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Manawatu Herald, 11 August 1900, Page 2

The Rev. C. R. Chase, late Vicar of All Saints, Plymouth, and an exmember of the Council of the English Church Union, has been received into the Roman Catholic Church. In England the Childrens' Country Holiday Fund enabled 33,709 children to have a fortnight's holiday in the country last simmer at an expenditure °f £23,311. The amount contributed by the parents of the children benefitted was £8,101. The Weekly Press has a full page coloured likeness of General French, with whom the New Zealanders have served under. When the Boers were leaving Pretoria they took £300,000 trom the National Bank. The other banks were left intact. The total amount of gold which has been commandeered by the Boer Government from the mines [ amounts to £2,500,000. There is a rumour that the Messrs Strangs are negotiating the sale of their property to the Government. Some officials have been visiting the land. It is to be hoped the Government will acquire the property for close settlement. The Premier, in reply to a question, said it was the intention of the Government to increase the grants to Education Boards. Reports from Tamworth state that two blacks stuck-up a carrier near Tamber Springs, and took a saddle and axe from him. They stated that they were Jimmy and Joe Governor, the authors of the Gilgandra and other murders, and gave the carrier a note for the local police describing the tactics of their pursuers. The men stated that they had lately robbed a hut near Boolah, taking ammunition, a rifle, clothing and boots. The Imperial memorial to Sir George Grey is to take the form of a bust, to be placed in the crypt of St. Paul's cathedral, and a portrait to be hung in the National Portrait Gallery. Professor von Herkomer has agreed to paint the portrait and Mr E. Onslow Ford to execute the bust. The governments of Cape Colony, New Zealand, and Australia have subscribed to the fund, and amongst piivate subscribers Mr Cecil Rhodes has given £50. Owing to the difficulty of raising a loan, Russia is increasing her Customs duties. The Jews at the East end of London sent out to General Roberts some Passover cakes saying "We have forwarded to your Lordship for acceptance a case of Passover cakes, such as are eaten by our race at this season of . the year, by command of Our Heavenly j Father, in commemoration of their ] freedom irom bondage in Egypt, and deliverance from a cruel and tytannical rule such as Your Lordship under Almighty God, is an instrument in removing at the present time from the 1 oppressed in South Africa. \

Lambing has commenced in this district. On Jnne gth, the 30th anniversay of the death of Charles Dickens, the tomb of the novelist in Westminster Abbey was covered with beautiful flowers. For the past two years the Agricultural Department has b_en carrying on experiments with more than 100 varieties of potatoes. The stock of seed potatoes now in hand will be distributed gratis in small Jo + s for tria l by svoh f. nn.rs aft .re d. sir nus of cnlHv, ting the tubers. In a few days the Department will announce the places from which the distribution will be made. Boer gratitude. When General Kock was captured at Elandslaagte General White treated him with great consideration. He himself visited him in hospital, sent the district surgeons to treat him, and even invited his own surgeon to treat him. He was an old man, and, as his own medical adviser said he would die, General White sent for his (Gen Kock's) wife and let her stay with him till the end. The old man did die and the body was sent to Jo nbcr.'s lines for burial at Pretoria. A Kd.rrir subsequently brought in the Standard and Diggers' News in which it was stated that General Kock had died from bad treatment he had received amongst the British at Ladysmith. Invitations are being sent out by the local lodge of Foresters for their second annual ball, which is to take place on the 32nd inst. at the Foxton Public Hall. The ball given last year proved an undoubted success in every way and was of a most enjoyable character. The Committee appointed this year have made the best arrangements, so that the ball will no doubt prove as enjoyable as the last. The prices of admission have been fixed at the lowest possible amount-for an affair of the kind, so that a large number are sure to be present. On the wreath sent by the Prince and Princess of Wales to Mrs Gladstone's funeral was the following superscription : — " In memory of dear Mrs Gladstone,'' " It is but crossing with a bated breath, A white set face : a little strip of sea, To find the loved ones waiting on the shore, More beautiful, more precious, than before. Alexandra." The late Bishop Ryle's tracts have been translated into every European language, and even into Chinese and Hindustan, and the circulation has reached ten millions. The Government was asked by Mr W. H. Field on Wednesday afternoon whether steps would be taken to relieve the local administrative authorities from the burden of the cost of licensing elections. The Premier replied that as the local bodies received the revenue from licenses, they were the proper authorities to bear the cost of the elections. If the local bodies would let the Government have the revenue the Government would bear all the expense of the elections. To-day the Foxton footballers meet the Raukawas at Levin, and the Wanderers play Ohau at Weraroa. The fixtures tor next Saturday are Horowhenua v. Wanderers, at Weraroa ; Levin v. Raukawa, at Levin ; Foxton v. Ohau, at Foxton. While giving a public exhibition, attended by about 300 natives, on Calle Gamba, Ramon Cruz a native, was killed by a boa constrictor which he had coiled about his body. While so coiled the snake was aggravated by a small dog which bit its tail. This, no doubt, aroused the savage instinct in the brute, and its demonstrations against the dog caused it, perhaps unconsciously, to crush its master to death. At the evening service at the Methodist Church to-morrow night, Mrs Woollass will sing one of her popular sacred solos.