Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, SEPT. 20, 1898.

Manawatu Herald, 20 September 1898, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, SEPT. 20, 1898.

We understand that practically the charge of the Motoa Estate has fallen to the hands of Mr Duncan Cameron, who has held the position previously of bead shepherd. Captain Manning, of the Rotomahana, is spending a holiday in this town. He is the guest of his brother-in-law, Mr Richard Barber. Captain Manning, many years ago, was mate of the locally-owned steamer "Jane Douglas." A man named Thomas Flynn died on Friday at the Palmerston Hospital while under chloroform. A site in the paddock opposite the school-teacher's residence is being levelled for the site for a house which Mr Penreau intends erecting. Rp.'obits are still taking the phosphorous poison, and so are some of fje dogs, owners had therefore better take care where their dogs stray to. Amongst the scholars at the local school it has been announced that real military drill will be imparted unto them shortly — when the new pupil-teacher arrives. This bears out what we have previously said that the children had received but little idea of drill hitherto. Mr A. T. Riddick, who is in charge of the Dairy School at Kingston, Ontario, Canada, has been appointed Chief Dairy Expert for New Zealand. He will leave for Wellington almost immediately. The Emperor William, in the course of a speech at Prenzlow, said we lived in serious times, and revolutionary designs must be forcibly combated. Out of seven New Zealand candidates tor the M.D. degree at the Edinburgh University, six passed their examinations. ' Owing to the bad weather on Sunday the, attendance at the services at the Primitive Methodist Church was not so large as expected. •• - The Whangaroa left the wharf yesterday in tow of the Queen of the South, on her trip to Sydney. We wish her Captain a pleasant voyage. Mr H. C. Cameron has advised the Agent- General on the prospects of the butter and cheese trade, and concludes that the prospects for New Zealand produce during the coming season, as far as can be gauged, are that the demand will be good only for choicest quality, but that the prices will be low." ' Our Special Commissioner, Mr Holmes, who is at Home advertising this colony, and as the Premier remarked, himself also, has paid a visit to Ireland and has a whole column of the Belfast " News- Letter" given to his interview. On Saturday (6th August) Mr Holmes called upon the Lord Mayor (Alderman Henderson, J.P.), and had a long and interesting conversation with him regarding the colony and its trade. The paper says Mr Holmes is an Irishman, and the fact that he has attained the honoured distinction of a special Commissioner for New Zealand is another evidence of the progress made by our countrymen in distant lands. The Post says, the impotent conclusion of the debate on the Police Report last Thursday night was really a sign of great weakness on the part of the Government. There is one man who deserves the thanks of his neighbours, if not of the town, and that is Mr Speirs, who has by his energy converted what was known as the " gorse farm " up the Avenue road, into cultivated paddocks. The change is a great one, and a vast improvement, and we believe the owner will reap his reward as the soil is very good, there having at one time, been standing bush upon it. Mr W. Weddel, the colonial produce merchant, sails by the Teutonic, via Cenada. He visits New Zealand and Australia to arrange for improvements in the discharge of frozen meat, and a better system of distribution. Mount Vesuvius is dangerously active. The eruptions are such as have not occurred since 1872. The amount paid to Mr J. N. Williams by the Government for a portion of the Frimley estate, at Hastings, averaged about £27 per acre. Mr Lawry, in a personal explanation, stated that he had made a mistake in stating in his speech during the Police Commission debate that Mr Northcroft, S.M., had communicated with him respecting his (Mr Northcroft's) removal from Auckland to Wanganui. Regarding General Kitchener's refusal to permit newspaper correspondents to proceed to Fashoda, a contemporary states that the Sirdar, as was shown not so very long ago, does not love the war correspondents. He does not mind his presence at the actual battles, but he finds his company inconvenient when preparations are being made and tactical plans are approaching .completion. There is always great danger of the position of affairs being conveyed to the enemy indeed, it is known that on more than one occasion the news of the operations of the army has come back from England and reached the ears of the enemy. This, one can easily understand, might be very inconvenient. The Governments of Chili and the Argentine Republic have agreed to ask Great Britain to appoint a Court of Arbitration to settle the long-standing boundary dispute between the two countries.

Sulphur in large quantities is now being sent from Rotorua to Auckland. Recendy about 300 tons were sacked there ready to be taken away. Sir William Martin Conway, the welMrvown traveller and scientist, has accented Mount Yelitana in Bolivia, a height of 22,500 ft. At the Commission on the Bull's bridge site Mr Charles Bull was of opinion that taking the present appearr :ce of the river the new site was the better one> but taking into consideration the vested interest involved, the bridge should be erected at the ola site even if the cost be greater. During the year 1897 the cattle of Queensland decreased by 418.000 owing to the drought and \m\it\t plague. The sheep decreased by 1 ,795,000. „ the Crown Prince of Corea is still suffering from the effects of the poison which some of the courtiers are suspected of administering. The attempt is attributed to political motives. The fruit trees at Taheke, Lake Rotoiti and Te Ngae, Lake Rotorua do not appeaf to be affected either by blight or codlin moth, their immunity being attributed to sulphur fumes. A high official of Corea has confessed that he ordered the cook to poison the Emperor at the instigation of a former interpreter attached to the ' Russian Legation, who was once a court favourite,- but has since been j disgraced. Mr Joe Tos has just imported some Syracuse ploughs, a very convenient j one being a hill plough, the riifeaf of l which reverses So that after making one land the ploughman can, by altering the plough shear, return on the furrow he has just made. The newspapers report that M. Cavaignac, late Minister of War, has admitted that it is impossible to maintain that Captain Dreytus wrote the bordereau which was one of the incriminating . documents produced against him. The American Peace Commissioners have sailed for Paris. They have been instructed not to modify the American demands. They will refuse to discuss the responsibility for the debts or compensation for public property destroyed in Cuba or the Philippines, and wilf claim the control of the Philippines, with the possession of the island of Luzon. At the Sydney Amateur Cycling Meeting a terrible accident occurred in the two-mile handicap, showing the folly of setting a big field on a narrow banked track. A rider fell on the winning post, bringing down six out of a field of 27. A nder named Tooher was killed, and another, Rogers, received concussion of the brain, while the others were severely bruised. At the Cape elections two Progressive candidates have been returned for the Vryburg seats, which gives the Rhodes party a majority of one over the Dutch party. News from New Guinea states that the bush tribes living on the slopes of Mount Suckling raided the villages in Collingwood Bay and killed a chief favourable to the British and 15 men. The American and French mission stations at Hochau and Chung King, in the island province of Szeohuan, have been attacked and the latter burnt. According to the information given to a Japanese paper by an officer who has been engaged in surveying the coast of the Pescodores, the remains of more than 70 steamers have been found sunk in the dangerous channel between the islands. At the place where the Nara Maru recently fonndered, no less than five other wrecks were found. There were four wrecks of steamers lying about five knots north of the island. Where the cruiser Unebi was supposed to have gone down two vessels were found, one lying on the top of the other. The Pescadores Channel, added the officer, was the most dangerous waterway in the world. When the survey of the channel was complete.d which it was hoped would be accomplished by the end of this year, the navigating world would be largely benefttted. Tenders for the labour of erecting a fence for the Borough Conncil must be sent in by 6 p.m. to-night. Messrs P. Hennessy and Co. have on sale, and on view in their- Window a superior collection of grass and other seeds. They are guaranteed first-class and thoroughly clean, and to those wanting seeds it appears a mistake to send out of the district for them when they can be obtained locally.