Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY. NOV. 25. 1899

Manawatu Herald, 25 November 1899, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY. NOV. 25. 1899

Mr Bridge's representative will vis! 1 Foxton on the 28th instant.

Mr W. H. Simcox has been elected Chairman of the Horowhenua County Council.

A Scraping Acquaintance. — My friend, the barber.

In thanking the public for their patronage at the Theatre Royal on Tuesday night, Mr Dante, says the Standard, took occasion to recommend to all present the merits of the Gaiety Company, who open here on Tuesday night. lie said he had seen them himself in Auckland and he could safely say they were a good show. His generous remarks were loudly applauded by the audience.

The American canning companies are under contract to supply 17,000,---000 pounds of beef to the British Army, to be delivered at stated intervals.

At the Eton (England) Board of Guardians an appeal was read from Mr Stead : — " Shall I slay my brother Boer." The following resolution was proposed and seconded : — " Although it does not appear to be the duty ol this board to interfere with Mr Stead's family affairs, yet, owing to the considerable personal risk he would run in so doing, we feel inclined to dis suade him from adopting such violeu; measures." The appeal was alluwcu to lie on the table.

An extraordinary case of bigamy was heard at Stockport. The accused, Thomas Johnson, an elderly man, admitted having been married twice, and that both women were still alive. He had not, he said, lived with his first wife for 30 years before he married the second, and he thought the former had no claim upon him, especially as be had sold her for is 6d to a chimney sweep at New Mills, near Stockport.

In its issue of October 13th the Natal Mercury says : — General Joubert is losing ground with the young men, but is backed by the older men. who see certain annihilation for the Afrikander nation. A deputation went to general Joubert and told him they could do nothing against shells, Lyddite, dynamite, and war balloons. The General remarked that he worked for peace. He said his army was a rabble containing many brave men, but inferior to the British. He would die fighting ; nothing would save their country when the first shot was fired. He still put his confidence in the Lord.

The crops in the Masterton district this year are generally backward, chiefly owing to the wet winter delaying the sowing operations. The lamb ing percentages taken all round arc higher in the North than the South Wairarapa this season.

The Southland News reports that a pest somewhat similar to the oyster scale is attacking the flax plant. It is about the same shape and size as the oyster scale, only white, instead of a brownish colour, and seems quite as prolific. Two blades of flax were shown us which were fairly smothered from the root half-way up the blade. The scale evidently feeds on the juices, as both leaves w»-re unusually dry, and the yellow colour intermixed with the bright green showed that the life of the plant was pretty well sapped away.

On Wednesday and Thursday next special passenger trains will leave Palmerston at 10.50 Sum. for Feilding, returning each day from Feilding at 6.15 p.m.

Mr Robert Chapman will act as deputy returning officer for the general election at Foxtop* and Mr William Robinson will act in like Capacity for the licensing poll. Messrs F. R. Young and F. St. Hill will be the poll clerks. Mr Alf. Fraser n .id Mr B2nk-- ..... uJ UiO UwfJUujr itiuluiili; UHIUCIS ill

Moutoa.

The fact that the Queen intends to visit Bordighera, in the Italian Riviera, while on her spring visit to the Continent, is interpreted as a protest against the prevailing violent French Anglophobia.

The Premier addressed a crowded meeting at Tauranga on Tuesday. He said he admitted that Mr Ward had been- wrongly judged. His actions had proved him to be &ii honourable and an upright man. Mr Ward would be reinstated in the Ministry. A vote of thanks and confidence was passed with great Cheering.

The Kaiser, who in company with the Empress, is visiting the Qaeen a* Windsor, was entertained at a State banquet at the castles The gold plate used at the" function was valued at £2,000,000.

Mr Plunkett, the editor of the Johannesburg Sportman, who has arrived at Capetown, states that a friend o"£ his witnessed the departure of a large consignment of cyanide of potassium, the arrival of which in Bloemfontein was watched and actually witnessed. As there is no gold retorting in the Free State, the question arises as to why this large amount of cyanide has been to Bloemfontein at the present Juncture. A lunrn not larger than a nen's egg is sufficient, it is said, to poison the largest well.

It will be of interest to the world (writes the American correspondent of the Dunedin Star) to know that the supply of gold will not be seriously curtailed by the outbreak of hostilities in the Transvaal. The new diggings at Cape Howe Beach, according to the experts, promise to be as rich as those of Klondike of the Transvaal, and certainly milch richer than the dredging operations in New Zealand. Alaska is proving to be a much greater source of wealth to the United States than anybody expected a few years igo. N>body now is applying the name " Seward's Folly " to that section of our country. In the output ot its furs and fish it has paid for itself long ago ; but the gold yield is likely to give it a value exceeding that of the most lively imagination a few years ago. This country's good fortune in acquiring gold-bearing territory without knowing it is very likely to be repeated in Luzon and other islands of the Philippine Archipelago once the rebellion is crushed.

On account of the general election taking place on the 6th December, the Methodists will hold their quarterly tea >n Monday, the 4th.

Mr Joe Tos requires four flax-cutters At the Wellington races yesterday

r T. Wanklyn's horse Myra won the Hack Welter ot 70 soys., distance one nile, beating a field of nine. Matarawa was second, and Stockade third. The dividend was £11 is.