Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1902.

Manawatu Herald, 26 August 1902, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1902.

We are glad to notice that the overseer has had metal placed in the largest ot the holes on the Montoa road.

To-night the meeting re poultry will be held at Mr Hennessy’s store. A good attendance is requested.

Flaxmillers should note that an Order-in-Council has been in existence for over a couple of months regulating the size of the label to be used and the size of the letters placed thereon. The government have one puit finished and afloat and the second one near readying for launching which will be used for carrying an engine and a dredge for deepening the liver alongside the wharf, and also for driving some new piles. A new bouse, in a capital position on a rise, is being built in Purcell street. Another small house is in course of erection on the Moutoa road. The new firm of Gillander Bros, have been very busy since they opened their new furniture shop. The corner store, opposite the Courthouse, ia the Avenue, lately purchased by Mr Edmund Osborne for a residence is rapidly approaching completion in the very large alterations and repairs needed, and his energy has removed an eyesore to the town. We are glad to notice that the Borough Council is assisting him by putting the footpath in a decent state.

Mr Charles Beetham of Pahiataa, many years ago a resident near .the town, having been Manager of the run now known as the Oroua Downs, paid a visit on Saturday to have a look round. Over thirty years ago everybody knew everybody and Mr Beethan was very popular, and his friends were pleased to see him looking bo well. He managed to see a good many to have a yarn to. Mr Beetham was a Cornet in the Lady Bowen’s Light Horse, of which Mr Frank Robinson was Captain. This was the first mounted volunteer corps in this district)

Mr Andrew Jonson is also engage 1 building a new flax punt, of kauri, for Mrjnpp.

The Duke of Bedford has contributed £3600 to the Cancer Research Fund. The Church party in Brittany proposes to boycott lay schools. The tradesmen threaten not to supply teachers with food.

The Duke and Duchess of witnessed a Maori war dance at Alexandra Park.

All hope of finding the steamer Quirang (now sixty-two days out kora Newcastle to Dunedin) has been abandoned in Sydney. The inhabitants of Devon presented Colonel Kekewich with a sword in recognition of his heroic defence of Kimberley. A severe eruption occurred at Mont Pelee on Thursday. Dust showers total darkness for twenty minutes, and extended seawards for a distance of five miles. The amendments made in the Statutes Repeal Bill and the Bank Holidays Bill were agreed to, and the Bills were read a third time and passed on Friday. Reports from the Solomon Islands state that the Methodist Mission has been successfully started, and is much appreciated. Mr Tunbridge, Commissioner of Police, was not appointed for any specific term. It was agreed that his connection with the department should be terminable at three months’ notice on either side.

A total of 56,907 persons paid for admission to Westminster Abbey to viesv the coronation arrangementsThe receipts, which are to be devoted to charitable purposes, are nearly £SOOO. The Abbey is now closed to the public.

At the farewell Social to Mr MacJ>ermott a gentleman, lost a malacca cane, with silver top. Mr MacDermott had one given him of the same descrip tion, hut the one advertised for is not £iat one.

The Athletic Club hold a general meeting at Whyte’s hotel to-morrow evening.

The Borough Council had a meeting, in committee, last night, and concluded their labours in forming new by-laws for the district, of which due notice will be duly advertised-

Messrs Abraham and Williams hoi 3 a-stock sale at Palmerston on Thursday and at Levin on Friday. Entries already received are advertised elsewhere.

The Queensland Premier (Hon, RPhilip) declares that if the federal Government, despite Judge Dashwood’s report on the pearl shelling industry, persists in its policy, the industry will be either ruined or transferred to the Dutch.

Mr Denis Kilbride, a prominent Irish Nationalist—who represented first South Kerry and afterwards North Galway in Parliament from 1887 to 1900 —has been charged at Athlone with inciting a Westmeath Nationalist to murder a landlord.

Elsewhere is published the balancesheet of the Coronation Committee, by which it will be noticed the liberality of the public almost provided all the sums required. The annual meeting of the Foxton Lawn Tennis Club will be held on Thursday evening at 7.30 in the Public Hall. The Mayor will preside and all interested are invited to attend.

Yesterday (he town was thrown into a small slate of excilcment by the eccentricities ot a young man, from a neighbouring district, who bad drank not wisely but too well. He thought the easiest way to get to the liquor was hy riding bis horse through the various hotels. We understand that presently he will learn how much it costs to give way to such boisterous hilarity.

The tide overtook and drowned five little girls who were paddling at Filey heach, despite the frantic efforts of their mothers to rescue them. The elder girls held the younger in their arms till they were overwhelmed. Sir Wilfrid Laurier (the Canadian Premier), speaking in Paris, advocated an Anglo-French alliance as a guarantee of universal peace. It is reported that Sir Wilfrid is willing to concede French products imported into Canada a measure of preference if Canadian products admitted into Francs at a minimun tariff.

A Palmerston paper gravely stales that “ The flaxmills on the Manawatu line are working at great pressure; at present, some of them turning out five tons of fibre per stripper daily." These millers must be exceedingly clever to produce so much fibre per stripper!

A Berlin correspondent, writing on June 18, says that a bank servant named Constantine Cardaez was sent to the bank in Warsaw, with 30,000 roubles. Ou the way a gentleman met him and asked him the way to some street or other. As thanks he offered him a cigarette. The bank servant had scarcely drawn a few whiffs when ha fell down dead. The gentleman seized hold of the bag containing the money and vanished. On being examined, the cigarette proved to be poisoned. We are informed that the whole of the Oroua Downs Estate has been sold with the exception ot the homestead. Mr George Coley has a farm adjoining Mr James Robinson. Dr Graham purchased a good block near the sea. Mr Hennessy took up a good section by the sheep yards and has leased it to Mr W. Purcell. These purchases emphasise the statements made that the Motoa Estate could soon be disposed of if sub divided.

Twenty-seven thousand cases of potatoes are to be shipped from New Zealand to South Africa by the Norfolk, which arrived from Brisbane. Of these 8000 cases will be taken from Picton, 17,820 from Lyttelton and the remainder from Dunedin. The potatoes are being shipped in strong cases, each of which will be branded on two sides with the words “ New Zealand Potatoes.” Special care is being used in selection, so that nothing but the best will find its way into the new market*