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

Manawatu Herald, 27 February 1904, Page 2

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

The New Zealand Times reports that no discharges will be granted to volunteers during the present year, the chief reason being the possibility of complications arising out of the Russo-Japanese war.

Immense hauls of fish have been made of late at the Thames. Two boats secured (says the‘Thames Star) 400 dozen flounders in one night.. Fishfreezing works are being erected at the Thames at a cost of £BOOO,

The fruit-canning factory at Frimley, near Hastings, is now giving employment to 61 hands. Ten tons of tomatoes were canned last week. Mr I. R. Staasell is removing bin family from To Horo to Shannon, and will reside permanently in the latter township.

At the police court at Christchurch on Thursday, a youth was fined £2 and costs, in default 14 days’ imprisonment, for putting his arm round a girl in the street and kissing her. Messrs Abraham and Williams’ usual weekly Palmerston stock sale is advertised to day. Buyers will note that owing to the Band Contest the sale will start an hour earlier than usual.

Tenders will be received up till Wednesday, March and, by the secretaries of the St. Patrick’s Day Sports and Picnic Clubj for the supply of coppers, milk, tea, sugar, firewood, etc., also for looking after the same on sports day. An advertisement appears in another column.

There is expected to be good competition for the large block of 60,000 acres to be thrown opert for selection under the lease in perpetuity tenure in the Taranaki district by the Govern-, ment next month. The block comprises first and second-class heavy bush land.

Reports from Dee River Goldfields, at Rockhampton, Queensland, state that only 10 claims are on gold, employing 30 men. There are now 300 men on the field, who are in a state of semi-starvatiom All the ground above and below the present rush has. been worked previously by Chinese^ “ The biggest in the world” list is about to receive another American addition. This time it is a school building, which is to be erected in New York City. It will accomodate no fewer than 4500 pupils, in charge of 124 teachers, and two principals. The buildings will be six stories high, and will be provided with elevators like an office.

The young man Abbott, who was charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of a Maori at Hawera last week, was acquitted. The Magistrate held that accused was bound to defend his mother from deceased’s insult; that accused used no unnecessary force; and that the fall which caused death would probably not have occurred had deceased been sober.

During last laying season Mr L. Pearson, of Palmerston North, Obtained 230 eggs from 13 black Minorca hens. Twenty one sittings were sold at 2s 6d per sitting, and the rest were disposed of at market prices, the gross receipts being /16 igs ?d. Mr Pearson evidently possesses a remarkably good laying strain, and details as to nature and cost of feeding would be interesting to poultry breeders.— Standard.

The Bishop of Christchurch is reported by the Auckland Star to have said at a gathering in Auckland last week : “ If it were not for the missions, you wretched people would go down, down, down, until your wretched souls would not be worth a cent!” The same paper credits the Bishop of Auckland with the following exclamation : “ My God, if we were all dead in earnest over our prayers what a change it would make in the world 1” During his trip Home, the Hon. W. Hall-Jones, who is the Minister in charge of asylums, will visit some of the asylums of the Old Country, with the view of gaining information which may be of practical use in this department. He will also make inquiries regarding the Marconi system of wireless telegraphy, as it is suggested that it will be possible to provide communication at a reasonable cost between island lighthouses and the mainland by that means. As an outcome of the recent prosecutions, for conspiring to, defraud bookmakers over the Rangitikei races, of Nolan, Shrhnpton and Walker, Colonel Gorton, president of the Rangitikoi Racing Club, moved at a meeting of the committee held at Bulls on Wednesday night, “■ That in accepting the resignation of T. F. Nolan from the Club, the committee regrets he was guilty of such dishonourable conduct.” An amendment simply accepting the resignation was carried. Colonel Gorton then handed in his resignation as president of the club and also as one of the trustees of the club’s property. Mr Dalrymple, a vice-president, took a similar course and left the room. Nolan was a steward of thehClub. The announcement that an arrangement has been completed for carrying immigrants from England to New Zealand by the Federal line at the low fare of £lO per head, suggests to the New Zealand Times a way of overcoming the present dearth of domestic servants in this colony, A guarantee by the Government of one-half of the passage money would result in a good number of servant girls coming to New Zealand. No objection can be made to carrying out this suggestion, for it is beyond dispute that the present sup ply of female domestic servants is quite inadequate. Proof of character could be required at Liverpool before assist ance was given, and inasmuch as only £5 per head would be needed, instead of the £l3 or £l4 that had to be expended in earlier days, the gain to the colony would be early and enduring. In Boston the police have made a determined effort to lessen the prevalence of drunkenness, and the means they adopted have at least the merit of simplicity. They made more numerous arrests than in the past. The increase of persons locked up for intoxication in the last six months was 7394, or 72 per cent over the arrests of the corresponding period of last year. It is 'reported that the effect has been to greatly reduce public drunkenness. At any rate, saloon-keepers have complained of loss of business. In Toledo, a town of Ohio, the Independant Order of Oddfellows has started a campaign against vendors of liquor. The Grand Master has issued an order expelling from the organisation every saloonkeeper and bar-tender who is at present a member. Thousands of liquor men are affiliated with the Oddfellows, and the order has raised a storm of no small dimensions,

As an instance of clerical broadmindedness, it may be mentioned that the Rev. Father Brodie.the Catholic priest at Waihi, is the prime mover in a fare■veil gathering in hoajur of the Rev. J. Olnberf, the rofiring Primitive Methodist minister in that district.

The most “casual” marriage on record was celebrated on Thursday, says the Auckland Star. A man strolled into a friend’s office and asked him if he could spare half an hour. “ Why ?” asked the friend. “ I want yon to be my best man.” They went out, the man and his bride were married with solemn ceremony in an empty church, the bridegroom went back to his work and the bride went on with her shopping..

“ Many English nurses,” says Mrs Bedford Fenwick, editress of the British Journal of Nursing, '* are anxious to place their skilled services at the disposal of Japan during the war between that plucky little Power and overbearing Russia. But Jspan owes its trained nursing to the United States, as some years ago Miss Linda Richards organised the first nurse training schools at Tokin, and found the pretty and gentle little Japs ideal material for tending the sick. With this professional link between the two Countries it is natural that American nurses in large numbers should have volunteered for active service in japan.” A young Italian girl named Lucrezia Volotti, employed as an artist’s model, fell in love, a Paris telegram states, with one of her employers, a handsome young sculptor. The affection was mutual, and the couple agreed to marry. The girl’s mother refused her her consent, in order not to lose her daughter’s earnings. The sdulptor died soon afterwards, and his sweetheart became sullen and morose, and , repeatedly upbraided her mother for her conduct. On January 4, she awoke her mother, and again reproached her, and attempted to stab her with ■ a dagger. The mother resisted, and succeeded in wrenching the weapon from her. Lucrezia then seized her mother by the throat and strangled her. The noise of the struggle attracted the neighbours, but by the time they entered the room the elder woman was dead, and the daughter was raving mad.

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