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Manawatu Herald, 29 March 1898, Page 2

The Eailway Department has made an approximate estimate, which leads it to the conclusion that there will be a surplus of £90,000 this year. A heavy gale is raging on the English coast. Great snowstorms have also occurred, blocking the traffics on the railways. Many wrecks with loss of life have taken place. The new issue of New Zealand postage stamps will be put into circulation on April sth. Austria has withdrawn her troops and warships from Crete. The annual meeting of the Fox ton Football Club will be held to-morrow night at 8 o'c'ock at Whyts's Hotel, and persons intending to join the Club are a'so inv'ted to attend. Mr Gladstone is stated to be suffering from necrosis of the nasal bone, but as he is also suffering from weakness of the heart no operation will be performed, it being deemed to be unsafe. On Thursday Messrs Abraham and Williams hold a stock sale at Palmer ston, and on|Saturday a horse sale. The Chief Justice has gone to Wanganui to take the circuit sittings of the Supreme Court, which opens there to-day. Mr D. Whibley has a fine new pea growing in his garden, the seed of which he obtained in Wellington. It is called the " Sir Harry Atkinson " and seeds freely, the pods running five inches in length with nine to ten peas of a large size in each pod. It grows four feet high. We notice that Mr Robert Cobb's sheep are advertised for unreserved sale. The shipments of hemp from Wellington last year amounted to 11,935 bales, the same average as for the past three years. Mr Spiers has almost completed the erection of the new dwelling for Mr A. S. Easton. The staff of life ii dearer in Dannevirke than in this town. Mr Alf. Fraser has a novelty for sale in his stationer's shop, being a numerous collection of foreign stamps. This wiU give a start in this .district to the great stamp collecting mania that is abroad in older countries. It appears rather curious that much more timber is imported into Wellington to what is exported, the quantity of the former being equal to four and two-thirds times as much as the latter. During the past year there has been an increase in the number of vessels arriving in Wellington of 61, and of 109,273 registered tons. A sharp frost on Sunday morning has done a lot of damage to the potato crops in this district as well as to pumpkins and kindred plants. We noticed that apples were marked up in Dannevirke at five pence per lb. Mr Whyte secured possession of his dog immediately his advertisement appeared. The Hon. J. D. Ormond has purchased from Mr J. Messene the racehorse Sultador for the sum of £150. Mr J. R. Macdonald has also added another to his string of racehorses, his latest purchase being Pistol Grip. The N.Z. Times says :— We learn that the New Zealand Farmers' Dairy Union is about to make considerable additions to its business. At present it enjoys the enviable position of being the largest manufacturer of butter in the colony, and is now making arrangements for supplying the town with fresh milk. The manager has had considerable experience in this department in 1 Melbourne, and thoroughly understands the treatment of milk— a special knowledge which few possess. Baoon-curing is also a department which the farmers are urging the directors to take up. The Dairy Union is in a unique position. The farmers from Wellington to Palmerston— throughont the Bush district and down the Wairarapa to the Upper Hutt— are, with one or two exceptions, shareholders. At the present time the Union controls practically the whole of the milk from that area, the exception being the supplies to the cheese factories in the Wairarapa. The Union also contemplates erecting more creameries on the Mwaawfttu Line.

On Slinday evening Mr T. F. Gibson, whilst attending service at the Methodist Church, i was taken aenously ill. Dr DayJones was called and had the patient removed to his home. Upon inquiring today we are gad to learn that Mr Gibson has nearly recovered from the attack. The total takings of the excursion train on Friday amounted to £33. The Wanganui Education Board advertises that the annual meeting of househo'ders will be held at the school-honseg on Monday, 25th April, at 8 p.m. Daanevirke has a Mayor but he was not visible on the day the exoursionists visited the town. We learnt that he was busy making " bikes." Tom Long, the Government hangman, and Non Chant were each fined 5a by Mr A. Greenfield, for being drunk and creating a disturbance in a public place at Palmer* Bton North yesterday. Opossums are becoming quite plentiful around Napier, and several have lately been found in orohards and killed. Fitzgerald Bros, had the biggest money house at their circus at Hastings the other night, when 4000 persons paid for admission. A Hastings medico recently ordered a patient to take certain powders for hit complain*. Being of a kind insoluble in water, the doctor ordered them to be mixed with whisky. The patient has recovered and now thinks a lot of the M.D., as his cure was effected with only one half of that prescription. The powders are still intact, and at the service of some other eick man. The shooting season for native and imported game has bean fixed to open on Monday, May 2nd. " Mark Twain " says of Dunedin: — •• The town justified Michael Davitt's praises. The people are Scotch. They stopped here on their way from Home to Heaven-— thinking that they had arrived." The Admiralty deolines to assist in Antarctic exploration with either ships or officers, but is willing, however, to lend the necessary scientific instruments. Three cows affected with tuberculosis were discovered by Mr Hull at the Palmerston saleyards last week, and ordered to be destroyed. At a sitting of the Native Appellate Court at Wellington on April 13th, application will be made to quash the orders relating to Block 14, Horowhenua, on the ground that they were made without jurisdiction. At a publio meeting in Levin on Tuesday evening, it was decided to request the Government to accept the services of a rifle corps in that town. About 40 names were given in. Heavy floods have occurred in Ohio, Virginia and Pennsylvania, which have stopped railway traffic, and work in the factories is suspended. Thousands of persons have been rendered homeless, and great damage occasioned. Over 13 million tons of coal and coke were shipped from the Tyne during last year. Of this quantity Tyne dock alone sent away over 6£ million tons. The quantity, alike for the river and the dock, shows a heavy increase upon previous years, and is the largest on record. The Tyne ports are only beaten by Cardiff, including Barry, which has sent away over 16 million tons, and the Tyne dock itself has averaged 24,---000 tons a day throughout the year— a feat, we fancy, no other dock' in the world can exo3l.