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Manawatu Herald, 28 August 1900, Page 2

Two important deputations representing Protestant-Societies waited upon the chief Party Whips ot the House of Commons on June 28th for the purpose ot impressing upon them the strong feeling which exists throughout the country with regard to the present disorganised state of the Church. It was stated that in over 400 constituencies in England organizations had been formed by the Church Association to secure the return of Protestant members of parliament, and lii.it they h.-id the help of seven exponeuced parliamentary agents, ana 3000 holders of roll books,

Word has been received that trooper Fred Armstrong is well, and was at the time of writing at Pretoria. A pleasant sort of wedding ! Last June La Goule, a lady lion tamer at Paris married a conjurer. The bride and bridegroom had their wedding feast in the lion's cage. There were five lions present. It need hardly be said that there were no guests to join the feast. There was, however, an immense crowd ot onlookers outside the cage. An arrangement has (says a contemporary) been made between the Government and the principal freezing works that the charge on butter shall be reduced from 10 jd to yd per box. The point yet to be decided is how much of this charge is toi'be borne by the manufacturers or shippers. The Government proposes that one half or 3£d per box shall be charged, but negotiations now in progress may lead to a reduction of this amount. An information has been laid againrt the head-master of the Foxton School for unduly threshing a child between five and six years of age. The case will come before the Stipendiary Magistrate on Thursday. The time table is likely to be altered to allow the afternoon train leaving Palmerston for Wanganui to get into the latter town a half an hour earlier by leaving the first town that much ( sooner. Enquiries have been made as to how the afternoon train on Thursdays and Saturdays also leaving half an hour earlier would suit, as then the train would connect with both Wanganui and Napier. We understand the feeling is in favour of the change. Mr T. Mackenzie, M.H.R., mentioned the Orane's registering thermometer for the use of freezing chambers, in the House the other day. It is the invention of a Christchurch man and defies any attempt at the alteration of the registered temperature. When the temperature in the chamber gets too high, or too low, attention is called to the fact by the automatic ringing of a bell. Twenty native participants in the late plague riots at Cawnpore have been sentenced to death. One 'other ha? been transported. Four of the accused were acquitted. A wail is going up from the farmers of New South Wales that China is swamping the Sydney egg market. She has sent this year 1,2000,000 fresh eggs to Sydney, and the statement is made that fresh. eggs can be bought in China all the year round, in inexhaustible quantities, at from id to i£d a dozen. Packing labour costs in Hongkong 14s a month, and freight to Sydney is 25s a ton. These eggs can be sold in Sydney at 3d per dozen. Biscuit factories and pastry-cooks, whose requirements are estimated at 1,000,000 dozen a year, are now nearly all using these eggs, and the local producer is hopelessly handicapped by such competition. Fears are also expressed as regards poultry breeding in New South Wales, as table birds can be purchased in Chinese ports at 2s .1 dozen, and other poultry in proportion. General Brabant, of " Brabant's Horse," which has done such excellent work in the war, was entertained at East London prior to his return to Cape Town. In the course of a speech he said : — He might say that, as every cloud had a silver lining, there was a silver lining in the cloud now rapidly passing over us to be found in the fact that they felt there was the dawn of a better day in South Africa, a day of great prosperity. He knew, from what he had been told, and there was going to be a great influx of English capital into South Africa, and what was better, English brains and English muscle. Hundreds of the men who came out to fight for us— English, j Australians, or New Zealanders — had made up their minds to remain in the country, and he knew men who were going to invest a very large amount in the country, for the purpose of settling English Yeomanry upon it, and this he thought was one of the best things that could happen to them. There ' would be an immense development in mining, and as there would be none of the difficulties which had blocked the way to the development of hundreds of properties in the Transvaal there would be a big boom in South Africa. Elsewhere Mr R. S. Barry who is known as the cheapest and best ironmonger in Palmerston, has a notice of a few of the lines he keeps in stock. His store has gained a reputation in Palmerston, and can be found on the " Cheapside." Dr Clark, M.P. for Caithness (formerly Consul -General for the South African Republic), was refused a hearing by his constituents on account of his pro-Boer utterances. Dr Clark was hooted and stoned to the carriage by the mob. The Union Company's steamer Mapourika, which struck on Mabel Island, Picton Harbour, on Thursday morning, was successfully re-floated at 9 o'clock on Sunday night. The Premier has received the following cablegram from Mr Henniker Heaton, M.P., dated London, August 24 : — " Your Budget greatly praised. It was published in every newspaper in the Kingdom, and penny post created the highest delight among fiiends and relations of New Zealanders here. China news of the same day militated for the moment against press attention. The Returning Officer gives notice of an election of three Councillors for the Borough. One of the Duke of Argyll's first acts as successor to his father has been the issue ot a Gaelic manifesto to his tenants in Tiree. Some of the crofters there, who are probably in arreas with their rents, have apparently been under the impression that the death of the last Duke " cleaned the slate." Writing from " Indhir-Aoraidn" in " mid-month of the summer," the Duke says this is a great mistake. He begs to put them in mind of the fact that he himself has a large sum of money to pay the Government on the occasion his succeeding his father, as well as many other burdens. Also he adds, for many a year to come he will have j 110 beuofit whatever from the rates of | his estate.

Prices at Pretoria are regulated according to proclamation. The banks are allowed to do business ; £20 is the weekly limit allowed to be drawn by one person. Payments in and out must be made in specie. No transfers or current taccounts are permitted.