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Manawatu Herald, 13 April 1897, Page 2

We learn that many account) sales of the past season's clip of wool have come to hand, and the brands from the Palmerston and Ashurst districts have been sold from sevenpence to eightpenoe half-penny. Not very encouraging prices. A large proportion of the marine creatures found at a great depth in the colder partß of the ocean are of a red colour. Notice is given in another column of the intentions of the Methodists during the next few days. On Good Eriday, Easter Sunday and Monday they have made various arrangements. The Borough Council meets this evening to open tenders. The new chemist at Levin has as an assistant a native named Kari Potaha, nephew of the well-known Maori chief, Uiihu Potaha Rata. The huge guns of modern navies oan only be fired about seventy-five times. This suffices to wear them out. A great authority on fish says that every square mile of the sea is inhabited by 120,000,000 finny creatures. The Post thinks the men who compose the present Parliament are a distinct improvement upon their predecessors. When the British sparrow-hawk is flying towards its dinner it cleaves space at the rate of 150 miles an hour. A fine chance for an enterprising young man. In the banks of London are deposits to the amount of £6,543,017, which have remained unclaimed for 30 years. Tho men going Home with the Premier are not to receive any pay. Policemen in Vienna mast be able to swim, row a boat, and understand telegraphy. The weather in N.S. Wales continues unseasonably hot and dry, and the outlook is very gloomy, and there are indications that it will culminate in a disastrous drought unless rain comes soon. It is too late for the winter feed anyhow now, and almost too late to do much good before the froits set in. At the request of the heads of the churches the Executive has fixed April 16th as a day of humiliation and prayer for rain. The outlook in Queensland is equally bad, and the same applies to the north-western distriots. The Victorian orops and stock are suffering badly for want of rain. Sharks grow a new row of teeth for every year of their age until they reach maturity. The jaws of a full-grown specimen can be extended about 18in. The "jaw" of an M.H.B. extends to many pages of Hansard. Diphtheria is prevalent in many parts of the Wairarapa. An exchange asserti that Australia has more places of public worship in proportion to population than any other country. The real matter of interest is, are the inhabitants any the better for it ? Mr Guinness was eleoted Chairman of Committees of the House of Bepresentatives, on a division by 35 votes to 32. The Foxton School Committee have voted for Mr Henry Sanson. The largest room in the world is in the Imperial Palace in St. Petersburg. It is 100 ft long by 150 ft wide. The report is fully confirmed that Professor Giuseppe Sanarelli, the eminent Italian bacteriologist and disciple of Pasteur, who is direotor of the Uruguayan National Institute of Experimental Hygiene, has discovered the bacillus of yellow fever, and will shortly publish the result of his experiment. He has already reported his discovery to the Academy of Medicine in Borne. An itinerant show-woman has given birth, in the district between Amelie-les-Bains and Ailes-sur-Teoh, to twins who are united at the baok, head, and arms. Both were born living, and have been registered at the Ailes-sur-Tech Mairie. There is a rumour that shortly Mr P. Curtis will be removed from Foxton, and we trust this means promotion. When the matter is definitely made publio we shall have more to .ay about this gentle- i man's popularity in the district. Messrs Bobinson Bros, give notioe that j anyone fonnd trespassing on the Herrington eetate will be prowcuted.

Messrs Pv _f.nne._y and 00. announce that they have a neat gig, capable of carrying tour passengers for sale, with harness, for £14. Anyone meaning to make the most of the coming holidays has now a chance to do so. Tenders for the Boroogh woik can be put in up to seven o'clock this evening, the time having been extended* To-day the Tottn Clerk notifies that the Burgess List and Defaulters' List are open for inspection up to the 22nd April. We dre desired to call the burgesses attention to this fact, as unless they do attend and see what these lists contain they may find themselves, by and by, in an inconvenient position. The licensee of the Poat Office Hotel has been authorised by the Speight's Dunedin Ale Company to offer a three-guinea prize atthe forthcoming Queen's Birthday Sportß, and another for " Water of Leith." Mr Alf Fraser statei the days he intends to observe as holidays at Easter. We hope he will thoroughly enjoy himself. His Worship the Mayor returned from Wellington on Saturday night, and during his one day in the capital put up a record performance in interviews, having seen three Ministers and the General Manager of Railways. Cameron and Son notify that their refreshment room will be open during the Easter holidays ; also that it is open to the public every Wednesday afternoon. The Manager of the Motoa Estate advertises that owing to a number of sheep having been worried by dogs, poison will be laid on the estate from to-day. We learn with pleasure that the attendance at the State School this morning reached the " record " number of 245. This is by a long way the largest number of pupils that have answered to their namea at roll-call in the Foxton School on any attendance since its establishment. No doubt the teachers will be pleased by this proof of their popularity, but we fancy they would have been better pleased if parents had taken the trouble to send their ohildren to school with some decent regularity throughout the year. Parents who fancy that children can do a year's work in a fortnight are liable to disappointment, and teachers get blamed.