Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1897.

Manawatu Herald, 11 May 1897, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1897.

The Secn-tnry of the Birthday Sports has received good nominations for the various eventß. The handicapping will be declared probably on Saturday. On Thursday Mr Greenfield, 5., M., holds the usual Court. A slight fresh coming down the river has interfered with the efforts for raising the Sunbeam, but Mr Howan feels confident of early success. The Government have sent Mr Wilson up to examine the Fitzherbert Bridge and then he will come on to Foxton to examine which is the best site for a bridge at Wirokino or Shannon. The Mayor received a letter to this effeot on Saturday. Since then Mr Wilson has arrived and been with the Mayor to view the sites to-day. Bertram Mackennal, a Victonan sculptor, has four works in the Royal Academy Exhibition. Wray, the Australian sculler, has challenged Gaudaur for the championship of the world* ■ " The team to represent Foxton against the Feilding footballers on the Racecourse on Saturday were selected last night as follows : — Forwards, Shadbolt, B. Young, Desmond (captain), Armstrong, Liddle, Lee, Warner, Ward) Faulkner ; five-eighth, P. Robinson ; half, Wallace ; three-quar* ters, Tuhera, Kiriona, Tana; fulhback. Furrie. Emergencies t backs, F. Dunn and L> Stansell J forwards, 33. Dunn and Rand. A great deal of interest attaches to this match, as it will be the first match played for the Gup. The Foxton men are requested to practice in the meantime. The consumption per head of sugar in New Zealand now amounts to nearly 901 b per hi ad for every man, woman and child of the population of the colony, which, at 3d per lb, taking the population at 640.000 including the Maoris, amounts to £729,099 per annum. It is probable that there will be a Government eclipse expedition to India this year* under the conduct of Profi N. Lockyer. A cruiser may be sent on this service, and if the project be carried out an effort will be made to send with the expedition a Government naturalist, for the purpose of investigoting the marine fauna of the Bombay coast. Out of 42 Bishops specially invited to speak at the Lambeth Conference, 15 are colonial, 11 American and 10 English. Among the colonials selected are the Primate of Australia and the Bishops of Christchurch, Adelaide, Tasmania and Goulburn. The first prosecution under the Licensing Act of a Miller Flat publican for selling adulterated liquor (says the Dunedin Star) ended in the discomfiture of the inspeotor. Mr Hawkins, S.M., ruled that there had been no sale, in the first place, because the inspector bad demanded, under section 181, a sample from the octave which contained the alleged adulterated whisky, and having paid for it took it away with him ; but, since the publican was not at liberty to refuse to sell, there was no "sale " within the meaning of the Act. And in order to secure a conviction it must be proved that something had been added to the liquor whioh was injurious to health. On both these grounds the inspector had failed to prove his case. .. The Colonial Consignment Company of London offer free storage and to undertake the work of distributing the Australian meat sent Home to provide a Jubilee dinner for the poor. There is no School Committee at Blenheim this year, houspho dera having " struck " on account of the limited powers conferred on Committees. At the annual meeling of householders the other night, one of the retiring committeemen, in declining to be again nominated, indignantly declared that the powers of committees extended " no further than the Cleaning of schools and waterclosets, and he would not act as a ' dirty swab ' for anyone." A resolution was passed requesting the mem ber the district (Mr C H. Mills) to endeavour to secure an amendment of the Education Act in the direction of ' giving increased powers to committees, they being the direct representative? of the householders. The ..Queen sent 4 shori horns from the Royal Farm, Windsor Groat Park", to Slough market, and they were purohased for the London market at £20, £15 15s, £14 15s, £14 5s respectively. A ton of lead is fired for every man killed in battle. Statistics of European wars show that from 3000 to 10,000 shots are fired for every person disabled. Mr Goddard, a Johannesburg gentleman who has been seleoted by Uitlanders to give evidence before the Committee of Enquiry, was most vehement in his denunciation of the Boers. He said he -could prove that the Germans had been secretly importing arms in English territories, and that the time had come when the Home Government would have to decide whether South Africa was lo be governed by the Dutch, in other words the Germans or the English. War must come, because even Cape Colony was in the hands of the Dutch. The native races wou d one and all side with the British. In conversation with other persons the same idea was expressed, and it was not possible to find a single person who did not believe that we are on the eve of a war which would settle the differences in the racial hatred existing. One of the, best returns of wheat the Tapanui Courier hag heard of this season was obtained by Mr John Edie, of Spring fie!d, Edievale. From 13 acres Mr Edie threshed 211 bags of four ani a half bushels each, or a return of 73 bushels to the acre.