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Manawatu Herald, 26 July 1902, Page 2

Tenders for roofing the Library buildings with iron close on Wednesday next. The Supplementary Estimates in the British Parliament will ask for a grant of quarter of a million in aid of the sugar industry in the West Indian colonies to enable the Government to make free grants to the growers. A tugboat which left Capetown to look for the New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Waikato—which was spoken on the nth inst-, about 160 miles from Capetown, with her shaft broken, having then been drifting for a fortnight—has returned after a week's fruitless search.

Mr W. C. Brenkell, C.E., who has been employed for about fifteen years in the draining of swamps in the Auckland district, has been appointed engineer and manager by the purchasers of the Makerua swamp, and will take up his duties on Monday next.

Another man who enjoys his smoke. Mr P. S. Garvey in his report in the Wellington says,—Tobacco should not be classed as a medical comfort, and I would recommend a little to be allowed to certain class prisoners under the most exacting rules.” Every head of clover consists of contains an infinitesimal quantity of sugar. Bees will often visit a hundred different heads of clover before retiring to the hive, and in order to obtain the necessary for a load must, therefore, thrust their tongues into about 6,000 different flowers. A bee will make 20 trips a day when the clover patch is convenient to the hive, and thus will draw the sugar from 130,• 000 different flowers in the course of a single day’s work. Further light rains have fallen in the drought-stricken areas of N.S. Wales. The weather is very cold, aud there is snow on the highlands.

After the debate last week in the House of Commons, over the Colenso messages, General Duller wrote to Sir Edward Grey, who moved the amendment upon the matter, that the message sent to him from Ladysmith by Sir George White on 30th November, stating that he had supplies for seventy days and could hold out while they lasted, differed so much from other messages that he had special reasons for not replying to it. Hence he asked if Sir George would be able to hold out for a month.

Sir J. G. Ward in replying to a member said that no official intimation hae yet been received by his Excellency the Governor as to the date of the Coronation, and until that intimation had been received, no arrangement could be made.

A hurricane swept over Baltimore, Maryland, killing twelve persons and doing great damage to property. The Mississippi; river overflowed and flooded the crops in the State of Louisiana. The depth of water over the crops was sufficient to float a steamer. It is estimated that the loss will amount to six million dollars £i, aoo.ooo). The proverbial • early rising of the lark, expressed in the phrase, '• up before the lark,” is denied by an eminent ornithologist, who claims that whereas the greenfinch is up at two o’clock in the morning in summer, the blackbird at four, and the hedgerow sparrow half an hour later, the lark does not appear until after five. “ Medical Comforts " as liquor is at times described, find very little place in the prisons as Colonel Hume states the amount of alcohol used in the prisons during the past year was one bottle of brandy, three bottles of port wine, and five pints of ale.

Mr J. P. Palmer, of Sydney, ha* been appointed Town Clark of Wellington. The fortune of Mr Mackay, the millionaire, whose death was announced two days ago, i* upwards of twelve millions sterling.

A total of £909 38 6d is paid as income tax by the co-operative dairy factories in the colony. The amount* paid in each provincial district are:— Auckland, £1510s; Hawkes Bay, £27; Taranaki, £254 17s rod; Wellington, £354 4s rod; Marlborough, £lo7*; Nelson, nil; Westland, £3 3*; Canttrboryi £tvj 3> 3d i Otago, £ll6 17s

S Mr England saw the sheep, the sub- | ject of the guessing competition at the ;sal« of work, weighed this morning. •jThe sheep weighed yoflbs, and the . prize of ten shillings goes to R. Hickson, who guessed 71 lbs. The money can be obtained on application to Mr England. Messrs Gosling and Graham intend holding a quarterly sale of stock in Foxton, and Mr Graham is now in tpwn interviewing settlers about entries. He has requested us to say that those he has not had the pleasure of meeting, if they would send particulars of entries to Levin they will be duly advertised. During the first fortnight of July eighty-one Russians and 363 Chinese died of cholera at Kharbin, Manchuria.

Mr Balfour (Prime Minister), as a concession to minorities, has promised to insert a clause in the Education Bill allowing the various denominations in single school districts to give religious instruction at stated hours, whether it be a board school or a voluntary school.

Three youths had an odd hunting adventure in Timaru on Sunday night. They were going along the street, when they saw a strange animal run across a paddock, and one of them threw a stone at it and hit .it. The creature then ran up a post and sat cu the top. They saw in the bright moonlight that it was not a cat, and they thought it must be a-weasel, and therefore approached it cautiously. A single blow with a stick killed the animal, and the boys took it to the Herald office for identification. It proved to be a large, well-furred black opossum, a female, with a naked young one in its marsupial pouch. Apparently a peculiar state of affairs exists in New Plymouth in regard to tendering for supplies for the local gaol. The head gaoler in his annual report, saysl might say that the tradesmen here, or at least some of them, have evidently an understanding betvyeen themselves as to who shall tender for supplies to the prison and who shall not. For instance, the only tender received for meat was at ;}d per ration. This is at the rate of per lb. This I consider an extortionate price. I afterwards interviewed some of the other local retail butchers to try and induce some of them to tender, but they very politely declined; in fact, one of them admitted to me that he did not care to supply the prison with meat even as an ordinary customer, let alone to tender for it. The same applies to the chemists; not one of them sent in a tender, although they were all invited to do so. During the ensuing year, however, I hope to arrange for a supply of medicines trom Wellington, and before next December the local chemists may think better of it." Mr R. Duncan, the Chief Inspector qf Machinery, says“ It is gratifying to be able to compliment the builders of boilers in New Zealand on the very excellent workmanship they now turn out. The days of punched holes and rough riveting is a thing of the past for this class of work, and there is no need for any one wanting a boiler to go outside the colony for its manufacture.”

It will come as a surprise, accompanied with regret, for our readers to learn that Mr MacDermott our popular postmaster is leaving very shortly. It appears that he received a wire the other day informing him that he was promoted to a higher grade and would be removed to Waimate. This being a rise both in salary and position must be a matter which will be of much satisfaction to his many friends, Mr and Mrs MacDermott will be very much missed, as during their five years residence here they have always joined in everything that has been going on, helping very much. The Boating Club, Athletic Club and other institutions will miss his valuable help, whilst the Coronation Committee acknowledge that his persuasive powers enabled him to collect more than all the other canvassers put together. As we shall have more to say another time we thus briefly mention the proposed alterations.

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