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Manawatu Herald, 1 December 1898, Page 2

The Wanganui Herald states : — We regret to hear that Mr J. S. Thompson has, owing to advanced age and failing health, resigned the position of manager of Ihe American Institute. The directors have appointed Mr F. B. Gardiner to the vacant position*

On Tuesday Miss Louie Seddon, third daughter of the Premier was married to Dr C. G. F. Morice, at St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral, Wellington. Ratepayers had better bear in mind the last date, which has been adver-' tised, when they can pay their rates "without the ten per cent addition. The remains of the late Wallace Turley were laid to rest in the Foxton Cemetery yesterday afternoon near the grave of his brother Edwin Turley. Mr Alf. Fraser, licensed Lay- Reader; officiated at the grave; there was a, large following of friends, the body being brought over from Shannon. A widow and two children are left to mourn their loss. Sergt. John O'Donovan, of Wellington, who some time ago passed the solicitor's examination, and who is regarded as one of the most efficient police officers in the colony, is to instruct the recruits at Wellington in police duty and legal work, and they will be thoroughly drilled by another officer yet to be appointed. Nine hundred and thirty pounds in notes disappeared from the till of the Newton branch of the National Bank of New Zealand, Auckland, between twelve and two on Monday. The whole affair is a mystery. The Railway Department will run the first sea^beach excursion on Wednesday. At the last meeting of the Marton Borough Council, a summons was received from the Magistrate's Court, Foxton, for the Mayor and Councillors to attend the Court on December 15th to show cause why they had not paid the amount of £2, 8s due on Licensing expenses. This summons is consequent on the refusal ot the Council to pay more than what it held to be its proportional share, if the Wirokino Road Board is charged a part of the cost of the administration ot the Act. The Mayor and Clerk were appointed to defend the action. On the first page will be found the query " Where did you get that suit ?" with the correct answer. Other questions and answers follow, and the result appears to be that the Centre of Commerce is doing well. Do not miss reading Mr Osborne's commercial catechism. Mr Bridge's representative paid a visit to Foxton on Tuesday, but having failed to advise us of the date we were unable to remind our readers of it. It is however a settled fact that a visit once a month will be regularly made* Robert Taylor, alias Jarneaux, was brought up on remand at the Police Court this morning, and after hearing the evidence of E. Battersby, V. Battersby, T. Nelson, A. Ferris and Constable Forster the accused was convicted and sentenced to 14 days imprisonment with hard labour in Wanganui gaol. The other day Mrs Bell, residing with her daughter, Mrs Gardner, of Paiaka, completed her eightieth year. We wish the lady many happy returns of the day. We have received the Christmas number of the " Canterbury Times " which is again up to its usual excellence. The cover is very much out of the common, being a woman's face framed in a halo of dead gold with a background of trees. The paper is divided into two parts, the pictorial oortion and the reading portion. The former contains a large number of excellent views besides reproductions of paintings by Mr S. H. Moreton. In the reading portion are stories specially purchased from some of the best known modern authors. The paper will be found an excellent one to send to friends at Home and no doubt there will be a large demand. We think that the design of the front page of the pictorial supplement is particularly good, being designed from Maori carving, and has also a photo of two Maori women. Mr G. G. Stead has given the Royal Humane Society of New Zealand an endowment of £ 100 to provide a gold medal for heroism in saving life. At Melbourne a young woman, Mrs McNab, poisoned her five-months-old child with spirits of salts, and has been arrested for murder. The accused is separated from her husband, and has been staying with her parents. She states she was much worried, and felt herself a burden to her parents. In several of the large sheds of Wairarapa a limit has been fixed by which no man is allowed to shear more than 100 sheep per day. The "New Zealand Herald" says:— Apropos of the recent visit of H.M.S. Tauranga to Raratonga, and the installation of Lieutenant-Colonel Gudgeon as British Resident, it is understood that Queen Makea has sent down a large box of island curios to Captain j Browne (H.M.S. Tauranga) as a memento of the occasion and a mark of appreciation and esteem. As an outcome of the recent disaffection among the Spanish troops in Cuba tour companies of American Engineers have been landed at Plaza de Mariano, Havana. Cyclists in Roumania are compelled by the authorities to have their name and address not only upon some part of the machine, but also upon the lamp-glass, in order that the riders may be identified at night. Prince George has undertaken to maintain the Turkish flag at one port in Crete. The most expensive drug is called physostigmine, an ounce of which would cost nearly £200,000. It is prepared from the Calabar bean, and is used in diseases of the eye. In Servia dolls are often hung up inside the cottage windows to announce to wayfarers that a marriageable daughter dwells in the house. The differences between France and Russia with regard to Abyssinia are increasing. A woman's arm has been discovered in the Yarra. The limb had evidently been hacked off by some person unacquainted with anatomy. The Napier Telegraph says : — Constable T. J. O'Brien resigned his position on the police force at the request of the Department on Saturday.

News has been received that fighting is taking place at the Swat River, in Northern India, between the British and tribesmen, led by a mad mullah A soli : tor in Queensland has received a communication from Aust- -■. stating t'-.at the Queensland tick is identica' with the tick infesting the cattle i.i Austro-Hungary. These ticks arc '.reated with a lick which is .said to !)o more efficacious than inoculatio ->.; A prescription tot the lick has beer, handed to the Government Bacteriologist, and experiments with it will be tried. An exchange says, settlers who are troubled with cater pillers in strawberry beds should sprinkle sawdust. The little pests get doubled up when they try to move on. Around trees it is a safeguard against all crawlers. Lord Iveagh has made another large gift to the Dublin poor. Artesian water, flowing at an estimated rate of 3,000,000 gallons daily, has been struck at Wilby Wilby, near Goodoogo, New South Wales. They were taking of golf, and she grew enthusiastic. " Ah," he said, " I infer that you play ?" " Oh, yes," she replied ; " I play the game, but I confess that I don't speak the language very fluently yet." The deposition of one of the Mussulmans who have been tried in connection with the recent rising in Candia shows that Edhem Pasha, Turkish Governor of the Town, collected the influential Mussulmans on the eve of the massacre, and recommended the massacre of the Christian inhabitants. "To kick the bucket " is believed to have originated in the time ot Queen Elizabeth, when a shoemaker named Hawkins committed suicide in peculiar circumstances, placing a bucket on a table in order to raise himself high enough to reach a rafter above, then kicking away the bucket on which he stood. The Southern Cross, with Herr Borchgrevinck's Antarctic expedition has arrived from London. The kohopiroa (cuckoo), which winters in the tropics and summers and nests in New Zealand, was reported at the meeting of the Philosophical Society (says the " New Zealand Times") to be carnivorous, as well as predatory in other ways. It transpires that the bird not only robs others of their nests, but devours their young as well, for in the stomach of a member of the species captured at Karori were found the mature remains of one nestling and the remnants of several others. The Manawatu Rowing Club's new boatshed and staging is now finished with the exception of some rollers on the staging. The boats were removed yesterday from Mr Thynne's shed to their new home. At the Foresters meeting on Tuesday night 19 new members were initiated. Messrs Westwood, Stansell and Rhodes were elected local trustees. Some discussion as to securing a medical man took place, and it was decided to advertise for one in a medical journal. Mr Alger, Secretary for War, recommends Cangress to increase the regulars to 100,000. Many members, however, think 75,000 sufficient, and preter an increase in the navy. Magistrate (sternly) : " You are a pitiable specimen of humanity. What brought you to the degradation and disgrace?" Prisoner (proudly): "It took three coppers." A gruesome discovery has been made in the Rose Pearl Mine, Mount Morgan. The dismembered and decomposed remains of an unknown man have been found hidden in various parts of the mine, which has not been worked tor some time. America has acquired a naval station at the Chinque Lagoon on the Isthmus of Panama. The negotiations for this station have been proceeding for 40 years. It is stated that the syndicate now running the Waitara Freezing Works intends erecting large additions to their present buildings, at a cost of some £aooo.