Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, DEC. 7, 1897.

Manawatu Herald, 7 December 1897, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, DEC. 7, 1897.

Oar readers hardly need reminding that the Old English Fair opens to-morrow afterno n at two o'clock, and that tbe ceremony of declaring the Fair open will piobably take place at three o'olock. The Rev. R. Young is expected up by the midday coach to morrow so as to take part in the opening. A team from the Oroua Poo Club go to Wellington on Friday to play a match with the Wellington Club. A French Anarchist named Brosette has been murdered at Longacre, London. He was suspected of being a spy. We regret to learn that Mr Con Sullivan is lying very ill at hia father's residence. Ever since he had the misfortune to lose hia wife, about a year ago, Mr Con Sullivan haa bad indifferent health, so that grave fears are entertained about his recovery. Some of the timber for Mr A. S. Easton's new house is now on the site, up the road past Mr B. Gower's house. The Stipendiary Magistrate will hold a Court on Saturday morning at ten o'clock. Constable Salmon, the Sub-Enumerator for Agricultural Statistics, has been busy lately delivering forms for settlers to fill in. The Kestrel got away last night after a long detention in port. The s.s. Queen of the South gavo her 4 tow across the bar. Tenders are invited for building an eightroomed house for Mr Thomas Bowe. Plans and specifications can be seen at Mr Alf. Fraser's shop. Tenders close on the 17 th December.

Mr John Holmes, the Flax Commissioner, has got to Londoni

Herr KloUe, who was mentioned some time a;o as the probable successor to Dt Leydo as Secretary of State of the Transvaal, speaking at Pretoria, said the Uitlanders ought to have a share in the riolitioal privileges of the Republic and be granted (quality at law with the inhabitants of the country.

To relieve the overcrowded state of Mount View Asylum 25 female patients are to be sent down to Sunnyside Asylum next week, where, the Post understands t attiodormitori»s recently provided have enabled this chu ige to be mads. It is expected that by ihft end of this month or early in January the alterations at Porirua will be completed, and so permit of further relief at Mount View.

Messrs Abraham and Williams hold a stock sale at Palmerston on Thursday.

An up-country teacher in the Buller district recently wrote to her School Committee that if they did not send a carpenter io do some necessary repairs to the school they might send one to make her coffin. The order for repairs was forthcoming.

The management of the Naylor Novelty Company display a large amount of novelty, as they have been twice advertised to appear at the Public Hall and have failed to put in lan appearance. They will experience considerable trouble to get together an audience should they think fit to make any further announcement.

During the recent gales on the English coast the Margate lifeboat was wrecked and 10 of her crew drowned.

The petroleum at No. 3 bore of the Taranaki Petroleum Company has overflowed and half-filled a large pit which had been dug for the purpose of catching any overflow. It is estimated that there must be from 400 to 500 gallons in the pit. It is stated, says the Advocate, that hawks are picking out the eyes af a large number of the heavily wooled sheep in the Bangitikei district.

Speaking oi the Young Persons Protec* tion Bill, Mr Rollesfon said the best thing to do was to bring into operation the Contagious Diseases Act, and not to listen to this maudlin, humbugging sentimentality which hundreds of people would be the viotims of in time to come.

The old Duke of Edinburgh hotel in Wellington is about to be pulled down to make room for a large brick huilding. The o'd settlers will remember the house at the corner of Willis and Manners Streets.

Mr W. C. Buchanan, M U.R. was entertained at a banquet at Carterton on Saturday by his supporters. Many members of Parliament were present.

Johannesburg (South Africa) papers record a remarkable discovery of gold. A newly formed company in search of coal started work on a farm twelve miles north of Pretoria. At a depth of 86ft a Ream was sti uck. Boring was continued and at 165 ft the diamond drill passed through a gold bed over 7ft in thickness, which has the appearance of very fine conglomerate of coarse millstone grit, so familiar in coal measures. The bed is impregnated throughout with pyrites, and the core on ana'ysis gave an essay of lldwt of gold to the ton. This is the first occasion on which an apparently payable gold bed haß been found in coal measures between two seams of coal.