Manawatu Herald TUESDAY. MARCH 28.1899.

Manawatu Herald, 28 March 1899, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY. MARCH 28. 1899.

Mr J. O'Brien, of the Railway Department, has been tranferred to Wellington. Messrs Garaman & Co. are cutting at their Tahoraite sawmill an average of 12,000 feet of timber per day. We hear that one of our enterprising business men contemplates erecting a flaxmill on the river bank, in Harbour-street. Some sports in Sandon are endeavouring to get up a sweepstake race meeting, to be held on the 24th May. They have met with every success so far, and it is more than probable a meeting will be held. A good stripper-keeper is wanted for a flaxmill. Ten shillings per diem is offered, and application should be made to the proprietor of Whyte's Hotel, Foxton. Bulls residents strongly complain of the delay of the Government in carrying out their promise to start the protective works at the Rangitikei Bridge. Some weeks have now elapsed, and nothing has yet been done. The total amount of assets and liabilities in the bankrupt estate of William James Pallant, bootmaker, of Palmerston North, are as follows : - Liabilities : Unsecured creditors, £1550 I 165; assets: £1760 os 7d; surplus of assets over liabilities ; £209 4s yd. During this month 22 head of diseased cattle have been destroyed at the Longburn Manure Works under the direction of Mr Hull, the stock inspector. 1 According to Mr Martin, counsel to the Municipal Association of New Zealand, lodgers are not entitled to vote under the new Municipal Franchise Act. People received into a fam Jy as lodgers in the usual way, and at an inclusive charge for board and residence, are not tenants or subtenants, c ther joint or several, or any building or part thereof within the meaning of sections 3 aud 6 of the Act.

In the Wellington Magistrate's Court a Chinaman who had adopted the name of George Howe, was sent to gaol for 12 months on a Charge of keeping a brothel. Three young girls were found on the premises, and sent to prison for three months. The Carterton Observer says : — Mr G. C. Tripe, who recently commenced the practice of his profession as dentist in Carterton, has transferred his business to Mr Sydney -Dransfield, and intends proceeding to England for twelve months. On his return he will take up his deceased brother's practice at Palmerston North. I am going to support the members of the Government to the end of my term, at the same time I intend, perhaps, to be a little more outspoken in my criticism than I have been in the past. 1 ha.ye come to the conclusion that the Ministry is very strong at the top but weak at the back, and the time has come for a reconstruction or they will come a big cropper. — The member for the Suburbs at Petone. The Gatton enquiry has closed. The police inspector said he had no more evidence to offer. Enquiries were still being made, but it was no use keeping the proceedings open. The Magistrate adversely commented upon the apathy of the blood relations of the victims and their non -assistance. He said McNeill, the brother-in-law, acted as if he wished the matter buried in oblivion. The total number of children attending school in the Wanganui Education District last year was, according to the weekly rolls, 41,818. The strict average attendance was— Males, 17,---556; females, 16,249. Total, 33,805. The working average was 34,284. At a crowded meeting of Stoney Creek settlers held on Friday night Mr Fred Pirani was presented with a cathedral clpck and gold albert in recognition of the many services he has rendered to the district, and his attitude in Parliament and on local bodies. The settlers also gave a social in his honor. At Invercargill, on 16th inst. J. Murphy won the Sheffield Handicap (valued £50), and a 75 yards sprint race. Protests were entered on the ground that he had not sent in correct performances, and the stakes were held over. This is presumably the same Murphy who ran at Makotuku and was disqualified. Mer Majesty when travelling by rail likes the journey to be made as quietly as possible. No whistles are sounded or steam blown off by other engines whilst the Royal train is in their vicinity, and all stations on the route - are cleared of unnecessary crowds. In Servia there still exists a wonderful old institution known as the Zadruga. It is the living together of a whole tribe, numbering sometimes as many as 100 persons, all under the absolute authority of one chief. He keeps all the money, and makes all purchases, and decides the minutest details of family life. At Norwich Assizes on the 36th January there was concluded the trial of an action in which Rev. Mr Woolsey, vicar of Brightwell, Suffold, claimed damages from a young lady named Hoare, 22 years of age, for libel contained in a letter to the Bishop of Norwich, in which she accused the plaintiff ot having seduced her. The defence was that the words were true in substance and fact. The jury found for the plaintiff, with £500 damages. In the prospectus of the New Zealand loan, issued in London, it was stated that £500,000 of the proceeds was to be applied to the construction of railways, roads and bridges, and additional rolling stock owing to the largely increasing traffic; while the other £500,000 was for advances to bona fide settlers on the security of landed property. A case is shortly to come before on a of the '■> criminal courts in America which will be of unusual interest. A woman is charged with the murder of an aged husband by feeding him with glass ground up in an ordinary coffee mill. The glass is thought to have been given in oatmeal porridge. This method of poisoning is supposed to have been a favourite one in the sixteenth century, and is said to be still practised amongst savage tribes who have access to the needful material. Medical literature, however, according to the Lancet, contains but few recorded cases. Glass, of course, is not a poison in the legal sense of the word. It is computed the death-rate of the world is 67, and the birth-rate 70 a minute, and this seeming light percentage of gain is sufficient to give a net increase in population each year of 1,200,000 souls. Captain Moffatt, of the steamer Maori, in which Joseph Myers escaped to Monte Video, was examined before the Official Assignee on Friday. The Captain said that four hours after leaving Wellington he found Myers on board. The latter offered an order on a firm in London for his passage money, which was declined, and Myers was put to work among the crew, being landed at Monte Video as a stowaway. All Myers had on board was a small parcel and an overcoat. Witness never knew Myers before he left Wellington. All through the voyage Myers called himself Marks. Witness was annoyed to think people thought he had connived at Myers' escape.- -Post. A peculiar experience be r ell two college boys named E. J. Parr and J. T. McWilliam, who, whilst training on Park Terrace, Christchurch, a few nightssince, shortly after eleven o'clock, were shot at by a man whom they noticed partly concealed in the shadow. They had just passed him when they heard a shot whistle behind them and lodge in the fence on their right. In a Police Court case at Auckland two men stated that, at the request of the police, they went to the house of a woman named Mary Dooley, with the object of getting her to sell them liquor, and so get a charge of sly grog selling against her. The Magistrate disregarded their evidence, and dismissed the information.

Post and Telegraph notices for the Easter holidays are given in another column. Tenders are invited for lighting the lamps of the Borough. A notice appears in another column of some interest to sportsmen tor the shootings season. The well-known lake (Kai Kokopu) otherwise known as Hunia's, is to be open to shootists on payment of a fee of £i is. The above '..ike has always been a great resort, the shooting being voty good. Any {>efsons found without a permit on the ake are to be prosecuted with the utmost rigour of the law. Mr John Adams, ot Marton, licensed interpreter, ; has been authorised by the owner to issue all permits. Mr Edmund Osborne, of the Centre of Commerce will have an interesting change in his advertisement in the next issue. The sports to be held next Monday at Victoria Park are now attracting some attention. The acceptances close to-morrow at 8.30. p<m., or on the ground with a late fee of fs extra. A special train will arrive from Palmerston North on the morning of the sports, and ia sure to bring a large number. The secretary and committee are working hard to make them a success, and their efforts to provide a good day's sport is deserving of every encouragement. From the large number of nominations which have been received, and the fair adjustments of the handicappers, capital acceptances should be the result. Tenders for the construction of the Wirokino Bridge close at noon on Thursday, April 6th, and should be addressed to the Mayor. Not very many attended the performance given at the hall last night, the wet weather no doubt preventing mar y from leaving their homes. The management, however, gave a very fair entertainment, some of the kinematographe views being particularly good and new, the musioal items from the phonograph being also distinct and pleasing. The marvellous Rontgen rays was also exhibited for the first time in Foxton . The Otaki Mail of to-day says that three prominent members of the Horowhenua Racing Club have been expunged from the list for refusing to pay their subscriptions. Many invitations have been issued by the Horowhenua Tennis Club to a dance at Levin on the 7th April, given in honour of the approaching marriage of a popular young lady in that district. A man named Thomas Rogers, 71 years of age, met his death at Christchurch on Sunday under peculiar circumstances. He was at dinner, the meal consisting of roast lamb and beans. The first mouthful of lamb Rodgers took choked him. A doctor was at once summoned, but Rodgers was almost dead when he arrived. The doctor found a large piece of meat in the man's throat. A London correspondent writes: — Two Napier ladies, the Misses Hitchings, who have adopted the theatrical profession, are now touring in the provinces with Ben Greets company. They are acting under the names of "Bella Napier" and "Hilda Hinemoa." The elder has been very successful as Mercia in " The Sign of the Cross," and it is thought that she will ultimately take a good place in the profession. Her memory is said to be phenomenal, and in every part she has taken she is reported to have been letter-perfect. The Mayor of a North of England town recently gave a fancy dress ball, at which all the elite of the town were present. One worthy alderman, who was rather stout, wore a pair of tight breeches, and, in the course of one of the dances, he felt the seams of his pants giving way. Hastily seeking out his wife, he told her of his dilemma, and she, procuring a needle and thread, sought out an ante-room where she thought she would be free from intrusion while the breach was- repaired. The worthy alderman had no sooner pulled off his breeches than two ladies came along the corridor with the intention, as she supposed, oi visiting the same room. Mrs Alderman looked round for some place in which to hide her breechless spouse, and opening the first door she came to, she said, " Quick, John, go in here ; there's two ladies coming." She closed and bolted the door, andturned to meet the intruders with a smiling face, when a loud knocking occurred on the other side of the door, and her husband frantically yelled: "Open the door ! Open it quick ! I'm in the ballroom !"