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Manawatu Herald, 29 May 1900, Page 2

It is not often we have to object to what appears in the Otaki Mail, but in Saturday's issue it endeavours to make our statement that the Queen, after completing her birthday on the 24th May last, would have reached the venerable age of 82 years. • When anyone halTpassed a birthday his age is generally reckoned as belonging to the following year. If our contemporary does not feel sure of this fact we commend him to consult 4< Whitaker " and on page 119 under the head of Octogenarians he will find the Queen placed May 24, 1819— 81 — and this work was published for the whole year of -igoo ; thus if the compiler of ''Whitaker " agreed with the editor of. the Mail he would have stated the Queen's age as 80, as she had reachecj that stage but not her Bist birthday. There :4s no : thing so interesting to some people ; asthinking one's contemporaries are not so wise as onesself». - ,

The team to represent Foxton in their match against Raukawa at Levin on Saturday will be chosen from the following according to attendance and form at the gymnasium : — O'Dwyer, Sullivan, Rakina, Kennedy. Dunn, Wright, Brown, Munro, Gustersen, Ward, Elliote, Samuels, Furrie, Rewita, Dreminond, Hughes, Hunter, Gobo (?) It appears that New Zealand flax has found a new market for quite a unique purpose in Japan, says a contemporary. The commodity has been exported in small quantities to that country in the past, but a recent line despatched to Sydney is intended for the furtherance of the manufacture of a silky fibre,. the process of which has only been recently discovered, to be utilised in making, it is alleged, silk goods fpr colonial markets. There is at present in New Zealand a representative of a big Japanese house, making further inquiries with a view to opening up a regular trade in New Zealand flax for the above purpose. If the result is favourable, it ought to be a good opening for the export of fibre of the finest quality,

At Rongotea on Thursday, Mr Thomas Francis, youngest son of the late Mr T. F. Gibson, of Foxton, and Miss Sarah, eldest daughter of Mr J. Broadbelt, were united in the bonds of matrimony. A young married couple want a couple of rooms or board and lodging. A useful young girl to do housework ; 3 advertised for. " Buffalo Bill " issues a challenge for a wrestling match for fen pounds a side. "A pig who would a wooing -go, whether his master would let him or no," has got into a strange pasture, and the owner can learn all about it on application at the office of this paper. Messrs Gamman & Co., of the Phoenix timber, coal and wood yard, Palmerston, have an advertisement in this day's issue relative to their business, which we commend the, attention of our readers. We are glad to report that the owner .af the lost notes toas recovered his property through advertising through our columns,' and the finder was on his way to advertise the find when he learnt that the lost notes had been advertised for. He liberally refused to take the reward offered. Michael Moynihan of the Club Hotel, Shannon, was fined £5 for breach of the Licensing Act at PalmeiTston yesterday for selling a bottle of whisky to a Maori on Sunday, the 6th May. The defence was that the liquor was supplied by a relation of the defendant, . she thinking she was justified in supplying travellers with drink to take away, and the Maori was a traveller. The defendant was fined as above and his license ordered to be endorsed.