Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1978.] SATURDAY, JAN. 16, 1904.

Manawatu Herald, 16 January 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1978.] SATURDAY, JAN. 16, 1904.

An experienced woman is wanted for washing at Whyte’s Hotel.

In the last five years the wheat area of the United Kingdom has shrank by over half a million acres.— St. James's Gazette. Complaints are being made, more particularly by members of the legal profession, concerning the delay in issuing the 1903 statutes from the Government Printing Office.

A Queenslander urges the settlement of young married English people in the British colonies. Recent events show that unmarried Chinamen are preferred*

For the third time running Mrs George Roesch, of New York, has presented her husband with a son on the day of a municipal election. This child is to be called “Repeater,”

The other day an offer of £25 an acre for comparatively interior land at Martinborough which was bought a few years ago at £6 an acre was refused.

About 70,000 tons Of Coal were shipped from Westport to Hongkong during 1903 to the order of the Admiralty. The carriage was done by thirteen steamers.

Mr H. Austin has been appointed the FoXton agent for the Equitable Life Insiirande Company, and has also taken over the agency of Cable & Co.’s flax machinery. A woman in the Stockport (England) Police Court the other day said that her age was 35. When reminded that she had been married 27 years, she said that she might be 40, 44, or 46.

Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble Calling— not a mean and grovelling thing, that we are to shuffle through as we can—but an elevatechand lofty stone.

The Hon J. Carroll has been arranging for the transfer of 20,000 acres of native land surrounding Rotorua township to be cut up for settlement. Mr Carroll is satisfied that the matter will be satisfactorily arranged. Extensive additions have recently been made to the Gear Company’s meat works at Petone, near Wellington. The company can now deal with up to 4000 sheep a day, and has storage accommodation for 160,000 carcases.

A card appears in this issue from Dr Romeo, who has decided to pay Foxton a visit once a week, remaining here from Saturday till the following Monday. Dr Romeo has lately commenced the practice ofhis profession in Palmerston North.

She (turning at the door): “ I think you are just hateful, and I’m never going to speak to you again, so there’s no use coming into the music-room after me—because I’ll be on the rustic bench at the far end of the conservatory.” It is mentioned that two well-known fiaxmillers from this vicinity will shortly leave for Invercargill and inspect some timber areas in that district, and if found suitable, will dispose of their interests here and go in largely for sawmilling in the South. The tonnage of the White Star fleet now amounts to nearly 350,000 tons. It consists of 29 steamers, of which 25 are fitted with twin screws, and the company possesses no fewer than 21 vessels of over 10,000 tons each, including three of over 20,000, one of 17,000, and two of over 15,000 ton* register.

The Railway Department advertise their train arrangements for Anniversary Day. The usual 11.40 a.m. train from Palmerston to Wellington (W. & M. Coy.) will not run. On the 22nd and 23rd instants special passenger trains will run from Fielding at excursion fares in connection with the Foxton races.

No reminder is necessary to horseowners of the closing of acceptances on Monday next, at 9 p.m. for the first day’s races of the forthcoming Foxton Racing Club’s meeting, which is to be held next week. Entries will be received at the same time for the Maiden Hack Hurdles and Maiden Hack Race (first day), and Electric Hack (second day.) The telegraph office closes at 8 p.m. The surveyors are at present engaged in cutting up the Burnside estate, near Halcombe, into suitable areas for dairy farms, comprising between 40 to 300 acre lots. When completed the property will be submitted to auction. We understand that already eager enquiries are being made for some of the choicest lots that are desirable for small farms. Mr H. Austin lately purchased this estate from Mr Riddiford.

A man who was admitted to the Melbourne Hospital a few days ago with a fractured thigh has had a remarkable experience in such accidents, for this mishap was the eighth time that one or other of his legs had been broken since his eighth year of age. The breakages have been distributed evenly between the two limbs, for there has been four upon the left and four upon the right leg, and all have been in different places.

The Pelorus Guardian offers a valuable suggestion to the Government regarding a worthless reserve near Havelock. “ Nestling,” it says, “among a wilderness of blackberry, gorse and fern, in a picturesque bend of the Pelorus river, are thirteen acres of land vested in the Pelorus Road Board, as a domain. The members of the Board modestly disavow any knowledge of its whereabouts, and would gladly exchange it for fifty acres in Mountain Camp! We suggest that the domain be offered to the Agricultural Department as a testing ground for the various “ kill-weeds ” shortly to be entered in competition for the Government bonus,

Dr 1 alentme, Heal b Officer, has asked ..or an a} alogy for statements made about him, i a let 3r by afGreytown. ' An American ias off red £BOOO for the furniture o the edroom of the murdej ed King : id Qt ;en of Servia. He w, nted it for exhibition. The Sendai Govern meat has refused the offer. A fell of m tes, filly ijin thick, passed through the wst office at Waipawa on Wedne day with no cover except a wrappei, just as is put on a newspaper, and was not registered by the sender. This individual must have great faith in human nature. It is said that there is a scarcity of practical sawmill workers in Southland, and, in consequence, some mills are worlting single-handed. A number of old hands have departed for the North Island and the West Coast, where work is plentiful and wages higher than there. The Dunedin Star reports that Butler, alias Donnelly, who murdered the Dewaf family while sleeping in their beds in Cumberland-street (Dunedin), in 1880, will be discharged from Pentridge (the penal department of Victoria), where he is now undergoing a senterice for highway robbery with volence, next month, February, 1904.

The late Captain Carrington, of the steamer Coogee, entered the employ of Huddart, Parker and Co- on November 18, 1889, and Was given command of the Coogee. With her he made 1810 trips across the Straits'to and from Tasmania, carrying safely nearly 100,000 passengers without any mishap or delay beyond those usually associated with foggy weather. Reporting to the Hospital Board on the satisfactory progress made by a tuberculosis patient under his treatment, Dr Monckton, of Feilding, says: —“ Experiments have shown that oxygen and pure air will not destroy the tubercle baccilus and I hope to prove as far as one case can, that it is flot necessary to make a tuberculosis case live in a series of draughts or to be perched on the top of a high hill to get cured." Members of the dghtfa, ninth, tenth contingents are urgently requested to at once forward to the secretary of the Manawatu South African Veterans’ Association particulars regarding name in full, number, rank, and contingent, in order that medals may be obtained for presentation, at the forthcoming banquet, by the Premier. The information must be in the hands of the secretary, Palmerrston North, not later than 16th inst.

While Walking by the river at King’s Clifte, Northampshife, two young men found the body of a lad who had been drowned a fortnight before. Many attempts have been made to find the body, the most curious being to float down the river loaves of bread containing mercury, in the belief that bread so “ charmed ” will never go past a corpse. Strange to say the body was found in the stretch of water where the bread “ stopped short.” The superstitious have their beliefs in the potency of mercuralised bread considerably strengthened.

A singular lawsuit in London, Ontario, is attracting widespread attention. Two gentlemen at a hotel took their pet dog to the dining-room, where it was fed from the table. The proprietor was notified of this procedure, and the gentlemen were ordered to either eject the dog or leave the dining-room. They refused to do either, and on being removed by force they had recourse to a civil suit for damages. The case has not yet come to trial, and public sentiment on this novel subject is divided, as might be expected, between thp owners of dogs on one side and non-owners on the other.

The New Year holidays being over a powerful gang of 350 men are to be put on to hasten to complete the construction of the Wellington City tramways. The men now in the employ of the Corporation on the old horse-trams are to be given preference of employment when the electric tram system is in working order, conditional upon their qualifying themselves for the positions open. Opportunity will be given them for coaching themselves in the work, as a car is to befitted for traffic and a course of instruction in the principles of electricity, the working of the brake system, etc., given under the supervision of the engineering staff. During the discussion at the Manawatu County Council on Wednesday on road requirements, pointed reference was made to the great amount of damage done by milk carts proceeding to creameries. Frequently, it was stated, loads aggregating 30 cwt were carried on two inch tyres, while carriers were compelled to use four inch tyres, and their loads did not often exceed one ton. The Council expressed its intention of seriously considering the advisability of making it necessary for milk carts to be provided with four inch tyres, and settlers having carts built would do well to get the wider tyres at once. Dr Mason, Chief Health Officer, who is about to once more take up the struggle against consumption, will soon be on the lecture platform. He believes that in two or three generations at most the fell disease will be under proper control. He highly values the power given by last year’s Act for the erection of temporary shelters in hospitals. With shelters provided in a dozen or fourteen hospitals, in suitable country places, with room each for forty or fifty patients, the new system will give a good account of itself. Thus the “ indigent patient ” will be taken care of, and the “ indigent patient,” it appears, is the chief menace in this terrible disease. Ninety per cent, of the cases are due to the sputum, and this class of patient is the one most liable. Eight hundred died last year of this disease, and if the Health Department can help it there shall not be so many deaths again in New Zealand from the same cause. The preventible deaths, according to Dr Mason, cost the colony £105,000 last year, which is twenty-two times the working cost of the Health Department.—Lyttelton 1 Timest

Entries for Messts Abraham and Williams’ usual stock sale at North on Thursday are advertised. All persons id Victoria to one month’s imprisonment and wards on and after January ist are td . have finger impressions taken under the Gallon system of identification. In addition, the finger prints of au prisoners sentenced to one month and upwards who are detained on that date are to be taken before being discharged. As the prints are completed they will be forwarded to Pentridge for classification and storage. Officers of the Penal Department have visited the various gaols throughout the State for the purpose of giving instiOCtions in the work of taking finer-prints. A discharged prisoner who has served s short, period of incarceration at the prison camp at Hanmer, speaking from his own experience, says that the management of the camp is everything that could be desired. Both gaoler and warders appear to be impressed by the wish to improve the condition of the men placed under their charge and, by judiciously given advice and encouragement, they in l spire the men with a desire to do better in their future career, the result being that they feel on leaving the camp that they have something to live for, and have formed a determination: to lead better lives in the future. For three years a certain London doctor had had a hard struggle to make both ends meet, when late one evening, while returining from the bedside of a poor patient, he found himself followed by a handsone collie dog. The,animal was lame, and every now and < then would look at the man with a piteous whine. When be reached home the doctor examined the animal’s feet, and found, deeply embedded in one of the hind paws, what he took to be a solid lump of glass. This he extracted, to the evident relief of the dog. Showing the glass to a friend the next day, the latter exlaimed ; “ Why, it’s a diamond ; and, if I mistake not, one of the first water!” And so it proved to be. All efforts to trace the dog and the dia* mond failed, so they became the doctor’s property. He is now fairly prosperous, thanks to his fortunate find, and the collie is his faith&l companion. i About six months ago Mr ArthmT Jonson was unfortunate enough to lose a new bicycle, under circumstances which clearly pointed to it being one of theft. Mr Jonson had leftbis bicycle outside a business house in town one evening and found that his machine bad disappeared when he emerged from the building. The matter was placed ia the hands of the police, and after all ' this time the bicycle was at last discovered in a swamp a few miles from Foxton, having evidently been ridden to the locality and then hidden in the flax. The wheels were caked with hard clay, and the machine had become rusty, so that a long period had elapsed since it was used. In the meantime' Mr Jonson would like to know who the party is that has put him to so much inconvenience and expense, as only a few days ago be purchased another bicycle, as all hope was gone, of- ever ■ regaining the lost property.