Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1900.
The pupils of the Otago and Southland schools alone have contributed £500 to the patriotic relief fund. Southland contributed about £280 of the sum.
Thirteen additions in the list of the colony's officiating ministers under the Marriage Act appear in last week'r Gazette. Ten of the number arcWesleyans.
The Napier Telegraph says : — A case has been brought under the notice if the Government concerning which upon investigation, it has been proved neyond a doubt that the scrapings o hides from the tanneries are put into vats, and the fat rendered and sold for use as butter by manufacturers.
Last Thursday Mr Greenfield S.M.. commenced the hearing of slygrog selling cases against Mangavveka residents. Nine cases were disposed of and three convictions recorded, two against a man named Anderson, who was fined £5 on each charge, and one against Mrs Shute, who was fined £10. There still nine cases remaining, which have been adjourned until May 17th at Mangaweka.
The insect known as the "flying ant " is proving very fatal to trout this year in several streams (says the Napier Telegraph). In one locality recently no fewer than 28 dead trout were found, and each on being opened contained a large number of the insects. We are informed that fowls which eat this insect die as a result. Is there no " natural enemy " of the flying ant which the Acclimatisation Societies could introduce ?
The police force of the colony have been instructed to place their services at the disposal of the various Boards of Health.
From May ist telegram to members <•>( any regiments operating in South Africa may be sent at the rate of 2s ii per word. The messages to be sent at the reduced rate must be in plain language, and relate purely to domestic matters. The address should consist firstly of the name and number, or both, of the person for whom the telegram is intended, and secondly the regiment. The name of the regiment will be counted one word.
His Excellency the Governor stated that he was disheartened at the lack of energy shown by the city authorities. He intended sending his family away from Auckland, and stated that unless the place were put in a more sanitary state he would not reside in the city in future.
The position of Chief Postmaster at Wellington had been declined by Mr J. E. Coney, of Thames, and has now been offered to Mr J. VV. Wilkin, of Invercargill.
The Premier stated at Auckland that he will shortly announce a record surplus for the colony, notwithstanding the increased amount requiredjfor old age pensions and the money required for sending away the various New Zealand contingents.
Mr W. R. Haselden, S.M., made an importain statement on Tuesday morning at Wellington in connection with the sale of fruit and vegitables in the city. He said that if it were proved that any fruiterer, no matter what his nationality, kept fruit in a place where he lived, slept and ate, the Court would condemn all the fruit kept under such conditions. These remarks were made in the case of You Pell, Daniel street, fruiterer, against whom. Mr Watson, for the Corporation authorities, gave evidence. The room in which some A worth of fruit was seized was in a nlthy condition. The fruit was ordered to be destroyed. The Chinese interpreter made a statement on behalf of You Pell in extenuation of the offence. He used to keep his fruit, it was stated, outside, but on account of its being stolen, he had stored it of late within doors.
A London despatch, under date February 25th, sa3's :— ftfrs Perm Symons, widow of General Perm Symons, has married again within six weeks of the death of her husband, who was killed at the battle of Gleticoe under tragic circumstances. The general and his wife had been separated for some time. Her second husband is a subaltern, half her own age. They are now honeymooning in South Europe. The Queen is intensely indignant at this marriage after the special marks of sympathy and favour she had tendered to Mrs Symons, securing for her, among other things, by special royal warrant an extra pension, to which, according to' strict rules, the circumstances of her husband's death did not entitle her.
A movement is on foot in Wellington to celebrate the seventh anniversary of Mr Seddon's Premiership by entertaining him at a social at which he will be oresented with an illuminated address md also with his portrait in oils. Politics will be avoided and it is expected that people of all shades of opinion will participate.
A hundred pounds for a bed in a three-bedded room ! Such is a sample of the prices prevailing in Capetown. Some ladies in London who had been inquiring about the prices and accommodation were quoted as above. According to the London correspondent of the Birmingham Gazette, they were told that they could be accommodated for a hundred pounds per bed per nonth in a three-bedded room. Three hundred pounds a month for one room is pretty steep. It means that hotel oroprietors are coining money, and that a Jecent-sized hotel in Capetown is bringing in as good a revenue as a gold mine in Johannesburg.
The clerk of the Licensing District of Manawatu gives notice that the annual meeting will be held at Martonjjn Bth June.
The result of Dr Wilson's examination of Mr Easton's little girl was received with very much satisfaction, as from the death being so sudden and unexpected, people feared it might be something different. Great sympathy is expressed for Mr and Mrs Easton in their affliction.
In regard to the boy at Auckland who was seized with a supicious illness after being bitten by a rat, the Colonial Secretary was yesterday in • formed that the case is distinctly one of bubonic plague, though of a mild character.
It is an interesting fact (remarks the Anckland Star) that Commandant Olivier, who has come into prominence since the defeat of Cronje, was tor some time a resident in the Auckland district. He is a native of Birmingham England, who went to the Cape of Good Hope, and saw service with the Mounted Rifles during one of the native wars. Subsequent to that he came on to Auckland, and lived for a time at Mangare. Afterwards he ret irned to Birmingham, but wrote out to a friend in Auckland that there were too many top hats to sn ; t him, so he thought he \v>juld go again to the Cape and might come once more to New Zealand. Mr Olivier, however, remained at the Cape, and married a Boer woman, which, perhaps, explains to some extent the fact that he is now commanding forces fighting his fellow countrymen.
The manner in which dead rats are being delivered at the pumping station is (says the Auckland Herald) very amusing. T)ne lady rode up to the station with a string of rodents dangling from the handle-bar of her bicycle, and another came up to the engineer, and, after enquiring whether " This 'ere was the place where the rats was brought," informed the official that she had a few, at the same time lifting up her gown and displaying a string of them hanging round her waist. Two youngsters came up with a perambulator containing a baby, and after the latter had been removed, a parcel of rats was carefully taken from the floor of the perambulator and handed over to the engineer. Well might one of our local authorities exclaim, reproachfully : " And this to save the plague."
Brigadier-General Brabant, of Brabant's Horse, in South Africa, who is in command a brigade of all the South African, Light Horse, Police, and Mounted Infantry, is a large landed proprietor in the eastern part of Cape Colony. He commanded the ist Yeomanry Regiment at the Cape.. On the disbanding of this force before 1875, General Brabant served with Mounted Corps against Moirosi, and was also engaged in the Basuto War of 1881, under Sir Frederick Carrington. He was in the Gaika War in 1877 and 1878, when he commanded a body of Colonials farmers— all mounted Colonials — who did excellent service and who tought exactly as the Boers do. He is <an excellent officer, and greatly liked by all Colonials. He is a member of the Cape Legislature.
Fire caused the loss of 119 lives in London last year. Commenting upon this fact in his annual report, Commander Wells, chief officer of the Fire Brigade, says that so long as London people continue to live under present conditions, and " the paraffin lamp remains a dangerous article of household use." so long will he be unable to anticipate a reduction in the yearly average of such fatalities.
We are pleased to learn that Constable Forster has been instructed to make an inspection of the town, and we expect his report will be of a very different tenor to the past reports of the Borough's Inspector.
Two Japanese training ships— the Hi-yei and Komgo— are on a cruise around the world, and may be in New Zealand waters ere long. By latest advices the vessels were at Thursday Island en route to Sydney. The trip is parts of the training for high positions of the Japanese naval Cadets on board. The Kon-go and Hi-yei are sister ships of 2200 tons, built at Hull in 1877 and Milford in 1879 respectively Their armament consists of three 6.6 in Krnpp guns, six S.ain guns, and four machine guns. They have no armour as against end-on fire, and no armoured deck. Both vessels are equal to a speed of about 13 knots, and have a complement of 300 men. The Kon-go has previously visited Australia.
An important decision was arrived at by the Government at its Cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning. In order that the people of the colony may be made fully alive to the recessity for observing the directions of the authorities in the matter of sanitation, and also to expose. those who continue to keep in occupancy insanitary premises, the Government will in future publish in the Government Gazette the periodic reports of the General and Provincial Sanitary Commissioners, including the names of persons whose houses are condemned, or who have been referred to in the reports as owning or occupying insanitary premises.
Our readers will regret to learn of the death of Mr Thomas Wood a very old settler in this district. Since last August he has been ill, gradually fading away. He was a brother of Mr George N. Wood, of Shannon.
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