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Manawatu Herald, 29 March 1900, Page 2

At the meeting of the Polo Association it was resolved that the next tournament should be held in Wellington. A firm of Auckland solicitors has been instructed to receive complaints with a view to obtaining either departmental or Parliamentary inquiry into matters concerning the selection of members of the fifth contingent; also into the general working of local defence. Mr Spiers ; our local builder, has secured the section on the Main street, between Messrs Hamer and Barber. He will erect a shop upon it, as well as a workshop, and have a timber yard at the back. It is surprising something of the sort has not been done before. We understand that Dr Rockstrow arrives soon to again take up his permanent residence in this town. For the present he will reside with Mr Walsh until the house to be erected for him on the Norbiton road is completed. Mr Arthur Stansell, the proprietor of Whyte's Hotel, is now having a number of much needed improvements carried out in the hotel. For one item he is having all the downstair ceilings either pannelled or covered with steel, particulars of which we will give when fitted. He is preparing to lay Acetylene gas on to all the downstair rooms, and then the whole inside will be painted and papered, and the outside also painted. Mr Jenks has the contract for the painting and papering, and Mr Jonson for the ceiling. Lucky or unlucky? On Saturday Mr T. Hadfield got four of his fingers crushed in some machinery— that's assuredly unlucky— but a week or two ago he insured against accident in the Ocean Insurance Company which is decidedly lucky. This accident should be the means of convincing all mill hands of the advisability of insuring against similar liabilities, and they have no excuse for not doing so as the premiums have been made so extremely low. Mr T. Bowe invites tenders for covering sand hills with sand grass and fascines. Specifications can be seen at Messrs Hennessy's store. On Tuesday an unfortunate accident happened at the Te Maitai flaxmill, owing to some portion of the machinery bursting, and Mr Edward Coley sustained such severe injuries as necessitated his removal to the Palmerston Hospital. A great deal of money is annually sent away out of the district in the purchase of furniture, there having been no one who kept a supply on hand. All this is now being altered as Messrs Hennessy & Co. have employed a skilled cabinet maker, whose work is a great credit to him, and this can be tested by a visit to that firm's showroom where chest of drawers equal/ in make to the best imported can be saten, and can be purchased at a lesser price. Surely such local industry should be encouraged. Notification is given by the Railway Department that holiday excursion tickets will be issued from Tuesday, 10th April, to the 16th April, available for return to the ist May. Another case of honey poisoning is reported from Onewhero. Two lads, Albert Hallamore and Harry Rogers, took a large quantity of seemingly pure honey from a tree. An hour or two after, having partaken freely of the honey, they became violently ill, the symptoms being similar to those in cases of strychnine poisoning. The sufferings of the victims were terrible. Dr Dalzall prescribed a medicine, which gave relief to the sufferers. The honey was obtained in swampy bush, close to where those who were poisoned some little time back. obtained theirs. The going astray of three, ballot boxes will probably be the cause of a fresh election of members for the Otaki Licensing Committee. The boxes for the Lower Hutt and Taita booths were sent down by the Returning Officer from Otaki, but did not reach their destination. They were found in the parcel office at the WellingtonManawatu Railway Station, but too late for the election. As the Hutt is an important district, and its people have no desire to be disfranchised, it is probable that the recent election will be declared null and void.— Post. A splendid example of brave horsemanship has just occurred" at Singleton, New South Wales. A young man, Walter Skaines, was travelling along a road with his niece, 13 years of age, when the latter's horse took fright and bolted through the bush. Skaines was { soon up alongside, but the country : being rough be was unable to catch the reins. He then deliberately galloped up alongside, and while going at top speed, jumped off his own horse on to the other's neck, seized the reins, and brought the animal to a standstill. Two miles of rough country was traversed in the race.