation of the rfleots of the third candidate in this district thusly:— Last Friday's issue of the Advocate, contains a letter of Mr John Duthie's reprinted from the Evening Post • in which the writer, commenting on the results of the late elections in the Parnell, Egmont, Waikouiti, Wallace, and Manawatu electorates, tells us that Conservatives wou d have been returned for those constituencies, if the Pruhibitionists had not run a second candidate. Now I say nothing of the other constituencies, for 1 have no better local knowledge of the facts than Mr Duthie himself, but with respect to the Manawatu seat, I am better able to judge than Mr Doihie. I have a tolerably accurate knowledge of the po iticai oolour of those who voted for me, apart from their temperance principles, and I calculate, having gone into the matter carefully, that with only Mr Bruce and Mr Stevens in the field, the latter would have had a majority of between 225 and 250.

Mr .Tames Banks has been appointed to the Moutoa school.

There are at present 37 inmates in the Benevolent Some.

We ure sorry to learn that Mr Bradley, of the Post Office Hotel is seriously ill.

The Borough Council invite tenders for carting and ranging, and for cutting the grass in the cemetery.

Mr Sttmsell isthe successful tenderer for the mail Service between iWon and Levin.

Daring November there were 14 136 gallons of milk supplied to the local creamery.

The early potato crop in the Carnarvon and Bongotea districts is said to be very poor.

It will be noticed that the next meeting of the Borough Council will be held on Wednesday n~xt, instead of the first Monday in January.

The new propeller of the Sunbeam arrived by the Queen of the South yesterday, and will be fitted on to-day. This should ensure a much greater speed.

Western Australia's supply of jarrah and karri, the hard woods for street pavements, is practicably inexhaus'ible. The jarrah covers 13,000 square milea of the country, and the karri 3000 square miles more.

Messrs P. Hennessy and Co. have a grand display of new china and glassware in their shop, and elsewhere invite their customers to inspect it on Saturday night, wnen the whole of it will be unpacked. There are a number of pretty and quaint designs in all colours, so that all tastes must be suited.

An important gold discovery has been made at Junee, New South Wales. Stone from a reef varying from a few Inches In thickness to 25ft has been treated at the local cyanide works, and assayed 350z gold and over 330z silver to the ton. The ore is ferruginous quartz impregnated with gossom. The deposits are very extensive.

A recent issue of the Melbourne Leculer stated i hat at Camperdown the bot fly had caused the death of a valuable hor^e. It appears that the animal died in intense pain, and upon examination afterwards it was found that the coatings of the stomach were literally covered with bots, which clung so closely to the entrails that it was quite imposible to separate them.

The election for the Maori representatives will b 9 held on Saturday. Principal polling placi for the Western Maori district ia at Otorohanga, in the Wftikato. Mr George Gray has been appoined D puty Returning Officer at Poutu, and Mr Cook at Foxton. The hours of polling are from 9 to 4. The Maori women have a vote at this election.

At i he last meeting of the Manawata Road Board Warden Simpson stated that the portion of the road from opposite Mr A. McEwen's, at JackeytoWn, urgently required metaHng, and that unlil that was done it won d be useless to spend money in any other direction. There were about 50 chains of the road which woud be considerably benefited by the metalling.— The Board agreed wi h Mr Simpson and a roso ution was passed to the effect that the metalling would be dune, if the Manawatu County would take the neoes3ary steps to raeta 1 the remainder of the road to the Oroua Bridge. The Engineer was instructed to report upon the road at next meeting of the Board and also Upon the cost of the proposed work.

Three youths, named Oscar Freberg, aged 16 years, Viotor Walsh, 17 year*, and Morton Smith, 15 years, who were anxious to s*e the wreck of the Delmira, left Wellington on Saturday in a fourteen-feet boat. They reached Cape Palliaer at noon on Sunday, when they met with a gale and attempted to return, but cou'd not get back, and were eventually blown off the land. Fortunately the steamer Hesketh, which was coming to Wellington, sighted the Irail era t, and to k the occupants on board. They were then ten miles off the land, and in an exhausted condition, not having bad anything to eat sinoa Sunday forenoon. Tfcny said that in another hour or two they must have succumbed.

A remarkab'e discovery has been made on Ormond Quay, Dub' ln. In the course of excavations mad 9in connection with the main drainage works, c ome 20ft below the surface the workman came upon an ancient vessel, the bow pr jecting towards the river. It is suppos d that she was swallowed up in the sands which formed the bank long before he Quays were built. The timbers were almost all fastened toge her by wooden plugs, very little iron having been employed. A quantity of ooal and a 141 b iron cannon ball were found. The remains of a second ship were unearthed, having the same peculiarities of construction. It is believed that these vessels are as old as the days of Charles 1., or even Elizab- th. Near to the spot the workmen also dug up a large number of tobaoco pipes, snmiagiy made of glazed clay, the bowls being almost in a straight line with the shank.