Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, SEPT. 22, 1900. The Outlook.

Manawatu Herald, 22 September 1900, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, SEPT. 22, 1900. The Outlook.

♦ — We are not alarmists but it is well | to guage the general impression in ' Europe as to peace or war. In the London "People" for the Bth \ugust, appears tho foil .win % which endorses the views we have previously given :— It is bad to be an alarmist, but it is worse to refuse to look facts in the face merely for fear of heing thought one. Nothing has struck mo more forcibly during tho

last week or so than the number of j really well-informed people who are j convinced, iiom one cause or another, that we are to be made the subject of a sudden and murderous attack in the autumn. No one, of course, possesses any positive evidence, but it is idle to deny that the thing is in the air, and that it is more than possibly true. At no time has popular feeling on the Continent in general, and in France in particular, been so bitter against us as it is just now ; and, unless I am much mistaken, the danger is very real and rery close. ( No doubt we are officially on tbe , most excellent terms with all the 1 European Governments, but it is not the Governments which will decide ; the matter, but the populace and the , armies. The feeble folk who are now the nominal rulers of France could be swept aside easily enough if a few ambitious soldiers had deter- , mined that the time had come for that gi-eiit coup against England, of which nine out of ten of the French officers dream. The critical moment will, of course, be when the Exhibition is over, and a large part of our . army still remains in South Africa ; and I honestly believe it is only by showing ourselves thoroughly prepared that we shall escape attack. We cannot afford to run the slightest chance of being caught napping. Mr Spiers is thesuccessfui tenderer for the erection of the Manawatu Hotel. We understand the Foresters have leased the Victoria Hall from Mr Osborne. The Otaki Mail last Tuesday had a strong leader on the Foxton School assault case. Mrs Mary Henderson was committed for trial on the charges of malpractice and murder. The business of Messrs Smale and Hay must be prospering as we notice a good sized addition is being made to the drapery store. Both Houses of Parliament have passed resolutions requesting that the Duke and Duchess of York may visit this colony. Mrs W. Cook notifies the commencement of a new quarter for music and painting. Terms can be had on application. The Town Clerk advertises that an auctioneer's license has been granted to Mr Thomas Westwood to the end of the year. The representative of Messrs Bridge and Andrews, the well-known dentisfs, will visit Foxton on Tuesday next, Levin and Otaki on the following days. Messrs Westwood & Barham hold : their first auction sale on Wednesday i next, under instructions from the [ deputy Official Assignee in the estate \ John Buckman. j A line of ewes was sold by a Milton dealer last week at the record price of 22s 3d each. This i 3 the highest price paid for sheep in that distrtct for some time. In the Messrs Perreau's shop window is to be seen a handsome wedding cake, which has been ordered for a wedding which will be celebrated next week. We have been asked to draw attention to the balance of trimmed millinery in G. H. Stiles' establishment, which is being cleared at 2s 6d, and can be seen in show window. In the Henderson case the evidence of the two girls in t tj*» Hospital was ; taken. One is 23 and the other 18 i years of age. Both deposed that accused had performed operations on them. Owing to the short supplies, and the bad prospects of the American crops, the majority of the Lancashire cotton mills will close for a fortnight in October. This is the .time when nearly every kind »f kitchen garden seed can be sown. If there is a frame on the premises cucumbers and tomatoes can be raised ■ for transplanting. Mr Easton has just put the finishing touch on the screen in All Saints' Church, consisting of an iron fret ! \ capping picked out in Royal Blue and j ' the points gilded. The Mayor advertises that a feature of the Peace Demonstration programme will be the decoration of j bicycles and traps and carts, for which , prizes will be given. Now is the time '. ' to carefully consider out the design. ! The Palmerston Borough has carried j : its loan of £ 10,000 to further pollute the river with sewage. Will anything j ■ move our Council to protest against such action ? Many enquiries were made on Thursday when the Borough foreman and his lieutenant were working at the triangle putting wirenetting around it for what purpose it was to be used. It was currently reported that the Councillors were going to raise ducks in the enclosure to be placed on the river to thin out the salmon-trout. We cannot state definitely if this is the fact. Milking pays— everybody says so, so it must be true. One thing is evident that those who do milk appear to be able to improve their surroundings. Mr George Hughes is having a new front put to hig residence, and Mr Whibley is only waiting for the carpenter to put up a verahdah. Thus . business being good in one branch ; makes other branches also busy. Costs of Court I How many slow J payers calculate on these items, but in the long run debtors pay very heavy interests on money supposed to be saved in not paying punctually. Last Court day a man was summoned for the sum of six shillings which had been owing for three years, and the order to pay made against him was twenty-one shillings, the amount the small original debt had increased by putting off the evil day of settling. The expense far exceeds the profit.

Mr Bowe will hope, he being certainly most interested in the road proposed to be formed, that the ratepayers in the Riding will visit his resident on Tuesday and vote for its construction by voting in favour of the loan. j The House of Representatives has decided by io votes to io that our school girls shall have military and physical drill as well as our school boys. This is owing to •' Our having persuaded our Mark to go," as the song has it, to the wars. According to the Scientific American, Drs Sapelier, Thebhat and Broca have advised the French Academy of Medicine that tbey have discovered an anti-alcohal serum. Dr Sapelier has communicated with the Academy, stating his methods and results obtained. Out of 57 cases treated there were 16 pec cent improved, and 25 per cent failures from irregularity in following treatment. The serum, anti-ethyline, is obtained by feeding a horse tor a certain time on doses of food and alcohol mixed. The protest of the Evangelical Alii- j ance against the Governor for listening to Archbishop Redwood's charges that the leaders and founders of Protestanism were notorious for i their vices, was based on remarks which were never uttered. Archbishop Redwood has written to the press, stating that out of consideration for the mixed nature of the audience he bad omitted the statement attributed to him, but in handing the proof ot his sermon to the press he had forgotten to make a similar correction. Some of the accounts in Eastern papers just to hand show that some missionaries escaped after thrilling experiences. Father Jeremiah, stationed at Pashan, was saved by an old Chinese woman. The heathen dame, pitying his distressed condition, hid him for six days in a rice box, when he was able to escape to Hankow. Father Stepbanes Sette, stationed at Hing-shin, owes his escape to the Chinese reverence for the dead. He was dumped by Chinese Christians into a box resembling a coffin, and, carried thus 300 Ii (a li equals onethird of an English mile) to Lien-chan, taking seven days on the journey. The party was frequently stopped, but the box was not interfered with.