"GOD SAVE THE QUEEN."

Manawatu Herald, 22 May 1900, Page 2

" GOD SAVE THE QUEEN."

Sir George White in thanking the citizens of Ladysmith referred to the services of General Hunter and Colonel E. D. W. Ward, assistant adjutant General, and described Colonel Ward as " the best supply officer since Moses."

Messrs - Abraham and Williams Palmerston stock sale will be held tomorrow and not on Thursday.

Mr T. Easton has made a start with the enlargement of All Saints' Church which when finished will be a great improvement upon the present accommodation.

London market report : Hemp. — The market is dull. Fair Wellington, May and July shipment, £25 10s per ton.

In Sydney a Chinaman hanged himself because he thought he had the plague. Medical examination proved he had made a mistake.

The Duke of Orleans, while professing profound respect and gratitude to the Queen and Roypl family, has informedthe London Bachelors' Club (from which he was recently expelled for his relations with the author of certain objectionable caricatures of her Majesty) that France refuses to barter French sentiments for hospitality. He refused to resign his membership. A member of Parliament (says the Daily News) tells a charming and touching story of the Queen and Lady Roberts. When Lady Roberts was at Windsor a few weeks ago, the Queen handed her a small parcel saying, " Here is something that I have tied up with my own hands, and that I beg you not to open until you get home." On her return home, Lady Roberts found that the parcel contained the Victoria Cross won by her dead son by his gallantry at the first battle of Colenso.

The Government has sent the following cables: — "To Colonel BadenPowell, Mafeking— On behalf of the people of New Zealand I desire to tender you our heartiest congratulations on the successful result of your heroic defence of Mafeking, and express to you warm appreciation of the noble way in which that defence has been maintained by you and the men under your control. Your noble defence will never be forgotten by the people in this portion of the British Empire, whose highest respect and goodwill you will have. — (Signed) J. G. Ward, Acting • Premier." The following cable was also despatched :— " To Lord Roberts.— On behalf of the people of New Zealand I desire to tender you our heartiest congratulations on the successful relict of Mafeking, and to express our warm appreciation of the noble way in which that defence has been maintained by Colonel Baden Powell and the men under his control.— (Signed)}. G. Ward, Acting Premier."

Six one pound notes has been lost between Symons' mill and the Courthouse. The finder will receive one pound reward on returning the same.

The Pekin correspondent of " The Times " states that Korea has granted Russia a site in Mesampho harbour for a coal depot and naval hospital. It is also stated that Korea has undertaken not to alienate certain strategic points elsewhere. M. Pavaloff, the Russian Minister in the East, has intimated that Mesampho will be made the winter quarters of the fleet. " The Times," commenting on this intelligence, says " the concession is a grave menace to Japan."

There will be service at All Saints' Church on Thursday evening at 7 o'clock in commemoration of Ascension Day.

Rejoicings over the relief of Mafeking have been world-wide. One very characteristic telegram has been received from the town of Bourke in New South Wales : — '• Bourke drunk."