The Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1899

Manawatu Herald, 27 July 1899, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1899

Last night Mr Cook, one of the government engineers, arrived in town and has gone, iv company with the Mayor, to inspect the proposed line of railway to the beach.

The many friends of Mr and Mrs T. Nye will be glad to learn that there is a change for the better in the health of their little girl, and hopes are now entertained ot her ultimate recovery.

Messrs Heasman and Baker have now got settled in their new premises, and the transformation they have effected is surprising. They can be congratulated on possessing a good position and commodious shop and workrooms. Business is very brisk with them.

We can confidently recommend Foster's Hotel at Wanganui. It is as comfortable a hostelry as can be found on the coast and the charges are most moderate. An enjoyable holiday can be spent in Wanganui, especially when well catered and cared for.

We much regret to state that yesterday Johnny Nej'lon, son of our old and esteemed settler, was thrown from his horse in Johnston street by the horse stumbling, and whilst on the ground the horse rolled on him. He was taken home and Dr Wilson came down by the midday train to-day to see him.

A new departure in business takes place to-day, when Messrs Thos. Westwood & Co., whose name has been as familiar as household words for the past five years as caterers to the public wants in all that is connected with a general store business, hands over the concern to Mr M. H. Walker. It is a distinct change in one way, but in another it is easy to see that the wheels will go round almost as usual as Mr Walker has been the manager of the late firm. We trust that good success will follow Mr Walker who we feel sure will do his best to give every satisfaction to those who give him a trial.

In another column will be found the advertisement relating to the concert next Wednesday.

Messrs Hickson and Reeves' mill has been named the Huia, and Mr George Coley's latest purchase, the Rata.

Mr Tos's new mill at Wirokino is all ready for starting except the engine, which, however, was in Wellington on Tuesday and may be up to-day. He is going to run two strippers. The name the mill will be known by is the Bridge.

The new cold stores erected near the Ship Canal at Manchester for the colonial Consignment Company have been opened by the Lord Mayor. Among those p.esent at the opening ceremony were the Hon. J. G. Ward, M.H.R. of New Zealand, and Mr Nelson.

The steamer Waitoa has been very successful in the trawling trade at Auckland, and two other vessels — the Minnie Casey and Kaiwau— have been purchased for the same trade.

A Reuter's Agency telegram from Louisiana, Missouri, gives particulars of a terrible revenge taken for a murder committed there. An Italian resident in the town shot an American doctor. The friends of the deceased thereupon seized the murderer and lynched him, and at the same time took the lives of five of his friends. An expression of regret has been con veyed to the Italian Government by the United States Ambassador.

Quite recently a totara tree was felled at Akaroa, which is said to be the largest in its dimensions, of its kind, ever cut down on the Peninsula. The log was 6ft in diameter and Bft high, and is calculated to provide 4000 ft of timber. Another one in the same locality measured 4ft through.

Mr Elihu Root, a prominent New York lawyer, will succeed Mr Alger (who has resigned) as Secretary of War in the United States Cabinet.

It is announced that the new court martial of Dreyfus will begin at Rennes on the 7th August.

During the naval manoeuvres, messages have been exchanged with vessels of the fleet, by means of wireless telegraphy, over a distance of thirty miles.

The oldest medical recipe is said by a French medical journal to be that of a hair tonic for an Egyptian queen. It is dated 400 8.C., and directs that dogs paws and asses' hoofs be boiled with dates in oil.

Mr H. D. Bell, the well-known advocate will leave Wellington shortly, en route to London, where he will appear before the Privy Council in two important cases, which have been referred to the highest judicial court, ivlr Bell will appear on behalf of the Drown in connection with the Midland Railway case, in which the receiver for the debenture-holders appealed against the finding of the 'oca' courts, and also on behalf of Nir \hi Txmaki, against whom judgment wda given in his case against the Crown Lands Department. Mr Bell will proceed home via Canada, and leaves Sydney by the Warrimoo on the 15th August next.

The planting of osier willows by the Waimakariri River Board for basketmaking purposes is fast becoming remunerative. This year the Board has let the right to cut the willows for £65. Last year the right was secured for £46. Why should • not the same class of willow be planted along the banks of the Manawatu.

An expedition of Egyptian troops has just returned to the British camp after having reconnoitred the Khalifa's position in the desert. Its officers ascertained that the Khalifa is in desperate straits owing to the starchy of food and ammunition, and aho that he has now very few followers.

At the Marine Certificate Inquiry Mr Hutchison in his examination said "His honest opinion was that our boys were losing nothing by letting "the Dutchmen man the ships," because under present conditions the game was only fit for aliens. " There is no romance of the sea now, your Honors/

In the Adelaide Supreme Court, before the Chief Justice, Joseph Short, a bill distributor, sued the Rev. A. G. B. West, of Unley, for £100 damages for assault on May 30th. The plaintiff said that while he was distributing circulars in Unley, he threw one on Mr West's lawn. The latter objected, and some words passed between the men. The defendant then seized the plaintiff, shook him, and "generally swept the footpath with him." The defence consisted of a denial of the greater portion of the plaintiff's statements and an allegation of insolence and truculent ferocity on the part of the plaintift. The defendant stigmatised Short's action as blackmail. A verdict was given for the plaintiff for £10.

A remarkable collection of Japanese dwarf plants have been exhibited in London. Not one less than a century old, and the tallest was only eighteen inches high, although it had all the characteristics of a forest giant. These trees are dwarfed in their growth by man, and not by Nature.

Mr Goschen, First Lord of the Admiralty, referring to his offer that Great Britain would refrain from the projected expansion of her navy if Russia would take a similar stand, has stated that as Russia has come to no decision in the matter, he is no longer justified in deferring the carrying out of the British naval building programme.

The Royal Crown ot Persia, which dates back to remote ages, is in the form of a pot of flowers, surmounted !jy an uncut ruby the size of a hen's egg.

Electric flannel is one of the latest novelties in Paris, and it is put forward as a valuable help in rheumatism. Alternate series of threads are impregnated with oxides of tin, copper, zinc, and iron. These metallic oxides act like a dry pile, and give off electricity when they come in contact with the body.

An extraordinary telegram is reported to have been sent by the Czar of Russia to Prince Louis Joseph Napoleon, one of the heads of the Bonapartist party, who is at present a colonel in a Russian regiment. His Imperial Majesty is stated to have expressed in this message the hope that each year will bring the Prince nearer to the realisation of the best wishes of his numerous French and Russian friends. Paris is excited over the apparent Russian support of Bonapartist pretensions to the right to the restoration of an Imperial regime in France.

Mr Buchanan, M.H.R., put on record the other night his greatest distrust possible of Government experts.

The N.Z. Times writing on the declaration of the poll on Tuesday uight declares " taken all in all, it was one of the most spiritless elections that has ever been held in Wellington," and then shortly afterwards records an attempted riot and the throwing of stale eggs. What does our contemporary wish for as a spirited wind-up ?

The British flag has been lowered at Candia, in Crete, and the local Government has assumed control of the island.

We draw attention to the great reduction sale at Mr W. Park's stationery establishment at Palmerston. Being largely overstocked the prices have been reduced all round, in books to half-price as well as in music. In electro plate, Japanese goods, china and glassware the prices are now reduced by one third. Now is the time to make cheap investments as the stock is valued at £5000 and therefore offers a very wide range of choice. We find that cricket and tennis goods have also been subjected to a very large reduction.

Members of Parliament are not impressed with the architectural beauties of Wellington. Mr Montgomery said " Look at the houses near the Te Aro Station. Are they not a disgrace to the capital city of the colony." The Premier continued the cry, he said " when you come to consider the rents charged in this and other cities — this city in particular — it is not the English landlord that we have good reason to complain against ; it is the landlord here, who takes nearly 50 per cent of the earnings of the occupants per week to pay for the shelter over their heads. And such miserable shelter, and at such exorbitant rentals !"

The District Court will sit in Palmerston on Wednesday, 2nd August, to deal with bankruptcy business.

General Booth, head of the Salvation Army, who has returned from the colonies, opened a monster exhibition in connection with the Army in London. The General was given an immense ovation at the ceremony.

An alarming accident occurred during a cycling meeting held in Berlin. The wire railing that enclosed the racing track was struck by lightning, and forty persons who were leaning against it received a shock. Three of them were killed, and twenty suffered more or less serious injury.

In the course of a bitter attack on the press at the Lyceum Theatre the other evening, for having published the letter of Mr Thomson, Mayor of Balclutha, Mr T. E. Taylor, M.H.R., charged the newspapers with having lied early and lied often. He said there was not a sly sneaking thing about Clutha that they did not put in their columns. He knew these newspapers. If there was a hot corner in the hereafter it would be for the newspaper men, who would manage to get into it themselves. These newspapers, he said, called themselves the organs of public opinion, but they were as mean as any three-card man on a racecourse. The day was coming when these men, who sat in their chairs and perhaps dipped their pens in whisky, and wrote articles which guided decent respectable people, would not have the power they now possessed. The day was coming when the people would think for themselves, and not be led by men who had as much cheek as there were divided into a thousand persons. — M. Times.

Some earnest member of the House is reported to have said " I hope the day is not far distant when workmen will be able to travel a maximum distance of eight or ten miles by rail, for a payment of ten shillings per month, to be paid monthly.

We (Advocate) regret to learn that Mr John Coyle, the well-known boniface of the Royal Hotel, Ohingaiti, who is at present an inmate of the Wellington Hospital, shows no signs of improving, his condition being such as to cause his friends the greatest auxiety.