Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, DEC. 28, 1897.

Manawatu Herald, 28 December 1897, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, DEC. 28, 1897.

All Sai 'ta' Churob was prettily decorated for Christmaii Day. We bft.e to thaak Mr Garland, Hon Sec. of the Hurowbenua Haok Baoing Club for a complimentary ticket fur the Club's first meeting. Tenders are invited by the Borough Council for road formation. The c how of Christmas meat on Friday night at Messrs Walfb and Howan'a batcher shop waß very much admired. A large number of persons went down to. the b^aoh yesterday, but tue extraordinary smart shower that f< II at mid-day interfered wi>h their enjoyment. Since the establishment of rescue work in Clirißtchurch four years ago, only on -of the many women that havn passed <hrouga the Home has turn d out onsaiisfaotori y. Numbers of men who object to the idulatry of ihe Greek Church are still in banishm^n', having leen taken from their homes and families, sent to prison, and tiansported to some remote part of the Empire, where they are compcllsd to spend several years amongst Tartars, Armenians and Grusiniano, whose languag s they do not know, and where they are left without the means of earning their living, and ihe work of persecution and banishment is still in Bisted on by the o ! ergy of the Ore. k Church. Lady Glenesk in The Nineteenth Century, gives some tables compiled fr<.<m the obit vary c lnnini uf on* newspaper, showing that betweiu 1887 and 1896 thirfy-twi people had died at ag a from 100 to 105 and upwards, and 10,806 who w^re over eighty. Statin ic* from foreign sources show that in the same period there wer- a dozen persons who had lived to 110. Lady Glene-k vouohes for a case, backed by credible evideuoe, of a French peasant woman who was born in 1760 and died in 1885, thus attaining to the great age of 125 years. At Moutoa to-day the marriage of Miss Sauaders to Mr Nicholas U being celebrated, the Rev. S. Bamett officiating. Miss Saunders is the daughter of very old and respected parents of that locality, and in conjunction wiih her many friends wish bur every happiness and prosperity in the future. We are glad to learn that Mr Con Sullivan* condition at fc ia Palmerston Hospital I has sbo#n a decided improvement during ■ the lawt few days. ' The Secre ary of the Foxton Racing Club notifi -s that nominations for all events must be in hit hands bj 9 p.m. 00 1 Tbortday night.

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