Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] THURSDAY, JAN. 14, 1904.

Manawatu Herald, 14 January 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] THURSDAY, JAN. 14, 1904.

A band of Waihi youths celebrated the New Year by a new phrase of horse play. They confined their operations mostly to Waihi South, where they bodily threw over six one-roomed shanties, which were not inhabited at the time. Eustace Bedford was drowned in the Whenuakite River, near Mercury Bay, on Monday. He was steering an oil launch when a child fell overboard. The deceased jumped in, but not being a good swimmer sank, and did not come up again. The child was saved by its father.

The Primitive Methodist Conference met on Monday at Wanganui. Messrs Fow and Mairs are to be employed as missioners. The united funds income is £662 6s 3d, children’s fund income £321 14s rod, home missions income £552 12s 3d, contingent fund £75 6s Bd, publishing report income £369 163 gd, net profit £6O os 6d.

Two first offenders were convicted and discharged this morning for drunk ness. Arthur De Joux was charged with eliciting board and lodging to the extent of as. He was also convicted and discharged. Mr A. Fraser was the presiding Justice. Three writs have been issued against local residents (says the Palmerston Standard) in which damages are claimed in each instance for alleged slander. The cases will be heard at the next sitting of the Supreme Court in February.

A two-roomed cottage in Jenks street was destroyed by fire at an early hour on Wednesday morning. The building was unoccupied at the time, and had only been vacated by the tenant the day before. The origin of the fire is unknown. The dwelling was insured for £SO. A wonderful schoolboy athlete was unearthed in Melbourne the other day. Though under twelve years of age, he won the schools’ championship under fourteen, under sixteen, and the open championship. He put the weight 31ft S.Vin, ran the quarter in 53 J-fJsec, "T 11 the 220yds in 24 i-ssec,.was second in the xoovds, and was beaten by a few inches in the 120 yards hurdles (won in 17 2.5 sec). The steamer Jane Douglas trom Web lington,. sailed the other night for Cascade river, 150 miles south of Hokitika, under charter to Mr John Stevens, exM.H.R.) for Manawatu. Mr Stevens, who has secured a considerable area of flax land near the river, intends to erect three stripping mills. The material for the first mill is on board the Jane Douglas. Operations will probably commence about the end of February.

A woman in Kansas has just lost her husband, and her acknowledgement of gratitude to all who “ administered to my dear husband in his fatal sickness,” is printed in Kansas City Star. " And especially,” she concludes, " I would like to thank the accident insurance agent, Mr Farlock, who assures me that congestion of the stomach comes under the head of accidents.

The extraordinary extent to which the traffic in lives is carried on among the poor of Lancashire was illustrated by a case at Blackburn on November ißth, when a man named Ramsbottom summoned by his wife for maintenance, swore that she held over forty policies on the lives of men she had never seen and paid 25s in weekly premiums. This woman aduitted paying 14s weekly, and insuring all the inmates of her lodginghousC. The ” clean-shave ” epidemic has spread to Stratford. A lady in that town has communicated with the local paper as follows I have to write you with regard to a very serious matter, viz., the cutting off of their moustaches by a section of the public men of the town. Now, I unfortunately am married to one of these —I don't know what to call them—men. He was, heaven knows, plain enough when that event took place, but now I think there is justification for a divorce—l had no idea he was so fearfully ugly.” Aft epidemic of practical joking on bridal couples has broken out in America. In some cases a telegram has been sent to arrest the bridegroom on his wedding tour for kidnapping a young lady; in others he is captured and compelled to make speeches from a circus waggon at the principal street corners. Mrand Mrs Clinton R. Keeler, of Syracuse, started on their wedding tour handcuffed to each other. Just after they were married their friends caught them and slipped a handcuff on the right wrist of the bride. The key was then lost. The couple had to get on the train bound together in this way, and started off with much difficulty.

la a judgement summons case, Christchurch, which came before Mr Haselden, S.M., lately, the debtor, a young man, stated he was earning 35s weekly. He paid 7s 6d for rent and had a wife and family. Commenting on the case the Magistrate said the case might be taken as typical of the kind of thing we might expect under the new Act. The proceedings appeared to be taken by a Debt Collecting Agency. He was asked to send the young man to gaol unless he paid the debt. He would do nothing of the kind, but if he had it in his power he would order the creditor to pay for the debtor’s time in attending the Court. The advocates of imprisonment for debt averred that only a fraudulent debtor could be punished under the procedure provided. The young man told him he feared he would lose his situation if it appeared that there was any indirect coercion. Mr Haselden ’said he would do all he could to prevent the Court proceedings being mis used against people not possessing the means to pay. An unusual incident, which was narrowly averted from degenerating into an unpleasant scene, occurred in St. Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne, during the Christmas service. The large congregation had just risen to sing the first carol, when a man whose attire savoured more of the dusty holidaymaker than the churchgoer, entered, the building. Marching noisily up the aisle, he continued to advance until he reached the State Governor’spew, into which he threw himself with a very audible sigh of relief. When the hymn was conluded he got up and sought a seat a little further back, and as he pushed his way boisterously along it was plainly evident by his erratic gait and bland fixity of smile that he was under the influence of intoxicants. He went into another pew, which was obligingly vacated for him by the occupants, and as the behaviour continued erratic a verger was sent for. When that official asked the man to go out, he, to the great scandal of the congregation, and, apparently oblivious of the sacred surroundings, in loud and angry tones refused to do so, and added several offensive remarks. It looked as if a most disgraceful disturbance must ensue, but the verger, with admirable tact, was successful in inducing the unseemly intruder to follow him out of the Cathedral. The service thereafter proce d'd quie !y, as the disturber made no effort to re-enter the building.

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