Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, DEC. 4, 1897.

Manawatu Herald, 4 December 1897, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, DEC. 4, 1897.

The Blenheim jury in the case of Mills v. the Christohurch Pres* returned a verdict in favour of the defendant. The German Emperor, in the course of his speech at the opening of the Beichstag, said Germany did not desire to rival naval Powers of the first rank, but she must maintain, by preparedness, her sea prestige among the nations. A measure to reform the military penal procedure was, he said, necessary in order to suit disciplinary requirements. Another fatal bicycle accident is recorded in Christchurch when Mr E. H. J. Hill was run into by a cart the shaft of which penetrated his body near the heart. Death was probably instantaneous. The Rangitikei Polo Club intend holding sports combined with a polo pony show, soon after the New Year. The Wairarapa Standard says last week, Mr B. Smith of Onslow Park, Pahiatua, shore twenty of his stud hoggets that were not shorn as lambs. The lowest clip of wool was 17£lbs, and the higest 211bs. The four-tooth ewe with lamb at foot, which took first prize at the Masterton and Woodville shows last year, and was this y^ar placed first at Hawke's Bay and second at Palmerston clipped exactly 25lbs; and a four-tooth ram that was placed first at Masterton and Woodville last year, but was unplaced at Palmerston this year, clipped 241bs.

A miner who has escaped the Klondyke goldfields with a fortune— and a ruined constitution— says that four years ago he was a sturdy, healthy fellow, 6ft. tall : now he is a c"PPle«for lif c an d badly broftlfn in health. He Hays, that all the gold brought out of the country does not represent the findings of individual miners, a large proportion being the confiscated effects of miners who nave (lied from exposure. The late Sir George Osborne Morgan, Bart, was for nearly thjrty years Hn active member of Parliament, and was particularly active in promoting religious liberty and equality before the law. He was one of the most energetic of those whose efforts procured the admission of Nonconformists to the Universities, and to him jnofe thart any other man ,ttas due the legislative recognition ot the right of interment in parish burial grounds with services other than that of the Established Church. He carried through Parliament the Married Women's Property Act, which is the basis of our own Married Women's Pl'dperty Act-; and he also carried through the Act for abolishing corporal punishment in the army.