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Manawatu Herald, 28 January 1897, Page 2

Mr Laidley has resigned his position of Clerk to the Wirokino Road Board. To-morrow Mr P. Curtis, our popular Postmaster, leaves for a month's holiday, which he intends spending in Sydney. Mr E. P. Cowles has arrived to relieve him. The young man Leonard Cole, upon whom an inquest was held yesterday, was the first European child born at Palmerston North, and his full Christian names were, Palnierston Sara Leonard Edwin. The Italian Government is taking steps to expedite the transhipment of colonial mails at Brindisi The Austrian Episoopacy has issued a manifesto demanding votes at the coming general elections to secure to the Church the control of the education system. To Mare has again commenced activity, although a strong eoutber y breeze scatters the eruptive matter and is preventing a good view being obtained of the mountain from Taupo. News from Tokaanu states that tlu eruption started about 4 a.m. on Tuesflaj', n though it is not so heavy as previously. At Taupo a rather prolonged ear'hquake was felt on Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock, preceded by a rumbling sound. This probi^bly has aorne connection with Te Mare's proceedings. We are officially assured, says the Port, that the traffic on the Nhw Zealand Railways has bden so satisfactory of late that the receip'n for the past nine months to.tal about £80.000 more than the amount received for the same period of the last financial year. The exp ndiure has, of course, increased, but uot, we are informed, in the same raiio as the receipts. The funeral of the young man Leonard Cole took place yesterday afternoon. Thq Bey S. Barnett performed the service, aud Mr A. Jonson was the undertaker. The new President of the Royal Academy, in succession to the late Sir John Everett Millais, is Mr Edward John Poynter, R.A. " Bovril," who have not seen it advertised and yet have missed the connection between the name and preparation? " Bovtil" is a clever combination of the roo f of the Latin for " ox," and Bulwer Lytton's "Vril" (force.) We are informed that Dr Rockstrow has definitely decided 'o pracise his profession in Foxton. Uniil he can obtain or build a suitable house he will stay at Mr John Walsh's, on the Norbiton Road, on and afier the Ist of next mon h. The polo teams will arrive by the 1.30 p.m. train on Saturday. The new Archbishop of Canterbury was at one time headmaster at Rugby. An English paper says by universal consent, the verdict of the schoolboy at Rugby who wrote to his father that " Temple was a beaat, but a just bea<*t," ha-» been accepted as true of the new Primate of the Church of England. Mr Edwin Cole has asked us to express his thanks to the Minister who performed the funeral service over his son, and also to those who attended the ceremony. Major WcKinley, unlike Mr Bryan, did not Slump the United States, aa he, lucky man, had thousands brought by railway to his door, on the steps of which he stood and addressed the crowds. The Review of Beviews. noticing Lord Roseberry'a speech at Edinburgh, saya it " was a revelation to the country of a hitherto unsuspected vein of passionate moral fervour that recalled in some of the passages of his speech, reminiscences of the greatest efforts of John Bright. As a piece of lofty and absolutely conclusive reasoning, addressed by an expert to a great popular audience, it takeß rank among the greatest performances of any English statesman in this generation." Some little time ago we heard a great deal of a captain who was held to random by brigands for £10,000. The gentleman's value was not upheld, and painful as it may be to his own cone it, his release was arranged for a sum of £120 with a full pmdon thrown in. Mayor's are now most honourable offices in the Old Country, as at present reven Peers hod Ruc.b positions, viz., Lord Llangattock, the Earls of Dudley, Sandwich and Warwick, and the Marques9es of Bute and Zetland, and the Duke of Norfolk.