Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY. JUNE 18, 1899.

Manawatu Herald, 13 June 1899, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY. JUNE 18, 1899.

The Oamaru Mail states that at the Old Age Pensions Court on Tuesday an old couple made the discovery for the first time although they had been forty-five years married, that their birthdays fell upon the same date. The licensed victuallers of Canterbury are moving energetically for the protection of their interests. At a meeting at Christchurch the other day arrangements were made in connecnection with the local option poll, subcommittees, etc., being appointed, j Over £200 was subscribed in the room towards the fund of the association. I In the House of Common, in committee on the London Council Bill, the Right Hon. L. H. Courtney's amendment providing for the admission of women as alderman and councillors was agreed to by a majority of 35 votes. Field rats are referred to as sparrow exterminators by the " Warranambool Standard," which reports the rats are becoming very numerous in the district, their principal abode being boxthorn hedges. A short time ago boxthorn hedges were regarded as a great harbour for sparrows, but now a nest is not to be found in any of the hedges in the district. The rat is stated to have done more in keeping down the sparrow pest than all other means put together. The Press says Mr F. Waymouth has received from Cheviot a collection of prize mangels, carrots and onions, and they are now on view at the office of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company. They will show what the district is capable of producing. A leading medical man in Sydney the other day described tuberculosis as likely to be " the curse of Australia," if allowed to progress unchecked. His opinion was that the most effective and the most humane method of dealing with the growing evil was to rear and feed children properly during the first year or two of their lives. In this way the children were prevented from becoming a drag upon the general hospitals during their adult existence. In England neglected children he explained, contract rickets. Here they contract tubercle. The Japanese loan was a failure. The public subscribed only one million. The scrip is now quoted at one and a half per cent, discount. Nothing like trying. An instantaneous cure for toothache is said to be a small piece of camphor placed inside the ear upon the side affected. The Inspector of Abattoirs at Wanganui condemned eight of the animals slaughtered there last month. Three were tuberculous, one a cow in apparently good condition, and two pigs, one of which presented a particularly bad case of generalised tuberculQ&i.,

_________i________M________________MßaaMa_Mi Advices received by the San Francisco mail informs Messrs Levin and Co. of the movement of their new steamer Himitangi, which left the Clyde for Wellington on April ist. She was reported to have sailed from Gibraltar on April Bth, Malta on the 14th, passed Port Said on the 22nd and left Aden on May 2nd. Colombo was to be the next port of call. The Himitangi was to have come out via the Torres Strait, but owing to the lateness of the season it has now been left to the discretion of Captain Fraser and his officers, so that the steamer will probably call at either Fremantle or Albany for coal, and will then come on direct to Wellington. She is expected to arrive here about the end of the month. The Himatangi has called at Albany by latest advices. A London correspondent writes Mrs Ballance and her adopted daughter, Kathleen, are still staying at Vincent-square, Westminster. The lattter I regret to learn from Mrs Ballance, has lately been in the hands of an oculist and has been obliged to submit to some painful treatment. At the New Plymouth Police Court last week a man was fined £10 on each of two charges of obtaining 1 liquor for prohibited persons, and a woman was fined £z for a similar offence. It is stated that the Oroua Bridge School Committee have elected Mr H. Lyall as headmaster. Writing on Ratepayers' Association the Post says : — Irrespective of old Party cries— Liberal or Conservative, Socialistic or Individualistic — the great body of people in the best cities of the Anglo-Saxon world has begun to realise municipal self-consciousness to understand that a city is something more than an aggregate of beings, that it has an existence of its own, rights, possession, and duties of its own, as a corporate unity. Hence the strides being made everywhere in improving sanitary conditions, in beautifying streets and buildings, in increasing public conveniences, and, above all, in making municipal authorities accept the truth that concessions, or ''franchises," as the Americans call them, are the property of the citizens, to be worked for their benefit, and to be controlled by their representatives, and not to be regarded as theperquisities of Councillors the field for financial exploitation, or a " neglectable quantity," to be handed over to the highest bidder or simply to be left undeveloped. The N.Z. Times in a subleader of Saturday thinks that the government is falling to pieces, and in calling attention to the retirement of the Minister of Justice says : — While regretting the cause of Mr Thompson's retirement, it would be hypocrisy to pretend that anyone will seriously deplore his political effacement. Not even the Auckland people, to whom Mr Thompson owes his position in the Cabinet, will deny that he has been a huge disappointment as a Minister, It may be hoped, too, that they will not countenance a proposal, which it is reported is being entertained, to have him called to the Legislative Council. The Upper Chamber is in need of strengthening ; but Ministers must not make the mistake of supposing that a numerical superiority of Liberals is all that is necessary. Apart from the fact that ' Mr Thompson's Liberalism was never very pronounced, and that it would probably soon disappear altogether in the atmosphere of the Upper Chamber he has not displayed a power of deliberation or a grasp of political questions that would qualify him for " elevation." "The Stockwhip" is the title ot a new fortnightly newspaper published at New Plymouth. The first number is before us, and it is well got up, well printed and illustrated. The title page is in a design in red, white and blue, and the cartoon is a representation of a Chinaman declaring " the potato is cooked." In politics the paper is " liberal in the most advanced acceptation of the term," as its leader announces. " Our Glorious Dick," is a song with music appearing in its columns, and shows the general feeling of the new venture. Men who have been drilled are bound when walking with anyone to fall into step. Amongst the natives of India many desert and the detective to make sure of his man who is perhaps in a crowd, walks up to him and addressing him on indifferent topics gets him to move along, and if he falls into step he furnishes a very good clue to his identity. Parliament has passed a resolution thanking Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, Sirdar of the Egyptian Army, and the Anglo Egyptian Army for their services in last year's campaign, which resulted in the capture of Omdurman and the breaking of the power of the Dervishes. A settler on one of the village allotments in Levin is a fancier of fowls and has many fine breeds. He told a correspondent that some of his Indian game cockrels would kill ten pounds' weight. This is running the ordinary turkey rather close. It is reported that Dr Fridjof Nansen, the famous Arctic explorer, is arranging for an expedition to the Antarctic regions, which will start in 1902. The Standard of Saturday says :— Mr A. S. Baker left Palmerston yesterday for England via 'Frisco. We understand that it is Mr Baker's intention to travel widely through America, before reaching London, and that there is a prospect of his ultimately settling in the Argentine. Tenders for cleaning out drains on the Motoa Estate close to-morrow. We understand the drains will be let in one lot and the work must be completed in six weeks. The monthly sitting of the S. Magistrate's Court will be held on Thursday next, when an alleged charge of serving a drunken man with liquor will be inquired into. A ten horse-power engine, one of Rushton and Proctor's, is for sale at Asburst.

Mr T. H. Hustwick, in a letter to the Post warns persons about mixing beeswax and turpentine over a fire, and gives the following directions for safety : — Put the wax in small pieces into a gcod-sized jar and place in a pan of boiling water on the fire until the wax is melted, then remove from the fire and add the turpentine slowly, stirring all the time. If the mixture sets before all the latter is added, set the pan (without the jar) again on the fire till the water boils, then remove from the fire, replace the jar in the hot water until the contents are melted. The job is done and no one any 'fi ~ worse. Mr Hackworth has called in to say that he is now busy in attending to the rabbits in the district, and as the department intend to have their instruc-' tions obeyed, settlers will do well to poison, shoot, and otherwise reduce the number of these pests before he again pays them a visit. The Manawatu County Council hold their usual monthly meeting to-morrow at Sanson.