Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, AUG. 16, 1900.

Manawatu Herald, 16 August 1900, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, AUG. 16, 1900.

Imperial Consols have advanced to 98*.

•• Prohibition for ever." On Tuesday another order was made at the applicant's (Andrew Clarke) re a >st The hotels will soon have to close down if business at the Court keeps as brisk as it has done.

The New York Sun thus throws up the sponge for the Boers : " The South African tragedy is over, Joubert dead, Cronje captive, Kruger fugative, Roberts the most conspicuous military commander in Europe.

Birmingham University has received voluntary contributions amounting to £330,000 towards the further endowment needed. Mr Chamberlain thinks at least a quarter of a million more will be required.

The Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland has by 592 votes to 29 resolved on union with the United Presbyterian Church, the Synod of which has already voted unanimously in favour of the proposal. The union will take place in October next, and the name suggested for the new church is the " United Free Church."

At the London Mansion House on 6th June, the War Fund amounted to £939»7°° J the Indian Famine Fund to £271,000; and the Mateking Relief Fund to over £17,000.

A Reuter message declares that Turkey has ordered 209 guns and the armament for eight ironclads, from the Krupp works.

Information has been published which shows that the defence and relief of Kumassi entailed the following losses : — Wounded 680, many severely ; killed, 105 ; missing, 39. There were three thousand combatants engaged.

The Rev. R. Coates, headmaster of the Newton East School, Auckland, accidentally took arsenical poisoning at his home on Epsom-road, and died at an early hour in the morning.

The Premier 'has again refused to give the Mount Cook site in Wellington for the University.

Messrs Austin Bros, advertise for a hoise-driver used to flax work.

The report of the ball given by Mrs W. Cook last Tuesday evening, which is said to be one of the best of its kind yet given in Foxton, will appear in our next issue.

The Chief Justice confirmed the judgement given to McLeod, the engine driver on the Manawatu railway whose eye was injured in a tunnel. He thus will get the £750 damages awarded.

Mr Justice Matthew has given judgment at Home in favour of two Transvaal mining companies, who sought to recover from the underwriters at Lloyds, the value of gold commandeered by the Transvaal Government.

To-night All Saints* Church will be reopened by a special service at which the Venerable Archdeacon Towgood will preach. The Revs. Harper, Wilson, McNickle, and Pargiter will also assist the Vicar. The service will be assisted in the music by an instrumental band in addition to the organ. The parishioners must be at the church not later than 7.15 or possibly they will fail to get a seat.

At the Paris Exhibition, the Palais du Costume forms a great attraction. From the most remote antiquity, from Egypt down to our own time, tableaux consistiug of life-sized figures clothed in the costume of the epoch they represent carry the spectator from century to century, and the illusion is so perfect that on leaving the building he feels as if he had been piloted down the ages across the social life of the world's history during the last 4000 years. One notes the relation between the costume of the epoch and itb jrvmnor of living and thought.

The Premier has accepted an invitation to be present at the first annual ball in connection with the Otaki Hospital to be held on the 15th inst.

The Standard says a settler from Collingwood, South Island, who has taken up land at Colyton, has chartered a steamer to bring his cattle and horses to Foxton, trom whence they will be driven to their destination.

The Governor has received a cable from the Secretary of State for the colonies stating Her Majesty has commanded him to convey her sincere thanks for the kind messages of sympathy from the Ministers and people of New Zealand on the death of Duke Alfred.

A heat wave of special severity is passing over the United States. Its effects have been most severely in the Mississippi valley, where the heat is described as phenomenal ; and at Chicago, on the south-west shore of Lake Michigan, where two thousand horses fell down dead within a week.

The sawmill owners In Hawkes Bay are rising the price of timber. The Hawkes Bay Herald states that the millers are unable to supply all the timber which is required, It is said that one miller was offered an order for white pine, sufficient to keep all the mills in the provincial district going for six months.

Major Burroughs, of the West African Field Force, has made a successful night attack upon an Ashanti camp near Kumassi. His troops captured the camp at the point of the bayonet, but sustained fifty-two casualties in doing so. The major has succeeded in throwing a new garrison, with a fresh stock of provisions, into Kumassi.

Some interesting figures to hand concerning seven of the traction engines hauling stores for Lord Roberts' army point to the economic advantages of these steel sappers. Between them they do 5,000 ton miles of profit work per day, and compared with the cost of carriage by bullock train, it is calculated the traction engine pays for itself in ten days, or for itself and train and carriage out twice in each mouth.

Mr H. Hill gave a lecture on "An interesting chapter of New Zealand History " at Napier the other day and he mentioned the first "poster" or wall placard ever printed in the colony was one calling a meeting to form a temperance society.

A somewhat peculiar case came before the Christchurch Magistrate's Cour con M one? ay. For some time past the relations between the Sumner Borough Council and the fire brigade of the borough have not been satisfactory, and recently the Council resolved to reconstitute the brigade, and called upon the old members to return their uniform. This they refused to do, and to-day the Council brought an action against S. Phillips, superintendent of the brigade to recover £3 10s, the value of a uniform. The case was brought as a. test one. It was shown in the evidence that a great part of the expense had been borne by the members of the brigade themselves, and the Magistrate gave judgment for the defendant with costs. He advised the Council to take the brigade back into its service and come to an amicable arrangement with it.

The Manawatu County Council give notice that it is the intention of the Council to raise a loan of £400 for the purpose of construction of the ElkinsMotuiti road.

This morning some excitement occurred through the ringing of the firebell, occasioned by the blaze of fire in the bedroom at Mrs Fyfert's house. Many hands worked well and the fire was subdued before it had got too strong a hold. The fire appears to have occurred by the bed by the wall and to run up the wall to the roof. It bears the appearance of gross carelessness.

At the Justices Court this morning, W. McDermott and James King were each fined one shilling for breach of the Borough By-Laws in permitting their chimneys to take fire. E. Coley charged with threatening behaviour was dismissed, and Amo, a Native for a similar offence was fined ios and costs 20s. in default 48 hours imprisonment. An application for a prohibition order against Ann McGill was struck out owing to the non appearance of applicant.

We understand that the popular host of the Post Office hotel has sold out to Mr Innes of Wellington. He takes possession next Tuesday.

The team to represent Foxton against the Ohau footballers on the local ground on Saturday will be picked from the following; — Purcell, Furrie, O'Carroll, Russell, Rewite, Ball, Hunter, Samuels, Henderson, Hina, Desmond, Warne, Dunn, Ward, Gustofen, Voltz, Brown, F. Wright, W. Symons, Proctor, Jones. The team will be posted up in Mr E. Ball's shop to-night as the selection committee have not yet decided on the players to take part.