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Manawatu Herald, 15 April 1899, Page 2

The Henry Dramatic Company had the record attendance at the Princess Theatre, Dunedin, when the house contained 1850 persons. This is the third year of the Company's organisation. The examination of the Foxton school will be held in a fortnight's time, the exact dates being Thursday and Friday 27 and 28th April. At Mr Taylor's meeting at New Plymouth on" Monday night one of the speakers strongly impressed on those present that he had never told a lie, and then paused before taking up the thread of his remarks. During the pause the übiquitous small boy at the back of the hall cleft the somewhat turgid atmosphere with the advice, " Go on, George Washington," which fairly •• broke up " the audience. Peace ratifications between America and Spain have been exchanged at Washington. America paid to Spain twenty million dollars indemnity for the Philippines. At the Christchurch Police Court Charles Henry Carter was charge with manslaughter in connection with the Rakaia railway disaster. After witnesses were examined, accused reserved his defence and was committed for trial, his bail being renewed. Three informations have been laid in Wellington against Acting- Detective Broberg and probationary Constables Kidd and McCarthy, charging them with (1) procuring the commission of a crime, (2) assisting, in the commission of a crime, (3) betting tote odds. The charges, which are the outcome of the recent prosecution against alleged " tote " bettors, will be investigated on May Ist. A company is being formed in New Plymouth for the purpose of manufacturing condensed milk under a paent by which skim milk is utilised. After which cream for butter making has been separated a " composition " is added to the bi-product, and apparently it is in connection with this composition that the patent rights relied upon have been granted. Rain has fallen all over Canterbury during the past few days. Owing to the excessive moisture (says the Lyttelton Times), potatoes are beginning to rot, and it is feared that the crop as a whole will suffer damage unless a spell of fine weather is experienced. In the Ellesmere district the rain found its way into badly-built stacks. In the Ashburton district all out-door work was stopped, and the threshing and 1 carting of grain temporarily ceased. The N.Z. Times says we regret that Mr John Duthie's condition is such as will make it necessary for him to have complete rest in a recumbent position for three or four weeks. Mr Duthie is suffering from a heart affection but his medical advisers are hopeful that his complete recovery to his old robust health will only be a nutter, of time,

We (the Advocate) regret to learn that Colonel Gorton has had a return of the illness from which he suffered about two years since, and although no dangerous symptoms have developed still to a man of his active habits the necessity of confinement to his house must be particularly irksome. We trust to soon hear of his entire convalescence. The next sitting of the S.M. Court is fixed for 20th April. The Rangitikei County Council is using burnt clay on soneofits roads in place of metal where the latter is difficult to procure. The Pope (writes a London correspondent under date 24th February) is preparing for the celebration of his 89th birthday, so he beats the Queen hollow on that point. The Pontiff is about to enter upoti his 90th year, a very rare, if not unprecedented, experience among the successors of St. Peter in the Papal chair.