Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1903.

Manawatu Herald, 30 July 1903, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1903.

An office for transacting general business is required by Mr F. M. Phillips, of Levin. The next dance in connection with Mrs W. Cook’s Assemblies will take place to-morrow night. Applications for the position of caretaker to the Racing Club close tomorrow (Friday), at 8 p.m. with the secretary, Mr J. R. Whyte. The Returning Officer for the Manawatu County Council notifies the election of William Holman Joseph Claris for the Awahou riding. A general meeting of the Athletic ard Sports Club is convened for Monday next at 8 p.m. at the Racing Club’s office. A good attendance is necessary, as amongst other important business the appointment of a secretary will be considered. ' A good many residents of this town have taken advantage of the cheap fares offered by the Railway Department to visit the Winter Show at Palmerston during the past few days. The train on Wednesday morning being especially well filled. A match, in which a considerable amount of interest was taken, was run on the beach one day last week for £lO a-side, between hacks owned by Messrs O. Austin and A. Hall. The conditions were owners up, and the distance six furlongs. The race resulted in rather an easy win for Mr Hall’s horse. In the plucking competition at the Palmerston Winter Show there were two entrants, W. 11. Blowers (Foxton) and S. W. Robson ( Agricultural Department). The winner proved to be S. W. Robson, who killed, plucked and dressed three birds in iSmin Msec. Great interest was taken in the competition' 9

Mr Herbert Austin is expected at Foxton to-day on his return trip from Fiji. - . ", The Sierra, which left Sydney on Tuesday for San Francisco via Auckland, took half a million in specie. The Wellington Harbour Board has instructed its engineer to proceed with (he preparation of plans for a dock at Te Aro. Thirty-three peasant girls who were sleeping in a barn at, Shallioka (St. Petersburg) lost their lives through the building taking fire. The Glasgow Weekly Herald stales that a medical authority attributes the increase of cancer to indulgence in confectionery and. sugar. Mr and Mrs Frankland and Miss Emily Symons are expected to land at Sydney to morrow, and will probably arrive here early next month. The Government has decided that in future the Gregg shorthand system, as well as Pitman’s, shall be reegnised in ail public service examinations. Sickness is prevalent in Foxton just now, and we are sorry to hear that Mr Walter Robinson is indisposed, and we trust he will make a speedy recovery. Mr S. H, Baker, of “ The Pines,” wms a successful exhibitor at the Winter Show in the poultry divisions for Plymouth Rock and Silver Wy'andotte. The R.M.S. Ventura, which left Auckland with the colonial mails on the 10th inst., arrived at San Francisco at 1 \ p.m. on Monday, her due date. By order of the Holy Synod, the Bishop of Kishineff has directed his clergy to endeavour to diminish the feeling of religious hatred against the Jews. At a sale at Canterbury last week 2501 b of beef and lamb, yolbof cheese, and 75 large loaves were cut up for luncheon and consumed in a very short time. Captain Smallbone, inventor of a steerable balloon, gave successful manoeuvres in the King’s presence at a height of 450 feet. Apparently the balloon was under complete control. It is said that the Empire Hotel, Wellington, has again changed hands, Mr Herman Lewis, of that city, having purchased the properly for £80, • 000, a big advance on the sale some months ago. The Tasmanian authorities have seized the Victorian fishing ketch Doris for alleged breaches of the fishing regulations. The vessel was seized in the Kent Group in Bass Strait, the arresting party covering the crew with their revolvers. A man named Isaac Salmon, woodturner, has handed to the Stratford police a confession Ot having burned down Hitchcock’s furniture warehouse in August, igoi. He was arrested and brought before the court and remanded. In Otago a firm demand still exists for first-class upstanding draught horses, suitable for farmers and contracts. During the past week sales took place in various centres up to £56 for geldings, and as high as £yo for young mares. A mysterious disease, similar to smallpox, is prevalent at Cambridge. There are hundreds of cases, and several deaths have occurred. General Galacre, in consequence has countermanded the order to hold a volunteer camp. The State Government agent in South Africa advises (hat South African fanners’ consider the size of cattle of considerable importance. In dairy cattle Ayrshires and Durhams of good size sell well, but Unless showy animals are sent the traffic will not pay. The s.s. Himitangi arrived at 12 30 p.m. to-day and after taking on board 300 sheep and 50 head of cattle will endeavour to leave for G -eymou.th by the same tide. The live stock is con signed from Messrs Abraham & Williams to Messrs Mark Sprott & Co., The British Parliament has ap proved, -and the Board of Trade has sanctioned the building of a monorailway between Manchester and Liverpool, which will travel at the amazing rate of no miles an hour. Future historians will doubtless note that (he craze for tremendous velocities was one of the dominant characteristics of the early years of the twentieth century. A young lady in Mangaweka had a strange experience on' Saturday morning. She was anxious to catch the first train and had risen a bit early. Sitting in a chair she began to yawn to such an extent that she dislocated her jaw. All kinds of remedies were tried by the occupants of the house to set the jaw in motion, but without effect. Mr Shaw Thompson, the local dentist, was then called in, and a tew minutes after the young lady was released from a very peculiar, if not dangerous, predicament. In Greece the death penalty Is said to be often pronounced, but the difficulty in obtaining executioners was for a long time almost insuperable. It was at last surmounted by giving to a murderer the choice between bis own death or acceptance of the office of permanent executioner. The man lives alone in an old tower built by the Venetians on an islet outside the port ot Nauplia, where necessaries are taken to him every morning by a boatman, who is careful to exchange no word with him. Twice a year a steamer calls for him and his instruments of death, and he leaves upon a tour of executions. Seven of the new American shoe machines, which do the work known as “ palling over,” have been introduced into Leicester, a great Shoe making place by the British United Shoe Machinery Company. Each of these machines displaces twelve workmen. By what is enthusiastically described as a “ beautiful combination of power-driven and perfectly balanced spring pincers,” it automatically takes all the stretch out of the upper of a boot, brings the whole into the perfect shape of the “ last.” and automatically fixes the upper lo the insole. One machine, worked by a single operative and two or three boys doing simple preparing, “ pulls over ” sixty teo pairs get day,

Herr Wolfing, formerly Archduke Leopold of Austria, was married to the actress Annette Adamoric at Veyrier, near Geneva. Herr Wolfing intends to become a natugdised Swiss. On Friday 20 condemned animals were slaughtered at -the Lougburn Freezing Works under the direction of the Stock Department, and portions of the carcases, showing nearly all the ordinary diseases of cattle were obtained, to illustrate a lecture on tuberculosis by Mr Reakes, assistant Chief Veterinarian, at Palmerston on Saturday. A claim for £3OO under th'e Workers’ Compensation for Accidents Act, 1900, has beenfiled by William McGrdssan, labourer, Upper Hutt, against John Barton, farmer, Matai Roua station, Whakatake, Masterton. The amount is sought in respect of injuries sustained by the applicant on the 30th March, while in Barton's employment at the Upper Hutt. He states he was engaged working in a gravel-pit, when through a fall of earth his right foot was smashed, causing total incapacity ever since. A -case presenting rather unusual features has come before the Wellington Benevolent Trustees. A man renewed a previous application for relief, stating that he could not work as he had to look after his aged mother. The Trustees had already offered to send the woman—who is eighty-five years of age—to tbs Ohiro Home, but it was stated that she could hot go there, as she would have to forego a much-needed cup of tea during the night, a little attention now supplied by the soil, The woman, it was stated, was not ill, except for the feebleness natural in one of her age. The Trustees decided that they could only renew the offer to send the woman to the Homei A recent visitor to Palestine tells of the pilgrimage of Twenty Russians to Bethlehem We saw them in the grotto of the sheep fold, each holding a lighted taper and responding to the chant of their old priest, who had a head which would do admirable for a picture of Abraham. These poor men were clad in fur coats and high clumsy boots, and one told us he had come from Tobolsk, and had been two years on that tramp. He assured us he could manage his return journey in no time, only ten months or so. Their devotion was profound, and was utterly without self-consciousness. The Wairarapa Daily Times remarks:—lt appears that over-exporta-tion is responsible for -a decrease of one and a half millions in the; sheep census for the colony. We heed not worry over this, for a temporary shortage of sheep means a higher price for them; and, with a higher price, settlers can easily increase their output. If it paid them to make up the deficiency they could easily do so in one year. It is better not to interfere with the natural supply of law and demand. This will adjust every difficulty—if outside interference does not hamper it. Unfortunately, it is the practice in this colony for the Government to meddle with all questions ; and it matters little to it whether it be a shortage of sheep or a shortage of population. The Premier proposes to open : meat shops at Home, which will pay, on his basis of calculation, a orofit of 6 per cent; hut, with diminished flocks, he may do (his at a loss of 20 per cent, But, of course, the loss will fail upon'(he taxpayers of the colony—and they don’t mind losses.