Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1899

Manawatu Herald, 2 March 1899, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1899

Lord Hampden, Governor of New South Wales, has received a cable announcing the death of his youngest son, the Hon Geoffrey Brand, thirteen years of age. The cause of death was pneumonia, supervening on a chill. He went to England some months ago with Lady Hampden, for the purpose J of entering Eton. He was attending | a private school at the time of bis death. The farewell citizens' banquet, which was to have been tendered to Lord Hampden, has been abandoned. Young women who desire to avoid getting fat should avoid tea, or if they do take it, avoid milk or sugar. The substitute is hot water flavoured with the piece of a lemon, or lemon essence with a pinch of tartaric acid. W. Edwards, for many years trainer for Captain Russell, has succumbed at Hastings to typhoid fever, from which he had been suffering only a few days. Another, a son of Captain Russell's, is afflicted, but not seriously. The s.s. Mararoa has made the passage from Sydney to Hobart in 39.$ hours. This is a record. Christchurch defeated Wellington by one goal in a polo match on Monday at Wellington. The death is recorded at Wellington of Mrs Chas. Fordham (Miss TrehairOsborne). Alfred Crossey, a Wellington publican, has filed his statements of assets and liabilities with the Official j Assignee. The amount owing to unsecured creditors is put down at £1576 14s sd, and to secured creditors 18s 1 id, the security being valued at £1090. The assets amount to £16 7s id — £1 7s id of which is cash in hand nd £15 value of unexpired term of 'cense — the deficiency thus being £4062 6s 3d. At the conclusion of the service at the Feilding Wesleyan Church on Sunday morning Mr Geo. Grant took the occasion to remark on the eminent danger in which one of Feilding's best wealth producing districts was in. He referred to the proposed application for a publican's license for Rongotea. Mr Grant spoke very strongly against the granting of a license and urged upon the people present the necessity of arousing public opinion in the matter and taking the necessary steps to prevent the license being granted, and thereby retain the present sober and flourishing condition of the district and the social status of the inhabitants.- - Star. The captain of tbe barque Ladstock from Liverpool, which has just arrived at Adelaide, reports that on January 4, whilst in mid-ocean, the majority of the crew refused to work and demanded that the vessel be steered for the nearest port. The captain locked the mutineeers in the galley and divided the boys and the two men who re- I mained loyal into watches, and by j showing a revolver he kept the j mutineers in check. Eventually two of them agreed to work, and with ! their assistance the ship was brought shorthanded over eight thousand miles safely to port. There is a strong demand in Canterbury for pigs at the present time. The other day Mr A. Richards, of Palmerston, shipped 150 prime baconers per rail to Wellington en route to Lyttelton, and has a contract to ship auotheK 500 within

The Heller Variety Company have engaged the hall for Wednesday next. The advertisement will appear in next issue. A cable from New York states that influenza is raging in the City of Mexico. Thirty-five thousand cases have been reported. It is reported that there has been a find of coal five miles from Waihi. A lease has been applied for for ioo acres. If genuine, it will be a great thing for Waihi. The annual amount of salt produced in China is 200,000 tons, valued at one million sterling. The manager of the Motoa Estate advertises for tenders for cleaning out drains. Any New Zealander who stands on the Auckland wharf and watches hundreds of cases of tinned fruit being landed for colonial consumption from the San Francisco mail steamers, cannot but feel ashamed of the lack of enterprise and industry that permits such a condition of affairs to exist. A property at Christchurch was sold recently for £475. In 1887 £ 2 7 00 was refused for the same section. No horse in Her Majesty's service is ever killed when old age renders it unfit for work. Such horses are generally put out to grass, or are sent to the royal farms to do such light tasks as their strength will permit. The Queen prides herself that no horse in her stables has ever been docked — a practice she thinks cruel and unnatural. At the Palmerston S.M. Court a youthtul delinquent in a truancy case explained to the bench with tears in his eyes, that the reoson he had " played the wag " from the school was that when he did his spelling wrong, the master took him into the office and gave him a hiding, but the boy received cold comfort from His Worship, who told him that he deser- j ved the strap even more tor absenting himself from school as he had done. — Standard. This year a Pahiatua man raised scwt of onions, worth £2, from threepence worth of seed. The question of the decrease in the birth-rate is a matter which is causing much controversy in the centre of the colony. Apropos of this, a very good story is told by an English college lecturer. A friend of his was once remonstrating with a labourer's wife for attempting to feed an eight months' old baby with some form of herring. ' Do you think I don't know how to bring up children ?' replied the indignant mother, ' why I've buried ten.' Tenders are invited by the Manawatu County Council for supplying 100 yards metal on the Foxton-Shannon roads. Tenders close on Wednesday next, at noon. An example of the curious variety c^ sheep known as the fat tail Cape sheep has just been brought from Cape Colony to Sydney, by Mr Robert Hudson. The carcase is somewhat of the appearance of a stunted merino, but the development of fat is extraordinary. The tail is about ißm broad at the base and some i6in l">ng. It co sists chiefly of fat, and is estimated to weigh about iolbs. Alluding to the acquisition of wealth, Dr Bevan, in giving an address at Christchurch, remarked that there was an old saying that a fortune only lasted through three generations. The first toiled and slaved to make it ; the second enjoyed it, and the third squandered it. A special telegram to the Times from Palmerston North states that t- 1 c New Zealand Farmers' Dairy Unu n has severed its connection with the firm through whom until now its business has been transacted. The Union has made fresh arrangements that are highly advantageous to the shareholders. An intimation to this effect is being conveyed by circular to the various branches of the Union. 4 These old age pensions are going to revolutionise our Old Men's Home scheme,' remarked the Chairman of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board the other day. The present inmates of the Home, who have pensions, it seems, have taken up the position that they are not paupers, that they pay the Board for keep, and that, therefore they do not intend to work. Some of them have, added Mr Bellringer, told him that the Board can do its best, and in two instances he had removed two of the men to the institution at Henui. — Taranaki Herald. Those who are in need of a really desirable property should not forget the sale of the well-known Paiaka estate, which will be offered by auction by Messrs Abraham and Williams at 1 p.m. on Saturday next at Palmerston North. Mr Gardner has now decided that failing the property selling as a whole, it will be put up in two lots, namely, No. 1 Manawatu, containing 438* acres, and No. 2 Paiaka, containing 468 acres, both these properties having good buildings thereon. Young Mr Frank Gould, son of the late Jay Gould, who came of age last month, has entered into, the possession of the annual interest on £3,500,000. He cannot, however, touch the capital, which is tightly tied up in the hands of trustees. He is described as a very quiet youth, who lives at his country house, Lyndhurst, Irvington, New York, with an elder sister who is as rich as himself. He devotes his energies to sport and to collecting dogs, of which he has no less than 132 of various breeds and sizes, ranging from a Cuban Molasso, the colossal blood hound of that island, to the tiniest toy terrior money can procure. 1 The souring of milk is caused by j bacteria which are in the dirt on the ! cow's udder, milker's hand?, pails, j strainers, and in the dust in the air. ! Under favourable conditions these ; bacteria double every twenty minutes, and a single germ in a pail of warm milk increases to 8 in an hour, 64 in two hours, 4096 in four hours, and at the end of 12 hours, if the growth was unchecked, it would requite 1 1 figures to write the number of bacteria springing from a single germ. With careless milking 500,000 germs have been found in a cubic inch of fresh milk.— N,£, Times,

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