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Manawatu Herald, 12 January 1897, Page 2

The Foxton creamery separated 17,191 gallons ot milk in December. What is poor Melbourne coming to? Last year;3o,ooo people left it ! Tenders. for repairing the Shannon pant must be in at the Manawatu County Offices at Sanson by noon to-morrow. The Jflftßon'B tea exportation from Japan have been only about hall those of last year;' >'■ ' Ratepayers in the Manawata County, who have not yet paid their rates, are again reminded that after next Friday they will have ten per dent added to them. Mr Edmund Osborne, on the first page, has an altered advertisement. He has generally a readable one, so it is sure to be looked at, . ■ Paris policemen have been supplied with electric dafk lanterns/ by means of which they can <see 150 ft away. How nice it would be il we only had a few of these for the. town, —We might then be able to see how to walk about of a night. „ow ing to 4he, shutting down of the LakesCreek Meat Work?, Rockhampton, '1500 men are tlnbwii out of work. The Government is b, eing asked to proceed with authorised loc*l works to provide relief for thos* in distress. ' In connection 'with the'oase of the woman . Jessie Hay, who was injured by burns at Eereru and now lies in the Hospital, and whet stftted^bat bet? lover had put her in the fire "through jealousy, a warrant has been issued for the arrest of the man. Invitation* are already going around Great Britain which refer. to a Missionary Conference ajk New York in 1900. It is hoped to bring together representatives from all par U of the world. Sir J. Blundell Maple, M.P., intends next session to introduce a bill enfranohis* ; ing shop assistants apd others, of a given position, who reside on premises connected with their employment. ' ' The desire 0^ tbe new Bicycling Olub for a track to be formed at the public expense, for their own amusement, may be a natural one, but it is hardly likely to be given immediate effect to, owing to our Councillors haying •'scooped" the pool for roads leading to where they most desired. We also think the new Club should show the fttith that is in them by providing a quota of the cost. We do not want a " rush " to the town but it is a faot that labour is very scarce. One miller informs us that he has got boys up from Wellington, paid their passage, and they have left sometimes after a day, sometimes after a week, going elsewhere round about. The harvesting has also shown the scarcity of hands. The net debt of London is now £89,941,---704, which involves a charge on the rates of £2,523,447, of whioh £1,217,437 is inter. est and £1,306,010 repayment, equal to a rate of over la in 1 the £. This sinking fund would be extremely tempting to a financier of the J. G. Ward stamp.

The Heaviest earthquake felt in Giflborne for years occurred on Friday night. Its duration was about half a minute. The poundkeeper gives notice of the, impounding of two steers from off tha ldnd of Mr Walden. j Our cable news mentions that the value of hemp is unchanged, which thus very j surely bears out our remarks elsewhere on { the price of flax; The Court of inquiry into the stratiding of the Rttapehu was given yesterday, when the captain's certificate was suspended for three months and to pay the costi, less £5 to be paid by the fourth ."officer. The chief offioer was held free of responsibility. The weather telegrams this .morning show that the oalm and dry atmosphere still continue!! throughout the whole colony, but from Lyttelton to the Bluff a considerable fall in the barometer has taken place. It is to be hoped that this may mean tha approach of a little moisture. I The Feilding School Committee have arranged with Messrs Walsh & Howan for the Sunbeam for. to-morrow week, when a special train will 'leave Feilding at 8 o'clock and on return leaves Foxtoa at 5.45. It ia expected there, will be between 500 and 600 with children and adults. We hope they will have a pleasant day. Only two applications for tha Wharangi allotments. This ia most unsatisfactory, but we hope to see it speedily altered. The department is greatly to be blamed for this by the absurd number of months they took to offer the land for lease, preventing time being available to make preparations for this summer's visitors. Next. Saturday the Oroua Polo Club play' a match at Palmerston with the Manawata Club's champion team.- We expect our men will give a very good account of themselves, unless the ground proves too hard for their ponies, which, unless we get rain before, will most likely be the case. The Welsh tin plater* in January last, fearing that the depression then existing in the iron trade would result in a reduction of wages, notified the masters of their intention to strike in the. March following. The matter, however, wa9 smoothed over, and work was continued. The trouble has again cropped up, and 5000 platers have struck for an increase of wages. It is always pleasing to see a well-kept garden, and Mr William Nye has one. Owing to the want of rain we fear his potato crop will not be muoh, bat all else look well. He has laid himself out to get a crop of tomatoes and the plants are covered with fruit, but the caterpillars want to anticipate his pioking it. During the present heat we are getting a faint conception of the power of the sun. Authorities pay that the total amount of energy radiated by the son's surface defies conception. It ia fully 100,000 continuous horso-power a minute for every square meter, and according to Ericson more than 400 timeß as great as that radiated by a surface of molten iron. It would melt in ono minute a piece of ice 50 feet thick. The Natal Government have considered a resolution, carried at a monster meeting recently held at Durban, protesting against the landing of two ship-loads of Indian coolies. The Government, in reply, stats they are powerless to act in that manner. While deprecating the use of violence to prevent the landing of the Indians, the Government sympathise with the movement' againßt Indian immigration, and hope to introduce legislation to deal with the question. . . the pupils of the Dunedin Girls' High School, Dr Parker said :— " I firmly believe that ill-made bread, fried chops, Stodgy puddings, and unlimited libations of strong tea, do more to ruin the digestion, tha general health, the manners and the morals of New Zealanders, than all those forms of liquid refreshments which are usually selected for denunciation. As a matter of fact, most temperance reformers fail to reaoh the root of the matter ; they should begin with the oooking stove and teapot.'* In an article on the new prohibition programme, the Wanganui Herald remarks : It were worth while dfocussine how far State paid teachers should be allowed to take an active part in matters of this kind, and it is deserving at least of passing notice that one Education Board has condemned the practice, though posaib'y that is more than the Wanganui Education Board, mainly composed of blue-ribbonites, dare do— unless some stronger teacher gets up who dares to beard the lions ia their don by teaching anti-Prohibition, and so endeavour to neutralise the effect of the teachings of our Grants and Aitkeni. Our cottiers appear to need the brotherly conversation and instruction of onr local Good Templari. as taking .them all round they are noted for the excellent drinks of an alooholio character they manufacture from their garden produoe. Mr Nye is a guilty party in preparing a drink from his spare grapes, Mcsbm Hughes, Satherley and Whibley concoct a grand liquid from gooseberries and parsnips, and likewise mead from their honey. Mr White chips in with a brand of cider, others make a port from elder-berries. It was only last week (mores the pity, however, that Mr William Nye: introduced ns to : some three-year-old apple wine. We hold it to be better than cider; it was of an amber i colour, strong, yet sweet, and certainly : keeps well. We believe it can be made from the waste apples and thus enablea a loss to be turned into a profit. A man named Charles Barp has died in the Wellington. Hospital under rather peouliar circumstances. He was a .reoent arrival from Home. He had been staying in one 'of the city hotels, and had gone aboard an ocean steamer with a view to getting employment so%s to work hia passage home. It ia stated that the firemen asked him to pay his footing and that on declining, they knocked him down and kicked him. Deceased was bruised all over his body and badly marked about the face. The assault is supposed to have been committed on "Wednesday, and on returning to the hotel Earp Baid he bad fallen down the hold, of the Bakaia. On this statement being doubted he said " Well, I fell against the hatchway." Earp, with his wife and child lived for a short time in Blenheim. He then went to Napier, aid only recently returned. It is believed that his wife and child are in Dunedin. The police are investigating the case.

We are asked to announce that at the Bed House they are showing a grand assortment of Xmas goods in electroplate and white metal ware and being a parcel of traveller's samples are to be sola at low prices. They Comprise butter dishes, sngar bowls, desert dishes and Cruets* about fdrty pieoes in all. All ace asked to call and inspect without being pressed to boy. MoKee and Gamble, Photo-Engraverfl and Lithographers/Wellington. Send for quotation.