Manawatu Herald [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] SATURDAY, MARCH 5,1904.

Manawatu Herald, 5 March 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] SATURDAY, MARCH 5,1904.

At the Wellington Magistrate’s Court, an accused for an unprovoked assault on a young man, was sent to gaol for a month. Complainant refused the accused’s request for sixpence, and defendant thereupon assaulted him.

Tenders are advertised for in another column for cleaning out drains in the borough. Specifications can be seen at the borough office during office hours. Tenders to be in by the 14th inst.

A steady man is .wanted for cutting manuka firewood.

At Ormond, in Florida, Mr W. Van derbllt has covered one mile in an automobile in ggsec., which constitutes a world’s record.

Messrs Abraham & Williams’weekly Palmerston stock sale is advertised today. Additions are also made to the same firm’s Levin sale. Lieutenant Grnich, one of the assassins of the late King and Queen of Scrvia, who was acting as King Peter’s’ aide-de-camp, has been relieved of his duties.

Messrs Carter Bros, and Rowstrom, of Shannon, have taken over Mr W. Reed’s City Butchery business in Palmerston.

The Town Clerk notifies that ap* plications will be received up to six p.m. of the 14th inst, for the position ot working overseer for the borough. The Minister of Railways is prepared to receive applications from those desirous of entering the N.Z. Government railway service as porters. An Auckland firm which had been sued by the Factory Inspector for turn of £75 taken from employees as premiums, confessed judgment, and was ordered to return the amount and pay costs, A message from Buluwayo states that the Alan Wilson tilertiorial, which is being erected about 100 yards from Mr Rhodes’ grave, is a massive structure. Enormous blocks of granite are being used, as solid as the rock itself. The monument will probably be com* pleted iti April. During the course of a speech at a banquet given him at New Plymouth, Mr Farmer King, an ironsand syndicator, mentioned incidentally, in connection with (he Tourist Department, that an Edinburgh hotel proprietor and t his daughter had travelled through the ; colony on a free railway pass, Whilst he (Mr King) had to pay the usual fares.

It is understood that country residents will benefit considerably by the reduction in rates for insurance against Are which has been authorised by the New Zealand Underwriters’ Association to be made on and after the 15th instant. There also will be reductions in various classes of town risks. The reduction applies to all offices belonging to the association. Arbitration is now proceeding between Britain and Portugal with regard to Barotselaud. The question involves the ownership of 75,000 square miles west of the Upper Zambesi. Britain contends that the territory up to the twentieth parallel is under the rule of Lewinaka, the paramount chief. Portugal contends that the Barotse kingdom does not extend westward of the Zambesi, The respective cases have been forwarded to the King of Italy, who will act as arbitrator.

Lord Milner states that £13,500)000 of the £30,000,000 Transvaal loan has been spent in the acquisition of railways, £5,800,000 on the repatriation of Boers, and £5,100,000 upon development work in the country. At present they are £5,000,000 short of what is required fot development. A shrinkage of the railway receipts owing to the paralysis of industries is the main cause of the deficit. The fourth cricket match between the Australians and Englishmen just concluded was won by the latter team at Sydney by 157 runs. The following are the results of the matches so far played, with one more to play:— First, played at Sydney.—England won by five wickets. Scores : England, 557 and 194 for five wickets; Australia 285 and 485. Second, played at Melbourne.—England won by 185 runs. Scores: England 315 and 103; Australia, 122 and in. Third, piayed at Adelaide.—Australia won by 216 runs. Scores: Australia, 388 and 351 ; England, 245 and 278. Fourth, played at Sydney.—England won by 157 runs. Scores: England, 249 and 210; Australia, 131 and 171. Sportsmen who usually spend their Easter holidays among the ducks must make other provision this year, says the Otago Daily Times. The season for taking and lolling native and imported game (other than deer and godwit) by the act of last session does not open until May Ist, instead of April Ist, as previously. The season will be a close one for native pigeon, pukeko (swamp-hen), and kaka. The weasels are reported to be doing a good deal of destruction among young ducks in many parts ot the district, and fears are entertained in some quarters that unless these animals are kept in check much of the native game birds will completely disappear ere long. On Monday next the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Palmerston North, will hold their first sale at their new yards at Himatangi, adjoining the railway station. The sales have hitherto been held at the old sheep yards belonging to the Oroua Downs Estate, but these not proving altogether satisfactory the Company has had up-to-date yards erected by the Union Timber Company. There will be a good varding of all classes of slock, and as the train service is so convenient there will no doubt be a large attendance of outside buyers. The train leaves Palmerston at 9 a.m., and returns to Palmerston at 3.40 pan. It is announced on good authority (says a Service paper) that the British Cabinet have decided on an immediate reduction of the Regular garrison in the South African colonies by at least 5000 men, and that the men will return to England early in the spring. This course was not adopted before reference had been made to the General Officer Commanding, South Africa, who is in agreement with the action of the Home authorities. The regiments returning to England will probably include the Royal Scots Greys (certain), and the battalions of the Welsh Regiment, South Wales Borderers, South Staffordshire Regiment, and Gloucestershire Regiment. The infantry regiments are to be included in the 2nd Army Corps, which is to be brought up to establishment as early as possible, in view of the threatened complications in the East.

Carpenters are now at work making additions to a residence in Robinsonstreet, which has been purchased by Mr F. W. Frankland.

Constable O’Rourke, who has been a resident of Otaki for the past fifteen years, has been appointed Clerk of the Court at that township. Constable O’Rourke is one of the ablest officers in the police force and he thoroughly deserves the promotion he has received.

Thus the Ellham correspondent of the Hawera Star :—“ We have discovered that since last Borough Council meeting Ellham should be the most desirable spot on earth in which to live, inasmuch as our sexton’s name is Heaven, and consequently anyone dying here can be truly said to be bound to “go to Heaven.”

A despatch to the San Francisco “Examiner" from Honolulu under date of January gth says: “RearAdmiral Evan's fleet, which sailed from here on the last day of the old year, is now speeding on to Guam minus at least three score of Uncle Sam’s men. These men have succumbed to the glittering bait held out by Viceroy and Admiral Alexieff of the Russian navy, and are waiting here to accept service as gunners against the Japanese, when war is declared.”

At the Wanganui races Mr A. Laing’s “ Lass o'Gowrie ” won the Flying Handicap of three-quarters of a mile, paying her fortunate backers a dividend of £lO 15s. On the second day the mare again romped home an easy winner in the Farewell Handicap of a mile, paying £4 is. “ Lady Soult ” ran second in both events, of good fields. Some local “ sports ’’ are mentioned as having won a considerable amount over the wins.

A man named Arthur Greaves was charged at the Police Court, Melbourne, with bigamy in marrying Alice Ann Cavalier, during the lifetime of his wife, Clara Annie Greaves. The defendant told the arresting constable that he was drinking at the time. Miss Cavalier was a barmaid at the hotel where he had been drinking, and he did not remember marrying her. Both marriages were celebrated at Holt’s Agency. The defendant was Committed for trial.

The workers who are salving the sunken Spanish men-of-war at Cavite, Philippines, says the China Mail, have to be congratulated on the success of their labours* as they have now raised nearly all the vessels. They must be also congratulated on the bad marksmanship of Dewey’s gunners. It was popularly supposed that the fleet had been sunk by the terrible fire of the American vessels, and as the Spanish vessels Were all at anchor, it seemed a reasonable supposition. But in every vessel which has been raised, the hull was found to be practically uninjured. They had been all sunk by the Spaniards themselves, who had opened the seacocks and thus sunk the vessels which they were unable to defend. The recent agitation for legislation to prevent the sale of tobacco to boys and growing youths at first sight seems to chronicle a state of things never previ ously known. That is not so, however, A writer in “ Good Words ” tells that in the closing years of the seventeenth century Smoking was almost universal. All classses and all ages of both sexes smoked. The French traveller, De Rochfort, during his visit to England, arrived in Worcester. While walking about the town with his guide the latter asked him if it was the custom in France, as in England, that when children went to school they carried in their satchel with their books, their pipes and tobacco, and that at a stated hour the master smoked with them, “ teaching them how to hold their pipes and draw in the tobacco.” There is ample corroboration that this is no mere tale. In the little Slum Halls situated in twenty-four of the meanest streets in London the Salvation Army every morning is now supplying farthing breakfasts to hundreds of hungry boys and girls, From a description in the Social Gazette of some of the scenes witnessed at these feasts we take the following Can’t you bring any sort of a cup ?’’ asked the Captain of one little fellow, “ No," was the somewhat short reply. “ But haven’t you a small basin, jug, or anything at home that will hold the cocoa ?” again queried the Captain. “ No,” he said, hanging his head. “ It’s true wot 'e sez, Captain,” chimed in a little chap who was standing by, “ ’cos ’e an ’is muvver sleeps on the stairs." The little boy and his mother were homeless, and slept by night on the stairs of model dwellings. The sympathy of the world, speaking generally, is certainly on the side of Japan. For one thing, what the world sees is a little State standing dauntlessly in front of a big State. Japan has a population of less than 45,000,000, Russia has a population of 140,000,000. It is a battle betwixt Tom Thumb and the giant. All the world, too, has learned to deeply mistrust Russian diplomacy, and too dread Russian ambitions. Woe to the State —strong or weak—whose borders march with those of Russia. Russia has a giant’s appetite as well as a giant’s strength, and whole provinces are but morsels for its hungry jaws. But whichever s'dc wins, the omergency of a new Power in the East is almost certain to be one of the results of the coming coflict. A cablegram from Tokio reports that the dreams of Russia include the establishment of control over China, and the training of its vast hosts by Russi n agents. It is certain that the dreams of Japan herself look in the same direction. The brute strength of China for shaft, and either. Japan or Russia tor spear-head, would constitute a weapon at which the world might well tremble. —Dr Fitchett, in Life.

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Two Stbono Reasons.— W. J. Mollroy, Esq., Kumara, N. Z., said recently; "From actual use in my own family and remarks made by all who have ever used Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, I know it to be the best cough mixture in the market. I have had the agency for over four years, have sold many gross, and have never had a single complaint.” For sale by all dealers.