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Manawatu Herald, 28 May 1898, Page 2

The invasion of Cuba will not be for a time, as more men than are available at present are needed. Mr Tennant is getting a new engine up from the South for his flaxmill at the Oroua Bridge. Admiral Dewey, of the United States Service, has been very direot (vide cablegrams) in his talk to some German ships. He will have to keep his eve lifting for the German Emperor's " mailed fist." The cablegrams published to-day concerning the French on the Niger bear out our remarks on the situation in our last issue, and show that Lord Salisbury " has his doubts" as to Frenoh intentions. Mr Hillary is busy erecting the new pound on the old ferry site. Mr C Austin has rented Messrs Pascal's mill at Oroua Bridge and will soon be making a start. At the Assessment Court on Thursday afternoon, Mr England, Manager of the Bank of New Zealand was the only objeotor who appeared against the late Mr Gibson's valuation, and he had the satisfaction of saving his bank rates to the value of twenty shillings a year, which should be " counted unto him " and must favourably affect the next balance of our truly colonial institution. The London Local Government Board is considering the request of the AgentsGeneral for the investigation of the alleged adulteration of colonial butter with boraeic ; acid by the vendors. A building is being erected in the railway yard at Cbristchurch for the manufacture of gas for illuminating railway carriages. The plant is on its way from London. It is expeoted that everything will be in full working order in ample time for the resumption of heavy passenger traffic next season. The Americans in London have agreed to erect a statue to Mr Gladstone. The Chairman of the Wellington Education Board told the meeting that a petition had been received for the removal of the school from the State Farm, Levin, to Wereroa. The building belongs to the Labour Department, which proposes that the Board should buy the school, and that the expenses of the removal, &0., should be taken into consideration when it comes to be valued. The Board agreed to this being done. In the Appeal Court at Wellington in the case of Brown v. Foley the court unanimously decided that the appeal should be allowed. The point deoided was that it is lawful for a hotelkeeper to supply liquor during prohibited hours at his own expense to a bonajide friend. According to Mr Gladstone's directions the funeral is to be very simple. There will be no procession in London, and no State pageant or military display. The Union Company give an emphatic denial to the Premier's statement that they had declined to carry Westport coal to east ports. The Westport Company were unable to Bupply the quantities demanded by the given time ; hence the failure of the negotiations. An application from the Otaki committee for an addition to the plans of a teacher's residence was agreed ta, the extra cost not to be more than £20. Mr Anreaeon wants a good milch cow, Messrs Abraham and Williams hold a stock tale on Thursday.

Messrs P. Hennessy and Co. have a list, important at this time, of 22 engines for sale varying in power and price. A call would elicit the fullest information. Mr Alf. Fraser wants a cheap cottage near the centre of the Town for ' 1 the Saville Trustees. On Wednesday the new coach ser- , vie 3 will be inaugurated, which means only coach connection with Shannon. Wo understand in consequence of this alteration better and more frequent services will be rnn. Messrs Thynne and Fraser, J.s P., sat this afternoon on the Bench and fined parents for their children being absent from school the usual penalty. The Borough Council notify their intentions to strike a rate of fifteen pence in the pound, also that the pound will be removed to the Ferry reserve on Wednesday. In order not to clash with an entertainment at the Methodist School-room which had been fixed for the same date the Foxton Dramatic and Musical Club have decided to postpone their concert to Tuesday, the 7th June this being the only date that will suit Palmerston friends who are going to Uslflt. We draw the attention of our readers to the Railway advertisement on the next page. On Wednesday the business of the Mar ton Station will be removed to Marton Junction and the present Marton station will be only a flag station under the new name of Pukepap? . A new service for the Hunterville Branch is also published. A special train conveying the Governor, Admiral and others to tne Wairarapa en | Wednesday hod a narrow escape of being thrown off the line. A boulder bad come down the hillside and knocked one of the rails several inches out of line, but beyond a rather startling jolt the carringes got over safely. Messrs. Abraham and Williams hold a stock sale at Coly.ton on Tuesday. The Standard states there is reason to believe the movements in favour of recalling Lord Eoseberry to the Leadership of the Liberal Party is gaining strength. The Premier was attired iv Privy Councillor's costume at the Governor's L-vee on Tuesday. A rich gold formation was struck near Warragul (61 miles from Melbourne), 100 ft wide. An assay gave 18770z to the ton. The miners' strike in South Wales has been settled. The wages of the men are increased a halfpenny an hour, instead of one penny demanded. Mr Cecil Rhodes has acquired the intefest in the Delagoa Bay railway, running into the Transvaal, of Mr McMurdo, one of the principal proprietors. The Commons passed the Irish Local Government Bill through Committee, and on rising adjourned till the 6th of June. It has been deoided by the directors of the Manawatu Railway Company to learrange the morning time-table of the early train. This will now leave the Thorndon station at 7 10 a.m., and reach Palmerston at the same time as usual, making up the 20 minutes' delay by aocelerated speed on the journey. Leok at the administration in the Parliamentary Buildings, said Mr Scobie M'Kenzie at Auckland. Parliament voted £7000 for the new Library, and now the whole building had to be pulled down, and was to be re-erected without authorisation, at the cost of £40,000. Mr Hall- Jones said he found the building so rotten and so insanitary that it was not safe to the lives of those who had to live there. And who had to live there? Why, the members, for three months in the year. At the same time, in the lunatic asylums of the colony the patients were herded like cattle, for want of money to build additional accommodation for them. The harbour defences were also neglected, and the defence forces as well. If money was no objeot, as Mr Seddon said, and £40,000 could be spent at one swoop to save the members' lives for three months, did not his audience think something could be done for the defences, the lunatic asylums, and public schools ? On Monday evening a man named R. Webb fell off the last train from Wanganui when about a mile beyond the Feildiog cemetery. He went on to the platform of a carriage to smoke and as the train was going round a bend he was jerked off. On the arrival of the train at Makino the fact was reported to the guard and a searoh party went out, another party going from Feilding on the matter being reported to the police. The searoh parties, on arriving at the scene of the acoiJtent, found Webb, who must have laid unconscious for about an hour, just making a start to resume the journey on foot. Beyond a shaking and a few slight marks Webb escaped injury. The soenic postage stamps are thus criticised by a correspondent of an Auckland paper :— - The total banishment of Her Majesty's facial figure from the postal stamps of this colony, however innocent the motive in so doing, bears decidedly the appearance of either the disloyal or the unpatriotic Moreover, it is singularly unseasonable, following, as it has done, the Diamond Jubilee year and its deserved rejoicings, and the echo sounds of which have yet barely died away from the mind's hearing of the public In this stampsubßtitution business, too, one would have thought, that in accordance with only a common loyalty, not to name etiquettee, that at least one denomination of the stamps — say, the one in most demand, the permy — might have retained the Queen's figure. But not so. The matter is oertainly one of unpardonably bad taste, as it regards the Mother Country, and to whom we are so abundantly indebted. A Singapore correspondent of the St. James's Gazette writes :— " Do people at Home realise what the British Fleet has done for the past six weeks ? The Admiral, with 18 ships of his own and a few, like the Edgar, detained on the way from the Pacific and Australians waters, has kept the sea all the time, cruising at some point only known to the Admiralty, keeping up communication by depatoh boats and destroyers, with full information himself, and giving the other Powers none of his movements. It has all been very well done. Then the Admiralty wired and bought up every ounce of coal at all the ports. The Russians at Port Arthur and the ' niaiUd fist ' have been put to ludicrous straits for want of fuel. The new Bussian orusser Russia which was to blow us all out of the sea, cast up here for 2000 tons of ooa 1 , and was told she could have 200 !"

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