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Manawatu Herald, 28 November 1899, Page 2

Mr and Mrs McDermott returned from their annual holiday on Satuiday night. An American Co. has purchased Marconi's wireless telegraph rights for ten million dollars. The bailiff of the Court will sell on Saturday a horse, cart and harness and tools, seized in the case of Guerin v. Battersby. Yesterday Edward Dwyer was brought before Mr Alf. Fraser, J.P., md fined five shillings or 24 hours' mprisonment for being drunk. John McDonald was convicted and dismissed for a similar offence. On the first page our well-known iraper, Mr Loveday, announces that trimmed millinery has been reduced twenty-five per cent. A useful caution about visiting the dressmaking department early, to save disappointment is given. It is also announced that suits will be made to order at town prices. On Saturday next Mr W. Hunter will hold a general drapery sale in the large room next to Mr VV. B. Rhodes' <tore. The more minute particulars •vill be seen in handbills, which will be distributed in a couple of days. The school concert is fixed for the 13th December, and tickets will be in the hands of the scholajs to-night or to-morrow for sale. At the Victoria Hall to-day and the next two following ones, Messrs Fein & Co., auctioneers, will sell a stock of drapery, boots, jewellery,, groceries, &c. The goods will be sold absolutely without reserve. Messrs Fredk. Ireland & Co. elsewhere announce the contents of their Xmas hampers, which are well worth perusing. The British Naval Attache at Washington has recommended the British Admiralty to follow the example of the American Naval Board in favour ot rhe adoption of Holland submarine torpedo boats. The French Government are negotiating at New York for the construction of torpedo boats of the Holland type. Great hope has been put in the construction of a flying machine, but the greatest difficulties inventors have to surmount is that navigation, even a short distance from the earth, and under normal conditions, is held to be impossible unless the power developed is equal to the currents, which circulate on the average at a speed of 30 miles an hour and often above that figure. While waiting for the train at Woodville lately Mr Seddon went on the scales, in front of an admiring audience, and his weight was recorded as iqst 61b. The Premier speaks at Otaki on Monday night, the 4th December. In a speech at a banquet at Melbourne, Lord Ranfurly, referring to the numbers of New Zealand volunteers for service in the Transvaal, related the incident of a railway official who was so anxious to go that he locked up his station, and the next train that passed through sent the key to the Wellington station, and went straight into camp. " The matter," ;said His Excellency, " came before me, and I replied that the man could £0, and that the station should be given to him again when he came back from South Africa." This declaration was received with cheers.

The special correspondent of the Argus, writing to his paper, says : — One lingers longest at the Boer hos- , pital, where aiilongst the wounded who occupy the line ot tents one gets a good idea of the fiddr soMfefs. Three wagon loads of the enemy wounded at Elands Laagte were coolly sent on to Ladysmith for treatment. The Boer professes contempt for the British soldier, but has the greatest possible faith in the British surgeon. His ambulance, like most of his army appliances, are commandeered» and two of these are delivery vans from business firms in Johannesburg. Mr A. R» Osborne has jiist received a consignment of Knglish tweeds and linings. The tweeds consist of coatings, serges and saddle tweeds. He ! has imported them direct from the manufacturers and can deal with his customers correspondingly" This week being the wßek of Intercession for Missions, a missionary meeting will be held in All Saints schoolroom at half-past seven tomorrow evenlngk Miss Tennent who has worked as a Church Missionary Society's agent in japan for several years will give ah address oh missionary work in Japan. There will be a collection for the Society for Promoting Christian knowledge. Two scutchers and a presser are wanted at once* Last evening a man named Smith was cutting up some firewood at Mr Gardner's Paiaka mill, to have it ready for the engine in the morning when he found it was not running well, and thinking tow was around the axle he in the twilight put out his hand to clear it when suddenly he felt the saw which cut off the tops of four fingers of his right hand* Mr Gardner rode in with him to town and saw Dr Meares, and we are glad to say he is doing well.