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Manawatu Herald, 14 April 1898, Page 2

The Queen of the South towed the Whangaroa up to the wharf yesterday. The Executors of the late Thomas F. Gibson notify that no claims against the estate will be recognised unless rendered before the 18th instant. All monies due must be paid by the same date. Charles Clements who murdered his wife at Dunedin was executed on Tuesday morning. It is stated that a native war is probable in Samoa. Sir Hugh Nelson has resigned the Premiership of Queensland and taken the position of President of the Legislative Counoil. It is reported that Mr C. Hopping, of Rongotea, has disposed of hi3 farm to Mr J. McHardie, of Bulls, the price paid being £28 an acre. Applications for the position of Town Clerk must be in by six o'clock this evening. Tho. Council meets at half-past seven to consider the same. At Paiaka the walnuts have been attacked by some curious blight which has made them of no value. Something eats the shells away, partly or wholly, and thu3 the kernel is spoilt. The late Mi-'s Louisa De Costa has be" queathod all her rail estate in Adelaide to the Governor of South Australia to establish a Good Samaritan fund for the convalescent home in connection with the Adelaide Hospital. A terrible disaster occurred on the Dyea trail to Klondike, a snow slide killing 100 persons. Signor Panizzardi and Heir SchwarzKoppen, Itsi ian and German Mi'itary Attache*, deelar s that Dreyfus is innocent. They indirectly accuse Major Esterhazy. Mr W. G. Botting, of Shannon, wrote to the Horowhenua County Conncil complaining that his land was swamped owing to the creek choking up with logs. The matter was left to councillors for the Sidings to attend to. The cost to the Borough of Masterton for entertaining His Excellency the Governor on his visit to Masterton was £26 3s. The heavy rain aud hail between Saturday and Sunday morning have been disastrous for the harvesting at Invercargill. The Hnrowhenua County Council passed the following resolution : — That this Council assures the Manawatu County Council of its sympathy re objection taken by the Auditor to the payment of interest on loans out of separate rates, and promises to second any efforts made by the Manawatu County Council in order to obtain an amendment of the clause in the Counties Act.

A number of shops at Coolgardie have been destroyed by fire. The damage was estimated at £5000. There is every appearance of the Welsh colliery trouble extending to Scottish miners, who now demand an advance of Is a day in wages. At the officers' mess at the Miramar encampment Colonel Pole Pentou made a brief speech. During the time they had been in camp, he remarked, he had said some very rough things while he had been looking on at the manoeuvres, but they had been said for the been fit of the officers, and not in any carping spirit. He hoped they would take to heart the things that had been said, and that the officers and noncommissioned officers would try to get more influence over their men and keep them under better control. At the last meeting of the Horowhenua County Council a letter was read from Mills and Co., agents for Milner's Safe Co., complaining of Council's remarks re the safe destroyed in the late fire, and stating that the safe had not received fair treatment. Before being forced open, it should have been allowed to cool. TbTeCo. offered to supply a new safe at a reduced figure. The personalty in the estate of the late Hon. W. Gisborne, formerly of New Zealand, has been sworn at £203,997. A hurricane wrecked the township of Ballaballa, West Australia, causing great destruction to property and stock. A native woman was blown into a lagoon and drowned. Baron Rothschild, bead of the wellknown banking firm of Paris, has presented the Spanish Government with a cruiser. The Japane=e Budget for the year discloses a deficit of £8,000.000. When th'? Goveroruent steamer Tutanekai was leaving Westport on Monday night with the Nelson and Marlborough volunteers on hoard a dreadful accident happened. Mr Huoter, chief officer of the steamer, was attending to the bow moorings of the vessel, and got his leg entangled in the ropes. When a strain was put on the rope his leg was taken off just above the ankle. The steamer retur^d 1 1 the staiths, and Mr Hunter was tatau 1 1 fcln hospital. His leg was amputated b'ow i\w knew, and he is progressing favourab v.