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Manawatu Herald, 20 November 1900, Page 2

The Premier received a cable message on Friday from LieutenantColonel Robin, dated Pretoria, November i6th, announcing that the remainder of the First Contingent was under orders to return to New Zealand. The first portion of the contingent, it will be remembered, sailed from Capetown recently under Lieut. Hughes in the Harlech Castle. Louis Ferdinand Tegner, clerk in the office of the Resident Engineer at Huntervill, was charged in the Wellington Magistrate's Court on Friday with the misappropriation of £87 3s gd. The allegation is that there is a shortage of somewhere about this amount in the moneys which passed through Tegner's hands as part of the imprest account for the payment of wages, &c. It was stated in evidence that £201,000 had passed through accused's hands in the last three years. He was committed for trial. Accused made a statement, saying that more than £100,000 had passed through his hands, and if any sum coiild not be accounted for the fact was due to an omission to deduct cash advanced from workmen, or to over-payments, or to the loss of vouchers. Particulars of the gate takings at the Manawatv Show have been furnished to the press showing that 1595 tickets were sold on the first day. realising £96 3s 6d. The number of gate tickets sold on the second day numbered n,---360, and the amount so realised was £•535 12s gd, or £631 16s 3d for the two days. Mr R. Morley, advertising agent, gives notice that any person posting bills or damaging hoardings leased by him, will be prosecuted. This morning Constable Forster, at the instance of a warrant issued in Wellington, arrested John Burn Imrie, stationmaster here, on the charge that on the 15th November at Foxton he did torere a certain voucher of having received money. India is spending £2,500,000 to provide modern guns. Lord Wolseley will shortly visit Canada South Africa and Egypt. . The Marquis of Venosta, the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Signor Crispi, the ex-Premier, have had long interviews at Naples with the Right Hon J. Chamberlain, who is at present visiting Italy. Starting from the time the Queen ascended the throne, we find that the Liberal party has had far more wars fhan tbf» Conservative party. Taking big wars and little wars up to now, the actual figures are 14 wars under Conservative Governments, and 30 under Liberal Governments. Mrs Oliphant has written a personal sketch of Queen Victoria and in it is the following anecdote :—"" When the family were at Windsor they were attended by a well-known and respected doctor of the place, Mr Brown, wh^m, hearing their father address him as Brown ' tout court,' the Princesses considered themselves at liberty to address him with the same familiarity. The Queen corrected them, and all addressed the physician as 4Mr Brown,' excepting the Princess Royal, who persisted in her right to use the name as her father did. One day the Queen heard her and informed her that if she again addressed Mr Brown in that manner she should be sent to bed. The next morning when he presented himself in ♦he royal apartments where the family were assembled, the young Princess, looking straight at him, said ; ' Goodmorning, Brown ! ' Then, seeing her mother's eyes fixed upon her, she rose, and with a curtsey, continued : 1 And good-night, Brown ; for I am going to bed.' " General Buller and lan Hamilton have always been great friends. Many years ago when they were both lieutenants, Buller was staying in Aberdeenshire with the Hamiltons for the shooting. One day, while the party was crossing a marsh, a shout was heard from Buller who had gone on a little way in front. On coming to his rescue they found him sunk up to the neck in mud. Having pulled him out, one of the gentlemen proffered him a glass of " Hielant." Rnller tossed it off with evident relish. " Give me another," lie said, " and I'll jump in

We noticed that Mr Alf. Fraser was very busy to-day unpacking a Home shipment of fancy goods. She : " Oh, Fred dear, you are so noble, so generous, so handsome, so chivalrous, so much the superior of every man I meet, I just can't help loving you. Now what do you see in plain little me to admire ?" He : " Oh, I don't know, dear ; but you have very good judgment."