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Manawatu Herald, 30 August 1900, Page 2

The English railway companies threaten to combine against the Amalgamated Railway Servants' Society, owing to interference with the Great Eastern Company. Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, has stopped repeated voyages by native Indian prince? to Europe, on the ground that such visits encourage restlessness and extravagance. At the Auckland Supreme Court criminal sessions Mr Justice Conolly commented upon the immense amount of crime detected in the Auckland district. There were over forty charges, with fifty indictments. He regretted that a large proportion of the cases were against boys of fourteen and seventeen years. The Judge also regretted the number of charges of indecent conduct. Does dairy farming pay ? This query is answered in the affirmative when we tell our readers that a dairy fanner in this district with only 36 acres of land during last year drew cheques for £144 for milk alone. This made an average of over £12 a cow, and what he made out of his pigs brought the average up to £13 is per cow. We have been frequently told that there is no demand for small farms in this district, but where is the struggling settler who would not venture to take up 36 acres of land which will return to him 400 per cent. — Carterton Leader. A petition to the Minister of Railways protesting against the proposed alteration in the railway service between Palmerston and Wanganui is being .signed by the residents of Bulls. The following is the text of the petition : — We, the undersigned, view with alarm the proposed alteration of the 5.30 p.m. train from Palmerston to Wanganui to 5 p.m., as it will seriously inconvenience travellers to Bulls, and delay the double train communication with Wellington which is so important to the welfare of the whole district between Palmerston and Wanganui. That the whole of this important district should only have one train a day to and from Wellington, and that starting at such an hour in the morning as to make it most inconvenient to most travellers, is unique in New Zealand, and we believe that by a very small alteration this might be altered. If the midday train from Wellington were to start earlier and the evening train from Palmerston were to start later, and a little time made up between Palmerston and Wanganui the district would have double train communication with Wellington, which we hope you will view as of far more importance than getting a few minutes earlier into Wanganui . In his last letter to the Melbourne Argus the special correspondent of that paper in South Atrica says : — " It becomes daily more evident that the war will not end this side of Christina?. It may continue in the present desulory fashion even longer. The rapidlyincreasing complications in China fill the Boers with hope. They will hold out, I believe, for a year if necessary, should there exist a likelihood of Britain being seriously involved elsewhere. Then they will make a final effort to beat us back. As I pointed out in a previous letter this is no phantom, but a real danger. It may uever come to pass. Let us hope it viH-r*'. But were it to we should be ! confronted by a grave difficulty in this South Africa. The Afrikanders as a race were never so ill-disposed to Britain as they are to-day. Only this morning there appears in Ons Land, • ie principal Bond organ — published tiere in Capetown — a leader in which what is regarded as England's growing embarrassment is exultantly enlarged ipon. The idea very cunningly conveyed in all these writings is that troubles at home and abroad must , :<->o:> brnij; Britain to her knees. Then lw il be the time for the Afrikander to ■■tete term? p |^^^

The poundkeeper advertises the impounding of a red heifer calf< Mr G. Langlcy notifies that all accounts due to him must be paid by the 14th September. We have Jo thank the Secretary of the Marton Jockey Club for a complimentary ticket as well as two ladies tickets for their meeting on the sth and 6th of next month. The trial of W. E. Jones, on the charge of having set fire to his premises at Petone, resulted in a verdict of not guilty. The following is the team, picket to represent Foxton in their match against Levin, on Saturday, at Foxton : — Purcell, Furrie, O'Carroll, Peter, B. Robinson, T. Hunter, Feck, Henderson Burnie, '.Vrup'r. Dunn, Ward, Gustofsen, Procto. .