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Manawatu Herald, 1 November 1902, Page 2

The next English and European via San Francisco will close at the local office on Thursday, the 20th day of November, at 8.30 a.m. At a meeting of the Wanganui Presbytery a grant of £2O for Foxton was recommended iroai the Church Extension Fund.

Mr C. Spring, elsewhere, notifies that he has been appointed agent for Tobias Miller’s patent preparations, and sets out the various lines.

The Wellington Land Board has decided not to interfere with the settlers floating sleepers down the Rangitikei river.

A recommendation by Mr Bakewell at the Wellington Education Board that half an acre of ground at Kingston road, near Shannon, should be purchased for £25 for a schoolhouse, was agreed to.

The Commissioner of Crown Lands at Auckland reports that some very fine claret has been produced in (he young vineyards of Hokianga. Britain, Germany, Francemnd Japan have agreed to refer to The Hague Tribunal the construction of a treaty relating to perpetual leases under which foreigners may hold property in Japan. A number of Van Zyle’s recalcitrant, commando have surrendered, and will stand trial. The rest are expected to yield shortly. The Bank of New Zealand has just issued a new £i note, the plate of which is the same as that of the old green note, which some people will remember as being in circulation about fifteen years ago. Sir Edmund Barton, Premier of the Commonwealth, intends to ask Mr Chamberlain to extend his South African trip to Australia. He is not, sanguine, however, that the right lion, gentleman will be able to accept the invitation.

Considerable damage was done by the frost at Nelson on Sunday morning when a number of orchardists and tomato growers had fruit or plants nipped. The Colonist states that one grower lost 5000 forward tomato plants. Though Mont Pelee is now calm, au immense opening in the south-west slope has grown to formidable dimensions, and White river is choked near its source.

The Porte, has explained that the occupation by Turkey of territory inhabited by Arabs enjoying British protection was caused by a suspenion of the Aden frontier delimitation. It promises that the Turks will withdraw.

Lord Milner has informed the Lord Mayor of London that it is unnecessary to appeal for assistance for the loyalists, who are receiving a larger proportion of their claims than the burghers get.

The expedition in Somaliland against the Mullah has been increased to five thousand strong, Italian Government has granted Great Britain permission to pursue the Mullah in the territory under her sphere in East Africa.

In Germany water pipes are being made of glass, with asphalt covering to prevent fracture. It is claimed that they give thorough protection against the moisture in the ground, against the action of acids and alkalies, and that they cannot be penetrated by gases.

“The Pickpockets’ Journal” is issued monthly in Paris. Contributions are written by the members of the light-fingered traternity, and it contains useful suggestions for pocket plunderers. The place of issue is kept a secret, but it comes out regularly, and sells for about as 6d a copy.

At a meeting af the School Committee held last evening it was resolved that the re-opcning of the State School be postponed till Tuesday, the day after the King’s Birthday and the local Athletic Sports. In this we think the Committee have acted wisely and in the interests of all concerned. All , danger of inspection and the further | spread of the measles pest should be I altogether removed by that date, and . a good attendance of the children : thereby guaranteed. The actual date \ of the re-opening of the school will be ; duly advertised for the information of i parents. >

Mr Edmund Osborne advertises that he has just returned from Wellington where he has purchased the very latest goods and invites an inspection of f them at his new premises, Manchester House. No one will be pressed to purchase but all are urged to In replying to the toast of his health j at the banquet at the Empire hotel on Thursday night, the Premier said, j “ There was still a great deal to be done in New Zealand which ought to produce food so as to render the Mother Country less indebted to other nations for her supplies; and he maintained that New Zealand wanted increased population.” The sale of part of Miramar was a great success on Thursday. One hundred and thirty two sections were sold, comprising about, 60 acres for close on £20,000*

Detectives in London have discovered a press weighing 25 tons which has been used in the printing of forged Bank of England notes, also engraved copper and steel plates and many tools used in the work.

Cateni, a dangerous Anarchist, who recently arrived in Italy from Buenos Ayres, has been arrested at Leghorn, where lie exploded a dynamite bomb on the threshold of the Bishop’s palace, causing tho death of a child. At flie Sydney stock sales on Thursday no New Zealand sheep Were offered. Prices for prime were well maintained but others were easier, Thirty-eight bullocks trom New Zealand were sold at from £2O to £23.

Sir Horace Rurabold, late Ambassador to the Emperor of Austria, in an article in the “ National Review,” pays a tribute to the Emperor, who, he declares, was Britain’s sterling friend throughout the Boer war. He contrasts the Emperor’s attitude with that of the Germans, who, he declares, are still Great Britain’s most unrelenting and dangerous foes. The steamer Ventnor bad a crew of 31 and nine Chinese body-attendants. The latter were old or decrepit Chinamen, who were sent home by the Chong Shing Tong Society, and given a sum of money sufficient to keep them from work the remainder of their lives. Of the coffins 489 were shipped by the Chong Shing Tong Society, which is a branch of a big society in China called the Tai Chuen,

The following are the returns to hand says the Advocate, of the voting of the electors of Manawatu (within Marton and district) on the re-introduction into the State School of Bible teaching : Yes, 844; no, 61; declined to vote, 63; absentees, iG. There are three returns yet to come in. At the annual meeting of the Wellington Rowing Association it was resolved that in the opinion of this meeting it is desirable that an annual regatta be instituted at Lake Horowhenua under the management ot the Wellington Rowing Association, of which the Horowhenna Boating Club will be a member, and that the executive be requested to write to the Horowhenua Ciub with that object.” At a country fete a conjuror was performing the old trick of producing eggs from a pocket handkerchief, when he said to a youngster who was looking on. “I say, my boy, your mother can’t get eggs without hens, can she P ” “ Oh, yes, she can,” smartly replied the boy. “ Why, how does she do it ? ” asked the conjuror, “ She keeps ducks,” replied the astute youth, to the bewilderment of his interrogator.

Mr John Davies, the chairman of the Horowhenua County does not appear to be in good odour at the southern end of the County. At a public meeting the other night Mr Nodine, a candidate for the position of Councillor said, “Then the County Solicitor told them they must charge the costs-to the whole county, but the Council had deliberately charged them to Te Horo Riding! Cr Davies had had the effrontery to say, “ How will they know if we charge the costs to To Horo ? ” He had personally examined the Council’s books, and had seen the expenses charged toTe Horo’s account. “ And again referring to the sale of some plant by the Swainson and Bevan Company to the County, of which Mr Davies is a partner, Mr Nodine said. “ The County Chairman had stated that he was not aware that this plant was under offer to the Council until the offer was received in County offices, but he (Mr Nodine) would not have been surprised had Mr Davies stated he did not know there was such an engine in existence.

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