Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1903.

Manawatu Herald, 25 June 1903, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1903.

Mr Chamberlain admitted there has been valuable finds of diamonds in the Transvaal.

The Transvaal Government offers a reward of £25,000 for the cure of horse-sickness.

Dougai has been sentenced to death for the murder of Miss Camille Holland, at Moat Farm four years ago, and whose body was recently unearthed in a ditch on the farm.

A crowd of 4,000 people at Wilmington, Delaware, stormed the workhouse and seized and burned a negro at the stake, who is awaiting his trial for assaulting and murdering a clergyman’s daughter.

The recent floods in the Bulls river have seriously injured at least one of the groins of the Bulls bridge, and the Minister of Lands has been asked to authorise the necessary expenditure to strengthen the protective works.

It is reported that Mr Spreckles will ask the Government for an increased subsidy for the fortnightly ’Frisco mail service, which with the new 8000-ton steamers, has increased the trade, justifying the Company in taking this step. The street beggars in Barcelona have entered into a solemn covenant to withdraw from circulation all the two-centime pieces which they receive from the charitable public, so as to compel their benefactors to give them the coin next in value—viz., five centimes. At the Palmerston S.M. Court on Tuesday before Mr Greenfield, judgment was given in the Fpxton case of A. Jonson (Mr Innes) vFj. W. Walsh, captain of the Foxton Rifles, for whom Mr Hankins appeared. The claim was for £SO 16s, value of work aud material in connection with the erection of a target at Foxton. The S.M, decided, inter alia, that as the defendant allowed the plaintiff to leave the work unfinished and agreed to pay him for the work then done, well knowing what had been .done, the defendant could not refuse payment and the plaintiff was entitled to recover a reasonable amount for labour and material. Judgment was given for £3B and costs £4 xos.

L. B. Webster, the champion sprinter, has been unlucky enough to meet with a nasty accident. He was cutting wood, when the axe slipped, and cut his right foot severely from the big toe to above the Instep. Luckily the bone was uninjured, but the doctors had to put ten stijtches into the flesh wound, and three into a tendon which was severed. It is the doctor’s opinion that “ Pat ” will completely recover, and that the accident will not interfere with his running. It is to be sincerely hoped that this will prove correct, as with the Australasian championship meeting coming on next season we cannot afford to lose the services of both Webster and Simpson. 1

An extensive opal field has been discovered near Walgett, 476 miles north-north-west o£ Sydney. Among the specimens brought to town are two valued at £IOO and £SO respectively. A Nelson telegram says that a shocking fatality occurred on the railway at Spring Grove on Monday night. Mr James Thomas Smith, a Wai-iti settler, well known as a cricketer and a Druid, left the city by the 4.30 train. He got off at Spring Grove to talk to bis betrothed, and was too long on the station, The train moved oft, and he attempted to jump aboard, and fell under the platform. Some carriages and the brake van went over him, mutilating both his legs. The young lady fainted with horror. Smith was taken on the train and carried to Wai-lti, where two doctors amputated both legs, but the sufferer died from shock. The deceased was well known and highly respected. It is reported that the curtailment of ladies’ skirts goes on apace in smart society in Melbourne and Sydney* but the movement will not extend to the back blocks where large feet obtain. — Sunday News. It is related that Joseph Chamberlain was disputing with John Motley about the course Cromwell would have pursued in Imperial affairs “ Well," said Morley, finally, "when I get to Heaven I’ll ask Cromwell." ** But supposing he isn’t there?" queried Joseph, with a smile. “In that case," said Morley, " you can ask him." Mr McKinnon Bain, manager of the New Zealand Band in England, write* that he has been having wonderful success. The baud played by command before the Prince and Princess of Wales, and will play by command before the King and Queen about the middle of June. The tour is proving a financial success.

Plants growing near the sea have thicker leaves than those growing inland. Apparently the sea salt is the cause of this phenomenon, as plants cultivated in artificially salted soil yield thicker leaves. We pay our Chief Justice £I7OO a year, as against £3500 in Victoria, Mew South Wales, and Queensland, and £3OO in Smith Australia, while our puisne judges receive £ISOO, as against £3OOO in the leading Australian States. Paper gloves and stockings are being manufactured in Europe. As to the manner in which the former are made little is known, but the stockings have been carefully examined by experts, and they are loud in their praise of them. It is claimed that they will last almost as long as ordinary stockings. The reason, they point .out, is because the paper ot which they are made was during the process of manufacture transformed into a substance closely resembling wool, and was then woven and otherwise treated as ordinary wool.

By advertisement the Foxton Vaudeville Minstrels announce that an entertainment will be given by them in aid of the funds of two local churches on Wednesday, Ist July, at the Foxton Public Hall.' The minstrels have been rehearsing for some time past, and their entertainment should be very enjoyable. Prices of admission will be 3s, is and children at half price.

The meanest man in Taranaki has just been found at a place not farfrom Kaponga. Recently this individual got a youngster to look after his horse for a few hours, and on returning gave him a sixpenny hit. In putting his change back he espied a threepenny piece. He immediately made a grab for the sixpence that he had just placed in the youngster’s hand, and, securing it, substituted the smaller coin !

Of the many thousands who partaktof Easter eggs, it is probable that few knew the origin of the custom. Like >0 many of our habits, it has its roots deep in the far past. All the components necessary for sustaining life are found in the egg. And the early Christians may have used it as emblematic of the new life that broke from the sepulchre on that first Easter morning. For many generations before the birth of Christ the Hebrews placed upon their tables for the paschal feast held at our Easter time two pieces of unleavened bread, two pieces of lamb, a few fishes, some bread, and a hard-boiled egg. At Exeter during the last week in March Charles Mortimer was charged on remand with having caused the death of his wife by starving her. At the previous hearings it was suggested that the woman died of chronic myelitis, and the body was exhumed and the spinal cord sent to Dr Luff, of London, for examination. Counsel for the prosecution said that Dr Luff’s report in no way affected the judgment of the local medical men that death was due to starvation. The body was a mere skeleton, and the post mortem showed that every organ of the body was sound except so far as affected by the absence of food.