THURSDAY, JAN. 25, 1900.

Manawatu Herald, 25 January 1900, Page 2

THURSDAY, JAN. 25, 1900.

We are authorised to state that the \ public school will re-open on Monday. The Mayor was sworn in as a Justice j of the Peace by Mr Greenfield, S.M., j on Saturday morning. Those who use obscene language in a public place are bound to be imprisoned it found guilty, and the term may be for one year. It is better to learn to put a bridle on the tongue than risk such imprisonment.The fund in N.S. Wales for provid v ing equipment and despatch of the bushmen's contingent now amounts to £22,700. Five Norfolk Islanders have arrived to join the contingent. A new sweetening substance, " methylbenzolsulfinid," or " sugarine," has been discovered, which is said to be 500 times as sweet as sugar. A London cable says the wool market shows a better spirit, with stronger competition. According to a press wire from Wellington the Customs returns are to the effect that 10,900 people were on the various vessels which took part in the naval demonstration on Saturday connected with the •'send-off" to the second New Zealand contingent. The Mayor of Wanganui reports that an amount of £1700 for the equipment and transport of the Wanganui troop of the third contingent (twenty-five men) is now assured, and the fund will probably exoeed £2000. Spare horses will be sent with the men, who will all be expert horsemen and fair shots. Two watchmen on the Blackwall Pier at Liverpool are suitably named. Mr Day guards the pier during the day, and Mr Knight is on duty at night. The Emperor of Austria has decorated Madame Melba in recognition of her superb singing in the " mad scene " in the opera of " Lucia de Lammermoor." Cabinet has decided that Westinghouse brakes should be procured for the rolling-stock on the North Island lines. Bricks made of coal dust are used for paving for Russia. The coal dust is combined with molasses and resin. The chairman of the Adelaide Board of Health has wired to the boards in other colonies that rats have been found by day close to the place where the two recent sufferers from plague had been isolated. The bodies of tbe vermin yielded the plague bacilli to bacteriological culture. Precautions to prevent a spread of the scourge have heen increased. No fresh cases have been reported among human beings, but there are some temporary cases of more or less severe indisposition with glandular accompaniments amongst the hospital attendants. The House of Commons has met on Sunday n times, on various occasions, when urgency demanded it. The first time was in the reign of Edward 111, the last at the death of George 11. There are still cooped up in Ladysmith the following correspondents :— Lionel James, London Times ; Pierce, Daily News; M'Hugh and Falconer, Daily Telegraph ; Nivenson, Daily Chronicle ; Stuart, Morning Post ; Smith, Morning Leader ; Lynch, Morning Herald; Pott, South Africa; D. M'Donald, Melbourne Argus; Illustrated London News, Melton Prior; Graphic, W. T. Maud and T. McCormick,

The next English and European mail, via San Francisco, will close at the local office on Friday, 16th February, at 8 p.m. The Education Department has for some time been in communication with the Mataura Falls Paper Mill Company with reference to art paper for use in the schools of tbe colony. At the last meeting of the Education Board (says the Southland Times) a sample was submitted that was in every way creditable to the manufacturers. The verdict of the experts to whom it has been submitted was one of thorough approval. Some slight changes will be made in the weight and hue of the paper, and it will be supplied to those schools that wish it for art purposes. The Zulu kraal at the Olympia, London, has been the scene of much rejoicing, owing to the birth of a son to Ngonglwanui and his wife Mancoiyana. The birth was celebrated by the curious and interesting Tunyisela ceremony proper to Zululand on such occasions. The baby's body Was fumigated with a mixture of minute portions of the hair and hide of several animals, the object of the operation being to easUre its immunity from death or injury from any animal whose hair or hide formed part ofthe magic mixture. The child was christened M'Fokasana E'Kohlaio, which means, "The Absent-Minded Beggar." A farmer living near Whitland, Carmarthenshire, lost a two-year-old heifer under extraordinary circumstances. The animal showed evident signs of suffering as far back as early last spring, and these continued with increasing severity until death. Several farmers, well versed in cattle disease, and one professional "vet," saw the heifer, but all failed to diagnose her malady. There appeared at times some fever, and blood exuded from first one fore foot and then firom the other, and afterwards from one of the hind feet. These were bathed with warm water, and various remedies were given, but^all to no effect. The disease baffled all treatment. When, after death, the carcase was skinned, the flesh appeared perfectly healthy, but a large abcess, the size of a man's fist and filled with matter, was discovered in the glands of the neck about 10 inohes from the butt ofthe left ear, and in the abcess were the head and part of the body of a snake coiled up, the tip of its tail being just visible. If, as is surmised, it found its way into the ear aboiit the tirtle the animal first sickened, it must have been alive for a considerable time afterwards, as it was so little decomposed when found that the mottled patches on its back were still plainly to be seen. At the Justices' Court yesterday, before Mr Rhodes, J.P., Alex. Hansen and Andrew Jacobs were convicted and discharged for drunkenness. Mr Henry Sanson has resigned from the Wanganui Education Board owing to his leaving the district. Mr Buckman estimates his loss by the fire at his Rongotea mill last week at £600, which he does not think is covered by insurance. At Melbourne arrangements have been made to destroy the rats on the vessels from plague-infected ports. '• Osman Digna, formerly one of the chief supporters of the late Khalifa, and who has just been captured by the Anglo-Egyptian authorities, has been lodged in prison at Suakim. Nice remarks about our race meeting. The Manawatu Times says : "Mr J. R. Whyte, the secretary, assisted by Mr A. Keith, were indefatigable in at^ tending to visitors, and indeed the same remark applies to all the officials." The Mariawatu Standard^ says : "Mr J. R. Whyte, the courteous secretary of the Foxton Racing Club, deserves to be complimented on the excellent manner he performed his duties at the meeting." A pair of field glasses have been lost. A reward is oflered for their return to this office. The Italian Queen bee who took unto herself wings and flew away from Mr England's hive a short time ago, should have by npw many descendants who will be marked by three yellow bands on their bodies. Beekeepers who may x notice these signs are requested to communicate with Mr England. Owing to the big rise in the price of iron the local blacksmiths in company with all on this coast have had to raise the price of shoeing, the particulars of which are duly advertised.