Manawatu Hearald. THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1898.

Manawatu Herald, 23 June 1898, Page 2

Manawatu Hearald. THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1898.

There are rumours of another baker ooming to Foxton ! One of our townsmen is about starting a greengrocery business in the Main street, and it is said a fruiterer is also coming from a neighbouring township. A general meeting of the Dramatic Club will be held to-morrow nigh. To-morrow Messrs Abraham and Williams hold a stock sale at Levin, and on Saturday a horse sale at Palmerston. There will be a special meeting of the Borough Council to-morrow night to pass a resolution dealing with bicycles, and an app'ication for a flax mill site on the river bank will also be dealt with. The horse sold on Saturday in the pound did not realise more than fifteen shillings and therefore did not cover the expenses incurred in his keep and other cost*;. If the owner would only call and settle the balance it would gladden the pound-keeper's heart. Mr Skey, Government Analyst, has re.ported that the portion of the stomach of a horse sent him by Mr F. Y. Lethbridge contained arsenic. This leaves but little doubt that the horses found dead on Monday morning were poisoned. It is reported in Vienna that Turkey intends to join the Triple Alliance. News has been received that head-hunt-ing is rampant at the Solomon Islands. A large party in a war canoe from Simbo attacked a village at Rubiana. Ten men. were killed and their bodies eaten, and the raiders also carried off seven women. An expedition of revenge is being formed, and serious trouble is feared. The Governor on Monday signed warrants caring to the Council Messrs A. Lee Smith, merchant, of Dunedin, aud J. M. Twomey, journalist, of'Temuka. The Mayor ->f Picton has not got a high opinion of blue-jackets. If Picton were made a naval station, he said, there would always be one or more warships there, and they would be the means of introducing the worst of evil 3 into the pace; and the town would lose all chance of having a good c'ass of society, and it would not be safe for respectable young women to walk about. On the occasion of the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, which was fought on 18th June, 1845, the Emperor of Germany, who is honorary colonel of the First Royal Dragoons, has presented the regiment with a golden wreath of laurels as a memento. The Marine Court of Inquiry, at Hobart, as to the wreck of the Union Company's steamer Grafton — which was lost on a spit at Strahan, Macquarie Harbour, on the west coasl of the island— found Captain Morrisby guilty of an error of judgment in not taking the vessel into Pilot Bay. It therefore suspended his certificate for two months. A queer new industry has been unearthed by the ' Monthly Magazine of Pharmacy.' Paper teeth, it appears, are being made in Germany— that is, artificial tetth for human use, manufactured from paper pulp instead of porcelain and other materials that are usually selected for making our imitation masticators. They are said to be Very satisfactory. The material is distinctly durable, and not being brittle does not chip off. The moisture of the mouth has no effect upon it, it retains its colour perfectly, is lighter in weight than porcelain, and cheaper, of course, to make. The young men Robert Moore and Henry Moore, who were last week caught by Constable Cruickshank, of Lower Hutt, in the act of carrying away cabbages from a Chinaman's g trden, appeared at the Magistrate's Court on Monday. Two charges were preferred against each of the accused — of having stolen on different dates cabbages and cauliflowers from the gardens of Chinese gardeners. The prisoners pleaded Guilty, and asked that they should be admitted to probation, as they had up to the present borne the best of characters, and their present offences were only an idiotic freak. Inspector Pender felt bound to say this was purely a case of deliberate stealing, which had been going on for some time past. Mr Kenny, S.M., was, like the Inspector, averse to sending young men to gaol. He would take into consideration the fact that the accused had pleaded guilty and regretted their foolishness. They would be fined £2 10s on each oharg (£lO in all), to be paid in monthly instalments of £1 a month, in default one month's imprisonment. The prisoners were also ordered to pay the Chinamen's expenses. — Post. Emperor William, in addressing the Guards at Potsdam, said he hoped the bulwarks of the army — iron and blind obeditnee — would ever remain unshaken.