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Manawatu Herald, 14 October 1899, Page 2

Mr R. Young, of Marton, was married on Wednesday to Miss Florrie Ward.

The sum of £3559 was put through the totalisator on the first day at the Otaki races.

Mr C. Adin has had an addition made to his house at Wirokino, and now caters for the men employed

there,

More shops are needed in town. We had a visit on Thursday from a gentleman from Wellington who desired to start in busiuess here, but who was uuable to find a building in the Main street to rent.

Mr Andrew Jonson who is now engaged in building a punt for Mr Glover, has received another order to build a similar one for another steam launch owner.

The Wanganui Education Board has decided to close the schools for the Christmas holidays on December 18th, instead of the 35th, and to reopen them on the 29th January.

" The ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica " is universally recognised as the most complete and perfect of the works of reference. This is quite true; but, all the same, the 4 Encylc." contains one very curious error. "The best colonial beer is made in Tasmania, whence it is shipped, in frozen blocks, to Australia and India. In Calcutta, on the hottest day, tho residents now suck (not sip) their frozen pale ale." — Sydney Bulletin.

Minister : "I am sorry I didn't see you at church yesterday, Tummus. Tummus : " Well, ye see, it was siccan a wet day it wisna fit to turn oot a dog ia. But I sent the wife, sir."

The typhoon reported earlier in the week, which blew a train into the Tounomiya river, Japan, caused widespread loss of life. Fifty persons are known to have been killed,

Inspector Pender, who, though over 70 years of age, is still recognised as one of the ablest officers of the New Zealand Police Force, is likely soon — to use a policeman's phrase — to be " moved on," now that the Police Provident Fund Bill has passed the Lower House. Inspector Pender has served just upon 55 years in the Police Force, 37 of which have been passed in this colony. He was at one time in the Royal Irish Constabulary, and afterwards saw service in the Crimea and in Australia. A pension in Inspector Pender's case has surely been well and faithfully earned. — Post.

The American troops have captured the Filipino towns of Rosario and Novaleta. In doing so they secured 345 Spanish guns which had fallen into the hands of the islanders.

The greatest bar.quet in history took place on August 18, 1889, when the 40,000 mayors of France sat at a table in the Palais de l'lndustrie in Paris. There were three relays of about 13,000 guests each. To prepare the feast required 75 chief cooks, aud 13,000 waiters aud sculiions, eic.

Husband (reading the paper) — " What donkeys some men will make of themselves." Wife^-" Now, John, what have you done this time ?"

The vital statistics for the past quarter have been furnished us by tne* Registrar, and are as follows : — 7 births, 3 marriages, and 5 deaths.

Mr Hillary seccred the Shannon ferry, the rent offered by him being £f\ Early in December Mrs F. R. Young will produce the • Flower Queen'* in aid of All Saints' building fund. She has 39 young people in training. Mrs J. Robinson has consented to take the leading part.

Mr Bridge, dentist, will vi-ut Kox'on on 23rd inst.

The Glen Oroua factory is almost finished*

The potato market in Sydney is excited. Circular Heads, £4; New Zealand Derwents, £2 ids.

A private telegram received in Wellington notifies the risiDg of the price of the Canterbury flour by ios per ton.

Her Majesty the Queen has sent a large sum of money to the family of the French fisherman who was killed in August when the British gunboat Leda fired upon a French fishing smack which was poaching on British grounds in the English Channel.

Quite right. At the last meeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board on Thursday morning a letter was read from the Inspector General, Dr McGregoj, inquiring if any alteration is required for the election of the grouped distriots, and it was resolved that it be a recommendation to Dr McGregor that, when the districts are rearranged, matters should be so adjusted as to give Foxton a representative of its own.

The annual show of the Manawatu and West Coast Agricultural and Pastoral Association will be held at Palmerston North on the 15th and 16th November. Besides numerous cups, the sum of £1081 will be offered in money prizes.

An apprentice at Whitehead's torpedo works has invented an electric gun, which is at once deadly, noiseless, and smokeless. It weighs only 71b. The Admiralty, it is said, have offered him £75,000 for the patent. The inventor is only nineteen.

The inquest into the circumstances of the deaths of three soldiers at Aldershot has ended. It was previously suggested that the men might have been poisoned by New Zealand cheese. The jury has now brought in a verdict that the deaths were due to inflammation of the stomach, but that the evidence was insufficient to establish the cause of the inflammation, though a small quantity of toxic ptomaines was detected in the stomachs of the deceased.

The Manawatu Times says, we Understand that Mr C. M. Maclean, manager of the Bank of New Zealand in Palmerston North, is shortly to be removed to Napier, where he w ; ll undertake the management of the branch in that town. Mr Maclean has now been a resident of Palmerston for some years, and he is a man that can ill be spared. Both in church and social matters he has taken a prominent part during his residence here, and his departure will be greatly regretted. Mr Maclean, we hear, will not leave Palmerston until some time during the month of November. The change will mean substantial promotion to Mr Maclean, which has been thoroughly deserved by his many years of efficient and devoted service k> the Bank.

In a bankruptcy case in Wellington the following dialogue is reported : — Debtor — I am not treating the matter lightly. My conscience is clear. The Assignee — AH I c.an say, Mr Smart, is that you have a conscience of indiarubber. .

A really novel notion comes to us from Michigan. The Legislature of that enlightened State has hit upon the glorious plan of licensing not only the drink seller but the drink consumer. For five dollars cash the Michigan citizen may purchase the right, not exactly " to be drunk on the premises," but an any rate to enjoy alcoholic refreshment in any bar he thinks fit. Of course he must produce his license when he gives his order, otherwise both parties to the deal are liable to prosecution. — The Caterer.

In a letter from Mr J. M. Gillespie, dated Kimberley, August 19th, which the Marlborough Times has been shown by the father of the writer, it is stated that " Dr. Jameson is now in Kimberley, and should war be declared I believe he will be one of the first to enter the Transvaal at the head of Powell's irregulars. If he enters it before war is declared he will be shot by the Boers for a certainty. Two powerful searchlights have been erected on the outskirts of Kimberley so as to flash right over the border. The Veldt is mapped out, cannons erected, and other necessary precautions carried out under the supervision of Imperial officers. The Boer press organs teem with bragging articles re the intention of the burghers to wreck the mines and bombard Pretoria and Johannesburg immediately England makes war on them. It is a well-known fact that both Pretoria and Johannesburg are undermined, and hundreds of pounds of dynamite placed under various parts of these cities, and it would be only a matter of applying a match to these death-trains to carry out these diabolical threats, and spread havoc and death among the inhabitants of these centres. Of course Boer and Briton would suffer alike, but sooner than see their country and its immense riches pass into the hands of their enemies they weuld shed their life«blood."