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Manawatu Herald, 19 August 1899, Page 2

Only one man in 203 is over 6ft in height. Egypt has been declared to be infected with foot and mouth disease. The French Government is attempting to raise revenue by letting out the backs of matchboxes, which are a State monopoly, to outside advertisers. The Otaki Hospital Ball does not show up as a great financial success as though the receipts for tickets realised £15 17s, the credit balance was only £2 3s 6d. Mr Harry Palmer will hold a sale of trees from Mr Benefield's nursery in the yard of Whyte's Hotel, on Thursday, commencing at noon. One of the hands employed at Mr Harry Coley's mill, named Alfred Massey, was unfortunately drowned on Thursday afternoon whilst rowing on a lagoon in a canoe. The Australians have so far played twenty -nine games during their present English tour, and of these have won fourteen, lost three and drawn twelve. Mr Harry Yogel, son of the late Sir Julius Yogel, is now editor of The People, a Sunday edition of the London Daily Mail, but though the paper has a New Zealand editor we clipped the following paragraph from the last issue received: — u Chronic topers in New Zealand are compelled to have their photographs taken. These are distributed among the saloon-keepers, and they are heavily fined if they sell liquor to them. Lecturing at the British Museum, the Rev. Dr Kinns said that here were 100,000 Assyrian inscriptions in the Museum, 20,000 of which had been deciphered, and the work of deciphering the others was constantly going on. So far they had got confirmatory evidence of the Bible story of the Deluge, of the history of Sennacharib, and of the narrative of Daniel. The Egyptian inscriptions had confirmed the story of Joseph and of the Exodus. The largest consignment of foreign eggs ever brought to the N6rth of England has arrived at West Hartlepaol by the steamer Talbot, which brought 8000 cases, containing about 12,000,000 of eggs. The Vicar's daughter: Papa was very shocked Giles, to see you standing outside the Green Man this morning, after church.— The yillage Reprobate : Oi can 'sure ye, miss, it wns na fault o' moine that I was standin' ootside! There are more than 6,000 known languages and dialects. The National Zietung suggests that Samoa should be acquired by Germany, and that Germany should elect a Governor for the group. 'Bus Driver (to cabby, who is trying to lash his horse into something like a trot) : Wot's the matter with him, Willum; 'E don't seem 'isself this mornin'. I believe you've bin an 1 changed 'is milk ! News from St. Kitts states that through the recent hurricane no fewer than 3000 persons are homeless. At the instance of Mr Chamberlain a Mansion House Fund has been opened to aid the sufferers at St. Kitts, Montserrat and Nevis. " Sanitary, non -sweat-shop make," is a new label placed on the readymade clothing of a prominent New York firm. Another firm advertises in connection with a sale of underwear, 11 Made by clean, contented and wellfed people. No ♦ song of the shirt ' horrors are stitched into our garments." A huge wine-barrel at Nancy accommodated at dinner 150 workmen, who had been building it for the Paris Exhibition. Mrs Langtry has been married to Hugo Gerald De Bathe, heir of General Sir Henry Perceval De Bathe. The bridegroom is 28 years of age. Apparently, says the " Globe," we are to have a repetition of the Klondyke craze in respect of the new gold finds in Alaska. The excitement in New York is intense, and on all hands new syndicates are being formed. Expeditions are being projected and fitted out from various points on the Pacific coasts, and new finds are reported, especially from the Snake River district. One of these, the* Treadwvll Mine, is estimated to command an output of 14,000 dollars a dav, and the new regions are alleged to surpass the Klondyke in wealth of gold-bearing. Much of this is, no doubt, speculative, but there appears to be no doubt that some of the discoveries are genuine and of valud Not a few of our English aristocrats who are in a chronic state of being " hard up " gain a very comfortable income by letting their houses to Americans. One of them recently had a very amusing experience, which is still food for fun at his club. He is young— under thirty —good-looking, and possessed of charming manners, but very poor, his only possession being a charming country house not far from Windsor. This he lately let to a young American widow, who wrote to him to say that she liked the house so much that to gain possession of it she would marry him and settle £3000 a year on him for life. The offer was declined with thanks, but no doubt there will be a sequel to this story.

The secretary of the Foxton Racing Club notifies that poison is laid on the racecourse-. A first offender was convicted and discharged fof drunkenness at the Court this morning; Mr A. Fraser was the presiding justice; Owing to the hall being engaged the Foxton • Tennis Club meeting has been postponed to Friday, 25th inst. Dr. Dalzell has temporarily moved into the building at the back of Mr Alt Fraser's stationer's shop. Dr Dalzell has shown the Mayor his diplomas, and he has assured us that they are all in order. It is a comfort to know that we have a qualified medical man amongst us agaim The meeting of the Borough Council was postponed last night to Monday a quotum not putting in an appearance. The applications for the rangership will then be consideredi The Premier has introduced a Bil 1 entitled "The Local Government Voting Reform Act, 1899," a °d in it is set out that in every case where under any Act provision is made for submitting any proposal to the votes of the ratepayers or burgesses of the district, or of any subdivision of the district, of a local authority, such proposal shall be deemed to be carried if, at the poll taken on such proposal, the number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal exceeds the number of valid votes recorded against the same, each ratepayer or burgess having one vote and no more. There are over 70 miles of tunnels cut in the solid rock of Gibraltar. The Land and Income Assessment Act Amendment Act, 1899, enacts that the income of a co-operative dairy factory company (meaning thereby a company formed for the purpose of manufacturing dairy-produce from milk supplied exclusively by its members in accordance with its articles or rules) shall be exempt from tax in so far, but so far only, as such income is derived from the sale of sup h produce.