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Manawatu Herald, 23 May 1899, Page 2

Yesterday, Mr Htwson, the porter at the station got his hand damaged whilst shunting and had to have it attended to by Dr Mearcs. We regret to record the almost sudden death of William King, son of Mr Abraham King, which occurred yesterday. The lad who was only 17 years of age had suffered from a bad cold and on Sunday was seized with fits. Dr Meares was in attendance, but nothing could be done. We express our sympathy with his parents and relations. The next English and European mail via San Francisco will close at the local office on Friday the 9th day of June at 3 p.m. Tenders close on Thursday for the erection of a cottage in Union street. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. Mr Langley has had printed in the jobbing department of the Herald office some very nice menu cards for his refreshment booth at the Otaki races. The London wool sales closed slightly in buyers' favour, but as the market is practically bare of supplies the outlook for next sales is hopeful. The Commissioner of Crown Lands gives notice of the disposal of various sections of Crown lands, some by public auction, some by application, aud others on lease by tender. Additions to Messrs Abraham and Williams Palmerston sale are advertised to-day. The Rev. Mr Dawson ex-president of the Primitive Methodist Conference lectures at the school-room to-night on " Little Abe, or a Comical Yorkshireman." No charge, only collection. Mr Dawson has been proved to be a capital lecturer, more particularly on Methodist topics. Mr Piggott has made the alterations to the Wirokino ferry, and had the ferry at work a day before the time fixed. M. De Giers, the Russian Minister at Pekin, has informed the Tsung-li-Yamen that the extension of concessions claimed in connection with the Manchuria-Pekin Railway is Russia's reply to the attitude of China over the recent Ninchwang Railway loan. Messrs G. Harper and T. W. Meade have been re-admitted as barristers and solicitors by the Court of Appeal. Last week Mr Fred Purneil was united in marriage to Miss Laura Hammond the sixth daughter of Mr H. Hammond of Waitohi. The seauel to the horsewhipping case at Palmerston is, we understand, that the woman assailant has had to apologise, pay £5 and provide a new hat to the young man attacked. The Agricultural Department has lately (says Winnower in the Hawera Star) been testing its graders. That is to say that graders have been required to made tests and award points independently of one another, and of course without knowledge of what one another did. And the result is said to satisfy the Department that work is very well done, and on the whole most consistently. Striking an average, the slightest of the variation is reported to have been very remarkable. The Otaki Mail say :-r-It is rumoured that a flaxmill will shortly be started in Levin. The mill at Kuku is now in full swing. An extraordinary statement has been made to th« Hastings police by j a girl named Joell. She states that j one afternoon during last week at two o'clock a young man, well dressed, called at the house, she being alone, and asked for food. He walked inside and then preceded to ransack the house for valuables, but the girl says she cleared each room before him ot watches, jewellery, etc. Tha robber, who was masked, found little of value, and before leaving threatened to shoot the girl if she made a fuss. The police ara making enquiries but there is a snspicion that the girls story is a fake. Mr Walter Richmond has disposed of his farm to his brother, Mr F. Richmond, at the price of £23 per acre, and has purchased 250 acres of Mr Couper's land at £14 per acre for dairying purposes. Speaking at a banquet at Wanganui last week a brief outline of the work that was to be done during the next two or three months, Mr Seddon said they would have to deal with the local government question, the accident and life insurance question, workmen's compensation, the extension of the cheap money scheme to municipalities to permit of money being advanced on urban and suburban lands, a law to prevent usury, and the vexed question of rating on unimproved values, while it was also intended to better the condition of those settlers who had been placed on sections of second-class land too small to enable them to make a living off them. Hts intentson was to have a short session, to clear the decks for action, and to get away to he election contest.

The International Conference convened at the instance of the Czar of Russia to consider his proposals for the lessening of the burdens of armament was opened on Friday at The Hague, the political capital of the Netherlands. All the Powers of any importance are represented, and by men of recognised standing in the diplomatic world. The proceedings so far have been merely ot a mere formal character, consisting of business out of the presentation of the credentials of the representatives. The " Argus " is highly eulogistic of the colony and its natural resources, but it considers that the policy of the present Government is not an adequate explanation of the prosperity of the colony. The truth is, the article proceeds, that the people of New Zealand have worked out their own salvation, and in a hundred shrewd ways have adapted industrial enterprise to profitable commercial opportunity. In this the " Argus" states, the people of New Zealand had been wonderfully helped by two things First, the people themselves comprised some of the best representatives of the finest colonising race in the world. The other is, that they have had as a foundation for the achievement of such success the possession of islands that are rarely rich in natural resorces.