The Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, SEPT, 25,1902.

Manawatu Herald, 25 September 1902, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, SEPT, 25,1902.

The health of Lord Salisbury continues to improve. Further entries are advertised for Messrs Abraham and Williams’ stock sale at Levin to-morrow.

MrSpeirs, the well-known flaxmill builder, is away putting up a mill near Linton.

The dates of the visits of Mr Ellis, Mr Bridge’s representative, are announced elsewhere.

We have to thank the Secretary, Mr Lane; for a complimentary ticket for the M. A. and P. Association. Orders have been sent from America for 50,000 tons of Welsh anthracite coal.

We have just received No. 2 of Vol. 3 of “ The Australian Hen,” a paper published in Sydney which tells how to make poultry pay in Australia.

One of the latest additions to the Colonial Museum is a good specimen of a white tui received from Taranaki.

The King and Queen will lunch at the Guildhall on 25th October, and will attend a thanksgiving service at St Paul’s Cathedral on the 26th.

A blizzard on Saturday night, at Waipawa, caused great mortality among the young lambs, and ruined the prospects of an abundant fruit harvest.

Mr Oswald Gardner has definitely decided not to he a candidate at the coming election for this electorate. A Marconi wireless telegraphy station is being established at Rome, British Admiralty has effected wireless communication with submarine boats.

It is reported from Pekin that the Russian authorities have promised to transfer the Shau-hal-kwan-Niuchwang. railway to China on rolh October.

The gentle westerly zephyr that helew here on Sunday and Monday was felt in full force at Auckland down to Invercargill.

On Saturdayjevcning Kidd’s Eltham and Opunake coach encountered a blizavd at Mangatoki, four miles from Eltham and had to return, the horses refusing to face the storm. The survey of the Manapouri shows that the damage by the recent fire is not so extensive as anticipated, and is confined to the hold. Repairs will be commenced immediately. The Guardian newspaper described the new Bishop of Melbourne as a Moderate Churchman- The Archbishop of York and the Bishop ot Wakefield strongly recommended his appomtment.

At Invercargille the cold snap has been most disastrous. Lambs are dying by hundreds—possibly by thousands. One fanner, who was in town lost 300.

Herr Sverdrup’s Polar expeditionary vessel Farm has arrived at the Norwegian port ot Stavanger. The leader of the expedition states that he explored the unknown icefield- west of Greenland. The discovery of deserted Esquimaux dwellings showed that the-northermost limits of liabitable parts had recoded during recent times. ■ The old loading bank in the railway yard is most unsuitable as at present made. It has one slope up toil, which horses can negotiate when pulling a load, but when up their is no way for the horses getting down except by jumping! An alteration is desired so mat a slope or moveable platform be added.

Madame Melba, on arrival at Albury, where she had arranged to meet her father, received a shock, being informed that he vtas stricken with paralysis as the result of his estrenie age and the excitement of meeting his daughter. The attack is not severe, but as quietude is necessary he will remain at Albury. Madam Melba proceeds to Melbourne.

Large quantities of produce were taken away on Saturday evening by the Ivlonowai tor Sydney and Brisbane. From Wellington the principal items were 219 bales tow' and 397 boxes of butter; from New Plymouth, 209 boxes butterfrom Lyttelton, 3809 sacks potatoes, 269 sacks oats and barley, 72 sacks peas ; from Dunedin and the Bluff, 4595 sacks oats, 1003 sacks potatoes,. 200 boxes butter, 443 sacks barley.

The promised reductions in long-dis-tance railway fares and in some of the freight charges on merchandise have now been formulated, and come into operation on the 12th, October. After that date the ordinary single fare for distances between fifty and one turndree miles will be three-farthings per mile instead of a penny as a present, and for distances over roo miles it will be a half-penny per mile. Return tickets will be charged double the ordinary fare. A Vienna paper says that the specifications of a new kind of boat have been lodged at the Patent Office there by a Croatian engineer namod Cvetkovilch. The vessel, oiled an “ asro-hyciroftalic boat,” is to be a cross between a ship and a flying machine, and is to attain a speed; according to the inventor, which would enable it to circumnavigate the world in 48 hours. The principle seems to be that when set in motion (he boat raises itself on the surface of the sea and-slides ou a film of or air.

Some interesting particulars arc given in the “ Leisure Horn ” concerning the world’s greatest granary. The area of wheat-growing land in Canada approximates, it seems, to 900 miles in length by 300 in breadth. One hundred and nine million bushels ot grain of all kinds were grown in igor, of which 65 million bushels were wheat, with the relatively high average yield of 25 bushels per acre. Less than 2 per cent, of the 200 million acres of the arable land of the Dominion north of Lake Superior is under cultivation. If a comparatively small number of farmers are able to produce the large total of 1901, what a mighty Empire and world-feeder Western Canada will soon become!

A friend in an English village writes to the Wanganui Herald as follows “Your N«w -Zealand lamb is very good. We often have it now, as we can get it in the village at per lb, while English is xs 4<3 per lb.” The Standard says that during the past few weeks a considerable amount ot sheep-worrying has taken place at Awahuri, settlers losing from ten up to one hundred sheep by the depredations of the dogs. In one instance the dog was shot in the act and has been identified as belonging to a well-known resident in that locality. Legal proceedings to recover the value of the sheep destroyed are stated to be pending.

Some of the fishermen of Lyttelton complain that the fishing in Lyttelton Harbour, for flounders especially, is being spoiled through the dredging operations now being carried on in the basin. The “ spoil ” removed from the bottom of the inner harbour is deposited in Camp Bay, and the fishermen assert that it is carried in by the action of the tide and spread all over the “ feeding ground ” of the fish, covering it with a coating of fresh mud and destroying the food which formerly existed there- Hence the fish are driven into deep water, where they are safe from the nets of the fishers. Whatever he the cause, there is a concensus of opinion in Lyttelton that fish is becoming more scarce, and that flounders especially are seldom seen now. There arc a dozen boats and about twenty-four men engaged in fishing pursuits at the Port.

Messrs Caverhill and F. Carter invite the ratepayers of the Awahou Riding to meet them at Haywood’s hotel on Saturday evening to discuss matters connected with the Foxton Shannon bridge.

Mr James H. Robinson is having a belt of shelter trees planted on the north boundary of his run, about a chain wide and half a mile in length. Mr Richard Gray, of the Louth nursery, has the planting nearly finished,

We are informed that representations have been made by the Mayor to have the platform at the new railway station covered in, owing to its exposed situation, We expect this request will be met, as the Railway Department likes to make a thorough job of their work.

It is folly antiopated that the session will close at the end of next week says the Post. Monday night will he devoted wholly to the consideration of Bills, and Tuesday will be devoted wholly to the consideration of the Public Works Estimates, which will, it is expected, be got out of the way before the House rises.. Seeing that there is no prospect of any serious attempt being made to get through the land Bill or the Shipp'mg and Seamen Bill, or even, it is said, the State Fire Insurance Bill, there is no reason to doubt that the curtain will be rung down by Saturday, 4th October, at latest.

Those Oppositionists who were so vested because the Premier did not rush info the Australian Federation, will no'" that those who did are getting sony. For the Preminer of Queensland (Mr Philp). in an interview, implied that he was only waiting for New South Wales to lead the way against federation, and Queensland would follow. It must be remembered the people could do anything. “Let us go hack to the old order of things,” he said, “ and have a Customs Union. That is all we want, and it would allow each State to send to the. other States products they could not make or grow free of duty. The Boers paid no respect to the property of His Majesty when any came in their way. Quarter-Master Jonson sho.ved us the stock of a rifle which he picked up after a scrap with thfe enerliy on the banks of the Caledon river. The barrel had been broken off, and the butt had been, prior to the barrel being broken, hit against the rocks as the iron on the end shows plainly. A private of the 6th Contingent was killed at this skirmish, named Slrawbridge and the rifle might have been his. Anyhow the Quarter master keeps it in remembrance of him and has carved upon it “In loving memory of Albert H. Strawbridge. N.Z. VI. M.R.”

j Fred Knoller, aged 52, a German, was burned to death early on Monday J morning in a whare near the Maharabara East sawmill Deceased was last seen alive the previous evening. It is , surmised that the hut caught fire during the fierce gals, and that the unfortunate man,burned in his sleep. A mill-hand passed the whare about midr.ight, when.there was no sign ot fire, Nothing more was known Until deceased’s trunk was found on Monday morning. So far as is known he had no relatives in the colony. The basis of the arrangement between the government and the Manawatu Railways will probably be found, says the Times, to be that for ! every two Government passenger trains which are allowed to run on the company’s line, the company will he permitted to run one train on the Government line between Wellington and New Plymouth. ■ No running rights are, it is believed being conceded outside these limits-

The following judges hive accepted for the various classes at the M.inawatu A. and P Show Thoroughbreds, Mr Thomas Morran, Auckland; saddles and ponies. Mr !i. J) V.iv.i-.oar Blenheim; harness horse--, Mr J. Macara, Masterton ; Ayi shire j, -.1 r Robert Meek, Southland; Jerseys, Mr A. Quertier, Matanra; dairy stock, Messrs Qnortier and Meek; fat stock, Mr A. McKenzie, Feather Mon ; Romney Marsh, MrJ. Holme:', Waima* haka ; Leicesters, Mr Brydonc, Bails ; Shropshire Downs, Mr W. Beetham, Mastertnn ; pigs Mr E. D’Auvergne, Christchurch; poultry, Messrs C. Canning and J. D. Irernongor; coliie clogs, Mr A. Brahma, Wellington; horticultural sections? Mr F. Hunt, Marton.

; A little more speed than formerly, is ; now being introduced in building. It is a very short time ago that wo mentioned that Mr Arthur Jonson had secured the contract for the erection iof a house for Mrs Dudson. It is now I nearly finished 1 The house occupies . a square of twenty eight feet, with ten foot studs and a hipped roof. : Rusticated boarding outside and match- ■ lined and papered inside. There are , five rooms. The Kitchen and passage I are dadoed, and a Shackiock range is : in the kitchen.

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I Bock’s Liver Powder is apurely herbal ' and mild regulating medicine, safe to give ' a 'itt'e children, and reliub'e as a cure for indigestion, sick headach s, biliousness, etc., price Is. M. H. Waker and Thos. ; Westwood & Co , agents. Tins is the Season wh n death sta'ks th rough the laud in the form of pneumonia. The surest d-tence against this disease is Chambevliiin’s « ough IT-mcdy. It always cures and cures quickly. W. Hamer, chemist, sells it.