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Manawatu Herald, 4 December 1900, Page 2

We have to acknowledge the receipt from the Government Printer of the Statutes for 1900. Mr and Mrs Harry Gower have taken up their residence with Mr B. Gower for a lengthy stay. Elsewhere will be found the commencement of some notes made by Mr Charles Austin on his holiday trip, which will be found very interesting. To-morrow Mr Barham holds a clearing sale at Mr T. Westwood's house, as he is leaving the district. There are two houses and land for sale, cow, horse, fowls, and furniture. The sale will be held at the house. We understand that the Foxton Rifles are applying to the Defence Department to have the Range handed over to the Corps, and under an Act passed last Session this can be arranged. The Borough has at present the control of it. Trooper Alex. Hadfield, of the Second Contingent, who returned to the colony invalided with fever a few months ago, has just completed a month's course of bathing at Rotorua and has derived a good deal of benefit from the waters there. His legs are still stiff, but his general health is now satisfactory. He is at present staying with his father at Marton. In a Court case at Motueka, the principal witness was a girl nineteen years of age who said she could neither read nor write, and when asked to name the months of the year consecutively she could not do so.

An old working in the Blackball mine is on fire. It is believed that a furnace man name George Green is suffocated. Rescurers cannot get into the spot. The management and men are using every endeavour to get to the furnace, but are checked by smoke and damp. When the returning Canadians passed through Liverpool on their way home, they were simply mobbed by the ladies. One young hero with a broken leg was stormed and captured in a moment, and he had to undergo a quarter of an hour's pleasant 11 condolences," which were enough to satisfy the most avaricious. He was hugged and kissed, and clasped round the neck until he was in some danger of being smothered. The ladies were all select, too, each one having a permit for the stage, and they were all fashionably attired, bilks and satins were cast round the Canadian's neck, while the diamond rings and gold bangles and bracelets of the struggling fair ones flashed fitfully in the sun. The assault was delivered by about thirty ladies, and the young man bore up heroically through the ordeal. It is lucky our " Bob " wasn't there ! At an interview with a representative of the Post, Colonel Sommerville, who has just returned from South Africa was asked what he thought of the land from an agricultural and pastoral point of view. " Not much," was the reply, " Rhodesia will be a great country for the miner, but the scarcity of water makes it no good for the farmer. The big slices of land offered to the colonial troops by Mr Rhodes as an inducement to settle there failed to attract our fellows. I saw Mr Rhodes at Salisbury, and he impressed me as a leader among men. Natal is not a country that would attract the New Zealand farmer, being too rough for us. There was some good land in Tuli (near the Limpopo), but then, again, this was unhealthy country. Some spots in the Transvaal and Orange Free State were attractive, and water was being found at a depth of 12ft, but taken as a whole I wouldn't think of taking up farming there,." We have to thank the Secretary of the Ashhurst-Pohangina Racing Club for a complimentary ticket for their meeting on 28th December. Mr and Mrs R. S. Abraham, of Palmerston North, who have been spending several months in England and on the Continent, have arrived in Australia, and intend leaving Sydney for Auckland by the Elingamite next Wednesday. The second charge against Edouard Forrier has broken down on a confusion of dates, and the jury returned a formal verdict of not guilty. The death is announced of Oscar Wilde. He died in an obscure hotel in Paris. The Bishop of London (Dr. Creighton), has vetoed the proposed prosecution by the evangelical party of the three most extreme ritualistic clergymen in London, on the ground that the prosecutors are unconnected with the parishes concerned. There have been up to November 30th a thousand cases of beer-poison-ing. The area affected has extended to Leeds and Huddersfield, in Yorkshire, and Darlaston, in Staffordshire. The cause of the poisoning has been traced to a Liverpool firm brewing with sugar and bad sulphuric acid. Some spectators of a football match at San Francisco fell through the roof of a glass-works into the boiling vats and on to the furnaces. Eleven were killed and forty were badly burned. Britain, in not renewing tbe prohibition of the export of arms from -the Straits Settlements to the Dutch East Indies in connection with the Acheen war, says it is a warning to the Netherlands Governments of one of the dangers of pro-Boerism. The jury, after a retirement of seven hours in the Dunedin murder case, returned with a verdict of guilty, with a strong recommendation to mercy. The Judge, in passing the sentence prescribed by the law, thought he might say that he concurred in the recommendation of the jury, and would forward it to the proper quarter. It was not for him to give effect to it. The Judge then put on the black cap, and passed the death sentence in the usual form, the prisoner bursting into tears. Mr T. Lewis, who, for some years past, has been railway stationmaster at Eketahuna, has been transferred to Foxton. A contributor to the Hawera Sta* hears that a pony at Otakeho ha s recently developed sheep-worrying propensities, and last week succeeded in killing half-a-dozen lambs before is destructiveness was discovered. It runs after a lamb, catches it in its teeth, and drops it again, repeating the operation until the lamb is dead. The pony has been removed to a fresh field. Mr A. Pat has his Xmas advertisement in this issue from which it will be gathered that he is well up to the front, and has also opened up a lot of fancy goods and toys. The large show room over Messrs Hennessy & Go's, store is at present crowded with crockery and iron bedsteads, and in a few days will be in order for the inspection of the public. We have again to remind our readers of the auction sale of property, furniture and household effects at the residence of Mr Thos. Westwood, on the Avenue Road, to-morrow at 1 o'clock. In addition to lots advertised there are also a lot of fowls, and household coal for sale. The horse, gig and harness has been withdrawn from sale, but everything else will be put up under the hammer. We expect to hear of a successful sale. A good time is expected to-morrow night at the Methodist social which is being given by Mr M. Perreau. An excellent programme is arranged, and several special items are promised. The proceedings commence at 7.30. Mr Andresen has for sale a new four-roomed house and various sections of land on the Moutoa road.