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Manawatu Herald, 24 June 1899, Page 2

The next English and European mail, via San Francisco, will close at the local office on Friday, 7th July, at 8 p.m. The following gentlemen have been appointed to the Legislative Council : —Mr Francis H. Fraser, of Wellington ; Mr Hugh Gourley, of Dunedin ; Colonel Albert Pitt, of Nelson. The Whangaroa arrived at the ! wharf yesterday in tow of the Waverley. Captain Cozens reports he was delayed on the New Zealand coast, and was under Kapiti three days. -She j brings the usual cargo of coals. This morning Mrs O'Brien and family left town for Wellington, where for the future they will reside. During their residence here they made a host I of friends who much regret their leaving, and they left with the best of wishes for. their future welfare. Miss Kirk's address on Thursday evening was very much enjoyed by the large number who attended. The chair was taken by Mrs Woollass, and the whole meeting was in the hands of the ladies, a sign of the times. A vote of thanks was given. to Miss Kirk and to the chair. Mrs Woollass's song was excellently rendered and highly appreciated. The fishermen of the Bluff and Stewarts Island have been making great hauls lately, and the freezing works contain more fish in ice than they have ever done before. The take has been so large that it is seriously thought that it will be necessary to close down for a while till stocks are reduced. Amobg a batch of summonses heard at Marylebone, London, against parents for failing to send their children to school was one directed against a guardian, who had kept the child at home to mind his baby while he was at work. — Mr Plowden (the magistrate) thought that was a very good excuse, and added, " Somebody must mind the baby, and who else is to mind it ? It is impossible to foresee what the consequences might be if the baby was neglected." Laughter.) — The summons was withdrawn.

Mr Darvill, of the Post Office Hotel, secured his license yesterday. A German law prevents proprietors of eating-houses from serving beer to people eating fruit. The Reichstag has adopted the proposal to take over the Caroline Group of Islands from Spain. The first electric railway in the world was built in Ireland, from Bushmills to Giants' Causeway. Mr F. G. G. Couper, of Rongotea, has purchased .the Darling Downs property in Queensland, and will shortly proceed there to settle. "He married money, you know." " I suppose there was a woman attached to it." " Yes, so much attached to it that he never saw any of it." The proprietors of the White Star line of steamers are building five i2,000-ton steamers for a monthly service from Liverpool to Australia. 11 What does it rain for, Auntie ?" " Why, to make things look pretty and nice, stoopid !" " Is that why you came out without your gamp, auntie ?" Tenders have been accepted for the erection of a new grand-stand at the Manawatu A. and P. Show Ground, Palmerston. The structure will cost £1893. It having been proved that the Servian Guards were the aggressors in the recent frontier incident, the King has apologised to the Porte, and has withdrawn the 200 regulars that had been sent to the frontier. The Local Government Bill that was recently passed by the House of Commons, and which provides for the division of London into over twenty municipalities, has been read a second time in the House of Lords. Mr Ashby, who kept the Moutoa Post Office and store, has purchased a business at Mangatainoka, and Miss A. E. Wright has been appointed postmistress in his place. Mr and Mrs Ashby will be very much missed. Sir Robert Stout has been offered and has accepted the position of Chief Justice of the colony in succession to Sir James Prendergast. His appointment was announced in a special copy of the " Gazette " issued on Thursday. After two hours struggle against interruptions Mr Earnshaw had to abandon the attempt to deliver a political address at Wellington on Wednesday evening. He announced his intention of standing for the city. The Post terms it " Wellington's record rowdy meeting." The Hawera Star states that on or within about 10 chains of the Eltham road between Eltham and Opunake, a distance of 29 miles, there are no less than 4 butter factories and creameries, 1 cheese factory, and 1 bacon factory, which our contemporary claims is the record for factories within the same radius in Taranaki. With respect to t the alarming reports that were received from Kawakawa on Wednesday to the effect that a Maori named Wiki Moeanu had shot his wife and then escaped into the bush, it now transpires that Wiki had been arrested, but there is some doubt as to the report that he shot his wife. It is, however, alleged that he did fire a shot, which struck a tree. Wiki has been charged with attempted murder, and remanded for eight days. The Moonlight correspondent of the Dunedin Star writes :— " Rabbit trapping is becoming a huge industry here. Bands of men — and their number is legion— are busily engaged in converting the übiquitous rabbit into the coin of the realm. It is surprising the quantity of rabbits that are being carted to Dunback and Hyde — several thousands a day. There are buggies and expresses bringing in loads of them. There at Dunback four agents kept busy buying and getting the rabbits ready for railing. The men who are trapping here are getting good wages. Some are working in couples and some alone. I met a trapper recently who is working 140 traps, and he informed me that he was getting 130 rabbits a day. He gets 7£d per pair for them, so anyone with a turn for figures can recken up how much per day he makes." President Loubet's salary is £25,000, but the expenses of the Presidential establishment are double this sum, and even this does not include the pay of army officers attached to the Presiden- j tial household, or the cost of keeping the Elysee and other palaces used by the President in a state of repair. The Elysee is President Loubet's town residence, but he has also at his disposal the former royal palaces of Fountainbleau and Rambouillet, which are furnished and maintained at the expense of the State. It will be easily understood that the Presidential salary is inadequate to the demands made upon the Presidential purse, and the only President who made both ends meet was M. Grevy. President Faure is known to have spent about £50,000 over and above his official income in doing honour to the Emperor and Empress of Russia, and Marshal McMahon found that more than half his large private income had been spent at the Elysee. The King of Tonga, instead of marrying the Princess of Nivc Titutaki, as was expected, took for his queen on June Ist Princess Tainia, a daughter of Kopu, Minister of Police, and grand-daughter of Taunia, the highest chief woman ofVineau. On 22nd May the nobles and chiefs met at the invitation of the King to consider the matter of the marriage. The King wrote to th^m to say that of the two Princesses, he preferred Tavihia. Notwithstanding his expressed preference, the result of their deliberations was that he should marry Ofa— seven only being in favour of Tavinia, the King's choice. The King thanked the chiefs tor their labour, but said his mind was made and to all letters and remon strances he had but one -answer. After many days', discussions the King declared that if he could not marry Tavinia he would remain single. The majority of the nobles then gave in, and sent a message that he could please himself, which he did by at. once issuing invitations to the wedding, which was celebrated two days later.