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Manawatu Herald, 11 April 1899, Page 2

Mr McMinn now edits the Wairarapa Observer. As a journalist Mr McMinn is well and favourably known on this coast.

The Rangitikei Advocate is now the propsrty of Mr W. H. Smith, and is conducted by him. There is a great improvement in the paper since the ownership has been changed.

The Manawatu Times objects to having its news unacknowledged, but we notice in its Thursday's issue oar report of the Polo team and route it will follow in Australia has been appropriated without acknowledgement, and which we obtained direct from the captain of the team.

On the Queen's Birthday our Sandon friends will hold a sweepstake race meeting. They have a nice course and a pleasant day's outing can be looked forward to. Somehow this year they lost their totalisator permit.

When there are some funds to spare a very good addition to Victoria Park could be made by sinking a well over which a neat little shed could be erected. A free drink is often needed during the days sports are held.

Saturday was unfortunately too wet to hold the Lawn Tennis match as proposed. Many visitors, made of different material to sugar and salt, braved the elements and were met by representatives ofthe local club, who entertained them at a dinner at Stansell's Hotel. The meal was supplied in first-class style, and was much enjoyed.

With a view to affording artists an opportunity of introducing their work to the notice of the Mother Country, the editor of " The Studio," the wellknown Magazine of Fine and Applied Art (5 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London), is offering prizes for a competition open exclusively to artists and art students residing in the British Colonies and dependencies. Particulars of the conditions of the competition will be found in the December number of the Magazine.

The Premier told a deputation the other day that the methods adopted by the Salvation Army in dealing with the criminal classes must be regarded as superior to any other body.

From London the death is announced of Mr James Wylie.^ draughts champion.

The Government ofthe Dominion of Canada, with a view to assisting the Imperial Navy, proposes to train and maintain one thousand fishermen ashore and afloat. The Dominion Government will pay the men and provide their instructors if the Motherland will supply the armaments.

The Chronicle states that a black man, who gave his name as Bennett, Parera, who has been practising as a " quack " medico at Pipiriki, has been sentenced to a month's hard labour in the Wanganui Gaol, on a charge arising out of the death of an infant at that place.

Dr. R. Garnett, C.8., Keeper ofthe Printed Books, British Museum, says there are abont 2,000,000 books in the Museum, and iheir length is 35 nilest

This morning a prohibition order was i.sued against John Harris, by Messrs Fraser and Thynne J's P, and a man was convicted and discharged for u;ing obscene language in a billiard room on Saturday night.

Among other uses to which New Zealand dressed fibre has been put, Mr Charles Richard Dodge, in report ing, on the 9th February, 1893, to the United States Department of Agriculture states, " The New Zealand flax fibre has been used in the construction cf the 'staff' or outer covering of the principal World's Fair Buildings at Chicago. It is used to toughen and hold together the plaster and other materials which, when combined, form this building material."

The income that some women who are renowned for their beauty derive from the sale of their photographs is amazing. For nearly fifteen years Mrs Langtry derived an average income of £800 per annum from photographic royalties, and Mrs Cornwallis West ran her very close. Then the chaste, classic features of Miss Mary Anderson became the rage and one firm alone sold 800,000 cabinet portraits of that charming lady in less than two years. During that period Miss Anderson received £3300 from her photographers in the shape of royalties.

The following school story is told in " Vanity Fair " : Diocesan Inspector: Now, can any of you boys tell me how lying is denounced in the Scripture ? Intelligent pupil : Please, sir, yes, sir: I know. " A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, but a very present help in time of trouble."

Included in the list of tenders accepted by the Railway Department for the lease of refreshment-rooms on railway stations for three years from the ist instance are the following : — Woodville, T. Fairhurst, £507 annual rental ; Hawera, W. Evans, £g ; Patea, George Allan, £54 ; Aramoho, Mrs B. Fleming, £273 ; Halcombe, J. A. Dotchin, £26 ; Palmerston North, W. Freeman, £400 : Kaitoke, Mrs E. Broadbent, £150.

New forts are to be built along the Bristol Channel for the protection of source of England's coal supply.

The Wairarapa Observer tells the following sad story of bliss deferred :

A minister, not a hundred miles from Carterton, was to have become a benedict yesterday, and all preparations were, apparently, in order, and the nuptial knot was to be tied, when the member of the cloth discovered that he had reckoned without his host, for he had leit a most important legal function till the eleventh hour, and when he called at the Post Oflice to get his license, he found the Oflice closed for the holiday, and the ceremony had to be adjourned to another day.

The King of Annam had an original idea in the way of a strong box. He has the trunks of trees hollowed out, filled with gold and silver, and flung into his private lake, where a large staff of crocodiles ward off intruders.

Mr W. W. McArdle announces himself as a- candidate tor the Pahiatua seat, on the Independent ticket. He opposes the land policy of the Government.

A shark, some 12ft long, and of a species said to be unknown in these waters, was captured at Nelson a few days ago. The tail, which is flat, is a very large one, and the fins are also unusually large. The creature had attacked a fishing boat.