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Manawatu Herald, 15 August 1903, Page 2

Messrs Abraham & Williams' adver-. tise their Pahnerston, stock,,sale for next week, Mr H, rfecc gives notice that he lias laid poison for fowls and small birds on his land in Union-street; Mrs Austin, with her daughters, •will - Ibave San Francisco on the 20th inst. for New York, and then they will go on to England and probably visit the continent. Mr Andrew Jonson notifies that he makes a speciality in building punts and boats, also that he is prepared to furnish estimates in the building trade, &c. , Mr George Hutchisbh, 11 bx-M.H.R. for Patea, is posing in South Africa as a great democrat, atid recently addressed a gathering of 6000 people against Chinese labor. An outbreak of anthrax'is' said to have occurred in the New Plymouth district. During the past month cases have been reported in Southland and Auckland provinces, . , Captain Mounsey is to hold an examination of on the 22nd , ultimo at Palmerston North. Three are expected .from Hunterville, two from Foxton, and,. onb” from; Awahuri., Mr A. Pat has a replace advertisement in another column, referring among other goods to a new stock ot potato, vegetable,and flower seeds suitable for plantation this coming season. A profit of /300 waa the result of the laid Winter Sho¥ ‘in Palmeirstbn. The Committee were so satisfied that bonuses of £is were passed to Mr Lane, the Secretary, and £jrios fp'the caretaker. ■ * ' Mr W. Pearce, sawmiller of Oroua Bridge, has. bought a little over 2000 acres of the Motoa estate from Messrs Stevens, Easton and Austin. Part of ■the land bought adjoins Mr George Gower’s property. The price paid was £ll 2s 6d per .act^', ~v The Daily Midi -states,;; that *ap American organisation of 38,000 farmers is projecting a great union of wheat growers in America,'Russia,', the Argentine, Australia, Hungary, Roumania, Canada, and India to fix the .minimum selling price of wheat. All the Servian officers who are .studying m Austria and Russia’ are repatriating by Austria and orders with a view to those countries marking their disapprobation -at?the military situations in Servia, especially as regards the late King Alexander’s assassins. At the banquet tendered ,to Mm recently at Midhurst, Mr Harknesss Remarked : —“ The man who tries to please everybody .is, 9 fcpl.” : ? Weli,. there is‘a good de a! .In., (h%t, an;d ! we, are of opinion ' that 1 * thfe*'rnah 11 who actugj.ly succeeds.,in pleasing ail is. yet: ’to be found., , At All Saints” Church,-Palmerston, : on Wednesday afternoon, = Mr.-C. T. .Chamberlain, of Longbprn, was married to Miss Amy Carroll, third daughter of Mr J Gray, of Hitn'itahgi/ lafe ! of ' Fitzherbert. The wedding 1 party and about 50 guests repaired to Mr Youngson’s, refreshment room where. a.,w,ed-i ding,breakfast was held. ~ u „ , A labourer named Harry Thornton cut his throat at Papakura, hut failed to take his life. It appears Thornton had been despondent over private affairs. He was Taken to the Auckland /Hospital, where he succeeded in corn/mining .suicide .on .Wednesday inight ...by jumping, froip 9_ yvindmy,peath .being instantaneous, ’ ‘ "• Mr C. T, Batkin, formerly .Assistant: -Controller ..and Auditor-General, .shot • himself with a revolver on Thursday .evening at Wellington, and died shortly .after. He had retired, from ■ the Givil Service on a pension, l and was in his eighfy-first year. , ; Deceased had been, seriously ill,, and , had , suffered, for months from a painful malady. Asked the other day if'lie .had had 'the mumps, a Feilding"business man ’said, “ No, they are only ‘ kids ’ things;” However, fhe following'day' he had them, and, having been .confined to his bed for several days, is now satisfied that mumps are something more than “ kids’ ” playthings. i Thos. F. Lichtwork pleaded guilty at.Ha\VfeYa''tb "a bf ehcti the”Pbsf Office Act by having signed a statement that hejbad’s'eiit a' letter to his wife, containing £5; -'The 1 wife l'complained to the Post Office that she had never received it.,, The.,accused was sente'nce.' M»L-R. Perreau showed .-ns a.flower pot with flax plants growing five or six inches in height. Four common flax ’seeds were put ,in with a little soil collected from the backyard, result in - about four or five weeks three fine flax plants'/ The flower pot was-kept .indoors and the warmth- of the room would no doubt be the cause of (his quigk growth. Such plants, should be a good decoration for the table. . We have seen many worse exhibitions of decorations on hotel tables. Mr Perreau sold the flower pot with plants to a traveller for £l, so this should be a good inducement for others to try their hand at the cultivation of this plant for decorative purposes, more especially the juvenile folk. Who'rcan now deny that of flax from the seed is remunerative.

A project is afloat to hold.a world’s fair at the Crystal PahccVigoS^.; The total estimated of the colony on the 30th Ji^Jb. last'' was 874,267, as against 863,364 on theorist December, 1902. s The visit of the-. Duke. md.vHuches|,,, of Cornwall and York and of the Imperial and Indian troops cost the ratepayers of this colony -£92^17.. j George Mylins, for overloading the schooner La Bella, so as to submergeplimsoll mark, was fined £xo at the Dunedin Court.,the other day. •Habile diverd-were;at work' an the sunken steamertibanf r ofFMareedlesr ■ one of them, named Antisevitch, gave the signal to be pulled- up. He was immediately hauled'to the surface. He was grasping the body of a child which he had recovered’“from -the wreck, but was himself almost unconscious, rmd died.,sooa aftw-his hairnet* had been unscrewed, i - ■ tributed- to congestionftWmteraffiite 1 ■ diver having gone to too great a depth. His son was onjjoard .the. boat and witnessed his father’s death. The output of a Chipagq.,Stpcfef,ard, ; is -enormous. At -one of -these-i places ■ alone in a single day as many as 25,ooo ( cattle, . 29,000 Togs, and 27,000 sheep, or a total of over 80,000 animals, will arrive in the stockyards. The cattle, sheep, and hogs combined : , would give a *'grand total of 12,b0d 1 tons of dressed meat distributed among the, consumers of the world in one day by this single livestock market. The meat wpuld fill a refrigerator train over eighty miles long, and the animals as received would make a solid procession in single file extending over a distance of 80 miles. 1- ... 0 ‘ jp if-* The following Are the resufisjaf 4oa Taikofea school examinations; Standard VL—Cyril Howie, Mary Moffat; Standard. George, Gray, Frank Robinson, Hilda Hopping, Barbara Locke; Standard IV.—John Boyle, Violel Moffatt, Agnes Reid ; Standard lII.—-David Mathersi, Idelia Boyle, Ethel Hopping, Conn Moffatt; Standard,ll.—Nelson Gray, Leslie tyath' fogd;..Eyelyn May MatijaigSl I Deborah Taylor; Standard !•—Henry Locke, Stanley Gray, James Boyle, Edward Boyle, James Lyons, Tom Lyons, Dorothy Richmond, Evelyn Hopping, Hinemoa Gray, Jean Little, May Mudford, LuCy Locke. ;’The police rafd'ed a id Gore list vteek,’ thei"^eli i ctr6 TOM-’ prising a case of stout, a case of ale, a small keg of beer, several demijohns of other “ string tack,” half bottles of whisky wine. Some of the grog was found in the bar, and the rest-in various other The iiamessof a jrtunber’Vflf persons on the premises were taken, dome were inclined to withhold information, and were threatened with arrest before djjfulgmg it. The ngvvs .ofkthe raid qulply afbut Two T hundr Jb watch the grog carted to the police station, and followed the procession mournfully* until it was i safely ' ; posited under lock and key. Detective Mcllveney is evidently ( not letting.the grass grow under his' 'feef* iti”ife'gam ■ to this particular branch of work, as within six weeks since t-ber enforce**■ ment ofnddloense ho 'has i.made two seizures, •• one. f at . each . qpfl s ,p|-. fhp electorate, . ..