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Manawatu Herald, 4 February 1902, Page 2

The Himatangi flax has been with drawn from sale.

Mr P. Hennessy has decided to re build his flaxmill.

In another column Messrs Langley Bros, draw attention to a tablecloth.

Mr R. C. D. Lightbourne has been appointed second assistant at the Foxton State School.

Messrs Abraham & Williams, Ljtd., hold a stock sale at Shannon on the 12th inst.

There are a thousand cases of smallpox in London, a sudden increase having occurred, A Departmental Committee recommends that the moisture ia butter should be limited to 16 per cent.

On the first page Mr E* Osborne requests the public to see the bargains at the Centre of Commerce, at his 41st half-yearly sale.

In our next issue an interesting notice of a, change in the proprietorship of a grocery business in the Main-street will be announced.

The final departure of the Northern section of the Eighth Contingent from New Zealand took place on Saturday afternoon, at Auckland, amid a great display of patriotic enthusiasm. Lord Rosebery in a late speech in Chesterfield said. On one point I have no doubt—l will express no ambiguity at all —I do not believe we could be in better hands than Lord Kitchener’s,

According to the London Express, a New Zealander, has invented a flying machine. This would be popular with those who desire to do the “ Pacific slope.”

It is reported in Vienna that the visit of Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of the German Emperor, to the United States is connected with Germany’s desire to purchase the Philippine Islands.

The idea 1 The Premiers of the Victorian States want to be placed on a similar tooting in connection with invitations to the coronation ceremonies, as our King Dick, Last Thursday morning Waimangu Geyser, which had been quiescent during the preceding half-week, belched an immense volumne of black sand and boulders to a height et about 800 feet.

To-day by an advertisement elsewhere, it will be seen that our old townsman, Mr Edward Westwood, has returned to his old quarters and business next the Bank of New Zealand, which has lately been carried on by Mrs Simpson.

While England, Japan and America protest against granting the RussoChinese Bank exclusive commercial, industrial, mining and railway rights in Manchuria as an infringement of the treaties, Germany favours the proposal, hoping it will afford a pretext to Germans in the province of Shan tung. Several Chinese Imperial seals, looted by the Russians at Pekin, were sold at auction in London, despite questions asked in Parliament on the subject. The Pahiatu Herald writing on the races there says ‘The catering which was in the hands of Messrs Langley Bros,, of Foxton, was the best wo have ever seen at a race meeting and could not be surpassed anywhere. This department was favourably commented upon on all sides.”

The Councillors do not seam lo have taken any notice why the band rotunda in the Victoria park was not used by the band that attended the gathering of the Friendly Societies' on New Year’s day. Was it too high, too low, two big or too small, or too far away from the ladies ? Those who are eating apples should look before they eat, or they may have more than apple in their month- We understand that many codlin-moth eaten apples are hawked round for sale.

On the first page to-day will be found an advertisement of “ The Talkerios ” of Wellington, the depot of the New Century Phonographs. There you can purchase a phonograph or graphophone from 355. to eleven guineas, and can obtain a very laige selection of records. A graphophone in the house will soon be as common as a piano, without the excruciating practice of juveniles thereon. At the Imperial Government’s instance, Newfoundland is renewing the modus vivandi in connection with the French fisheries dispute, as a contribution towards aiding the Empire in time of war.

Caterpillars are “on the job,” (says the Taranaki Herald). On Wednesday evening Mr Saxton lost nearly the whole of a twenty-two acre paddock of oats. When they were seen approaching in the afternoon an effort was made to save a portion of the crop, but only an acre or two could be cut before the myriads of caterpillars had made a clean sweep of the paddock, leaving nothing but bare straws, where an hour or two earlier had been a good crop of oats -just ready for cutting. The officials of the local Stock Department supervised the slaughtering of fifteen head of diseased stock at the Longburn Freezing Works on Saturday morning, says the Times. The cattle, comprising dairy cows in milk principally, were collected in the Levin district and were in a terrible state from the ravages of tuberculosis and actinymocosis, the former principally. There was no apparent outward indication of disease, all ot them being in good condition. The Postmaster-General, replying to a deputation on the West Coast, said that the system of keeping telegraph offices open to midnight had been a failure throughout the colony. The Government would therefore revert to the old system of closing the offices at 8 p.m.

Mr George Coley intends starting his second hemp mill at once, having command of a large supply of the green material.

The robber’s cave discovered recently at Gerogery, New South Wales, is believed to have been the hiding place of the notorious bushranger Morgan. Large quantities of plunder have been found there.

At the Supreme Court Criminal sessions, which opened in Wellington yesterday, Edward Charles Ferris, charged with indecent assault (at Foxton, in November last) on a girl under the age of 16, admitted his guilt. Mr Skerrett, on behalf of the accused, said he had been instructed to make application for probation. His Honor postponed the matter till to-day. He said he thought the fact that the prisoner had pleaded guilty, and so done away with the necessity of putting the girl ifl the wltuess box, should be given some little weight.

Mark Twain told an after-dinner story at New York the other day, which is now being much quoted* Once, while residing temporarily in England, he was subjected to a tax, and he wrote to Queen Victoria ** a friendly letter of protest.” He said : —“ I don’t know you, but Fve met your son. Ha was at the head of a procession in the Strand, and I was on a bus.” Years afterwards he met the Prince of Wales at Hamburg. They had a long walk and talk together. When bidding him good-bye, the Prince said, “I am glad to have met you again.” This remark troubled Mark Twain, who feared that he had beea mistaken for someone else—perhaps Bishop Potter. Ha communicated his suspicion to the Prince who replied, “ Why, dont you remember when you met mo in the Strand, and you were on a bus ? " It is said that the King has read nearly everything that Mark Twain has written, including all hia books of travel.

A well-known Bishop was once asked to preside at a meeting of thadeabating society of a certain theological collage, where the students were all young men in deadly earnest. One of these gentlemen, in the course of the debate, with strong indignation evident in his voice, addressing the chair, inquired oratorically, “ What, sir, would the Apostle Paul have said could he have seen the life of luxury led by our present race of prelates and Church dignitaries, riding about in their carriages and living in their palaces? What, sir, I repeat, would he have said ? ” “I think,” said the Bishop, interrupting the speaker in a meek and mild voice, “ that he would have said, ‘ Things in the Church must be looking up ! ”’

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