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Manawatu Herald, 30 December 1899, Page 2

The railway authorities notify the extension of time for the use of excursion tickets. At the Police Court yesterday James Humphrey, an old offender, was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment for being illegally on premises. The Justices were Messrs F. Robinson and Alf. Fraser. A correspondent to a London paper writes : — Talking of Sir George White reminds me ot another speech he made not so long ago. It was at the Guildhall, when the cadet battalion of the K.R.R. last received their prizes at the General's hands. In a kindly, fatherley, wise, and genial little speech to the cadets, the general, who wired from Ladysmithlast Monday, " I made the pirn. lam alone responsible for the plan," told the boys that if ever they got into a scrape and did anything wrong to confess their fault, and be through with it. If they tried to hide it, the fault would leave its sting and rankle in soul. Was ever precept more nobly crowned by example ? The Fiji Times of the 13th inst. says :— The United States sloop Albatross, with Professor Agassiz and party, bent on a scientific cruise, arrived in port early on Sunday, the 10th inst. Professor Agassiz visited Fiji some two years ago in his chartered steam yacht Yaralla, bent on a similar quest. On board the Albatross is a glass ball of more than an eighth of an inch in thickness, half-full of water. It had been let down in the lowermost depths ot the sea, where the pressure is excessive, with the result that the water has forced itself through the glass. The Albatross resumes her voyage on the 20th inst., proceeding to the Line Islands,

Horse owners are reminded that nominations for the Foxton Racing Club's meeting close on Thursday next at 9 p.m. The pink-eye disease in South Africa is a contagious influenza of horses. It is a febrile disease, closely allied to scarlet fever in man, named from the pink colour of the conjunctiva. There is a similar inflammation of the eye in man. The Hon. Thomas Brassey, eldest son of Lord Brassey, the retiring Governor of Vidtoria, has volunteered for service in South Africa. Horse-sickness, a disease which periodically affects the stock of the country has appeared in Natal. The Rangiora correspondent of the " Lyttelton Times " writes : — Mr Angus Macdonald, father-in-law of Mr Richard Anderson, Rangiora, celebrated his one hundreth and fourth birthday on Sunday, having been born at Fort William, near Ben Nevis, Scotland, on December 24th, 1795. He 1 cattle to the colony in 1864, and having a good knowledge of sheep, he for some time managed a run in the Selwyn district for the late Sir J. Cracroft Wilson. He is now growing feeble, but has fair health. Mr Patrick Higgins, who had passed his hundredth year, died on Sunday, at the residence of his son-in-law, Mr M. Kennedy, North Loburn. The death is announced in London of Canon Ellison, founder of the Church of England Temperance Society. His Excellency the Governor has cabled to the Home authorities to offer his house and park at Dungannon, Ireland, for the use of the sick and wounded soldiers from the Transvaal, more especially those belonging to Irish regiments. The house has about 100 rooms, and cpuld accommodate at least 400 men, and should prove most useful as a Convalescent Home; and the park of 1000 acres stands on high ground, with bracing air, which would enable many a poor fellow to recover from his South African experiences. Dungannon (which is forty miles by rail from Belfast) is the headquarters of the Royal Mid- Ulster Artillery, and it is within easy reach of several important military centres. j Mclndoe's stables, Marton, pre- , sented quite a busy scene on Saturday last when some sixty horses were submitted to Messrs Charlton and Blundell, as buyers for the New Zealand Government of mounts for the second Transvaal contingent. Only five of the large number brought forward, however, were purchased, the property of Messrs L. M. Taverner, W. Galpin, Lowrie, J. Bull, and J. Hammond. The horse kindly given by Mr J. G. Wilson was also accepted. A dreadful accident is reported from Amalfi, a seaport on the Gulf of Salerno, twenty-four miles south of Naples. An enormous rock near the site of the Cappuccini Hotel suddenly fell, wrecking the hotel and a monastery below. Several houses were also damaged, and a number of tourists were killed. Several English ladies were killed through delaying their escape from the falling building in order to save their jewels. Wanganui improving. The Herald says, the fact that but one solitary " drunk " has disturbed the peace and harmony of Wanganui for the past fortnight (the period, too, including the Christmas holidays), speaks volumes for the sobriety and orderliness of the people of Wanganui. We doubt whether such a commendable state of things can be recorded in any other town in the colony of equal size and importance to Wanganui, not even excepting the Clutha. The " drunk " in question appeared before Mr J. L. Stevenson, J.P., at the Police Court this morning and was summarily dealt with. In describing the launching of the battleship London, the "Times" said : — 4| The christening ceremony was performed by Lady George Hamilton. She is 415 ft long and 75ft wide, and her displacement is 15,000 tons." What a rum figure Lady George Hamilton must have ! The Vienna correspondent of the i " Times " states that the nervousness which has been displayed in Vienna diplomatic circles since the British experienced reverses in South Africa implies a reluctant admission of the 1 strength of the British Empire, and an acknowledgment that Great Britain alone inspired the Continent with a robust faith in the maintenance of peace. A good joke is given in an English paper. An elderly gentleman is sitting near his wife, also elderly and stately, reading his paper, when the servant comes in and the mistress, referring to a wordy conflict the servant had just had with the dustman asked her, 11 And did he use violent language ?" The servant replied, " Violent language ? I should think 'c did. Why, master ain't got uo chance against 'jm," The sastw's look is grand.