Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JAN. 15, 1898.

Manawatu Herald, 15 January 1898, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JAN. 15, 1898.

Mr Silk will visit Foxton on his professional duties about the 20th instant. The N.Z. Times hastened to be in advance with the news, and on Thursday morning gravely" inserted a list of horses which it stated were the acceptances for the Foxton Racing Club's summer meeting. The acceptances are not due till to-night, and thus the Tim'jf smartness is just too previous. Two days prior to this announcement the game paper published the correct weights and the least trouble on the dart of the editor would have shown him he was only repeating that already known. •' We have been enabled to publish so mo interesting figures from the N.Z. Shipping? Company, and now by the courtesy of tb* managing director of the Union Steair Ship Co. of N.Z., Limited, we are able to endorse our advocacy of the wisdom of growing poultry and fruit, by making known the cnnsrmp.ion o. I,ino favourite steamship linp in the above items. For, fruit alone the company spends yearly £3,480, and for poultry £2,200. This is a good market at our doors. „,, •.: .'. '■■ The Committee of the Manawatu Bowing Club met last ni^ht and decided that the tenders received for the new boatshed were too high. The plans will be materially altered and fresh tenders invited. Another heat wave is passing over Victoria. The thermometer was at 109deg. in the city on Wednesday, and much higher in some parts of the country. The crops are suffering badly. The harvest prospects in Kelson are said to be better than was expected. Slaok3 of grain are making their appearance ail-over the country, and the quality is said to be particularly good. Hops at present are healthy, but fears of the red spider are entertained. The Tomoana freezing works, near Hastings, are now very busy. Between 1800 and 2000 sheep and 30 head' of cattle are being pdt through daily. The Wanganui Education Board meets on Monday evening next. Germany is willing to allow Mataafa, who was exiled I from Samoa, to return to the group if England and America will consent. The West Coast Time* on January 6th ! has the following : — Police Inspector Cullen will be removed to Christchurch, vice Inspector Broham, transferred to Wellington. It is expected Inspector Pender, now in Wellington, will be retired. The New Zealand Kauri Company handles about 55,000,000 of timber every year. A person who was arrested in Wellington recently had in his possession a large purse filled with pieces of a particularly ancient looking potato and a mouMy penny. He explained that he carried them aa charms against bad luck. The intense heat in South Australia is having a serious effect on the fruit crops. The Monte Carlo Company will pay Prince Albert of Monaco an additional £1,280,000 to secure a contract (granting it concession to play) until 1947. At present a sum of £60,000 is paid annually for the concession to play. The present contract expires in 1913. The New York prohibitionists have introduced soap into their campaign, giving away cakes of it at all their meetings. Each cake is wrapped in a circular, which contains the platform of the party and other poinis. The United Sta'es Senate is secretly discussing the annexation of Hawaii. Senator Morgan asserts that Great Britain intended to seize the Islands. The Masterton Daily Times says that, j notwithstanding tha drought, there will bo j a fair yield of cereals in the Waira apa this peison. The general report is : wellfilled heads but too short straw to harvest j properly. Oats have not done as well as whPAt, but on the whole, takiDg it " by and , large," there is not much reason for complaint. There is a marked abe nos of blight in the crops. The Chairman of the school committee has received a letter from the Chairman of the Pahialua school committee stating that about the end of the month it was probable the soholars would hold a, picnic on the beach, and asking him for information as to means and cost of getting there. Mr Thynne has replied asking for probable numbers and has promised to give the fullest information after receiving|them. The particulars of the sale of Race privileges we gave jn fall in our last issue. Though the amount is not quite so much aa that obtained last year, the sale had one j vary satisfactory feature about it, which is, the privilgts were purchased by local residents. Mr Pigott, the spirited buyer of the gatei got up from a sick bed to attend the sale. It waa satisfactory, but oh, such a surprise, to find that the publican's booths were Mr Border's, as' the bidding was oonduoted by some one else on his behalf. He gave a very sportsmanlike price for the same.