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Manawatu Herald, 20 June 1899, Page 2

Messrs Hickson and Reeve are now busy erecting their flaxmill on the river bank. Mr W. B. Rhodes announces the arrival of Yates' reliable seeds, also catalogues may be obtained on application. To-night the festival service in commemoration of Queen Victoria's accession will be held at All Saints' Church, the vicar (Rev. Mr Leach), officiating.

The latest musical phenomenon in Paris is a monkey that plays the violin. Mr Grattan Riggs, the well-known comedian, died at Hobart on Friday night. The Idealist : " True happiness Is found in pursuing something, not in catching it." The Ordinary Man : "The man who loses the last night train knows better/ The Bill introduced by Mr Robson, M.P. for South Shields, raising the school age for half-time scholars who employ the other half of their time in factories to twelve, has passed all stages in the House of Commons. At Mr F. Loveday's establishment amongst the new importations is a line of trimmed millinery, which will be cleared at almost half-price. Another line in Dent's kid gloves at 3s 6d the pair should be quickly disposed of. Mr D. Buick in response to the invitation of 1548 electors has announced himself as a candidate for the Palmersttm seat at the general election. It will be remembered Mr Buick ran Mr Pirani very close in the election of 1896. . The Arbitration Board appointed to i aeal with the Venezuelan boundary i dispute opened at Paris on Friday, under the Presidency of M. De Martins, the Russian international authority. Sir Richard Webster has opened the English side of the case. Mr Wragge, the Queensland authority, suggested that the s.s. Perthshire would be found half-way between New Zealand and the Kermadec islands, but he appears to have been very far out as she was found near Norfolk island far to the north and west of that point. ' J An experiment as to the capabilities of the ironsand found on the coast of Taranaki has just been made in i France. The Esteye Iron Company, of Paris, has succeeded in manufacturing crucible tool steel of the finest quality out of iron smelted from a parcel of sand which had been sent to it.. A man named Carrier, an employee of the Public Works Department at Manga weka, was -warming i2lb of dynamite in a hut on Saturday morning, when it exploded, killing Cartier, destroying the hut and knocking down and breaking the wrist of a child two chains away. Cartier was a widower with a grown-up family. A school teacher's lot is not a particularly happy one. Here is an excerpt from a complaint made Jto the Education Board on Wednesday against one of the teachers : — " I can bring evidence to show that on one occasion she (the teacher) stripped one of the pupils to her chemise to look for fleas ; this was done before the whole school," — Taranaki Herald. The demand for sheep at the Feilding sale on Friday did not seem to be quite so good as at recent sales, still there was no decided fall in prices," says the Advocate. Messrs Ohphant sold a line of 4-tooth ewes at 12s 6d and a line of ewes entered by Mr Me Hardy was sold to Mr L. H olden at 13s 6d. There was not much demand for heifers but other lines of cattle sold well. The land offered on behalf of Mr Short was not sold. The company recently formed to carry on the business of Sir T. J. Lipton, the well-known London provision merchant, has been fined for weighing paper and lead with its tea packages. The plea urged in defence was that it was the custom ot the trade. This is the revival of an old London trade trick. At one time wrapping paper weighted with iron filings used to be sold to grocers, and they liked it — but the customers did not. A temperance campaign will be conducted in Foxton this week when Miss Kirk, of Wellington, will speak on the I question of abolishing the liquor traffic. ! Miss Kirk is an able and powerful speaker, and is thoroughly posted on the question of Prohibition, and all who are interested should hear her. The meeting on Wednesday night is in the Methodist Schoolroom, and on Thursday in the Public Hall. Mrs W. Woollass takes the chair on Thursday night, and will also sing a special solo. The Dunedin Star reports a curious coincidence. Before the Hinemoa left Wellington on her East Coast trip the second mate, Mr Simpson, left the boat, and was replaced by Mr Hardy. On the night before the boat upset Mr Simpson dreamt that he saw Mr Brown (the mate) and three seamen upset in the breakers off East Cape, and some of them drowned, whilst landing stores. This dream was told by Mr Simpson to several parties some time before any news was received of the sad fate which befell Mr Brown and the men. The officers of the United States flagship Philadelphia have sent to the " New Zealand Herald " a memento, in the^shape of a piece of shell picked up at Vailima, R. L. Stevenson's house. The shell was fired from H.M.S. Porpoise at a time when Mataafa's people were making Vailima a rendezvous. The distance from the Porpoise to Vailima was five miles and a half, and yet such was the accuracy of the firing that out of five shots fired at the house four penetrated the building, and one burst a few feet from the front of the verandah. A novel performance was accomplished last month in England by an athlete named Arthur Martin. He wagered that he would run a quarter of a mile, cycle a quarter of a mile, ride on horseback a quarter of a mile, row a skiff a quarter of a mile, and finish up by swimming a quarter of a mile, all within 17 minutes. He chose a towing path on the banks of the Thames, and ran a quarter of a mile in imin iosec. He returned along the same course on a bicycle in sosec, then rode the distance on horseback in sosec, sculled a boat in 2tnin iosec, and finished up by divesting himself of his clothing in the skiff, and swimming the last quarter in 7mm 25sec, thus completing the five ' turns ' in i2mia »58ed and winning the bet,

The Pope in a letter to the Archbishop of Paris, directs the French Catholic clergy to give loyal support to the Republic. To-morrow afternoon the scholars attending All Saints' Sunday School will be given their annual treat in the schoolroom. Yesterday about mid-day Mr Richard Gray was riding towards his home when his horse slipped on the Norbiton bridge and fell over on him. Mr Gray was stunned for a time and when he got home it Was found that apparently no bones were broken but he was suffering from a good deal of pain. It is stated that the blue rose, which with the black, has long been the subject, of horticultural research, has unexpectedly made its appearance in Kizanlik, in Bulgaria, a district renowed fof its attar of roses, and one consequently where the flowers are grown on a very large scale. The owner of the blue rose is M. Stantcheff. Sampled of the soil wherin this rare plant has grown have been sent to the chemical laboratory at Sofia to be minutely analysed. It is known to be rich in lime, ammoniac, salts of copper, and oxide of iron. The Bush Advocate learns that the Government intends to throw open for settlement, .as soon as possible 10,000 acres of the Mangatoro station. The portion to be dealt with is all freehold and first-class land, and includes that part known as Oporae. There are about 600 acres of standing bush, and the rest is cleared land. The subdivision survey is to be put in hand shortly, and there is reason to expect that the land will be offered for selection before the end of the year. About forty men are also engaged on the roads in the unopened portion of the Ngapaeruru block, which is expected to be placed in the market in February next. It exceeds in area that part of the block which was disposed of by ballot a few months ago, and the land is of excellent quality. About six miles of road lines have been cleared, and the work of widening some of these for dray traffic is to be commenced at once.