Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, MAY 3. 1902.

Manawatu Herald, 3 May 1902, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, MAY 3. 1902.

Odd conjunction of names. For the position of Mayor of Melrose there were two candidates, a Mr Tarr and a Mr Farr, and the election proved that Mr Farr was indeed so far from the head of the poll as to let Mr Tarr bs returned.

Mr Guy was badly defeated in the election for Mayor of Palmerston, Mr W. T. Wood having been re-elected by 307 of a majority. Inspector Peter Pender has received from the Justices of the Peace, the public, and the Wellington District Law Societv a total sum of £314 is. A substantial tribute to the Inspector’s worth.

We forgot to mention in our last issue that Mr J. W. Liddell has the building of the house for Mr Skellen. Mr Mayo speaking at tho opening of the Horowhenua Horticultural hhow said, speaking as an experienced judge ho had never seen a- better exhibition of flowers, especially in the decorations and bouquets; indeed the exhibits were all excellent, Compared with this exhibition, the Palmerston show was a dismal failure.

The Times, of Natal, on the occasion of the stand of the Seventh New Zealanders against De Wet, says, editorially“ The magnificent bravery of the New Zealanders , during the recent Harrismith drive has won universal praise. It behoves South Africa never to forget what New Zew Zealand has done during this war. Contingent after contingent has been sent across the ocean, and in a hundred fights these men have proved their courage and their patriotism. In taking up arms Natalians and Cape Colonists have been doing what any citizen is bound to do—fight for his hearth and his home. The quarrel, although nominally with the Imperial Government, has essentially been a quarrel between the South African British and the Boer. But New Zealand has sent the flower of her manhood to another country, to fight for a cause which is only_ indirectly her own, and she has sacrificed many of her most promising sons for the sake of South African unity. Their blood has not been shed in vain, and the memory of the dead will serve as a common bond of union—in our case of undying gratitude.” A powerful German squadron, commanded by Prince Henry of Prussia, will manoeuvre throughout May off the Irish Coast.

The French elections were singularly quiet, even in Paris, where the Nationalists gained many successes. The provincial results indicate a Ministerial victory, though many second ballots will be necessary.

Captain Walsh informs us that the ammunition has been forwarded from Wellington, and may be expected by train either to-day or Monday. As advertised G. H. Stiles has displayed his goods to excellent advantage, and one cannot but b« struck with the variety and up-to-date appearance of his stock. Lape goods are shown in great variety, while children’s coats and jackets make a good show. The Dress Department has evidently a big demand upon it, as the various coloured costumes and blacks go to prove. We were, informed that special attention has been given to providing good and cheap materials for children’s wear, both in colored and dark, at prices which are certainly town prices. • Ladies’ and children’s macintoshes are also in abundance. We are asked to mention that millinery can be done on the premises at short notice by an experienced hand. In gentleman’s wear the same completeness ia shown in every department.

To-day a young man named Cole was arrested for the theft of poultry. A search warrant was applied for, and as many as ten couple, already cleaned and plucked, was found at his hom;-. We understand that another interested party admitted the fowls were not honestly come bye. By the courtesy of the Registrar we are enabled to give the vital statistics ,for the quarter, ending 31st March last, for Foxton-Births, 10; deaths, 3; marriages, 6. There has been much mysterious shaking of heads lately amongst fat persons —who know all about Boaz and Tubal-Cain, and who each month walk around the grave of Hiram Abiff with their lingers to their noses—oyer a recent N.S.W. country-town incident. A newly arrived civil servant, who dosen’t belong to the craft, had put up at the leading hotel, the headquarters of the local Masonic lodge. The barnacle’s bedroom was next to the lodge-room, and for many years had been used on lodge-nights by the mystic brotherhood as a sort of ante-room to the lodge—a department where preliminary mysteries were conducted, where quaking novices were put through their paces, where, maybe the Gulielmus Capricornicus of the lodge found temporary stable accommodation, and where—this at any rate is a certaintly-the members were in the habit of depositing their hats and overcoats. On lodge night the civil servant after a nightcap at the bar, proceeded t© his bedroom, near the door of which to his great mystification, he found a functionary standing, sword in hand. The C.S. pushed past this potentate—the tyler of the lodge—and proceeded to open his bedroom door. The tyler, in terrible accents, said: “You cannot enter there I ” and made a menacing movement. Whereupon the C.S., an athletic personage, dosed with the guard, and, having thrown him downstairs, entered his room, to find it filled with 50 or 60 different varieties of hats, &c. These he promptly pitched out of the window, together with some of the lodge-paraphernalia, and so completely vindicated his position as sole tenant of the room that if the lodge billy-goat wasn’t found in the public pound next day it wasn’t his fault. The Masons are horrified at the outrage, and a complaint having been made to the head of the civil servant’s department, he has been called upon for a report. A decision of the courts of Indiana has added a new terror to matrimonial engagements in that State. It is ruled that the death of one of the parties constitutes a breach of promise, entitling the survivor to receive compensatory damages to such an amount as may be equitable in the circumstances. In the case now decided (states a Home paper) a young woman sued the estate of her deceased fiance, a young man of substance, and recovered 6.000 dollars—her claim was 7,000 dollars—for the breach of contract. It is not unusual, even in this country, to read renorts of fashionable marriages from which one might infer that the presence of a bridegroom on such an occasion was a “ separable accident,” but the most advanced New Woman among us has not quite gone the bngth of avowing that his very existence is subordinate to the material benefits anticipated from the alliance. The strong demand that exists throughout the colony for fowl feed wheat has proved quite a boom to those whose wheat was seriously damaged by the wet weather. The Oamaru Mail has heard of several large sales of this within the last few days, and knows of one grower who has sold over 2000 sacks at from 3s to 3s 3d per bushel, while one or two others have disposed of smaller lines. The whole of the fowl wheat has, it believes, been purchased for shipment north, principally to Auckland and Napier Whether the present demand and price will be maintained is very questionable. It is, indeed highly probable that when threshing becomes general and fowl feed , is in plentiful supply, there will be a considerable drop in values. It must not however, he assumed that all the damaged wheat will be put 011 the market as fowl feed, for some wheat growers having made arrangements for turning damaged crop to account in fattening pigs. In one case the farmer went to Christchurch and purchased over xoo pigs, by means of which he hopes to recover some part of the loss occasioned by the weather., Under the altered scale of fares and rates on the Government railways, New Zealand-grown fruit or vegetables will be carried any distance at sixpence for every 561 b or portion thereof. Game and fresh fish will be carried at sixpence for the first seven pounds, a shilling for fourteen pounds, and eighteenpence for twenty-eight pounds. During the hearing of the truancy cases at the Palmerston Police Court the Truant Inspector drew the attention of the Bench to the fact that Mr C. C. Kettle, S.M., at Wanganui, had ruled that a fine must be inflicted in all cases where the offence was proved, and that under last session’s Act he could not convict and discharge the offenders. The Bench, however, considered the Act allowed the discharge of first offenders and accordingly disposed of several oases in that, manner*

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