Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1902.

Manawatu Herald, 26 April 1902, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1902.

An advertiser has lost two dogs lately, and offers a reward for the return of one or both to the Motoa Estate. A new dwelling is being erected on Russell Street for Mrs Langley. This part of the town is being pushed ahead very rapidly with buildings. During the voyage of the gth Contingent Mr Fred Coley was made a lieutenant. Another white mark for the Foxton boys. The New York correspondent of the Daily Express has calculated that more than £52,000,000 were given away in benefactions for public purposes by rich men in the United States during last year. Six bearers of documents signed by Kerok, the rebel leader, ordering the assassination of Manchu officials, have been arrested at Canton. The party of New Zealand teachers selected for service in the Boer concentration camps has been booked through Cook’s Tourist for the trip to the Cape. Miss D. Webb, of Wellington, will have charge of her fellow-teachers.

In the House of Commons the Right Hon. R. W. Hanbury, President of the Board of Agriculture, announced that the new butter regulations, fixing the standard of moisture at 16 per cent., shall be enforced on 15th May.

The Southland News states that an unusual sight has lately greeted passenger! by the north express—a gipsy encampment near Maheno. The dark skinned occupants, bare-headed and bare-footed, seem “ jolly and fat,” waving delightedly to passing (rains, showing that existence in their sod and canvas tenements, even with flood waters all around, agrees with them. One of the Chinese who were lately successful in getting the convictions against them quashed in the Supreme Court has now, says the Post, taken proceedings to recover £IOO damages from the two police officers _ who were mainly concerned in the raid in question- It is understood that this is brought as a test case to decide whether a man can be locked out of his house for a few days, whether certain articles belonging to him can be seized and detained, and whether he can legally, under the circumstances in this case, be handcuffed and marched through the streets to the lock-up. The action will take its place on the list for the next civil sittings of the Supreme Court.

It has just been discovered that Russia is building a railway leaving the Siberian line seventy miles west of Khailar to Kargan, within too miles ft. P; .. The line runs mostly through Mongolian territory,

The Wellington Harbour Board has just raised the salary of Mr W. Ferguson, secretary and engineer oi the Board from £iooo per annum to per annum, and to enter into ah agreement to retain him in his position for a period of five years. Mrs R. Leary, of Palmerston North, accompanied by her two sons, leaves by the San Francisco mail steamer, on a visit to England. The entire trans-Siberian railway, has, since the 14th inst. been reserved for the transport of troops. Thousands of Cossacks have been moved eastward. The Cabinet has just issued another circular to the effect that all Civil Servants who make applications to Ministers through Members of Parliament will be liable to instant.. dismissal. The German consignment of comforts sent to the Bloemfontein refugees was found to consist largely of filthy unwashed left-off clothing. Eight ladies who were engaged in unpacking the goods were made seriously ill. Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, addressing the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in New York, predicted that sub-marine telegraphy would continue to he useful after wireless telegraphy had proved a commercial success. The N.Z. Times says that at the Wellington races the luncheon supplied to the stewards and public in the grandstand by Messrs Langley Bros., Foxton, was equal to anything served on the course, and gave great satisfaction. The firm also had charge of the afternoon tea in the kiosk.

Captain D, Savident, of the schooner Toroa, reports having left Newcastle on March 24th. Fine weather prevailed during the run across, which occupied 13 days to the bar, and not being able to enter she went and dropped anchor at Kapiti Island, and remained there a fortnight. She brings 311 tons coals. A novel boat has been introduced as a necessity of German military equipment. The framework consists of 16 of the lances in use of the regiment, and the cover is of strong sail cloth, provided with loops, into which the lances may be adjusted. The boat can be put together by half a dozen men in five minutes, and taken apart in less than half that time. It weighs 6slbs In France telegraph-poles are pre vented from rotting by the following plan. The bottom of the pole up to and a little above the surface of the ground is encased in an earthenware pipe. The space between the pipe and the pole is filled with a mixture of sand and resin, which on soldifying becomes waterproof. Vickers, Sons, and Maxim have commenced the construction of a new warship, which is a semi-battleship and semi-cruiser, having the strength of the first and the fleetness of the second. It has not transpired what power the builders are building this ship for, but it is a new and interesting departure in warship construction, as, apart from her original construction, she will be the most powerful armoured warship ever built. Messrs Vickers have also been commissioned to prepare plans for a 700 ft. ocean liner of 30,000 tons for the Cunard Co.

The Auckland “ Star” is indignant that the Government propose to spend £SOO in Wellington on fireworks on the eve of Coronation day. The “ Star ” need not be sad Fireworks are nearly all imported so that the money spent does no good to the district, and the sight, judging by the specimen shown on the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York, is not one to regret having missed. Our old acquaintance, Mr Robson who, for so many years, has been the proprietor of first-class pictorial shows, is again in Foxton with a new moving picture entertainment on England’s battleships and blue jackets. A wholesome fear of England's great naval strength has, no doubt, kept certain Foreign Powers from interference with our Transvaal policy. Any moving pictures on England’s battleships and sailors must therefore be of great interest, Such a subject iu the hands of a thorough expert is sure to be worth seeing. The scenes are said to be very large, clear and steady, while Mr Robson's undoubted ability as -a pictorial lecturer is too well known to need comment. The show takes place at the Public Hall, Foxton, on Monday evening next (28th inst.), and the low prices and good name of the proprietor should ensure a large attendance. •

Some sentiment attaches to the fate 'of the Alaska, a oncefamous steamship, which is about to be broken up. The Alaska may be said to have been the first of the ocean greyhounds. She originally belonged to the Guion line of Liverpool, and in her best days broke the records pf all previous Atlantic liners. That was 30 years ago. When she was eclipsed as a liner, she passed under the Spanish flag. Then the Hispano-American war broke out, and the Alaska, geared and armoured as an adjunct to the Spanish Navy, carried troops, horses, and provisions to the war-stricken islands. When hostilities-suhsided, she was purchased by Messrs Vickers and Maxim. Thfey turned her into a floating lodginghouse for the vast army of men engaged in the Barrow yard, and she became a species of nautical model dwelling. But even this humble occupation was not to last long. Messrs Vickers erected a model town on Walney Island, to which place the workmen moved, and now no once can find further use for the old liner. SANDER and SONS BUG ALP YTI EK TRACT. According to reports of a great number of physicians of the hightest professional standing, there are offered Euoalpyti Ex tracts which possess no curative qualities. In protection of the world wide fame _ of Sanders and Sons preparation we publish a few abstracts from these reports, which bear fully out that no reliance caa be placed in other products Dr. W. B, Rush, Oakland Fla., writes It is sometimes difficult to obtain the genuine article (Sander and Sons). I employed different other preparations; they had no therapeutic value and no effects. In -one case

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