Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1902.

Manawatu Herald, 15 April 1902, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1902.

Wheat has gone up to 3s lod at Timaru, and the farmers are refusing to sell at that price. The annual meeting of All Saints’ parishioners takes place to-morrow night in the schoolroom. The master bakers of Dunedin have announced that on and after Monday the price of the 4.1 b loaf will be sevenpence. Messrs P. Hennessy & Co. have just received a large assortment of mouldings which are in choice designs and cheap. They have also received a further consignment of furniture. The Returning Officer advertises today that the election of a Mayor will take place on the 30th April. Nominations must be delivered on the 23rd April. To-morrow night the Awahou Football Club hold a dance at the Public Hall. Admission is by ticket, which can be obtained from the secretary or committee.

The new County of Kairanga, in the Wellington Land District, has been divided into two ridings—Taonui (to be represented by five member) and Fitzherbert (three members). The Duke of Connaught will command the whole of the troops in the streets during the Coronation cere mony, with General Sir Henry Trotter as his staff-officer. They will be responsible for the billeting of the colonials.

There is a good story told of a certain Irish policeman who could not resist the pleasure of a sly hit at a prisoner of Caledonian extraction. The Scot was up before the court on a charge of being drunk and incapable, and the Irishman deposed that he had restored him to consciousness by searching his pockets ! The late Mr Rhodes’ grave is three feet deep in the rock, encircled by huge boulders. A weird wailing was kept up by the natives while sacrificing oxen similar to the rites observed at the death of the chief Unsiligazi. The spectacle was very touching. Sekombo the induna orator of Matabele, eulogised Rhodes.

Replying to a deputation from the New Zealand Alliance and the Churches in reterence to the supply of liquor to the Natives, the Premier said better accommodation must be provided for tourists who were complaining on this head. Cabinet has agreed that it should itself provide such accommodation and would take steps to supply the deficieny. The “ Standard ” gives publicity to a rumour that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his Budget ®n Monday placed an impost duty of five pence per hundred-weight on grain, without drawbacks on exports. An impression prevails in the city that it is impossible that the Chancellor will issue Permanent Debt Stock amounting to forty millions.

As showing the existence of child slavery in the dairy industry, one of the Wanganui Education Board’s Inspectors recently inspected a school in the district, and on questioning a number of children who came late, elicited the following facts : —One of them, a girl of 12 years, milked six cows morning and evening, and walked four miles to school. A boy of the the same age milked, 13 cows morning and evening, and rode three miles to school. A child of eight milked ten cows morning and evening, and rode three miles to school.

The Westport Coal Company has arranged with the Admiralty for the supply of 44,000 tons of coal for the China Station this year.

Great men have often been guilty of acts of stupidity- Sir Isaac Newton was once severely ridiculed for building a house for his cats. He constructed it in the shape of a dogkennel, making a large door for the mother-cat, and a small one for the kittens. Hr- did not realise that one L..; a...aj;e.u for both cat and kittens until it was pointed out to him hy an acquaintance!

Dr Morrison, the Pekin correspondent of the “Times,” states that the Emperor of China has ratified the Manchuria Convention.

Charles Henry Walsh was charged yesterday with stealing a woollen sweater, value 5s 6d, the property of A. Drinkwater. He pleaded guilty and was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. Thomas, Robb, charged with drunkenness and obscene language, was remanded to-appear on Thursday next. Mr Jenks was the presiding justice. Recently, in Regent-street, says a London paper, a couple of young men sported “Coronation” waistcoats, which attracted much attention. The waistcoats were scarlet, and dotted with small crowns worked in yellow silk. It is believed that there will be a rage for sartorial adornments of this kind between now and the Coronation time. Feminine attire was similarly embellished at the time of Queen Victoria’s Coronation.

“Do you find that people retire here from the madding crowd for prayer and meditation?” asked the rural dean as he walked up to a little church in the remote countryside. He must .have been startled by the clerk’s reply. “They did try that game at first,” said the old man, “ but I pretty soon bundled ’em out, I can tell ye.”

Mr James Dick, the so-called “ Rubber King,” who died at Glasgow on March 7, bequeathed £IOO,OOO for distribution among his employees, while the bulk ot the balance of his fortune goes to charities. His cashier gets £SOOO, his cook £2OOO, and other domestics receive thousand of pounds. The clerks get from £3OO to each. When James Dick died it was announced that he had left £1,000,000 to Glasgow charities.

In view of the near approach of the shooting season the Government regulations on the subject may be of interest, Sportsmen may not use anything but a shoulder gun, which must not exceed size No. 10 at the muzzle, xolb in weight, or to be fitted with barrels exceeding 36m in length. Licenses must be obtained to sell game, but any person taking out a license to sell imported game, is not required to make any extra payment for a license to sell native game, although both licenses must be taken out if it is intended to kill and sell both kinds of game. No game can be exported without the written consent of the Colonial Secretary, nor held in possession later than seven days from the close of the season. The seasom will open on May Ist, and close on July 31st. — H.B. Herald.

We have received from Messrs C. Mitchell- and Co. their Newspaper Press Directory for 1903. Besides the extensive directory to the British, colonial, and foreign press, there are articles on subjects of interest by the Hon. W. P. Reeves, Agent-General, on “The Relations of New Zealand with the Commonwealth,” and Sir John Cockburn writes on “ Federal Fulfilment,” and there is another article on the Australian tariff. The trade returns of the various colonies are all separately dealt with, and the Gazeteer portions have been thoroughly revised. Mr Yerkes, an American* capitalist, has secured capital to the extent of fifteen millions sterling to convert the present underground railway in London into an electric railway, and also to construct four other electric lines in London. Mr Lynch, the former Boer officer who was elected last year for Galway, is still absent from the Kingdom. He has, however, secured at Kilrush decrees against his tenants for non-pay-ment of rent. The latest information as to the steamer Libertador, which has been active on the Colombian side in the trouble with Venezuela, and which lately put into Port of Spain, Trinidad, shows her to be in serious plight. Her boilers are burnt out and her machinery is deranged. She is unable to leave port without repairs, which will not be allowed unless it is acknowledged that the vessell belongs to the Colombian Government. The vessel is not permitted to load or transfer large munitions of war.

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