Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1899.

Manawatu Herald, 22 June 1899, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1899.

A penny changes hands i25;ooo times in the course^ of -' Fifty thousanif'tons 6f* oysters i are consumed in London during' -the Season. * .. The dreaded Bathurst Burr; bas beei ' found at Clive, in the jFlawkes Bay-' district. ' ■'":' The value of the fruit consumed in Great Britain every year is estimated at £10,000,000. At the railway stations in Russia books are kept in which passengers may enter aay complaint ihey may wish to make. Several vessels have reached Newcastle in a damaged condition, and report the prevalence of exceptionally severe gales. v The Reichstag has agreed to an extension for another year of the commercial modus vivendi with Great Britain agreed upon last year. In the football match played at Sydney on Tuesday the English team beat the Metropolitan Union by eight points to five. In nearly every street in Japanese cities is a public oven, where, for a small fee, housewives may have their dinners and suppers cooked for them. Signor .Marconi,, the inventor of wireless telegraphy, has made a successful trial of his system, having communicated with the shore from a ship that was forty-two miles distant. The Chingtu, which sailed from Foochow on Monday; took, away 2,000,0001bs of tea for. Australia, The market has been cleared of all its first crop of fine teas. The common kinds are scarce and dear. The market is strong and the holders refuse to sell at less than the Chiugtu's prices.

The highest waterfall in the world is Cholock Cascade, in the United States, which is just half a mile high. The Queensland Government has offered a reward of £1000 for the discovery of evidence which will lead to the conviction of the Woolloongabba murderer. The Spanish Government has seized the British yacht Firefly. Five thousand chassepots were found aboard, and it is believed they were intended for the followers of Don Carlos, the claimant to the Spanish throne. In connection with the choosing of a successor to the Pope, the Cardinals of the Consistory at Rome have chosen nine Italian and two foreign cardinals from which the final choice will be made. This practically means that the next Pope will be an Italian. The Perthshire is now in dock at Sydney, and her cargo is being discharged. Captain Spinks, of the Talune, has been overwhelmed with complimentary telegrams . from all parts of the world .on his finding of the Perthshire;, 1 ./.. Miss Cora Tanner, a" popular actress in Nebraska,. . received a handsome bouquet of flowers, and a box of bon bons. She smelled ; they, flowers and ate some of the sweets, and soon became unconscious, and is now dyings The gifts were found, on examinatkihi to be impregnated \Vith jlrussic acid, A map 157 ft hi^h an^ 225 ft \oiigi showing the railway ststem of the United States will forth a remarkable feature of the Paris 1900 Exhibition. Each line will be marked out with electric lights, and from time to time ! moving electric lights will show the position of the express trains. Writing in the Boston Globe a journalist, who has every appearance of being weft informed, says that Mr Rudyard Kipling is now receiving from £15,000 to £20,000 yearly from his royalties and his literary work generally. At the same time be is said to spend no more than £2000 per annum. The latest trade combination announced at New York is a coffin trust, which is capitalised at 20,000,000 dollars. It is said that 90 per cent of the coffin factories throughout the United States will in consequence of his combination have to close their works, throwing some 6000 men out of employment. A new anaesthetic called eucaine, resembling cocaine, is being employed in New York hospitals with remarkable results. It drives away all pain. During a recent operation for henna the patient remained fully conscious, and calmly watched the. doctors fully an liour while they worked,, experiencing neither sensation nor nervous shock. The operation was a complete success. London sporting newspapers, commenting on the last test match, attribute defeat to the early collapse of the feriglrsh batting and the absence -of a fast bowler. They _ admit the superiority of the Australian bowling and fielding, and advise that the next English team should include reliable professional batsmen. More brilliant cricketers have been tried and found wanting. They suggest that either Bland, of Sussex, or Bradley, of Kent, be selected as a fast bowler. The American and Canadian sawmills have discovered that the sawdust which they have been perplexed how to rid themselves of as worthless encumberance is worth some £8 per ton. V chemist in Baltimore has invented a )rocess of extracting gas from the saw dust adequate to supply' a city like Ottawa with light and heat at 10 cents per 1000 ft. This is thought to portend that around the great sawmills, which 'iave been emptying their dust into the Ottawa River, a variety of industries subsisting on it are likely to grow up. Before very long, says the Central News, London may be able to com municate with New York by wireless telegraphy. The Wireless Telegraphy Company have been approached by the representatives of a proposed syndicate, which desire to acquire the sole rights of establishing . wireless telegraphic communication between England and America. The Marine Department of the French Government have commissioned Signor Marconi to fix his apparatus on one of their cruisers, and, if the experiment -proves successful, a .number of vessels .ja _ the French Navy are likely to be provided "with this means of communicating with the shore. . There is, perhaps, an advantage in kavingtwo hearts. At any rate, Mf William King, a coloured gentleman of New Bedford, U.S., has enjoyed the ' pD&flJigjjfcr ipf ._a couple for a whole centeryvraiißaiow ao hale aod hearty that he can bend iron bars on his arms like another Sandow and Samson. One heart is on the right, and the other on the left side of the chest; but, like those of lovers, though separated by space, they beat in unison; Apparently Mr King has two fereast bones, too — one behind the the other — and he can move the rear one at his pleasure. The health chart of this remarkable man would be exceedingly interesting. • An interesting story of a romantic marriage and its prosaic sequel comes from Scarborough. A young couple at Filey, who desired to get married on the quiet and avoid the social functions attending a .purely formal wedding, left their native town one day and went through the cerewwtoy elsewhere. This was many years «go; and, strangely enough, the locality of the church where the knot was tied never transpired. Since both parties are now dead the mystery seems likely to continue. Heise is the sequel. One of their sons went abroad, amassed considerable wealth, and died unmarried 3.nd intestate. His brothers and sisters, who live at Filey, are clearly the rightful heirs to the property. It hap pens, however, that no one can find the place where their father and mother were married. In the absence of proof of . the marriage the brothers and sisters find it an insuperable difficulty to substantiate their relationship to the deceased and their claim to his property,

Messrs P. Hennessy and Co. anlounce the arrival of Yates seeds. The Whangaroa is now over the bar ■vaiting for a favourable chance to get into the river. A new lot of Justice of the Peace have been gazetted amongst the names appear toose of R. Edwards, Palmer?ton North ; V. Ransom, Ronotaa ; and H. Freeman, Horowhenua. Spurious half-crowns and half-sove-reigns have lately been passed for payment at shops in the suburbs ot Christchurch. The half-sovereign is nerely a gilded sixpence. In Iceland men and women are in every respect political equals. The nation is governed by representatives elected by its people, quite irrespective Df sex. The latest news from Hongkong states that the Rev. Mr Phillips and party are safe. The party includes Miss Searle, an Australian missionary, who was stationed in the Kien-ning mission field. The Sunday School scholars of the Church p.f^ England had a good treat yesterday afternoon and evening at •the^ schoolroom, where they had tea, and afterwards games and music. A large number of children were present arid they all spent a very enjoyable time.. The Sydney Meat Export Company has arranged for the consolidation of the sale of the colony's frozen meat in London. Capital has also been privately subscribed for the erection of slaughtering works for the company it Blacktown near Sydney. The works will be the largest in Australia. At the meeting of the last New Plymouth Harbour Board, Mr Cliff gave notice to move at the next meeting, " That the board take the necessary steps to have a Bill passed during the coming session of Parliament to enable the board to borrow £200,000 for harbour improvements." Soon after the Tarawera cleared Sydney Heads on her last trip a tremendous sea broke on board, carrying away two life-boats, smashing the two remaining lifeboats very doing a considerable amount of damage on the top deck, and . washing away the deck fittings and the movables. His Excellency the Governor visited the golf links at Greenlane, Auckland, on Monday, and played a game with Mr C. E. S. Gillies (the champion of Australia) against Brassey and Turner. The Governor and his partner, after an interesting gams, won by one hole. His Excellency presented the club's' championship cup to the winner (Burness). A young man named James Douglas employed at Buckman's mill at Bulls was riding from Foxton about two o'clock yesterday when in Park-street he struck a match to light a cigarette when the horse started and bolted and threw him, and he got his collar bone broken* He went to the Manawatu Hotel, and by train this morning to the Palmerston hospital. A very pleasing ceremony took place last evening at the residence of Mr MacDermott, who, on behalf of the members of St. Mary's Choir, Foxton, who were all present, presented Miss Gussie O'Brien on the eve of her departure for Wellington with a very handsome gold brooch as a token of the esteem and regard in which she was held by members of the choir. Witnesses in the Magistrate's Court, says the Post, can now rely on being protected by the Bench from unwarranted interjections and insinuai tions by counsel. Mr Haselden, S.M.. quietly yet emphatically protested this morning against a remark by a solicitor, who, not getting the evidence most suitable to his client, had said td the witness, " Now, be truthful if you can !" His Worship said there was not the slightest -occasion for the insinuation, and he would not allow it. During the month of May 49,300 gallons of milk were put through the Rongotea factory, out of which 22,---5621bs of butter were made. It took 3i-Bilbsof milk to produce one 1b of butter. The average test was 4M. In May 1898 there were 37,022 gallons of milk out of which i6,og9lbs of butter were made. The factory is closed on Sundays and many of the suppliers only bring their milk on alternate days. The new addition to the factory is alnjost completed and will be a great advantage to the butter-makers as the floor is concrete instead of being boarded. A large crowd gathered in April at the Wood Green (England) track to witness the ten miles cycle race between Tom Linton and A. A. Chase, in which motor tandems were used for pacing for the first time in England. The race was delayed a little by mishaps to one of the motors, the chain of which snapped during a trial spin. But it was soon put; right-; and then the tandems ran side by side past the starting-point. Linton had inside berth, and it was not till well on in the first lap that the pacers were able to take up' their men— Linton. slightly leading. For two or three laps he increased his lead, and then, the tandem pacing Chase going at a terrific speed tried to pass. But it was shaken off, and Linton's pacers gave their man a lead he never lost. The time for the five ; miles was gmin. igsec. At six miles Linton was nearly a lap ahead, and finished first in ißrnin. 53 3-ssec, Chase's time being igmin. 44sec.