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Manawatu Herald, 29 October 1898, Page 2

On Thursday evening an old man, ] James McGill, died at his daughter's reside cc after reaching the ripe age I of 86 yoars. He was a native of the i count y Antrim, Ireland, and came \ out cloven years ago at Mrs P. ' Guer in's (his daughter) instance, and , has si cc then lived under her charge : and c re. To-morrow the body will be conveyed in the morning to St. - Mary o Church where Mass will be \ said at ii a.m., and at half past two i o'clocl. in the afternoon the funeral ' will leave the church for the cemetery. < The deceased's age accounts for the ! likelihood of parting at any time, but he was in usual health until a few hours before his death when he must have broken a blood vessel as he threw up a quantity of blood. The deceased during his last moments was attended by Father Mallard, who administered the last rites of the church. We tender our sympathy to the relations of the deceased. The Blind Musicians appeared at the Foxton Public Hall on Thursday evening last and gave a very success* ful concert and entertainment. . The hall was filled, and all the items rendered were much enjoyed. A practical exhibition of the quantity of whitebait procurable , in the river was afforded on Thursday when two and a half tons of those delicious fish were sent away by the afternoon train. They were packed in 58 tins, 22 sacks, and 3 cases. The railway department notifies that holiday excursion tickets will be issued to Carterton on the 2nd and 3rd November, available for return up to the 7th November. Mr Alf. Fraser has an altered advertisement in this issue, and one point necessary to note is that orders for new magazines for the coming year must be given into him betore the 7th November. Wars, and rumours of war. Constable Foster has just received instructions to prepare lists of the names of all persons liable to serve in the militia, in his police district. On the ninth of November the Levin cricketers will play a match with the local team in Victoria park. Tenders for draining on the Motoa estate close on Monday. The General Estimates passed through Committee-of-Supply without alteration on Wednesday. The pictorial postcards, bitherto sold by the Postal Department at ijd and i|d each, will in future be sold at their face value; thatis, id and i£d each. A kingfish weighing 52lbs has been speared at the Gisborne wharf. The Sultan's diamond ornament presented to the Kaiserin cost £40,000. The oldest sailing craft in the world is the so-called Gokstad ship, a Viking vessel, which was discovered in a sepulchral mound on the shores of Christiania fjord. It is a thousand years old. The English Courts have ordered the extradition ofthe American woman doctor, named Nancy Guildford, who was lately arrested in England, charged with the manslaughter, at Bridgeport, in the United States, of a girl, whose corpse it is alleged she dismembered with a view to concealing the death. The tender of Mr Charles Nees, at about £1000, has been accepted for the erection of the Cottage Hospital at Otaki. It is stated that during the last 25 years the French Republic has spent £1,000,000,000 to reconstruct its army. The longest underground thoroughfare in Great Britain is in Central Derbyshire, where you can walk 7 miles upon a road connecting several coal mines. In some parts of Central and South Africa a single firefly gives so much light that it illuminates a whole room. The British residents catch them in order to find the matchbox or lamp. Several hundred acres have been put down in potatoes in Hastings this season, in anticipation of high prices being maintainedThe Hon. Mr Ormond has 90 per cent of lambs this year on his Woodville property. The Hon. W. P. Reeves is to be offered reappointment as AgentGeneral for New Zealand, but the term of such reappointment has not yet been decided on. To cool a hot room, wet thoroughly a large sheet and hang it up in the middle. The temperature will go down 10 or xz degrees almost immediately. There will be excursion fares to Wellington on the Government railway on the 4th to the 9th November, available for return for 14 days. The date of the Rev. R. Young's leaving the parish has been fixed for the 15th of November.