Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1903.
Mr Fred. Pirani is going to take his departure from Palmerston. The State School broke up on Friday for two week’s holidays. At the Public Hall on Saturday evening the Steele-Payne company performed to a good house. China has yielded to the protests ot America and Japan for the transfer oi negotiations from Shanghai to Pekin. To-night Mr Vile, M.H.R., will give his lecture on the South Sea Islands at the Foxton Public Hall. Admission will be free; Another shipment of about a hundred and twenty tons of binder twine was sent from Auckland by the Sonoma, which left on Friday for San Francisco. Owing to a quorum not being present, the meeting of the Borough Co'uncil was not held last night. Those who attended were Crs Symons, Coley, Austin, Walsh and the Mayor. After Mr Vile’s lecture this evening the Mayor and Borough Councillors will wait on him as a deputation and point out several matters that are necessary for the benefit of the town. The two boys Theodore Ernest Lechner; aged x 6, and John Chapman, aged 13, pleaded guilty on Friday before the Magistrate in Wellington to a number of robberies and were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. The N.Z. Times informs its readers that the people of Foxton are moving to have the river illuminated. This statement might be misunderstood to mean that we wished to “ cut a shine," whereas all that we need is to have a couple of leading lights at the entrance of the river, about which there should be no difficulty. The Patea Licensing Committee has granted a new license for Whangamomona, forty miles inland from Stratford. The grant was opposed by the temperance party and the police, and much evidence was called, the case occupied the whole day. The new license replaces the Whenuakura license, which Was dropped. Owing to the great increase in traction engine traffic in the district and the consequent cutting up of. the county roads by extraordinary traffic the Kairanga County Council has imposed an annual license fee of £zs on each engine not used solely for agricultural purposes.
China has again refused the demand of Japan to open Mukden and Tatungkau to foreign trade. Dr Morrison, Peking correspondent ot The Times, asserts that this is evidence of Russia’s' grip on China. Even Chang-Chitung and Yuan shi-kai oppose the opening of new treaty ports in Manchuria,. A shocking totality occurred at Collingwood (Nelson) on Saturday evening. Two brothers named McGrane were larking together, when the elder, aged ig, picked up and pointed a pea rille at the younger, believing it to be unloaded. The weapon went off and the lad was shot in the face, death resulting. The elder brother has been arrested on a charge of manslaughter. Dr. Mason, chief health officer, writing to Mr H. G. Ell, M.H.R., says that at the Consumptives’ Home at Cambridge (Waikato) the portion devoted to male patients is at present full. Two female patients have recently been admitted, and provision is to be made for further accommodation for, female patients. Already, Dr. Mason states, two male patients have left the home cured. The Standard says:—With that curiosity about private affairs which proclaims the cad, the lessee of our local contemporary wants to know why Mr Fred Pirani is leaving Palmerston to settle in Petone. There are two reasons—one that he is not competent to run a paper in opposition to such a heavenborn genius as Mr Pierce Freeth, and the other, well, it relates to family matters and Mr Freeth, if he has the pluck, had better call and get his answer personally* A lad named Thomas Douglas met his death in a peculiar manner at Stroud, Victoria. He was on an oil launch, and being cold he wrapped himself up in a sail and lay down near the escape valve. He inhaled the fumes of the engine) which was worked by benzine, and two hours later was discovered dead.
Birmingham has an intere9ting~record. The only three men who have been elected three times to the mayoralty of Birmingham married three sisters ! Has it ever happened before, one wonders, that three sisters have each been lady mayoress of the same city ? One of the three was the wife of Mr Chamberlain during his mayoralty ; another was the wife of Sir Thomas Martineau, who was knighted by Queen Victoria on her visit to Birmingham during his term of office; and the third is the wife of. Mr Beale, who was also three times elected chief magistrate of the Midland capital.
The Manawatu A. and P. Association has received no fewer than 23 entries from factories in the butter competition in connection with its forthcoming Winter Show. With one exception all the entries are from North Island factories. Owing to the large number of exhibits being received in all departments, the executive committee has been obliged to make large additions to its existing accommodation in the large agricultural hall on the Show grounds, and there_ are indications that greater space still will be required. A feature of the exhibition will be a number of dairying plants from different makers propelled by steam and shown in full running order.
The tender of A. and G. Price, at £28,000, has been accepted for the construction of ten locomotives for the New Zealand railways. The engines will be similar in design to the American locomotives now working on the main lines and will weigh, in working order, 42 tons 10 «wt. They will be the most powerful locomotives, built in any private establishment in the colony. Captain Frederico Nenes, formerly an officer in the Brazilian Navy, will early next month undertake a voyage from Rio de Janiero to New York on a raft having no cabin, and with only a slanting roof of palm leaves for shelter. The raft is called the Brazil, and is forty feet long and ten feet wide. It will be manned by five Indians from the Amazon river, and the Voyage is expected to last three or four months. Should the raft reach its destination, it will form part of the Brazilian exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition.
At the Wanganui Magistrate Court the other day a farmer was fined £$ and costs £5 4s for tailing to clear his land of blackberry as stipulated in the Noxious Weeds Act and failing to comply with the order of the inspector. The fine was subsequently reduced to is, Magistrate Kettle remarking that the country would be better pleased if defendant spent £5 in clearing his land. Four inspectors under the Noxious Weeds Act are engaged on this coast, and during the past season hundreds of acres have been cleared.
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