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Manawatu Herald, 4 October 1902, Page 2

Mr R. Gardner finished the Govern ment valuation of the Borough yester day.

The small triangle at the South end of Main street was planted by Mr R. Gray yesterday. A new clause in Army contracts insists that frozen mutton supplied must be exclusively colonial. It is probable that the general elections will take place on some day between November 13th and November 17th.

Messrs Abraham and Williams bold a stock sale at Palmerston on Thursday next, the first entries for which are advertised to-day.

Boarders can obtain comfortable and cheap accommodation by communicating with Mis Ashmore, whose advertisement appears to-day. The adjourned meeting to consider the question of Bible reading in schools will be held on Wednesday evening at the Good Templars’ Hall at eight o’ckock.

A general meeting the Foxton Sports and Athletic Club will be held at the Manawatu hotel on Monday evening at 8 o’clock. All member are requested to attend. We are sorry to record the death of the infant son of Mr and Mrs Mark Perreau. The funeral has been arranged to leave the residence early to-morrow afternoon.

The ladies have been delighted lately by the many pretty dresses imported by Mr G. H. Stiles. There is no doubt but that he has catered lor their wants with great good taste. Messrs Gillanders Bros, are showing a large number of coloured pictures in their largo window of racing events and well known places, which should readily find purchasers. Messrs Monnsey and Co. advertise a public auction of drapery at the Centre of Commerce on Thursday and Friday nest. The goods will be sold, as at the previous sale, absolutely without reserve.

The oldest love-letter in the world is in the British Museum. It is a proposal of marriage for the hand of an Egyptian Princess, and it was made 3,500 years ago. It is in the form of an inscribed brink.

The Borough Council has made arrangements to get the black sand gut from Wangaehu and when arrived a new start at asphalting the footpaths will be made.

Whitebait have been coming up the river lately and yesterday the price fell. At the beginning of (he week two shillings and sixpence a pint was given, but it fell to twenty-six shillings for a kerosine tin (4 gallons)

We understand that the Bill to empower the Assets Board to embank the Motoa Estate has been withdrawn owing to representations made to the Acting-Premier as to objections being raised to it.

At a show organised in London by the Sweet Pea Society a plant was in bloom which had been raised from a pea found in the hand of an Egyptian mummy.

It has been decided to form a Cooperative Building Society in Hawera. Over 600 shares have been applied for, and it is probable the share list will be kept open until one thousand shares have been taken up. A sensation has been caused at Jena in Germany, by the release of Lieu-, tenant Thiele, who was sentenced in January to two and a half years’ imprisonment for killing a student in a duel, the result of a drunken quarrel. The lynching of a negro at Corinth, Mississippi, who was burnt at the stake for outraging and murdering a white woman, was a horrible spectacle. Front seats were reserved for newspaper reporters and women, and the railways ran special trains. Commandant Kroitzingsr has sailed for England for a tour of a few months on pleasure. In the course of an interview, lie said he wan thoroughly reconciled to British rule, and he predicted a speedy and quiet settlement of South African affairs.

The French troops destroyed seventeen towns and plantations in, the Ngounie district, in the French Congo, as a punishment of the natives for disregarding an order to sell all their produce to the concessionaires holding land. Sixteen natives were killed The remainder withdrew into the bush.

The Awakino correspondent of the Waitara Mail writesßumours are current here of a gold discovery of considerable importance having been made on this coast. It is said a largesized reef has been located, its lay apparently being diagonally from the interior to the coast. The new woman has been found in Eketahuna, says (he express. According to her own story, which we have not had the opportunity of veritying, a moose, appeared in her presence, and she did not scream, hut chased it around the room until the timid creature sought shelter up the leg of a nun’s nether garments and the man fainted!

Among many curious laws concerning capital punishment, none, perhaps is more curious than one which prevails in Greece. It enacts that a man being sentenced to death, shall await his execution for two years. Thus for 24 miserablejnontbs he lives with that terrible vision of doom before his eyes. Improvements at the railway station and wharf are moving ahead- The much needed planking of the wharf between the rails giving five approaches up~ to the berths is nearly finished. A new siding is being made to run the spml from Harbour street to the river side north of the wharf- A new siding in (he centre of the yard is tobe laid. The buildings are being quickly pushed on

S ! gnor Braga to, tba G 'ivernment viticulturist has returned to We! lington after spending some time poking think; in ord. rin oonneo'ion with the vineyard at Wairinyi, WaikatoDuring the pa it few weeks over no,o o vine slips have been cli adhah-d throughout the colony IV an the Wairangi station. Signor Rragato is well pleased with the possibilities of the colony f't wine producing. He is of opinion New Zealand can produce a better table wine than Australia-

A Gisborne telegram reports that a stir was caused at the Hon. Carroll's house shortly before one on Wednesday morning. A sailor, encumbered with a heavy swag, and having a wild appearance, wandered to the house. Alter strolling over the roof and swinging himself down the side of the house by the spouting he came round to the front door and stated his intention of remaining. He made a great clatter on the house top. He was arrested and remanded for inquiries. He is a Finn named Alex. Petersen, and had been drinkingAn announcement of special interest to residents in this and the surrounding district appears in our advertising columns to day. It will be seen that Messrs Macdonald, Wilson & Co , the well-known auctioneering firm of Wellington will, under instructions from Mr J. R. Stansell, submit to auction in the Town Hall, Shannon, on Thursday, 23rd October, some twentyone of the finest building sections in the town ot Shannon, containing an area of about a quarter aero each. They command a good position, having ' frontages to Nathan Terrace, Thompson Street, and Sheehan Street, and are situate close to the railway station and opposite the State School and Oddfellows’ Hall, The terms of sale are extremely easy, and lithographic plans can be had from the auctioneers.