Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, AUG. 7, 1900.

Manawatu Herald, 7 August 1900, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, AUG. 7, 1900.

Mrs Hennessy advertises for a servant. This morning a prohibition order was granted against John Spelman on his own application. Two Lascars have died of plague in London. Two others have been found to be suffering from the disease at Denton Hospital. The Premier has informed Captain Russell that he was willing to amend the Old Age Pensions Act by providing that persons naturalised for twelve months, who had fulfilled the other ; conditions, should be entitled to the pension. News has been received that Major Beddoes, with 400 Nigerian troops and two guns, after a severe engagement east of Dompassi, completely routed 5000 Ashantis. The British casualties were thirty-three wounded, including Major Beddoes (severely) and three other officers. In announcing the result of the ballot on the question of the extension of the A.M. P. Society's business to England, 1 the chairman of the society said that personally he was willing to arrange for a referendum to confirm the decision to open in London if he could legally do so. The point would be submitted to leading barristers, both by the society and the opposition. Lord Glasgow at an agricultural meeting at Home said : "At one of the big metropolitan gatherings in Christchurch he found himself hemmed in in the crowd and heard a man say, " I haven't seen the Earl of Glasgow yet." Pleased to find that someone wanted to see him, he turned round and said •• Here I am, if you want to see me." The man promptly rejoined, " I beg your pardon, your Excellency, I didn't mean you ; I meant the bull." " But, even that," observes the ex-Governor, in telling the tale, shows that somebody thought enough of me to call his bull after me !" The Free Lance is responsible for the following: — The unconscious humour of the Irishman still lives. 11 During the Queen's visit to Dublin," says a correspondent, "a friend of mine was sitting in Phoenix Park, when to him appeared a ragged old chap, most gloriously intoxicated, ' God save the Queen, sorr,' said he to my friend. ' Certainly,' was the reply. ' God save Qneen Victoria I"reiterated the old fellow. 'J3y all means. Send her victorious, happy, and glorious.' That's right, sorr I I wish she came to Dublin every month, every day, sorr! Think of what she's done for the country, think of all the good she does to the people. Why, look at me; here am las drunk as , and I never paid a penny fox it. 1 "

The Borough Councillors met Mr Davics this morning to talk over the bridge business, and it was determined to make a petition to the Government for increased assistance, and to back it up by a deputation next week. The news that Lord Kensington has been wounded in South Africa reminds M.A.P. that not many of our aristocracy have been born under a more unlucky star, so far as accidents are concerned than this peer. Once, when he was playing polo, he had a severe accident. Hardly had he recovered when he had a bad smash in the hunting field. At the beginning of the present war he left the Household Cavalry to join a Hussar regl nent, so ao to out to South A'rica" fie leU England in a transport winch fir^t ha.d to put back into Milford Haven, and subsequently went ashore near the Cape of Good Hope. Hardly had he landed and joined General French's Cavalry when he got among some barbed wire, with the result that his horse fell, and he was injured in the ankle and had to go into the hospital. No sooner had he recovered and rejoined his regiment than he was wounded again— this time, however by a Mauser bullet ! Amongst the distinguished recipients of the Honorary Degrees at Cambridge on June 12th, the only one from the Southern Hemisphere was Sir Walter Buller, of New Zealand. The recipients of Honorary Degrees, all clad in scarlet gowns, were seated on a raised dais right and left of the ViceChancellor, who wore his official robes, and as each one was brought forward and presented to the University, the Public Orator (Dr Sandys) made a speech in Latin, recounting his merits and qualifications. This is the translation of what he said ot Sir Walter : — " We have with us to-day one who is counted amongst the distinguished ornaments of our most distant colony, New Zealand ; one of the greatest authorities on the language of the aborigines ot the country? one who has frequently received the public thanks of the Government for his dis* tinguished services. He has also devoted great labor to the accurate description and artistic representation of the birds of the country. Further, the debt which our University owes to his liberality is sufficiently attested by the walls of our museum, furnished with specimens of nearly or quite extinct birds and animals. One, therefore, whom the Queen herself and France and Germany and Italy have loaded with honors, we, too, gratefully remembering his many gifts, grace with the garland of our praise !"