Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] THURSDAY, JAN. 21, 1904.

Manawatu Herald, 21 January 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] THURSDAY, JAN. 21, 1904.

The secretary of the Foxton Racing Club gives notice in another column that-bookmakers, their clerks or agents, or any undesirable persons, will not be admitted on the Club’s grounds during race days.

Mr R. Cobb advertises for grass seeders at a shilling an hour.

Employment is wanted by two youths, either on a farm or flaxmill. Mr J. Tennant, the well-known flaxmiller of Oroua Bridge, has parchased a Rambler motor-car for family use,.

The barque Lutterswdrth which recently Went agroUnd in Nelson harbour has been successfully towed off. She has been towed to the outer anchorage apparently uninjured.

The Manawatu County Council invites tenders for the supply and delivery of 150 yards metal on the Fox-ton-Shannon and Elkins-Motuiti road. Tenders to be in by Wednesday, 27th Inst,

At Christchurch on Tuesday Joseph Miller, tocacconist, of Tilanl-street, was fined £4O, in default one month’s imprisonment for sly-grog selling on Christmas night.

During the pasty.:ar the total quantity of flax exported ftdni Auckland was 5500 tons, which at an average of £25 per ton gives the value of this industry to Auckland for 12 months as £i37’soo* The Examiner says Major Stevenson will hold an enquiry into the alleged insolent conduct of one of the members of the Woodville Rifles. It is stated he insulted a superior officer at parade on Friday. Sir J. C> Ward anticipates that the railway returns for the nine months ended December 3tst will show an increase of ;£x50,000, Conrpared with the preceding nine months. The traffic during the holidays all over the colony was abnormal. Mr Christian has an altered advertisement in this issue in which he states the price of the famous “ Excelsior ” and “ Lightstrung” Cycles. These bicycles are fitted with the genuine. B.S.A, and Perry fittings, which are reputed to be second to none on the market. He still makes a speciality in photos also. After eating sdrrle tinned fish on Monday night* Mr and Mrs flewbury, of Palmetston.North* developed symptons of poisoning. Three others in the house, who had also partaken of the fish, became unwell. Dr Stowe was sent for and under his treatment serious consequences were averted. It has been discovered that a large trade In rotten eggs pursues the even tenor of its Way in East London, These progressive eggs are used, We learn, for making confectionery and also for frying fish. They are said to taste quite delightfully when mingled with an atsmophere stronger tnan their own.

At a meeting held at Palmerston on Tuesday night it was decided to invite the Premier to be present at a banquet in Palmerston on a date to be fixed. Secrecy is being observed in connection with the affair. It is rumoured that a cavalcade will escort the Premier.into Palmerston, as was dons in Westland the other day, the only stipulation being that the horsemen must be “ gentleof the right color." Over five hundred persons were vaccinated in Christchurch on Friday in consequence of the scare caused by the smallpox. During the first ten days of the Gracchus smallpox scare, Dr Mason states, between Dunedin and Wellington 13,000 persons were vaccinated. The number for two and a half months was between 16,000 and 17,000. In one month the Chief Health Officer paid £6OO for calf lymph alone. A strange story of the discovery of an unsuspected treasure comes from Canada. A Montreal art dealer was playing golf and drove a ball through a window of a cottage. It struck a picture on the wall. The dealer paid handsome compensation and also acquired the injured picture. It turned out, after being cleaned and examined, to be a Dutch interior by Teniers, of the value of £ SOO. Half the sum the dealer gave to the original owner. A Vienna correspondent wired on November 24Professor Eiselsberg, of this city, has performed an interesting operation on a young student, who was struck on the head by an iron ball about ten months ago at Salonika. The frontal bone was smashed, and after the wound had healed it was discovered that a piece of bone about the size of a shilling was missing. Ac cordingly the surgeon removed a piece of the patient’s shin bone, and inserted it in his skull. Thestudenthas entirely recovered, and is as well as ever. A singular occurence is reported from Burnham, Bucks. A gentleman walking with his dog stopped to look at a baby carried by a lady friend. The dog,' apparently jealous of the attention his master was paying to the child, flew at the face of the mother and bit off the end of her nose, afterwards dropping the piece of flesh at her feet. The woman was hurried to the doctor’s, where she received treatment, but permanent disfigurement is feared. The dog has been destroyed. A wager between James Knight, a labourer, residing in Tory Street, Wellington, and another person whose name has not transpired, very nearly led to the death of the former yesterday morning, Knight bet his companion that he was the better swimmer of the two, and words and past achievements failing to convince either party of the other’s superiority, it was agreed that a test should be made in the harbour off a point near the boatsbeds on Jervois quay. The pair doffed their outer garments, and plunged into the water. The unknown upholder of his prowess soon tired of the thing, and returned to land. He was just emerging from the water when Knight was observed to sink. Ansel Pickering, a labourer, of No 14, Jacobs place, who was in the vicinity, swam out to a spot where rising bubbles marked the place where Knight went down, and, diving below, succeeded in bringing the'drowning man to the surface. Mr Angus McKay, second engineer of the Kolya, dived from the stern of that vessel to assist Pickering, and Charles Booth, of No. 18, Drummond street, also swam out from the shore. Between them Knight was brought to dry land and restored. — N.Z. Times.

I The Manawatu Herald will not be published oh Saturday. Advertisers please note. Messrs Millar and Georgiof the Don, Palmerston North, are now holding a genuine bargain sale at their premises, The Square. They have a replaced advertismeilt in this issue,

On the 28th and 29th of this month Messrs Mounsey and Co. will sell by public auction the whole of the stock of the Don Soft Goods Syndicate. The sale will commence each day at 1 o’clock.

A building fourteen storeys high, with streets and shops on every storey, is the latest idea in architecture in America. Such a structure, the San Francisco correspondent of the Age writes, is about to be erected in Chicago at a cost os £200,000. The proposal is that each floor will practically be a street one block long. Wide arcades will run through the centre of each, and retail stores will face on these, precisely as in an open street. The building will be 100 feet by 145 feet, Each storey is to be of exceptional height, the first being 18 feet, the second 14 feet, the third, fourth and fifth, 13 feet, and the others 12 feet,

Mine. Patti sang four songs on November 27th at a concert which was held at the West End Theatre, New York, and for which she received £IOOO. An hour before the concert she was informed that the house was not full, and that only £6OO worth of seats had been sold. In consequence she refused to sing unless she received from Messrs Weber and Fields, who had promoted the concert, her full fees in advance. These were eventually handed to the diva, who thereupon appeared on the stage and Charmed the audience by her brilliant singing. Messrs Weber and Feilds therefore had to pay £4OO ou t of their own pockets. It is estimated, says the NeW York Herald, that the songs she sang cost the organisers at the rate of £4O per minute.

Lhassa, the capital of Thibet, is, of all places on earth, the most difficult to reach. Countless have essayed to enter this sacred city in vain, Two French missionaries in the eighteenth Century and a Russian explorer in the present are the only persons actually linowri to have pierced its secrets. The city itself is small, having only about 10,000 regular inhabitants. It is stated to have a picturesque situation on the southern slope of a rildontain, and to be surrounded with luxurious gardens. Possessed apparently by a sense of colour, the people arc distinguished according to the colour of their dress—white for the common people, red for the wealthy, yellow for the officials, and blue for the soldiery. The most chacteristic point about the people is their devotion to religious observances. For this they have been famed from the earliest times. They demand a huge array of priests. Around Lhassa thousands of priests are dwelling in ancient monasteries, or serving in the temples. The Grand Lhama is the titular head of the community, his sovereignty being based on the idpa that he is the living Buddha. The present Lhama is twenty-seven years old, and he is the fifth since 1806. In reality, the Grand Lhama is subservient to a closed aristocracy, who rule in the country on the basis of bribery and corruption. The population of Thibet was once estimated at 30,000,000. Now it is probably not over 3,000,000, Disease, especially small-pox, is rife, and the medical system is an exaggerated form of faith-healing.