A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Manawatu Herald, 22 December 1900, Page 2

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

j The Manawatu Herald will not be published on Christinas day. | | All the houses at the Sanatorium i are now occupied. 1 Mrs England will give a reward for a broach, if returned to her., 1 Mr Robert Stansdl took possession of the Albion hotel, Shannon, on Tuesday. Joe Tos has obtained his discharge from bankruptcy and is in business in '-Wellington. I Patea Press hears that amongst the j applicants for the position of assistant | at Hurley ville Dairy Factory was a i lady. / Sir W. Lyne, Premier of New South Wales, has been summoned to form the«first Federal Ministry. <k The Town Clerk notifies that the Council Office will be closed from today till the 28th instant. Amongst the returning New Zealanders we find the names of Fred. Armstrong and F. Rockstrow. The London " Standard," criticising Donald McDonald's new book, declares that it is incomparably the best book on the siege of Ladysmith. Only £4000 was applied for out of £"10,000 required for the Palmerston Borough lo'an, and the Council decided to ask the A.M. P. Society to take it up at 4} per cent. Mistress : •' Do you think that young policeman Keegan, who calls here so often means business Norah ? " The Cook (blushing), u I think he do, mum. He's begun to complain about my cooking already." A correspondent, writing from Traralgon (Victoria) states that he has tried the plan of placing a good layer of bracken fern on bods of Californian thistle, with excellent results. He regards this as the best mode ot destroying that pest. A Fiji merchant writes to a Wellington friend:— One thing that is good might come out of the federation with New Zealand. There are a lot of New Zealand runaway bankrupts, wife deserters, and bad eggs down here who would have to clear out." The Jubilee Number of the Christchurch Press is a paper that should be kept, in memory of the early struggles of the founders of Canterbury. The number has a most interesting collection of photographs of the old settlers, some of whose names are known all over the colony. The views of Christchurch 40 years ago and now, forcibly illustrates the giant strides the colony has taken. The editor has compiled most interesting reading matter, and the views are capital and very numerous. The cover bears a view, in colours of the Christchurch Cathedral of to-day as also a view ot the site many years ago. We have very much pleasure in congratulating j the' Company on such a successful production which will be hailed with pleasure by very old colonist.

The result of the election of Mayor is advertised today by the Returning Officer. We are pleased to see that Mr Jenks has been elected.

Dr Smyth recently appointed Chief Inspector of Wanganui Education District gets a salary of £450 and travelling allowance of £150. There were twenty applicants.

The Volunteers will open the Rifle Range on the afternoon of the second of January, when Mrs Hunter, the wife of the captain, will fire the first shot. Afternoon tea will be provided.

The Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, late First Lord of the Admiralty, and the Right Hon. Sir Matthew White Ridley, late Home Secretary, having retired from public life, have been created viscounts.

Sir Gordon Sprigg. Premier of Cape Colony, has invited the Duke and Duchess of York to visit Cape Colony. Sir Gordon believes that the visit would assist towards the pacification of South African troubles.

A telegram has been received in Shannon from the Survey Office in which it is stated that Mr Thompson, surveyor, after finishing some work in the neighbourhood of Shannon, will go out to survey a track tiirough to Eketahuna.

An interesting guide to householders of the value of furnished houses in Sydney just now is the fact that a wealthy society widow has let her establishment in Macquarie- street for a fortnight during January at the pleasing rental of £200 a week.

We regret that the Messrs Fraser's have suffered a sad loss in the sudden death of their sister, Mrs Hunter, who expired at her home in Wellington soon after the birth of her first-born on Thursday night. The deceased lady was always of a bright and happy disposition, and had many friends in Foxton.

On Saturday, the 29th December, the mail trains will connect as on ordinary mail days for Wanganui and New Plymouth. A special will leave Palmerston at 9.45 p.m. for Wangauui, and the 11.45 P« m ' §o°d& train for Wellington will carry passengers. On Tuesday, the first of January, the train will leave Foxton at 8 a.m. instead of q o'clock.

A case is reported from Gisborne in which a native who was suffering from typhoid fever, and was being treated, for that disease by a medical man got into the bands of tohungas, who took him to sea, and gave him a course of two days' bathing, after which he died. This is believed to be the second case of the kind which has occurred here lately.

Mr Charles WVrthur Morgan, the fourth son of Mr G. Morgan, was united in matrimoney to Miss Beatrice Ellen Mary Rand, at the residence of Mr A. Morgan, on Thursday last by the Rev. W. Wopllass. • The bride, who is the eldest daughter of Mr Robert Rand, an old settler in this district, was dressed in white and also wore the orthodox veil and, orange blossoms, and had her sisters' Misses Annie and Violet, as bridesmaids. The presents were b:>th numerous and useful. The usual breakfast was held after the ceremony, and in the evening a dance was given which was kept up till the early hours of the morning.

Dr H. W. Wiley, in an interesting article on bread making at the Paris Exposition in the November " Forum," declares- that the process of bread making is on the verge of a complete revolution. He described the Schweitzer process 6i milling and bread making which was exhibited at the Paris Exposition, and shows that the flour produced by that process is far more nutritious than the flour produced by 'the old methods. He says that the domestic baking of bread is to be deplored ; that bread making is as much an art as tailoring ; and that we have as much right to bread made by experts as we have to coats and cloaks fashioned by tailors. .He opines that the great eylis of our time are not intrigues, bribery, trusts, but the fryingpan, bicarbonate of soda and pie !

In the "Pall Mall Magazine" Mr John Holt Schooling releates a wonderful tale of the expansion of the British Empire 'during the past hundred years. The growth of the population of the Empire in the present century has been from 115,000,000 in 1800 to 390,---000,000 in 1900, while the increase in area has been from 2,000,000 square miles in 1800 to 12,000,000 square miles in 1900 ; or, in other words, the British Empire has increased during a hundred years at the rate of two acres per second.

William Barnard Rhodes, storekeeper, of Foxton, who filed his petition on Wednesday, in his statement attributed his present position to the shutting down of the Foxton flaxmills, sickness, competition, and pressure by one of his larger creditors. The unsecured liabilities amount to £1529 is. Among the thirty-three unsecured creditors the principal are Messrs Turnbull and Co., £578 3= 8d ; Schlanders and Co., Nelson, £159 18s gd ; R. Hudson & Co., Dunedin, £114 15s gd ; /Hills and Co., £49 is nd; Stewart & 'Co., £89 18s 7d ; Benjamin & Co., £30 1 8s ; New Zealand Times, £12 ; and Briscoe, MacNeil and Co., £50 5s gd. Secured creditor— Mr A. E. G. I Rhodes, Christchurch, solicitor, £320. Estimated value of security, consisting of six acres of land with dwellinghouse at Foxton i'42o. The assets are estimated to reach £1826 6s iod, leaving a surplus of £297 5s iod over and above the liabilities. The first meeting of creditors is to be held today.