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Manawatu Herald, 28 May 1903, Page 2

Terrible suffering is being caused by famine in South China. Thirty thousand women and children have been sold into slavery since February. Mrs R. Austin and her two daughters take their departure from Auckland to-morrow by the mail steamer “ Sierra ” for an extended tour in America. Lord Milner, High Commissioner in South Africa, emphatically denies rumours that he is going to India, Canada or elsewhere. He states that he is merely taking a holiday, after which he will return to South Africa. According to the Amsterdam newspapers General Louis Botha has cabled from South Africa that an amnesty has been accorded all Cape rebels. He states that those who are in Holland may safely return to South Africa. A Brazilian loan of five and a half millions sterling, intended for harbour improvements at Rio de Janeiro, has been subscribed threefold. It was issued at a minimum price of 90. Sir Thomas Lipton’s yacht Shamrock 111., challenger for the America Cup, will start tor America about the middle of this week. The announcement is made that the superiority of the yacht Reliance —which was built to defend the America Cup against Sir Thomas Lipton’s challenge—over her predecessors is undoubted.

Mrs Bedford, at Bow street Police Court, pleaded guilty to a charge of falsifying a register in connection with the alleged birth of a child, and was fined £io. The body- of Miss Whalley, whose supposed abduction was cabled on utb March, has been discovered on a sandheap on the bank of the river below Moscow. The indications are that she was accidentally drowned. With reference to the discovery of infected blankets in Whitechapel, it is stated that , the military authorities at Capetown sold blankets at two pence half-penny a piece. Twenty thousand were retained in South Africa, and a hundred and twenty thousand shipped to England. Richard Jones, aged 40, a supposed widower, was found dead on the beach at Blanket Bay, Otago Harbour. He was last seen on Tuesday when he left the house where he worked as a gardener and went out for a walk. Two men, Porter and Preston were arrested at Sileby, Lancashire, for shooting Constable Willinson dead. It is believed they intended to shoot, another constable who was active against poachers. It is said that the drinking of kerosene is such a growing evil in France that measures against it are proposed. The vice has long been prevailed among the natives of the Southern Pacific. To such an extent has it been carried that the importation of kerosene for drinking is an important trade in Peru and Kaiva. Electric sticks for drovers are the latest device for getting cattle to the slaughter-house. Two insulated wires are carried along a stick, which has two brass knobs at the end. The cattle are touched willi; the ‘‘ poacher, 1 ' and receive a shock of 125 volts, which is just sufficient to give the beasts a sharp sting, and make them hurry up. There is no brutality about this method, as with the ordinary stick or boad, and the flesh is not bruised. While threshing corn some months ago at Appleton, Wisconsin, Anthony Warren lost a large pig. Nothing was seen or beard of it till a day or two . ago, when he heard grunts proceeding from within the straw stack. He immediately had the stack pulled down, and in the' middle was found the pig, still alive, though having subsisted three months without water. Daring the height of the Victorian strike a “ purse of sovereigns ” (dona up in a handkerchief), was subscribed by the passengers of the Adelaide express for the driver and firemen. The driver thanked the passengers, but declined to receive any money, either on bis own or his fireman’s behalf. “ I have done no more than my duty,” he said, “ and I don’t want money from passengers for that.” A curious case came before the Magistrate at Napier yesterday in connection wUh a young man charged with theft. It appears from the evidence that accused went into a secondhand dealer’s shop, deliberately picked up a portmanteau and walked out. Meeting a constable he told him what he had done, stating that it was tor the purpose of getting arrested in order to receive medical treatment. Accused;.was remanded. Mrs Quinn’s art union drawing of prizes took place in the Town Hall at 3 p.m. on Monday last in the presence of the Mayor (Mr Westwood), and Messrs Heunessy, R. Noonan and J. Gillespie. The following are the winning numbers Ist prize, No. 245 ; 2nd, 636; 3rd, 568; 4th, 65i; sth, 252; 6th, 205. Mrs- Qninn returns her thanks to the gentlemen who kindly supervised, and the general public who took interest in the art union. The South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society prosecuted eight persons including sl Christchurch publican, a commercial traveller, a police constable at Dunedin and several residents of Temuka, on a charge of illegal capture of trout. The parly being accused of using dynamite in the Opihi river. After hearing a little evidence the case fell through, Counsel for the Society stating they had been misled in regard to the evidence. Costs amounting to about £lO were allowed against the Society. Funny! At the last meeting of the Wirokino Road Board the following was carried'That this Board regrets and condemns the action and utterances at the Horowheaua County Council meetings, of certain Councillors towards this Board, when work in the road district speaks for itself. The Councillors in the past have been looked upon as gentlemen, but the recent utterances of the present Council go to alter our opinion. We would respectfully suggest that the Chairman of the Council use sufficient firmness to keep such Councillors under control, and that a copy of this resolution be sent to the Chairman of the Council. The name of Sir Thomas Lipton and of Shamrock 111. will shortly be on the lips of everyone. The means by which Sir Thomas has risen from the position of errand boy to the directorship of one of the world’s largest businesses—namely, hard work and ingenuity—are excellently illustrated in a story be tells in “ Household Words.” “ I used to arrive at my office in Glasgow every morning at half past eight,” says Sir Thomas, “ and throughout the day was busy at work right on to a quarter to eleven. This just gave me time to jump into a cab and catch the last train at eleven o’clock from the Glasgow Central Station for my home in the suburbs. I never allowed too much time, and on one occasion a most amusing incident occurred. The cabby’s horse went so slow that I felt sure I could never catch my train. I urged him to go faster, but the horse was tired, and he still jogged on. At length the situation became desperate, and I determined to get out of the cab and board a passing car. This I did unobserved by the cabman, who still pursued his even way to the station. Arrived there he waitod five minutes for me to get out, and then to his consternation got down from his box to discover that his cab was empty.” All Englishmen hope Sir T. Lipton will defeat the American Cup defender as thoroughly as he did the cab.