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Manawatu Herald, 26 July 1900, Page 2

Several frost fish have been found on the Otaki beach during the last few days. Portugal has deposited the amount of the Delagoa Bay railway award with the Bank of Paris. The German Emperor will be vexed, A strike of fitters aboard the transports at Hamburg is delaying the despatch of the German contingent for China. The Huia, stranded at Patea, is said to be almost ready for launching and it is confidently expected that she will be afloat before the end of this week. The work has been somewhat impeded by bad weather. During a fog in the Irish Channel the Cunard liner Campania struck the barque Embleton, which left Liverpool on July 19th for Port Chalmers with a general cargo. The sailing vessel was cut in two by the force of the impact. The first and second officers and five seamen were saved. The remainder of the crew, eleven in number, were drowned. La3t year 3,607 vessels passed through the Suez Canal, 2,310 of these were British. The number of vessels which passed through in 1889 was 3.503-Major-General Sir W. F. Gatacre has received the command of the Eastern District, in England, in succession to Major-General Abodie, C.B. He was to take over command on June 4th.

Arrangements have been made at the lunch to have tea for the ladies. At the annual prize-firing meeting of the National Rifle Association, the Queen's Prize was won by Private Ward, of the Devonshire Regiment, with a score of 341 points. The Mayor invites the public to observe Monday next as a public holiday, as on that day at one o'clock the Governor will open the Wirokino Bridge. Next Tuesday evening the Corrick Family of bellringers and instrumentalists will appear at the Public Hall. Notices of their performances in other places are very favourable. In to-day's issue, on our front page. Mr Edmund Osborne, of the Centre of Commerce, has an advertisement relating to what he terms a Thanksgiving Sale to be held during next month. The sale is bound to attract much attention. Messrs George W. Russell, and Collins objected, on principle, to an increase in the Governor's salary, which caused Captain Russell to say he questioned if these two gentlemen were the democrats they professed to be. Captain Russell should wait and see them vote against the increased honorarium, if it is likely to be carried. There was a good attendance at the meeting held last night to consider the formation of a Rifle Club or Volunteer force, when it was decided beat to form a club, and a committee are to wait on Mr John Stevens on Monday. In another column Mr and Mrs A. C. Stansell issue an invitation to the children of the district to attend a dance at the Public Hall on Monday evening, as a fitting wind-up to the general holiday. As the dance is for the children a few adults will be admitted for a small payment. The children are bound to appreciate Mr and Mrs Stansell'skindthoughtfulness. There is some nervousness about the luncheon on Monday, many fearing that evening dress will be required. We are asked to state that morning dress will be worn by all. It would be a convenience if all those who purpose attending would secure their tickets so that proper accommodation can be prepared. No onlookers will be admitted to the hall. After considering the Governor, the Ministers want the House to consider them and, so it is reported, the Members want to be considered also, so that if Ministers get an increased salary members want an increased honorarium, and they will get it, or Ministers will not get any more. Everyone can jump at the conclusion of the argument. The Premier carried the second reading, on Tuesday night, of the Governor's Salary and Allowances Bill by 43 to 15 votes. The Bill is to reinstate \he sum of £1500 allowed as allow?nce tor the Governor's establishment and £1000 in lieu of travelling expenses, which were in force in 1873 but repealed in 1887. The Chief Inspector of Stock in his interim return shows a decrease of 1 160 sheep for last year. The total number of sheep in the colony is 19, 345, 346, and the number of sheep in the North Island has increased by 38,993 and decreased in the South Island by 40,153. A member is introducing a Bill so as to amend the Shops and Shop Assistants Act that domestic servants and chemists get a weekly half-holiday. Why does not some city member move that cows should also be inclnded, they need not fear opposition from the milkers. On the relief of Mafeking many important documents were discovered in Commandant Snyman's laager, east of the town, including copies of recent intelligence telegrams from which it appears that the movements of the relieving column from the South and Colonel Plumer's column from the north, were accurately followed by the enemy until the detour of the southern column to the West deceived them. Some members of the House are not models for public speaking. Yesterday's N.£. Times says "Mr Wilford last night, during the discussion of the Governor's Salary Bill, referred to the fancy-dress ball given by his Excellency a couple of years ago, and made that function the vehicle of an attempt to ridicule Mr Pirani. The member for Wellington Suburbs gave a long and laboured description of the costume which the member for Palmerston wore at the ball. Probably because it considered Mr Wilford's remarks on this head to be in questionable taste, the House listened to them in something approaching stony silence. The member for the Suburbs also gave a description of Mr Pirani's conversation at the ball, and sarcastically said that it bristled with brilliant witticisms." Two temperance canvassers were charged at the Auckland Police Court with signing their names as witnesses to claims for enrolment on the electoral roll without having seen the signature of the claimant written first. Frederick Mullins pleaded guilty, and was fined £2 and costs. William Richardson, the well-known temperance lecturer, pleaded not guilty, but was convicted, and fined £5 and costs, and reprimanded by the Magistrate for attempting to turn the Court into apolitical meeting. John Roach, who applauded Richardson, was charged with interrupting the Court and cautioned. That the Japanese have been making extensive preparations for war for some time past is an open secret. It was announced some little time ago that Chokuro Kadono, ot Tokio, Japan an agent of the Japanese Government was in Massachusetts, America, buying arms and equipment for an army to be placed in the field by the Japanese Government at once. He gave some startling facts as to the scale on which Japan was carrying on her preparations. The Mikado was preparing quietly to put an army of 500,000 well armed and well drilled soldiers in the field, and within two years, Chokuro Kadono boasted, the Japanese army would be one of the most formidable in point of numbers and equipment of any armed force in the world.

The silver key to be presented to the Governor on opening the Wirokino bridge is on view at Mr Alf. Fraser's shop. The average Maori knows his way about. Recently, not one hundred miles from New Plymouth, several natives arrived at an hotel, and desired accommodation. The landlord gave the natives the old stereotyped reply " Full up ; " and there the incident evidently ended as far as " mine host " was concerned, but as a matter of fact it did not. The Maoris went down the main-street and interviewed the first policeman on the subject, and the landlord was startled to see the natives arrive back with the man in blue, just to make sure that the landlord's accommodation was not so severely taxed as to exclude them from the house. Mutual explanation were made, and the Maoris had the satisfaction of getting the required accommodation. — Herald.