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Manawatu Herald, 9 January 1900, Page 2

Mr Andrews, representing Mr Bridge, the well-known dentist of Wellington, is now in town, and may be consulted at Mr Hamer'si The next English and European mail, via San Francisco, will close at the local office on Friday, 19th January, at 8 p.m. The Frenchman Guerin (of " Fort Charbrol " siege fame) was sentenced to ten years' detention in a fortress. A Boer, shortly after the Jameson Raid, was loudly asserting that they could easily drive the English before them in headlong confusion. An Afghan, a resident of Johannesburg, quietly remarked: "We understand the great English in our country ; you people did not. Sometimes we have a little trouble, and they send a few men, and we wipe them out. * A little time goes on, and they send another lot, and we wipe them out; and yet again we wipe out another lot, and we say we have finished with them. All this time the English have had a little book, putting it all down. Then they add it all up and come to us with a great force, and show us a little account, and say, • Pay,' and we have to pay. You have had Laing's Nek — it's down in the little book. Majuba Hill — that's down in the little book. And Jameson's Raid — that, also, is down in the little book, and it's all added up now, and you'll have to pay. Oh ! we know these English." It is understood that Major-General French was prevented from going to South Africa from N.S. Wales by the Imperial authorities on account of the unsettled appearance of affairs generally. The coloured people of the Cape are giving fruit, vegetables, and eggs for the wounded, thereby earning a warm message of tfjanks from Sir Alfred Milner. Two cavalry lieutenants of Lieut.General French's force were captured at Rensburg, through their mistaking a section of the enemy for New Zealanders. President Steyn, of the Orange Free State, has issued a proclamation to the eftect that every white man resident in the Free State shall henceforth be regarded as a burgher, and be called upon for active service for the defence of the country. A meeting of creditors in the estate of C. G. Daley was held at Auckland on Friday. He had five drapery shops and one clothing factory. The whereabouts of the bankrupt is unknown. A reward of £200 has been offered for information which will lead to his arrest. The total liabilities are about £40,000. He has since been arrested near Helensville. The polling for the selection of a Parliamentary representative for the Otaki electorate, resulted in the return of Mr W. H. Field, the Government candidate, by a majority of 163 votes. The voting was as follows :— Mr W. H. Field, 1755; Mr C. B. Morison, 1593; majority, 163. The Manawatu Daily Times states that at the meeting of directors of the Awahuri Dairy Company on Wedri'esday it was decided to pay suppliers at B£d per lb for churned butter for past month. The total quantity of milk was 243,034^ as against 176,---7921bs during corresponding period of previous year. The test for the month averaged 3*9. The Czar has stated to Sir Charles Scott, British Minister at St Petersburg, that Russia has no intention to raise difficulties for Great Britain. The assurance (in view of the expected concentration of Russian troops on the frontier of Afghanistan) is being commented upon from various points by the London newspapers. The Russian troops at Askabad, the capital of Russian-trans-Caspia, on the Persian frontier, and about 300 miles northwest from Afghanistan, are being reinforced. Fresh drafts of troops are also being forwarded to other Russian garrisons along the Persian-Afghan frontiers. Those who have friends among the first New Zealand contingent, now in the Transvaal, will be interested to learn that the New Zealand Express Company will forward and deliver free of charge any parcel intended for members of the contingent which may be entrusted to it. The company h,as made arrangements for carrying out this very desirable work, and the kindness and consideration will doubtless be taken advantage of to a very considerable extent. — N.Z. Times, j On the Ist December Trooper Ross writes from Naauwport, and says : — We went to De Aar, and there got orders to come on to this place, where there are 4000 troops. The heat is simply unbearable, and we are camped on sand — red sand, like brick dust. It is six inches deep and gets in all our clothes and food. We are right alongside the railway, but very few trains pass. They are prevented as the Boers are interfering. They are camped very close to where we are, and consequently we sleep with our clothes on, and in case of emergency we have our rifle and bandolier close to us. We are camped near the New South Wales Lancers, who have just arrived from England, and have already had one or two skirmishes. The country is awful, and I wonder how people live in such a place. Mr John Stevens has been requested by Mr Stead, of Christchurch, to purchase ten hones in that district for the purpose of the war. He has already obtained tight*

An advertiser is in need of a house in town, and is willing to pay a good rental for a term. Apply at Herald office. Some young ducks are for sale at the Kawaroa farm. Messrs Abraham and Williams hold their usual stock sale on Thursday next. Entries are advertised. We have to thank the Rt. Hon. the Premier for the manner in which he conveys his kind wishes for "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year." The greetings are on the cover of an album of views of the Karori camp which are all interesting, including the Waiwera starting. The frdritispiece has a capital view of the Premier seated at his office table, a photo of the two captains of the Ist contingent and New Zealand's flag. To the kind greetings we can only but echo them most truly and hopefully < Lot 2 of Puhipiihi State 1 Forest of 11,747,273 feet of kauri and 300 totara trees was sold at the Crown Lands Office on Friday morning at the upset price of £6173 to Messrs Bradley and Manders. An important land sale was- held at Gisborne on Saturday by Williams and Kettle, on behalf of the trustees of Mr Wi Pere's estate and other clients. About 600 acres of the Makauri block, including some of the richest of the Poverty Bay flats, were sold at from I £24 to £26 an acre. Several sections in Waerengaahika township brought £36 10s, £40 and £fs an acre. Twenty thousand acres of first-class pastoral land at Mangatu, twenty-five miles from Gisborne, sub-divided into suitable areas of from 1000 to 3000 acres, were offered on a lease ctf twenty-one years, with allowances for improvements and right of renewal. The land was sold at prices ranging from 8d to is 2vl per acre per annum. The sale was considered extremely satisfactory, showing a good demand for land in the district. Lieut. -Colonel Pitt, of Nelson, has been re-appointed a member of the Legislative Council. The British war fund totals half a million ; the Daily Telegraph shilling 1 fund, a hundred thousand ; the Daily Mail Kipling poem fund, sixty thousand. The two boys Smith were sent to the Burnham Industrial School by Mr Greenfield, S.M. for theft at Palmerston yesterday. - The total amount collected on behalf of George Walls, the rider of Watershot, who - was injured at the Palmerston races was £3* los « The Ashhurst Jockey Club liberally .donated towards the fundt Walls left for the Hot Lakes district for a irip on Friday last. Before J. Davies and A. Fraser, Esqrs., J.P.s, John Connell, alias Kilgour, was sentenced [to one month's imprisonment on each of three charges of theft from dwellings, the sentences to be cumulative, and to one month's imprisonment- for obtaining goods by false pretences, the sentence to be concurrent with the others.