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Manawatu Herald, 12 June 1900, Page 2

Two rabbiters in the Nightcaps districts.are reported to be making £x, a day each. Upwards of 90,000 rabbits left there last year, and it is reported that this year they are not by any means so plentiful. The continuous trapping has thinned them out.

Two of the telegraph cables to South Africa have broken down,/ and the transmission of war news is thus greatly delayed.

Government received by the 'Frisco mail several letters from the United States asking what inducement New Zealand offers to farmers with small capital. This result is attributed to the part New Zealand has taken in the South African war.

We understand that the reply the Borough received to their resolution as to the dirty state of the bank notes issued by the Bank of New Zealand was to the effect that if the bank was forced to issue new notes the expense would be so great that several branches would have to be closed, and the Foxton branch would be one o#the first ! The Council will have to be careful.

The wedding of Lady Buckley with Mr Hoi worthy took place last April. The ceremony was a very quiet one. The \yedding was solemnised at the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, Marylebone-road, by the Rev. Father Brenan, vicar of the church. Mr Hoiworthy, the bridegroom, is the eldest surviving son of Mr William Hoiworthy, of Seftorr Park, Liverpool. They will soon take up their abode at tieir new residence, 26, Ashworth Mansions, Elginavenue Maida Vale, which is being got ready and furnished for their early reception.

Missionaries from China formed a large part of the passengers by the Empreai of China from Hong Kong to Vancouver, one of the notables being Dr Lowry, direct from Peking, where he is president of the Methodist College. All agree that the fate of the Emperor has been decreed by the Empress Dowager. The impression throughout China is that he is being slowly poisoned, and will, within the next six months, at the latest, pass away.

The Hawke's Bay Herald says :— lf the silt question continues to beat the Harbor Board as it has done for the past year or two Napier will soon awake to the fact that it has a Harbor Board but no harbor. The dredge appears to be utterly unable to cope with any serious difficulty, for the silt makes faster than it can be removed. At the present time the barque Quathlamba is lying alongside the breastwork, and though she is only drawing 12ft of water, the vessel is stuck fast in the silt, and the dredge has been working night and day for the past two days trying to clear her, but has not yet succeeded. Surely it is possible to devise some efficient method of controlling the silt.

A representative of the Daily Ex* press has succeeded in obtaining an interview with President Kruger. who is living at Machadorp, on the Delagoa Bay railway, about a hundred and thirty miles east of Pretoria. The pressman found that the President was residing in a specially fitted up railway car, which he declared was the capital of the Transvaal Republic. The President denied that he had taken two millions in cash away from the city or that he intended to take refuge on board the Dutch warship Frieslaod, now at Delagoa Bay.

Sir Walter and Mrs Buller have returned to London after wintering at Dresden. They have now taken a furnished flat for the London season, at Cadogan Gardens.

At the Wanganui Police Court on Thursday morning a man -lamed Harry Thompson, an ex-schoolmaster, vjs charged with a criminal assault on a little girl 6 years of age in Londonstreet on Monday. The accused was caught red-handed by two men, who stated that when they saw Thompson the latter said, " I've made a mistake. I suppose I'll have to pay for it." They took him to the police station, where he voluntarily stated : — " I'm in {or an ugly thing, and I'll have to suffer. I suppose I'll get three years. I won't see the outside world for a bit. If it was in Sydney I'd get my neck stretched." The accused was committed to take his trial at the District Court to be held on the 2nd July.

The English news states that Mrs W. £. Gladstone is sinking.

We understand that Mr Joe Tos has had to seek the protection of the bankruptcy court.

At the meeting of the Eoxton Brass Band last night a resolution of sympathy with Mr Newth, a member of the band, at the loss of his child was passed. V^ A change has been made in Mr Leary's advertisement in which he calls attention to the various items of the large stocks of drugs, perfumes, nursing requisites, toilet goods and winter requisites, he holds. Mr Leary's is a vfery old established businets, he having t been in Palmerston 26 years years. >

Before Messrs A. Fraser and W. B. Rhodes, J's.P., William Elliott, an old offender, was fined 10s and cost ss, for assault, the penalty was made light as offender promised to clear out of town.

It was announced at All Saints Church on Sunday that a meeting of the parishioners will be held to-morrow night at the schoolhouse to consider the advisability of having a social every Wednesday, in which music, recitations, and debating should form a part. A serious fire broke out early on Monday morning in Petone. It originated in Leighton's foot factory. The inmates had a narrow escape, and but little was saved. The fire crossed the street and destroyed Gray's Victoria Hotel, the residence of Mr Peter Smith, also the residence of another Mr Smith, and then attacked Sutler's general store, which was destroyed, and Ryder's butcher's shop and residence, both severely damaged. Here the fire was checked, chiefly through the Fire Brigade belonging to Gear Meat Com-" pany's slaughtering works.

Mr Bridge notifies the dates his representative will visit the various townships. It will be seen that Foxton will receive a visit on Tuesday, 10th July. If the rebuff received from the bank is not taken too seriously to heart by the Council perhaps they would gracefully approach the Telegraph Department and urge the painting of the telegraph posts in the Main-street. No one wants to run his head up* against a post, and if the telegraph poles were painted white there would be less danger of doing so.

Writing to his wife, the Hon; Mrs Rankin, at Torquay, Lieutenant Reginald Rankin, ot Rimington's Scouts, says : — " One interesting event took place in camp. A parcel arrived ior a man who had left the corps, so it was decided that the contents should be sold by auction and the proceeds sent to his wife. The packet contained two pairs of woollen socks, a cake of Pears' ordinary soap, and two or three Maggi compressed vegetable packets. The socks fetched half a guinea a pair, the soap 10s, and the vegetables 7s 6d a packet. The total obtained for the goods, which could be bought in England for 6s, was /*4 12s ! This will show y«u the valueXf the necessaries of life on the veldt.?'