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Manawatu Herald, 18 January 1900, Page 2

A scutcher for contract work is wanted at the Crown mill. Mr Theo. Mitchell has placed his hail free of expense for any meetings or entertainments in aid of the Transvaal Patriotic Fund. , Messrs McElroy and Managh want two or three good catchers. The railway authorities notify cheap Fares from to-day and to-morrow over ( the railway lines. • M. Zola has been presented with a * gold medal weighing sJIb for his advo- ] cacy of justice to Captain Dreyfus. 1 Canterbury is going to equip fifty l mounted men, and pay their passages to South Africa. * * i

Owing to the rain the garden party arranged for yesterday afternoon in Mrs J. M. Collins grounds was not held, and is postponed to Wednesday next. The provisioning of the town for the coming racti meeting is flo small matter, and the ducks, geese, and other poultry in the neighbourhood have been requisitioned so that our visitors will be well cat^rnrl for. The Racing Club bought in the Outside Gates at the auction sale for £8o and have disposed of them at that figure to Mr Hillary. A new industry to Foxton is now being carried on at Mr Pringle's Saddlery establishment, that *of making portmanteaus. On looking in there on Tuesday we found a lar°;e number of frames about the shop being covered with leather and was informed by the courteous manager that they had a large order of these articles to make, and whjeh would keep them busy for sonic time. It is proposed to place collection boxes in aid of the Transvaal Relief Funds on the racecourse. * We witnessed a very pleasing incident in connection with this which shows how successfully the fusion of the Maori race with the English has taken place. The Mayor was showing us ' the kind of. box it was intended to place on the course when a Native standing bye placed a half . drown in it saying he would be the first as a Maori to give a helping hand. A notice is published to-day warning book-makers that they will not be allowed to transact business upon the course. They do these things better in the Horowhenua than the Manawatu Council, as at the last meeting of the former body it was resolved " That the County Treasurer, after the ist February, make a demand on the Colonial Treasurer for the sum of £350 out of the loan granted for the Wirokino bridge, and that, if the Foxton Borough Council before the next meeting of the Council should ask for payment on account of the said bridge works, the Chairman is hereby em^owe'red to make such payment out of the above account. In a hailstorm at Wallabadah lumps of ice four inches in circumference fell. The roofs of buildings were pierced. One man was rendered insensible and a woman sustained a severe gash on hee head. Dogs and birds were killed and great damage was done to property* The army of men employed to watch the line from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth, via De Aarand Naauwpoort is a striking indication of the care that has to be taken to protect railway communication throughout Cape Colony (says a. Reuter's message.) The route is covered by 840 miles of railway. At every quarter of a mile a Kaffir is stationed with two flags. Three men, working in turn, watch each point, so that 10,080, men are required for this one line, .