Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, AUG. 23, 1900.
A youth has been arrested at Leipzig on a charge of regicide. The accused admits that he was deputed to kill the King of Saxony, but that his courage failed him. During the year ended 31st March, 1900, local authorities applied for loans aggregating £208,305, and the amount actually advanced during the period by the Government totalled £32,369The total number of electors who recorded their votes at the last general election was 279,330, while the number of electors on the roll was 373,744. As grafting should now be done, amateurs will be interested in knowing the constituents of a grafting wax, which is one third part of tallow, resin, tiud beeswax melted together, and applied wanai
Miss Maude Ray has been appointed a cadet to the Foxton school. In our report of the social given to Mr and Mrs Morton in last issue we omitted to mention that Mr W. Hickson contributed two comic songs to the programme, and sang in character. The items were good, and the singer was encored. Captain Robin, in the course of a letter to his father, says :—" We hope that the war will soon be over, and bring peace to this splendid country. There is a beautiful climate here, and though it is fearfully cold at night the grass and cattle are splendid, and the farms beautiful. It is a good place to come to, and no one can blame any of the lads for staying. The place is so big, and there is plenty of scope." Miss H. West, pupil teacher is to be transferred from Sanson to Foxton. The " bush moon flower " (Iphomea leptophylla) is described in English horticultural journals as a unique novelty, and of great promise. This plant only grows 2^ft in height, is bushlike, much branched, and neither trailing nor climbing. The flowers are rose-coloured, deepening to purple at the throat, about 3m across, and of the usual Morning Glory shape. It blooms for about three months in the year. It produces large tuberous roots, which penetrate deep into the soil, which should be loose and well drained. Sir Alfred Milner, in reply to an inquiry from the Victorian Government regarding the alleged demand for J miners in South Africa, says that at a moderate estimate it will take a year before such employment will reach the same limit as before the war. An indiscriminate rush would certainly involve much disappointment and suffering. The message says that there is no truth in the reports published in Australia that miners were wanted on the Rand at a pound per day. In the days of Nelson, some one at a gathering of Scotchmen said he wondered at Nelson's signalling, "England expects every man to do his duty," and, saying nothing of Scotland, which supplied some of the bravest and best men in the British fleet. To which another member of the company replied wittily, " Why should he speak o' Scotland • expectin '' ? England might only be able to • expect,' but Scotland kent —and kent fine —that every son o' hers would dae his duty. There was nae fear and nae doot on that pint." Amongst the women who have been decorated with the Order of the Royal Red Cross is Lady Roberts, who re ceived it for services rendered in India. Miss Norman, the lady superintendent of the Nursing Sisters" at Netley Hospital, is also on the roll, and one of the best known- women thus honoured is Florence Nightingale. The Order was instituted on St. George's Day, 1883, "for zeal and devotion in providing for and nursing the sick and wounded sailors, soldiers and others with the army in the field, on board ship, or in hospitals." The Queen is the head of the Order, which is not confined to British subjects, and has been bestowed on over seventy women. One of the Royal housemaids fell ill a few weeks ago in Windsor Castle. One of the clergy attached to the Royal residence —it was one of the Canons of Windsor —went to visit the ailing girl. The sufferer was in bed in a room which was high up in the building, and could only be approached by several flights of stairs. The Canon, who, by the way, is not in the first flower of youth, was a little tried by the ascent. When he arrived at the room of the sick girl he remarked upon her peculiarly radient expression and also made a half jocular allusion as to the altitude of her bed-room and the difficulty he had experienced on the stairs. " I am very happy, sir," said the housemaid. "To-day the Queen herself has been to see me! Her Majesty came into this room and sat down by me. Then she said, ' I have got away from them all and come to see you. Do you know how I did it ? I managed by sitting down on every third stair 1' " This touching and pretty event, says the " Express," only affords another instance of the sweetness and kind heart of that gracious and august lady who will live for ever in our hearts. Yesterday Mr William Roland Howe departed this life-at his lately acquired residence in this town. The deceased was 72 years of age and had beeu in bad health for a long time. He was one of the first settlers at Moutoa having arrived in the district prior to the survey having been completed. Ho leaves a widow and grown up family to mourn his loss. We understand the funeral is to take place today. We are asked to remind our readers that the grand childrens concert comes off in the Victoria Hall to-morrow night the chair to be taken at 7.30. The children have been practising diligently for some weeks and will give some specially good items, among the adult performers Miss M. Collins, Mr and Mrs W. Cook and Mrs Woollass are contributing and several selections will be given by the popular orchestra under Mr J. Kearsley. The manager for Messrs Bell, manufacturers of vestas, states that it will be quite impossible to carry on the industry in New Zealand without the duty, and the local agents for the Dunedin factory states that the business must cease. The Wellington factory pays £5000 a year in wages alone, and imported girls from London to do the work.
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