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Manawatu Herald, 30 March 1897, Page 2

We notice in the last Oaaettee that Mr William Matravers the clerk of the Palmerston Magistrate's Court, hat been appointed clerk to the Licensing Committees of Palmerston and Manawatu. Mr S. H. Wrigley, the manager of the Carnarvon-Sanson Tramway, elsewhere notifies the new tiqpe- table, which will come into force on Wednesday 7th. Our business people will, find that the alteration will be muoh to their advantage, a3 the usual early Monday tram is altered to Wednesday, our new' half-holiday, thus giving plenty of time to fill up oountry orders. Representatives of tha looal Crioket Club go to Shannon to-morrow to measure bats with the Shannon cricketers. By •otne strange fatality these two olubi, though both anxious for a meeting, have not met in friendly rivalry for two years. Arrangements, however, have now been completed and we learn that play it to commence at 11 o'clock sharp. We hope the weather will continue favourable, and may the best team win. Foxton will be represented by the following players: — Messrs Betty (oaptain), Collins, Harrison, Faulkner, Martin, Morgan, Overend, Nye, Mitchell, Warner, Young. Emergencies, A. Cole, J. Collins, and Fume. The Queen of the South got practically afloat by her own exertions on Sunday night, but owing to not having had sufficient length of cable out, she was unable just to reach the channel. She, however, worked out yesterday morning with the Mana giving her a tow. She arrived at the wharf about half-past seven and discharged her cargo in good condition. The steamer has experienced little damage, but the after stern post was broken. She left I this morning at six o'clock iv tow of the 1 Mana for Wellington.

The Borough Cotmoll invite tender* (or clearing out drains and carting 100 tons of limestone. Tenders to be in by six o'clook on Monday evening* On Saturday night a geraon who can ill afford to do so, lost a patcel containing clothes, and a reward of five shillings is offered for its retnrn to Mr E. Osborne. Mr T. Eastern has scoured the contract for repairing the house on the Moutoa road, lately purchased by Mr Gibson. Mr Harnett, of the Post Office Hotel, has accepted the tender of Mr F. E. Jenks for painting and papering at the hotel. There is an addition to the advertise* ment of the Post Offloe Hotel, where it is announced that the horse enclosure and stabling are free. It is said that a stock of paper money is one of the essential articles of the outfit of a modern invader or revolutionist. No English bank can issue notes for less than five pounds. The Irish and Scotch banks cannot go below one pound. The Bank of England never re-issues a note. Over 50,000 Bank of England notea are issued a day, their average value, say £20, their average life five or six days. Messrs Abraham and Williams hold a stook sale at Palmerston en Thursday and a horse sale on Saturday. To-morrow is the first half -holiday on a Wednesday, which is henceforth to be the regular day for holding the weekly halfholiday, and don't you forget it. Mr H. H. Drew, curator of the Wanganui Museum, has received advice of his election as a Fellow of the Linnean Society. The Referee, writing on the Oroua Polo Team at Auckland, says the visitors are a fine team indeed, and their ponies proved very clever. They hit strong and with splendid direction. The Premier has decided to go Home. Parliament is to meet this day week. Our old townsman, Mr W. L. Coe» is one of the elected for the Wanganui Licensing Committee. Three of the Temperance party got in. At the annual meeting of the Bongotea Dairy Factory the retiring directors were re-elected. A dividend of six per cant was declared. The secretary was Voted £25 and Messrs Bansom and Anderson, Chairman and Managing Director, £10 each ; Woods £5, Tobech £4, Eoberstein . £5, Withers and Arnold £2 each. Messrs James Laird and James Tawae, old residents of Wanganui have left for a trip to the old country. Both gentlemen were entertained by their friends at suppers the night before leaving. . j On Friday afternoon a large number of \ people attended at the Theatre Royal, ' Palmersc'on, to say good-bye to Mr James Linton who has left for Sydney. The Mayor took the chair and presented Mr Linton with a purse of sovereigns, Mr H. Stewavt, son of Mr J. T. Stewart at one time District; Engineer here, is going home to 'complete his education in one of the mechanical centres. He has been apprenticed at the railway works at Aramoho, and his fellow employees presented him with a handsome gold watch guard and pendant. Bt the request of Major M'Kinley (President) and Mrs M'Kinley no wine or other intoxicants were to be sold or served at the Presidential inaugural ball. This is the first time liquor has been prohibited at that function. An Armenian nun has just died in a convent in Jerusalem who was certified by the registers of the community to which she belonged to have attained the age of 115 years. She entered the convent when she was 17, and during the subsequent 98 years did pot onoe orosß its threshold. The Japanese Government have entered into a contract with Messrs Yarrow and Co., of Poplar, to construct 2 torpedo-boat destroyers having a guaranteed spsed of 31 knots. The Carnarvon sohool committee has voted for Mr H. Sanson as a member of the Wanganui Eduoation Board. The new Archbishop is a total abstainer. He expresses the opinion that the tide of intemperance. is getting steadier, stronger, and swifter. The result, he considers, is mainly due to the conditions of the liquor traffic and to pur social customs, acoording to whioh many Englishmen cannot meet, to transact business without drinking, whilst Scotchmen cannot realise a really friendly gathering unless they are taking " a cup o' kindneaa yet for the sake of Auld Lang Syne." The first Maori admitted to the legal profession in New Zealand is Apirama Turupa Ngata, 8.A., L.L.8., who was admitted as a barrister and solioitor of the Supreme Court at Auckland on the 26th met. A cable message from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the ActingGovernor, Sir James Prendergast, announces that the Earl of Banfurly has been appointed Governor of New Zealand \n succession to the Earl of Glasgow. Mr T. P. Beattie, a former resident of Palmerston says the Times, has oemein for a slioe of good luck in Western Australia. A gold-bearing reef has been discovered on his claim at Norseman goldfield, whioh is expected to return at the very least £5000 to Mr Beattie. Russians are fond of telling the story of the answer given to the Czar when his Majesty proposed to his future wife, " The Emperor, my father, has commanded me to make you the offer of my hand and heart," was the Czarewitoh's quai&t way of putting it. "And my grandmother, Queen Yiotoria," replied the lady, "has commanded me to acoept the offer of your band : your heart I will take myself." As is well known by this time, the Czar is passionately devoted to bis wife, and she is equally fond of him. The i.i. Tongariro arrived in Wellington from London on Saturday morning. She reports that a large quantity of ice was met with in the Southern Ocean, especially so between the Orozets and Kergaelen Island, and for four days the steamer was surrounded by icebergs, large and small. As the weatber for the greater part of this time was very thick the greatest of care had to be exercised. The engines had to be slowed down, and on one occasion they were stopped for over 12 hours. She brings a parcel-post mail. The Constantinople correspondent of the London Time* says it is indubitable that the situation in Crete was created by the intrigues of Mahmud Djellaleddin, who was furious at the rejection, by the Powers of his plan of judicial organisation, and of Izzet, who bad the Sultan's order to work up an agitation against the enlistment of foreigners in the Cretan gendarmerie. The Athens correspondent of the Paris Temps reports the existence of proof that the Sultan sent to Crete an aide-de-camp with instructions direoting the troops, in unison with the Mahometans, to provoke massaores and fires as soon as the application of the reforms should begin.

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