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Manawatu Herald, 7 June 1900, Page 2

One circumstance regarding the war should^ afford gratification. At its close we shall possess a more experienced staff of generals than any other Power. Moreover, in Lord Roberts himself we shall be able to claim the leading European general. — Saturday Review.

The surveyors have commenced the work of laying out the line for the tramway extension from Sandon to the Rangitikei river. They expect to be finished in two weeks.

Although President Kruger took away a million sovereigns from Pretoria, the Government issued Treasury notes for a similar value. An attempt was made to commandeer all the remaining coin and bar gold in Pretoria, but the banks and burgher residents threatened resistance.

At the firiminal sittings of the Wellington Supreme Court on Monday sentence was passed on Harry Albert Eversleigh, who on Saturday was found guilty of fraudulently falsifying public accounts while employed in the Road^ Survey .Branch of the Wellington Lands Office, which . was that of eighteen months' imprisonment with hard labour.

Sir Thomas Lipton has recently given to the world his recipe for success in business. The advice is characteristic of the man whq offers it, and is excellent. He says : — "Work hard ; deal honestly ; exercise care and judgment ; advertise ireely and judiciously."

The practice of requiring Supreme Court witnesses to stand while giving evidence was referred to by the. Chief Justice in Wellington a day or two ago. His Honour said (reports the New Zealand Times) it was an old English custom that had been kept up without any reason. He thought that witnesses should be allowed to be seated while under examination.

Old Gentleman : " There is something wrong with tbat slot machine in there. It claims to tell your correct age. lam over 70, and it made me out 35;" Hotel Porter: "That machine is for ladies only. You will find a more truthful one in the billiard-room, sir."

Covering up an ugly deed. The Amnesty Bill, which prevents criminal prosecutions in connection with the Dreyfus case, has been passed by the French Senate. Amendments were made in it placing Colonel Picqtiart and M. Zola, who worked in the direction of obtaining justice for Dreyfus, in the • same category as the military culprits who had plotted for his undoing.

Professor Herkomer paints the portrait of Sir George Grey for the National Portrait Gallery, and Edward Onslow Ford, sculptor has been entrusted with Sir George Grey's bust for St. Paul's.

The Daily Mail correspondent at Rome states that an Italian officer, Colonel Cornara, has discovered that water, if subjected to great compres sion and then decomposed by means of an electric current into its elements, oxygen and hydrogen, explodes with tremendous torce in the process. Colonel Cornara succeeded by these means in producing in water an explosive force 55 times greater than tbat of ordinary gunpowder, and 28 times greater than that of dynamite. This new explosive, to which ire has given the name of Cosmos, entails no danger upon the person using it. A company has been formed at St. Marcel, close to Turin, for the manufacture of the explosive water cartridges, which, if the experiments are to be trusted, will play an important part in war and commerce.

The corner shop at the junction of the street leading to the railway station, tbat lately has had so many temporary tenants, has been secured on lease by a Chinaman, who intends opening up a grocer's business. Mr Spciral. m the work of ftttinK the *hop up, io hand.

The " San Francisco Call" of April 17th contains the following message telegraphed from its Paris correspondent : — " Madame Melba has announced that she is engaged to be married to Mr Haddon Chambers, the Australian playright. 'My divorce from Mr Armstrong delights me,' she said. 'It is what I have longed for, I havo rover h. ci any desire to live in those awful Dakota and Texas places. Now all is done. As for me, I will soon marry Haddon Chambers. I never thought of marrying Herr Joachim. Why. he is 80. I have already bought a house in Great Cum-berland-street, London, where I expect to be very happy as Mr Chambers's wife.' "

In a letter to the Lyttelton Times "A Grower" makes the following suggestion :— How would it do for us to send a shipment of potatoes to the starving millions in India ? We have any number of them, and there is little or no - market here at present. So why could not our Chamber of Commerce arrange for a large shipment ? The farmers would give the tubers, and subscriptions could be raised for providing the necessary labour of digging, etc., and doubtless the Railway Department, if the Minister was approached, would carry them to port free. There is a vessel at present in Port Chalmers, which, I understand, is returning to Calcutta in ballast. Potatoes would make suitable ballast.

A football match takes place on the racecourse on Saturday, play commencing at 2.30 p.m. between the local team and the Wanderers (Wereroa). This is one of the fixtures for the Cup. and the play should be interesting.

Mrs W. Cook has a card over the leader in which are advertised the subjects she' is prepared to teach.

In pur advertising columns Mr A_ Pat announces that he wfll open the corner shop in Main-street on Saturday next with a fresh lot of groceries, fruit, and confectionery. He asks the public to call and test his goods and prices.

In Mr Walker's new advertisement prominence is given to , the stock of horse and cow covers, taiost needed this weather, as well as to the oilskin suits required by paddockers. Another line is some handsome canisters, the delight of housewives. He of course keeps the usual lines of a grocer's business.