Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1903.

Manawatu Herald, 30 June 1903, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1903.

Auckland sent to Samoa £39,000 worth of goods last year, The manufacture of binder twinp it to be commenced at Napier. The armies of Europe now absorb yearly three days' earnings of the entire population. A new firebell erected at Dannevirke can be heard three miles and a half from town. M- Dumont’s omnibus balloon will be ready in September for shipment to Saint Louis. The first session of the fifteenth Parliament was opened yesterday. Mr A. R. Guinness was elected Speaker of the Lower House. The New Zealand band played at a concert in the Albert Hall. The Sovereigns and the Prince and Princess of Wales were present. The committee of the proposed Otaki library building have decided to apply to Mr Andrew Cshnegie, the Scotch millionaire, for a donation towards its funds. With a view (0 solving the domestic servant problem the ladies of Gisborne district are. largely signing a petition to Government asking them to assist the immigration of young women from England. Signorina Sassoll; the harpist who accompanied Madame Melba on her Australian tour, gave a successful concert at St. James’ Halt. The critics were tomplliae ntary in their notices. Madame Melba assisted at the con* cert. New Zealand gold dredges have gone to almost every corner of the world, pad New Zealand dredgemasters are to be found in Burma, India, Siberia, East Africa, Nigeria, Ashanti, California, Russia and Brasil. Addressing a public meeting at Manaia, Mr ]• G. Wilson, President of the N.Z. Farmers' Union said;— ” I am perfectly certain no one in the world is obtaining more money per cow than the people in Taranaki are at the present time." When two Negritos (a people of the Philippine Islands) are united, the whole tribe are assembled, and the affianced pair elitub two trees growing near each other. The elders then bend the branches until the heads of the couple meet. When the beads have- thus eome into contact, the marriage is legally accomplished, and great rejoicings take place, a fantastic dance completing the ceremony. Although the general rata in Wellington Is lower than it was last year, the receipts therefrom will be ten thousand pounds sterling more. Building operations are still very brisk, and the city Engineer states that a total estimated value of the works for which building permits were issued by bis department during the year ended 31st March, last was £276,5x3, as against £*oß,l9* for the preceding year. In the 13 houses that were closed by the Dunedin Licensing Committee in different parts of the city there were 55 sitting-rooms and x6x bedrooms, and there now remain 39 hotels, in which there are.lß9 sitting-rooms and '584 bedrooms. Three of the closed hotels were built of wood, one was of brick and wood, and the others were of brick. Among the abolished houses one has a 8 bedrooms, another 25, one «4, and one nineteen, and the other nine had on the average seven rooms apiece. Some of the houses that have been licensed are very small. Two ot them have enly four bedrooms, three have five, and four have sixjescb. Three of the the largest hotels have | 0* the average je bedrooms each,

I A special train came down yesterday and took away .a large quantity, of coal; Mr Edmund Osborne has a replace advertisement in to-day’s issue. The next S.M. Court sitting will be 1 held on Thursday, July 23. The ordinary stock- sale of Messrs Abraham & Williams is advertised for Thursday next at Palmerston, j Mr O’Meara will be Government (Whip during the session of Parlia- ' ment. ’ A syndicate has been formed to conj strnot a ship canal between the Firth lof Forth and the Clyde at a cost of j ten millions, Mr Oscar Jarman who was wellknown as trading here in various boats „An the old days is now captain of the, auxilliary schooner Toroa how in port; The Hon. Mr Balfour, on behalf of the Constitutional Club,- presented Mr Chamberlain with a magnificent silver casket and an address, eulogising bis administration. The Prince of Wales and many generals visited Adrian Jones’s studio * to inspect an equestrian statue for Adelaide in memory of the Boet war victims. . In their usual space Captain - Walsh notifies members of the Foxton Rifles that owing to the destruction of the drill shed there will be no parade on Thursday. • The charges against three of the railway employees of having stolen goods from the railway goodsbed, at Christchurch, were unable to find any of the stolen property on the premises occupied by the accused. In another column a new firm of butchers, Messrs Shadbolt & Howan, theit intention of carrying on *the old aHd f iitablisßed business of Mr John Walsh from the istof July. We wish the new firm every success. We remind our readers of the entertainment to be held in the Public Hall to-morrow evening. Everybody should be there, the performance being for a good cause, and the Minstrels have practised so assiduously that they are now perfect in their parts. VVe learn that Mr Andrew Seabury, who has acted as pilot at the Mana* watu Heads for a great number of f years, has asked to be relieved of the * position, owjng to illness. During Mr Seabury’s office be has always proved a careful and capable pilot, and one the Department will be sorry to lose. A land sale is to be held shortly at 1 Mangaweka North, the Wellington Land Board having decided to offer for sale by public auction twenty-five sections at that township. Upset prices are to be fixed at the same figures as those who obtained at a similar sale in the locality in October, 1901. An expensive lot of road formation was incidentally spoken of by Mr Stevens at the meeting of the Wellington Land Board. Mr Stevens informed his fellow members that he knew three miles of road near the upper reaohai of Wanganui river where the metal used cost £3 per yard. Mr A. Reese, of the Wellington Land Board, who is just convalescent from a long illness, intends to spend a few weeks on the West Coast of this island, with a view to further rehabilitating his health. He proposes to begin bis outing at Foxton, and thereafter may go on to Wanganui, or perhaps journey by train to Hawke's Bay.—Times. A billiard match, in which considerable interest was displayed, took place in Dunedin, when Mr Henrys, the well-known handicapper, was recently there. His opponent was a gentleman who is recognised by billiard players as the best amateur player in New Zealand. Mr Henrys was con ceded 400 points in 1000, - but his opponent caught him before 900 was reached. Mr Henrys responded with a break of 70, and won an excitinggame by 23 points. The meeting of these two gentlemen, when Mr Henry ra-visils Dunedin . is. being eagerly looked forward to by enthusiasts downthere,

Sir A. J. Cadnaan arrived at Auckland the other day by the Whakatane from England, after an absence of fourteen months. His errand was the establishment of the ironsand industry for the West Coast and Parapara, which he finds well favoured by British investors. An, engineer is being sent out, on whose report the fate of the industry will depend. It Is proproposed to erect works at Parapara and New Plymouth. Sir A. J. Gadman anticipates that a thousand workmen will be employed. A competition to settle the question of how much beefsteak a man could cat at one sitting was recently held in America. Although seven of the greatest steak-eaters of the New World were present, the record was not beaten, but, nevertheless, the competitors proved themselves valiant trenchermen. The first of the competitors to fall out of the race acknowledged himself beaten after he had eaten 41b, the second, after sib, and the third during the sixth pound,.-but the last had eaten yilb before.he gave in... The record so far is iblb of steak, but the holder of this record died not long ago. It need hardly be said that be did not live to a very great age. A meeting of the committee who are arranging everything in connection with the forthcoming ball of the Volunteer Corps was held last night. It was mentioned that an additional stage would be erected at a corner of the hall for the musicians, and the proprietary of the hall had also promised a first-class piano for the evening. The musicians are to number four, nnd will consist of piano, violin, cornet and bass, and as such wellknown performers as the Cornwall Family have been engaged, nothing should be wanting in this respect. A large number of tickets have been disposed of, and there is every prospect of the third annual ball bemg a great success.