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Manawatu Herald, 13 February 1900, Page 2

The Premier announced at a banquet to Mr Field, M.H.R., that the State Farm at Levin is to be handed over to the Agricultural Department and made one of the experimental farms of the colony.

A new use for aluminium has recently been reported, and attempts to construct violins and other stringed instruments of this metal have been entirely successful. It is stated that these instruments produce a much richer sound than those which are manufactured of wood, and that th's is found to be especially the case with the higher notes.

On Saturday evening the fourteen-foot yacht Spray upset in Wellington harbour and four lads were drowned. Only two of the crew were saved.

The recent tripos list at Cambridge contains the names of no less than ten natives of India, of whom three are Mahommedaiis, and one is a woman. It is still more noteworthy that one appears in the first class in classic?, and another among the Wranglers.

In a recent letter to a correspondent, General- Sir Arthur Cotton attributed bis extreme age to the habit of eating very little food of any kind. The idea was suggested to him by noticing the small quantity of food eaten by the people of the East, where he lived so long. Sir Arthur has been a teetotaler.

Greater romances than the pegging of the Ealgoorlie (W.A.) mines by Brookman, there are none (says the Bulletin). Six yearg ago, W. G. Brookman left Adelaide at the head of the Ealgoorlie Prospecting Syndicate, capital £150. Passages, camels, and rations left little by the time the syndicate's prospeotor reached Hanan's. To out a long story short, that £150 syndicate secured the Bonlder, Ivanhoe, Associated, Lake View Consols, Lake View East, South and extended Oroya, and other mines, aggregating in market value to-day £21,---000,000. The Ealgoorlie mines employ 6500 men and pay £28,000 weekly in wages— mostly on the mines acquired by the Brookman Syndicate. Exclusive of alluvial, Kalgoorlie has produced 1,684,---3230z; and 725,1590z (or nearly half the total yield) has been produoed in ten monftng of fait yew.

The Oroua Polo team played Eangitikei on Saturday at Bulls and defeated them by 9 goals to 2.

We regret very much to record the death of Mr Frederick Bright at bis residence Otaki at the ago of 65 years.

The Manager of the Motoa Estate invites tenders for the right to cut flax on Block 16 during the months of March, April, and May.

The statement that Lord Afdilaun had become the purchaser of Killarney, for £60,000, is confirmed. The Muckross Estate, as the property ft called, once belonged to Lady Ardilaun'd grandfather, and they were both desir"oU3 of retaining the estate in the family. Lord and Lady Ardilaun will not reside at Muckross. The house will be let. But there is, it is stated, no present intention of -cur tailing the privileges enjoyed by the public. The tariffs will be rearranged on a more equitable basis, and some alterations may doubtless be made in the estate. Some new buildings may be erected, but these will not in any way interfere with the sights Hitherto open to the public.

Plaxmill hands are wanted for theffiurn side Mill, Takapau.

Mr Bridge's representative will be in town to-morrowt

The S.M. Court will be adjourned on Thursday from 10 a.m. to 1.30 p.m.

A vailway excursion to the beach will be run by the railway from Palmerston totnorfOwi

To-day, at Newmarket, Auckland, Messrs Hancock & Co. open their Lager Beer Brewery, to which event they have invited a large party. The invitation we have received we beg to thank the proprietors for, and wish them in return every success. This ia the first Lager Beer Brewery opened in New Zealand.

The patriotic concert to be held in the Public Hall on Wednesday, 28th inst., promises to be a great success. Among the items on the programme Which will be advertised later, are a cuckoo song, a mandolin and banjo duet, sand jig, clog dance, cornet duet, character sketches, stump speech, and Bongs both sentimental and comic by ladies and gentlemen. Mr Alf Fraser, the stage manager, has been fortunate in securing the services of some wellknown lady vocalists, and also one new to the local stage. " The . Absent-minded Beggar " is among the gentlemen's songs, and may be relied upon to inoreafle the funds. Mr J. Kearsley is to be the musical conductor.

Telephone offices have been opened at Linton and Tokomaru, on the Manawatu line.

" If I say," said the teacher, " the pupil loves his teacher, what sort of a sentence is that ?" " Sarcastic," said the boy.

The spread of Anglophobia in France is traceable to jealousy at the Kaiser's neutrality and friendship for Great Britain. The Parisian newspapers warn England that Germany will be her worst rival in the future.

The majority of the remaining notes which had been stolen from the Paris Bank last year have been sent back to to the bank.

A shipment of five thousand crates of New Zealand rabbits, ex Tomoana, have been condemned.

The new municipal opera house was formally opened by the Premier at Wanganui on Friday evening. It is a handsome and commodious building. There was a packed attendance, including members of the local contingent, who attended at the invitation of Mr Bland Holt.