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Manawatu Herald, 23 October 1897, Page 2

Shearing will soon be in full swing, Mr McLennan we believe, commences on Monday, and Mr Frank Robinson and the. Motoa Estate on the Ist of next month. Mr Stansell was able to pick gooseberries for a pie at the beginning of the week. Tomato plants appear to be Boarce, aB we have frequently been asked as to who might have any. The Post says :— lt would be impossible to put in cold type any greater proof of the mental and moral obliquity of a politician than is embodied and disclosed in the memorandum by the Hon. the Minister for Lands in connection with Section 14 of the Horowhenua Block laid upon the table of the House. On Thursday a gentleman representing the Lands Department paid a visit to Pox' on to gather information for a Tourists' Guide whioh the Government are con tern plating issuing. He obtained the loan of many pretty photographs of local .scenery from Messrs Eure and Walsh. He aho obtained valuable information from Messrs Stansell and Thynne. Some prolific lambing is reported in the Chrißtchurch Press. Mr Wyndham Grey, of Clifton, W*ikari, reports:— "l marked I my lambs last week, and the renult is as follows :— 2415 lambs from 1761 ewes, equal to 137 per cent. I may mention hat most of the ewes were in lamb to Shropshire or Southdewn rams." Only one child under the age of ten years was confined in gaol. in 1896, as ■gainst nine in 1895. The Insp ctor of Prisons says this shows that we are at last waking up to a sense of our duties. Dr MacGregor told the Charitable Aid Conference that there were six applications that he kn»-w of at present beforp tbft Colonial Secretary for hospitals where no tospi'als should be. The wires were pulled, they got the hospital, and thtn DO power on earth could make them pay.

Mr Gordon Bennett, prop-ietor of the New York Herald, is an enthusiastic whip, and when in Paris or in the south of France a seat in his four-in-hand is free to Bnybody paying a regulation fare. The proceeds of his coaching tours are devoted to charitable purposes. A peculiarity of the millionaire driver (say3 the Sun), is that he not only expects tipg from his fareSi but is much annoyed should anyone dismount without "remembering the c achman," event to the extent of a very small " pourboire." What Mr Bennett does with his tips is a matter of conjecture. Some people aver that he treasures them as everprecious evidences of his own hard work.

Mr Edward Tregear, the Secretary to the Department of Labour, says a woman who has from the age of fourteen yea's closely applied herself to some particular branoh of manufacture cannot acquire the experience necessary for a housewife, nor be able to manage a homo with satisfactory revolts to her husband or safety to the health of little children.

Mr W. Booth said he could hardly imagine a condition of things more likely to enfeeble the Bysfem of charitable aid than the present one. Owing to the effect of th»l«st earthquake on the Wellington Public Library it has been decided to at once remove the lantern of the tower. A' tho firnwell io the Rev. Mr Earee, the Rev. Mr Hunt referring to the d.u-Btion of getting i he sefv'ces of a curate in plaoe of Mr Earee, said he saw no proapeot of this for some time to come, bat they would ever help to lighten the burden of his labonrs, if they would not necessitate his preaching to empty pews, and would brighten the closing hours of a Sunday evening by giving a respectable offertory. There were no death sentences passed on prisoners in the colony during the year 1896. A riotous scene occurred in the Austrian Reichsrutb. The old Czechts and Nationalists tore up the desks in the Chamber and fengagod in a hind- to-hand fight. The sit'ing was suspended. The Minist-r of Jus 1 ice recently offered reward of £500 to any person not being the principal offender who would give information that would lead to the conviction of the murderer or murderers of th« late Harry Satherley at Blenheim. The Minis ter now announce? that the Governor will also grant a free pardon to any person not b ing the principal offender who gives information that will lead to the conviction of the person or persons concerned.