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Manawatu Herald, 23 October 1900, Page 2

Count Zippelin's air-ship has been successfully manoeuvred at an elevation of 600 metres. Mr McDermott, who is now away on his annual-leave, is. relieved by Mr S. Potter, from the Wellington office. Prince Oscar Gustaf, Crown Prince of Norway and Sweden, has been appointed Regent in consequence of the serious illness of King Oscar. The Bank of Australasia paid £500 per foot for land in Martin place Sydney fronting the General Post J Office. It has now paid £750 per foot | for an adjoining block. ; Sir Archibald Levin Smith, Lord Justice of Appeal, has been appointed Master of the Rolls in succession to Lord Alverstone, the new Lord Chief Justice. The most widely separated points between which a telegram can be sent are British Columbia and New 2ea« land. A telegram sent from one to the other would make nearly a circuit of the globe, and would traverse over 20,000 miles in doing so. Messrs Westwood & Barham will hold a two days' pale of drapery, clothing and fancy goods at the Victoria Hall on Thursday and Friday next, by public auction. The stock is valued at £400 and must be sold, so that pnrchasers should be able to secure some excellent bargains. In consequence of the advent of a gang of American and English burglars to the colony, it is stated that th*» banks in Chrstchurch, "n sending their clerks to the other banks with notes, inw adopt the precaution of bavin? them accompanied by the bank messenger, carrying a six-shooter. Some years ago a man, known to be of an irascible nature, took oath, together with his wife, that the pair had never indulged in a domestic wrangle and so the couple were awarded the Dunmow Flitch. The husband was chaffed by his neighbours over the business, who inquired how on earth he had managed to keep his temper. " Well," he replied, •• the missus is such n. Monmin 1 good cook that. I've never had no call to grumble at my -rub ! " The Secretary of state for India has received a telegram from the Viceroy in India, dated September 4, in which he states that the general prospectp for the future continue to be good. At that date there were, however, four million eight hundred and ninety-one thousand persons still in receipt of relief. A certain judge on circuit, feeling indisposed, left the court at Chelms ford, and returned to his lodgings, got into bis curtained bed. He had not neen there long before a housemaid entered his bed-room, not knowing that the judge had come back. Seeing T iis judicial robes and \v ; g in a chair, .he promptly arrayed herself in them and then, curtseying before the look-ing-glass, exclaimed : " How are you, my lord judge? How Is Mrs Judge, and all the little Judges?" "We are all very well, thank you, M said his lordship, popping his head out between the bed-curtains, whereupon the maid shrieked and fled. The other day the Secretary for Customs asked a Crown law officer whether the word " person " in the Immigration Restriction Act applied to all ages. The Act limits the importation of Chinese and other undesirables to so many persons, according to the tonnage of the ship, and gives power to detain and return any in excess. " I have a case," said the Secretary for Customs, " where there is one of 20 years, one of 14, another four years old, and a baby in arms. Can I reckon all these as persons." "I think," replied the legal officer, " you would be justified in counting them all as persons, except the baby in arms." Ask«d for his authority, he added :— " Section 2 of the Impounding Act says a suckling of any species under six months old, shall, with its mother, be considered as one animal." The Customs officer complained seriously that he could not see the application. " Don't you," was the reply, ' are not both Acts impounding Acts ? "-—Times.

There is a sum of £200 on the Estimates for the road from the Oroua Bridge to Palmerston. Parliament concluded its labours at 1 a.m. on Sunday morning. The heat on Saturday at Sydney was intense, reachJi? 97 degrees in the shade. At Bouike 105 degrees were recorded. Cable messages from various sources announce that Russia is gradually pursuing an i.;: ? ■" -■-•Vnt policy in China. The challenge is? us Lipton to the holders of v .jrican Cup has been accepted., and the race will take place in August next. The Manawatu County Council publishes a special order relating to the purpose of providing interest and sinking fund for the loan for the ElkinsMotuiti Road. The Borough Councillors, says the H.B. Herald, received quite a shock the other night when the Town Clerk stated th?.t th^ngh the Council appointed the poundkeeper it had no -onuol over turn, as he was not a municipal officer. The Mayor and others expressed the opinion that that was a very unsatisfactory position. A meeting of those interested in getting up sports for the 9th November are requested to attend Mr Ball's shop to-morrow evening. We trust there will be sufficient interest shown in the matter to justify some action being taken, as the day chosen is a public holiday and some amusement should be provided. On our fourth page will be seen the advertisement of Stewart, Dawson & Co., the leading watch, jewellery and plate firm of Auckland and elsewhere. They hava just erected on one of the finest sites in Wellington, the corner of Lambton Quay and Willis-street, a handsome shop. The firm is a very large one and the stocks they hold make it possible for them to sell cheaper than anyone else can do. Mr W. R. Haselden, S.M., presided at Friday's sitting of the Wellington Magistrate's Court. Lena Sullivan was sent to gaol for two months for having stolen a shilling from a child named Annie Ashley, His Worship Raid that although the amount stolen was small, the offence was great — for it would be a deplorable state of things if it became generally unsafe to let a child be at large with money in its possession. Speaking the other night on the Pacific Islands annexation question, Captain Russell is reported—" Han* sard, September aßth)— to have said : — " Pineapple is one of those indigestible fruits which I think no sensible man will allow to come into his house. (An hon. member, "Oh !"). Captain Russell : I would a great deal sooner have a, large lobster supper just before going to bed than I would eat half a pineapple." An attractive inset from Messrs C. M. Ross and Co.. of the Bon Marche, Palmerston North, is circulated with our present issue, announcing the arrival of supplementary shipments of spring and summer g v*u *i "sing all departments up to the h ?.od of perfection. Buyers of fashic aable and family drapery will find the inset of particular interest. The Unionist or Ministerial votes polled in Great Britain at the general election just concluded totalled 2,360,---852, an increase of 93,904 on the last general election. The Liberals polled 2,055,951, an increase of 36,196. One out of every twenty-one Liberals in London, and one ont of every eighty in England, excluding London, has become a Unionist since the 1595 election. One out of every thirteen Unionists in Wales, on the other hand, has become a Liberal. The Cbnrcb party in England is advocating Church autonomy and reform of the Ecclesiastic Courts as a Parliamentary platform. The Christmas number of "The Weekly Press" is just to hand. In the beauty of its illustrations and the excellence of their reproduction it excels ail previous issues, and we cannot help expressing our admiration of the design for the cover •' The Pikau." It is the handsomest that has yet been put out in New Zealand. As a greeting to kin across the sea nothing could be finer, or better serve, to show the high place rrached in colonial journalism at tue end of the Nineteenth Cen tury. Among the illustrations is a unique picture of a train drawn by three engines ascending the Rimutaka Incline, and a fine set of views showing the birth of a bush settlement. An excellent snapshot of a popular Wellington politician is unusually good, a*id the large series of pictures of station life will interest all having to do with New Zealand's great pastoral industry. Other parts «f the Colony are equally well represented, and there are beautiful pictures from all districts. The supplement is a splendid chromolithograph of a clever picture by Herbert S. Percy, entitled * Lunch Time," a harvest scene, lithographed in eight colours. Herbert S. Percy, who is this year a Royal Academy exhibitor, is a rising painter, and has a reputation for great cleverness in hitting upon popular subjects for his pictures. A sporting paper has a cricket story that is good enough to be quoted. It is told anent the futility of arguing with umpires. The occasion was a cricket match between neighbouring villages, where rivalry is at its keenest. The leading lights of the A village were in the local inn selecting an unpire. One proposed the blacksmith Bill Cuttle—" ' Cos he leane to'ards us." The compelling: nature of the reason secured Bill C ! -1 ' ... -.animous appointment to the post, due time the match came on. The ,st ball bowled at the batting hero of the B team struck him on the leg when he was some yards from the wicket. Immßdiately a howl from the eleven throats required to know how that was. " Hout ! " said Bill Cuttle. The hero of B village, with all me philosophy of resignation before a vastly superor force, walked camly I away. But as he passed BUI Cuttle I he said to him emphatically. " Bill : Cuttle, you lie 1 " umpire replied ' I calmly, •• I do, Jarge ; but you goes I 1 hout all the same 1 "

Mr W. Hamer has just received a letter from the officer commanding the district informing him that the services of the local corps have been accepted, and asking him to send the name fixed for the corps at his earliest convenience. A meeting is called by advertisement for Tuesday evening next. The Duke and Duchess of York will start for Australia in March, the military guard starting a week earlier. Mr H. A. Wiinsch notifies that all monies due to him must be paid before the end of the present month.