Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1899.

Manawatu Herald, 10 June 1899, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1899.

Mr John Stevens, M.H.R., arrived by the coach at mid-day, and will address his constituents at the hall tonight. Mr Jenks has made a start at paint* ing the Courthouse. Mr H. Sanson has got the sanddrift at the school successfully laid. The man in the street states that two more of our business men are contemplating erecting a flaxmill between them. We understand that the Rev. Robert Young, who but lately was appointed Vicar of Carterton, will presently resign that appointment to accept one offerred him in Auckland. In the Palmerston papers the D.O. Assignee gives notice that Frederick Robert Young, of Foxton, Commission Agent, has been adjudged a bankrupt. The man Hector Urquhart arrested by constable Forster was found guilty of the theft of a coat, and the Wellington S.M. fined him £3 with an alternative of 14 days imprisonment. The fine to be paid within 48 hours.

We draw attention to the uuique advertisement under the heading of the Foxton Borough Council appearing in to-day's issue. The Review of Reviews to hand for May has five portraits of the chief Plenipotentiaries now at the Peace Conference at the Hague. The Review has also an appreciative character sketch of Kipling. Mr Edmund Osborne, now that he has secured the leasehold of his premises, the Centre of Commerce, is building a large workroom and a fitting room at the back of his shop in connection with it. The present workroom will be thrown into the present shop, thus materially increasing it in size. Mr T. Easton is carrying out the work. Upwards of 10,000 Russians have emigrated to Eastern Siberia during the past month, and the movement is growing. We learn from the official statistics that out of the 5093 marriages celebrated in the colony during 1898, 1325 were performed by Presbyterian, 1127 by Wesleyan Methodist, 1 rgo by Anglican, and 528 by Roman clergymen. There were 866 marriages performed by Registrars. At Wellington on Tuesday Captain Wills, of the Wakatu, was fined £10 and costs for leaving a seaman ashore, | who was ill, without complying with the provisions of the Act for 1890. While making a vehement speech in the House of Commons condemning the proposal to grant £30,000 as the basis of the annuity to Lord Kitchener, Dr Wallace, M.P. for Edinburgh East, was seized with a fit of apoplexy. The stricken gentleman was taken to the Westminster Hospital, where he died shortly afterwards. At Feilding the applications of Alex. Dalziel and T. Shute for new licenses at Taihape, were refused, the chairman of the Committee deciding that they had no power to grant them. The Mayor and Town* Clerk apparently have been thinking — that the ratepayers have had,enough of figures and so have lopped the usual advertisement as to the income and expenditure- of the Borough to the attenuated form it appeared in our last issue. The action has been taken, of course, to save the ratepayers needless expense, but it is possible that the noncompliance with the law may prove to be otherwise when rates are attempted to be recovered. According to the N.Z. Times the Postal Officials have taken umbrage at a little joke of Mr Pirani's at his Wellington meeting, when he said, after making a rather severe charge of espionage " Every letter I post is ex* amined to see where it goes to." Every letter must needs undergo such scrutiny or one's letters would be travelling in extraordinary directions. Mr Fred Pirani does joke sometimes but they are Hot always understood or appreciated. .Lecturing on Monday night at Canterbury Cellege, Professor Bickerton said that immense care was exercised in the distillation of spirits. There was a good deal of talk about the amonnt of adulteration that was carried on, but from long experience as an analyst he could say that few adulterated spirits were sold. Alcohol containing a large proportion of fusel oil sometimes found its way into the market, but this was distilled in a crude way, and probably from illicit stills. It was the quantity of fusel oil and such by-products which often caused people who took a little alcohel to lose their heads so quickly. The audience was, however, somewhat reassured to learn that properly distilled alcohol, well preserved, ultimately resolves itself into- the essential elements of fruit, and the essence of Jargonelle pears was cited as an instance of this. Mark Twain writing on Diplomatic style advocates American Statesmen dispensing with the " swallow-tail " and having a uniform. He says : It is not consonant with the dignity of the United States of America that her representative should appear upon occasions of State in a dress which makes him glaringly conspicuous ; and this is what his present undertakerontfit does when it appears with its dismal smudge, in the midst of the butterfly splendours of a Continental court. It is a most trying position for a shy man, a modest man, a man accustomed to being like other people. He is the most striking figure present ; there is no hiding from the multitudinous eyes. It would be funny, if it I were not such a cruel spectacle, to see the hunted creature in his solemn sables scuffling around in that sea of vivid colour, like a mislaid Presbyterian in perdition. Mrs Carroll who was attacked by her husband at Cambridge a short time ago has died, and the Coroner's jury has brought in a verdict of manslaughter against Carroll. The Department of Agriculture is advised that the market in London this season has been very good for apples. From us 6d to 14s had been about the price ruling for best fruit when the mail left. Anticipating the arrival of the Papanui shipment, Mr H. C. Cameron said he did not think there would be any difficulty in netting i£d per lb for the apples, should they be landed in good condition. The apples, it may be remembered, averaged aproximately 10s per case. The latest advices from Noumea, capital of the French colony of New Caledonia, show that the newspapers there are advocating the annexation of the New Hebrides group by France. The verdict of the Court of Enquiry appointment to investigate the charges made by General Miles relative to the meat furnished as rations to the soldiers in Cuba and Porto Rico has been submitted. The report blames General Miles and everybody else somewhat, but finds that the mere report will be sufficient punishment, and that it will be wise that no other be inflicted upon the offenders. The refrigerated beef is vindicated, but it is declared that the canned roast beef used -was unfit for issue as rations. General Eagan is blamed for having purchased 7,000,0001 bof stuff without ascertaining whether or not it was good.

" Who's your patient this morning, doctor ?" " Old Mrs Brown." " What is the matter with her?" "Nothing. But she bought a family guide to medicine yesterday, and now she thinks she has everything in the book !" The question of disarmament has now been practically abandoned by the Peace Conference. There is consequently more hope that the conference will result in the nations coming to some practical conclusion. Mr Robert Morley will open next week a dining room in the town. Mr Morley's abilities as a chef are wellknown and the venture should prove a success. Heredity. — The Visitor: Do you think your baby is going to resemble his father ?— The Mother : I shouldn't be surprised. He keeps me up late every night. According to computations the black race embraces about one-tenth of the living members of the human species, or 150,000,000 individuals. Advices received from Pretoria, the capital of the Transvaal Republic, state that three steamers specially designed for carrying live stock from Australia to South Africa are being built in England. I Her Majesty the Queen has despatched a cordial ,and sympathetic telegram to M. Loubet, the President \ of the French Republic, on the occa ? sion of the recent riots on the Auteuil racecourse, and with reterence to the insults offerod the President on that occasion. It is customary to repeatedly coat the wooden churhes in Norway with tar to keep out the cold of the Arctic winters. Some of the churches thus protected have existed for 7 centuries. The new museum building at South Kensington, ttTe foundation-stone of which was laid by the Queen on May 17, is to be called the "Victoria and Albert Museum." The price of peril. — Clerk (to applicant at the ' Leviathan Assurance Company): You wish to be assured against accidents,' sir? May I ask your profession? — Applicant* I'm a football referee.— C. (politely) : first door on the right for the Death Department. Messrs Thos. Westwood & Co. have sold their flaxmill to Mr George Coley. The news that Tom Mann will shortly leave the Labour movement in order to become a publican has come like a thunder-clap to his friends and supporters everywhere says a Home paper. He will open as proprietor of the Enterprise public-house in Long Acre on May 1 (otherwise kndwn as "Labour Day"), and will celebrate the occasion by a sort of house warming in honour of the new departure. By a singular coincidence, the Enterprise is one of Mann and Crossman's houses. Interviewed as to his intentions, Mann states that he means to stick closely to his new work, • and put his back into the job of serving her Majesty's lieges with good " stun 0 ." Mann is not the only Labour leader who has abandoned politics to 1 become a publican. Fred Hammill, • who defeated Mr John Morley at New : castle, dfd the- same, and is now the proprietor of the Anglers' Arms at I Topcliffe, Thirsk, Yorkshire, George ' Shipton, late secretary of the L.T.C., runs a public-house in North London ; I While Arthur Humphreys, once connected with the Navvies' Union has left 1 politics for the calm serenity of a way« j side " house " in Cambridgeshire.