Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, FEB. 25, 1902.

Manawatu Herald, 25 February 1902, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, FEB. 25, 1902.

Mr France, the contractor for Mr 0. Austin’s new residence has made rapid progress with the building which is all closed in by now. The sale at Mangatoro was a great success. Mr Caver hill is to be congratulated on his arrangements, as he penned 25.000 sheep and 1000 head of cattle on the morning of the sale before half past ten. The camp on the racecourse has been pronounced by the visitors as an ideal spot for the purpose, au inspec tion confirms the report. The tents are erected within the saddling paddock, and the room under the stand is the mess room. Most of the drilling is done inside the rails, and the target reserve and range is on the other side of the fence. The Rev. H. F. Wilson had a very large, overflowing congregation for his first Sunday morning service at All Saints’. His conduct of the service created a most favourable impression and the congregation are to be congratulated on the selection made by the Bishop to fill the place of the late Vicar. One of the next improvements on the Race Course we should like to see would be a double kitchen erected, one for the use of the caterer for the Grand Stand booth, and one for the caterer of the Refreshment booth, Such a convenience would be appreciated by the purchasers and would enable the name secured for good cateting to be retained easily. Some nice things were said about Captaim Mounsey on Sunday, by Lieut. Walsh, and the assistance he had rendered the Company. This was endorsed by Mr Thynne who men tioned that there had only been about five attendances of a government drill sergeant, and the progress made by the company was greatly to their credit, and part must be accounted to Captain Mounsey. Mr Jellicoe has received an answer to the letter which he sent to the Government a day or two ago asking for a general enquiry into the administration of the Terrace, Mount Cook and Point Haiswell prisons, and suggesting that Mr Justice Williams be the Royal Commissioner. In the reply it is stated that when the Minister of Justice receives the report of the Royal Commission which is now engaged in enquiring into the alleged irregularities at Point Haiswell gaol he will be in a better position to judge whether any general enquiry is necessary or desirable. “ There is the chance of a splendid market in South Africa,” Mr Gow told a London correspondent. “ But it must be remembered that South Africa is already receiving weekly, or almost weekly, shipments of Australian produce by the Aberdeen and other lines that run regularly to the Cape on their Homeward voyage. The want of New Zealand is a good, regular service that can be relied upon.” The Dairy Commissioner (Mr J. A. Kinsella) in a circular just issued, strongly condemns the shipment of unsalted New Zealand butter to British markets. He says that the statements made that large quantities of Australian butter have been shipped to London unsalted and yet turned out well have been contradicted ; and he also cites the fact that Canadian shippers, though only a few days away from Home markets, have found it inadvisable to ship their butter unsalted. Summing up, Mr Kinsella says:—ln face of the evidence which we have found from all quarters, I am strongly of opinion that while a factory may obtain a slightly higher price for few trial shipments of unsalted butter intended to be put in pound prints at the end and sold as fresh, similarly to a large proportion of the Danish article handed in Great Britain, I have no hesitation in saying that such shipments are bound in the end to be detrimental to the reputation of the factory.braud.

The libel case V. M. Braund v. W. H. Hawkins and Alexander Baillie & Co., of the Pahiatua Herald, a claim for 750 damages for libel, was concluded in the Supreme Court. Counsel having addressed the Court—Mr Gully for plaintiff and Dr Finley for defendants—Mr Justice Edwards summed up. His Honour directed the jury as to the law of libel, and as to damages if they held that at any rate the article did contain a charge of unprofessional conduct. It was, then, the duty of the defendants to prove it, plaintiff was entitled'to recover. The question of damages, if under consideration, should be looked at in a broad, temperate way. certainly not in such a way as to enable plaintiff to make money out of his reputation. They were entitled to consider the fact that the truth of the defendants’ statements had been reasserted. After a retirement _of about 40 minutes the jury brought in a verdict for plaintiff for £3O damages. His Honour said costs would be according to scale, with disbursements and witnasses’ expenses.—Post. Yesterday before Alf Fraser, Esq., J.P., Samuel Mason was fined 5s for being drunk and. disorderly. Patrick Carroll was fined 20s and costs 5s for using obscene language, and for as- ■ sault was fined 10s or 48 hours’ imprisonment. Mr Jenks, J.P., was siting with Mr Fraser on the last two cases.

This morning John Spelman, for being drunk with firearms in his possession, was fined £3, in default one month’s imprisonment with hard labour by Mr E. S. Thynne, J.P. A crowded and enthusiastic meeting of Dutch and English, held at Bloemfontein, denounced the slanders of the Continental press, and recorded appre ciation of the humanity and good conduct of the troops. The latest returns as to the casualties in the earthquake at Shemakha, in Southern Russia, show that five thousand persons lost their lives. Lord Rosebery, in a letter to “ The Times” says:—“Sir Henry Camp-bell-Bannerman at Leicester anathematised my declarations with regard to a clean slate and Home Rule. Our views on the war methods are not less discordant. I remain, therefore, outside his political tabernacle, but not, I think, in solitude.” Berlin newspapers comment on Russia’s first answer to the Anglo-Japanese treaty and the American declaration of policy with reference to China contained in the Hon. J. Hay’s reoent Note, which is a vote for extraordinary credit to the extent of fifty million roubles for warships of new type. Sir J. G. Ward will pay Fbxton a visit on Thursday? The Racing Club will interview him regarding a permit for an autumn meeting, and the flaxmillers and agents for the steamers regarding increased wharf accommodation.

The fence in front of the Post Office has been authorised, and Mr A. Speirs has been entrusted with the work.

Mr Hennessy’s new hemp mill started work this morning. The fire at the mill occurred on 30th January, thus a new building and engine and machinery has been erected and started to work within four weeks. A very good record.

Messrs Watchorn & Co., of the Victoria Buildings, Palmerston, have opened up the largest stock of linoleums in the colony, all of the latest designs and at prices which will astonish all.

An ex-prisoner, who had given evidence at the Prison Management Commission, handed up to the Commissioners the following written statement;—“l wish to state that when I was in Point Ralswell Mr , V J., suggested I should say that Murphy habitually ill-treated prisoners, although 1 told him it was not so. He offered me a reward to do so.” Mr Haselden said the statement was very serious, but it should be represented in another quarter.

A letter signed “W. H. Whitta.ll,” described as the late head ot an ambulance section with the Boers, has been written from near Birmingham to \!r W. P. Pitchers, a Godaiming gentleman, to explain the fate of a large number of presents sent "/at to Major-General Baden-Powell by past and present pupils of the Charterhouse School in the Surrey town. When Zeerust was evacuated, Mr Whittall writes, the Boers on re-entering it, found a large number of presents sent out from Englnnd, which included cases of brandy, whisky, port wine, and hospital comforts. The Boers converted these to their own use, and desired that the Carthusians should be thanked for their kindness. The letter, by request, has been shown to the masters and officials of the Charterhouse School, and has created much interest and some amusement. The manner truant inspection is conducted has been frequently drawn attention to by us. In Saturday’s Chronicle we find the following paragraph. “Thirteen informations for breaches of the School Attendance Act were called on at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning. Ten of them were withdrawn by the Truant Inspector (Mr H. E. Easther), and in the other three cases the parents were convicted and each fined as." More should have followed, as if there were 13 breaches of the Act why were ten withdrawn, and if the ten were not breaches of the Act why were the parents summoned to appear ? Acts like these raise the ire of parents.

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