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Manawatu Herald, 9 January 1904, Page 2

Mr Jupp expects to have his new flaxmill at Moutoa in working order in a fortnight. Thp black-bird has just been scheduled as an injurious bird. In the Levin district they are playing havoc with small fruits. Ten tons of Taranaki ironsand have, says the Hawera Star been shipped to Melbourne to be treated by the special plant of a firm there; This plant, it is claimed, has the virtue of being able to treat ironsand economically. It is said that the firm has applied for the lease of some miles of beach at Mokau. On Monday the pllents of a twelve year old boy, residing in Wellington, who had previously displayed wandering proclivities, reported to the police that the lad had been missing since dinner-time the previous day. Fifteen minutes later the Inspector received a telegram from Nelson stating that the wanderer had been found on the Takapuna there, having stowed away in Wellington. A pretender to the throne of Russia has lately appeared, who claims to be the rightful Czarevitch. He is, says “ Vanity Fair,” named Cyril, and is the son of the late Czarevitch, the Grand Duke Georges, who married secretly in 1893 Princess Nakachidze, (he daughter of one of the chiefs of the Caucasus, The late Czarevitch, owing to his ill health, spent most of his later years in the Caucasus, and there he met the lady who is said to have been his wife- He left several children, of whom this Prince Cyril, a boy of nine, is said to be the eldest.

We nave received a sample of Mr R. Gray’s raspberry syi up, made from this season’s frui;, and is quite up to Mr Cray’s usual standard. The Manawat ' Com ty Council invite tenders up till n= on on 13th instant for the supply ind delivery of 150 yards of metal ca the poxtonShannon and EI ;ins-Motuiti roads.

On 1 londay n ;xt W 1 itehouse’s Bioscope Company vill ap jear at the Foxt«a Pa die Hall. A h' ge collection of living j iclures w il be down, and Mr James Fitzpatr :k, tfc : vocalist, will render popular i ems. Popular prices will be charged. The holidays were attended by a great desire on the part of Wellington citizens to enter the bonds of matrimony. The people were tumbling over another to secure marriage certificates from the Registrar. On December 31st and January 2nd over a score of certificates were issued.

A boy of six years was charged in Auckland last week with having stolen a horse and cart, valued at £2O, and also ten packets of cigarettes. The Conveyance had been taken possession of while standing unattended in the street. The case was dismissed, and the boy ordered to be sent to the Industrial School.

Mr Ballington Booth tells a story of a woman who stood up at a Salvation Army meeting to testify to her conversion, and who, with great earnestness, denounced her former ways. “ I was once foolish and vain," she said, “ worldly pleasures, and especially the fashions, were my only thought. I was fond of silks, satins, jewellery, ribbons, and laces. But, my friends, I found they were dragging me down to perdition, so I am gave them all to my sisters.”

The action of the Gore A. and P. Association in excluding the Press from the official luncheon at its recent summer show called down a regular malestrom of hostile and sarcastic criticism upon its bead. The reporters “ doing " the show all paid their shillings at the gate, and received twelve pennyworth of satisfaction in stating exactly what they thought of the Association’s skin-flint policy. The pressmen had a tent of their own on the ground, ordered an elaborate luncheon on their own account, and altogether, says the Press, had a triumphant time. By the recent death of Mrs Cronje the famous Boar general suffers an irreparable blow. At the time when the South African clouds were gathering General Cronje and his wife lived at Potchefstroom. There on the stoep of their farmhouse they used often to be seen sitting together. Like her husband, Mrs Cronje was deeply religious. Both of them liked to live amid the quietude of their farm. Mrs Cronje accompanied her husband throngh the war. and after the surrender went with him to St. Helena.

A startling epidemic has broken out in a herd of between 20 and 25 young draught horses belonging to Mr Weekes, Awapunl, running on his property at Te Kapua. Five of the horses are dead, and four are down, almost dead. Mr Burton, the Government veterinary surgeon, has examined the horses, but, we understand, with little result, the disease being very baffling. It is said to resemble a combination of influenza and strangles. Messrs J. Mounsey & Co. advertise a sale by auction of Mr J. W. Walsh’s superior household furniture and ef-, fects for next Wednesday, at 1 p.m. at the residence, Norbiton Road. The sale is being held owing to Mr Walsh’s early departure from this district. An upright grand piano (Hopkinson Se Sons), handsome sideboard, Duchess chests, bedsteads, &c., garden tools, kitchen utensils, and many other lines will be submitted, and 2 pure-bred Jersey cows and buggy will also be under offer, so that a successful sale can safely bo predicted. The Times correspondent says the Pope is not ashamed of his humble origin, nor does he pride himself upon it. He has brought his three sisters to Rome, not to convert them into titled ladies, but to seek repose from the fatigues of his sacred office in the privacy of his family, and also to serve as a constant reminder that he has issued from the ranks of the poorest of the people. He invites his friends to his table, to the great scandal of the ceremonial officials, who cannot realise that a Pope could be served otherwise than alone and by prelates on their knees. The ceremony of kissing the Pope's slipper and kneeling until invited to rise has been abolished. The farewell tour which Madame Patti is making through (he States is likely to be memorable from more than one point of view. The great primadonna has managed to insure her voice for the trip. If she cannot sing at any one concert she is to receive ,£rooo. At the same time the singer has insured her voice for the whole trip in the sura of £ IO,OOO, the money to be paid in the not very probable contingency of total and permanent loss of voice, Madame Patti, too, is wearing a new dress on each occasion, and as she is to sing at sixty concerts in all, her Pari? dress-tnaker who has received the order will stand to pocket handsomely by the little transaction.

The chief Government hemp-grader (Mr C. Fulton) told a N.Z. Times representative that a very large quantity of flax is being milled in the Auckland district. One bad feature of the hemp turned out there is the great quantity of fourth and fifth-grade that is coming forward. Lately there has been an abnormal demand for hemp, and so a good market for poor qualities has sprung up, but in the end the output of inferior hemp is sure to prejudicially affect New Zealand. Prices have lately been so high that manufacturers have been buying “rough stuff” to manufacture it into binder twine, but the result of this is that less length goes to the reel because of the greater bulk of the inferior article, and so the farmer consumer is made to suffer. Such short-sightedness will, if continued, compel farmers to resume the use of Russian hemp twine. In the Wellington district the same failing exists, though not to so great an extent. There is no excuse whatever for sending forward any large quantity ot hemp below the third grade,

Church services will be held at Mary’s Church at 8.30 and 11 a.m.