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Manawatu Herald, 20 April 1899, Page 2

The hemp market in London,- continues strong, good New Zealand on spot being sold at £25. Mr J. H. Whitheford, of Auckland Vho is at present visiting Sydney, has received a communication from Admiral Pearson on the Australian station congratulating him upon the result of his labours in obtaining the equipment of the Calliope Dock at Auckland. The Right Hon. Mr Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, informed a deputation that it is intended to impose a prohition tariff upon liquor in the British territories in Africu. The " Post " says an earthquake was felt in the town at 10.14 o'clock on Sunday night. The seismometer at the Museum shows so slight a shock that the direction is not recorded but it was distinctly felt at Newtown, and appeared to have a southerly direction. The contract for the erection of the Wanganui Town Hall and Opera House was signed by Mr N. Meuli on Saturday last. Hams which are packed in pulverized charcoal will continue fresh for from five to ten years. The Duke of Devonshire, Lord President of the Council in the Salisbury Ministry, speaking at Presteign, a town in Radnorshire Wales, hinted that it was his intention at an early date to retire from politics. An acting model of the human heart, with the details has been made by a French physician. The blood can be seen coursing to and from it through artificial arteries. At Auckland three thousand cases of potatoes were shipped by the Elingamite for Sydney for consignment to Manila to the order of the United States Commissary General. The Dannevirke correspondent of the Herald reports that Mr O. Carlson has just returned from Sydney, and he bears out the statement of the Minister for Railways that there is a terrific glut in the Sydney, market in the timber trade. According to his account every yard in Sydney is full aud it seems that there is not much possibility of an extensive trade in timber from this locality being driven at present. It must be remembered, though, that at the interview with the Minister, Mr Luxford expressed himself sanguine that this season would see all the stocks at present held used up in the building trade. Electrical weaving machines are in use in Germany. Seamless stockings, with double heels, are rattled out of Each machine at the rate of eleven pairs an hour. There are many examples of wonderful bravery amongs the women of our land that are worthy of record, and particularly one that was almost momentary in its duration, yet none the less dramatic and magnificent. The scene, says the Quiver, was Bagilt railway station, near Flint. Mrs Margaret Irving stood on the platform just looking around, when she saw a cripple named Jones, who, it seems, is almost totally deaf, begin to cross the line. And with a fearful feeling in her heart, Mrs Irving saw the mail train come dashing along at a mile a minute as the cripple man got directly in its path. She was horror-stricken, and help appeared hopeless. But with magnificent judgment she decided in a flash, and, running along the platform right opposite to where the man Jones was she gave a terrific spring on him with such force as to thrqw- both himself and herself right across into the sixfoot way ! Here she gripped him just as the express came thundering past, and held him safe until the last carriage was gone. The officials same up, expecting to find both cut to pieces, but they found then unhurt, and it is safe to say that more heartfelt " bravos "of noble hearted railway men never applauded a finer piece of toiioi in the history of the Uae.

Yesterday afternoon at the residence of Mr M. Walker, the Rev. W. Woollass united in marriage Mr W. Owen to Miss C. Walker. Mr Alfred Morgan acted as best man. Mr F. E. Jenks will start directly at painting the Court House. A much needed improvement. The new flaxmill of Mr P. Hennessy is now almost completed, and work will commence at once. Mr George Coley, who, has leased Mr John Davies' 'property lying be tween the Avenue aud Moutoua road, is having the gorse in the hedges grubbed, also the growth about the paddock. i The last omnibus to leave Penzance for Madron, eight miles north east of Land's End on February n was struck by lightning. The vehicle was knocked over, and the shafts and lamps smashed, but the horses escaped injury. The driver and several of the passengers, however, sustained cuts and bruises. General Booth was fined in February last £7 for keeping carbide of calcium and petroleum at one of the Salvation Army's depots in Kentish-town, London, in a manner contrary to law. One pound of average butter gives a working force equal to that of five pounds of beef, nine pounds of potatoes, or 12 pounds of milk. Butter made from the milk of Jersey cows increases the working force by 17.V per cent. The Advocate says : — We are informed that the old flaxmills at Lake William, Heat on Park, which have been closed for the last nine or ten years, have been secured by Messrs Seifeft Bros., of Palmerston North, and will be in full operation in a short time. There is a splendid lot of flax on the estate and the revival of the industry will benefit Marton, Bulls, and Turakina district. Miss Emma Nevada, a well-known American operatic singer, was singing in a theatre in Madrid, when the audience insulted her by turning their backs upon the stage. The QueenRegent aiterwards presented Miss Nevada with a bracelet, after which she left Spain and fled to Paris. Evidence of the popularity of the Wanganui River as a tourist resort during the past season is given by an accommodation house-keeper at Pipiriki, who told a gentleman at present in Wellington that no less than 2400 persons put up at her house during the j season, including visitors who had arrived both from the North and the South. . Iv giving evidenced in a case in the New Plymouth Supreme Court, a constable stated that after cautioning an accused person he asked him a question bearing on the case. Mr Weston asked witness if he thought he was doing a right thing in asking the question, to which the constable answered that his procedure was according to the police regulations, j Mr Justice Conolly said he did not know anything of the regulations, which, however, were not binding on that Court. He had always held that the practice of asking questions of i accused persons whether they had been cautioned or not, was most objectionable, it not improper. It was not necessary to administer a caution at all. The Whangaroa is now off the bar and may be towed in by the Queen of the South.