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Manawatu Herald, 29 November 1898, Page 2

The Payne Family performed to a crowded house on Saturday night and all their items were vociferously applauded, but in only two instances were encores yielded to. The Family promise to pay this town another visit in about six months' time. The President of the M.A. & P. Society has stated that it is contemplated spending £5,000 on the showground in improvements. We draw attention to the French news elsewhere which is significant of impending events, as it is said the excitement threatens to result in a conflict between the military and civil powers, which is the first act in a revolution. Mrs Druce has obtained authority from the Court to open the grave of the late Mr T. C. Druce in Highgate Cemetery, whom she claims was the Duke ot Portland. The surviving trustee in the estate has made an appeal against the order for exhumation. The English Board of Agriculture has decided to* impose a prohibitive condition on the export of old horses to Belgium, where they are used for human food. This is worse than bullbeef ! The sentence of death passed on Dr Whitmarsh for the murder of Alice Bayley, through an illegal operation, has been commuted to 12 years' imprisonment. Mr James Bull arrived in Wellington on Friday after a lengthened visit to England. The following paragraph will be of interest : — Viscount Charlemont, C.8., to whom the Queen has just presented a medal in commemoration of her long reign is better known, says " M.A. P.," as Colonel James Caulfield, who held the post of Comptroller of the ViceRegal Court of Dublin successively from 186S till the advent of the present Government in 1895. In 1892, on the death of a kinsman, Colonel Caulfield succeeded to-ithe ancient Irish peerage of Charlemont, whose creation dales as far back as the reign of James I. He has one child who is the Countess of Ranfurly. Osborne, which won the Flying Handicap at Wellington, belonged to the missing man Myers. It has always been a disappointing animal, and though specially brought over from Sydney had never before won a race. Now there is a quarrel as to who owns him. One man claims he holds a receipt for the horse and has served a notice on the Club to impound the stakes till the matter is settled with O'Connell, the nominator. O'Connell, who nominated Osborne, states he has no connection with the horse. The Napier " Herald " says :— Mr J. Northey of the Western Spit has just completed for Mrs Donnelly a gasoline oil launch of the following dimensions : — Length overall 28ft, breadth 7ft, depth 3ft. Her draught is only 20 inches, and can travel eight knots an hour, a very creditable performance for such a small boat. She has been fitted up most elaborately with cushions, cocoanut matting, &c, and Mrs Donnelly intends using her for picnic parties, a boat that is highly suitable tor such pleasure. The engines alone cost £140, and her total cost will be close on £240. A wedding in a Sydney city church came to a sensational stop through the disappearance of the bridegroom, while the bridal party was waiting at the altar the news came that the man had left by the American mail boat the same afternoon. It is not generally known says an exchange that Australia furnishes the largest market for the New Zealand whitebait industry. At the present time there is lying ready for export at Wellington from the establishment of one firm alone in Greymouth, some 15,---000 cases, or 75,000 tins, of this delicate little fish. The net value of the whitebait canned by the firm in question this season will be closed on £3000. There is an increasing demand for the fish on the other side. Cardinal Rampolla, the Papal Secretary of State, does not support an exclusive French protectorate of the Catholics in the East. It is understood that Dr MacGregor Inspector of Charitable Institutions, has refused to grant a departmental inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the Ohiro Home bequests, holding that nothing has arisen to justify such a course, and no good purpose could be answered by opening up the matter again. Two fresh warrants have been taken out against Myers by loan companies who hold forged bills. Another man discounted a bill for £469, to which the signature of a well-known merchant had been so cleverly forged that it was passed by the Bank as genuine, and the merchant himself thought the signature was his. Two Chinese storekeepers were each find 40s and costs at Hawera on Wednesday for selling goods — at the back door — on the Saturday half holiday. Mr Rhodes is still selling very cheap for cash, and has in new currants, raisins, &c. He has also, just landed a lot of nice fancy ware.

When Harmston's circus reached Timaru ol Friday last, and the caged animals •.vere being dtawn from the railway Nation to the circils ground, the hor. Os drawing a car containing two tig 5 became frightened and bolted. In making a sl-arp turn, the horses p iled the car ovdf, and it fell with sit '1 violence that the top was par:ly separated from the sides. There w s a crowd of people looking on, and they promptly fled. Kop were br.^ fght, and the top of the c~. tied do va to the sides. The car was then lifuid up ori its wheels. The excitem -\t was naturally sonlewhat intense 'intil the cage was properly secured. Matches to the value of £25,000,000 are annually Consumed throughout the world. Native Andamanese widows use the skulls of their deceased husbands as treasure boxes. Our wives use all our money before they become widows. The last instance of boiling to death took place in Persia in iSgor The offender, who was found guilty of stealing State revenues, was put into a large cauldron of cold water which was slowly heated to the boiling point. His bones were distributed as warning among the provincial tsx collectors. Among her multitude of trinklets the Queen prizes three Yings more than all the rest. These rings, which she always wears, are a single-stoned diamond ring, Prince Albert's first shy present to her ; her engagement ring, a ruby set in a heart of brilliants ; and her wedding ring. " Judgment was given on Friday morning by Mr C. C. Kettle, S.M., in the case of Dr Saunders (Mr Barnicoat) v. Grant Glasgow (Mr Watt), claim 25 guineas. The Magistrate s.i-d the question raised in the case wa> wlietlier the _ defendant was liable to pay, ia addition to Hospital charges,* the plaintifi s fees for performing the operation and for professional* attendances on him while he wa; a patient in the Hospital from 18th October to 6:h December, 1837. .The Magistrate, after carefully considering the evidence said he had arrived at the conclusion that when defendant went into the Hospital he had no clear or definite understanding as to what his rights, obligations, or opportunities were or as to what was his true position as regards the payment of Hospital charges and medical tees. The plaintiff had not established to the Magistrate's satisfaction that the defendant promised or agreed to pay his (plaini'..h''s) fees for attending him at the Hospital, and the Court could not and ought not to imply any such promise in the case. The plaintiff was nonsuited on all the items claimed for attending defendant in the Hospital. — " Herald." Tenders are invited for carting requked by the Borough. Tenders must ha in by 4 o'clock on Monday next. The schooner Whangaroa sailed away from the wharf this rooming, and the Queen of the South meeting her in the river took her in tow and placed her well off the land.