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Manawatu Herald, 2 October 1900, Page 2

A lamp socket has been lost. The Dalton's appear at the Public Hall to-morrow night. Messrs Bridge & Andrews notify the dates of their visit to this district. Ten new members have been elected to the Rowing Club since their annual meeting The Italian Government is asking for ten millions sterling to build warships. The Greek Church has excommunicated Count Tolstoi, the celebrated Russian novelist and social reformer. We have to thank Mr Lyon, the Secretary of the Manawatu A. and P. Association, for a ticket for the coming show. The Manawatu River Co. are now prepared to deliver firewood at the punt at reasonable rates as set out in their advertisement. It is stated that Mr Winston Churchill has accepted an offer from America of £10,000 for a lecturing tour on the South African war. Advices received in Vienna report s that the Mikado leaves Japan in the spring on a visit to the Czar and other European Sovereigns. A general meeting of the Foxton Football Club is convened for tomorrow evening at seven o'clock. All members are requested to attend. Mr Hamer has purchased the Victoria Hall which adjoins his property. We understand he purposes making many improvements to it. On our first page will be seen the changed advertisement of Mr Edmund Osborne, in which the arrival of his Spring and Summer goods are detailed. Messrs Westwood and Barham have succeeded in disposing of the large engine in Buckman's estate for £175. It is to be used in the sawmilling trade. The chairman of the Bank of Africa states that owing to the stoppage of the Transvaal gold mines the world's supply of gold was diminished by six- j teen million sterling during the past year. The reduction in the strength of the J army in England owing to the war, has been only 11,737, inasmuch as 29,---000 of the officers and men who are invalided home have now returned to duty. I The opening of the tennis season takes place to-morrow afternoon. At a meeting of the committee yesterday twelve new members were enrolled, and there is every prospect of a large | membership tor this year.

The Football Club dance held last week besides proving of a most enjoyable character, was also a great success financially, the funds of the Club being augmented to the extent of £5. General French got the most practical part of his training in Canada where he organised the well-known regiment of rough-riders known as the Canadian North-West Mounted Police. The Wanganui A. & P. Association publish the prizes offered for competition, which total £600. Entry forms, &c, may be obtained at the office of this paper. The annual show at Wanganui is one of the features of the season, and is always largely attended. Saturday's sale of Messrs Westwood and Barham went off very well, the bidding and attendance was good. Nearly every line was sold without reserve. Mr Westwood shapes very well as an auctioneer. The firm hold a sale at Shannon to-morrow. The funeral of the late Mr C. H. B. Symons on Sunday afternoon was one of the largest we have seen in the district, there being over 25 vehicles, filled with passengers, and about 150 horsemen. The service was read at the cemetery by the Rev. H. Leach. Mr Jonson conducted the funeral arrangements. The Forester's church parade was held on Sunday some 25 Foresters attending. The Rev. H. Leach preached an appropriate sermon from the text " Bear ye one another's burdens." The local bandsmen led the procession to the church and on their return to the hall, playing appropriate music each way. Mr Chas. Durie, a well-known resident of Wanganui, and who at one time lived in Wellington, is leaving for South Africa with the intention of settling down there. He has received several presentations from institutions in Wanganui with which he has been connected. The present and the past are flinch the same. Democritus, who lived about five hundred years before Christ, one day, watching the officers of the law taking a thief to prison, cried out to the prisoner, " My poor man ! Why did you not steal much instead of little ? Then it would have been for you to take the others to prison." A nurse attended a wealthy merchant in a Berlin hospital. When recovered sufficiently to leave the institution he asked his nurse to marry him. She consented, but her parents would not allow the marriage to take place, as the lover was consumptive. She removed to America, and has just learned that her former patient has died, leaving her £600,---000. King' Victor Emmanuel 111., as he will henceforth be styled, is a thought-ful-looking young man. He speaks English perfectly, and is extremely, well educated, and rather a bookworm. He is, however, very fond of yaching, and was actually indulging in his favourite amusement when the message reached him announcing that he had lost a most affectionate father and gained a kingdom. The meeting in connection with the Rifle Club was held last night there being a large attendance. It was resolved to pass by the old list and a new list of members was opened when 35 names were enrolled. The secretary Mr Hamer went to Wellington this morning and will obtain the fullest particulars. If 63 names are secured by to-morrow a telegram will be sent offering their services to the Government. To-morrow afternoon the boating season will be opened with all the eclat possible. The members of the Manawatu Rowing Club have invited their friends to be present at the boatshed when the boats receive their baptism for the year, and each boat will be manned and a procession formed. Arrangements have been made with the Band who have undertaken to discourse sweet music during the afternoon. Tea will be served in the shed with an accompanying delicate repast, and its success has been assured by the catering having been placed in the hands of Mr A. Langley. His Worship the Mayor has promised a short address on the benefits arising from the healthful exercise of rowing, and it will be his pleasiug duty to declare the season open. A new instrument has been invented for reproducing ordinary handwriting, cypher, shorthand figures, or even descriptive sketches, so that both sender and recipient possess an autographed and indisputable record of the message. The instrument can be worked over the ordinary telephone lines The sender writes a message in ordinary handwriting with a transmitting pencil, which controls the electric current sent to the lines, which, in turn, causes the receiving mechanism to take up the notions as given to the transmitting pencil. Only the movements made by the pencil on the paper are recorded, although movements made off the paper — in spacing, for instance — are reproduced. The Dunedin police, have according to the Star, stumbled upon a peculiar personage who at the present juncture is a particularly interesting character. This is a Chinaman, allegedly a genuine " Boxer," who was found wandering round the city without any object, and who is supposed to be mentally affected. When discovered he was dressed in the garb of Old | China, and would have proved a I veritable find to a snapshot. His headgear is a hat of peculiar shape, with high crown, wide brim, supported by sticks lashed to the under-covering of calico; his head and pigtail are wrapped in cloth like a woman's bathing cap ; his face has on it a long, sparse covering of hair ; his coat is a holland-like garment similar to a frockcoat ; his nether garments ate a pair ot pyjama trousers ; bis foot-covering is a great heavy pair of boots, with soles fully a foot thick in parts. The entire get-up, in brief, is remarkable to ! a degree. He will nrobablyj^com-

The Railway Department advertise Holiday Excursion fares to Napier and Hastings from Foxton from 6th to nth October, available for return till 20th October.