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Manawatu Herald, 22 October 1898, Page 2

Mr B. Spelman has secured the supply of a shunting horse and driver for use at the wharf.

The person who got off with a fine of five shillings at the Court on Thursday has a Prohibition Order out against him, yet no effort was made to ascertain how he procured the liquor that put him into that state that caused him to be fined.

The telegram sent to our late Town Clerk bidding him farewell was a thoughtful and courteous act which the recipient deserved. Mr Chapman received the following recognition of his telegram : — " Sincere thanks to Foxton people for kind wishes. — McQueen."

The usual sitting of the Magistrate's Court had been fixed for the 17th November, but Mr Greenfield finding it was the " people's day " of the Palmerston Show has altered the date to Saturday the 19th.

Owing to onr local sawmillers finding that the white pine they, imagined they had secured turns out to be yellow pine, they may not be shipping it to Sydney, but devote it to much better purposes. Our experience of yellow pine is that it is a first-class durable timber, equal, if not better, than red pine.

A pumpkin patch should be very noticeable in this neighbourhood this year, as after our local as to the shortness of seed, the proprietor of the Red House fsent for more, and it was all disposed of the following day. The quantity we wanted has been obtained from friends who read our notice and we can look forward to having a patch belonging to ourselves.

The wreck of the Mohegan was due to the magnetic influence of the Manacles Rock on the vessel's compasses.

Churning operations commenced at Palmerston Dairy Factory last Tuesday, and operations are in full swing. The first consignment of butter will be despatched at the end of the present week.

More than £700,000 worth of gold is used yearly in Birmingham for the manufacture of jewellery.

" Well, old chap, how did your wife receive you when you got home, last nights" "Wouldn't speak to me." " Lucky dog. Mine did."

A heat wave has passed over the colony of N.S. Wales. The thermometer in Sydney registered over 99 in the shade. On the rifle range the sbadc records were well over xoo.

The next English and European mail via Vancouver will close at the local o.ace on Wednesday, the gth day day of November at io a.m.

The Rev W. Booth made special mention at Sunday night's service in the Ca.terton English church of his havinr met the Rev Mr Young, the new Vicar. They travelled together to Carierton and visited the church school, and vicarage, and Mr Young expre- ed himself as being very pleased with v'iat he saw. Mr Booth said he thought Mr Young was a good man for the district.

Me?r,rs Abraham and Williams hold a stoc!: sale at Palmerston on Thursday.

Mr Bridge's representative will visit Foxton on Tuesday, and can be consulted at Mr Hamer's chemist shop.

The " Pall Mall Gazette " advocates the establishment of a British naval station at Port Darwin (North Australia.

The publishing firms of Smith, Elder and Co., London, and Harper's, New York, have respectively purchased the British and American rights of the late Prince von Bismarck's autobiography for £6000 each.

Few people appear to be aware that a tooth can be extracted, cleaned, and restored to its socket, and become again a useful and natural instrument. A Liverpool gentleman in a large shipping office had a tooth taken out, cleaned, and restored some years ago, and it is at the present time a good serviceable tooth.

There is considerable trouble at Waipawa, according to the local correspondent of the H.B. Herald, over the rating on unimproved value here. Some have their rates raised very much and some reduced extensively. Here are typical cases : — Last year 13s 4d, this year £12 odd ; last year £2 5s o,d, this year ids. The correspondent adds that as no alteration can be made for three years, there is nothing for it but patience.

In fasting feats the sect of Jains, in India, is far ahead of all rivals. Fasts of from thirty to forty days are common, and once a year they are said to abstain from food for as many as seventy-five days.

A curious mishap occurred recently to an English cyclist who was proceeding from Stamford hill towards Clapton. Several passers-by hailed him with the cry of " Fire, fire !" and he glanced round expecting to see the fire-engines bearing down upon him, but saw nothing. Soon, however, he found that the cry had a very practical meaning for he began to feel an unusual heat down his back, and saw flames proceeding over his shoulder. Several benevolent pedestrians kindly seized hold of him and put the fire out. just in time to avert serious consequences. It appears that, being a smoker, he had placed his smouldering pipe -into bis pocket, and this had been fanned into flames by the current of air. He suffered only slight burns, with a damaged coat and trousers.

No one can tell where the diamond goes to in combustion. Burn it, and it leaves no ash ; the flame is exterior, like that of a cork, and when it has blazed itself out there remains practically nothing.

This week, the Taranaki Herald understands, the Burnside Factory, near Sentry Hill, for the manufacture of condensed milk, is to be opened. The establishment of this industry will, it is claimed, provide a means of using the whole of the milk at a better return than is now obtained by rearing " weedy " calves on separated milk.

An Indian chief being asked his opinion of the cask of Maderia wine which had been presented to him, said he thought it was juice extracted from woman's tongue and lion's heart, for after he had drunk of it he could talk for ever, and fight anybody.

" Ma, dear, what's an innocent ?" " A person who knows nothing evil, Johnny." " Then pa thinks you're an awful good woman, 'cause I heard him tell the new housemaid 'you are an innocent. Are you an awful good woman, ma ?" " No," said ma sharply, and the way she gave that new housemaid notice to leave had something of the sinner in it.

There are large districts in China where labour is so cheap that it can hardly be reckoned by a money standard. Thousands of Chinese labourers live on a little more than a handful of rice or so a day, and yet even then there are thousands of unemployed practically starving.

A unique instance of the adoption of natural forces for domestic service is mentioned by the Poverty Bay Herald. An artesian well was sunk on a property near Gisborne, and both water and gas are being obtained from it. The gas is being used for cooking purposes, and arrangements are also being made to light the settler's house with it. The water from the well is said to be of first-class quality.

Judgment went for plaintiff in the following civil case heard by Mr H. Eyre Kenny, S.M., on Thursday at Wellington:— T. M. Wilford v. T. Easton, H. Aldridge, and W. Ald ridge, £11 19s 6d.

During his recent visit to Hawaii, Colonel Gorton was put ashore at Keatakeakua Bay, where Captain Cook was killed, and he brought away a cocoanut as a memento of the visit. Near the spot where the massacre occurred an obelisk about 30ft high has been erected, on which is the following inscription : — " In memory otthe great circumnavigator Captain James Cook, R.N., who discovered these islands on 18th January, A.D., 1778, and fell near this spot on 14th February, A.D., 177 a.. This mouument was erected A.D., 1874 by some of his fellow countrymen."

We advertise to-day the fact that on Thursday night the Blind Musicians will give a concert at the Public Hall. As this will be a very novel performance, yet pleasing as showing how the energy of the afflicted can be used to lighten their troubles and amuse others, the public will roll up in good numbers and help those who help themselves. We shall have more to say about the performers in our next issue.

The Duke of Devonshire in a speech declared that hi any negotiations with France, however ably conducted, Great Britain must not fritter away her rights respecting Fashoda.