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Manawatu Herald, 4 October 1898, Page 2

The meeting of the Manawatu Rowing Club fixed for Wednesday has been altered to next Thursday evening. On Thursday Messrs Abraham and Williams hold their annual cattle fair and usual weekly stock sale. The Standard reports the death at Oroua Bridge of Hoani-te-Ringiotu on Sunday. Miss E. Voss, a teacher of the Longbnrn School, has been presented with a gold and sapphire brooch on her departure for Foxton. The headmaster, Mr Hankin, made the presentation, and expressed the sincere regret of the teacher* and scholars at her departure.

The hearing of a case, at Napier Russeil v. the Minister of Lands, in connection with the compulsory taking of the Hatuma station Under the Lands for Settlement Act, closed on Wednesday After occupying the Court for nine days. The case was peculiar, as the parties contended for a wholly different basis of assessing the value. The counsel for the Government contended that tae value to be fixed was the sellin, ; value as a sheep station, Plaintiff contended that as the land was being comp :lsorily taken, he was entitled to such a sum of money as, invested in other fast-class securities, would bring him in the some net income. The difference involved is about jf 100,000. It was agreed to argue this point before the Court of Appeal before the Compensation Court made its award.

" Whisky biscuits " are sold in some of the New York bakeries in the vicinity of public schools. They contain jelly saturated with alcohol. An eight-year-old boy ate 5 of them and became temporarily insane.

A native baker in India, anxious to call attention to his loaves and at the same time to demonstrate his acquaintance with the English tongue, describes himself as a " European loafer."

According to " law " quoted by Sir Robert Stout on Thursday evening evening, "our Married Women's Protection Act was anticpated 4000 years ago — perhaps more — by the early Mongolian races." One of the Mongolian laws was to the effect that " everything which a married woman encloses she shall possess." The same people in an elementary degree has in those early times studied geometry and mathematics, knew land surveying, and had paid attention to the flora and fauna of their country, making a catalogue of the various animals, tree, stones, and other objects known to them. Sir Robert also referred to the literary impulse which the Mongols had given to other people. — " Post."

The Queen of Denmark died on Thursday from the illness which she has been suffering for some weeks past. Her age was 81.

Sir John Voce Moore, Alderman for the Candlewick Ward, has been elected Lord Mayor of London for the term beginning in November next.

Orders against foraging were very strick at one time in the army, of the Potomac. A young soldier was hailed on his way into camp with a fine goose slung over his shoulder and required to give an account for his possession of it. '' Well," said he " I was coming through the town whistling Yankee Doodle, when this confounded rebel of a goose came out and hissed me, and I shot it."

Both Messrs. Weddel & Co. and the C.C. and D. Co. inform me (the Post's London correspondent under date 13th Aug.) this week that trade in New Zealand mutton has been quiet but steady, and the former add that although values are hardly so firm they show no appreciable change, which is attributed to the fact that stocks are in few hands, while none of the holders are inclined to press sales. Carcases of 481 b. to 641 b, Canterbury sheep, have been selling at 3sd to 4<l per lb ; a few plain Canterbury sheep of the same weights selling at 33d per lb. Supplies of secondary New Zealand sheep are plentiful, but prices have been fairly well maintained, for Messrs. Weddel quote best Dunedin and Southland mutton of 6olb average at 3sd to 3|d per lb.

The lamp mostly used in Africa is a simple contrivance. In a cocoanutshell filled with palm-oil a bit of rag is placed to serve as a wick, and this gives all the light that the native requires.

The oldest love-letter in the world is in the British Museum. It is a proposal of marriage for the hand of an Egyptian princess, and it was made 3,500 years ago. It is in the form of an inscribed brick.

A favourite mode of suicide among the African tribes who dwell near Lake Nyassa is for a native to wade into the Lake and calmly wait for a crocodile to open its mouth and swallow him.

The surveyor sent to inspect the wreck of the " Mataura " in Magellan straits reports to the Salvage Association as follows, under date of 7th July :— u The wreck I find, on comparing observations all round, to be practically the same as it was three months ago, particularly on the opening of her plates amidships. The only change, so far as I could see, that has taken place would be a slight bit of her deck (hurricane) having been taken away. I have taken from her this trip 230 bales of wool, which I find to be in as perfect a state of soundness as if having been shorn a day since. Butter or cheese we neither got or tried for. I consider the wreck one that will keep intact tor a long time, owing to the way in which it has evenly settled itself on the double inclined plane from the centre."

Romboni, an accomplice of Lucceni, who murdered the Austrian Empress has been arrested at Ticciano, in Italy.

Funds have been raised for Sidney Druce from Sydney to enable him to prosecute his claim to the Dukedom of Portland.

The Turks have massacred 49 Armenians hailing from Russian territory at Alashehr, in Asia Minor, alleging that they were revolutionists.

Our readers will be very glad to hear that justice has at last been done to Constable Gillespie, who has been appointed to take charge of Temuka, a town a little larger than Foxton lying about 18 miles north of Timaru. The people of Temuka are to be congratulated on securing the services of one of the ablest constables in the force according to Judge Kettle, and from our experience.