Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] SATURDAY, FEB. 6, 1904.

Manawatu Herald, 6 February 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] SATURDAY, FEB. 6, 1904.

Messrs Abraham & Williams’ Levin stock sale Is advertised in this issue. Mr Vile M.H.R., says he has every hope, and, indeed, is sanguine, that the Crown tenants will, within the next year or two, be granted the freehold. For attempting to pass two bottles of ale over the gaol wall at Wilcannia, New South Wales, Peter O’Brien has been fined £ 15, in default three months’ imprisonment.

Ramsay, who was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment at Dunedin last year for assault and robbery under sen • sational circumstances, made an unsuccessful attempt to escape from the Auckland gaol on Tuesday night.

A new regulation in regard to telephones, under which subscribers can license their instruments as public telephones and charge for the use of them, receiving in payment one third of the revenue derived, came into force in Melbourne recently, A native police assistant at Northampton, Western Australia, who developed a mania for stealing horses and riding them till they are knocked up, using five in this manner, has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment and a flogging of 12 strokes.

A Bill to allow women to vole at parish meetings and for the election of vestrymen was discussed at the meeting of the Anglican General Synod in Auckland, the opinion being apparently pretty evenly divided. It was supported by the Bishop of Melanesia and opposed by the Bishop of Auckland.

At Armidale, N.S.W., three men, charged with cruelly ill-using horses, were fined £2 10s. The men, who were teamsters, hooked two horses together for the purpose of a scratchpulling contest, and they beat the animals until one pulled the other down and caused its death. A somewhat sensational suicide took place in the Mangonui district on Saturday night. A man named William Ribton Pinkerton, who was considered a lunatic, was being taken by Constable Henry from Lake Ohia to Mangonui. He was riding alongside the constable, and suddenly jumped off his horse, slipped into the tea-tree, and cut his throat. He died five minutes later.

Says the Kawhia Settler “ Our composing staff caught the mumps at the school picnic last Saturday, and has been off duty ever since. The issue has been set up and printed, with but little assistance, by Piki Porima, a Maori lad, a student of St. Stephen's College, who has been in a printing office for a fortnight only.’’ A private letter from Johannesburg states that a party of four New Zealanders, who recently prospected and took up land in the Barberton district, have succeeded in floating a company to work the same. They receive each £SOOO in cash and a large proportion of paid-up shares. Other New Zealanders are also likely to make considerable money in connection, with diamond property taken up at Jagersfontein, Orange River Colony.

A dead man was fined 5s and costs at Aston, Birmingham, recently, for discharging fireworks in the street. When the name of Eli Kay, an insurance agent, was called to answer the charge, there was no response, and a reporter volunteered the information that the defendant had shot himself at Handsworth on the previous night. The magistrate, however, proceeded to read the police report of the case, and imposed the fine stated. Salvage operations in connection with the loss of the steamer Ovalan, at Lord Howe Island, are still proceeding. When the steamer Tambo left the island Captain J. Weston, of Balmain, who purchased the wreck, was on the scene with the steamer Sophia Ann, making a second attempt. So far he had succeeded in recovering seven anchors, with their cables, the bronze propeller from the sunken steamer, and other gear. A boy was arrested at Whangarei by Constable McDonnell, recently, on a charge of stealing the sum of £24 from his grandmother, with whom he resided in Auckland, and who is about seventy years of age. It is alleged that the boy, on being left in the house, broke open a box in which his grandmother kept her savings, and stole the money, after which he left the house and picked up a male. He then, it is stated, spent part of the money in the purchase of two revolvers and a tent. The two boys went to Whangarei and pitched their camp near the township, where the accused was arrested.

The Cape Argus, commenting on the visit of General Delarey to Ahmednagar with the view of inducing the five hundred Boer irreconcilables who are there to return to South Africa, says: —“ 1 he general’s motives are of the best, no doubt, but if he can persuade these worthies to spend the rest of their existence in any other country but this, he will deserve the gratitude of South Africans. People on the spot, in a position to know the true state of affairs, and not prejudiced one way or the other, describe these men as inspired above all by a dread of work, as content to spend the remainder of their lives dependent on the charity of the Government they affect to hate, and (as to those with families) willing to see their wives and families on the same charity and that of kindhearted relations than turn to work to support them.

A good, quiet cow, in full profit, is advertised for sale. Entries are advertised of Messrs Abraham and Williams’ stock sale at Palmerston next Thursday.

A tidal wave did great damage on the French and Portuguese coasts. The villagers fled inland, but not before several were drowned.

Widespread organisations have been established in Lancashire to relieve the distress occasioned by the cotton famine.

The alleged slander case, Lindsay v. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., claim £IOOO, was settled in the Napier Court by defendants agreeing to pay £3OO. A foreigner, who appeared before the Christchurch Court on a charge of alleged misappropriation of money, said he could not write, but was “ very good at figures.”

Notice is given by the D.O.A. of a meeting of creditors in the estate of Edmund John Burnard Osborne at Palmerston N. on Wednesday, 17th inst., at 2.30 o’clock. A fire, on Thursday, at the Auckland Herald printing works, practically destroyed the department in which illustrations and engraving are done. The damage is estimated at about £2OOO. What was probably one of the heaviest cows in the district was killed at the slaughterhouse of Messrs Shadbolt and Howan yesterday. The beast was seven years old, and when dressed weighed toifilbs.

A meeting of all those interested in holding a sports gathering in Victoria Park on St. Patrick’s Day (17th March), is convened for next Tuesday evening at the Manawatu Hotel at 8 o’clock. It is hoped there will be a good attendance, as there should be no difficulty in arranging a good day’s sport for both young and old. The body of Mrs Flyn, wife of a cooperative labourer on the railway at Mataroa, Taihape, was found in the Hautapu river on Thursday. It is supposed to be a case of suicide. The deceased left her husband at 5 o’clock in the afternoon. Owing to the absence of the police the body was left all night on the river bank. A missionary in China was en* deavouring to convert one of the natives. “ Suppose me Christian me go to heaven,” remarked Ah Sin. “ Yes,” replied the missionary. “ All right,” retorted the heathen, “ but what for you no let Chinamen into Australia when you get him into heaven ?” ” Ah," said the missionary with fervour, ‘‘there’s no labour party in heaven."

At Bulls on Thursday, Mr Ernest W. Morse, fifth son ot the late Major Morse, of Ford ell, was married to Miss Lena McDonell, sixth daughter of the late Mr James McDonell, of “ Ivanhoe/’ Lower Rangitikei. The Rev. Mr Isaacson performed the ceremony. A reception was held at the Criterion Hotel, where a large number of guests were entertained. The newly-married couple will reside at Sandon. The Municipal Corporations Act gives the boroughs power to frame bylaws compelling frontagers to pay half the cost of constructing footways. The Wellington City Council recently brought an action against a local frontager for half the cost of asphalting a footway that it had previously formed and gravelled. The question was whether the asphalting Was construction, The magistrate held that asphalting was not constructing, but was maintenance, and gave judgment for the defendant. The .decision is one of importance, as it affects a number of streets in the city. A Bristol couple in humble circumstances were married recently, and in the afternoon the bride and the best man attracted attention by walking down one of the main streets “ hugging and kissing each other," as an observant constable put it. They were warned that such behaviour could not be tolerated, but it was repeated, and the best man threatened violence. He was taken into custody, and the bride made a gallant attempt to rescue him. She also was taken into custody. At the Police Court the deputy chief con stable said that the bridegroom wanted to bail his wife out the same night, but owing to bis condition it was thought better to keep her in custody. They were dismissed with an admonition.