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Manawatu Herald, 13 March 1897, Page 2

The Mayor has received a letter ( om the Minister of Railways promising that his letter, forwarded through Mr Stevens, M.H R-, re eiding in gravel pit, shall receive early attention.

Dr Collins, who was vice-chairman last year, ha 5 been 'elected chairman of the London Couniy Council for the ensuing year.

Five men named Ramsay, Pitman, Smith, Fras°r and ODea have been arrested at Sydney on a charge of murdering a man named Anderson, who was found dead at the bottom of a shaft at Broken Hi 1. The quarrel is the outcome of a d unken orgie.

On Wednesday Greymouth experienced the heaviest flood known. In the afternoon the water was from two feet to six feet deep in the who;e of the business part of the town.

W'Btport has also suffered from the late downpour of rain in that part of ihe Colony.

Rev. R. Young will conduct servics tomorrow as follows :— Levin, morning ; K'reru, 230 p.m. ; Foxton. evening. So./« iisai»l ofioricfes will be rtoeiv^, .

The Commissioner of Taxes gives notice to owners of land to make returns by the Ist of Moy;

The Returning Officer notifies that nominations for members of the Manawatu Licensing Committee must be made by the 17th iustaat.

There was very little business done at the last meeting of the Manawatu County Council. Messrs Strang and McLennan Were granted leave of absence. Mr Forgaithj a contractor, was granted a bonus of £55. A few metalling contracts were acceptfd.

The funeral of the late Mrs T. 17. Cook took place yesterday afternoon, the Rev. James Duncan performing the service. As was expected there was a very large attendance of friends and sympathisers, and the following was & very long one, numbering close on one hundred. The coffin and hoarse were covered with wreaths, and one pleasing feature in the sad occasion was the mingling of the Natives and Europeans in the last, act of couitesy to one who during life had had so much expe ience of both. Mr Jonson was the undertaker, and carried out all (he arrangements most creditably. The deceased was laid to rest by the side of her youngest son, Aaron, in the Church of England portion of the cemetery.

Mr Benjamin Jones, one of the Manchester Co operative delegates, who recently visited the colonies, states that the AusU' ilasian dairying industry has a magnificent future before it, and as it develops it will displace all foreign competitors in Great Britain, yielding great profit to the producers.

In Mr Rhode- 1 store there is a very fine exhibition of the baker's art, in the shape of a wedding cake made by .Mr A. Lang'ey, who is baking for his brother. Mr G. Langley. The cake is undoubtedly the finest finished that ha« been shown in Foxton, and has been made to the order of a Wanganui residenti

At the la3t meeting of the Wanganui Education Board a communication was received from the Foxton School Committee suggesting that the Board should print the summons forms used in serving on parents whoso children absent themselves from school The Committee pointed out that the issuing-of summonses curtailed a considerable amount of writing, and if forms were printed they cou'd be utilised throughout the Wanganui educational district. The Board recognised the justice and uti'ity of the Foxton Committee's application, and unanimously decided to comply with the request, and referred tho matter to the solicitor to draw up a proper legal form. We notice that our esteemed couiemponivy the Koxton Herald has evident'y heen informed that the Board shelved, the matter, and accordingly takes i hem to ta^k. — W. Herald.

John Hi.nvy Smith, a middle-aged man, pleaded guilty, at the Auckland Supreme Court, to having deserted his wife and five children and having left the Oolony. His Honor said this was a bad case. The prisoner, appeared to have deserted his wife and children. He had left the Colony and taken another woman with him, evidently having no intention to return or assist his wife and family. The acoused was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour.

A fatal boating accident ocourred on the Paki River, Auckland, on Tuesday afternoon. A young woman named Miss Cooper and four men — Win. McManus (in charge of the punt), Jas. Lee, Goodwin, and Michael McMurray— -were thrown into the water. Miss Coop°r and McMurray were drowned, and Goodwin is in a preoarious condition.

A private hospital at Kalgoorlie has been destroyed by fire. Ten typhoid patients were removed with comiderab c difficulty.

Senator Sherman, Secretary of State, has granted the extradition of Butler.

The girl who ran away from her pace in F<n ding some tun? ago to Apiti (says the Feilding Btar correspondent) is recovering fioin her long exposure. She was three days and two nights after she arrived a', home before she took any refreshments. She cannot give any lucid explanation as to how or which way the came from Feilding to Apiti. She does not remember crossing the Apiti bridge.

Marion Aalesbrook, of the Shamrock Hotel, Napier, wan charged with permitting dice to be thrown for " a shilling in and the winner Rhouts." Counsel for the defence contend d that there was no case to prove that throwing dice was an unlawful game, but the S. VI. held that under a Statute of Georga IE it was so held, and inflicted a fine of £2 and costs, the *onvic ion to be endorsed on the license. On afur i her charge of allowing a prohibited per -on to be on the premises, though the defence alleged that they ordpred him off and refuged to serve him, a fine of £5 was inflicted on the same defendant.

A Horsham (Vie.) resident who has recently gone to Weßi Austra ia, and haa settled at Northara, the principal agricultural centre of ihe colony, writes to the following effect: — "Just now there is a pot of money to ba made here in farming, as the demand for produce is gremly in excess of the supply. I know a man who had 600 tons of ohaff this year, which he disposed of at £7 10s a ton, and made a clear profit f>r the .year of £2400. The old We3t Australian farmers are terribly slow, and sixty acres of wheat is considered a phenomenally large crop here.

A few days ago a balloon ascension took place in Nice from the Petee Promenade, but instead of the usua car hanging from the silk a bicycle was in its place and outside the same a certain M. Gilbert was brave enough to mount imo the oloudi. When last seen he was gallantly ped tiling away as if his life depnded on it. The plucky aeronaut descended safely near St. Eti-ir.ne.

The cultivation of tree-kale, whioh does so well in Jersey, has r oeived very little attention in these colonies. It is a valuable fodder plant, and its culture might be attended with good results. All kinds of stoe'e like it, but it appeors to give most satisfaction when used as a fodder for milking cows or for sheep. It has lately come into some prominence in connection with its cultivation having been oarried out at the Roseworthy Agricu tural College, where the average annual rainfall is about 16 inches. The Principal, Professor Low. rie, expresses the opinion that with proper attention to cul ivat on 25 tona per acre of the kale could be raised in a season from successive cuttings.

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