Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1897.

Manawatu Herald, 6 May 1897, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1897.

Mr Howan haß withdrawn bis farm for sale, thus a good chance has been lost to some one. Mr Howan retains the farm as he has sold the Sunbeam to bis son John. , To-morrow Messrs Abraham and Williams hold a stook sale at Levin. Messrs Bindon and Milne have v been examining the Foxton School yesterday and to-day. The examination papers of the upper standards have not yet been passed, bat we are glad to learn the junior standards have done welL Mr William Stansell is in charge of the Taikorea school. Prior to leaving his old 6chool the parents gave him a smoke concert and presented him with an address and a purse of sovereigns, and the scholars also presented him with a parse of sovereigns. This shows that Mr Stansell mast have been very popular. A new maohine gun, which, it is confidently expected, will cause more damage to life and property than any other quick firing piece known to science was introduced to public notice, and its construction and capabilities explained, by Mr Hiram S. Maxim, in a leoture at the Royal United Servioe institution, recently. A sample of the gun was on view in the ante-room of the institution. It was pointed out that this was the first really automatic gun above lAin. which has been a qualified success. With this new terror, a gunner, who knows his business, oan deal out four 91b. shots in a little over 3 sees., without even so much as taking his eye off the object to be attended to, or his finger off the trigger. The danger of death to the gunner by the explosion of a cartridge while the breaoh is open has been rendered impossible by the application of a simple device which prevents the gun being opened until the charge has been fired. Mr John Howan has purchased the Sunbeam from his father, and has arranged with Captain Kemp to float her. This he purposes doing with the aid of twenty large tanks. A Chinese woman can never gratify her vanity by having a photograph taken of herself, one of the customs of the Celestials being that their womankind must not be photographed, The WftJ»rftp a baily Times writes : In our experience we have heard of some queer cases of sleep walking, not the least amusing of which was brought under our notice the other day. It appears that a young t man boarding at a Maaterton hostelry has for some time past been in the habit of making early morning excursions round the bedroom 3, much to the discomfort of the would-be slumberers. One morning, however, the dreamer changed his tactics and wended his uncanny way to the bathroom, where he awakened himself at about G a.m. by taking a header into a bath of cold water. The shock was terrific and imagining himself to have fallen overboard from an ocean steamer the somnambulist struck out so violently as to nearly batter the end out with hi* skull ! This woke him up dripping, dazed and altogether doubtful aB to who he was or where he had got to. He sat up and thought till the cold made him realise his position and bolt for his bedroom 1 The Chinese special envoy to the Queen's Diamond Celebrations is enraged consequent on his having been placed in quarantine at Victoria, British Columbia. An information has been laid in Auckland against John Douglas, a well-known local land agent, for theft. Two charges have been laid — one being for the theft of £500, and the second for £225. The warrants for the arrest of the alleged offender, it is understood, were signed at the instigation of Mr J. E. Demoulin. The police have succeeded in serving the warrant. The Wairarapa railway was opened to Pahiatua on Monday. The remainder of the distance to Woodville is expected to be finished in eight months. There was much interest shown in the arrival of the three-masted sohooner Whangaroaon Tuesday, anil muoh pleasure was expressed that a boat of her carrying capacity arrived at the wharf so easily. A number of gentlemen engaged in commercial pursuits in Melbourne have conceived the idea of sending 30,000 carcases of mutton, or the equivalent in beef, to provide an Australian dinner for the poor of London, Edinburgh and Glasgow at the time of the Jubilee celebrations. Offers of sheep are coming in from all quarters. The Orient Company and Lunds Company have offered to carry a portion of the meat free of cost. Canada has contributed £40,000 to the Indian Famine Belief Fund. In the apsault oases arising out of the fracas at the Motupiko Sohool Committee election, the Magistrates fined R. Thomson £5 with costs, and the information against Ellis was dismissed with costs against Thomson, who has to pay about £22. Last week's killing at the Christohuroh Meat Company's Islington Works was a record for the colony— viz., 28,157 sheep and lambs. Canterbury produces the biggest day, the killing on Friday (4905) being also a record. Experiments have recently been conducted by Mr Dohcent Fjord, a Danish scientist, with a view of ascertaining the comparative nutritive values of separated milk, whey and grain when fed to pigs; The result of these experiments point to the conclusion that one gallon of separated milk is equal to If lbs of barley or rye. To put it in another way, barley at 4s per owt. is equal to separated milk at §d per gallon, and at 5s 5d per owt to milk at Id per gallon. At the same time it must be observed that the Danes do not depend upon the exclusive use of either milk or corn, but feed them in combination. During these experiments the pigs were given from lgal. to ljgals. of separated milk with from 2£lbs to 51bs of grain, according to the size of the animals and the period of fattening. The average increase of weight from the combination varied between Jib to lib per day. Barley is the principal grain in use in Denmark, though wheat, maize and rye are also given. —Queenalander. * The Marquis of Bute adopted a singular method of commemorating his silver wedding. At a meeting of the Cardiff Town Council a letter was read from his Lordship offering to hand over to that body £1000, the yearly proceeds of which he desires to be given to some girl or girls whose marriage may be impeded by want of- money. Lord Bute attaches two conditions to hi*3 offer— namely, that the Mayor for the time being in giving the dowry shall remind the bride and bridegroom of the origin of the fund, and that he shall read to them the first 11 verses of the second chapter of the Gospel of St. John, descriptive of the marriage feast at Cana of Galilee, where water was miraculously turned into wine. The offer was accepted by the Counoil and referred to the Finance Commute*.

Mrs Stewart kindly showed us to-day four blooms of chrysanthemums grown by Mr 1 Thomas Welle, of Cambridge, with which he secured prizes at the last Cambridge Show, held a fortnight ago. One head, the Edward Molyneux, a splendid exhibit in red and gold, measured nine inches across. This, we tmderatand/is not the largest grown, Mr Wells having had some which measured eleven and a half inches across. The Eichael Bay is a pure white specimen over six inches across the head, as well as one called Moonlight, also white. A very choice one of Heliotrope colour was also shown us, but the name was forgotten. This flowef had a marked peculiarity in their being minute hirsute spurs on the outer side of the petals. It measured over seven inches across. It will be admitted tnat these are very fine specimens of the popular autumn flower. On Saturday next a football match will take place on the Bacecourse between the members of the Foxton football Club against 20 AU-comera. The following players will represent the Club:—Fullback, Dunn ; half, B. Wallace ; threequarters, Tuhera, Eiriona and Tuna ; fiveeighth, P. Robinson ; forwards, J. Desmond (captain), B. Young, W. Liddell, F. Warner, Faulkner, A. Shadbolt, J. Lee, E. Ward and F. Armstrong. Emergencies : backs, W. Symons and L. Stansell ; forward, Parker. A native gentleman, a chief from the North Island, set a splendid example of generosity on the departure of the Record Reign contingent (says the Lyttelton Times). Just before the Bnahine was ready to leave, he went on board and handed to Colonel Pitt and Captain Brown a bag containing a hundred sovereigns, remarking that the members of the Maori troop might need a little money to spend while they were in England.

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