Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, FEB. 19, 1898.

Manawatu Herald, 19 February 1898, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, FEB. 19, 1898.

The annual picnic in connection with theChurch of England Sunday School is being held to-day. Mr Thomas Bracken, well-known as a journalist* and poet, died in the Dunedin Hospital from the effects of goitre. The Manawatu County Oouncil has completed the purchase of a locomotive from the Manawatu Railway Company, the price being £300. The bot-fly is attacking sheep in the Wairarapa district. A petition for an order directing the official liquidator in the J. G. Ward Farmers' Association to institute and con duot a prosecution was set down for hearing yesterday, after the question of the costs of the examination cf J. Q. Ward and others were settled. Many of our readers will have heard of Rev. S. Barnett, Methodist preacher, by repute, while some may never have heard" him for themselves. Next Sunday will be. the last opportunity for such. Mr Barnett preacheß twice on that occasion and speakes on Tueßday night, leaving on Wednesday morning for Waihi. Mr W. B. Bhodes has an altered advertisement in this issue. The Stook Department at Brisbane have been oonduoting expensive experiments in innooulating cattle against ticks, and have been highly successful. On one station in an infested area over four thousand were treated, and very few died, the balance being healthy and in fine condition. Previously to the treatment the mortality was heavy.

Of the test cricket matches played in the oolonies, Australia has now won 15 and England 14.

The projected tunnel of the London and North-Western Railway Company through Shap Fells, will not only be by far the longest in England, but the longest — only by about half a-mile — in Europe. At present the St. Gothard heads the list ; it is about nine and a half miles long.

Ia Eastern Australia .100,000,000 sheep now find sustenance in a region which, thirty years ago, was a sandy desert.

MrPoynton, the Invercargill Stipendiary, holds that a settler is responsible for damage done by fire spreading from his seotion to another. If, however, the side of his hill slopes and takes the fire on to another man's section with it, then he is not responsible.

An American genuis is perfecting a church collection box on the cash register principle. When a penny is dropped the bell tinkles gently, but when a shilling or a half-crown drops into the slot the bell rings loud enough to be heard all over the ohurch.

The latest Bible published by the British and Foreign Bible Society is the Uganda one. It costs 10s 8d in Uganda, the cost of the book being 6s 4d. and the cost of carriage 10s 4d. The work of translation i? done by the missionaries praotically for nothing.

The Alameda with the English mails of 22nd January, left 'Frisco on the 4th, one day late. The Mariposa, with the colonial mails of 22nd January, arrived at 'Frisco on the 4th, also one day late.

Is it not time (asks the Wairarapa Times) that the decrepit engines on our local railway were pensioned off ? It nay ba convenient for the Government to run them, bnt it is not convenient for passengers to be stuck up by them with the off chance of a serious accident. If stones were put up to mark every point on which engines have broken down on the lines they would be more numerous than the mile pegs.

There is a boom in New Zealand honey just now. It obtains in the market the highest price of all imported honey, realising at the present time 35s per cwt. It is described as "a beautiful honey" just suited to English tastes, whioh do not favor strongly flavored articles of the kind. The eucalyptus flavour is complained of in the case of the Australian honey, which only brmgs 20i to 255, as against New Zealand's 355.

The farewell Booial to the Rev. S. Barnett, given at Shannon last Wednesday night, was very well attended and was quite a success. The little church was filled by a mixed congregation, over whom Mr T. Westwood, .from Fozton, presided. A selection of solos and recitations were given and a plentiful supply of refreshments handed round. Mr Patten, on behalf of the ohurch aud congregation bade the Minister farewell. The ttiree years' work was reviewed, the difficulties of the work rightly estimated, and the labours of Mr Barnett, as missionary, preacher and pastor, duly commended. The Rev. S. Barnett then gave his closing address, after which parlour games were played. The sum of £5 9s 9d was taken during the evening.

A bridegroom in Dannevirke, on his return with his bride was, according to an old and honourable tradition, saluted by the youths of the district, and colonial honors were showered thick upon him. Bight merry did the boys rattle their cans, but the house was still aa the grave. Surprisa was fast giving way to wonder when one of the party glanced behind him, and saw immediately the reason of the bridegroom's failure to put in an appearance. Uuperceived be had joined the band, and was playing his part with great zest.

A peculiar incident is recorded by the Timaru Herald. Shortly after 10 o'clock on Friday morning the dam at the Temuka mills broke away. There was no unusual amount of water in the race, and the subsidence of the bank is attributed to the work of eels, large numbers of which were noticed to be issuing from the earth-work as soon as the waters were released. One of these, amongst others secured, measured 4ft 6in long, and 17in in girth, and it scaled nearly 301 b.

The whole trend of cross examination o! medical witnesses in the Silverstream murder case ia to show that death resulted from poison or disease, or both, bat the testimony is directly in favour that death was the result of a bullet wound.

Friction between counsel for defence and His Honour and witnesses is frequent, but Judge Edwards is allowing eouoiwl ey#ry latitude,

The Labour ballot for the city vacancy resulted in E. C. Eirk obtaining 740 votes, A. H. Hindmarsh 601, and D. McLaren 228,

Mr Kirk solicitor, is the Ministerial candidate. He is in favour of a reduction in the. Custom Duties, aud "if necessary a slight increase in the Land and Income Tax and Probate Duties." H,e is in favour of the Old Age .Pension scheme of the Government, but not the abolition of the Legislative Council.

A four-year old daughter of Mr T. M. Munro, of Warkwork, Auckland, got a bean stuck in her throat; She died after 2b minutes of intense suffering.

At the inquest on the bodies of the two native children burnt in the fire at Poroutawhao last Saturday, the jury returned a verdict of accidental' death. The eldest child, a boy was four years old and the youngest, a girl, was fourteen months.

The Government Engineer's estimate for the new bridge which it is proposed to erect over the Manawatu rive at Wirokino ia £5350 The decking of the bridge wi'l be 20ft above the customary level of the stream, leaving plenty of room for flood water to pass under the bridge. When completed, the bridge wil prove a great boom to the residents in the vicinity. — Otaki Mail.

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