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Manawatu Herald, 24 March 1900, Page 2

A slight earthquake was felt at New Plymouth at 7.45 o'clock on Tuesday night. The Government has cabled to Bombay for a further supply of 2000 doses of plague prophylactic, For the Wellington Licensing Com* mittee all the Moderate candidates were returned. Mr Theo. Mitchell has been busy papering the rooms of the old Ready Money Store, and has commenced painting the front. A corps of young Boers has been organised at Bloemfontein for police work, and to prevent looting by Kaffirs* English Consols are now quoted at 102^, showing a rise of £1 within a week. Wa (Advocate) are informed that the petition sent in through Mr J. Steven.", M.'H.K., by Carnarvon and FrecklingLn Line settlers regarding alterations in the mail service has been granted, and the new service will start on Ist of next month.' For a good many people military glory has no attractions. A worthy Scotch farmer in a southern district (says the Tapanui Courier), has a son who went away with Ihe First Contingent and recently performed a plucky action. The father was congratulated upon his son's action, and the question was asked him, "Do you not feel proud of your boy ?" The old chap hesitated a moment, glancing round at his uncut crops, and replied, " I'd be prooder o' him if he was in one o' yon paddocks driving a reaper and binder." There will be a good many parents I with similar views before long. Three hundred pounds reward will be paid by the secretary' of the shire of Borung, Warracknabeal, Victoria, to anyone who will provide a cheap, effective and wholesale scheme tor the destruction of sparrows. In Mr Alf. Fraser's changed advertisement it will be noticed that he has been appointed sole agent in Foxton for Gordon and Gotch. He holds a list of their publications and subscriptions which can be had on application. Thursday's N.Z. Times says, a close holiday was observed by the Harbour Board on Wednesday afternoon on account of the licensing election, and practically no work was done about the wharves. For this reason the departure of the Omapere and Upolu for Westport has been deferred until Thursday. Mr Code, who judged the Band Contest, expresses the opinion that no band in Australia can compare with the Wellington Garrison Band, and says it is a mystery to him how they did not prove this at the band contest at Bathurst. He declares all four bands placed on top of his list on Saturday — Wellington, Wanganui, Nelson and North East Valley — were quite up to the standard of the best bands in Australia. Mr Code said he would like to see the Band Association appoint a judge for a term of four years, so that competing bands would know the class of music for which they had to prepare. Bands found it awkward playing one year to what is termed an " orchestral " judge and next year to a brass band expert. The Minister for Agriculture, in reply to Mr Hogg, M.H.R., who lately called attention to the probable distribution in the Fortymile Bush and other 1 ->calities of the codlin moth and other ki-ids of blight by the incautious sale and transit of fruit in railway carriages, points out (says the Masterton Times) that until the Orchard and Garden Pests Bill, submitted for several consecutive years, has been passed, there is no power to prevent the sale or transit of moth-infected fruit. The Minister in conclusion says: "The measure is of vital importance to all growers, and will, I trust, this session receive the support of those interested in the fruit industry." We understood our Borough Council was going to rectify this by a bye-law.

Mr Henderson has" removed from the corner of Clyde street to the old saddler'shop lately occupied by Mr Pringle, next Messrs Walsh* and Howan's butcher's shop. Mr Rhodes has now a delicious tea, known as the Mazawatlie tea, which ' he is selling at a reasonable figure. He has also ;,~uns, ammunition and all other requisites for sportsmen. On the case of Stuart Allen v. Joe Tos, of Foxton, Judge Edwards gave judgment for plaintiff for £100, the amount of loan, and allowed him to treat the contract for the delivery of flax as rescinded. , A general meeting of the Foxton Athletic Football Club is advertised for Wednesday next at the Foxton Family Hotel. Intending members are cordially invited. The Borough Council notify that a special order has been made and will be confirmed on 7th May to take steps i to sell part of No. 1 Line to Mr A. S. Easton. Mr C. Sullivan offers for sale a 4. roomed house with 4-stalled stable, with six and a half acres of the best land in the Borough. He also offers four spring drays with four horses and harness, a Bradley gig with harness, stacks of oaten hay and hay, as well as his furniture and other effects. The N.Z. Railways notify that on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 3rd and 4th April, holiday excursion trains will be issued from Foxton to Palmerston, for the Palmerston races. On both days the usual 5.15 p.m. train will be delayed to 5.55 p.m.