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Manawatu Herald, 16 May 1899, Page 2

The Advocate says the Silverhope estate, consisting of about 7000 acres near Hunterville, is to be subdivided for sale.

The Hawke's Bay Herald says it is understood that District Judge Kettle, brother of Mr Nat. Kettle, of Hawke's Bay, will be appointed to the Supreme Court Bench to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Sir James Prendergast. f A diversion of meaning. — Smart Housemaid : So you are new gardener, are you ? Well, you look pretty dirty, I must say. — Gardener: Ah, but Oi ' ooks a lot prettier clane ! The Southland petition to Mr Seddon in favour of legislation to prevent young children trom being in the streets and public places after certain hours at night is ten yards long, and contains 14,000 signatures. The petition will be forwarded to Wellington in a few days. The Bush Advocate says : — Letters have been received from the Misses Flo and Hetty Tansley, who are now touring South Africa with the Payne Family. At Durban they met Mr Weight, a son of Mr E. Weight, of Dannevirke. The young ladies have been travelling the country in rikshaws, which are shown in a photo we have seen, to be light ' vehicles drawn by stalwart Kaffirs. The Payne Family have had good houses throughout their tour. Baume, the man killed in diving lately, told an amusing slory concerning one of his private engagements. He was to give a swimming exhibition in the suburbs, and the manager of the bath, anxious to make the proceedings pass off successfully, had obtained a band to play while he was in the water. When asked if he had preference for any particular music, Baume said he was fond of the overtures to ' Tancredi ' and ' The Bohemian Girl.' ' Ah,' said the manager, • the former is the more appropriate. Indeed, it's the very thing.' Baume was astonished to find on the programme an announcement that the entertainment would be opened by the orchestra with the overture to Tank Ready !" Mr H. Eyre Kenny, S.M., gave judgment on Friday in the case of Alfred Crossey on the charge that the bankrupt, within three years before the commencement of his bankruptcy, failed to keep such books of accounts as are usual and proper in the business carried on by him, and as would sufficiently set forth his business transactions and disclose his financial position. The bankrupt was admitted to probation for six months, and ordered to pay costs, £3 13s, on or before the 12th June.

The Premier states that he gave up his position as salaried adviser to the Anglo-Colonial Mining Company some months ago, when it ceased to acquire options in this colony.

Now, in my g6th year, said Mr Sidney Cooper to a " Windsor Magazine " writer, I can paint 4 or 5 hours a day, and walk slowly a mile, daily, in fine weather, or take a carriage drive if not fine. I rise at 7 o'clock, go into my study, set my palette, take ray breakfast at 8 o'clock, then my Bible, and paint till 3 o'clock. Mr Stuckey has been appointed President of the Seddon Political League at Levin. Mr Stuckey has jnst sold two half-acres of land in a very unsuitable site to the Government for a post office at Levin. It is a curious fact that there are topers innumerable in the animal kingdom. Bipeds and quadrupeds alike are fond of alcoholic drinks, and although some display aversion when first tasting liquor, they soon acquire a craving for it. " Brown bread and apples are worth their weight in gold," siys George Newnes in his Tit-Bits Monster Health Book, which has just been issued at the marvellously low price of one penny. Hair is now being "cut" by electricity in Paris. A wire stretched across a comb becomes red hot when the electric current is turned on. This burns the hair off to any required length. In the Hatuma estate compensation | case, the Court has decided that while \ the claimant was not entitled absolutely to the capitalised value of the profits he may be making, such profits are a matter to be taken into consideration in determining the value of the land taken, and the Compensation Court is not confined to the evidence of witnesses as to the value of the laud in the market.

Mr Silk is now in town and busy tuning pianos. Those requiring his services can leave word at Mr Alf. Frasers' shop. Mr Slipper, the releaving teached of the Board is now in charge of the Foxton school. In order to avoid complications of an aggravating nature in the future, the terms of the agreement which has been arrived at between Great Britain and Russia arc to be notified to the Chinese Government. It is said Arabs first made butter. They were carrying milk in skins oil the backs of camels, and the steady jogging turned the fluid into butter. The racecourse at Johannesburg for many years was never thought to have any mining value (says a writer in the Bulletin), but the " deep levels " have extended rights out there, and now original members' rights are worth about £5000 a-piece. ■ Was ever so much money made on the turf as under it in this instance ? Many Yanks and a few Australians are in the thick of the Rand stock boom, which is greater than the two or three others preceding it. At Molong (N.S.W.) a very complete skeleton, supposed to be that of a man dead many years, has been discovered. The place had an unenviable reputation, and at least one murder is reputed to have been perpetrated there, the details of which were never brought to light. Some farmers out shooting found a tree, on one side of which were some rough carvings. They scraped, away gravel and earth at the foot of the tree, and found a human skeleton, the skull of which bore signs of having been battered in. No clue as to identification was found.