Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1902.

Manawatu Herald, 11 March 1902, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1902.

A War Office order just issued allows officers and soldiers to wear spectacles. There are fifteen hundred small pox patients in the London hospitals.

The Cabinet has decided that the 24th May (the late Queen’s birthday) will not be a public holiday in future. Leonard Lewisohn, the orginator of the American copper turust, died in London, worth five million pounds. A dense fog prevails in London and casualties are reported in the English Channel. Traffic and shipping are disorganised. The British Empire League is receiving liberal contributions for entertaining the colonial representatives at the Coronation. The programme will include a tour of the provinces, A fresh British expedition is being despatched against the Mad Mullah, who last year gave serious trouble in Somaliland.

The splendid presents the Mikado is sending to the King’s Coronation, include a pair of vases representing seven years’ work by thirty of the best Japanese artists. Prince Henry is suffering from the strain of prolonged travel in America. Crowds of roughs at the wayside knock at the windows of his car in the middle of the night to arouse the Prince, and demand a speech. The gross returns from Customs for eleven months of the financial year for the colony exceeded the estimate by over £BO,OOO.

It is slated that the Defence Department officials have received instructions to make all preparations for the swift mobilisation of a Tenth Contingent if necessary. The report of the Royal Commissioners who investigated the charges made by a prisoner named Edward Wilson against Warder Murphy, of Point Halswell Prison, has reached the Minister of Justice. The report entire'y exonerates Murphy from the charges brought against him. A man named Lynch gave himself up to the Melbourne police on Thursday. He stated he had cut the throat of a girl named Maher in the Melbourne cemetery. He declined to give his reasons. On visiting the cemetery the dead body of a girl was found, with wounds in the throat and side. Lynch was arrested. Deceased and he were lovers.

The following is a list of the cases coming before the sitting of the Palmerston district Court commencing on 12th March :—Civil: A. France v. A. Burr, claim £77; Thacker v. Woodroffe, claim £260 damages for seduction ; Gascoigne v. Dick, claim £487 4s 6d for goods sold and delivered. Bankruptcy : Applications for discharge will be made by F. A. S. Suisted, T. Cootes and A. E. Schultz, Arthur Henderson, public examination, T. E. Wanklyn, continuation of public examination.

The Wellington Committee for the presentation to the Premier decided to ask the Christchurch Committee to act as a central committee for the colony for the collection of signatures and subscriptions ; also to adopt the Christchurch proposal that the address be bound in book form, with all signatures and be presented in Christchurch. It is now understood that Colonel Porter will be in charge of the Ninth Contingent in ‘South Africa with the rank of Brigadier, and the Seventh and .Ninth Contingents will be kept as one column. Major Abbott, late of the Fifth Contingent, will now take command of the North Island Battalion of the Ninth, and Major Bauchop, late of the Fourth Contingent, and now wijh the Seventh, will command the South Island Battalion. Confirmation of these arrangements is now in the hands of Lord Litchener.

A message from Colonel Porter of the Seventh Contingent to the Governor, states that the men wounded at Bothasberg are all doing well. The regiment, which is below strength, was to go on trek again on the 6th instant. A difficulty has arisen with regard to a bicycle, the property of Mr A. J. West, which was stolen at Palmerston North by a man named Walter Clifford, and recovered recently in Christchurch. Clifford was convicted at Palmerston North of stealing the machine, but all trace has since been lost of the owner, Mr West. The bicycle is at the Christ* church p.-iic;.' fitatioa.«~Btandard<

W. L. James, Dunedin, won the third prize of £9OO in Tattersall’s special Australian Cup. Cecil Rhodes’ health is causing universal anxiety. He is suffering from angina pectoris. The Dunedin Star states authoritatively that the Premier leaves the colony about the middle of April, accompanied by Mrs Saddon and the two Misses Seddon. We regret to hear that Mr 0. Sullivan’s condition is causing his friends some anxiety, having had a serious relapse in the illness from which he has been a sufferer for some time. The Bank of Australasia has declared a dividend of xo per cent, per annum. £40,000 has been added to the reserve mnd, has been written off premises account, and £14,237 has been carried forward to the new account.

A special train came down this afternoon and took away a large number of trucks laden with coal to Palmerston which is now being discharged from the boats in port. Tattersall’s having evolved a scheme to evade the Federal Postal Act, the Postmaster-General is consulting with the Attorney-General on the matter. The former does not think Tattersall’s can evade the law for any length of time, as Parliament’s long arm will eventually do all that is necessary to close it up. A Wellington expressman was fined £3 and £2 7s costs for having given to another person certain bedding from the house of a person who had died of consumption, which he had been paid to take to the destructor and see burnt. The articles were subsequently found in tha possession of a second-hand dealer.

Mr Hennessy is having erected on his section opposite the Manawatu Hotel a commodipus grain store.

The cluster of bookmakers from all quarters to the Wanganui Jockey Club’s meeting considerably altered the usually quiet tone of the proceedings in the saddling paddock and on the lawn. The layers were each accompanied by a clerk, who dotted down each bet as taken. The “ gentlemen of the pencil ” were evidently not devoid of fashionable clothing as on the second day they donned different attire to that worn on the first day. Gn the outside complaints were made to the police that one ot the fraternity, possibly an absentmindedbeggar, left before the last race without paying out to those who had staked their cash on the winning horse. Four boats, the Queen of the South, with general cargo, Oreti, Gerti, and Himitangi, with coal, made business brick at the wharf to-day. The Queen of the South left on the same tide.

“ Pelorus Jack," the big white fish that haunts the French Pass, and lies in wait for passing steamers, swimming in front of each for a mile or two, has hitherto been considered unique in New Zealand waters, but he now appears to have rivals on the West Coast of the North Island. Shortly after the Takapuna left New Plymouth for Wellington on Tuesday three white fish made their appearance, and accompanied her south for the space of an hour, exhibiting all the mannerisms of their contemporary in the Sounds.— Post.

Settlers at Oroua Bridge and the surrounding district are rejoicing in the fact that steps are at last being taken to effect improvements to the Ngawhakarau road. The scrub on either si le of the road has been burned, and the material for fencing is now on the ground, a portion of this work having in fact already been completed. It is understood that the formation of the road will be pushed on as rapidly as possible, in order that settlers may be benefited during the coming winter. —Standard.

Mr A. James is now relieving Mr. Lewis, our local stationmaster, who has received three month’s leave of absence.

Yesterday the s.s. Gertie went on the north spit after crossing the bar with the morning’s tide. She managed to get clear with the tide in the evening, without suffering and damage.

A Palmerston paper has the tallowing :—At a meeting of the Te Horo branch of the Farmers’ Union, a discussion arose in regard to the appointment of a farmers’ representative in the Legislative Council, and Mr Nodine, who was the most prominent speaker in the discussion, said that Messrs J. R. Stansell and H. J. Richards, chairman and secretary of the sub-branch, were amongst those who were mentioned for the position, but he considered that neither of the above-mentioned gentlemen had the “ ghost of a show,” because the Premier would not have anything to do with the Union. Pie stated that there were 400 applicants for the position, and that he had the name of the successful candidate in his breast coatpocket.

Mr W. L; Johnstone, the well known Hawke’s Bay flaxmiller, has just completed the erection of a splendid mill, some four miles from Takapau. The flax secured is a splendid sample of leaf, and will add to Mr Johnstone’s already good name for turnjng out il fine ” quality fibre. The brick and concrete work *has been faithfully carried out by Mr R. H. Newth, of Palmerston North. The mill is to start stripping to-day. The Council decided last night not to take any active steps in regard to the testimonial to the Premier, beyond placing the lists received for signature from the Wellington Committee in the shops for those who desire to sign or subscribe an amount, A notice to this effect appears to-day. The plan which has been asked for as the result of the late visit of Sir Joseph Ward to Foxton was laid on the Council table last night. The plan in question relates to an exchange of roads whereby the Borough agree to make a road to the wharf from the Main-street at the north side of the Post Office for which the Department will be recompensed by taking the road at present used) and which will be dosed*

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