Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, AUGUST 12. 1899

Manawatu Herald, 12 August 1899, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, AUGUST 12. 1899

The last of the assemblies at Levin takes place on Thursday next.

Mr John Davies informs us that off 40 acres he threshed two thousand bushels of oats. This was at Totara, the run he has lately purchased.

Invitations are out to a private dance on Friday next at the Public Hall at which the coming of age of a popular young lady, will be celebrated.

The^other day an iron rail was found firmly fixed on the railway line near Ashfield, shortly before the mail train to Melbourne reached that suburb. The signalman who discovered the obstruction has now confessed that he placed it there himself. It is supposed that the man's action was due to a morbid desire for notoriety.

In conversation with Mr Peter Bartholomew, one of the best-known sawmillers and settlers along the West Coast, a Post representative learned that so great has been the demand upon the forests of the district in recent year 3 that matai was now running short. Mr Bartholomew has cutting rights over a large area in the Wereroa district, and he has in sight enough rimu and white pine to keep his mills gojng for eight to ten years.

An lowa jeweller has constructed a miniture horizontal engine, which he claims to be the smallest in the world, and which next year he will send to the Paris Exhibition. It 'Consists of 118 pieces, steam and water guages, throttle valve, etc., and weighs but iodwt. It works by a tiny alcohol lamp placed in the fire box, ten drops of water being sufficient to generate steam to drive this liliputian engine.

In Mr Bridge's advertisement will be found the dates of his next visits to Foxton, Levin, and Otaki.

Mr Whitehead announces that for fourteen days only he will make a reduction in cabinet photos to ten shillings and sixpence a dozen. This opportunity should be taken advantage

In Mr Langley's window is to be seen a very handsome four-decker wedding cake. We draw attention to the wonderful amount of labour and patience bestowed upon the ornamentation of the sugaring, all the work of Mr A. Langley.

We notice that Mr Hunter is thoroughly renovating the Family Hotel, and painters are now engaged painting the outside of the building.

It is something like that. Speaking about releasing & prisoner who is ill. the Premier said it was very strangt that when prisoners were reported t< be very ill, and were released, theii subsequent recovery was something; wonderful.

We are requested to remind our readers that the special sale of pianos and organs held by the Dresden Co.. in the sample room of Whyte's Hotel, is just about to terminate, so anyone desirous o£ purchasing a reliable instrument can do so this evening or Monday next.

A body of Chinese miners pillaged the French Consular office at Mongtse, and destroyed the tri-colour flag. Two thousand French troops are being massed at Lokai for the purpose of occupying Mongtse.

A contemporary points out the appended absurdities in telegraphic charges which need revision : — F. 0.8. is counted as one word, M.H.R. as three; ginger-bread as one, gingerbeer as two ; ninepence as one, threepence, fourpence, or eightpence as two ; headquarters as one, hindquarters as two. Other and similar anomalies, it is claimed, would fill a column.

Snow has fallen heavily over the country between Wagga and Albury. At Kiandra there was a fall of snow 3ft deep.

A line-repairer has died from exposure at Ballarat. He had sought shelter in the bush during a snowstorm.

It is alleged that nearly a million women in Spain work in the fields as day labourers ; 350,000 women were registered as day servants — that is, they work for their food and lodging. There is no such class anywhere else.

A man named William Hoist, alias Hulst, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment in Wanganui gaol for vagrancy this morning by Mr Alf. Fraser, J.P.

The following is the result of the examination, conducted by Mr Milne, of the Taikorea School -.—Standard Vl.— One boy failed. Standard V.— Lottie Boswell. Standard IV.— J. Hehir, James Hehir, M. Hehir, C. Mathers, J. O'Grady, A. Ross, Mary Boyle, Mary Hehir, Beatrice Sexton, one boy failed. Standard III.— E. Boswell, M. Desmond, H. Boyle, J. Mathers, G. Masters, Nellie Desmond, Minnie Desmond. Bridget O'Grady, Lena Ross. Standard II.— W. Ross, G. Grey, W. Boyle. Standard I.— W. Boswell, J. Boyle, P. Desmond, Katie, Maggie, Isabel and Elsie Ewart, Ethel Sexton.

Interviewed on his arrival in England regarding his Australian mission General Booth said : — " My broad observation would be that Salvationism is consolidating itself in the coloniestaking even a firmer hold. Getting quite respectable, you put in ? We are keeping down to our work. My great hope for the future is the increased d«sire on the part of our officers and soldiers to get still deeper down in the rescue of the- suffering and the perishing. But in the colonies, as you know, there is not the same population of the absolutely submerged that we have here. Out there we do a great work among what I may call the reformatory classes — those who have fallen from the straight path into the crooked one. The colonial Governments have taken the trouble to inquire into our operations, and they subsidise us. We work hand-in-hand with them. I regard the people of Australasia as a thoroughly religious people — people with whom religion is a great force.'

Messrs John Holmes & Co. have their business announcement in this issue. Though Mr John Holmes is a name as familiar in this district as household words owing to the very great interest he takes, and has taken, in the flax industry, the general range of business undertaken by his firm has not been so well known. Now by a glance at the announcement made today agriculturists and sheep farmers will notice that their interests are also carefully looked after by the firm. As in this district, and the colony at large, have lately had an object lesson of Mr Holmes push and ability it is unnecessary further to refer to it now.

Mr T. Easton, who has the contract for the erection of Mr John Robinson's new house, has courteously shown us the plans prepared by Mr Ragner Jenssen, of Dannevirke. The house is a ten-roomed one, and has a fine entrance 21 feet long by nine feet wide. The drawing room is 15ft by ißtt and has a large bay window. The dining room is 17ft by 12ft and also has a large bay window. The other rooms are in proportion. The western wing projects beyond the front, and advantage of this break is taken to run a nine foot verandah round the remainder of the front and east side. The rooms will be raft high in the clear, and there are many fireplaces. We noticed one cosy corner of the house set apart as an office — or may be, a smoking room — office sounds best. The roof, generally an ugly part of a house has been broken up so as to do away with one monotonous slope, and yet has been so arranged that there will be no gutters. The house will be a distinct addition to the architecture of the town.