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Manawatu Herald, 9 August 1900, Page 2

Mr Hone Heke, M.H.R., took the oath and his seat on Tuesday afternoon. The next English and European mail, via San Francisco, will close at the local office on Friday, 31st August, at 8 p.m. Mr Byron Brown advertises an auction sale of Mr J. R. Stansell's flax mill plant at Otaki on Wednesday next at 2 p.m. On Saturday afternoon Messrs Swainson and Bevan's scutching mill at Kuku was destroyed by fire. Fve tons of hemp were consumed. The Standard understands that the proprietors of Piercy's patent fencing intend to start ils manufacture in Christchurch and Australia. The Rev. Hugh Leach purposes reopening All Saints' Church on Thursday next, when a large number of neighbouring clergy will be present. The Assets Realisation Board last year sold 46,429 acres of country lands, realising £111,137, and town and suburban lands and sundries to the value of £43,300. Eighteen hundred persons have been arrested in different parts of Italy on suspicion of being implicated in the Anarchist designs. Among them are two editors of Socialist newspapers. Whitebait are now coming up the river in fair numbers. It is early for them but for the last month eager fishers have secured some small hauls. The Natives have an idea that the early arrival of whitebait denotes a 1 hot summer to follow. We hope that will not be so,

The working and management of station properties belonging to the Assets Realisation Board showed a s.irplns for last year of a sum equal to £ s'r)3 per cent on book cost. The total number of sheep sold during last year by the Assets Board is 86,906, and frozen 19,382, and they averaged 9s iod and 13s respectively, being an average of 2s 2d per head more than the previous year. The chief steward of the steamer Salamis, who committed suicide on Tuesday, was driven to commit the rash act by worry in connection with the embarkation of the China contingent from Sydney. Mr John Davies is about building a large new house at Kereru, which will be connected with his present dwelling which is anything but an old building. The chief feature in the house will be a long hall ten feet wide and approaching eighteen feet in height. The average weight of fleeces under the management of the Assets Board are given as ?lb ioz for sheep and 2lbs goz for lambs. Greasy wool realised 7"64 d and scoured wool g.BBd. The Assets Board have on hand in North Island 177,122 sheep and in the South Island 63,662 sheep. Cattle in the North Island 17,412, and in the South Island only 57. The Government have let the contract for snagging the Manawatu river, the price being some £193 10s. The Manawatu River Company are the successful tenderers. Mr Connell, so long a resident of this district, has come in receipt of a small fortune by the death of his mother, and has left for Home. We understand that his father is dangerously ill. Information has been received by Inspector O'Brien from Tauranga that sixteen Maori children and two adults were drowned on Sunday while crossing the Motu river, twenty-five miles from Opotiki, through a canoe upsetting. Three of the bodies have been recovered. The following will represent the Foxton Football Club in their match against Raukawa at Levin on Saturday : — Purcell, Furrie, O'Carroll, Wingate, Collins, Nash, Henderson, Rakina, Samuels, Hanna, Warner, Ward, Kennedy, Smith, Gustofsen. Emergencies : E. Dunn, Russell, F. Wright. The brake leaves Hunter's Hotel at 11.30 sharp. Mr Styche; the man charged with attempting to procure a medical practitioner to murder his wife has had full charge of the affairs of Mr A. E. G. Rhodes, who is at present in England, during his absence. He is about 35 years of age, and has been married about three years. Mr Alf. Fraser waited upon the Manawatu County Council yesterday on behalt of the Borough Council to secure their support to the petition to the Government re the Wirokino bridge. All the members signed the petition, and Cr Strang will form one of the deputation. The police are completely baffled in their eftorts to track the two fugitive aboriginals Jimmy and Joe Governor, who murdered the Mawbys, the O'Briens, Mackay, and the old man Fitzpatrick last month. The bloodhounds which were brought into the chase have proved useless. Large parties of settlers are still carrying on the hunt. An Imperial Bushman writes that eftorts have been made to induce us to settle in Rhodesia. The conditions are to those wifh a knowledge of cattle and sheep 3,000 acres, to be purchased at tenpence per acre, the payments extending over a number of years, with 500 head of cattle and £25 per year for keep. In return the settlers are to give half the increase in cattle and attend to military drill every quarter. An extraordinary incident arose during the hearing of a case at the Worcester Assizes on June 16, in which Arthur Johnson, a metal worker, who was charged with assaulting a girl, Edith Middleton. The jury wanted to convict after hearing the girl's story without waiting f n r any corroboration, nnd again, 1 te- on, interposed a secnd tin)' '<• f,>.;p hearing counsel for the defence Tin defence was an alibi. The prisoner was supported in this by several workmen, and Mr Justice Day himself pointed out that there was not a tittle of evidence to support the story ot the girl, who was an habitual liar. Yet the jury spent two hours considering the case, and returned a verdict of guilty in defiance of the judge's direction. The judge ignored the verdict, let the prisoner out on his own recognisances, and said he would report the matter to the Home Secretaty. " The inebriate is as much an object of pity as the individual who contracts cancer or consumption, It is a disease of the nervous system, and the sufferer should be treated as generously and sympathetically as the individual sent to the hospital for cancer," remarked Dr Chappie at the meeting held last night to establish a reform home in Wellington. The only way to benefit the suffer was, Dr Chappie averred, prolonged scientific treatment in an inebriate home. We had an Inebriate Act, and he thought steps should be taken to bring it into operation. At present the inebriate home was the asylum, and it was undesirable to attach the stigma of insanity to drunkards. To give effect to the Act all the Government had to do was to put a sum of money on the Estimates to provide for an inebriate home. — Post.