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Manawatu Herald, 6 May 1902, Page 2

The contract for the Wellington Town Hall has been signed. The successful tenderers are Messrs Paterson, Martin and Hunter, at £53,949 1 os.

The Acting-Premier has definitely notified the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company that the powers already conferred by the Legislature having expired by effluxion of time, the Government cannot make or entertain any further proposal for the purchase of the line until Parliament has had an opportunity of expressing its opinion in regard to the whole question.

The superintendent of one of the Wellington Sunday schools is a rigid T.T. so the yarn goes. All his favourite hymns treat of his favourite beverage. One recent Sunday, he was particularly annoyed by the evident lack of enthusiasm in his children. He gave out the hymn, “ Little Drops of Water,” “and,” he continued “ for goodness sake put a little spirit into it as 1 do.” His friends have been bothering him ever since by asking if he really meqnt it. A very knotty question was before the Justices on Saturday as to what was to become of the poultry exhibits in the case of Cole's. Like great many of Justices opinions it was left in the dark, as the proseentress having been paid, the fowls were not hers, and it seemed too great a punishment for the alert arrest ot the thief to direct the constables to consume them, in fact, it might have interfered with their activity

On Saturday afternoon Arthur Cola was charged with the theft of certain fowls, valued at 13s 6d the property of Mrs East. The Court presented an awry array there being bodies of a large number of fowls, dressed and plucked. Odd heads were lying amidst a mass of damp feathers. The accused pleaded guilty declaring he was led to it by a named Robinson. He was fined £3, costs 5s and ordered to pay the value of the fowls. Thus the expedition failed signally as a money making exploit. Electric lighting was to have been used in St Paul’s Cathedral for the first time on Easier Sunday. The next great tunnel that will be built is to be the direct route from Upper Austria to Trieste and it will pierce the Carinthian Alps, in which is the famous Gron Glockner. Though the whole length of the line is only to be 193 miles, the money voted for it is no less than 35,000,000d015. There will be twol ig tunnels, one about five and a third and the other about five miles long. As water-power is everywhere plentiful, it was at first intended to ran the trains by electricity ; but the decision was finally given in favour of steam. The maximum gradient will be one in forty, which is the highest for this class of railway.

The editor of the Standard, evidently not an old Palmerstonian writes : “We are not exaggerating in the slightest when we say there is not another portion of the colony which has made such vast strides 1 on its own,’ to use a common phrase, as the district of which Palmerston is the centre. And it must be remembered that no assistance to this end has been rendered by 'the Government, and therefore what credit attaches to our prosperous condition has been earned despite every disqualification that the Government could place on the development of our resources.”

Mr George Yates Lethbridge, father of the member for Rangitikei. died at Turakina on Sunday morning. The late Mr Lethbridge was a representative colonist of many years’ standing and was distinguished for his services during the Maori war. Mr Samuel Barry, D 8.0. A., o* Palmerston Norih has an advertisement regarding attention to one’s eyes, which are so easily affected by reading writing and studying too much. Any examination of the eyes will be made free by Mr Barry and satisfaction with glasses guaranteed. Af the great annual ski-jumping competition recently held at Holmenkollen, the longest jump achieved was g6£ft. from take-off to landing. Starting on a nearly steep slope of snow from the top of a hill, the ski-er gradually accumulates momentum until he reaches a level bank of snow about one-third of the way_ downCrouching until he reaches this plat, form, he springs oft from it into midair, and lands upon the snow-covered hill, down which ,he shoots -like an arrow till he reaches the lake. On this he pulls up by executing a clever twist called the “ swing.” Messrs Ross and Co., of the Bon Marche, Palmerston, announce the arrival of second shipments new goods for winter season of which they invite the inspection of visitors to Palmerston. All goods are bought direct from manufacturers marked in plain figures at lowest remunerative cash prices, their goods are thoroughly reliable and their values never surpossed. A Wellington paper says the citizens can scarcely attempt to establish a permanent memorial, such as the erection of a monument to the King. Quite right. Finish one job at a time. The Queen’s statute is not yet subscribed for.

Sir J. G. Ward, speaking at Master* ton, said the surplus for the year was £270,489. Mr Seddon will (says a London correspondent) be the third freeman of St. Helen’s, where he served an apprenticeship in the iron foundry of Messrs Dalglish. The two others are Alderman Sir David Gamble, C. 8., and Alderman Richard Pilkington, M.P.

The arsenals in Japan have been placed at the disposal of the British squadrons. A correspondent of the “ Sydney Morning Herald” writes that included in Mr Ssddon’s mission is a proposal to annex Macquarie Island, in the South Pacific, to New Zealand. The paper . warns the Commonwealth against permitting the loss of such an important fishing and fish-breeding ground. According to a London correspond dent, Mr J. H. P. Strang, who is resid' ing with his family at Heath Hill House, Blackheath, and his brother, intend playing polo again with the London Polo Club, as they did last season. Mr Strang has been asked,to enter a New Zealand team for the Coronation Cup, to be played under Hurlingham rules, on the loth and X2th July next, and representative New Zealand polo players who will be in London for the Coronation should lose no time in communicating with him. On Saturday it was reported to the police that a robbery had been committed at the premises of Messrs Gamman and Co-, in Main-street, on the previous night, when the sura of £xz was extracted from the sale. From the particulars available, it appears that the keys of the safe were inadvertently left on the table when the office was closed on Friday evening, and the thief evidently found them there, and on opening the safe discovered two £5 notes and two £1 notes, which he quietly appropriated to his own use.—M. Times.

The Manawatu Racing Club secured £■3,865 on (he totalisator more than last year.

Mr J. R. Macdonald sold Whitney at the Palmerston horse sale for 105 guineas to Mr E. J. Watts. Mr S. M. Baker, living at Kareru, evidently does not believe in Mr John Davies. In a letter to the Farmer he says “ I take the liberty now of calling the attention of my fellow ratepayers to the glaringly inconsistent tactics adopted by the same warden who, now he finds the Kereru ratepayers are too many for him, rushes away to Shannon and secures that seat on the Board in the absence of oppositien. For that I do not blame him, provided he swallowed his gruel complacently. But no; instead of bowing to the decision of the ratepayers who by a large majority carried a vote of confidence against him at the creamery, ha takes advantage of a weak point in the law in regard to elections, and now squanders the ratepayers’ money, trying for the Kereru seat too, instead of seeing to it being spent upon our roads, &c.” Messrs J. S. Watchorn & Co. have just opened up xoo English samples of ladies’ silk blouses in all the newest styles, also in black and white.

The Coroner has received from the Marine Department, to whom he sent the rider ot the jury at the inquest on Charles Davis, that the matter has been brought under the notice of the Railway Department, as the Foxton whart belongs to that department. Miss Withers gives notice that her school re-opens on Tuesday 30 May. We are pleased to be able to report that each term has witnessed an increase in pupils and the last term ended with 17 pupils. Notice is given that it is the intention of Mr Levett to apply for a license for the Manawatu hotel at the next annual meeting. Messrs Hankins & Loughnan are his solicitors. Elsewhere Messrs Hankins and Loughnan give notice that Mrs Haywood will apply for a license for Whyte’s hotel at the next annual meeting to be holden in June at Marton. SANDER and” SONS EUOALPYTI EX TRACT. According to reports of a great number of physicians of the Lightest professional standing, there are offered Eucalpyti Bs tracts which possess no curative qualities. In protection of the world wide fame of

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