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Manawatu Herald, 11 September 1900, Page 2

Mr Robert Perreau having been invalided in South Africa, after going through many exciting contests, goes to England to recuperate. The Colonial Secretary has expressed the opinion that he saw no reason why the session should not close at the end of this month. To-morrow night there will be held in the Public Hall, a tea and concert, the receipts from -which are to go towards reducing the small debt still owing on the additions to All Saints' Church. The constituents of the Right Hon. Leonard Courtney, M.P. for Bodmin, who has been a leading opponent of the war in South Africa, have rejected his candidature, and selected another candidate for the seal. The Department of Agriculture has notified the National Dairy Association that for the ensuing season shippers of butter to the United Kingdon will have to pay 2sd per box of s6lbs for freezing and storage. This sum is to be paid to storage companies on demand. The present arrangements re butter to Australia and cheese to any country is to remain. j The inquiry into the circumstances | surrounding the death of M. A. Winifred (Winnie) Luke, upon whom Mrs Henderson, now in custody, is alleged to have performed an illegal operation resulted in the following verdict : — " We find that the death of Mary Alice Winifred Luke was due to peritonitis caused by puncture of the womb, arising from an illegal operation performed by May Henderson." i The jury added a rider severely cen ! suring the mother of the unfortunate • girl for the part she had taken in the ] matter.

Last Saturday afternoon the local footballers played a match against the Levin Club on the racecourse, the result being a draw after a stubbornly contested game. The Foxton team suftered through the absence of some of their best players, but the substitutes played well, together with the other members of the local team. Had the Foxton men succeeded in defeating their oppor '- v would have left them still in the ct bnt the result pra . ii) out. We understand tic ..esult of the other matches played ..own the coast last Saturday the Levin Club have now won the Cup for the second time in succession. A resolution was carried by a small majority at the Trades Unionists' Congress at Huddersfield condemning the war in South Africa as cruel and unnecessary. The annual meeting of the Cricket Club will be held to-night at All Saints' Schoolroom at eight o'clock. Mr J-'ihn Martin's residence, near Martinborough, was burned on Sunday morning. Mr and Mrs Wilson Smith and a baby boy, guests, lost their lives. Another son of five and the cook, Sarah Nelson, was badly burned. The inmates only escaped in their night dresses. Insurance, £3000. We have to thank Mr Richard Gray for a bundle of asparagus which is of good size. This is very early for this delicious vegetable. The Manawatu County Council gives notice of a meeting of the ratepayers to j be held at Mr Bowes residence in con- | nection with raising a loan of £400 for the construction of the ElkinsMotuiti road.

It is evident that General De Wet receives good information from the south. Just before his last exploit a train with specie to the amount of £100,000 on board was coming north. General De Wet allowed two trains to pass unmolested, but seized the third. This was the train carrying the specie, but fortunately, the waggon in which it was conveyed had been taken off at the preceeding station because an axle had got heated. From Paris it is said " It is becoming almost a platitude to say that the Paris Exhibition is a financial failure. So great a failure it is, financially, that by the time it closes hundreds, if not thousands, will be ruined instead of having made the immense financial coups which they expected, and this further means the temper of the Parisian will be ruffled and thus ripe for mischief.

A paragraph in a Home paper of July 26th says :— " The health of Lord Roberts is becoming a matter of much concern with the members of his personal staff. Private despatches received on Saturday at the War Office say that he has practically been confined to bed for ten days, and that his last messages were written by him as he lay on his back. It is however, hoped that rest will completely restore him. But he is advised that in future he must refrain from long rides — an operation he underwent some time ago [ rendering horsemanship particularly distressing to him. On Sunday an old resident of this town, Mr John Kewley who carried on the trade of a ropetnaker for more I than thirty years, passed away, at the I ripe age of seventy years. He was buried this.morning.