Manawatu Herald [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1904.

Manawatu Herald, 19 March 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1904.

A Maori prisoner who was being brought from a train from Maiton to Wanganui to serve a sentence for false pretences jumped through a carriage window just after leaving Okoia on Tuesday evening. The police search was fruitless, but on Wednesday morning he surrendered himself to the authorities.

A woman has made her 137th appearance before the Dunedin Police Court for drunkenness, drink being her only failing. She was sent to the Inebriates’ Home at Waitati kst year for twelve months, but the treatment there does not appear to have had the desired effect.

The East Coast Guardian says:—We have to apologise for the non-appear-ance of our Saturday’s issue, but with two feet of water in our composing room and the type cases awash we felt that circumstances were rather too strong for us,

Speaking at Lawrence, the Premier said he trusted the lime was not far distant when not a ton of coal would be brought to New Zealand from New South Wales.

The body of a man with a pencil behind his ear, a pair of shears in his hand and his pockets filled with gold has been excavated at Pompeii. He is supposed to have been a tailor who advertised well.

A saddening number of young men are to be found among the drunkards in Auckland, nearly all those charged on a recent Monday being under 30 years of age. Mr Brabant commented upon this fact, expressing sorrow at the number of young men who had come before him of late for inebriety.

A snbsfifiber in forwarding amount of his account to the Taranaki Herald apologises for overlooking it. and adds: “ I think it must be the first time this has occurred since I became a subscriber, over 30 years ago.” Happy the paper which has subscribers who only overlook their accounts once in three decades.

Mr Stead "boomed ” the launching of his new daily paper by sending aloft balloons, which dropped cheques from the skies. Three of these £3 are said to have found their way into the hands of British working men—a glad reflection to the proprietor. Of 300 cheques for small amounts not more than too were found and presented for payment. Messrs C. M. Ross & Cq., of the Bon Marche, Palmerston North, the direct importers of fashionable and family drapery, announce the opening up of autumn and winter shipments for all departments of their extensive business, of which they invite the early inspection of buyers.

At the Court on Thursday morning, before Messrs Hennessy and Fraser, J’s.P., John Lyle for drunkenness, was fined 10s or 48 hours; and for being a rogue and a vagabond was sentenced to one month, sentences to be cumulative, Before the same Justices yesterday morning, George Johns for being drunk, was fined 5s or 24 hours ; and for indecency was fined £1 or 7 days. The best singing voices are usually found in countries where meat and fish are not a common article of diet. Italy is a noteworthy example, Scandinavia also, where many fine voices are found among the lower classes. So widely is this fact known that many singers of great fame practically discard flesh food altogether.

At the Shannon Police Court Thomas Kilcoyne, an alleged bookmaker, was sent to gaol for three months, without the option of a fine for obtaining £3 by fraud from a man named Boer on the Shannon course. Boer struck Kilcoyne for a £7,0 double on the first and last race, and just as the last race was over the “ bookie” was missing. He made tor the train, where he was captured by the police and locked up. The same ‘‘bookie ’’was also convicted of defrauding a man named Harris of the sum of as 6d.

From Wellington to Woodville and thence to Wanganui in a cab is an unusual performance that took place recently. It may have been the economy of the thing that appealed to the excursionists, who filled two cabs (their own) and camped out en route. They attended the Woodville races and experienced bad luck, so bad that one of the vehicles had to be sold, and the Jugginses whipped up for Wanganui. It is not known, says the Carterton Leader, what luck they had there, but as no stray cabs have been seen in the wilderness lately, it is presumed the auctioneer officiated there also.

The arrival of new goods is always an attraction to the public generally, and a very fine display of new Autumn goods can now be seen ai Mr Stiles', upwards of 20 cases and bales having just been opened np. This firm has also opened np several cases of hosiery, sheetings and calicoes, which were indented previous to the rise in cotton, and these can be had at old prices. In jackets, Cravenette coats, trimmed millinery, and especially made up goods for children, which we understand is going to he made a special feature from this on, the display is excellent. Customers can rely on being welcomed in their inspection without being pressed to buy.

The large number ef entries being received for the Manawatu Public Schools Championship Sports Meeting, which is to be held at Palmerston on the 31st, points to the meeting being a great success. The local school will be well represented, altogether there being 53 entries, including a squad of cadets, and a squad of girls for wand exercises. No doubt special arrangements will be made with the railway authorities so that the fares will enable large numbers of children to take part in the displays. A special feature of the gathering will be the massed display of wand, club and dnm bell drill to music, and also a cadet drill competition. These competitions are carried out with great success in Anck land, Hawkes’ Bay and Canterbury, where they are attended by crowds >f people,. It is the intention of the organisers (o make the gathering an annual affair. “Colonel” Lynch’s release 'from prison was, wiites a London corres pendent, unexpected by all but a few of his more sanguine friends, who had, since his reprieve from the sentence of death passed on him a year ago, been convinced that his incarceration would be brief. The order to set him at liberty came as a surprise to the officials of Lewes gaol. Had they been given notice of it in the customary way, Lynch would have been allowed to grow his hair and moustache while awaiting the time fixed for his discharge. As matters were arranged, he did not get the benefit of this privilege. He will, however, have an opportunity to regain his normal appearance in the matter of hair during a visit which he is making with his wife to friends in the French provinces. The general understanding in London that it was entirely through the intervention of the King that Lynch was given his liberty has not prevented some of the newspapers from expressing disapproval of bis release.

In the Melbourne Divorce Court the other day the Chief Justice, in granting a wife’s petition on the ground of desertion, said the respondent was the fourteenth of a list of scoundrels who had occupied similar positions during the present sitting of the Divorce Court. It was impossible to conceive that these fourteen cases were the result of accidents. On\he contrary, they were, in his opinion, the result of deliberate acts of villains, who had used their wives for the sole purpose of depriving them of any advantages that might otherwise accrue to them from marriage. These respondent husbands had, said his Honor, accepted no individual responsibility, and threw the burden of maintenance of their children either upon their unfortunate wives or upon the State. Having done this, they cleared out and left their wives behind them. It was a startling thing that in this one sitting of the Court fourteen cases had been disposed of on practically similar lines, and not a single word was to be urged against the petitioning wives on the ground of misconduct or otherwise. They had simply been made use of in the name of marriage. They had no redress. They had been made slaves in the sacred name of marriage.

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