Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1904.

Manawatu Herald, 15 March 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1904.

The recent rains up-country have caused a rise in the price of sheep. In the Manawatu the price has increased by is 6d per head. Advices have been received at Wellington that prices will harden all round, particularly on lambs. The rain has brought on the rape crop, and the lambs can be held for fattening. The clergy ot the little cathedral of St. David's Pembrokeshire, have hit upon an ingenious expedient for restraining the monotonously regular flow of threepenny bits into the collection bag from the pockets of their well-to-do congregations. They have, in short, made a corner in these coins, keeping in their possession all that the offertory produced ; and as the nearest town is almost 20 miles distant, threepenny bits have practically gone out of circulation in the locality. The result is gratifying. Threepenny bits are at a premium, and the nimble “ tanner,” the respectable shilling, and even the substantial half-crown, it is said, now help to swell the revenues of the church.

Soothsayers the world over are prophesying nothing but: horrors for (his present year of grace. A leading astrologer, named Jacob, sizes up the situation as follows, and the others agree more or less as to detail“ Here is the horoscope for 1904, made at the moment the sun entered the sign ot Capricorn. It indicates a year of great immorality in London. The Viceroy of India abdicates. The United States has grave quarrels with Russia and Germany. Roosevelt falls sick and a conspiracy is hatched against him. Serious financial troubles in America. The Emperor of Japan has a grave accident. An attempt on the life of the Emperor of China. Volcanic shocks in Constantinople, Chili and Philippines. A year of unhealthy literature and unlimited materialism. The French Cabinet falls between April 7th and 19th. A panic in a music hall, grave accidents and popular disturbances in Russia. An attempt to poison the Czar. Serious dissensions between Russia and Austria. England loses prestige. The campaign in Thibet fall through. Tremendous failures in Calcutta and the Transvaal. Anarchist troubles in Spain; the Government threatened. In China women massacred. Everywhere crimes of passion* mysterious deaths, and strange phenomena.”

A smart boy is advertised for,

Madame Moare, clairvoyant, gives notice that she will be in Foxton for a feVv ihofe daVSi ,

In another column the M-ivor requests llie public to'observe St. Pat rick’s Day hs a public holiday. A' Six-foonled residence in Union street is advertised to let. It is well situated, and would be suitable for a private boardinghouse.

A saUsage Casing factory, which will, it is claimed, be the largest establishment of the kind in Australasia) Is being erected at Fctone, for Messrs Oppenheimer, of New York. Considerable additions are made to Messrs Abraham and Williams’ Palmerston stock sale. The firm’s Shannon stock sale for Friday next is also advertised;

Mr R, Feafsdn.is the successful tenderer fof the drapery stock in the estate of Edrrfnnd Osborne. It is Mr Pearson’s intention to hold a bargain sale within a few daj's.

The Southland Times says that Sergt. Major Blackmore, for many years drill instructor to the Southland volunteers, is claimant for a fortune in Chancery of £3s,cod. He hag gone Home to pi’oseCute his claims, A story is current in Sydney that a Chinese firm outside the Commonwealth has chartered a steamer to leave Sydney, or, some other port in the Commonwealth,-to proceed to an island near Honolulu to load contraband of war.

A fanner in Gippslancl has presented the Methodist Central Mission in Melbourne with a farm.of 1300 acres, io be Usg’cl as a fescue boy’s department. He attached two conditions—first, that his name should never be divulged ; second, that the property should never be sold by the mission.

.It is statedjn a Sydney paper that Mr Tliomas J ames Whelan—a son-in-la, w of ex-President Kruger—who visited Wellington last year in company with- his wife, has been served with a writ .for alleged breach of promise of inarriage. Whelan was married to wards the close of the Boer war, and, after visiting New Zealand and Australia, went to England, where he is at present residing. Nine prisoners who were working in the quarries in connection with the Dry Creek stockade made a determined attempt tc escape. As they ceased work they made a Concerted rush. Four wefe Captured inside the quarry reserve while the others got away and scattered. All were recaptured after a long chase. The warders fired several shots to stop the rush, but none were injured.

" IsitouroWn fault ,’'asksa femiiline scribe, “ that men now smoke all over the house, in close carriages with ladies, and between the dances at a hall ?" Men of the old school—there are a few left—of the fine old type that observe the rules of courtsey where women are concerned, would not dream of asking a girl to dance while shedding around them odours of whisky and tobacco. But the young men of the day, with a few delightful exceptions, make it their constant practice.

A provincial newspaper, in reporting the proceedings of a juvenile ballgiven by the Mayor of the town recently, states! —“ For the reception the Mayor was attired in his robe and chain of office, which it had been notified to him would give pleasure to some of the young people, who had not seen this gorgeous civic vestment. After welcoming the guests lie disrobed, wearing only the massive gold chain.” A pathetic story connected with the loss of the steamship Clallham, which foundered off Victoria, Brithish Columbia, involving 56 lives, is related. When the Clallharn’s lifeboats were launched a man kissed his wife and baby and exclaimed : “ Good bye, I will meet you to morrow.” The woman returned her husband’s embrace, and with a smile entered one of the boats. The husband stood watching her, saw the boat capsize, and, and despite all efforts to restrain him, sprang overboard and was drowned. There is a Chinaman in Masterton who imported a wife from the Flowery Land about ten years ago. There are now some eight or more almond-eyed youngsters roaming (he streets. These, says the Eketahuna Express, have all been christened after leading M asterfon settlers. The first was named “Jimmy.” Then came " Charlie,” “ Willy," “ Freddy,” " Micky,” and so on. It is not stated whether each of the god parents sent along a present. Bishop Wallis states that only 18,000 out of the 200,000 natives in the Melanesian Islands have come under the influence of Christianity. In many of the islands, he says there are cannibals and head hunters. Traders admitted that ordinary civilisation had no good influence over such men, and it was Christianity alone that had the effect of changing their lives. The Bishop mentioned that at'the present time one great need is the want of whaleboats to enable the workers to travel round the islands. The people of Auckland have promised one boat, and the supporters of the mission in Palmerston North another, and be wants the people of Wellington to give a third.

In giving judgment on a “ milking on shares ” case, Mr Stanford (the Taranaki Herald correspondent writes) remarked on the vague nature of the agreement between the parties. This state of things, I believe, is pretty general throughout the dairying districts, and is likely to lead to a plentiful crop of Court cases. In this particular instance it appears to have been left in delightful uncertainty as to what was meant by “ half the milk cheque,” whether the half of the actual cheque drawn and received or half the value of the milk supplied. It is usual for factory companies to deduct from the gross value of suppliers’ milk sums owing to the company for calls on shares, butter obtained for domestic use, and other items. The Magistrate decided that the term “ half the milk cheque ” was not to be taken as meaning half the actual milk cheque, but half what the cheque would have been had there been no deductions to be made.

The Manawatu Herald will be published on Thursday morning (St. Patrick’s Day). In his usual space Mr C. F. Johnston gives notice that a coach will leave his lively stables at 8.30 sharp for the HoroWhemia races;

\Vith coitimbndaßle enterprise Messrs Bnick and Russell issued the Dannevirke Advocate on Saturday in an enlarged form. The Advocate is now the largest paper in Southern Hawke’s Bay, which tact Will tend to tridrehse its influence and prosperity; As St; Patrick’s Day, (Thdfsdayl, is to be a public holiday in Foxton, and there being in consequence no halfholiday to-morrow, the tennis match— Sanson v. Foxton—has been postponed till Wednesday, the 23rd. This will give the local, representatives longer time for practice, of which they are very much in need, and it, is to be hoped that they will avail themselves of the opportunity.

A resident of Karamea, Nelson, is setting to work to develop the timber resources of Raratfiea. He has purchased five freehold sections on a lagoon branch of the Karamea River, is now erecting a wharf, and will put up a sawmill immediately; Arrangements have Been completed td Cut timber from private {property. A Wellington resident, who has a long lease of a few acres of land at South tha( has a deep, if uneven, surface of good brick day, purposes to road the property, erect a brick-making plant, and while levelling the allotment, use the spoil for making bricks for the erection of a large number of workmen’s cottages.

A newly-mafried lady wheri about to board the express at New Plymouth on Thursday, found she had left her false molars in the cabin of a steamer she had just left at the breakwater. She got her hubby on the job, and he enjehu to drive to the breakwater to recover the teeth. Hie Cabman was paid well for his work, and the lady had the satisfaction of having the molars handed to her before the train' left.

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