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Manawatu Herald, 19 July 1898, Page 2

It is intended to start a fish canning works at Akarqa and the buildings are nearly completed. SP&MU ? The Temperance Hall, which Mr.Osborne moved from the Avenue to Mam-street, has been rented by Messrs Kemp and Jupp for a place of worship, and they fire having it thoroughly repaired and painted. When finished it will be a comfortable building and an addition to the town. The next and last danoe of the series will be held in the Publio Hall on Wednesday. " Yes, sir," said Mr Gallagher, "it was funny enough to make a donkey laugh. J laughed till I cried." And then as he saw a smile go round the room', he grew red in the face and went away mad. In writing on Foul Brood, the Australian Bee Bulletin recommends prude carbolic acid as one of the best disinfectants that can be used. A quarter pint to a pail of water ia none top- strong to wash all floor boards. Hives, mats, and combs fihould be washed thoroughly ones or more each year. Mr George Nye has resigned his position as a Justice of the Peace. The conspiracy cases brought against T. E. Taylor, M.H.R., James Armishawand H. I. Checketta were heard in the Magistrate's Court in Wellington on Friday, but the decision was reserved till Wednesday morning. The Greymouth-Point Elizabeth Coal Company has secured a contract from the Railway Department to land 3500 tons of coal at the wharf at 22a 6d per ton. Australians will have their memories carried back to the land of the kangaroos by the numerous wattle blossoms now to be seen round town. The New Zealand Times has very good authority for stating that the canvass for subscribers made by paid canvassers on behalf of the Wellington Agricultural Association has not proved successful. During the next five years Russia will build eight battleships, six first-class and 10 second-class oruisers, 20 torpedo-boat destroyers and 30 torpedo boats at a cost of £16,000.000. .... - There is a great amount of siokneßS amongst the juveniles in Rongotea. Many of them are suffering from croup, sore throats and severe colds. The attendance at the local school is suffering in consequence. In a recent number of the London Sketch appears a portrait of the Queen Regent of Spain, and under is this legend : — Isabella of Castille, Queen of Spain, sent out Columbus to find America. Maria Christina of Austria, the present Queen of Spain, will be glad if another Columbus will go and lose it. A conference of coal-mine owners and miners' representatives, at Newcastle, agreed to raise the selling price of coal to 8s per ton from January Ist, provided the hewing rate is made uniform throughout the district, and a general agreement is adopted by the majority of the leading owners.

Mr Joe Tob in his changed advertisement calls attention to his new importations of wall papers, roofing iron, fencing wire and nails. Mr George Langley has opened the promises at one time the chop of the Co-op Btkery Company, and has a very nice display of goods in the window, amongst .which is a wedding cake which should go so: ne way towards urging bachelors to change their life. He will make aspeoiaity of Saturday nights when in a cosy sapper re orn hot pies, coffee, tea, cocoa Ac can be obt lined promptly and cheap and comfortab!o. Catering in all its branches he is fol y prepared Jac*rry oat. • •■ The Magistrate's Court will be held on Thursday when an interesting case of a person charged with purchasing liquor for a prohibited person will be heard. Thursday's Wanganui Herald says, owing to the Huia being bar-bound at Poxton, and consequently unable to lighter the Star of Victoria, the departure of the latter from Wellington for the Wanganui roadstead has been postponed til! to-morrow or Saturday. The Stormbird took on board to-day a cargo of wool and tallow, whioh she will tranship to the Star of Victoria in Wellington. The Wanganui Freezing Company intend to send equal to about 8000 carcases by the big boat. The Queen of Roumania, or "Carmen Sylvia," aasheiJs called in *U world of letters, has recenty received a great honour from the University of BacUTTestnv " SfcV has been made a Doctor of Literature, and a member of the University. The diploma which sets forth the distinction is a work of art. It is written on parohment and inclosed in a valuable casket, A letter i from the Senatus of the University accom- | panied the diploma, and.it was written in four languages,:, Hungarian, Roumanian, Latin and Raiioh. The London Post Office Directory contains 1215 square feet of printed matter, while its leaves, if placed end to end, would measure a quarter of a mile. It is said that "Succi, who recently comple'ed his six'y-fouithjouhlic fast , in- Hflmg, has abstained frpnvClobd Wn Im peff mances for 2,500 dfiys tn his i?e— nearly seven years. - • — The price qnotrd in We"i >gtoa for potatoes is £7 10s per ton. The death is announced of Mrs LynnLinton, novelist, aged 76". The annual m ■■■■ tiug of the Foxton Racing Club wi>l be held at the auction room next Mr Rhodes' store on Friday evening at 8 o'clock. This morning a man named Olaf Anderson was brought before Messrs Tbynne and Fraser, J's.P., charged with having been drunk last night and with refusing to leave licensed premises. He pleaded guilty and was fined 5s on the first charge and 10s on the second, and given a week to pay the amount in. Harry Furniss has written and illustrated a visit to Adelaide lor the last number of the "Windsor Magaairie, and remarks on the infatuated, self-d»voti«n given to fishing. In Sydney, he remarks, anglers will sit over the water while the sharks nibble at their toes ; they do not care so long as they get a bite. This fervour would not be surprising if Australian fish were worth catching, but they are not. They are of different shapes and sizes, and have various misleading names ; but as far as eating goes, they are all alike — flavourless, coarse, and dry.