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Manawatu Herald, 23 August 1902, Page 2

For the year ending 31st March last the sum ot £195 5s 4c! was received on account of pilotage and port charges at the port of Foxton. The people are getting more sober each year—so it is said, but the consumption of spirits per head of the population shows an increase of two pence per head, of wine a farthing per head, and ale and beer remained stationary. Curious too, tea is consumed less than last year, there being a falling off of seven pence farthing per head. A meeting of the Athletic Club will be held at Mr Haywood’s Hotel on Wednesday next at 8 p.m., when important business will be transacted. Messrs Mounsey & Co. advertise a large drapery sale in the Foxton Public Hall on Friday, August 29th. The firm inform us they are selling on behalf of an Auckland firm who are relinquishing business, and every article is to be sold to the highest bidder, so that persons will be enabled to get drapery at their own prices. It is understood that after next week the House will sit on Mondays. This is'generally regarded as a sign that the end of the session is not far off, Word has been received in Wellington that owing to Mrs Seddon’s health precluding her being able to make a long overland journey the Premier has abandoned the idea of returning via America.

We have much pleasure in thanking Mr King, of the Avenue, for the sample of- brocolis left at our office. They have been, well grown, with close, white, compact heads, and have evidently received proper attention. Great Britain will be officially represented at the St. Louis Exhibition next year in the Education and Art sections.

The Maharajah of Gwalior presented £io,noo to the King, who Banded it to the King’s Hospital Fun 3. At the election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr VV. Johnston, Conservative member for South Belfast, Mr Sloan, the Protestant Association candidate, and an opponent of the Education Bill, polled 3795 votes and Mr Dunbar Buller, a Unionist, 2969. The workers generally supported Mr Sloan, and the landlords Mr Buller.

A singular illustration of the persistence with which the Japanese ad here to the family vocations is seen in an announcement in a Japanese newspaper that a celebrated dancingmaster was to hold a service in honour of the one thousandth anniversary of of the death of bis ancestor, who was the first of the family to take up the profession.

During a discussion at the Provincial Conference of the Farmers’ Union at Stratford, one delegate facetiously suggested a tax on marriageable girls, which drew from another delegate a “true story"—that be knew of a man who had in one week received offers of marriage from three widows, which, by the way, speaks well for the enterprise of the widows, if not in the way of proof that the young girls are anxious to wed.

The Courts have granted a divorce to a wife in Cleveland, Ohio, whose husband was not only a vegetarian himself, but insisted on her following the same regime. She was not aware of his dietic eccentricity until after marriage, but she soon found that she would have to eat vegetarian dishes or go without eating altogether, as he would allow no meat to be brought into the house. At last she packed her trunks and went off. The judge ruled (hat in denying his wife the food which to her was a necessity of life, he was guilty of neglect.

The rebuilding of the beautiful steeple of St. Bride’s Church, Fleetst, has almost been accomplished. Sir Christopher Wren clamped the stones together with iron bands. Time and weather have so corroded and rusted these iron clamps that they rendered the steeple unsafe. 80.55 feet of the steeple have been taken down. Each stone was carefully dislodged and numbered before being lowered to the ground. There it was redressed, and the steeple reconstructed, every stone going back to its appointed place. This time gunmetal clamps have been used. Presently the scaffolding will disappear, and the old tower will cut the sky-line with all its old beauty—after being the subject of a .restoration without vandalism or change.

Mr Gray reported to the High School Committee at Palmerston that that Edward Mousley, a pupil of the school, had been appointed pupil teacher at the Foxton School. He stated that nine High School pupils had entered the recent pupil teachers’ examination, five of whom had passed, while three were placed second, third and fifth on the list respectively. Master Mousley was the second on the list.

Tha United States _ Government is renewing the campaign against the Moros in the Philippine Islands. A wharf labourer has developed plague at Townsville. “ We are told she goes sideways to the wind, like a pig to battle."—Mr Tanner on the Cook Islands Government steamer. Fowl-tic.k has become so _ serious in Victoria that the importation of live birds from the adjoining States has been stopped. Before Messrs E. S. ThynnC and A. Fraser, J.’s P., on Thursday prohibition orders were issued against. John and Rose Ann McGill, and before A. Fraser and P. Hennessy Alfred James was fined 40s, costs ss, or 14 days for obscene language and fined 20s, costs ss, or 7 days for threatening behaviour, the sentences to be concurrent.