Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, SEPT. 1, 1900.

Manawatu Herald, 1 September 1900, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, SEPT. 1, 1900.

The Borough Council meets on Monday night for business. It may be the last sitting for one or two of the present Councillors, as nominations are invited to fill the three vacancies created by law. The death is announced in London of Sir Saul Samuel, K.C.M.G., formerly Agent-General for New South Wales, aged eighty years. The newspapers pay a high tribute to the public financial successes of the deceased, and ascribe the excellent credit of New South Wales to his &plend 4 d personal experience and judgment. Nominations for the office of Coun« turning Uiftoer. beiQte ugy« oq Mguday,

The last quotations for sheep at Johnsonville were extra prime, 225; prime wethers, 19s 8d; medium to good wethers, 17s to 18s 2d; light wethers, 16s 3d; half-fatted wethers. 14s 6d to 14s gd. Another phase of the famous charwoman case is to be entered upon at the civil sessbns next week. Margaret Hicks is sueing S. V. Byrne for £500 damages for alleged slander, for epithets alleged to have been applied to her by defendant at the time of the occurrence. The Manawatu Golf Club hold a tournament at Palmerston next week. Mr Oswald Gardner has shut his mill down for a couple of months. A good bit of ploughing is now being done around the town. Yesterday the weather tempted many out, and the town was quite gay. It was certainly a change to the weather we have lately been having. Mr Barham has sold out his coaph |n^ business to Messrs Walker anc * >: "•'■-•" -"■•* fVi- advertisement \v ?1 " a\)\jfdi uexi issue. quarterly meeting at Marton on Saturday. On Thursday a lad named Henry Cunningham, 17 years of age, escaped from the Burnham Industrial School. He was arrested by the police and re* turned to the school in the evening. The next morning, when about to be punished for his offence by the superintendent (Mr T. Archer), he rushed at the latter with a knife and stabbed him in the neck, about half an inch from the jugular vein. The wound, which was a serious one, was dressed by p doctor. Cunningham was immediately placed in custody, and will be brough* I up at the Police Court. During a discussion in the House a statement was made which was not credited by the speaker then addressing the House, and he is reported t' have said " There is only one possible explanation of it, and that is that those people are idiots ; and, having regard to their representatives, I am not a* all prepared to dispute the statement." Quite parliamentary ! At the Melbourne stud sheep sale? ■ver £17,000 was realised during the iay. The highest price was 800 gni neas for Mr Gibson's Royal Esk. The many friends of Mrs and Mi c Gardner, of Paiaka, will be glad to hear 'that from letters received the had been enjoying their trip to Eng land by the Te Moana. Mr George Coley having finished ploughing in the paddock he had oatf in last year, has two teams ploughing tor Mr Spiers on his farm on the Avenue. An old yellow and black sheep dog has strayed away from Colyton, and a reward is offered on information beinp sent to Miss Caldwell, Colyton. Next Tuesday night the ordinary meeting of the School Committee will be held, when due consideration will be given as to the effect of the late law case ' will have upon the good conduct of the school. One teacher, Miss Wallis, or her oath stated in Court that if a fine wasinflicted on Mr Stewart it would pu' an end to all control by the teachers ' Ex-President Krup^r is in flight again, this time to Pilgrim's Rest, a very suggestive name for the fugitive. Another curious connection in names. A case set down for hearing at the civil sittings of the Supreme Court is that of J. Toomath v. Mary Ann Tattle, damages for slander. A Boer in conversation with an Eng* i lish doctor called Dr Leyds "That itinerant liar," which seems a happ;\ ■•'t 1 '-o^'.-'o*: description. J Tl.at iio.oiious John Burke O'Brien, known almost in every gaol in ujc ■ colony, wrote one of his characteristic J and impudent letters to the trustees of the Dunedin Benevolent Institution the other day, in which he mentioned (probably untrue but from his actions not impossible) that in 1854 in Dublin where " I met with an accident from a collision with a policeman's baton which knocked out a portion of my brans. Di. Stokes filled up the ga[ with a portion of a mad doctor's brains, who was dying at the time !" Mr H. Austin mentioned the simple plan adopted in the Phillipines to get cocoa-nuts to port. They are strung in bundles of 4 or 5 and slung acros. bamboo poles and then floated down the rivers. At the Auckland Supreme Court, William Thorpe, a boy of fifteen, admitted eleven different offences of breaking and entering. His Honour sentenced the boy to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour. The Governor is to be recommended to deal with him under the Industrial School Act by sending him to an industrial school. A change has taken place in the noprietorship of one of the leading drapery stores in this town, which dates from yesterday. . The store known as '• Livedny's will now become " Stile? '' as the popular and energetic manager for Mr L >veday has purchased Hk business. The store has acquired a first-class reputation both for the quality of the goods stocked, the prices at which they are sold, and the civility and attention paid to customers by all engaged therein. It is satisfactory to know that Mr Gillespie has returned to take up his old duties, and thus there will practically be no change in the store, except that of ownership. Mr Stiles has become properly settled in the town, having but a few months age ! married the daughter of one of the early settlers, so that the town will be the gainer by his remaining with us, and by the profits of the business will be re-invested in the district, instead of passing away outside of it. We wish the new proprietor all success. In Thursday's Manawntu Times the r^iicj of the" death of Dr. Satchell is announced. He died at Dunedin where he had gone for a rest and to effect a recovery of health. The next ot the series of socials given in the Methodist Hall will be held on Monday night. An excellent programme of musical and othet items has been arranged and no doubt there will be a large attendance. You can depend on ridding your okiuWr *f 'v.u-ins *ttb Wadn'a Worm luge, ihd ttoudcilm Worm Worriers. Ist