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Manawatu Herald, 9 June 1903, Page 2

' Seventy chains of draining are to let. Apply to Mr J. Cameron. Mrs M. H, Walker wants a general servant. President Loubot will arrive in London on 6th July, and will remain three days. Mr Best, a Birmingham brassfounder, has bequeathed a hundred thousand pounds to local charities. Trespassers are warned against going on the Motoa Estate with dog or gun, and on Mr F. S. Easton’s adjoining property, otherwise they will be prosecuted. The London and North-Western Railway Company now runs its Scotch expresses from London to Carlisle, a distance of 299 miles, without stopping. An exciting incident occurred in Wellesley- street West Auckland, on Friday night after the fusing of an insulator on the bracket arm of a pole supporting electric tramway gear. There was a loud report, followed by a dazzling flare, and a shower of molten lead. No one was injured. Sitting in banco the Chief Justice granted a rule nisi tor a writ of certiorari to be directed to the chairman and committee of the Wanganui Licensing Committee to remove into the Supreme Court the question of issuing packet licenses on the Wanganui river to steamers. Another large shipment of bindertwine manufactured in New Zealand was shipped by the mail steamer Sierra for San Francisco on her last trip from Auckland says the “ Herald.” The first shipment was sent away by the mail steamer Ventura on May 8, and consisted of about thirty tons, and the shipment by the Sierra will be about 200 tons. Space has also been engaged for another large shipment of twine by the Sonoma', leaving Auckland on June 29. This is the first article manufactured in New Zealand which has been forwarded to the United States, and there is every probability of the trade in binder-twine being largely extended in the near future.

Mr W. Moore, teller of the Bank of Australasia at Feilding, has been transferred to Victoria,, and Mr A. G. F. Lawson, of Palmerston North, has been appointed to the vacancy. Two schoolboys were taken into custody about 13.30 o’clock on Saturday afternoon in 5 Wellington. These two boys, Theodore Lechner, 16 years of age, and John Chapman, 13 years of age, admitted having committed twelve of the recent burglaries, including that in which jewellery valued at £7B 18s was stolen from the house of Mr J. D. Ritchie.