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Manawatu Herald, 7 August 1902, Page 2

Edward VI was only ten years old when he was crowned.

Charles I was crowned King of Scots at Holyrood in 1633. Owing to Saturday being Coronation Day the Manawatu Herald will not be published. Tenders are wanted for building a five-roomed house. Specifications can be seen at Mr F. Dudson’s.

Mr R. C. D. Lightbourne has been promoted to the Kakariki School, where he will have charge. At the annual meeting of the Foxton Racing Club Mr Geo. Gray was elected a life member, he having left the district.

As matters have progressed it appears but a matter of time when the Government will appoint a grader of poultry for this coast. The Borough Council men have made a start with the small triangle at the south end of Main-street.

We have to acknowledge the receipt from the Surveyor-General of the report of the Lands and Survey Department.

What next ? Some members of the returned Contingents have been applying to the United States for enlistment for the Philippines. They had much better take to milking. The estate of the late Mr W. H. Sutton has been valued at The bulk of the money has been left tor founding model dwellings iu London and the provinces. A number of colonial troops are touring Scotland. Members of the Australian contingent were entertained at Hopetoun House. At Queen’s Anne’s Coronation some thieves stole the entire plate used at the banquet, and an immense quantity of valuable table-linen.

Burglars got into the Paeroa railway station on Saturday night and tried to break open the safe. They cut a panel of the door, and removed the key from the inside, but finding the door bolted at the fop, gained an entrance by breaking the window. They burst the lock of the safe with dynamite, but failed to open it. The contents, about £§o, were found intact.

Edward V, alone of all our Kings went to his grave uncrowned. The Government have appointed Sir William Russel and Mr R. McNab to hold an inquiry into the complaints concerning the transport Britannic. In the olden days, iu some instances the heir was crowned in his father’s life time.

Henry VI was' not crowned until seven years after his father’s death, be being then only nine years of age. He was, two years later, crowned King of France at Notre Dane.

The great Nile dam at Assouan, which has taken several years to build has been completed. The inauguration of the irrigation and other works has been fixed for the autumn.

King John in addition to being crowned in Westminster Abbey, was crowned King of Ireland. The waterway from Wady Haifa through the first mile of cataracts is now open. Fourteen warboats traversed the Assouan reservoir locks.

The King has commanded Mr Longstaff, an Australian artist, to attend at Westminster Abbey on Saturday, and make sketches for Coronation pictures intended tor the Sydney Art Gallery.

Edison’s father, Samuel Edison is now 90 years old, and hopes to live many years longer. His father lived to the age of 103 years, and two of bis aunts were each 99 at the time of their death.

Edward II was the first of the long line of English sovereigns who have been crowned upon the stone in Westminister Abbey. The “ Pall Mall Gazette ” states that the Admiralty has decided to abandon the use of torpedo nets. It has been demonstrated that they could be destroyed by well-directed shell fire.

Mr Abbott, chairman of the Pastoralists' Union in, replying at a conference with the shearers said that owing to the drought not more than thirty million sheep were alive in Queensland and New South Wales, and certainly not twenty million sheep in both States fit for shearing. The sheep were not there to shear, and there was not the money in the pastoral industry that there had been in the past. Sixteen creditors were present at the adjourned meeting at Palmerston in the estate ot A. Hickford, of Halcombe. The offer made by Mr Mitchell at the previous meeting of creditors, held on July 21st, was submitted and discussed and after due consideration it was resolved that the ofter made by Mr Mitchell, as per circular to the creditors, be refused. Resolved, That the D.O-A. is hereby instructed to take steps to test the validity of the bill of sale held by Fildes, Mitchell and Co.; That those creditors present hereby agree to guarantee the costs of the above action, or auy actions that may ensue therefrom. We have been asked to mention that the receiving box on the Avenue would be better for a coat of paint and one want, which is of importance to the use of the box, is a plate setting forth the hours it is cleared at. We were shown to-day some of the work of the children attending Miss Withers school. They,, so small as they are, display much neatness and taste in the making of paper flowers, and their small services have been in great request for the coronation celebrations.

We are glad to see all our shops showing more attention to window display lately. Mr George Stiles has his window very nicely dressed, one in particular which must attract our wives and daughters, as it contains an infinite variety of laces and insertion in graceful folds and has a ground work of samples of Japanese silks in lovely shades. The panes even are shown off in design with blue watered sitk with lace edging. The other window will interest male folks having shirts, hats, and ties in great variety The incubator hatching competition at the recent show was an item of considerable interest to visitors, says the Standard. All machines entered for the competition happened to be 54>egg “ Petalumas ” 59 models, now largely in use in this district; The exhibit was continually snrrounded by curious and delighted spectators, so much so, that the frequent displacement of the delicate apparatus for regulating the machine was a serious menace to its working. In spite of all this, however, the work accomplished by the winning machine speaks volumes in favour of this now well-knmvn make. There were in all 54 eggs placed in the incubator, of these 48 proved fertile, 29 of which hatched during the exhibition, and 7 more on the closing night. The remaining eggs were then taken out of the machine and carried to the owner’s residence, three eggs hatching on the way. The remaining nine eggs have since hatched, and there are to-day 47 live chickens out of a total of 48 eggs, one chicken being accidentally killed. This, of course, speaks volumes for the efficiency of the machine, as well as the care and attention displayed by the winner of the competition. At the late Palmerston Poultry Show some very fine birds was exhibited by Mr S. H. Baker, of Foxton, which secured the first prize in the Wyandotte class as a cockrel, and a-Minorca cockrel being very highly commended. A pleasant afternoon was passed last Tuesday at All Saints’ Schoolroom, when a large number of ladies met and presented Mrs MacDermott, who is about to leave Foxton, with a handsome silver hot water jug. Mrs Whyte, on behalf of the subscribers, made the presentation, and Mrs MacDermott returned thanks. All religions were represented, thus showing the high esteem Mrs MacDermott was held in. The ladies had it all to themselves, but we hear of a proposal to take leave of Mr MacDermott in some suitable public way, very soon.

A Russian cruiser of 3000 tons, with a speed of twenty-five knots an hour, is building at St. Petersburg. The vessel is intended for scouting purposes, and for carrying despatches to the Far East. It is armed with quickfirers and torpedoes. Another will bi built next year.

New Zealand poultry has already obtained a good reputation at Home, and a very large export trade with Great Britain is anticipated. A firm of dealers in London are so pleased with the quality of the birds sent to them from this colony that they have instructed their agents in Wellington to expend £IO,OOO on their behalf in the purchase of dressed poultry. The amount will enable about xoo,ooo head to be sent Home.

On arrival of the express train at Halcbmbe on Saturday Mr Cornfoot sen., who had got in at Martoa, was found to be dead. Shortly before he had been conversing with a passenger, but complained of being very tired after a journey over the rugged roads up country. He was apparently asleep, but on making efforts to arouse him the passengers were shocked to discover he had passed away. Mr Frank Hyde, for some years private secretary to Sir Joseph Ward and who has resigned to enter upon newspapers work at Winton, was entertained at a banquet at Wellington on Saturday night. He was presented with an address and a purse of sovereigns. Sir Joseph Ward, members of Parliament, and prominent citizens and civil servants were amongst those present. A movement is on foot among the whole of the carters, gardeners, fruitgrowers, and dairymen of Christchurch and suburbs (including Sumner) to present petitions to Parliament setting forth their grievances under the system of rating on unimproved values. Britain and Russia agreed to relinquish the t appointment of military directors of‘railways in China, and have also agreed that the Chinese can build any line northward of Pekin, which no foreign Power shall control. In his report on the defence force? of the colony, submitted to Parliament on Tuesday, Major-General Babington, Commandant, says that there exists throughout the forces the necessity for a more thorough training of the lower ranks smaller units. He has been led to the conclusion, too, that the use of instructors has been somewhat mis-, applied and that they have in many cases aimed at training the men, instead of assisting in the training of officers and non-commissioned officers of corps. Officers commanding districts are too Ued down to their offices at present to carry out inspections as frequently as they should do.

As an outcome of the boring operations for coal at Brightwater a prospecting syndicate is (says the Nelson Mail) being formed with a capital of about £5500 to thoroughly exploit the Waimea Plains for coal measures with the aide of the diamond, drill. If success attends the venture, a company will be found later on. Ills proposed to put down three or four bores to a depth of. 1000 ft if necessary, the average depth likely to be bored being estimated at 500 ft. One of these bores is already sunk 290 ft. - The leading promoters of the Manawatu Poultry Association have purchased a section in Cuba-street, Palmerston, and it is their intention to organise a company on co-operative lines to build a depot to further the progress of the poultry-owners in this district.

At a special meeting of the College street (Palmerston) School Committee the recommendation of the Wanganui Education B-arid that Mr Vermn, M.A., B.Sc., of Invercargill, should be appointed Rector of the High School, vice Mr Gray, promoted to an inspectorship, was adopted. Mr is an experienced master and holds high degrees, and should be a valuable acquisition to tbe staff of the local High School.

Messrs Gosling and Graham will hold their stock sale to-morrow in temporary yards at the back of the Public Hall.

The Mauawatu Poultry Association have already been promised £SO toward the special cash prizes to be given at the next great poultry fair and show, which will be held at Palmerston North in July, 1903. Farmers and breeders are requested to note that large cash prizes will be given in the utility classes and birds for export.

Speaking about the troops on the Britannic the other night in the House, Mr John Hutcheson, the member for Wellington, gave an explanation as to why the Britannic might have been able to carry a larger number ot Imperial troops than of colonials. The first lesson taught the Imperial soldier, he said, was absolute cleanliness under all sorts of circumstances. Our young fellows, on the other hand, were living in a different atmosphere; and how many of them, he asked, knew how to have a good, wholesome wash in half a cupful water ? This could be done; he had done it/ Mr Andrew Carnegie has given £lO,000 to provide a larger building for the Free Library at Cork.

Sir William Russell has sent a donation to the fund for establishing a memorial in Gisborne to commemorate the landing of Captain Cook there, and has written to the committee as follows :—“ Cook was in every essential a great Englishman, and typical of the race—a. man who by force of character rose to a glorious position in the history of Britain, and his fame will last as long as ‘ our rough island story ’ is remembered Practically

the leader in Arctic sxploration, without much precedent to guide him, his skill was so great that his explorations were recorded with such marvellous accuracy that few mistakes have been discovered. He preserved his crew in health under conditions that now would be deemed impossible, and his courage was on a par with bis modesty and simplicity of life. New Zealand ought to do him honor, and no place is so suitable for a perpetual memorial than the place where he first landed in the country,”

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