Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, SEPT. 5, 1899.

Manawatu Herald, 5 September 1899, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, SEPT. 5, 1899.

Nine-tenths of all the world's sewing machines are made in America. A good general servant is required at the Ready Money Dining Rooms. The dates of Mr Bridge's visits to the district are notified to-day. On a Moutoa road section Mr Proctor is building a cottage for Mr Rees Baker. ' I The Whangaroa is now engaged in Itaking in white pine timber lately cut' lat Messrs Austin Bros.' mill. I Mr Bradcock is having an addition made to his house in Duncan street. Mr Speirs is carrying out the work. The Queen of the South brought another consignment of timber for the Wirokino bridge, but none of it is' of the kind required immediately. The Returning Officer advertises the names of the candidates for the office of Councillor. The election will be held on Thursday week. There is some talk among Jews in London of a testimonial to M. Zola for his great services on behalf of the unfortunate Dreyfus. Mr F. Spring, at one time on the staff of this paper, has accepted a position on the Dannevirke Morning Press, and leaves for his new duties on Saturday next. Mr Joe Tos having secured a high price contract for many months is about to increase the output at his " Bridge mill " by getting a 20 h.p. engine and another stripper. Mr J. Walls, Jr., who has sold his bakery business to Messrs Perreau JBros^ is going into the aerated water "and cordial trade. His plant arrived by the Queen of the South to-day. We noticed last week in Joe Tos's shop the first brocolis of the season as well as rhubarb. He is later this year by two or three weeks to what he was last year in the production of these vegetables. The foreman, Mr Donelly. has received word that the contractor for the Wirokino bridge has secured some ironbark piles from the government at Napier, and tbey were to be sent through yesterday by-Tail. Mr Robert Morley, who has the dining rooms in the Ready Money Store buildings next Mr Hunter's hotel, is a capital cook. This has been known for some years, but we think it is not so generally known that when in London he was one of the cooks at the Gattis' well-known establishments, who have a business equal to Speirs and Pond of Victorian fame. Poor Mr Speaker. Mr Hogg said a member was cackling there like a hen that wanted to lay an egg. Mr Speaker said " such language was altogether unparliamentary, and the honourable member must refrain from using it. It was not to the credit of the House that such language should be addressed to it." Hear! Hear! but very little attention is paid to his decisions. Mr Fisher, M.H.R., got rid of the following verbiage about a fellow member, the other night :— " It would obviously be pure waste of time and exceedingly bad judgment to pay too much attention to the banality of the exiguous member for . He possesses such an amazing cocksuredness. He settles everything with such consummate ease." And the taxpayer has to pay for rubbish like this to be reported and printed Jn Hansard !

Mr E. Ball has an altered advertisement in to-day. Mr John Davies has just sold to Dr. Newman 800 acres near Kereru, of splendid swamp land. We are informed that Mr Glover is getting another small steamer, such is the stress of work on the river. Pressure, it is reported, is b iv.g brought to bear on the Government to bring the session to as early a close as possible. Absolutely the very latest cure for seasickness is a drop or two of petroleum on a lump of sugar, to be taken as required. Dwarf oak trees are cultivated by the Chinese. They average from six inches to a foot in height, and are perfect in every respect. A well-known authoress declares, as a condition of domestic felicity, that the man of the family should be absent at least six hours a day Owing to the increased traffic in dairy produce, Mr Ronayne, the General Manager of Railways, has decided to place twelve additional insulated trucks on the New Plymouth section of railways. In the Masterton Club Hotel case, Mr Northcroft, S.M., fined four men, who had mis-represented themselves as travellers, £5 each, and the licensee £6 for serving them on such representation. Notice of appeal was given. Mr Stuart Ennis announces that he has recommenced business as tailor, and hopes to see his old customers and others giving him a call. His 'premises are next to Mr Loveday's drapery establishment. We have no doubt that Mr Ennis will receive his fair share of the business of the town. Mr A. Henderson, our local saddler has now in his window one of the certificates he has obtained for his work. The one shown was gained at the Egmont Show and declares he received it for the best buggy, spring cart, shaft and leading harness. Mr Henderson has just received some very superior saddles. Messrs Kemp and Jupp have disposed of the p.s. Nile and have purchased a boat named The Planet from the N.S.S. Co.* The boat has a •wooden hull and was employed in the Auckland trade. She. is nicely fitted up with cabins and is expected any day. Her size is about the same as Mr Howe's steamer. Constable Forster who has been out for the last day or two hunting for the body of Linklater who was drowned on Saturday week, says he can find no signs, though on Sunday he went as far as the Koputara stream. This morning he went with Mr Hunter down the river some way but saw nothing. Lord Halifax has urged the members of the English Church Union, of which he is president, to follow the example set by the priests of yielding, if compelled, to the recent decisions of archbishops as to the illegality of the use of incense and processional lights in church services, but to reserve the right to take future action. An officer of the volunteer corps on duty in the east of Fife, very proud of 1 , his new uniform, had come to church, I and walked about looking for his seat, I but took his place rather quickly on I the minister quietly remonstrating from the pulpit : •' Oh, mon, will ye sit doun, an' we'll see your new breeks when the kirk's dune 1" — Pearson's Weekly. The Manawatu Times says Messrs Westwood and Buckman's flaxmills in the Lower Rangitikei employ from 40 to 50 men, and the firm are working under contract with a Wellington firm to supply about 400 tons up till the end of March next. Messrs Westwood and Buckman are making arrangements to erect an additional mill on Messrs Keiller Bros.' property, near Bulls. The Rev. F. W. Isitt is to speak in the Public Hall on the burning question of the day — Prohibition, on Thursday night. Mr Isitt has a thorough knowledge of his subject, and is a most eloquent and powerful speaker and all who are interested in the welfare of humanity should hear him. He will be prepared to answer questions, and if the friends of the trade have anything to say, they will get a hearing. Mahaki, or Manukara, a maori fanatical prophet, who in 1883 tied up Hursthouse and another surveyor in the King Country, and also committed other offences, has died in the lunatic asylum at Auckland, where he was sent from gaol several months ago. Three years ago he was sentenced to seven years for firing buildings at Te Kuiti. He was formerly disciple of Te Whiti at Parihaka. An Auckland petition presented to parliament alleged that the steam trawlers up North are fast exterminating the staple food fish, the schnapper, by disturbing the bottom and exposing the spawn to its natural enemies. The petitioners ask that the thirteen-mile limit be brought into force with regard to trawlers, as in the Old Country; also that the Thames Gulf be closed to this craft and kept as a breeding ground. .W. N. Cathro, solicitor, at the Wellington Supreme Court on Friday pleaded not guilty to a charge of stealing and converting a cheque to his own use in the sum of £1084 is iod, the property of John Prior, solicitor, Feilding. This was the third trial, two previous juries having disagreed. After counsel had addressed the jury, his Honor reviewed the circumstances of the case. After a retirement of half an hour, the jury found the accused guilty. j Perhaps the costliest mile of railway in the world is a mile measured on the steel portion of the Forth Bridge in Scotland. The length of this bridge is a mile and twenty yards, and the cost of it was considerably over £2,000,000. The most expensive railway system in the world, is the inner circle line of London, which cost, including the purchase of the land, from £800,000 to £1,000,000 per mile. The last constructed mile, between the Mansion House and Aldgate, cost altogethfr, including compensations, nearly £2,---000,000.

Horseback exercise possesses, according to some physicians, the faculty of both increasing and reducing weight. If meals are taken immediately after riding additional flesh is gained, otherwise a decrease of flesh results. On Monday last at the accident at the Wirokino ferry Mr J. Cummerfield had a load of goods on his trap, and some flour and other items fell into the river. The Council last night passed the item in payment of the loss to Messrs Hennessy and Co. Mr E. Osborne, the holder of the celebrated Tohunga ointment, has been in search of as good a medicine for inward application, and has now secured that which comes up to his expectation, in Qureca, a preparation prepared and invented by Mr Theo. Mitchell. We remind our readers that the land sale of choice dairy farms will be held on Friday. The land is firstclass and is 'much inquired after, and as the terms are easy and the reserves low a good sale may be expected. Taranaki is the dairy ground of the colony. One bag of flour, lost at the Wirokino accident on Monday last has had a peculiar career, and shows with what force the river ran, as it was brought to shore by some fisherman who were using a draw net, at the Wharangi. The flour was as good as the day it left the store with the exception of a light crust on the sides. Mr Jones : " What. You don't mean to say that you're going to wear that bathing costume in public?" Mrs Jones : " Certainly ! It's perfectly modest. Mrs Brown has got one just like it." Mr Jones : " She has ?By Jove 1 I'll come down to the shore every day and watch her." Mrs Jones : "Oh, you wretch ! You just let me catch you watching that shameless woman, and I'll go home to my mother's !" — Judge. Captain Davis Dalton, the American who made a famous swim across the English Channel, is publishing a volume in London through Messrs Putnam. It has the title "How to Swim." Captain Dalton has saved 281 persons from death by drowning, and has received 169 medals for gallant conduct. He is aware of the difficulties which confront the beginner in the art of swimming, and he shows in his book how each may be overcome. He goes on to write for those who can already swim, instructing them how they may improve their accomplishment. His strong opinion is that every man and woman ought to be able to swim.