Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1903.

Manawatu Herald, 14 July 1903, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1903.

Members of the Foxton Racing Club are reminded of the meeting tonight at their office at 8 o’clock. As it is the annual general meeting for the election of officers and for receiving the annual report and balance sheet, there should be a good attendance. Mr E. E. Smith asks the query “ Are You a Mason ?” in his replace advertisement, and in which he announces that ha still gives every satisfaction in his tailoring business. Some good land near Otaki, comprising 480 acres, are advertised for lease.

The late King Alexander and Queen Draga’s debts in Vienna amount to £16,000. The creditors rejected the new Government’s offer to pay onefifth.

The sealing steamship Terranona has been purchased by the Admiralty as a relief ship for the Discovery expedition. She sailed from Newfoundland for Dundee where she will be fitted. Professor Orth, the late Professor Virchow’s successor, in a paper read before the Berlin Medical Society, announced that experiments prove the communicability of human tuberculosis to cattle, and vice versa; The extent of the damage to man was not yet discovered.

Speaking on Wednesday night at the Wellington Baptist Church, Mr T. E. Taylor, said that he was satisfied that in six years’ time the retail sale of liquor in New Zealand would be a thing of the past. A special conference of the Inner Council of the International Bureau for the Prevention ot Tuberculosis, appointed at the Berlin Anti-Tubercu-losis Congress last year was held at Paris. A resolution was adopted declaring that spitting on the floors of public buildings, platforms, corridors, staircases, public carriages, passenger boats, or in any covered place of public resort, should be forbidden. The general prosperity of New Zealand is in a measure attested by the large number of round-the-world and intercolonial passages that are being booked by the New Zealand agencies of Thomas Cook and Son. The Wellington branch of the firm reports that the last few weeks have been amongst the briskest business periods experienced in winter since the Wellington branch was established.

Mr and Mrs George Seifert, of Palmerston North, accompanied by Miss Laurie, left Wellington on Saturday by the steamer Moeraki for Sydney, where they will embark by the Oroya. Landing at Marseilles, the party will go overland on the French railways to Calais, and then cross the Channel to London. They will return to New Zealand in Christmas week, their homeward route being to New York, across the American Continent, |and thence to Auckland.

* Four thousand live sheep will be shipped for South Africa this week by the subsidised steamer Cooeyanna. At the Addington saleyards last week the record price in the colony for fat sheep was established. The New Zealand and Australian Land Company Company sent up from its Totara estate some magnificent purebred Border Leicester and Shropshire cross wethers, and also some crossbred and halfbred wethers. The Border Leicesters were some of the finest sheep ever seen in the yards, and they sold up to 655, the Shropshire cross wethers making- 60s. / \ *

A Chinese fruiterer at Newtown has been sent to the quarantine station. It is a supposed case of leprosy.

The football match between the New Zealand team which left on Saturday night for Australia, and the Wellington Provincial team, played in the afternoon on the Athletic Park was contested in -very heavy rain. It was purely a mud scramble, and afforded no test of the merit of New Zealand’s representatives, who were defeated by 14 points to 5. Breeders of note from the large centres have indicated their intention of becoming exhibitors at the Winter Show at Palmerston, entries for which close on July 16th. The fact of the North Island championship having been granted to the local poultry association for Black Hamburgs and owl pigeons should be another inducement tor breeders to enter their very best. The championships are valued at £3 3s, and must be won twice in succession or three times at intervals. Mr D. Hyde, poultry expert, advises that a grader will attend daring the Show and give an exhibition of feeding, plucking and dressing poultry, etc., during the Winter Show; an invaluable object lesson to those engaged in poultry raising.