Manawatu Herald [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1904.

Manawatu Herald, 8 March 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1904.

Three good skutchers for a flaxmill at Waikato are required. For particulars, etc., application should be made to Messrs Austin Bros., Foxton,

Madame Moore, medical clairvoyant and specialist, may be consulted at Mrs Henderson’s, Wharf-street during the next few days. At a banquet at Invercargill the Premier stated that the revenue for the eleven months ending February 29th showed an increase of £547,000 as compared with the corresponding period of the previous year. Autumn goods are commencing to arrive at Mr Geo. Stiles’ drapery establishment. The bulk of seasonable goods are expected to be on band this week, and as usual an attractive display is certain. Orders for dressmaking are now being taken for the coming season. :

The demand for kauri timber for export to England is still very keen. Some sawmillers in Auckland have had to refuse large orders from Home. The Auckland Star says the demand tor kauri timber is owing to the fact that it is now being used extensively at Home as a substitute for another tim her which has become very scarce. American timber for joinery work is arriving in Auckland in large quantities.

Placing bees in cold storage to prevent loss by winter swarming is the method adopted by P. D. Jones, of Mt, Morris. N.Y, About ist December, it is stated, he placed the hives in tiers, one above the other, in the cold storage warehouse on his farm for winter keeping, and this plan has yielded the best results obtained in some fifty years of bee keeping. Mr Jones produces about sooolb of honey each year, the largest crop in any one year being 15,0001 b, and also a largo quantity of beeswax. It is reported that Paul Cinquevali was knocked senseless by his cannon ball the other week when appearing in London. He threw it up, as usual, with the confident expectation of catching it on the old safe spot between the shoulders, but owing to a slip of the foot, or in the placing of himself, poor Cinquevali got the ball on the back of bis neck. He fell upon the stage as though one dead, was taken away to the nearest hospital, and is said to have remained unconscious for many hours.

The latest report states that the King is making satisfactory progress towards recovery.

The Duke of Connaught retains the command of the forces in Ireland until May ist, in view of the King and Queen’s approaching visit.

Russia has directed the Thibetan mission, expected at St. Petersburg in May, to remain at Eschita till a more opportune moment. Mr Gerald Balfour states that the value of British produce and manufactures exported last year to the principal protected foreign countries amounted to £r06,000,000. The family motto of the new Governor, Lord Plunkett, is "Festinalente,” which, if we mistake not, is also the motto of a former Governor, Lord Onslow.

The Compensation Court was informed by a master builder in Greymouth that the cost of building a good house in Wellington just now was at least £IOO a room. Captain Voss, with the Tilikum, was in Natal last month. When the. mail left over 20,000 people had paid for admission in Maritzbnrg and Durban to view the little craft and its owner, and public interest was unabated. The gunboat Sparrow, which is to be converted into a training ship for New Zealand boys, will, the Premier says, go from port to port in the colony. She will accommodate about fifty lads, whose ages will range from about ten to sixteen.

John Procter, the licensee of the Commercial Hotel, Picton, New South Wales, died suddenly the other day. At the inquest the barman stated that for months past the dececased’s daily consumption of liquor was one bottle and a half of whisky, one bottle of wine, half-a-dozen glasses of liquor, and ten quarts of beer. An Interesting piece of news lately came from America regarding meteorite which had been found at Arizon. In the centre of this “ skystobe ” was discovered averitable'diamond, as perfect in form as any afforded bv the famous Kimberley minp. This diamond, it is said, has been placed in the Museum of Natural History at New York. A lady'stated at Christchurch that she had a friend who would not subscribe to the funds of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals because there was nothing in the Bible bearing on thp matter. A gentlemen remarked that a friend of his would not subscribe because the society did not endeavour to put a stop to the brutal practice of fishing. A mob of young heifers was recently taken to Tathra, New South Wales, tor shipment to Sydney. The heifers were driven on to the wharf, and, notwithstanding that men were placed as sentries around the wharf, the cattle stampeded, and about 20 of them rushed over the wharf into the water and commenced to swim out to sea. A cattle dog was sent after them, and, rounding the cattle in the water, drove them back to the rocks, which are particularlyrough. Every beast clambered up the face of the rocks, and all were shipped eventually, apparently none the worse for the ducking. When commencing the sale of a pen of lambs at Feilding on Friday, Mr Charles Carr said he had noticed that a certain person had suggested to the Premier in Palmerston North that some legal limitation should be placed upon theexportof fatewelambs. Hetermed the suggestion “ utter bosh,” for any disarrangement in the proportion of ewes that might result would be quickly and naturally corrected by the law of supply and demand, as there was more back country suitable for breeding than for fattening. There was already too much legislative interference with farmers. They could very well manage their own affairs, and it astonished him that there should be a proposal for more. These remarks were applauded by the farmers present.

There is no doubt Pahiatua is advancing in the right direction, The Borough Council has spent upwards of £3OO in improving their new recreation ground, and now claim to have one of the safest and best cycle tracks in the colony, it being very similar to that of Lancaster Park, Christchurch. The Athletic Club are holding their first annual sports on the new ground, and having provided a very liberal programme, should receive bumper nominations for the various events, as the competitors are assured of a safe ride, and the public a real good day’s sport. Mr J. Vile, has sent the following,to the Minister of Lands:— “ I notice that about.6o',ooo acres rural landTn the Taranaki district are open for disposal on lease-in perpetuity only, whilst applicants generally desire the option. If it is contended that this 60,000 acres contain minerals, then withdraw them from sale. I protest on behalf of applicants for land who desire the right to the freehold against this wholesale disposal of Crown lands on lease-in-perpetuity." An extraordinary story was told at the Biddulph (Staffordshire! Police Court when a collier named Charlesworth was summoned for being disorderly. Constable Lycett said the defendant, an unmarried man, took a fancy to another man’s wife, and the feeling was reciprocated. With an eye to business, the woman’s husband decided to sell her to the bachelor for 15s. The money was actually paid and the woman prepared to leave, but the husband regretted his share of the bargain and refused to allow Charlesworth to take her. This caused a quarrel, and the two men were fighting for the woman when the policeman arrived. Charles M. Brooke, a Christchurch chemist, and Henry K. Brooke, his son, an apprentice, were before Mr Haselden, S.M., on Saturday, charged with manslaughter and negligently causing poison to be mixed with medicine administered to a woman named Emma Sarah Dewey. They were remanded till Friday. Brooke had prepared the prescription for Miss Dewey in a mortar previously used for mixing strychnine, and which had not been properly cleaned afterwards by young Brooke. After taking the medicine Miss Dewey became worse and died,

We learn that the Sanson Lawn Tennis Club is sending a team to play the local club on Wednesdayi the 16th. If the visitors are in any form at all, they should score an easy victory. It is to be hoped that the prospect of a match may galvanize our local players into, let us say, the outward appearance of life. If this does not, we fear nothing will. The Greatford-Levin Railway question is still being steadily pushed on by the promoters. One of the latter, Mr R. B. McKenzie, of Carnarvon, has waited on several local authorities in the district lately, and ~ received promises of support to the scheme. It is stated that the Mayor of Wellington and several members of the Chamber of Commerce have promised to use every endeavour to get the new route approved by the Government. On every hand the survivors of the Farmers’ Union are throwing up their hands with a wild shriek cf despair and disappearing into the cold water of the sea of oblivion. If appearances are not extremely deceptive, before many months are over the Farmers’ Union will have resolved itself back into its old original constituent. Its name will be Mud, and its one remaining relic will be somebody called McCurdy, tottering about the landscape with a walking-stick, a pair of horn spectacles, and a copy of the Farmers’ Advocate, vainly calling upon aerial agriculturists to hurry in out of the wet, and exhorting the tame cattle on. the farms to come and get vaccinated by a vaticinating veterinary. Twelve months from now a Farmers’ Union will be a novelty; two years hence the species will be five times as rare and illusory as the dodo." —Palmerston Times.

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