Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, SEPT. 25, 1900.

Manawatu Herald, 25 September 1900, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, SEPT. 25, 1900.

To-night the Football Club ball takes place. On Sunday August and 4,500 cabman went out on strike. A wedding will be solemnised at All Saints' Church to-morrow. To-morrow Messrs Westwood and Barham sell Buck man's flaxmill at Rongotea. Canada has issued a proclamation against the landing of pauper immigrants. The Mayor advertises the order of precession to be observed on Peace Demonstration Day. The annual general meeting of the Manawatu Rowing Club will be held in All Saints' Schoolroom on Friday next, at 7.30 p.m. Yesterday there was a large haul of whitebait, Mr Anreason having purchased seventy kerosene tins full. The Levin Tennis Cl ib have invited the members of the local Club over for Saturday next, when they intend open* j ing the season. Mr Fred. Easton's hemp mill at Himitangi was burned down about 10 o'clock this morning. About six tons of fibre was destroyed. No insurances. Mr Alfred Ross, the Returning Officer, gives notice that nomination? for a lay-representative to the General Synod will be received up to 8.30 p.m. on the 24th October. Pretoria possesses the finest public buildings in South Africa. The Raadzaal, the Law Courts, and the barracks can bear comparison with many of the finest buildings in European countries. At Waterford, Ireland, which is represented by Mr John Redmond M.P. the leader of the Irish Parliamentary party, out of 3.007 electors on the register, 3,500 have been disfanchised from non-payment of rates. There has been severe righting between the French and native troops on the Sahara oasis, the hinterland of Algeria, recently annexed by France. Two French officers and fifteen men men have been killed. Some dock labourers in England engaged in unloaJing ships demanded an increase of wages and struck work because their demand was not complied with. They receive fourpence halfpenny an hour and five pence an houv foi: night work.

The horses in the pound have been claimed. A railway is to be carried from the coast to Kumassi the Ashanti capital. Messrs Hennessy and Co advertise a grand sample of double-machined Rye Grass seed for sale at a cheap figure. We, the Times, understand that Mr E. J. Armstrong has successfully negotiated the sale of Mr Morrison's farm, contrining 1240 acres, at Oroua Downs, to the Land Purchase Commissioners, at a satisfactory figure. We understand the land will be snbdived by the Government for close settlemsnt. The English Government has declared in Parliament that they hold that whatever form the Government of China might take in the future, it must be a government by the Chinese for the Chinese. They were not prepared to undertake or to assist other Power in undertaking to " Indianize " China. They did not regard with approval the idea of organising tho Chinese army under foreign officers tor the effect would be to increase the strength of China and that would be dangerous. Mr Hunter is having built a fine livery stable on the Main-street about two chains away from his hotel. With a free bridge the traffic to and between Levin must soon be attracted to the port and a first-class livery stable is the institution that will materially assist its initiation. We understand that the stabling is leased to a very well known and reliable firm. The stable at present to be erected will measure sixty feet in length and thirty in breadth, with a stud eleven feet high. The roof will be a gable running east and west. There will be a fine passage leading right through the building secured by sliding doors. There is provision for twelve stalls and six loose boxes with a storeroom etc. A loft will run over the stalls and boxes.