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Manawatu Herald, 8 December 1898, Page 2

The next English and European Mail, via San Francisco, will close at the local office on Wednesday, the 21st day of December, at 8 p.m. Shearing has been pushed ahead the last two weeks, and the Messrs Robinson's and the Motoa Estate have finished. Messrs Barber Bros, began shearing on Monday. ! On our first page will be seen an interesting advertisement of Te Aro House announcing their Christmas sale and discounts. We have been informed that Dr Rockstrow has definitely determined to take up his residence in this town, and may be expected very shortly. The new capital ot the Soudan is not likely to be either Khartoum or Omdurman but probably a new site not far removed from these two town*?, will be selected. A little dog attached himself to the Cameron Highlanders when they left Cairo on January 10th. It belongs to no one. It would never leave ' the regiment, and was foremost in the battle of the Atbara, and also in both battles at Omdurman. The dog is a much prized possession of the regi» raentk j

Mr Alf. Fraser's cottage on the seabeach has been let up to the sth January. The Government of Columbia has refused an extension of time for the completion of the Panama Canal. Mr Hutin, a director of the company, has offered to sell the canal to America for 130,000,000 dollars (£26,000,000). He stated that if the Government refused his offer the canal would be complete J, and foreign warships admitted, and the rates lowered, so as to compete with the Nicaraguan Canal. President McKinley accorded Mr Hutin a brief audience, but took no heed of the offer or the threats made. Two of the parties interested have signed a bond for a fixed amount to pay a portion of the expense of arresting and extraditing Joseph Myers, and on that the Justice Department has acted, having issued a warrant which it will ask the Governor to forward to the Colonial Secretary at Home. The Premier of the Cape proposes to establish an Admiralty dock at Simonstown, a port situated to the south of this city, nearer the Cape of Good Hope. The Sultan of Morocco has yielded to Italy's demands for compensation for the illtreatment and imprisonment of Italians. The weather is very hot in Adelaide, on Sunday the thermometer registered over io2deg in the city. It has been dreadfully hot in Melbourne, the tliermometer standing at 109 in the shade on Monday. The wealth of the late Hon. James Tyson, whose death occurred on Sunday is estimated at £4,000,000. A large fort, says the London correspondent ofthe Manchester Guardian is to be built near the entrance to the Kyber Pass. Mr Sidney Cooper, R.A., celebrated his 95th birthday on September 26. His health is very good, and he is still j busily engaged every day in his studies. Titian lived to be 99, and painted until his dying hour. Dr Moritz Busch, the Boswell of Prince Bismark, whose biography of his hero was published by Messrs McMillan shortly ago, has mysteriously disappeared, even the publishers cannot trace him. It was lately discovered by a doctor that a man he was treating for insomnia was a teatotaller who drank 30 cups of tea a day. Kruger wired to the young Queen of Holland, " Read 1 Peter, 5 and 8." The text is the well-known one about a roaring line, &c, and equivalent to «• Beware of Rhodes." Dr Weldon, headmaster of Harrow School and lately appointed the new Bishop of Calcutta, is a muscular christian, with a fine presence and a I strong face. At the recent Church Congress he read a paper, in which his principal point was tnat Protestant nations flourish and Catholic nations decay, to prove which he quoted inter alia from Lioy, while he aroused tremendous enthusiasm by declaring that the greatness of England dated from the Reformation. Dr Weldon has a natural eloquence based rather on sincerity than on any rhetorical power in the ordinary sense. Mr Tim Healey, speaking at Dublin on September 27, said the present agitation against Ritualism would probably result in the election of a Ministry on "No Popery " lines. Whether Liberal or Tory it was not easy to determine. At a meeting in Wellington on Monnight held to divise means for rebuildSt. Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral, a sum of £3684 was promised, The Arm of George Newnes (Limited), newspaper proprietors, were sued for libel by a Liverpool shipowner on acconnt of the publication in the " Wide World Magazine " of a statement that one of his ships was rotten, and was manned by a drunken crew. The jury foumd for the plaintiff, and awarded him £500 damages. Mr Alf. Fraser has now received a large suppy of diaries for the new year. The Supreme Court at Blenheim was occupied for the last two days in hearing the case of Mr C. H. Mills, M.H.R., v. Rogers and Sinclair, solicitors in which the question arose as to the terms in which defendants agreed with plaintiff to conduct the recent libel against newspapers. The jury found that the defendants had agreed with the plaintiff as alleged in the statement of claim ; that defendants were guilty of negligence as alleged in the staiement of claim : and awarded £151 damages for the negligence. The Judge reserved a point for further consideration, with leave to plaintiff to move to enter up judgment. We are glad to see that Mr Alf. Fraser has convened a public meeting | for next Monday evening to consider j what steps should be taken to receive the Friendly Societies who will visit the Beach on January 2nd. It is said that fully 1000 are coming down. We have to thank the Secretary of the Ashurst- Pohangina Hack Racing Club for a complimentary ticket for their meeting on the 28 December. There hundred and twenty thousand copies of Bismarck's biography have been sold in Germany. Four thousand, four hundred and seventy gallons of milk per day is now being taken to the Rongotea Dairy Factory. Mrs A. Langley wants a strong girl to help in housework. Last evening the youngest son of Mr Cameron, overseer of the Motoa Estate, met with a severe accident by which the top of one of his fingers was cut off in a cog-wheel. Mr Hamer was sent for and he placed the portion severed in position, and it is hoped a good union will take place.