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Manawatu Herald, 2 August 1898, Page 2

We understand that the local Dramatic Club have selected two pieces to put in rehearsal and when the parts are known a performance will be given. The contractors on the Motoa estate have all made a good ctart at their work. Mr Julian has already a large area which was turnip land, ploughed. The shortness of feed in the district is brought forcibly to mind by some dead calves to be seen in the small settlers paddocks. The cold on Sunday morning was very bitter and when one caught a glimpst of the ranges, snow was noticed close down. It appeared io be snowing there heavily all day. For the last fortnight both Mr Gower and Mr Hughes have had some of their cherry plums trees out in full bloom. This is unfortunate as a hard frost is bound to knock all the blossoms off. A pugilistic encounter, between two small boys, in the street on Saturday night created some excitement. The constable happened to catch them, and they will have to answer for their conduct at court. During the trial of Veldtheim, charged with the murder of Wolff Joel, the prisoner admitted that he had plotted for a change of Government in the Transvaal, with the view of enabling a foreign country to intervene in the affairs of the country. Veldtheim has been acquitted on the charge of murdering Wolff Joel, but was immediately re-arrested on a charge of levying blackmatl with violence. The second reading of the Law Practitioners Act Amendment Bill has been carried. It was now proposed that five years should be fhe term in which a solicitor might become a barrister. • • - , News from Rarotonga states that Mr Moss, British Resident, wrote to Queen Makea, resigning his position of adviser to the Cook Islands Government, and the Queen has accepted the resignation. Messrs J. Hutchison and F. H. Fraser have been re- appointed by the Government to their seats on the Harbour Board, but Mr G. Fisher has been appointed to the third seat in place of Mr Heaton. The following regulation is gazetted : — " Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Order 4nCouncil made on the sth January, 1888, under the provisions of "The Education Act, 1877," relating (inter alia) to attendance registers and returns, payment of capitation allowance to Education Boards for the quarter ending 30th September, 1898, shall be according to the working average attendance of the quarter ending on 30th June, 1898, as the working average was defined by Order«in-Council, dated sth July, 1887, and made under the provisions of the Act." Lord Winchelsea denies Mr E. T. Hooley's statement that he received fiio,ooo tor becoming chairman of the Cycle Tube Manufacturers' Company. Ploughing is now in full swing in Southland, and it is expected that a wide area will be put in in wheat "and oats this year. One American industry, at least, has benefited by the war. The demand for Stars and Stripes is unprecedented and the manufacturers of bunting find it impossible to turn out sufficient material to meet the popular demand. Owners of woollen mills are reported to have set aside all orders and to have devoted their energies to manufacturing bunting. It is calculated that at least 80,000 flags are flying from public and private buildings in New York alone. The daily sale averages about 800 flags. All the towns and j villages in the Union have followed New York's example, until protests have been raised against the lavish use of the national flag as degrading to the national emblem. But this is not the popular opinion. Numbers of Cuban flags, with their single star and stripes, are to be seen, and there is also a sprinkling of toreign flags. We certainly have no desire to accompany England around the globe, standing guard over her with a gun while she dumps such African, Asiatic, and Oceanic valuables as she can lift into her bag. But if any Continental combination should set upon Britannia and threaten to do her serious harm, we think it safe to say that such a combination would have to reckon with Uncle Sam.— " New York Journal." The Princess of Wales has always retained a good deal of the vivacity natural to foreigners, and those who see her in public, when she always appears the very personification of 1 calm dignity, would hardly suppose that in private, when she is excited or interested, she will gesticulate like a French woman. During the drives in the pony-chaise, when Princess Louise took a turn with the whip and reins, the Princess of, Wales used to lead the !■ conversation very often "with both hands," and there seemed to be as much expression in her fingers as in her words.

Messrs Abraham and Williams hold a stock sale at Palmerston on Thursday and a horse sale on Saturday. The result of the boys football match at Carnarvon was a tie. On Sunday Wellington experienced a heavy snowstorm, and snow covered the hills immediately around the city. Heavy falls of snow also took place at Dunedin and Greymouth. A steady lad is wanted at the Foxton Bakery. The Town Clerk convenes a public meeting to consider the destruction of flax on the Motoa estate, for next Tuesday evening at the Public Hall. On Sunday the Rev. W. H. Judkins, the Resident Secretary of the N.Z. Alliance, and also its organizing agent, held the services at the Methodist Church on Sunday. There was a large congregation at both services, Mr Judkins proving a very forcible preacher. Mr George Coley is now ploughing a forty-acre paddock on the Kawaroa arm. Yesterday the eldest son of Mr Knapp died suddenly about midday, and an inquest is being held, Dr Bronte having been summoned to make a post-mortem, Mr Gladstone was once sft nin In height, but with the weight of years his frame had shrunk, and when he was Prime Minister the last time he was only sft gin. Fencing promises to become more and more a fashionable pastime in London. There is especially a movement just now among ladies strongly in favour of the foils. There is nothing more graceful in the world than the silhouette lunge brilliantly executed, and, besides, the exercise develops muscle, aud that is what the sex goes in for nowadays. More than one lady in London teaches the art, and alto.gether there are said to be more ladies practising fencing In London than men. A lady writing to the " Kumara Times " that on breaking a new laid egg she found a ground worm alive in the yolk. How it got there is a mystery.