Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1902.

Manawatu Herald, 29 July 1902, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1902.

The New Zealand team have won the Belgian Cup and £2O a Bisley, with a score of 101 points. The Highland Light Infantry scored 97 and the London Rifle Brigade 94. A the annual meeting of the Rangitikei Racing Club, Mr Hartgill was unanimously appointed judge at a salary ot £ls. Mr Hartgill will act as judge as both meetings. There is an immense wheat crop in Canada, requiring extra harvesters. Twenty thousand are being sent from England. After a two years’ test of a motor for army use in Austria, it was found that the saving this one machine had affected over the horses used elsewhere for similar work was £540. The trial of Patrick and James Kenniff for the murder of the police constable Doyle, and Mr Dalke, manager of the Carnarvon run, has commenced. It is expected that the trial will last several days. .

In the West Indies a lemon bath | is almost a daily luxury. Three or j four limes pr lemons are sliced into the j water allowed to lie for half an hour, j in order that the juice may be ; extracted. A remarkable sense of i freshness and cleanliness is thereby | given to the skin. In some, parts of Brittany a curious ■ marriage custom prevails. On certain \ fete days the marriageable girls ap- j pear in red petticoats, with white or i yellow borders round them. The j number of borders denotes the portion ■ the, father is willing to give his daughter. ■ Each white band denotes too francs per annum; each yellow band represents i,ooo francs a year. j Four hundred and twenty-seven | Queensland Civil servants were dis- 1 missed or allowed to resign during the year ended June 30th. This represented a saving of £65,000. Everybody has noticed that in extreme old age people grow rapidly shorter, so that a person, formerly of average height “ grows down ” into a diminutive man or woman. A German contemporary points out that this decrease of height begins as early as the age of 35, At 30, we are told, the human body has reached its full height which is retained for a few-years, after which the “ growing down ” process begins. At first, and for many years, the process is so slow as to almost imperceptible, but at the age of about 60 it begins to be noticeable, and after 70, even though a veteran does not stoop at all, the fact that he is “ growing down ” becomes apparent to one and all. The license provision of the heavy traffic by-law of the Rangitikei County Council which was held invalid at Wednesday's sitting of.the Marton Magistrate’s Court was so held, says the Advocate, on two first grounds of objection raised by the defendant’s solicitor (Mr Lyon), viz That the license provision was unequal in its operation as it could under certain, circumstances cost one carter more than another, and (2) that a year’s use of roads was not conferred by the by*law for the fees (£l3 and £24) charged. The Magistrate did not decide on the other objections raised. Mr Cohen representing the Council’s Inspector (Mr Thoms) applied to have cash security fixed in view of an appeal, and his Worship fixed £io 10s. The requirement of the by-law that all licenses should expire on one fixed date caused the difficulty that has arisen though, it is believed, that the Council in appointing fixed date for expiration was prompted by the desirable object of securing a uniformity in the currency of licenses. In 18S4 the estimated quantity of milk consumed in London per head of the population was one fifth of a pint; in 1890, one-fourth of a pint ; and in 1901, two-fifths of a pint. Lane, of Sydney, won the 100 yards swimming championship at Manchester by a touch in 60 seconds, Caviil (of Sydney) being second, and Derbyshire (of England), third.

The London standard for milk is three per cent- of fat, and eight and a half per cent, solids other than milk fat.

Mr S. J. Jago, chief postmaster at Wellington, has voluntarily retired on his pension, and will leave the service early next year. His present intention is to settle in Western Australia, where some of the members of his family reside. In England, the little town of St. Helen’s (the Premier’s birth place), has led the way of supplying giod milk by opening a municipal dep it for the sale ot specially sterilised infants’ milk at a very trifling cost, and other municipalities are now proposing to adopt the same plan. The colonial opposition to Mr Brodrick’s proposals of Imperial defence is considered to be decisive.

The values of the improvements made by settlors on the Crown lands in the Wellington district during the year which ended on the 31st March amounted to £93,225 on the East Coast, and £122,141 011 the West Coast. These values are considerably higher than the limits required by the Act, which were:—East Coast. £43,429; West Coast, £59,014. There is very satisfactory proof in these figures, therefore, that the settlers are thriving. The South Australian ran short of coal owing to the protracted search for the Quirang. Amongst other things some fittings and 80 bags of oats were requisitioned to keep the fires going. In the year 1899 the value of trees imported into the colony was £1,843 > in 1900, £2,174; and in 1901, £3,067.

At the lowest estimate London’s milk bill exceeds £IB,OOO per day. New York, with only three-fifths the population of London, spends over £22,000 per day.

A remarkable disease was discovered in a cow by Veterinary Surgeon Burton, of the Department of Agriculture, on Wednesday. While Mr Hall, of Greytown, was milking one of his most valuable animals the creature suddenly fell dead. An examination by the veterinary officer disclosed the fact (hat a hydatid cyst, the size of an ordinary hen’s egg, was embedded right in the muscles of the heart. The case is unique.

Messrs Abraham & Williams hoid a sale at Palmerston on Thursday, and one at Levin on Friday.

Next Saturday a Maori company from Hawke’s Bay will give an entertainment at the Public Hall. The next English and European mail via San Francisco will close at the local office on Thursday, the 7th day of August, at 8.30 a.m. The Coronation Committee met the other day and decided to carry out the previous programme with such slight alterations as the difference in the date entails. Thus on Saturday, the Coronation day, the procession, church services, decorations and illuminations and promenade concert will be held. On the following Monday night’the children’s dance will be held at which refreshments will be provided, and on Tuesday night there will be the adults’ ball.

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