Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JAN. 21, 1899.

Manawatu Herald, 21 January 1899, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JAN. 21, 1899.

The Manawatu Herald will not be published on Tuesday, 24th January, being the second day of the Foxton Racing Club's summer meeting. The next New Zealand Polo Tournament will commence on 15th March, and will be held at Palmerston North. Mr Arthur Silk pianoforte tuner, is now in Foxton on a professional visit. A magnificent hop crop is expected in Nelson this year— the largest since 1882. At Paris a story is current that Victor Napoleon aspires to be Emperor. Victor is at Brussels, where he is in daily communication with his adherents. Miss E. Anderson will sing tomorrow night at the Methodist Church the special solo " God will take care of you." The Rangitikei Advocate office was again set fire to on Thursday night for the third time. A good deal of new type and cases were destroyed, insured in the Standard for £150. Slight damage was also done to the machinery, which was also covered by insurance. A thunderbolt fell at Dannevirke during a storm on Monday. It narrowly missed Mr Freeman's residence in Miller's road, and struck a telegraph pole just opposite. The impact caused a shock that was clearly felt, and the ball of fire shed a glare which was observed at a considerable distance. The telegraph pole was splintered. — Telegraph. At the Primitive Methodist Conference at Christchurch on Thursday, a motion was carried making it imperative to use unfermented wine only at the Lord's supper. It was decided also, by 36 votes to 11, that total abstinence from intoxicating liquor should be a condition of Church membership. An application to the Auckland Jewish congregation to admit Miss Marion Mitchell, one of Pollard's Opera Company, who is about to marry a Jew, as a proselyte in view of her marriage, has been remitted to the Wellington Rabbi, the Rev. Van Staveran. He says that he adheres strictly to the covenant made with Cromwell, when he re-admitted the Jews to England, that they were not to make proselytes. In any case the Jews are not a proselytising race, and always discourage the idea. The application will be refused. ] In view of the building of the new ( French Transatlantic liners to ply ; between France and New York, the 1 French Government is to apply a ] scheme for carrying two well-equipped ' rafts which cannot sink as shade decks ! so that in the event of a vessel sinking as did the Bourgoyne, the ' passengers will easily find their way to ' the rafts. The raft in the forward , part of the ship is to be 82 feet long ' and 28 feet broad, and the after raft one hundred feet long. One is to be in compartments of thin steel, and to carry two thousand passengers, and can be thrown overboard in case of ' necessity. 1

The English press is lamenting in leaded type over the alleged fact that the British workman is growing lazy. He is described as being "no longer fairly or even honestly industrious." As an instance, one paper, on the authority of a leading contractor, state 9 that, owing to the Way in which daily paid labour takes its time, a house 1 that ten years ago could be built fat £500 now costs £750. In the good old times, it is said that it was considered a fair thing for a bricklayer to lay 800 or c)oo bricks in a day, whereas now, although he could work up to 1200 if he liked to hustle, his average has fallen to 300. The hearing of the charge of criminal assault perferred against Robert Douglas, a young man aged 19 year's, occupied the Masterton Magistrate's Court from noon on Monday till 9 p.m., when accused was committed for trial. The evidence of the Victim of the assult showed the outrage to have been of a revoltingly brutal nature. Drs. W. H. Hosking and S. F. Beard, who, both examined her on the morning after the outrage, gave evidence which fully supported her story regarding the the violent treatment she had received. Douglas, who was undefended by counsel, reserved his defence. An Italian syndicate has purchased a site and obtained the right to establish gambling saloons at San Remo similar to those maintained at Monte j Carlo. In London considerable interest is felt in the action of Lord Iveagh, reputed to be the richest Christian in the Kingdom. He has given £250,000 to the Jenner Institute, and proposes to spend a like amount in improving the most . unsanitary districts of Dublin. He has given immense sums to erect sanitary dwellings for the poor of London and Dublin. Lord Iveagh was created baron in 1891. Before that he was Cecil Guinness, maker of the Dublin stout. Since the opening of the trout fishing season over a ton and a half of trout has been sent away from - Lake Rotorua. Misses Reid, of Torcross, Wainui, who went to China under the Chinese Inland Missionary Society some two years ago, are now stationed at Che Cheo, Gauhwiey, Wuhu (writes our Ellesmere correspondent). They are well satisfied with their work, and have succeeded beyond their expectations in learning the Chinese language and becoming acclimatised. Among many curios sent over from China by these ladies is a half-worn ladies' boot, which is only sin long and iin wide at the instep. Frightful cruelties are inflicted on the baby girls to stop the growth of their feet. Prince Ranjitsinhi, the well-known cricketer, has been made a colonel. He has (says the Daily Mail) been appointed by the Maharaj of Patiala to the honorary colonelcy of his bodyguard. When the Lieutenant-Go-vernor of the Punjaub visited Patiala the other day, the Maharajah's bodyguard formed the escort, and at its head rode Ranjitsinhji in full regimentals. On another occasion Ranji, when receiving the Viceroy of Patiala, wore a gorgeous Oriental costume of pink, with a tiara of diamonds, and a crossbelt of magnificent gems. A law has been passed in Natal by which commercial travellers visiting that colony will have to take out a license. A poor woman who took in washing asked a London magistrate if a landlord could seize her business utensils for rent. The utensils consisted of her wash tub, wringer, and scrubber. The magistrate said the articles came under the Act for the protection of workmen's tools, as the applicant earned her living by them.