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Manawatu Herald, 29 April 1899, Page 2

Charles Jenkins, the well known jockey, was married at Bulls on Friday to Mias Signal. Three hundred and eighteen sailing vessels and one hundred.and eighty eight steam ships are registered as belonging to the Colony, the net tonnage being 86,549. Auckland has 246 vessels registered as against the rest of the colony. The majority of the maize crops in the Opotiki (Bay of Plenty) district this year are stated to run to fr.otn (io to 80 bushels to the acre, and some to nearly 100. . Turkey gobblers, on Saturday, were iup to the price of store lambs— Bs 6d each in Christchurch. I The Siamese believe that it requires seven days for the'hura^fc soul to journey between earth arid heaven, and therefore pray unceasingly for seven days after the death of a friend or relative. We do a very good business with Bengal, having in the last year that Statistics are to hand, imported 394,---213 dozen of bags and sacks. Experiments have been made in Australia with an explosive produced from liquid air, which, it is claimed, is tenfold more powerful than dynamite. It is believed that the invention will be applicable to firearms. The ingenuous native member speaks : " I shall always stick to the Liberal Party, or the Party that' is in power."— T. Parata, M.H.R., at the M'Kenzie social at Palmerston. In 1897 there were 11,484 bicycles imported into the colony. The Nonconformists of Great Britain are widely celebrating the tercentenary of the birth of Oliver Cromwell. A statue has been erected at Huntingdon, his birth-place. It is stated that during the present season 240,000 sheep have been driven from Hawkesßayto Wairarapa and the West Coast. During 1897 there were 821 horses imported from New South Wales. A negro has been burnt at a town in Georgia for outraging a woman. The wood was piled around his body and soaked with kerosene before being set fire to. Two thousand witnessed the burning, and the crowd afterwards lynched a coloured preacher and another negro. Sergeant Wright, accompanied by Joseph Myera, who was arrested at Monte Video, is on board the s.s. Wakanui which is expected at Wellington on Sunday night. Mr J. Austin Chamberlain, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, informed the House of Commons that Great Britain was subsiding the Auckland^ Harbour Board to the extent of £2950 per annum for thirty years. The Board will construct the buildings for the graving dock machinery, cteep-water jetty and sheer legs. The'Admirahy is to have priority of use of the Calliope Dock and machinery for the repair of war»hips.

A rumour was current in Fdxton ic.teiy that Messrs Oamnun & Co. had chartei ; ed their schdoner " Whangaroa " to bring over the iron bark timber for the Wirokirio Bridge* but on interviewing dne of the nrm We Ate informed that they have decline. l :lii.3 business. THeir reason fdr so d ' „

; ,:.;g thai !: they h.-J .-cv^Ji offer of hardwood freight it would have rrieant disappointment to their Iddal ddal bdydrs. The " Whangaroa fi will therefore continue in her usual trade, returning on her next round frrini Nevvdastle with ddai.

The members of the Taikorea School Contmittee are Messrs Doswell (chairman), Ewaft, R"dss, Pildhef, Grim waldi W. H. Mathers and Tompkinst

the prospedhte of the Glen-Oroua Dairy Factory has been advertised, and Messrs F. G. G. Couper (chairman), R. H. Macmillan ( I; M. Gfeena\Vay, Ralph Boswell, James Little, T. Clark and B. Gray are announced as directors.

jg|Moi?e forcible than polite. The Rev. Jpr Joseph Parker, the leading Congregational divine, who is minister of the City Temple, Holburn Viaduct, made an address in connection with the Cromwell Tercentenary th» occasion of an onslaught upon the tyran nies of the Sultan of Turkey. Dr Parker criticised the friendship which the German Emperor had shown to the Sultan, and created a sensation by declaring that for his own part his earnest prayer might be summarised in the words, "God damn the Sultan."

Admiral Count Canevaro, Minister for Foreign Affairs in Italian Ministry, has informed the Senate that France and Great Britain have assured the Italian Government that they will not at present, nor in future, nterfere with affairs in Tripoli.

Mr Hammond, of Waitohi, it is stated, intends to cut up his estate into suitable dairy farms, and a3 this is situated a mile and a half from Rongotea the milk will probably be taken to the local factory. It is also rumoured that J. G. Wilson, Esq., contemplates cutting up his propert)\

At the annual meeting of the Manawatu A. and P. Association the election of officers resulted as follows : — President, Mr McHardy (re-elected) ; MrJ. M. Johnston, Treasurer; Vicepresidents, Messrs W. T. Wood, L. A. Abraham, E._ Goodbehere and C. A. J. Levett. For the Committee the voting was as follows : — Messrs G. Wheeler 129, A. E. Russell 126, F. Y. Lethbridge 125, P. A. McHardy 121, R. Stevens 116, R. S. Abraham 116, M. Cohen 113, R. Aldworth 108, F. W. Sewell 99, J. Jarvis 77, and A. Conway 72, these gentlemen being declared elected.

The Star states that several Awahuri residents intend starting aflaxmill shortly on the bank of the Oroua river, near the township.

Messrs Bind an and Milne completed their examination of the foxton School yesterday, and the result" will be found in another column.

The Foxton Mutual Improvement and Debating Society open the season on Tuesday evening with a social. A good programme of vocal and instrumental music has been arranged, and there will also be a coffee supper.

With this issue Mr Joe Tos has an inset relating to his engagement of a reliable watchmaker.

The first .entries for Messrs 'Abraham and Williams' stock sale at Palmsrston on Thursday appear to-day.

Apparel made to the order of rasidents in the colony was imported to the value of £1899, ou t the government swooped down upon it with an • ! ad valorerm " duty of forty per cent, aid thus got £759 odd. They will not do it a^ain, though we may be sure the government would as often as they cjujd\

The Premier's attention, as well as that of the Salvation Army, should be called to the imporation of a Tasmania devil in 1898. Hs cannot bs up to very much as his value is computed at twenty shillings.

Germany is arranging to build the Tientsin- Shantung railway. The line is to be the property of the* Chinese Government, but China is to guarantee a loan to be raised in Germany for the construction of the line. Twq Chinese and three Europeans have been appointed directors of the Railway.

Decapitate a snail and put the body in a cool, moist place, and a new head grows.

Mrs Springs — " How careful your little boy is of his health. My boy is constantly running about in all sorts ot whether, without overcoat or shoes, no matter what I say. How do you manage?" Mrs Briggs — "When my boy catches cold, I give him cod liver oil. /

A cointry school mistress has introduced a new feature in her school. When one of the girls missed a word the boy who spells it gets permission to kiss her. As a result, the girls are becoming very poor spellers, while the boys are steadily improving.

Under the Shop Hours law a poor Italian who perambulated the streets of Auckland peddling coloured balloons was last week fined 5s and costs for not closing his shop on the statutory holiday. And he had no shop unless the street itself could be so described. For such a paltry case, too. the services of the Crown Prosecutor were retained, running up the unlucky foreigner's costs to 28s. So much indignation was aroused in Auckland in regard to the case that the amount of his fine and costs was collected within ten minutes in contributions of is a-piece. In Committee of supply in the House of Commons the Right Hon. J. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, defended tb.3 item for the erection of barracks at Capetown, saying that the work was necessary, as Great Britain had to be ready to meet all possible attacks. The Tranvaal Government had, Mr Chamberlain pointed out, enormously increased its forces, and therefore 'it was the more necessary that an increase should be made in the British garrison. This policy was identical, he added, with that pursued in regard to the Navy.

Messrs Rockel (chairman and trea- I surer), McMillan, Doughty, Wood, Penney, Taylor, and Rev. G. S. Harper have been elected as a school committee for Carnarvon.

THe following appeared in last week's Weekly Frtfsa J— " On Saturday afternoon a public trial took place of iiio rjpuldiu^ rloooiiis rotary Jiiw plough, at Lincoln College. The plough d3ed was a four-disc plough, drawn by four horses, and cutting 34in., averaging a depth of 6in. After having demonstrated its ability to do excellent work in rape land, a heavy grass paddock was selected, and the splendid wor"k dona was a revelation td all [Jresenti The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company, who are sole agents for New Zealand, have af ranged trials all over the farming districts. It is evident by the large attendance that the farmers appreciate their efforts to give them the opportunity of judging for themselves the merits of the implement.