Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] TUESDAY, FEB. 23, 1904.

Manawatu Herald, 23 February 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] TUESDAY, FEB. 23, 1904.

The supplementary valuation list for the Borough is open for inspection during office hours. Harland and Wolf intend building a steamer for the White Star line thirty feet longer than the Baltic, at present the largest vessel in the world.

The Catholic concert which is advertised to take place on 17th March is bound to be a great success, and we hear that talent from Wellington and elsewhere will assist. Holiday excursion tickets will be issued to Palmerston from 29th February to 4th March on account of the Band Contest. On the Ist and 3rd March the usual 5.35 p.m. train to Foxton will be delayed to leave Palcjentop at 6.35 p.m,

“ Why don’t yon marry ?" asked one man of another. " Because the lady I want must be beautiful, rich and a fool. If she isn’t rich and beautiful I won’t take her; and if she isn’t a fool she won’t take me.”

The Wairarapa Standard -has the following“ The staff desire to thank Mr and Mrs R. E. Williams for wedding favours, and wish them long life, health and happiness. May their troubles be little ones."

“ Someone has said that the teachers are paid to do their work, and that, I believe, is correct. Some of them are paid as much as £35 and £4O a year.”—Sarcastic obversation at the Inspectors’ Conference. The year 1903 has seen a formidable increase in the strength of the British Navy. Altogether, there were launched 35 vessels, the collective displacement tonnage being 148,746 tons, while the indicated horse-power aggregates 300,• 100. The vessels cost £12,232,000.

A syndicate has been formed at Dunedin to take over the rights of a local patent for supplying boots and shoes, with removable, reversible, and renewable heels and soles. Sargood, Son, and Ewen have secured the right for New Zealand on royalty.

Owing to the unsettled state of affairs in the Far East the Defence authorities refuse extended leave to all officers and men in the permanent forces. They are drilling night and day, and the submarine defences are being overhauled, and the largest mine field ever made in the colony is about to be laid down in the Wellington harbour.

There is great disappointment in the Chatham Islands at the postponement of the visit of His Excellency the Governor to the islands. Maoris and whites alike had gathered into Waitangi from all parts in expectation of his visit, and arrangements for his reception were complete. Especially are the Maoris disappointed, as they had prepared a hakire, and great stores ot food are waiting consumption. They had also been rehearsing dances of welcome,

The school cadet corps throughout the colony have been placed solely*, under the control of the Education Department, and new regulations have been issued. Education Boards must apart not less than one hour weekly for military drill, and the Department will provide, in addition to miniature rifles, fifty ball cartridges per cadet yearly. Iwd shillings and sixpence per cadet will be paid by the Government for every cadet who attends the required number of parades. The Manawatu Times says a very painful accident with distressing results occurred to Mr A. Giorgi, partner in the firm of Millar and Giorgi, on Saturday. He was chopping wood when one of the pieces struck him in the eye. The pain was so great that medical aid bad to be immediately summoned, and Dr. Martin ordered his removal to Mrs Freeman’s hospital. The eye apparently had been burst, and on Sunday an operation had to be performed to remove it. To show the progress that has been made in industrial pursuits in the colony during the last twelve months, the Labour Department reports that the number of factories registered during that period is as follows:—Dunedin, 715; Christchurch, 1090 ; Wellington, 759; Auckland, 1166. The increase in the number of factories registered under the Factories Act, 1901, will be seen by comparing'the foregoing figures with those for 1902, which are as follows:—Dunedin, 667 ; Christchurch, 988 ; Wellington, 702 ; Auckland, 1043. There are now about fifty cheese factories in the colony, and the total output for the season is expected to constitute a record. It is a singular fact that while in Taranaki several factories which were turning out butter last season are now manufacturing cheese, the reverse position has been adopted in two or three places in the Auckland district. At the present time Mr Singleton is the only cheese instructor in the colony, and factory managers are complaining that they do not see enough of him. That is not hi? fault, as it is manifest that one man, however, energetic he may be, cannot satisfactorily cope with the volume of work which he is called upon to do.

Mr Albert Visetti, the professor of singing who was for several years musi - cal adviser to Adelina Patti, writes a letter throwing light on the secret of the great singer’s long and successful career. Madame Patti, he says, refrains from speaking and remains absolutely quiet on the day of any performance, taking a moderate repast an hour before singing. After the performance she retires immediately, and does not waste her strength and ruin her diges tion in midnight suppers. What is even more important, her breathing is perfect.

Miss Marie Corelli had a last word in regard to the farthing damages which the jury awarded her in the recent libel action. Mr Fred Winter, the defendant, called on Miss Corelli to deliver the coin. He was received by the butler, to whom he handed a form of receipt for Miss Corelli’s signature. Determined that her autograph should not go so cheaply, she referred Mi Winter to her solicitors. They received the coin and sent it back in these terms: “We are instructed by our client to inform the defendant that she is happy to present him with the damages granted by the jury, as a con tribution to one of the many Stratford charities he no doubt supports.” Mr W. T. Jennings, M.H.R., for Eg* mont, arrived in Auckland from Tau* marunui the other day. He states that the recent bush fires have destroyed a beautiful drive of about twelve miles of bush between Piriaka and Ohango, the fires clearing the bush on both sides of the road. Fair progress, he says, has been made with the North Island Main Trunk Railway since his last visit, and he found that the Matapunu bridge across the Wanganui river is much appreciated by the settlers. Mr Jennings was struck with the rapid growth of settlement in the Ohura Valley, and he states that there will be a great rush for the sections to be balloted for next month,

The D.O.A, gives notice in this issue that Mr R. Moore, solicitor, is appointed agent to collect all book debts in the estate of Mr R. T. Batty, and to sue for where necessary. The Manawatu Racing Club has secured the option of purchasing the necessary land on which it is proposed to have a private railway leading from Awapunl to the course. A petition is being forwarded to the Manager of the Manawatu Railway Company from Buckley settlers, near Shannon, praying that d siding be put in at the Buckley crossing, and the Company to allow trains to stop there for the convenience of settlers in the district.

Mr S. Campbell and family, of Pihama, had a most miraculous escape from lightning recently. They Were engaged milking when a flash of lightning entered the shed where 18 cows were bailed up and knocked nearly the whole of them down, killing one instantly.

George Williams, a railway shunter, was working at Islington. Christchurch, on Saturday afternoon, when he slipped and fell under a truck. The wheels passed over his right leg near the knee, crushing it very badly, and bruising the toes of the left foot. He was removed immediately to the Christchurch Hospital, and tha injured leg was amputated just above the knee. He is reported to-day to be doing very well.

If what is claimed on behalf of the lithotype, at present in use in New York, is justified, a revolution in printing has been effected. The new invention means, among other things no type-setting, no type-distribution, no melting of metal, no stereotyping, no justifying of lines, no standing matter, no money invested in type-only a machine the size of two type-writers and a press. The linotype is not in it with a machine of this kind.

No news concerning the appointment of a successor to Lord Ranfurly as Governor of New Zealand has so far reached the Government, but it is anticipated that ere long a selection will be made. A generally-received impression is that the new Govenor will be some high naval or army official—in accordance with the practice followed in regard to recent appointments in Australia during late years,