Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JAN. 2, 1900.

Manawatu Herald, 2 January 1900, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JAN. 2, 1900.

More real estate has changed hands Mr Alf. Fraser having secured thosthree acres of land between his res ; denee and the railway from the Rev J Duncan. On Saturday Mr Tos had both ripr cherry plums and apples, the produc*. ofthe Kawaroa orchard, in his sho*; for sale. At the Lawn Tennis Tournament a? Palmerston on Saturday, the pas: champion, Mr C. C. Cox was beaten by Mr Peacock. Last week's Press has a very good press portrait of Mr James Embling, the new general manager of the Bank of New Zealand. On Saturday Laddie Davidson, the eldest son of Mr Hector Davidson, met with a nasty accident in playing polo, his pony having* slipped and Laddie fell on his head receiving a concussion of the brain. We have been favoured with many almanacs tot this year. From the agent of the N.Z. Insurance Co., Mr M. Walker; Coalbrookdale almanac from Messrs Gamman & Co., a handsome pictorial one from Mr T. Betty, and a pretty wall-pocket from Mr Hamer, for which we express our thanks. A straw sometimes serves to show which way the wind blows, so the news from Sydney that the sanction of Major-General French proceeding to the front is withheld at present, owing to the receipt of a further cable from the Imperial authorities, suggesting that io our patriotic efforts to assist the Imperial Government they do not consider it wise wholly to denude ourselves of a means of defence. Our Government might take the hint and encourage the formation of volunteers who would learn something ot the nature of a drill and the use of the ride. Southern India is sending a contingent of coffee planters as a company of mounted infantry. They are said to be " hard as nails." Mr J. R. Stansell, says the -Mail, held a trial with his new mill at the Waitohu on Boxing Day. Everything was found in working order, and the mill is now in full swing. Constable Gray, of Herbertville, has been transferred to Levin. Lord and Lady C. Bentinck, with Captain Bagot, M.P., and Mrs Bagot, succeeded in raising within a week £10,000 for equipping a civil ambulance for service in South Africa. The War Office gratefully accepted the offer made by Messrs Mitchell and Butler, of Birmingham, of 1000 barrels of stout for the troops in South Africa. The value of the gift is about £2500. The final returns for the Western Maori election show that Mr Henare Kaihau has been re-elected by a large majority. The voting was as follows :— Henare Kaihau (the retiring member), 2682 ; Tukino, 871 ; Nikitini, 580 ; Hiponga, 441 ; Patene, 199 ; Mete Kingi, 173 ; Ngapaki, 145. The Governor has received the following cable from Mr Chamberlain : — Her Majesty commands me to convey her thanks to the people of New Zealand for their loyal and sympathetic message of Xmas and New Year greetngs. Russia has been actively engaged transporting troops from South Russia to the Far East. But the Russian transporting methods, according to the shipping journal Fair Play, are extremely defective ; there has been a serious mortality occasioned by overcrowding on the transport vessels. In one case no fewer than 1600 thirdclass passengers (troops and others) were carried, although there was only accommodation provided for iooo. Out of the 600 excess passengers 55 died and were buried at sea, and a large number were taken to hospital — in a state of prostration caused by various diseasesj-of whom nine succumbed within four days after landing. Bad weather was experienced on the passage, and between Aden and Colombo the hatches had to be battened down, the unfortunates in the holds being deprived of light and ventilation to such an extent as to make the place comparable, in the words of the Odessa Listok, to " a living hell." Most people would think that a collision between at 10,000-ton battleship and crack passenger steamer, even of he largest size, would be a case of " bad for the c 0.," but the experience >f the Orient liner Cuzco, which collided with H.M.S. Anson at Gibraltar i few weeks ago. seems to show that 1 well-built liner may, under certain conditions, indulge in a rough-and tumble with a man-o'-war without getting the worst of it. From the meagre accounts to hand, it seems that the Cuzco, at midday on October n, was entering Gibraltar Bay, and whilst waiting for a pilot drifted bow on to the Anson, which was lying at anchor, and, striking the warship some 20 yards from the starboard bow, made a huge rent, extending from upper-deck to water-line, exposing to view an officer's cabin. The Cuzco escaped with a couple of holes in her bow, luckily above water-line, her pointed stem pressing her from injury lower down. "~ The Marine j Court at Gibraltar has decided that Üb* pccident was due to an error of 011 the part of the Cuzco' s : *f-y':^^h? that no blame or chargf. '" C ; - '.attached to ami* *

From a Home paper we learn that s^-lb of wheat was recently sold at Bcottsburg, Indiania, for £100. The seller was a scientific farmer, named McCaslin, who had succeeded in obtaining a hybrid, a cros£ between he ' Genessee Giant ' and the ' Fultz.' Its value lies in the fact that only one ••ixth of a bushel need be used as seed o secure the same crop that a bushel of any other kind would bring.