Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JAN. 19, 1899.

Manawatu Herald, 19 January 1899, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JAN. 19, 1899.

A " Nomad " polo team, comprising Messrs Strang (3), and A. S. Baker wilj probably play matches at Christchurch on 4th, 6th and Bth February next. There were more than 100 collisions on Japanese railways last year. Germany imports £5,000,000 worth of poultry a year. The chances of'-life in England are 40 per cent greater than in India. The annual meeting of the Sandon Racing Club was held, in the Junction Hotel on Saturday evening. The attendance was only small. A statement of liabilities and assets showed that the Club has a debit balance of a few shillings. Owing to the small attendance it was decided to defer consideration of holding a race meeting in March, for a fortnight. Whily in London the Hon. John McKenzie will be shown round the freezing stores by Mr W. Weddell, with the object of seeing whether it would be advantageous for the Government to render assistance in connection with the proposed new sorting sheds at the London docks. Out of 6573 new books published last year, 2677 were novels. It is stated that as a result of the recent extraordinary naval activity, more than seventy war vessels could be commissioned, with full complement, at Portsmouth alone, within two hours of the receipt of the order from the Admiralty. Caterpillars are very troublesome in some parts of the East Coast, actually eating oats after they have been stocked. The Queen has honoured the 21st Lancers by ordering that their new colors shall bear the word "Omdurman." The regiment is to be known in the future as "The Empress of India's Lancers." Trout are reported to be very plentiful in the Manawatu stream at the back of Ormondville and Makotuku, and the streams around Dannevirke are said to be teeming with fish. Great mortality has been observed among them this season, through, owing, it is thought, to the prevalence of the green beetle. Lord Khartoum always felt his sympathies strongly drawn towards Egypt. He used to delight in studying the history and geography ot the east. He was one of the first officers to believe in the future value of the Egyptian army. The Wairarapa Daily Times says :— - A proposal is on foot to send a picked team of Maori haka and poi dancers, whare builders, canoeists, and carvers to the Earl's Court and Parisian Exhibitions. The sorrowing family of a gentleman who died recently in Paris cast about for some original and enduring way of perpetuating the memory of their beloved one, and (says the correspondent of the Daily Telegraph) they discovered it too. They immortalised him by metallising him. That is to say, they changed the body of what was once a living creature into a statue, which is to be seen at the cemetery of Pere La Chaise, where it lies in a triple coffin of glass. The corpse, having been plunged into phenic acid, and washed in a solution of nitrate of silver, was placed in a galvano-plastic bath. The result is a statue in every respect identical with the individual, and, to use a Hibernicism, strikingly life-like. The doctor, whose method was succesefully employed to bring about this curious transmutation, confidently hopes that in future all public statues will be made on the same prinoiple. <

Ripe apricots are, according to the Hastings Standard, being retailed in that township at id per lb. Enormous numbers of small bird's eggs are being brought into South Malvern (Canterbury) for purchase by the Road Board. Over 13,000 were paid for one day last week. A peculiar accident happened to 1. two Maoris while riding some distance from Wanganui. v One of them had strapped to the pommel of his saddle r6lb of blasting powder, which exploded from a spark from his pipe or from friction. Both the horses 7 were killed and the riders considerably burned and shaken, „, T ». c cn S a genient is announced in Wellington of Miss Izard, Hobson street, to Mr Charles Pharazyn, son of a Mr C. Pharazyn, of Longwood. The Rangitikei polo team failed to put in an appearance on Wednesday, and consequently the match against the Orouas had to be postponed. A meeting of the School Committee was to have been held last evening, 1- but had to be adjourned until Friday night at 7.30 as there was not a quorum , present. This members are kindly >, requested to attend at Mr T. Westwood's office.