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Manawatu Herald, 24 December 1896, Page 2

Mr Ji Harris re'um.d to Foxtou from Auckland un Tuesday night. The firm of Abraham and Williams hay. issued a convenient calendar of their Btock sales for next year. Forty Austrians arrived fnm Sydney hy the Botomahana for tbe Nonturn gumfields Attention is direoted to the Xmas advertisement of Thos. Westwood & Co., of the j Eed House. I The Otnki Mail mentions that boys and , girls in a perfectly nude oondition bathe together in a stream in Otaki. We have received from the EegistrarGeneral parts 5 and 6 of the Statistics of tho colony. Nominations for the Foxton Racing Ciub's Summer Meeting close on Thursday next. The German newspapers oomplain that the. Kaiser's views about the Hamburg strike are at variance with hia social decrees of 1890. Mr Stansell is expecting twelve polo ponies at his stables to-morrow, evidence of the polo match the following day. At All Saints Church to-morrow there will be celebration at 8 o'clook and morning service at 11 o'clock. We learn that the Cricket Match, Levin v. Foxton, which had been arranged for Boxing Day, has fallen through, owi_g to Levin being unable to muster a team. The window in Joe Tos* shop is a show — for lollies. No wonder our teeth gb if the consumption of sweets justifies this outlay. The Parsons turbine, a new invention, has been applied to a vessel at Newcastle, which easily registered 29 knots aa boar with its. aid. Thomas Seward, charged with setting fire to the Gaorge Hotel at Pioton recently, has been committed for trial. Mrs Seward has been acquitted. David Veal, aged 18, who had beaten a girl named Millicent Craig, hns bsen sentenced at Auckland to a month's imprisonment without the option ofa fine. AU the shops are putting on a Xmas front of evergreens. We lik- to see notice taken of the season, and it looks like good business. Mr Harrison has received ins' ructions to provide accommodation for 12 polo ponies to-morrow. This shows that the visiting teams will c ;m* well provided with ponies, and, we hope, the other sinews of war. Mr Joe TO3 has sent us an almanac which is a fine illustration of a charge of Soots Greys. The only charges we need to witness in this oolony are those m_de by storekeepers, and Joe Tos is not by any means a high charger. The N.Z. Farmers' Dairy Union will now purohase oream from farmers who care to separate their own milk, and will also buy milk from non-shareholders at one-eight of a penny less price. The French Chamber of Deputies, by an immense majority, shelved a resolution in favour of international disarmament. The Socialist members supported the proposal, declaring that an alliance with Russia only fostered the desire for revenge on Germany. We acknowledge the kindly letter of sincere thanks from the Marton Borough Counoil for the free copy of the Manawatu Herald we provide for the reading room. In return we reiterate the compliments of the season to the Mayor, Councillors and Town Clerk of Marton. Writing about orange importation an English paper says that the Spaniards have only to pay one shilling and sixpence freight on a case containing from 400 to 700 oranges, while it costs the Australian four shillings and one penny to send a small case containing 150 1 Sir H. H. Eitohener, the Sirdar, is only 46 years of ago and has received almost the most rapid advancement of any officer in the army. He is now a Major-General and has arrived at that position after only 25 years and 9 months service. He be* long 9to the Boyal Engineers and is oreditfd with a greater experience of Egypt and the. Soudan than any other living officer. At the Thames a girl named Catherine Smith, 18 yeara of age, while heating some turpentine over an Aurora stove, waa severely .nmed. The turpentine spilt and the flame, bursting out of the lamp, caught the girl's dress. Bhe was immediately assisted, but in a tew seoonds injuries were caused wbioh led to her- death. This sounds bad for the prohibitionist. "Does your husband drink?" queried a lawyer in the Wellington Magistrate's Court on Monday afternoon. And the woman in the witness-box sighed before she replied — "No; but I often wish he did. Then I might get a little peace in my life." The Wellington Guardian says there ia no donbt bat that the late leader, of the Opposition are responsible to their party for the loss of what would in all probability have been a brilliant viotory for them, had even ordinary energy, backbone, and unselfishness been exhibited in the "contest." Owing to the gale blowing on Tuesday evening the Sunbeam did not run on the proposed excursion ap the river. By the advertisement it will be noticed that tomorrow (Christmas) the Bteamer will leave the wharf at 2.30 p.m. for the beaoh, and will leave the beaoh at 6 o'olook. On Saturday she will make two morning trips. A very pleasing ceremony took place at All Saints' Church on Wednesday evening after choir praotice, when Master James Furrie, on behalf of the chorister boys, presented Mrs England with an electroplated butter-cooler as a small token in return for her kindness to the boys. The gift was accompanied by a nicely worded address, engrossed by a young lady resident of the town. Some scavengers who were clearing oot a cellar in the Bue de Sevres the other night, noticed a white packet, and a closer examination showed that it contained the Cross of a Commander of the Legion of Honour, a medal of St Helene, a large medal in gold with the effigy of Napoleon and bearing the inscription " To the honourable men who consecrated their devotion to the Gov- rnment of His Majesty the Emperor," and a number of other valuables. The find is, of course, supposed to be the fruits of some robbery, but how they came to get into the cellar of the Bue de Sevres is a mystery which the police are endeavouring to elucidate.