Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1903.

Manawatu Herald, 23 July 1903, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1903.

We have received a copy of the first issue of the “ Farmers’ Advocate,” a weekly journal printed and published at Marton. The paper will be devoted to agricultural and pastoral interests, the first number containing much valuable information for farmers, dairymen, &c. The Advocate has been adopted as the official weekly gazette oi the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. Late advices from Tacoma give the value of the year’s work at the gold mines of Klondike at £5,000,000. What will be claimed as the greatest woollen mill in the world, having zio,000 spindles, is to be erected in North Carolina by a German syndicate.

It is announced that Mr Edison and his associates have, joined forces with the' MarconT interests. Mr Edison himself has been elected a member of the board of directors of the American Marconi Corporation.

Recently a body of spirited citizens of Chicago formed a league against the abuses of mothers-in-law.” After a few meetings had been held a strong body of elderly laides raided the club, and the panic-stricken leaguers fied in all directions.

During the last few days small shoals of whitebait have been seen to pass up the river, consequently nets are being prepared to secure some of these delicate little fish for the table. The past high prices paid for whitebait will most likely be maintained this coming season, and we may expect some keen competition between fishermen, both amateurs and professionals. At the Dannevirke Police Court William Thomas was charged with obstructing the police in a street row on Saturday evening last, and was fined £lO, or in default six weeks’ imprisonment in the Napier gaol. The accused paid the fine. A proposal to establish a cadet battalion for the Palmerston, Foxtou, and Feilding schools, with Mr Vernon in command, Mr McLean adjutant, and Mr Liggins quartermaster, has been agreed to by the Wanganui Education Board. A firm of wine and spirit merchants at Ashburton reports having sold over £6oo worth of whisky for “ domestic use ’’ during the last fortnight. This is a district in which all the hotels have been closed. While John Getteg was employed in ’the dockyard at Vallego, a piece ot steel embedded itself in his face. In hospital an electro-magnet capable of lifting 5001 b was placed over his face, and the offending piece of metal immediately flew out of the Wound, “ The American Mothers Birth Insurance Company ” has been incorporated in Massachusetts. It contracts to pay any member a disability benefit upon the birth of a living child. The incorporators include many distinguished women. An anecdote about the Kaiser is reported from M atz. When he was (old at the railway station that 3000 girls in the costume of the country awaited his ' arrival he asked the official who notified this fact if he must kiss them all. To the burgomaster he said, “ See that they all become worthy mothers of soldiers,” An Australian gentleman who died recently was insured for £20,000 in each of two American offices, and £IO,OOO with the A.M.P. Society. The policies were taken out in 1886, in Melbourne, and it is understood that each was on the fixed payment system, covering a certain number of years, The bonuses on this £so*ooo worth of insurances probably would amount to another £id,ooO. or £60,000 payable in all, This, if not the largest, is not improbably the second largest amount of insurance on one life effected in Australasia. The fishermen of Q.C. Sound have been obtaining some heavy hauls of fish during the last few weeks, but the record was, we believe, obtained by the Messrs Reran© on Wednesday, when they secured, amongst other flsh, some 150 hapuka (groper) of all sizes. Electric energy from wind has been sacoessfully obtained in England and Germany, but it is in the latter country that it has been actually put into use. M. G. Couz, of Hamburg, used a windmill with a regulator, which would keep its speed constant no matter what the speed of the wind was, and succeeded so well that there is a strong probability that it will be used in small villages in Germany and supply light and power at a small cost. A wealthy Englishman recently staying at Khartoum lost his pocketbook, which contained notes to the value of £ISOO. A young clerk found it, and restored the pocket-book to him intact. The owner counted the notes carefully, and said “ They are correct,” put the book in his pocket and walked away. About a couple of years ago a man at Hamilton was spending the evening in an hotel. He left his bicycle on the verandah, and when he came out it was missing. A day or two ago he found the bicycle on his verandah, and, what still more astonished and puzzled him, it had apparently never been used. While trying to remove an Aryshire bull from one paddock to another on his farm, near Southbridge (Canterbury), Mr James Hunter was savagely attacked by the animal. He was knocked down, tossed, and trampled upon. He ultimately managed to get away safely, and Dr .Withers, who was seat for, attended with all possible despatch to the sufferer. The bull, which was a prize one, was afterwards shot. Mr Hunter had an extremely narrow escape, as he was twice tossed. A special cable on June 7 to the New York Herald from London said : “ It was stated that several American men and women who like England and have influence on both sides of the Atlantic are exerting themselves to bring about a visit from King Edward to the United States. The King, so the story of these people runs, is a most popular sovereign with Americans, and a visit from him woflld, they argue, tighten the already close relations between England and the United States.

Whilst possum shooting at Broughton, a village in the Kiama district, New South Wales, a man named Robert Strong received the charge from a shot gun in the thigh. As he was carrying the gun with the hammer set, the trigger caught in some obstruction and discharged. The sufferer was expected to' recover. To judge from reports which come to hand from time.to time from Home there'are nearly as many '■ explosions” connected with electricity as with gas. One of these explosions recently moved in a Manchester cellar blocks of stone weighing six hundredweight for a distance of three yards. The British Government has grati-' fied Russia by bringing about the abandonment of the Bagdad railway scheme (remarks the New York Tribune). The plain intimation that England intended to control the Persian Gulf and not allow the establishment of a hostile base on her flank line of communication with India and Australia docs not excite resentment either of St. Petersburg or’Paris, as long as the German railway syndicate is kept out of Mesoptamia,

Summonses have been granted at Guildhall on behalf of Mr Jones against four solicitors, two stockbrokers, and three' others on charges 'of conspiracy to defraud in connection with the Mokau estate. The sum ©f £500,000 is involved. A young minister, in a highly elaborate sermon which he preached, said several times, “The commentators do not agree with me here.” Next morning a poor woman came to see him with something in her apron. She said her husband heard his sermon, and thought it a very fine one, and, as he said the common taters did not agree with him, he bad sent some of the very best kidneys. Mr G. Hutchison has informed an English correspondent that Johannesburg has a climate as good as the best in New Zealand. That is saying much. As to enteric, he says that it will soon be stamped out by sanitation, artd Johannesburg is now going in for that first necessity, and spending large sums on Water and drainage. The epidemic of enteric radiated from Bloemfontein, where 100,000 men had to live on surface water after the Boers captured the waterworks. That disaster and the capture of the convoy for the relief of Kimberley he looks up as the two direct causes of most of the enteric that afterwards prevailed all over the field of war. Thus the Free Lance on the Farmers’ Union Conference Captain Russell’s fellow-delegate from Hawke’s Bay was Mf M, iTansey, an Irishman of much vigour of speech and extremely radical views. He caused something of a fluttering in the peaceful dove-cot of the conference one afternoon by referring to his fellow-dele-gates as a party of “ hide-bound conservatives.” He Was called upon to define the tetm or withdraw the epithet, and ha preferred to withdraw, remarking that if they didn’t, know what he meant not even Webster could teach them, Mr. Tansey spoke so favourably of the Government at times that he was, accused more than once'of holding a brief for Mr Saddon, . and there was much speculation as to when the “ budding Minister of Lands ’* was going to receive his portfolio.