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Manawatu Herald, 1 May 1900, Page 2

Real estate is still being disposed of to the advantage of the settlers. Mr Edmund Osborne has sold about twelve feet of frontage, next Mr Hamer's chemists shop for four pounds per foot. We understand the purchaser intends erecting a shop thereon. The Stipendiary Magistrate did not hold his Court on Saturday as arranged. We do not know why, and it stands to reason that such postponements are extremely inconvenient. Dogs live for a long time without having the usual means to keep life up. About a month ago a terrier belonging to Mr D. Whibley entered a rabbit burrow and brought out one young rabbit, and must then have gone back, but it being believed he had gone home no notice was taken. The dog however never reached home for 21 days and must have got covered in, in the rabbit burrow— when he did get home he was almost a skeleton. We saw him a few days after his escape and he was getting on well.. We have been creditable informed of another three weeks' fast of a young dog which got surrounded by a flood in the swamp whilst on a rise, and being frightened at the water, remained until the waters fell. Dr Mason quoted the following saying to a reviewer the other day: — 'A moderate improvement in the sanitary condition will in all cases tend to check the spread of the disease and almost to eradicate it.'

A meeting of the Football Club is to b^ held to-night at StanseU's Hotel, at 8 o'clock. Members are particularly requested to attend. The Borough Council are having a much needed dressing of limestone placed on the footpaths. We are glad to know that the energetic host of the Foxton Family Hotel is going to make the experiment of tarridg the footpaths in front of nis premises. Mr Howe, of Moutoa, who has of late suffered from bad health has sold his excellent little farm to Mr Saunders, of Afcutoa. Mr E. Edmund Smith advertises today that he will start tailoring in the house opposite Hunter's Hotel. Mr Sn.ith has had a long experience in the trade and has only just severed his connection with Mr A. R. Osborne. The Borough Council held a meeting last night to select new books for the library. About 8o books were chosen, and the order for their supply* was given to Mr Alf. Fraser. ; The Mayor has received a telegram from Mr John Stevens, M.H.R., who states that the Government are going to call tenders for snagging the river. . The Dresden Piano Co's. representative, Mr G. W. Lewens, is on a business visit to Foxton. He will call on I the residents to explain the company's celebrated time payment system, and all orders will receive special attention. The Queen, whose visit to Ireland has terminated, addressed a farewell message to the Irish people prior to her departure. She expressed herself much gratified and deeply touched at the reception accorded and in Return her wish for all was that good will, harmony, and prosperity should prevail. Her Majesty left a thousand pounds for distribution among the j Dublin poor, and also conferred Baronetcies upon the Lord Mayors of j Dublin and Belfast, and Knighthoods upon the Mayors of Cork and Londonderry. In addition the Mayoralty of Cork has been raised to a Lord Mayoralty. An outbreak of the plague occurred at Modena, in Italy, in 1828, owing to. the disinterment of plague victims who had been buried three hundred years previously. The London Daily Mail of February 21, says :—" Strawberries are being sold in the London market at the rate of Is 6d an ounce. This is by no means an excessive price for first arrivals, and forced strawberries of the Royal Sdvereign variety sometimes fetch as much as 32s a lb. There is no foreign competition with this early forced fruit, the tiade in which is very profitable. It is not unusual for many growers to pot as many as 50,000 plants for forcing. As each plant bears from two, to six ounces of fruit the extremely remunerative nature of the earliest pickings is apparent! Some of the finest strawberries weigh as much as 2oz each.