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Manawatu Herald, 2 June 1903, Page 2

The next English and European mail, via San Francisco, will close at the. Meal office on Thursday, ißtb June, at 8.30 a.in. v Tenders are called by the Borough Council for falling and removing certain trees.in Victoria Park. Tenders to be in by Bth June. Plague has broken out at Iquique, Chili. The outbreak has been traced to a cargo of Indian rice. The Governor has issued a proclamation calling Parliament together for the despatch of business on Monday, 29th June. Mr H. Christian has taken over the agency for the Dayton bicycles from Mr Watt.

Two artillery officers, named Grigorieff aq.d Molostoff, have been arrested in St. Petersburg on suspicion of being connected with a widespread conspiracy to assassinate officials. Grigorieft admits that he intended to kill M. Pobiedonosteff, late Procurator of the Holy Synod, but refrained because he was old and feeble.

The Hon. C. J. Johnston, speaking at the A.M.P. Society’s meeting in Sydney, said that the’ inhabitants of this colony were insured for twentyfour millions !

In the Admiralty Division Mr B, Aspinwi'l. K.C.. mentioned that the Judge assisted by tua Trinity Masters had, so far as salvage was concerned, to deal with during the past term with no less a sum than £2,300,000 !

During Lo-d Milner’s absence on a holiday Sir Arthur Lawley will act as High Commissioner of South Africa. Mont Pelee is again active. The authorities urge- the evacuation of the whole of the northern districts of the island.

Sir Robert Giften, in a letter published in The Times, says that while not believing in the possibility of bind-, ing the Empire to a system of mutual trade preferences, he feels that the whole force of the Empire must be used, if necessary, to vindicate Canada’s right to concede preference to the Motherland without foreign reprisals. He refers to Germany’s action in regard to Canada as impertinence. At the busiest part of the afternoon a gentleman was seen in the Strand, attired in the latest West End style, but wearing sandals instead of boots. He was mobbed. The comments passed the boundaries of scarcasm, and a howling mass of people brought about an anti-man-in-sandals demonstration.

Captain Walker, of the 4th New Zealand Contingent, referred to in the Dispatch, is the son of a Taranaki farmer, and is 26 years old. He left school at the age of 13, after passing the sth Standard, and returned to his home working on his father’s farm for three years. Sir Thomas Lipton’s yacht Shamrock 111 has sailed from Dumbarton for Sandy Hook to compete against the American yacht Reliance for the America Cup. A flotilla escorted the challenger down the Firth.

A new gown caused quite a disturbance at fashionable Longchamps, in Paris. It was so strikingly beautiful in its design that mobs of women, and even of men, followed its blushing wearer, so that not one detail might be missed. Wherever the lady in the ermine and sealskin went a crowd of eager gazers went, until she had to take refuge in fight, so large had grown the dimensions of the crowd.

• The necessity for improvement in the tallying done by the Railway Department at Lyttelton was brought before Sir Joseph Ward by several local produce merchants, who quoted cases where farmers and shippers lost considerably owing to bad tallying in December last. One firm lost ten sacks of wheat valued at £lO, although (heir own weights and those of the Department showed that the proper quantity was placed on the truck. Several similar cases were cited. The employment of casual labour in tallying was' stated to be the cause of the unsatis factory state of effims. Sir Joseph thought the facts showed the existence of carelessness, and said he would inquire into the matter. Apart from the fact that the new City Licensing Committee consists of “ Reform ” members —except for the official Chairman, Dr, M'Arthur, S.M. —the first meeting ot the committee, fixed for next Monday week, will he of particular interest, says last Saturday’s Post, inasmuch as the committee will be called upon to consider petitions bearing some 1600 signatures requesting that no renewals of licenses shall be granted to eight hotels.” These hotels have been adversely reported on by the police owing to their lack of accommodation. In several cases the petitioners allege- as one of their grounds that the hotels are “ tied.”