Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, SEPT. 27, 1900.

Manawatu Herald, 27 September 1900, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, SEPT. 27, 1900.

Next Sunday morning the Foresters hold a church parade, and on Tuesday night bold a summons meeting on business of importance. The New York Herald says that it is asserted that within the past few months 27 Anarchists have left America with the avowed purpose of laying low every crowned head in Europe. They are nearly all Italians. The agent of the Italian Government has the names of those who sailed. M. Loubet, the President, held a successful banquet, which was given to twenty two thousand mayors at the French Exhibition. A Yorkshire Vicar tells how he once received the following note from one of his parishioners ; — " This is to give notice that I and Miss Jemima-Brearley are coming to your church on Saturday ' afternoon next to undergo the operation of matrimony. Please be prompt as the cab is hired by the hour. Forewarned is forearmed." A committee meeting of the Foxton Racing Club will be held to-morrow evening.

Mr A. Fraser has just received some cricketing and tennis requisites for the approaching season. We much regret to state that the illness of Mr Charles Symons is of so ' serious a nature as to warrant the ' gathering of his family together. To- | day Drs. Wilson and McKenzie are I holding a consultation on the case. Mr . Symona' age, having reached 77 years, is against his recovery. Much sym- . pathy is felt with the family in this time of anxiety. : A meeting of the Manawatu Rowing Club will be held to-morrow night. Amongst the list of stock advertised I by a firm of well-known auctioneers is 1 a " quiet child's pony." As the child 5 is presumably not for sale, what does • it matter whether it is quiet or not ? b but as the pony is for sale would it j not have been better to have given its [ character instead of that of its owner ? , as though the child may be quiet the . pony may not be. A reward of £1000 each has been offered for the capture, dead or alive, of the outlawed Breelong blacks. There are no fewer than nineteen boroughs with a population of less than 750 in New Zealand. The . smallest is Hampden, in Otago. Kg population is only 320. Gladstone, in . Southland, has only an area of 40 . acres, and its inhabitants only total ■ 380. The origin of the fire at Easton's ■ Himatangi mill appears to be from the burning of some damp tow which the man who was baling it up thought too damp to put into the bale. The tow quickly blazed up and set fire to some tow near the scutcher which set fire to the mill. Mr Easton was about closing the mill when all the fibre had been scutched. He estimates his loss ! at about £600, but machinery to the i value of £"350 has been saved. ' The election manifesto of Lord Salisbury insists on the maintenance and i preservation of treaty rights in China. Lord Rosebery's programme reters to the necessity for temperance legislation, providing for the better housing of the working classes, and making fearless reforms in the War Office. The Duke of Devonshire (Lord President of the Council) in the course of a speech at Bradford, said that the maintenance of Great Britain's posi--1 tion as a world wide Power was the ■ principal, though not the only, issue of the election. With regard to the great mortality amongst the Boers prisoners at Simonstown, the late Miss Kingsley in a letter which was unfinished at her death, says that the tever that killed them was a fever they brought with them from the awful conditions they had been living under in Cronje's laager and other places up the Modder river way. As for the conduct of the authorities in the matter it has been excellent, every mortal thing in the way of special food has been freely sent however difficult to procure, fresh milk, eggs, brandy, champagne, airbed.- etc. She nursed the Boers at the request of the British authorities at the Cape. An American has described Great Britain as a Power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drumbeat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strains of the martial airs of England. We have to acknowledge the receipt of the New Zealand Year Book for 1900. It has issued under instructions , of the Premier and prepared by the ' Registrar-General. The book is a most useful compilation to all who desire information on all matters concerning the colony. To-day we advertise that the purebred Clydesdale Stallion " Manager " will travel in the Foxton district. " Manager " has been in the Rangitikei district and at the clearing sale at Mr J. Bull's, his stock realised the top, \ prices, one fetching 70 guineas and a ! four year old filly was sold for 50 guineas. The owner asks that no promises be made until " Manager " has been seen. , Good draught horses are in demand in the Oamaru district. The North . Otago Times was informed that a Waihao farmer the ether day sold a , plough team for £240, which is a head. A team like this would be a feature at an agricultural show. The Church parade of the Foresters will be worth witnessing. It is proposed that members meet at the Triangle in regalia and the Foxton Brass Band will play them down to All Saints' Church. Messrs Westwood and Barham will hold a sale of many lines including drapery, furniture, and plants at their auction rooms on Saturday. We direct attention to their advertisement. On Wednesday Messrs Westwood and Barham held a successful sale at Rongotea in the estate of Buckman. There was a good attendance and the prices realised were very satisfactory. The large engine was passed in but the smaller 10 h.p. engine fetched £75. The buildings realised, for office and stables £5 10s ; cookhouse £8 17s 6d ; stripper shed £5 ; engine shed £3 12s. Horses sold well one half-draught 4 years old fetched £14 ios. A lot of drying wire ran up to £4. ios. Pigs sold very well, a breeding sow 30s. barrows 17s. and small porkers 7s 6d.

Mr Tregaski is in town to-day making arrangements for the appearance of the Steele- Payne Family on Friday the sth October. At the poll on Tuesday tor the formation of the Elkins-Motuiti road no one voted against the proposal, so that I the road will be made.