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Manawatu Herald, 24 November 1900, Page 2

The Duke of York's colours are blue and white, and his escutcheon an anchor. The Hon. W. P. Reeves, AgentGeneral for New Zealand, has been appointed a member of the Pacific Board. The Czar is making satisfactory progress towards recovery. His illness was the result of drinking bad water during his stay at Livadia, the Imperial marine residence in the Crimea. Captain Hume, eldest son of LieutColonel Hume, of this city, has left the New Zealand Hotchkiss Battery in South Africa in order to undergo a years military training in England. One indirect eftect of the Presidential election in America was to delay the inward 'Frisco steamer Alameda at Honolulu for several hours. The men engaged in handling the coal were unnit for duty, not having recovered from the '• excitement " of the previous day's proceedings. The new sand-pnmo put in operation by the New Plymouth Harbour Board, at the breakwater, is able to shift about 1000 yards of sand in eight hours, at a cost of less that i£ per yard. At Wellington on VVedenesday an illuminated address, signed by 343 district of the Land Department, throughout the Colony, as well as a revolving book-case, another bookcase, a large chiming clock, an easy chair, and an office chair, were presented to Mr Percy Smith, retiring Surveyor-General. The Minister of Lands made the presentation. Farmers in North Canterbury state that owing to the wet season the feed is growing too rank, and consequently does not contain the nourishment desired. Even that on light land appears to have had more moisture than is desirable. The office of Rural Dean has been revived by the Bishnp in the Anglican Dioces of Auckland to aid two of the Archdeacons in their work. The ! Deaneries are those of Papakura and New Plymouth, and the Deans are respectively the Rev. O. R. Hewlett, ot Papakura, and the Rev. F. G. Evans, of St Mary's, New Plymouth. In an account of the return of troopers by the Delphic a Wellington papers says " and shortly afterwards the troopers were escorted to the Occidental Hotel, where they were entertained at luncheon. Later on they reported themselves at the Mount Cook Depot for medical examination." Reads rather curiously, what was the manner with the dinner ? An instance of the inadvisability of shouting before you are safe out of the wood was given at the last Christchurch race meeting when a lucky investor in the toalisator having received forty pounds held the notes in his hand and waved them aloft —but not for long — as some active speller jumped up and whisked them away before the owner realised that though he had won he had also lost. The thief was not caught. Alterations in the timetable are advertised by the Railway Department. The afternoon trains will leave Foxton at 3.20 instead of at 3.50 p.m., and the 7 o'clock train will leave Longburn at 7.15 instead of 7.20, and will reach Foxton five minutes earlier. The 8 a.m. train on Mondays is knocked off and the train will leave at 9 a.m. every week day. The railway employees recently raised a sum of £30 on behalf of Messrs Bowes and Morton, enginedriver and guard respectively of the PalmerstonFoxton line, who were reduced in position and transferred to the South as the result of a breach of the regulations. Mr Morton wrote to the effect that while he would like some little souvenir of his service with the local j staff, he would prefer that his share of : the presentation should be forwarded to Mr Bowes. In accordance with '. ; this wish, Mr T. Wilson, the secretary ! : of the fund, has f awarded Mr Morton | a handsome silver lever watch ' (suitably inscribed) with a gold brooch . 1 for Mrs Morton.— -M. Times. i

Lieuts. Kingston and De Putron, with a West African force, have captared the Ashanti generalissimo Kobina Chert and many followers. The first-class gunboat Pheasant, Lieut.-Commander H. Granville Smith, has been ordered to Panama, owing to the Government of Columbia seizing a British steamer to convey troops to | operate against the insurgents. At a meeting of the Council of the Acclimatisation Society at Wellington, letters were read from Sir John Hall drawing attention to the damage caused to lambing by flocks of seagulls. It was decided to bring the matter undfir the notice of the Colonial Secretary with a view of obtaining permission for land owners to shoot gulls on their own property. The Minister of Justice has ordered the construction of six portable houses in Auckland for the accommodation of prisoners to be sent to Rotorua for tree planting work. The buildings will be on wheels, so that they can be drawn along the railway. Twenty-four prisoners and four warders will be sent. The first consignment of lyddite shells and cordite for the big guns of the colony's forts arrived by the Rakaia. A national badge is wanted for New Zealand volunteers. It is to be of metal, for wearing on the collar of the tunic. The Defence Department, it is understood, will shortly advertise particulars of what it wants in the matter. At present various badges are worn. It is desired to have one that shall be worn by every New Zealand volunteer, to indicate the colony that he belongs to, apart from any badge betokening his corps or the branch of the defence force in which he serves. — Press. The Foxton Volunteers had a good hour and a half's drill in the Public Hall on Thursday evening under Staff Instructor McDonald. The present spring (says the Timaru Heral) is one of the wettest and windiest experienced in the district in the memory of the oldest ; certainly it is so compared with the spring of any recent year. The trial of Jimmy Governor, the notorious BreeJong murderer has begun. Counsel for the prisoner asked that he should be acquitted. He based his plea on the ground that the prisoner, having been outlawed, could not plead in the usual way. He had been practically convicted, by virtue of being outlawed, of the offence in the indictment, and the sheriff could execute him without further legal process. The Judge rejected counsel's plea, on the ground that the local law provided for an ordinary trial even in cases ot outlawry. The prisoner then pleaded 11 Not Guilty." On our first page Mr Edmund Osborne, of the Centre of Commerce, warns young men to beware that Christmas is coming, when, whether he purposes presenting them with a Xmas box, is one thing, but he is prepared to present them with a good and cheap suit. He has a vast number of patterns to select from, and will make to measure or sell ready-made suits. Read the advertisement. Notice is given by the Chief Inspector of Machinery that an examination of Stationary engine-drivers will be held at Palmerston on the nth December and also at Napier, Wellington and Wanganui. The trial of James Solan (Brother Kilian) on a charge of having committed a common assault on a boy named James Joseph Owens, at the Industrial School for Boys, Stoke, near Nelson, on the 30th May, 1900, was concluded on Thursday. The jury after a retirement of a quarter of an hour bringing in a verdict of not guilty. At the last meeting of the Wellington Harbour Board the following recommendation of the Wharves and Accounts Committee were adopted by the Board : — To decline to accede to the request of the Foxton Flaxmillers' Association that the period of free ! storage of hemp be increased from one night to one week, on account of the growing demand for storage and the present limited accommodation to meet it. The jury brought in a verdict of " Guilty " in the case against Henry Vincent Styche, charged with having on or about June 4th, 1900, at Christchurch, attempted to procure Dr Geoffrey Sherborne Clayton to murder one Elizabeth Styche, hi 3 wife. Mr Joynt asked for an opportunity of applying for leave to take the case to the Court of Appleal on the ground that the verdict was against the weight of evidence. His Honor said that, in order to give that opportunity, he would defer passing sentence till 10 a.m. on Saturday. The Wanganui A. and P. show was the most successful in the history of the Association. The entries were only a little below the aggregate of Palmerston North, and in excess of Christchurch, the figures being: — Christchurch 1067, Palmerston North 1262, Wanganui, 1 130. The best display of horses yet held in the colony was seen, especially in draught and hack classes. It was a beautiful day, and there was a record attendance. The largest nugget ever received at the New York Assay Office was sent recently by a mining company of British Columbia. It was consigned to the New York agents of the Bank ot Montreal. The nugget contained a fraction of over 753 pounds of gold, and is valued at £38,000. It came in a solid cone of yellow metal about two feet high, and required four men to move the box containing the gold from a truck. The Klondyke contry does not produce many large nuggets, but one was picked up recently weighing 29 ounces. As to the general conditions in the Dawson country, late reports from the Assay Office at Seattle show that the season's output received at that point from Kloudyke aggregates about £3,300,000. Nomes' production for the summer is about £1,000,000. Important strikes are still reported from time to time at Klondyke, and the town of Dawson has grown and been improved until it is quite a modern city.