Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, SEPT. 12, 1899.

Manawatu Herald, 12 September 1899, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, SEPT. 12, 1899.

Mr Andrew Jon son has secured the contract to build a flax punt 40 feet long for Messrs Glover & Co. Mr Jonson has been very busy in this class of shipbuilding for some time. The N.S. Wales Ministry have been defeated on a want of confidence motion. It is said that Mr Reid will ask the Governor to grant a dissolution. The fight is said to have been between Messrs Reid and Barton with the object of forwarding their respective claims to the Federal Premiership. Henry Erwin, the accused in the Newtown murder case, has been committed for trial, he reserved his defence. Parliament devoted all day of Friday to a further discussion of the Marine Scandal, and a resolution that the House was dissatisfied with the administration of the Marine Department was lost by 2Q votes to 20. Sir Thomas Lipton, the well-known London tea and provision merchant, has offered £50,000 for the Lakes of Killarney, intending to present the property to the Irish nation. Sir Thomas Lipton, who was^born in Glasgow, is qf Irish parentage. The Rarotongan Government has decided to introduce the Gothenburg system, and an Act has been passed prohibiting the importation of drink so far as private enterprise is concerned. The Government intends building a public house and placing a manager in charge. According to a Rio de Janeiro paper, a new Robinson Crusoe has been discovered. The man was found on one of the Galapagos Islands. He had not spoken to or seen a human being for fourteen years, and his body is covered with thick hair. He had lived on wild birds, shellfish, and water. Suspected persons, as they stand at the paying-teller's window in the Bank of Franqe, Paris, are instantaneously photographed. A camera is always in position, and is operated upon a signal from the teller. During the meeting on Thursday one of the audience wanted to know from Mr Isitt his opinion of prohibition in Maine. He replied that at the first start of prohibition in that State business went back for a couple ot years, but the inhabitants had kept to for 40 years, and it had been carried, poll after poll, by overwhelming, majorities. In Portland, the port of the State prohibition had proved a bit of a failure owing to the shipping, but in the country districts it was satisfactory. The demand for horse meat has grown to such an extent in Germany that it is beginning to be difficult to supply it. Horses for butchering now cost from £5 to £10, where formerly they could have been purchased for one-tenth that amount. The programme of the Otaki Maori Racing Club's Spring Meeting is advertised to-day. The dates fixed are the nth and 12th of October, an earlier date than has been selected previously. There are seven events for each day, and the total prize money Amounts to £295 for the first day and £245 for the second day. £80 is given for the Otaki Handicap, and £60 for the Birthday Handicap. Nominations close on 30th September and J weights for the first day will be de- 1 clared about the 4th October, and acceptances for the first day and entries 1 for the second day close on the 7th I October.

Mr Hennessy is getting green flax from the Taikorea neighbourhood until the swamp dries up. The paddle steamer Nile hft this morning for Auckland under the command of Captain Nicholson. During his stay here Captain Nicholson has been looking into the flaxmills, and possibly he may give his opinions to the Auckland papers. If he does we have arranged to secure a copy. The Whangaroa left for Sydney today in tow of the Queen of the South. She takes 158,000 feet of white pine*. She loads coal at Newcastle for the Messrs Austins' on her return trip. Annie Fiford was charged this morning betore Messrs Thynne and Fraser, J's.P., with the theft of a stockwhip of the value of £3, the property of T. W. McKenzie. It appeared that the accused on arriving at the Foxton railway station on Friday night saw the whip irt the rack, and believing it to have belonged to a friend of hers who got out at Carnarvon, took it home. The owner who was in another carriage went for it, and finding it gone, informed the police. The Bench decided that there was no evidence of felonious intent, and, after having warned the accused of the folly of picking up property not belonging to her, in error, dismissed the charge. The Borough Council, for some reason which may be apparent to Councillors, are getting quite reckless in their advertising. They published an advertisement that they intend to hold a meeting to pass a by-law. No public notice is necessary for the first meeting, but is for the final meeting. It appears a pity this expense has been needlessly incurred noticeing how very economical they have been as to previous advertisements. Artificial milk is now being made from gelatine. A reservoir filled with gelatine is kept heated to a certain temperature, so that the material is constantly in a liquid state. The top of the reservoir has a number of small openings, through which the liquid oozes in fine streams; these are received by an endless " chain " of linen running on the pulleys, and before the chain has gone half round, the gelatine has dried in the form of fine threads. We much regret to announce the death of Mr John Coyle at Wellington on Sunday morning. On Friday, the Standard says, while feeding at a flaxmill at Linton, Edward Walsh, son of Mr M. Walsh, of Mainstreet, got his right arm caught in the machine and had it broken in two places. He rode to Palmerston^ for the purpose of getting it set. At the Islington abattoirs, near Christchurch, last month, 10 cattle, 214 sheep and lambs, and 1 pig were condemned by the Government Inspector. The pig and eight of the cattle were tuberculous; the sheep condemned were affected similarly to those condemned in previous months, no case of tuberculosis having yet been met with in sheep or lambs. The stamp of the greatest value is the post-office Mauritius. There are only 19 in existence, and they have changed hands at £1000 apiece recently ; other stamps according to scarcity and the fineness of the specimens run from £400 to £500. ' Sydney Views,' id, 2d, and 3d, the oldest issued, are getting a scarce commodity, and range from £1 and £1 10s up to £20 or £40 — that is, for an unused stamp."" One in a bad state of preservation would be, perhaps, worthless, while the latter price would be given for a perfect specimen. A little side issue of the Marine Commission came before the Wellington S.M. on Saturday morning. Giving evidence there, Captain Von Schoen professed his readiness to repay Captain Jones a sum variously stated at £15 or £17, which he had received on the condition that he procured Jones' service certificate. Application was accordingly made for a refund of the money, which was not forthcoming and as Von Schoen was to leave at noon for Sydney, the plaintiff took steps to bring the matter to Court. On giving security, Von Schoen was allowed to get away, and it was agreed that his evidence before the Commission should be admitted as evidence in the case. " Progressive Politician " writes to the Dannevirke Morning Press ; — The president of the Pahiatua League is a lawyer ! The Vice-president is a \ lawyer 1 The Pahiatua League candidate is a lawyer ! Mr Harold Smith gave his maiden speech as a lawyer ! He was questioned by a lawyer! A vote of thanks was proposed by a lawyer and seconded by a lawyer. When the English captured the city of Benin, they found and sent to the British Museum some 300 remarkable bronze castings. These present animals and human figures with various ornaments in relief. The lines are strong, and the workmanship ot great beauty. The origin of these castings greatly puzzles ethnologists. It is now thought by some archaeologists, notably Mr Read, of the British MusefTm, that they were the work of some European . bronze founders who settled there in the sixteenth century. Several complaints have been made this season of the practice of bringing ewes into the saleyards on the point of lambing, and a more serious case has just been brought under the notice of the Christchurch Press. A few days ago a consignment of ewes came down by steamer from Wellington, a number of which lambed on the way, many of the lambs and several of the ewes dying. This (says our contemporary) is a matter that should be taken up by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Wellington branch should be asked to assist. The Stipendiary Magistrate holds a Court on Thursday. "Another instance of how soon stamps may become valuable is afforded by a Queensland id issue of this year. The perforation was imperfect, and only a few are in circulation. They are worth 2s 6d each now Then the 6d green of New South Wales, only used for seven months in 1898, is worth isd to zßd.

The Bishop of Rochester (Right Rev. E. S. Talbot) and the Bishop of Salisbury (Right Rev. John Wordsworth) have urged the clergy of their dioceses to show obedience to the I recent decisions of the Archbishops forbidding the use of incense and processional lights in church services. Tenders for clearing 450 chains of drains on the Moutoa estate are invited by the Manager. Tenders close on the 16th instant. Some of the ironbark piles for the Wirokino bridge have arrived by rail, but the contractor will not accept them owing to some being under measurement. A lot of children and some adults travelled by the Queen of the South when she towed the Whangaroa over the bar. Mr O'Donnell, the foreman of the Wirokino bridge, is, we regret, confined to his house from rheumatism in his knee.