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Manawatu Herald, 18 December 1900, Page 2

Mr Spelman has a good milch cow for sale. 2 The property of the late Mr Kewley will be sold to-morrow afternoon by Mr Barbam. , We have to thank the Secratary of the Manawatu Racing Club for a complimentary ticket for their Summer Meeting. Peerages have been confetred on the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, late First Lord of the Admiralty, and the Right Hon Sir Matthew White Ridley, late Home Secretary, on their retirement from public life. Photographer. " Great Scott, man, try to look happy and cheerful." Customer. " I daren't. This photograph is for my wife who is away on a \ visit. She would come back to morrow if I looked happy and cheerful." , The Coroner has been informed that ' a child two months old, the daughter j of Mrs Jeffries, ot Makarua. died in her j arms at Shannon. The child had been , ill and was being taken to Palmerston. ] In v mquedt ha 3 beeu deemed necessary. 1

Messrs J. Walden and Campbell have purchased portions of the Messrs Strangs' property at Moutoa. Bush fires are causing great damage in various' districts of Victoria. A large area of crops and several homesteads have been destroyed. The polo team from Australia will consist of R. Hood, George and Colin Robertson, Affleck and C. Manifold, and will arrive in February. A meeting of the Doctor's Committee will be held to-night at 7.30. A full attendance is requested so that prompt action may be taken to secure the services of a medical man. The members of the Foxton Rifles are notified that Government parades will be held on Wednesday and Thursday evenings next. On Wednesday the rifles will be handed out. Mrs Austin has let the contract for the erection of her new residence to Mr Andrew Jonson, the lowest tenderer but it is to be built on Park street and not where originally intended on Neylon street. The Rifles for the Volunteers arrived by the Queen of the South last week. They are Sniders, but the new weapon will replace them when received. The rifles will enable the Company to earn capitation this year. The jury in the Conningham divorce cases have been locked up since eleven o'clock, failed to agree upon a verdict, were discharged. Both counsel for Dean O'Haran, the co-respondent, and the petitioning husband refused to accept a majority verdict. Some eight hundred Australians who are returning home from the war, together with a thousand Canadians, were given an enthusiastic farewell at Capetown. The Mayor, in the course ot a speech, applauded their gallantry and devotion, and presented them with souvenirs. Cases of arsenic poisoning from golden syrup have occurred in Birmingham. They are attributed to glucose arsenic. The Manchester beer-poisoning cases have been traced to the action of india-rubber tubes between the barrels of beer and the pumps. The barrels were found to be free from arsenic. There was a hot discussion on the Amnesty Bill in the French Chamber of Deputies. The Deputies, by a majority of eighty-five, carried the first clause of the Bill, which pardons all acts connected with the Dreyfus affair ; but persons who have been guilty of treason and espionage are excluded from the amnesty. The following officers have been elected at the annual meeting of the Oroua Polo Club . — President, F. Robinson, Esq.; vice-president Walter Robinson, Esq. ; hon. secretary and treasurer, Mr B Gower ; captain, Mr Allan Strang ; delegate to the Association. Mr J. Strang. The Citizens' Committee in connection with the forthcoming Commonwealth celebrations at Sydney has insituted an agency to provide visitors with suitable homes. It is expected that by this means ample accommodation will be found for all who attend the N.S.W. capital to take part in the celebrations. We draw our readers attention to the new advertisement of Mr W. Park. We have had the pleasure of inspecting the very large stock of books, fancy goods, and glassware that he holds most suitable for Christmas presents, 1 and his shop is a dangerously tempting one to visit. One unique item he has, Christinas cards with photographs of local views. A visit to Mr Park's will be one of the great pleasures to all young people, at this season. Negotiations are said to be pending between the Imperial authorities and the New Zealand Government in the direction of securing the return of a bodj' of troops to South- Africa, part to consist of men who have already been at the front, and part to consist of picked volunteers and permanent artillerymen who have not yet seen service. It is believed that the Imperial authorities will be willing to pay all the expenses of such a contingent, and to purchase their horses and requirements in this colony. A policeman on duty on the Homecoming of the C. I. V's in London who was hit in the eye by a new instrument of torture, known as a " bang-ball," naturally resented the friendly behaviour of his assailant, and as the latter was being conducted to Bridewell he was rescued by a number of his friends, the representative of the law being left in the midst of a laughing multitude, who covered his uniform with confetti, tickled his ears with peacocks' feathers, and pushed bunches of tri-coloured paper into his eyes. The policeman good-naturedly gave in to the inevitable, and pocketed the affront.