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Manawatu Herald, 16 September 1902, Page 2

A boy is wanted by Mr E. Ball for the hairdressing business. The Stipendiary Magistrate holds a court at Foxton on Thursday.

Submarine boats at Cherbourg exhibited extraordinary skill in outmanoeuvring battleships. The Agent-General has informed the Department of Agriculture that there is a g jod demand in England for raspberry pulp. At a meeting of shareholders of the Wanganui River Settlers’ Company it was decided to go into voluntary liquidation. Mr John Notmaa was appointed liquidator. Tenders are required for making 33 chains of new draining on Motoa Estate. Particulars may be obtained from Mr Wm. Reid, near Moutoa School, and tenders will close at the homestead on aan d inst, at 6p m. We notice in Mr Hennessy’s window a handsome duchess dressing table with bevelled glass, Mr Haywood’s prize for the FlaxmiHers’ Race at the forthcoming sports. Tenders are wanted for. erecting a dwelling house at Hiraitangi, labour only. Tenders close at noon on 26th inst., and plans, etc., may be seen at Mr P. Heunessy’s office until 22nd inst.

Six thousand pounds’ worth of seats have been booked in Melbourne for the Melba concerts. It was intended to place a few seats at five shillings, but the rush was so great that the price never got below half a guinea.

A lot of timber is lying in the station yard for the new railway station, and the blocks are in the ground and plates laid. We understand the station will be roomy and decent looking, the plan being very similar to the station proposed for the Longburn junction.

Midnight outrages have been perpetrated on the estate of De Freyne, in Connaught. A number of Moonlighters burnt a hayrick and completely wrecked the conservatory of a mansion which had been purchased by the Congested Districts Board, Mr T. Easton has only just finished Mr Coley’s residence and now he will make an immediate start on a new dwelling on the Avenue to the order of Mr Andrew Seabury. The site chosen is that adjoining one of Mr Seabury’s houses at present occupied by F Diidson.

-The pilot has asked us to mention that we must have misunderstood the information given us on the date when three coal boats crossed the bar lately, when we reported twelve feet of water upon it, as the correct depth was nine feet. We gladly give the pilot’s statement publicity but our informant was very positive about the correctness of his information. Anyhow we must leave the matter thus, as like many others we have not been to sea, and are therefore not used to nautical yarns.

Mr L. W, Wilson advertises a limited number of sittings of eggs for sale at ys 6d. The eggs are from a pen of prize Plymouth Rocks, which have just been landed.;

Additions are made to Messrs Abra' ham and Williams' stock sale on Thursday next at Palmerston.

A public meeting is convened at Shannon on Friday evening to consider the question of the diversion of the flood waters of the Manawatu River. Trout are reported to be plentiful in the Manawatu River, says the Mauawatn Times. The season opens on the rst of next month. Last week Messrs Larcomb and Hart liberated 10,000 rainbow trout fry in the head quarters of the Kahulerawa stream.

Lord Kitchener doubtless regards the sth June as his lucky day. It was on June 5, 1899, that the sum of £30,000 was voted to him as the “ Victor of Omdurtnan.” June 5 this year-just three years afterwards to the hour—a further sum of £50,000 was voted to him for ending the Boer war. On June 5, 1900, the British flag was raised at Pretoria, Lord Roberts being at the time Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, with Lord -Kitchener as the chief of his staff.

The steamer Wakatipu when fifty miles south of Cape Everard, experienced a fall of chocolate-coloured mud. The vessel was covered from stem to stern with the matter.

It was decided at the last meeting of the Manawatu County Council to offer Mi Pigott the option of working the Shannon ferry another year on the same conditions as at present, in view of the probability of the erection of a bridge at the ferry site. An Army Order has been issued abolishing roll calls, except reveille parades on Sunday and church parades and replacing regimental garrison guards by police. The Order also permits soldiers to smoke in the streets whenever they are off duty, minimises kit inspection, and allows the men a definite period df leisure daily. Coal fatigues are transferred to defaulters.

At (be meeting of Wanganui Hospital Board on Wednesday the Secretary read a letter from Mangaweka, stating that it was intended to establish a cottage hospital at that place, and asking for particulars ra management etc. The secretary stated that the chairman bad directed him to reply, pointing out that the Inspector-General ot Hospitals, in bis report for year ending 31st March, 1901, stated the daily average cost per head of patients treated at the Otaki Cottage Hospital was £1 as 4d, and commenting on this the Inspector-General says: "The cost per head ought to open,the eyes of districts which will have small hospitals.'* The secretary stated that he had added that the daily average cost per head of patients treated at Wanganui Hospital for the same period was 4s gld. Some years ago a small hospital was established at Bulls, but owing to lack of support it was closed. ‘ —The action of the chairman' was endorsed,

South African tactics were largely adopted during the German army manoeuvres, and every advantage was taken of the nature of the ground English critics, however, consider that the firing lines were too crowded Wireless telegraphy was largely and successfully used .during the manoeuvres.

A tremendous hailstorm has ruined the hop and fruit crops in Mid-Kent. Two hoppers were killed by lightning' Mr Henry Coley in purchasing his recently acquired property on the Avenue, secured the makings of very pretty grounds, the land having been planted years ago by Mr Richard Gray as a nursery garden. The grounds were pretty when Mr Rhodes had the place, but they received not sufficient attention, and the place ran to waste since Mr Rhodes left and Mr Coley purchased it. A vejy great change has since been made, as Mr Coley has wisely secured Mr Gray’s services and had the trees trimmed, the garden put in order, the fruit trees attended to, new raspberry beds planted, so that the property is one anybody would be proud of. Instructions have been given for the main rolls in all electorates throughout the colony to be completed within, three weeks. They will then be printed. The Manawatu County Council have appointed Crs Wilson, Carter and Robinson as their representatives to attend the Commission set up to determine the liability of the various local bodies in reference to the proposed traffic bridge at Shannon. Mr John Stevens, M.H- R., paid Foxton a visit on Saturday night, arriving from Shannon by the coach where he had, in'the afternoon, unveiled a monument to fallen troopers. He spent Sunday in the town and left yesterday afternoon for Levin where he was a guest at a dinner given by the townspeople to Messrs Pronse and Nation.

The building at the corner of Park street and the Avenue which has been in the carpenter’s hand so Jong, has been sufficiently advanced to let Mr E. Osborne and family take up their abode in it last oveek. Whan finished we purpose giving a description of the large alterations and improvements made there. We are glad to notice that the footpath has been attended to in front of the building.

Mr Henry Coley’s new residence on the Avenue is almost completed and is a valuable addition to the town. Mr Theo. Easton had the contract and has carried out his work, in his usual faithful manner.' The painting and papering was done for the contractor by Mr Jenks, which is a guarantee of good and tasteful work. The house plan covers a space 48 by 31 feet* with a stud 12 feet, and has a hipped roof, covered with the best corrugated iron. The drawing-room is a bright and cheerful room 12 by 13 feet. The dining-room is large and the walls are dadoed. The kitchen, fitted with a fine range is large, and the scullery and a small room adjoining is matchlined throughout. There are four bedrooms and an office. The house is provided with three chimneys. Outside a wash-house and dairy are provided.

British tobacconists state that the American Tobacco Trust lost a million and a half sterling in a futile attempt to capture the British market.