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Manawatu Herald, 23 July 1898, Page 2

A nugget weighing 16360z and valued at £6500 has been found on the surface near Kanowna by three men. For some time the finders bad been getting good returns in the same locality. The] nugget was discovered on Sunday, and was^named " The Sacred Nugget." A recent visitor to the colonies, Colonel Brand, who has just been round the world, avers, in the West Sussex Gazette, that " the best Stilton cheese he had ever eaten was in New Zealand." A doctor has started a theory that most drunkards can be cured by a very simple and pleasant course of treatment — namely, : by eating apples at every meal. Apples, if 1 eaten in larg quantities, he avers, possess i properties which do away with the craving i that confirmed drunkards have for drink. ■ A market gardener named John Wadsley ■ residing in Caulfield, Victoria, heard a noise , in his garden recently, and hastily dressing saw in the dim moonlight two men in his 1 garderj cutting cauliflowers, whilst a third ■ was filling a cart that stood close to the . fence. He rapidly dressed, and crept on I them with a double-barrelled gun. One of i hem got away, but he caught the other two, and drove them outside his garden to i a two-railed fence, where he kept watch . over them. He made them sit on the fence while he partrol'ed before them with his gun on his shoulder for some hours, and as the 1 night was very cold the two robbers bad a ■ very unpleasant time of it. Eventually a passer-by fetched a policeman, who arrested ■ the two men. , An innovation in church matters so far as Wellington is concerned has been introduced [ in St. Mark's Church say 3 the Post where ' the ladies of the choir are now all attired exact y alike. The costume consists of a i black straw hat with red band, and blaok , dress with a red ribbon round the neck. Though pain in design it is very pretty, and its general adoption has a capital effect 1 while the present red ribbons may be , altered according to the season. A mob of 90 horses — old " crocks " collected from various parts of the district, who have been worn out in the service of man, and to whom death must come as a happy release from a weary existence— i were driven to the Gisborne Freezing Company's works on Tuesday morning, and there slaughtered. Their hair, hides and hoofs are marketable commodities, and their carcases are to be converted into manure. Mobs of decrepit sheep and cattle have been similarly dealt with, and it is claimed that it is better than they should be so turned to profitable account' than that they should continue to eat up pasture in the district which should be feeding sound and healthy stock.— P.B. Herald. News by the way of Vancouver says :— "The British fleet in the Pacific is to be strengthened to a considerable extent during the next four months* The Temeraire, the first battleship to be permanently stationed here, is being fitted out at Portsmouth, and will sail shortly for Esquimau :t. The big cruiser Warspite is also to be sent to join the Pacific fleet. The fleet is to be strengthened by replacing some of the smaller cruisers with larger ones, the second-class cruiser Arethusa being now on her way to relieve the thirdclass cruiser Icarus. In the south the battleship Iron Duke is to be stationed at Coquimbo. Among naval men the opinion is rife that England is about to make a move that will startle the world, or, if not this, she is preparing to meet a contemplated move of one of the other big Powers. At the meeting of the Good Templar Lodge on Thursday night there was the largest gathering that there has been for a year. W. L. Johnstone C.T. in the chair. Nine new candidates were initiated, and several more were proposed for membership next week. After the business was concluded several items were rendered by Bro. T. Westwood (a recitation), Bro. M. Walker gave a reading, Bro. H. Blake made a few humorous remarks, Bro. Stewart gave a reading, Bro. J. Morgan gave a whistling solo, Bro. S. Howan gave an address. It was then announced that next Thursday would be the last meeting of the quarter when officers for the succeeding quarter would be elected. The meeting concluded with a few parlour games.

The Chronicle says that France refuses the British claim for compensation for the officers massacred at Waima, in French West Africa. The annual meeting of the parishioners of All Saints' Church will be held on Wednesday next at the Masonic Hall at, 7.30 p.m.