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Manawatu Herald, 10 July 1902, Page 2

Mr Stevens wants to know why the sum of £350 |has been stopped from the pay of the Sixth South African Contingent. The stoppages are alleged to be for fines for petty offences and loss of arms, each member of the corps having 5s deducted for alleged loss of bayonets.

Yesterday morning (he liev. Mr Wilson leit by (rain to attend the Synod. Mr Alf. Fraser left on Tuesday afternoon for the same purpose.

Elsewhere Messrs Hatrick & Co. advertise the running of their river steamers, a trip on any one of which is a treat. Messrs Pascal Bros, have received the official report from the London brokers on their Show bale which took first prize at the last M. & W.C.A. & P. Association held in Palmerston. The report says, 11 We have examined this hemp and find it to be of fine quality ; good bright colour and wvll dressed, and worth to los per ton more than* good fair Wellington.’” The brokers also say they have never seen such a nice lot of New Zealand hemp. Mrs W. Cook requests the parents of intending pupils for the children’s dancing class to meet her at the Public Hall on Saturday afternoon, On the arrival of the Saturday night’s train at the station there was an exhibition of pugilism) which will be clearly inquired into at the next sitting of the Magistrate here. Last year when poisoned grain was obtained by the Council, Cr Gower pointed oat that winter was the best lime to distribute it. As winter is now on us, will this Councillor move to get certain days arranged for wholesale poisoning of the small birds ?

Generals Botha, De Wet and other Boer leaders arc writing a history of the recent wkr-

St. Thomas’s Hospital benefits to the extent of half a million from the estate of the late Mr S. Gassiot, the well known London wine merchant:

If the Refferehcturii Bit! befioities IaVV this sCßsidsii Briys the Acting-Premier, the question of (he abolition of the totalisator, is one subject that ought to lie referred to (lie people under its provisions. , \ President Roosevelt and Mr Knox -(Attorney-General) after conferring, have asked Mr Littlefield, representative for Maine in the House of Representatives—who'is a great authority on constitutional laws “-to prepare k Bill for regulating j and controlling trusts.

The NavV Vork San say’3 that Mr John Rockefeller has formed a trust consolibating Swift’s and Armour's interests, who control the leading meat packers. The School Attendance Act igot Amendment Bill introduced by Mr Willis proposes to enable the Court to dismiss an information against a parent for not sending his child to school if it is satisfied that it is inexpedient, having regard to the special circumstances of the case, to inflict a fine. At present a fine must be inflicted if the Case is proved.

Good rain has fallen over the Riverina and south-coast districts, ranging up to an inch and a half. At Kiandra there were a few slight showers. After six years’ boring, at a cost of £30,000 a large and rich coalfield has been discovered on the Earl of Dudley’s Himley' estate in Staffordshire.

A Portuguese expedition, comprising 200 whites and 3000 blacks, has been sent against the Barue tribe, 300 miles east of Salisbury, Rhodesia. The South Africa Chartered Company pays half the expenses. It is reported from Berne that on May 23rd there was an exciting race between a bicyclist and a lion on the road between Bienne and Solenre. The animal belonged to the Ehlbecd menagerie, which was (ravelling by rail from Bienne, and on the journey it escaped from the train. It happened that just at this moment the cyclist passed on the road beside the railway. He saw his danger, and pedalled away furiously, wi:h the lion bounding after him. Fortunately, he, managed to keep well ahead, and the lion, which made its way into a stable on the road, was shot dead by the manager of the menagerie. The cyclist is a man namea Spring, living near Bienne.

The Birds Nuisance Bill, of which the Minister for Lands has charge, is on the same lines as the measure brought down last session but not proceeded with. It proposes to throw on the local authority the duty of destroying injurious birds, and to provide for concerted and simultaneous action to that end on the part of local bodies. One clause above which landholders will probably have a good deal to say is as follows: —“ If any injurious bird hatches its young within a radius of ten chains of a residence or any other building, the occupier of such building is liable to a penalty not exceeding £lO unless he satisfies the Court that, he has taken all reasonable steps to prevent any such bird from hatching its young on the land occupied by him within the said radius.”

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