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Manawatu Herald, 21 June 1900, Page 2

The Official Assignee's chief clerk, Mr E. G6rard, has returned to Foxton in order to dispose of potatoes and perishables in the estate of Joe Tos, by sale by private contract.

An army order has been issued announcing that a special gratuity of £5 is to be paid to Australasian and Canadian officers and men who are discharged, or a gratuity of a similar amount added to the estate of men dying in the service.

The Premier arrived at. Napier on Monday from his trip to the Islands. He left by special train in the afternoon for Dannevirke, and went on to Wellington on Tuesday.

An important side-issue in the ques tion of the future settlement of South Africa has (says St. James' Gazette) arisen. Many of the Reservists who have left British homes. and employ ments to join their regiments have found the Orange Free State so pleasant a place in which to live that they are asking if after the war is over they may not be given opportunities by the British Government to settle in the country, and in the case of those woo are -married to have their wives anjd children sent out to them. The Government would be saved the rypense of the Reservists' home journey, and might devote the money to providing passages to the men's wives and families. Further, would not the Government be justified in incurring the expense of providing these men wish an acre or so of land, or of starting them in some way of business ? In one way a lot of .money would be saved. At the end of the year there will be hundreds of waggons, spades, and so on which it will not be worth while to take home. Let the Reservists have them for their farms. And, also, should a large number of Reservists choose to settle in the country, one of the most difficult questions of the future is half solved. For the country would be, or might be, policed in that way without further trouble.

Before Messrs Thynne and Rhodes, J's.P., this afternoon, Walter Harris pleaded guilty to stealing one case of beer of the value of £3 Bs, and was fined £3 and costs ss, in default one month's imprisonment with hard labour.

Ladies are thoughtless creatures, especially when at a dance. We notice that the secretary of the Rangitikei Hunt ball advertises that he has a pink shawl, what a masculine description of a lady's finery, and five fans, wanting owners.

Mr Gilbert G. Small, pu t >ii -teacher has been appointed to the Foxton school.

Messrs P. Hennessy & Co. have secured a very superior lot of table potatoes, and they issue a. challenge for £5 to all growers and storekeepers to produce a better.

We are glad to see that our business men are in advance of the city fathers, and havi had the footpaths in front of their premises tarred a.nd sanded,

Sir Gordon Spngg has Completed the %mation of a Ministry. Anr"- S o, the numbers of the new Adtni is': a tion ire : -'vir T. L. Graham, ex-Attor)ey-General ; the Hon. j. RoseInneS Q.C., who was Attorney-General in thi K'.iodes Ministry of 1890; tne Hon.J. Frost, ex-Minister ot Agriculture jjSir P. H. Fanre, Colonial Secreta^ in the second Rhodes Ministry ; andpr T. W. Smartt>

Sneaking in the T?ou?e of Commons, theiHon. J. Chamberlain, referring to theWuation in Ashanti, said that three m >ntwf food supply and ammunition for thtee hundred men had been stored at Kimassi, where Sir Frederick Hodgson.thc British Governor, is besieged.

It is now certain, says the Post, that the, torn. Joi n .vl'Kenzie will not take his place as a tyinister of the Crown in the ptesent Parliament, and in fact we believe that his resignation^, is now in the binds of his colleagues. This announcement will be received with the greatest regret throughout the whole col6ny, for the services rendered by the Hon. J. M'Kenzie as Minister of Lands have been so great that they have won the admiration alike of political friend and opponent.

The MaiKiwatu Gorge Bridge Commission met at Woodville on Tuesday, and adjourned till ioth July. Every local body was well represented, and with the exception of the Waipawa County Council and the Manchester Road Board, all are determined to resist contributing towards the cost of the 1 re-erection of the bridge. It was decided to take united action amongst the? local bodies represented to show the. Government that the bridge was a colonial work. A deputation will proceed to Wellington immediately.

John Craig, storekeeper, of Levin, filed his petition in bankruptcy on Tuesday, and the first meeting of his creditors will he held at the Official Assignee's office at n a.m. on Tuesday next. Mr Ashcroft will make preliminary enquiries into Craig's estate, which it is understood is likely to be of a somewhat complicated nature.

Wellington had the rare experience on Tuesday morning of being entirely befogged, says the Post. Yesterday's fog only covered the lower portions of the city, but not even the highest places escaped this morning's heavy and dense mantle. It was well on to to o'clock before the sun dispelled the fogbank.

Tha Premier and party returned to Wellington from, papier, jivherQ he had fir^t touched on his return from the Islands, by the Napier express on Tuesday night. A crowd which filled the' railway station from end to end had gathered to bid him welcome.

The ladies of the Methodist Church sewing guild have arranged to hold the annual sale of work in October md are working hard to make it a success.

A terrible railway accident has occurred in England. Despite the danger signal being raised against it the express trim to Plymouth ran into and wrecked at Slough station a special race train standing at the platform. Four persons were killed outright, and 70 were injured. The scene at Slough was terrible. The gas escaping in the carriages fired the wreckage. Many were burned to death. The steam from the express engine scalded others.