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Manawatu Herald, 25 July 1899, Page 2

Lambs have begun to appear round about, Mr Gower having one or two, also Mr Thynne.

Mr W. White has completed his windmill and tried it the other day, and though there was not much wind the saw worked well.

Bees seem to be " catching on," and Mr England has just received a number of bee boxes and implements from America to the order of various settlers. The boxes are beautifully made.

The Church of England grounds at Levin are bare, and to-day the Rev. H. Leach is having a private Arbor day and is getting the land nicely planted.

Mr T. Westwood is interested in a two stripper mill at Rangitikei, and the fibre is scutched in another mill close bye.

A concert in aid of the building fund of All Saints Sunday School has been arranged for Tuesday next. We hope to give more particulars in the following issue.

Speaking about the West Coast Mr Seddon thus referred to Mr Pirani — " I believe it was there he commenced his education, and I am sorry he left it. If he had not, he would have been more perfect than he is to-day."

An injection of Professor Calmette's cure has been attended with successful results in the case of a patient at Meerut, North-west Provinces, who was suffering from snake-bite.

The troubles arising from the strike of employees on the elevated railway at Brooklyn have spread to New York. Many fights have taken place between the strikers and the police, and a hundred atrests have been made.

The great heat in London continues unabated. The thermometer records a temperature of 86deg in the shade.

A new danger flag has just been adopted by the British Government. It is a red flag with a yellow crown in the centre, and will fly from the foremast of all vessels carrying explosives. Its adoption will be officially notified to the British mercantile service and to foreign Governments.

Cheerful! The Minister for Public Works informed the House that he had obtained reports from inspectors of factories as to the weight of goods supplied in tins. From these reports it appeared that some half-pound tins contained only seven, six, and in some cases only five ounces of food, and "iixteen-ounce tins fifteen, fourteen, twelve and even eleven ounces. He hoped to have an opportunity of bringing a Bill before the House dealing with the matter this session.

He had been entrusted with the best toast of the evening, and as he rose to his feet anyone could see that he was wearing an ample thirst. " The Press, gen'lmen, the Press !" he began, " an' 'low me to 'bserve that if it wasn't f r th\ Press how should we know in th' mornin' what it was we said th' night befo' ?" (Cheers.)

The co-operative building fad has fared badly lately. The parliamentary buildings were commenced that way and finished under contract. We now find the Inspector of Asylums writing in his report to the General Assembly on the cost of new additions that certain things could be done " on the discontinuance of the costly cooperative system."

The Speaker of the House of Representatives is much to be pitied. A point of order was raised as to whether it was parliamentary for a member asserting that another should be ashamed of himself. The Speaker ruled that the expression was not unparliamentary and declared " I only wish I never heard worse words." This statement leads us to the supposition that if the facts could be drawn from that gentleman, a peculiar catalogue of "pet names" could be compiled.

Mr Nicholas Fernandos advertises that he wants a regular supply of whitebait throughout the season. He offers good prices at the Fox<.on station.

We regret to record the death of the only child of Mr and Mrs C. H. Anderson. The funeral takes place to-morrow

The annual meeting of the Foxton Racing Club will be held in McMillan's old Auction room on Monday night.

Messrs Davidson and Co. want a good feeder for their Waikawa mill. Applications should be made at once.

The volcano Mauna Loa, on the island of Hawaii, is in violent eruption.

Successful experiments with wireless telegraphy have been made between Trieste and Venice, a distance of seventy miles.

Engine-driver Carter, who had charge of the second train on the occasion of the Rakaia accident, has received notice of his dismissal from the railway service.

"Do you think Johnny is contracting bad habits at school ?" asked Mrs Caution of her husband. " No, dear, I don't; I think he is expanding them," was the reply.

A British soldier at Allahabad has been sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment and discharged from the army with ignominy for striking a Coolie.

Several Ladas two-year-olds had started in England prior to the departure of the last mail, but none of them had succeeded in winning.

Yesterday was a very busy day at the wharf. On Sunday two steamers arrived, the Himatangi and Moa, and yesterday the Queen of the South. The first vessel had general cargo, the two latter coal.

In to-days issue will be found details of the saddlery and harness that will be sold by auction next week on behalf of Mr Colville. The harness comprises both light and heavy kinds, and the saddlery will be both English and Colonial made. The list will be of much interest as everything in connection with horses is included in it.

Owing to the Queen ot the South having been away from this port for a week a very large lot of flax accumulated here, over 400 bales. As she got in yesterday and left the same night, and the Himitangi left to-day, a great clearance has been made.

The Hon. Mr Twomey convulsed the Legislative Council on Wednesday by the extraordinary statement that " We are in the last Parliament of the past century of the present time."

A heron's nest built almost entirely of wire, such as is used in some agricultural implement for binding sheaves, was shown at a meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club a few days ago.

An abduction case is now before Bombala (New South Wales) Court, in which a young man of 21 ran away with and married a girl of sixteen. They rode away at dead ot night, and were married before seven a.m. It is alleged that the girl informed the clergyman that she was over twentyone, salving her conscience by having tha number " twenty-one " on the soles of her boots.

Mrs Ormiston Chant, in the 19th Century, takes up the cudgels as against Dr Kenealy, and maintains that so far from the modern woman being less capable of looking after her babies than the woman who is not modern, the very reverse is the fact. She triumphantly refers to Mrs Fawcett's collection of photographs of the babies of women who had taken University degrees. She declares that they were bewitching and unusually beautiful.

Leon Simon, brewer, committed suicide on Saturday morning at Wanganui by shooting himself with a revolver in an out house near his residence in Wilson Street. Three wounds were inflicted, two in the throat and one in the mouth. Deceased was an old West Coaster and was highly respected. The recent death of his brother and business worries are the supposed causes leading to perpetration of the act. Deceased leaves a widow and daughter.

The English trainer Richard Marsh, has an enormous place at Egerton House, Newmarket. His own house is a perfect palaoe. It is fitted throughout with the electric light and other up-to-date conveniences. Marsh trains for the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Wolverton, and Mr Larnach. All Marsh's horses wear red clothing, and at a recent Newmarket meeting 70 or 80 thoroughbreds walking jan the heath looked for all the world like a troop o r cavalry.

The serious agitation throughout the United States has at last compelled Mr Alger, Secretary of War, to resign from that position. It is stated that President McKinley will accept Mr Alger's resignation shortly.

Undejr the heading of the " Fibre Commissioner," the Lyttelton Times expresses its pleasure at the Premier's laying Mr John Holmes's report on the hemp industry upon the table of the House of Representatives, and taking the opportunity of refuting the scandalous misrepresentations of which its author has been made a victim. Our contemporary concludes — "The Premier has done his best to make amends to Mr Holmes, and we trust it will be sufficient to repair the injury that gentleman has suffered.

Justices do not find favour with the Premier— is it from the number he has made ? . A proposal in an alteration of voting was being discussed in the House and the ballot papers were to be counted by Justices, when the Premier declared " if there was anything wanting to prove to me that the honorable member has not considered the matter carefully, it is the fact that Justices of the Peace are to be there at the mixing-up. I believe things would be mixed up right enough, and if the Bill goes into Committee I shall certainly move to strike out the words 'or Justices of the Peace.' " He»went on to say "My experience of the Justices of the Peace wbo hold the opinions of the member for Palmerston is such that I would not trust them with the marking of the ballot-papers, or even with it the mixing up. It would not be safe."

The Premier remarked the other day in the House, " after running elections here for a quarter of a century, there is not much in connection with them that you could teach me ; and, ' for ways that are dark and tricks that are vain,' I give Mr Duthie, the honourable member for Wellington City, the palm."