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Manawatu Herald, 16 November 1897, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald will not be published on Thursday. Mr John Robertson, of Nelson, was killed on Saturday afternoon on the Island Bay Boad, by his bicycle running away with him and throwing him head first on a telegraph pole. The Horowhenua County Council left the request of Mr Woods for -a fence in the hands of Messrs Engels and Venn to deal with. We thank the Secretary of the Manawatu A. and P. Show for a complimentary ticket. On Thursday evening the Naylor Com- « pany appear at the Public Hall. They are on tour in the Wairarapa and from here proceed up the Oroua Valley and Marton. It is not long since they gave one of their enjoyable entertainments here, so that Thursday being a holiday, they should have a good house to greet them.

The Chairman of the School Committee < this morning authorised the closing of the ( school from to night till Monday morning, owing to the Board having sent their carpenters Jio do necessary repairs, and to i paint poriion3 of all the class-rooms. The i scholars and teachers will probably not repine, but how about thp parents ? On Friday Messrs Abraham <fe Williams will sell show exhibit! at Pa'merstod. Their usual Thursday stock sale is po9t' poned to Friday, and begins at 11 a.m. ' Show days at Palmerston tomorrow and ' Thursday. The Governor has promised to attend to-morrowi , We learn thai the late winds have blown the fruit off the trees on the settlements down the coast. After the promise of a heavy apple crop it looks as though this necessary fruit will be very scarce. It is wonderful how cheerful anyone in the colony will undertake any strange duty at a moment's notic?. The other day two young men were directed to kill a pig, and they prepared a fire and placed potd tot boiling water on it, and then interviewed the pig. They were not butchers, but still believed as pigs had been killed by others, there was no reason why they should not also kill one. After many difficulties the pig was stuck, once or twice, and pronounced dead. As he had removed himself far from the fire his slayers got a barrow and wheeled him up to it. When there the pig ca'mly got out of the barrow and going to the fire upset the hot water and then laid down. The butchers had another operation, which was final, but th§ appearance of the animal when they had finished all operations was not as it might have Men. The heat is intense in Sydney, and rain is much needed in the greater part of the colony. The crops are suffering severely. Several cases of sunstroke have been reported, but none have proved fatal. The Spanish Government has empowered the Governments of Cuba and the Phillippine Islands to declare a general amnesty to those concerned in the rebellions against the Spanish rule. Pbilpojt, who was Hawthorne's partner in the sleeper-cutting contract is at presentin the Terrace Gaol on a charge of forging a cheque a few months back.