Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1903.

Manawatu Herald, 21 July 1903, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1903.

Mr Saveli has some rhubarb roots for sale cheap. - Mr R. Perreau advertises io acres of land for lease. A good general servant is required by Mrs A. Reeve. Messrs Abraham and Williams hold a stock sale at Shannon on Friday next. A pigeon post will shortly be established between Waikaremoana and the Wairoa post office. From nine cows a well-known Ngaire settler received for milk last year no less than £l2O. • The Western Australian Government intend placing a veterinary surgeon in charge of the Stock Department. The quantity of coal exported from Greymouth last week was : Blackball, 802 tons; Brunner, 1321 tons. judgment has been reserved by the Appeal Court in the Newtown Licensing case. Mr F. H. Stockwell, representing the London Dental . Institute, will visit Foxton every Tuesday and may be consulted at Mr E. Healey’s. The annual return of the world’s fleet shows that Britain is still ahead with 418 warships afloat and 108 building; but France, with 354 afloat and 131 on the stocks, is only eleven behind. I Lord Milner’s investigation at Capetown has revealed the fact that 200,000 blankets were sold to a bookmaker and a canteen-keeper at each, and subsequently sold at 2s 6d each.

The Daily Mail states Marconi reports have discovered an instrument for transmitting messages along the surface of the sea, thus disposing of high towers. In connection with the alleged cases of negro slavery at Montgomery, Alabama, the Grand Jury’s final report states the evidence shows the atrocities exceed those of Siberia.

A copper mine discovered in Peru, and said to be the largest and the richest in the world, has been secured by Mr Haggin, of Anaconda fame, and four other millionaires.

The number of informal votes cast at the general election was 5033. Of the four principal cities Christchurch heads the list with 443, Auckland comes next with 4xß, Wellington registered 338, and Dunedin 108. Thirty thousand people witnessed the opening match between the New Zealand and New South Wales football teams at Sydney on Saturday. From start to finish the local men were outclassed at every point, the New Zealanders winning by 12 points to nil.

Mr Cottle, dentist of Palmerston, having been asked by a number of the Foxton* residents to pay periodical visits to this town has consented and will be here on the 29th inst. as per advertisement. We understand that Mr Cottle personally intends visiting every other Wednesday. Constable John Johnston, Court Orderly at the Wellington Magistrate’s Court, shot himself at 8.30 on Friday morning. He fired two shots in the region of his heart. He is said to have been depressed of late, and was a severe sufferer from indigestion Johnston was a well known footballer in Auckland and Wellington a few years ago, and was generally popular. Some years back he was specially promoted for courage displayed in arresting a sailor who had shot a mate, and who was still armed with a revolver.

An interesting little animal, a Japanese antelope, is living in luxury and laziness on 'board the S.s. Cooeyan* na (now on the \Vay to South Africa), the pet of Captain Strom, from whose quarters it cannot by any persuasion be shifted. The qpialiest of the deer tribe, it is no larger than the ordinarysized cat, and has forelegs little thicker than black lead pencils. In its native haunts this antelope, which is hornless, is a slim and graceful creature. Captain Strom’s pet, through a sedentary life and the fattening pro cess to which it was subjected. by its owner in order to preserve its health in cold latitudes, is of aldermani* corpulence. In the Perth Supreme Court recently a police constable named Green claimed £lOlO damages for injuries received by falling into an unfenced hole, 20ft deep, on the property of the defendants, Messrs Cole and James. The plaintiff slated that while on night duty he went down the lanesuspecting' that someone was hiding. The lane was fenced, except one spot, Where he stepped into a hole. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for i>s' The Address-in-Reply debate lasted for eleven sitting days. It was one of the longest on record, and no less than 72 members took part in it. Those who did not speak were Mr Speaker, Mr Wilford (who is absent from the colony), Mr Hone Heke (who has not yet come to Wellington), and Messrs Fisher, Hall, Hardy, Rhodes, and Sir W. Steward. Information was received by Sergeant Stagpoole of the sudden death of an elderly man naqMri Charles Fleming, aged between 30 and 6o years, at Mr Seifert’s flaxmill, on Saturday night. Decease-! had complained of feeling ill during the day and went to bed. In the evening he was found dead in bed in a sitting posture. An inquest was held at the mill on Monday morning before Capt. Mowlem, coroner, who with Constable DeNorville and Dr Graham, left town at nine o’clock.—Standard. At a sitting of the Justices’ Court this morning Joseph, alias Herbert Nicholls was charged with breaking and entering the shop of William Loveday on or about 18th May, and stealing therefrom goods to the value of £l4. Accused was on this charge committed for trial at the Supreme Court at Palmerston on 4th October. The charge of stealing from W.. Bullard goods valued at 183 fid resulted in the accused being convicted and fined £2, or in default one month’s imprisonment in Wanganui Gaol. For the charge of theft from E. E. Smith of goods valued at 30s, the accused received another month, the sentence to be cumulative. Messrs Fraser and Westwood were the Justices.