Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1899

Manawatu Herald, 4 March 1899, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1899

The Pahiatua school children with adults to the number of between 40c md 500 will be coming to Foxton by in excursion train on Wednesday next. The local school committee have beei ipproached to provide milk and ho water for the visitors, and this will bt lone. A large number are anxiou ilso to take the opportunity of getting to the sea-side.

The Palmerston school excursion to Foxton, has been fixed for the 15th inst.

Owing to the scarcity of jute goods in Canterbury and the difficulty of procuring them from Calcutta, the price of cornsacks has been advanced to 5s pei dozen, and it is expected that a furthei rise will shortly take place. Some difficulty is at present being experienced in filling local orders for these sjoods, and potato growers cannot at the present moment get sufficient sacks in which to market their crops.

The Hastings School Committee have recommended a Maori lad named VVi Hapi, from Te Aute College, as a trainee in the Clive school.

There is a surplus of £aooo from the Auckland Exhibition.

The large number of tourists seeking accommodation at the Mt. Egmont Mountain House has led the placing of a piano there for their use. The instrument was sledged up to the house a few days since without accident, and will, no doubt help to lighten the tedium of visitors.

As a consequence of the recent nautical revelations, the Union Company intend, it is stated, to requ re their younger officers to furnish fv.ll particulars of their certificates, hy whom they weye coached, and other, incidentals.

Acknowledging the receipt from Mr Hogg, M.H.R., or the petition of Pahiatua settlers with respect to the Easter Volunteer encampment, the Minister for Detence announces that until the return to Wellington, at an early date of the Commander of the Forces, it will not be decided where the encampment will be held. Should the Pahiaiua district be selected, the Minister considers arrangements could be made to hold thfe encampment at Woodville and Pahiatua conjointly.

Some investors pin their faith — and their investments — to broad acres, on the ground partly that real estate of this kind cannot run away. Even this class of security, however, is not always gilt edged, for a landowner on the West Coast, South Island, recently had 200 acres of land washed away through the encroachment of the Teremakau River during a flood.

At Taihape (a small settlement some miles beyond Hunterville) last week a man was fined £5, in default one month's imprisonment, for branding a horse with a knife. Several severe flesh wounds were made in the process of branding, and the animal was turned out to graze, the poor beast subsequently getting into a frightful state.

We would draw our readers' attention to the new advertisement of F. Loveday which promises to be a very attractive item to customers. With this month they inaugurate a system of Free Insurance against accidents. Customers by purchasing goods to a certain value are presented with a free policy representing £100 or £50 in case of death by accident or a bonus of 20s or 10s a week for 10 weeks by disablement. The enterprise thus shown by this firm is worthy the support of all classes.

An English writer says that word has been received from Russia to the effect that a regular Palace has been built for Galte6 More, with various appartments in it which you could hardly venture to call by such com-mon-place terms as boxes and stables. There is a spacious courtyard with covering only to keep out snow and rain, by free access for the air, and at one end is a gallery with tires of seats, where it is the fashion for the privileged of both sexes to congregate and watch the famous horse at exercise.

A short time ago a young man from Dunedin was officiating in the pulpit in a hamlet, near Milton (says the Bruce Herald) . He had got beyond the inital stage of his sermon, and was plunging into the middle of his discourse when, so the story goes, he was pulled up short by an irate member of the congregation dictatorily saying, " Young man, if you don't take them flowers out o 1 yercoat I'll walk out of yer church." The young man at once took the >ffending flowers out of his coat and went on with his. sermon as serenely as je could. The irate one probably went to sleep.

Among his many illustrations, in a meeting at Christchurch, Dr Bevan ised one when treating of man as the unit of public life. Every man should be, he said, a member or the head of a family. That man was a dangerous member of society, who could cover all his family when he put on his hat. If he saw a single man with a hat walking along the beach he would be inclined to place a policeman to watch him ; but if he saw an umbrella suspicously low down, covering two, perhaps there would be no need for the policeman to watch them. They would be no danger to society.

Pascoe, the diver, is very sanguine as to the prospects of the successful salvage at the wreck of the Tasmania. The work has been much hampered by bad weather and by the seas carrying iway their guiding buoys, but fresh arrangements are being made by tvhich less time will be lost, and Mr Pascoe is confident he will be able to recover Mr Rothschild's jewellery within a week. He found the steamer in splendid condition. She is perfectly ipen and free from silt, and the bulkheads between the cabins are mdamaged. There is no difficulty in getting about the ship.

The mail steamer Australia, which for many years ran to Sydney from San Francisco, under the auspices of 4he Pacific Mail Company's line, arrived at San Francisco recently after a. thrilling passage from Honolulu. The steamer was caught in the thick if the hurricane and for a time it appeared to those on board that the vessel was going to the bottom. After struggling with the waves for two days >ne big sea struck the steamer broadside on, and came near finishing her. V great deluge of water boarded the steamer amidships, md spread along v he deck. The heavy rail was smashed, is if it had been so much pipe-stem. Staunchions were twisted out of shape, md the great flood of water went louring down below. The saloon was looded, and the lights in the engineroom were put out, and for a short ime panic prevailed on the steamer.

Many of our readers will hear with regret of the death of Mr J. G. Fildes, tead of the firm of Fildes, Mitchell md Co., which occurred at an early iour on Thursday morning. Deceased vas found in an unconscious state in lis office on Tuesday night, and never ifterwards recovered consciousness. \f r Fildes was born in London in 1836. \fter serving a short mercantile career ie joined the staff of the Paymastergeneral in the War Office, and was stationed at Malta during the Crimean >var. He came out to New Zealand in 1866, and entered the service of the 3ank of New Zealand at Dunedin. He was subsequently appointed to the agency at Milton and afterwards at Temuka, and left the latter place to assume the managership of the Blenheim branch. He was stationed there for ten years, and was highly esteemed throughout the Marlborough district. Mr Fildes was then transferred to Greytown. About five years ago he retired on a pension, and shortly after entered into business in Wellington, trading as Fildes, Mitchell and Co., grain merchants. He leaves a widow and seven sons. — N.Z. Times.

The sea serpent story has been exploded. A museum expert has declared that the remains aie.^ pojtign ot two sitoiQi wbalti,

The H.B. Herald hears that the Government are negotiating for a newspaper in the Hawke's Bay district, and thereis every probability of the Liberal views being expressed through this medium at a place not far from Hastings, in time for the next election. The man who first arranged an interview between the police and the girl Dubberke has applied for £"500 reward, and also /50 for identifying Ambrose. A man named Fitzgerald has fatally cut his throat at Dalby. He said the police wanted him for the Gatton tragedy. He had been drinking heavily. A New South Wales farmer, who is also a practical fruitgrower, claims to have found a new use for eucalyptus leaves. He alleges that if fruit trees are mulched in winter with the leaves they will be entirely free from blight or fungi of any kind next season. To-morrow night the Rev. W. Woollass will continue his sermons on Bunyan's characters, and will take two of the best known— " Obstinate and Pliable " — for the subject of his sermon. A very attractive programme of the sports to be held at Foxton on Easter Monday is published to-day. The Oroua polo players proceeded to Palmerston to-day to play the Manawatu team there. The programme of the Methodist concert, which is in another column, is of a specially good order and lovers of good singing will be sure to be at the Methodist Church on Monday night. The charge for admission is only one shilling and includes refreshments, so there is no need to urge our readers to be present, as they are sure of getting their moneys worth and helping the church funds at the same time. An interesting advertisement dealing with free insurance polices, from the firm of Messrs Thos. Westwood & Co., will appear in next issue.