Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY. JULY 15, 1899

Manawatu Herald, 15 July 1899, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY. JULY 15, 1899

On Tuesday the second of the Levin Assemblies will be held. Mr Speirs has made a good start with the addition to Mr Loveday's shop. Dr W. G. Grace has now completed the compilation of 50,000 run 3 in firstclass cricket. The s.s. Gertie was too late for the tide yesterday and has run on to Wanganui. Wireless telegraphy will be used in connection with the approaching British naval manoeuvres. The Education Board has resolved that the question of the removal of the Taikorea school be held over. The Borough Council notifiy that they will celebrate Arbor Day by planting trees as already stated. The Racing Club has had to stop flax, being spread on the Racecourse Reserve, and has given the occupier a month's notice. The new prohibitionist paper, which will be edited by the Rev. W. Woollass, will very soon make its appearance. The name decided upon is "The Clarion." The Wellington Philosophical Society has decided to accept the portrait in oils of the late Mr Charles Hulke now hanging in the south wing of the Colonial Museum. The American liner Paris, which struck the Manacle Rocks, Cornwall, on the 21st May, and remained fast, has been refloated, after the rocks which held her were blasted away. It has transpired tkat the attempt on the lite of ex-King Milan was connected with a widespread conspiracy which aimed at the expulsion of King Alexander I from the country.

Mr George Cook, of Foxton, has been licensed as a native interpreter, under the Native Land Court Act of 1894. The next English and European mail, via San Francisco, will close at the local office on Friday, August 4th, at 8 p.m. A syndicate has raised £10,000 to assist Mrs Druce in the prosecution of the claim of her son to the Dukedom of Portland. We draw attention to the preliminary announcement of a large auction sale of saddlery, which will be held early next month in the town. The Manawatu Times states that after allowing for deprecation the surplus on the year's work of the Dairy Union will be £1500. Lambing has commenced in the Wairarapa. It is feared (says the " Daily Times ") the present inclement, cold weather will seriously affect the mortality. The inspector of schools has fixed the following days at the different schools mentioned for the annual examinations : Sanson, Thursday and Friday, August 3rd and 4th ; Waitohi, Thursday, August 4th ; Rongotea, Monday and Tuesday, August 7th and Bth; Taikorea, Tuesday, August Bth. Melbourne market reports allude to tinned oysters as a new import from New Zealand. With New Zealand tinned lobsters they, are familiar, but the tinned oysters are a novelty. They go from Dunedin, are described as of excellent quality, and can be offered much cheaper than either American or Continental. Last Wednesday a lady named Pearson left the Coffee Palace, New Plymouth, where she had been staying, and has not been seen since. It is supposed she committed suicide. The police were diligently searching for some days, but there is no trace of her. She left two children, one about 15 and the other about 5. The husband is an electrical engineer in England. In every house there are small pieces of soap. These accumulate, and it is not always easy to know what to do with them. Small pieces of soap are, as a rule, wasted. A good use for them is to put them into a common jar half-full of water ; add two teaspoonfuls of ammonia, and a heaping teaspoonful of powdered borax. The soap will dissolve, and with the ammonia and borax it makes a perfect shampoo for the heads of children, or it may be used for washing glass or silver. According to the statement of the Minister for Agriculture, when formally opening the show of the Poultry Club of New South Wales, the Board of Exports sent to England during the past two years 50,000 head of poultry, valued at £6250. The sales had been most successful, chickens realising from 63 to 8s per pair, while the ducklings showed a profit of 100 per cent. These exports were however, trifling, for England imported annually £600,---000 worth of poultry and £4,500,000 worth of eggs. In United States, the hen, indeed, laid the golden egg, for their output for the year was valued at £60,000. These figures, though astounding, were correct. Eggs which were placed in the cold chamber of the Board of Exports when eggs were cheap had since been sold at a profit of 100 per cent. The French detective department at Oran, in Algeria, have unearthed a money coining conspiracy, which is probably the most extensive on record. Over 15 members of the coining band were arrested, and the amount of false money they have put into circulation is said to exceed in face value 60 million francs. Most of the counterfeit coin has been got rid of in Spain, where several coining establishments belonging to the band had been set up. The band, which was admirably organised, numbered, at least 100 active members without counting the accomplices, whose business it was to set the false money in circulation in the various cities of Europe. As usual the money coined was all silver, and each coin contained exactly the same amount of silver as those legally minted, so that it is practically impossible to distinguish the difference. The net profit on each coin at the present market value of silver was 50 per cent. The latest craze is the book tea (says the London " Daily News.") A number of guests — the sexes equally represented — are asked to afternoon tea, and each is to wear a badge denoting a book. The book is not necessarily a novel, though the run is on novels nor is it necessarily a modern book, though these are more generally selected. The badge, which is a little toy, must express the title of the book. The guests arrive decorated, supplying and wearing their own decorations, and each has to guess the titles of all the others. Some people are very stupid at it ; some very quick. And there is skill, too, not only in guessing the titles but in making the orders. Two little wooden shoes, for instance, announce themselves. A pair of very small wooden dolls are the Heavenly Twins. A little bronze devil, with crystal drops in his eyes, is (or are) the Sorrows of Satan. A bicycle attached to a ribbon is the Wheels of Chance. And so, with Mudie's catalogue, one could go on indefinitely. There are two prizes — one for the guest who guesses most and one for the guest whose badge has been most difficult to interpret. Much tea and some time are consumed, and men and women show themselves to be children of a larger growth.