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Manawatu Herald, 19 December 1896, Page 2

A welcome rain fell on Thursday afternoon.

Mr Cecil Rhodes' house at Capetown has been gutted by fire.

The Rongotea church bazaar is now open and will be all this evening.

Dr Tanner, the famous faster, has been burned to death at a fire in a pottery factory in Cleveland, Ohio.

The Manawatu Railway Company has agreed to give £10 towards the Flax Expert fund. It 13 none too large.

Baroness Leonino Rothschild, while 6tag banting at Chamant, was thrown from her horse, and striking a tree was killed instantly.

Mr Alf. Fraser has reoeived a complimentary letter from A. Simpson, Esq., Returning Officer, on the manner he conducted the poll at Foxton.

American horseß have Invaded the English, markets. As many as 10,000 were sold last year in London alone, where they are used for the omnibuses, street oars, and cabs.

Orders for more than 20,000 copies of Gay Boothby's " Dr Nikola," were registered before the story was published. The South Australian author's wonderful creation, bids fair to rival in popularity Da Maurier's " Trilby."

We have reoeived from the publishers, Messrs Saxon & Co., of Loidon, a very handy book entitled " Everybody's Medical Guide." It is from the pen of a wellknown West End Physician and the publishers commend it to the public with confidence. The first edition consists of 50,000 copies. The cost in oloth ia only sixpence.

Mr Bauokham has now completed the boat for the " Sunbeam." The boat haa the appearanoe of being built on lines most suitable for the river. He ia now engaged in building the boats for the Bowing Club, one of which is almost completed, and he expeots to have them both finished soon after Christmas. They will be a welcome addition to the Clnb, as the member* roll is ia«r«Miof ooaiidtrably.

Messrs P. Hennesay's show to-night must not be overlooked. I? he Rev. B. Young will conduct services at Foxton in the morning and Shannon in evening on Sunday next. The Town Clerk notifies that 10 per cent, will be added to all the current year's rates not paid before the 30th January next. Yesterday Mr W. Enapp met with a curious but painful accident, as he slipped off hi 9 cart and dislocated his elbow. MM. God u' A and Suroouf, two French aeronaut*, will attempt to readh the North | Pole. The well-known mo, the Angel, Islington, has just been sold for £100,000. The property is freehold. The Secretary of the Feilding Athletio Club has sent us a member's ticket for the year, for which we are obliged. Tenders for leasing sections at the Foxton Sanatorium have to be in by four o'clock on Monday. We hope to hear that all are taken up. Mr Langdon, the manager of the Motoa Estate has accepted the tender of Messrs Lloyd and D. Gardner for cutting and saving bay at 21s per acre. Mr Cowell, a leading member of the House of Keys, in the Isle of Man, intends to introduce a bill to legalise marriage with a deceased wife's sister. A number of Natives are in town to-day registering their votes for the Western Maori election. As an outcome of their visit the stores are fairly busy. Mr Alf. Fraser has a large assortment of books and annuals for sale, besides the illustrated papers Xmas numbers. Pear's number is a capital one and has three large coloured pictures given away with it. The Wellington Harbour Board has passed a bylaw prohibiting the master of any vessel from sounding a steam siren or buzzer in port after the end of the present year. Whistles, however, may be blown. We draw attention to the Star Almanack in another column. The work is now in its fourteenth year which is proof of the satisfaction it has always given. The almanack contains 415 pages and can be purchased for fifteen pence. Reports from the south-western border districts of Queensland show that the drought has caused excessive mortality amongst cattle, one . station, with a stock list of 40,000 cattle, being able at a recent muster to herd only 15,000. Early in January the Revs. Olphert, Raine, and Boyes will be attending the j conference at Feilding, and whilst so close, Mr Barnett informs us, these past Ministers of our local Methodist Ghureh will take the opportunity of running down and renewing thsir acquaintance with the memb;a- of their old congregation. We enjoyed a visit to Messrs Westwood'g ; establishment this morning. He has the counters very prettily laid out with glass and china ware. Something quite new we noticed in the china watering pots and majolica ware specimen flower holders. He has also a handsome overmantle for sale. The Berlin Post confirms the report that King Menelek of Abyssinia had ceded a natal ooaling station to Russia at the entrance to the Red Sea, between Obok and Erythrea. The paper states that Russia intends to secure a footing in Somaliland to assist in the opposition to English designs in Africa. The Bruce Herald says .'—Here is a post office conundrum : Anyone can get a post offioe order for £1 for 3d, yet, by a strange anomaly, the same price has to be paid for a 103, 12s 6d, 15s, or 17s 6d postal notes. Stranger still, if he wants a note for 14s he has to pay 4sd ; for 16s 3&d ; for 17s, 4d ; for 18s, 4Jd; and for 19s, 3£d. Why is this thus f The Zimbabye ruins in Maahonaland, from whioh Mr Rhodes' collection was derived, are a very remote antiquity. They stand 3 :ooft above sea level, and consist of a large elliptical building of unroortared I masonry, with walls 35ft high and 16ft thick, and form an immensely strong labyrinthine fortress, whioh is believed to have been built by pre-Mohammedan Arabians, — Times. There are only 2 bishops older than the new Archbishop— the Bishop of Liverpool, who is 80, and the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, who is 77. The Bishop of Llandaff is of the same age at Dr. Temple, 75. Or. Durnford, the late Bishop of Ohichester, had nearly completed his 98rd year when he died, Archbishop Howley lived till 83, Arohbishop Sumner was 82. While the Orient Steam Navigation Company's Australian trader Orotava, 6652 tons, Captain Linklater, was ooaling at Tilbury she listed to starboard, and the port-holes being open she filled rapidly, the hull being submerged. Five of those on board were drowned, the water coming in so suddenly as to prevent their escape. Three hundred men were engaged in ooaling the steamer Orotava at the time of the accident, and they were saved with difficulty. It is expected that the teasel will be easily refloated. The December Shilling Double Christmas Number of the Windsor Magazine will be on sale early in January. The extraordinary quantity of high-class illustrated reading matter promised, will render the produotion quite a notable example of publishing enterprise. The principal features will be a Separate Illustrated Supplement, consisting of a long complete Novel by Guy Boothby, only otherwise obtainable at half-a-orown ; the first ten ohapters of Hall Caine's New Story ; and an excellent photogravure portrait of Her Majesty, The Queen: This number will commence the new volume. Last evening the owner of the Sunbeam took her for a trial trip with the new pro* peller and found it answered we 1 !, a speed of 9 knots being obtained. The Captain is measuring a mile on the long reach and will then have a proper test between fixed points. It is probable that the Carnarvon school children will be down on Monday and will take a trip up the river in the new steamer, Mr Howan having mentioned a very low figure for the party. We also understand that probably the Sunbeam will ran an excursion on Boxing Day, if so, it will be advertised in our next issue. Justioe Wills, at Wilts Autumn Assizes, commented upon a case which he said illustrated that truth was often stranger than fiction. Maud Randell, a nurse, was living with a Mias Freeman as teaoher at Trowbridge, and represented to her that a Dr Taylor was desperately in love with her. Messages were exchanged through the medium of Maud, and subsequently 200 letters-, the peculiar feature being mat it was urged that for oertain reasons there should be no personal interview. Ultimately a letter came suggesting marriage, and Miss Freeman ordered her trousseau. Maud, however, used this transaction to induce the dressmaker to let her have £50 as a loan for Dr Taylor. One day Maud confessed that the story was all moonshine, that she had concocted and written all these letters, and that she had obtained his money. She was prosecuted for false pretences, and sentenced to 6 months' imprisonment.

The correspondent of the London Tirnet at Athens says a rebellion in Macedonia is being planned for next year, after' first fomenting a rising in Crete.