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Manawatu Herald, 22 November 1902, Page 2

Whitebait all this week has been caught in large numbers.

Our readers will remember that Mr Stevens’ committee keep their room open each evening from 7.30 for the convenience of the electors.

The “spoil” from the dredge, at work by the wharf, is being placed on the reclamation at the north end so as to widen (ho station yard. Mr Wilson claims for the grit, on sale by Messrs Ilennessy, that it goes further, it not dissolving in the fowls so quick as local grave!.

Mr S. Saveli advertises that he is now a licensed carrier, and makes small jobs a speciality. His Worship the Mayor notifies that the half holiday next week will be held on Tuesday, Polling day. To-day, Mr Watson, the Secretary of the Friendly Societies Picnic on New Years’ Day, inserts the programme of events. Next issue we shall be able to draw more particular attention to it.

The Beehive Stores are going tonight to make a special display of silver and e. p. ware, which has been specially imported. Everybody is invited to inspect without being pressed to buy. A gentleman from Tokomaru was in town on Thursday and he declared that nearly every one there was in favour of Stevens. There appears to have been a small misunderstanding about the cost of lighting the schoolhouse with Mr Vile.

From the government printer wo have received a copy of a pamphlet on Veterinary Science, which is a valuable work and even to local bodies might be interesting, as it has plans' and views of slaughterhouses. We have also received the tenth annual report of the Department of Agriculture, which is up to its usual standard of excejlance. The Wanganui Education Board decided to censure any teacher who does not comply with the circular issued by the Board asking teachers not to report as absent any children whom they know to be sick or absent with good reason.

The volcano of Stromboli, on the island of that name, off the coast of Italy, is a spectacle of rare magnificence. The eruption causes a brilliant glare in the sky, while streams of red lava flow down the mountain slopes. There is a thick rain of hot ashes, with constont detonations, and numbers of dead fish are floating on the surface of the sea.

Messrs Gillanders Bros, have just received a large consignment of fancy goods, toys, novelties, games, etc. from the continent, which will be on view at their premises to-night, and are well worth seeing. They have also a good variety of Xmas and New Year cards;

The Mamawatu Herald _ will be published early ou Tuesday in order to enable all hands to attend the polling, la the evening the results of the different booths will be notified in the windows of the office.

Before P. J. Hennessv and A. Fraser, Esqs. J.’s P. yesterday, George Thomas for drunkenness was convicted and discharged ; and for using obscene language was fined xos, costs 53, or 48 hours, Mrs Drake, Otaki, who was convicted of the manslaughter of her eight year-old daughter Dorothy, at the last criminal sessions in Wellington —in whose case sentence was deferred pending the settlement of a lawpoint raised in the course of the trial —will surrender to her recognisances on Monday next, but it is expected that, sentence will not be passed until the return of Mr Justice Edwards, who tried the case, from Blenheim, about next Tuesday week.

Here is an extraordinary story of an elephant employed irt a timber yard. A number of logs had to be moved by him, and only one remained when the bell rang for ceasing work. Of course the elephant knew the bell and what it meant, and was sauntering away, when the foreman bade him move the last log. He did not object, but all his tugging and straining, did not manage to lift it. Seeing this, the foreman called up a second elephant to help, but even the two together did no good —the log could not be stirred. It must be left, Next day, to the foreman’s astonishment, when the bell for beginning work the first elephant inarched straight up to the log, lifted it quite easily, and carried it to its proper place.

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