Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878] THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1904.

Manawatu Herald, 7 April 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878] THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1904.

Mrs Edmund Osborne and family intend shortly to remove to Palmerston to reside. Mr J. Lawrenson, from the Palmerston Post Office, is at present relieving Mr A. D. Clemett, our local postmaster, the latter being at present indisposed. According to the large number of applications received for flaxmill areas at the last meeting of the Westland Land Board the flaxmilling industry is going to play an important part in the development ot Westland. The following advertisment which . speaks for itself appears in an upcountry papers—" Will the person or persons, who left a dummy woman and a half-starved chicken on the verandah of our “batch” the other morning kindly supply the missing link.” We have been requested to remind owners of factories or work rooms that the registration fee under “ The Factories' Act, 1901, is now due, and section 10 of the Act provides that every occupier of a factory who commits a breach of this section is / liable to a penalty not exceeding £5 for every day daring which the factory is unregistered. We are sorry to report that Mr John Sullivan, an old resident of Foxton, has passed away after an illness extending over some five or six weeks. He has left a widow, one son and five daughters, all the children being mar* ried. Much sympathy will be felt for the bereaved relations. The funeral will take place on Saturday, leaving his late residence in Spring-street at 2.30 p.m. for the Foxton Cemetery, A riding master named Dimitrieff, of the Second Cavalry Regiment, has avenged his honour in the most tragic fashion. While he was with his regiment on the Turkish frontier, last summer his wife began a flirtation with a young man. Dimitrieff only heard of the affair a few days ago and resolved on speedy revenge. He had the lover brought into the garrison at Lorn Palanka and ordered the soldiers to bind him and throw him on the ground. Then, seizing a cudgel, he began to belabour the man. After the fiftieth blow the lover lost consciousness, but the cudgelling continued until one hundred and ninety-two blows had been struck, and the flesh actually flew from the man’s body. The lover died.oa his way to the hospital,

Charles Mitchell for drunkenness was fined 5s or the usual alternative of 24 hours’ imprisonment on Tuesday last, and Michael Guerin for a similar offence was convicted and discharged yesterday. Mr P, Hennessy was the presiding J.P. A Christchurch surburban storekeeper who was prevented from departing by the San Fransisco steamer has now made satisfactory arrangements with his creditors. Time, trouble and money (says an exchange) would have been saved if these arrangements had been made beforehand, John Cameron, aged thirty-eight years, ofTimaru, labourer, while riding a bicycle down a steep side-cutting near Otaio,-on Friday, lost control of his machine, and went over the side, breaking his neck. He was seen from a distance going down the cutting at a great pace. The jury found a verdict of accidental death.

The Carterton Observer says:—The champion mean' man has been unearthed at Carterton! He has been known to give his children a penny each, afterwards sneak it from them, and then give them a hiding for losing h. Sometimes he’ll ask “ Who’ll g, without tea for a penny ?” and when several of his children agree, he gives them the penny; but next morning he says, “ Who’ll give me a penny for their breakfast ?” and the kiddies, now very hungry, eagerly part up, the old man thus saving one meal. Fact! . A swiss girl, aged 18, a native of Zurich, has gone through one qf the strangest experiences on record. While on her deathbed in the Pamatone Hospital at Genoa five sacraments were administered to her by Bishop Pulcino in succession before her betrothed and her relatives. .She was baptised, confirmed, received her first communion, was married to her lover, Joseph Veturelli, who stood sobbing by her bedside, and as it was deaf there was no hope the Bishop, in a husky voice, gave her extreme unction. The dead body of a woman was recently found in the River Lagan, and identified by a workman named McCormick, of Belfast, as that of his wife, who had been missing since January, Btb. An inquest was held, and McCormick was present at the funeral, afterwards drawing the insurance money. On Sunday, January 24th, a woman knocked at the door of McCormick’s lodgings and asked to see him, saying she was his wife. To his surprise, he found that she was, in fact, the wife he thought be had followed to the grave. The shock so upset his nerves that he reeled and fell; and his wife and a neighbour had to assist him to his feet. Mrs McCormick refused to give any reason for her remarkable disappearance.

The editor of the Manawatu Daily Times draws on his imagination thusly:—“A favourite amusement of a portion of the Masterton populace is to race up to a drowsy policeman in the local streets and call out “ Ellis 1” The effect is the same as yelling “ rats ” in the ear ot a retrospective terrier. In these later days in the Wairarapa district it has been a positive danger for absent-minded persons to be abroad, so many corpu lent constables on ferocious halfdraughts are there dashing up and down the landscape in search of the Martinborough murderer. Any ordinary person with a three days growth of beard in that distressful locality is at once marked dawn as “ extremely like Ellis and if anybody answering this description seats himself at an hotel table and starts eating with his knife, the police are at once telephoned for.” Mr J. J. Blackburn, in advocating the exhibition at St. Louis Exhibition ot a working exhibit of flax machinery, made some pertinent remarks on the industry to a Wellington pressman. “We are getting good prices for our fibre,” he said, “ but with better and easier means of manufacture we might be able to do still better. Such an exhibit would probably lead to improved methods ot manufacture, as we might possibly learn much from what an expert would be able to see at an exhibition, which, it is reported, will be notable for its machinery display. Mr Blackburn mentioned that about a couple of months ago representatives of an American syndicate visited various parts of the colony endeavoring to buy up large patches of flax, for which they were offering good prices. “It would be a good thing,” he remarked, “ if the Government would take steps to prevent the destruction of flax that is going on in this colony by farmers burning it off. During my fortnight's visit to Marlborough I saw about 300 acres of flax destroyed. Those 300 acres would have kept about 25 men employed for fully eight months. Since I have been engaged in this industry,’ extending now over a period of 30 years, I have seen from eight to 10,000 acres of flax burnt. This is wrong, and I think restrictions ought to be placed against that sort of thing.” A party, consisting of members of the Presbyterian Church Committee and friends, waited on Mr D. J. A. Shaw at his lodgings on Thursday evening, and presented him with a handsome travelling bag as a token of their appreciation of the services rend«red by Mr Shaw to the Presbyterian Church in Foxton and the outlying parish during his stay in the district. The committee expressed their regret at losing a preacher who had proved himself so agreeable to all, and so energetic and capable in his ministration, which, owing to the extent of the parish, was exceptionally arduous. They wished him every success in his future career, and hoped their parting gift would be a reminder to him of the genuine friends he was leaving behind him, and of the esteem in which they held him. Mr Shaw thanked his friends for this unexpected indication of their good will, and also for their expression of appreciation of his labours among them. He had striven to do his duty in the parish to his best ability, and his only regret was that he had not succeeded better, and that his stay amongst them was so short. He hoped, however, to see them all again some day, and trusted he would find them increased in material and sphitual well-being.

The managers of the Reading Railway have issued an order positively forbidding 1 the use of cigarettes by those employed in the passenger service oi the New York division. The penalty for failure to obey this mandate is dismissal, and the reason given is this “It is not safe to trust the lives of passengers in the hands ot men who smoke cigarettes.” Two firemen belonging to the Monowai arrived at the wharf, in Wellington, .on Saturday to find that their vessel was swinging about 400 yards away preparatory to heading for sea. Both men dived off the wharf and struck out for the vessel. One man was soon in difficulties. He returned to the wharf, and was pulled out of the water. The other swam about 150 yards in the direction of the Monowai, and then put back. He was also hauled out of the water. The Monowai dropped anchor and the belated firemen were taken out in a ship’s boat to their vessel, which then resumed ier voyage.

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