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Manawatu Herald, 18 May 1899, Page 2

On Tuesday evening the burgess roll was confirmed at a special meeting of the Council. Notice is given the Wirokino Ferry will be closed for horses and vehicles from 6 a.m. on Saturday next to 6 a.m. on Tuesday. Messrs Thos. Westwood & Co., agents for the N.Z. Insurance Company, invite tenders for the re-instate-ment of buildings lately destroyed by fire in Union-street. Tenders close on the 25th inst. The Mayor convenes a meeting to discuss proposals to raise a loan to metal the Borough roads, for Friday, 26th May. Tenders will he received by the Borough Council for carting 600 tons of metal from the railway station, and 100 yards from Nye's pit. As a rule the news -about N.Z. Hemp has been omitted from the Commercial cablegrams, but at last we hear, because it is so, that hemp is quiet. New Zealand on the spot is quoted at £24. per ton. ! The woman, MrsYoungman,\vho attempted to suffocate herself and her two children (one, a boy of ten, dying) by charcoal fumes, at Melbourne, told the doctor who examined that she feared her children would, grow up weak and unhealthy like herself and that she could not bear to think of them living, and suffering. This, however, was a delusion, as the children were healthy and strong. Mr W. T. Stead, of the " Review of Reviews," had a long interview with the Czar of Russia, and received His Majesty's thanks for his support of the Peace Conference. Luscious strawberries are reported to be growing at the present time at Taupo. The fruit has been in season there since November, 1898 a period of six months. At the Feilding Court last "week, a dentist was sued for £25 damages for extracting a sound tooth in place of a decayed ona. The error was made by the dentist's assistant. Judgment was eventually given for £3 and costs 6s, and solicitor's fee (265). Some one has been making money lately. The death of Mr Roswell Flowers, a leading financier in Wall street, New York, caused a panic in the stocks of various companies in which Mr Flowers was interested. The stocks of these companies shrank one hundred million dollars within two ' hours, but subsequently recovered eighty million dollars of the drop. A group of millionaires offered the Flowers' companies unlimited support, but the offer was declined. .. Again, and again. Since February last 400 cattle in Hawke's Bay, suspected of being diseased, have been destroyed by order of the Stock Inspector or his representative. Of these (remarks the " Standard ") nearly the whole were found to be suffering from tuberculosis or other forms of disease. Poor old New Zealand. The Premier speaking at Dannevirke on Monday said that many aliens were deserving settlers and some had been in the colony for 40 years, but were debarred from the pension. He thought that pensions should be given them.

The Boston Elevated Railroad Company has ordered English rails, which are to cost one-third less than the American ones. Anstralian woods" are largely superseding Swedish in the paving of the streets of London, being found to last longer than the Scandinavian timbers. At the last meeting of the Horowhenua County Council the following resolution was agreed to : — That this Council having noticed in the papers that the Foxton Borough Council hav£ appointed, in addition to Mr Fulton, one engineer at £75, and an assistant at £100, desire if the above is correct to protest strongly against such appointments ; one resident inspector under Mr Fulton being in its- opinion amply sufficient ; and that a copy of this resolution be sent to the Mayor of Foxton. Yesterday as Mr James Harding was digging on Mr Tennant's property near the Oroua Bridge he unearthed a skeleton, which is supposed to be that of a Maori. Constable Forster has been advised of the fact. For Bronchial Cou 5 1i3 take Woods' Great Pepperimeoji Cure, 1/6 2/G.

At the Court this morning an aged Maori was making an application for a pension, and as required by the Act was asked by the Magistrate if he had ever been in gaol. " Yes, once a long time ago," he said. " What was that for ?" and the indifferent answer that was given, convulsed the court, being "It was only for robbing the mail." The offence having occurred over twenty-five years ago, and the applicant being already possessed of property the S.M. allowed a pension of £8.

Walter Besant writes as follows in the Queen regarding Kipling's new poem, ' The White Man's Burden ' : 'The lines will awaken that great people to undertake the task for which they have been prepared by one hundred years of seclusion and uninterrupted prosperity. They will inspire new thoughts and new aims. We need all to be reminded from time to time that there is something better than material wealth for a nation. The war has reminded the Americans of this better thing a war undertaken in the name of liberty and justice. I believe that these lines will be received in the spirit in which they are written, and that this thrice happy writer will be found to have effected by this one single short poem such a change in the mind of a whole people as it would have taken perhaps a century of the slower teaching by Pulpit and by Press. This it is which makes the poet the only king of men. 1