Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1904.

Manawatu Herald, 16 April 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1904.

Mr C. Palk, temperance organiser, is announced to conduct the service in the Methodist Church on Sunday evening. It seems a scandalous thing Mr George Fisher, should be drawing £25 a month as payment for political services, when all he does is tojremain under restraint, by order of the Court, for twelve months in an inebriate’s home.—Petone Chronicle. Lord Cromer’s report on the Soudan states that the result of entries made by Major-General Sir F. R. Wingate, Governor-General, as to the approximate population is amazing. Prior lo the Dervish rule the population numbered 9,525,000. Now the numbers are 1,870,000. The deaths from disease are estimated at 3J- millions, and external and internal war millions.

Corbett has issued a writ claiming £IOOO damages in connection with his disqualification hi the Sydney £IOOO race. It will be hen’-’ ir * the Supreme Court at the be*. ■ mg of June.

Notice is given of the nom?- of Messrs P. J. Hcntsessy and G. Simp son as candidates for i.ue office of Mayor. The poll will be taken on Wednesday, the 07th April, between the hours of g a.m. and 7 p.m. A practical joker received a severe shock recently. Me pulled a chair just as a gentleman was about to sit down. The result was a broken neck and instantaneous death to the victim of the joke. The joker has yet to be dealt with in the Hungarian Court. A metropolitan paper publishes the following:—“ Lost, yesterday, a small, blue morocco pocketbook, containing a variety of papers—among the rest, a tailor’s bill for £5. Any person finding the same will please pay the bill, and nothing more will be said.” The Wairarapa Daily Times reports that the log on which the unfortunate native, Tamati Waaka, floated down the Wairoa River when in flood recently, and off which he was drowned, has been fenced in at the Kihutu pah and rendered tapu. “ If a man allows a dog to remain about his premises for 14 days he is liable for the dog tax,” Mr Russell informed the Court at Christchurch on Friday, when explaining the reason for a client’s anxiety to get rid of a stray dog. With a view to competing for the prize of £40,000 at St. Louis, am excavalry soldier at Sydney has perfected the model of a flying machine, which will cost only £SOO and carry six people, says the Melbourne Sunday Times,

Sir Walter Buller’s fine house at Papaitongn, close to Lake Horowhenua, together with its contents, in eluding a valuable collection of curios belonging to Mr Percy Buller, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday night. The house was insured in the Standard office for £350 and the furniture in the same office for £225. Old Age Pension returns show that during the year ended March 31st there were 33 new claims made for pensions in Palmerston. Of these 20 wefe granted, g were rejected and 4 are pending. Pensions paid during the year total £2720, including 128 at £lB each. The remainder are for varying amounts.—Standard. The Petone Chronicle says no Governor of New Zealand has had such a rosy time as Lord Ranfurly. Receiving a salary enormously in excess of any State Governor in the Australasian Group, his life has been spent in one long round of picnicking and junketting at the expense of an over-taxed but generous and thoughtless people. Buffalo Bill during one of his visits to Chicago was the guest of honour at a dinner given by Mrs Potter Palmer. “ Colonel, what would you do in a crowded theatre i fa man yelled “ Fire?” asked the hostess. “ I might take him at his word if I had my side arms with me,” replied the famous plainsman, grimly ; “ but if not I should do the next best thing in case of fire,” “ What is that ?” “ Put him out.” Mr E. Ball has now opened in his new shop next to Whyte’s Hotel with a fresh stock of smoker’s requisites. Hairdressing, etc., is also carried on as usual in an up-to-date manner, and Mr Ball is also the possessor of the best billiard-saloon in the district. One of Wright, Ratfish's new tables has been erected, and besides the ad Vantage of a first class table to play on, the light is good, and the room is comfortably fitted np. Before Mr P, Hennessy, J.P., on Thursday morning, three first offenders' for drunkenness, were fined 5s each. Yesterday before Messrs Hennessy and Fraser, Samuel Campbell for being drunk was fined 53 or 24 hours’ im and the same offender, for using obscene language, was fined £5 or one month in gaol. The Bench remarked that owing to the frequent use of foul language and the number of prosecutions for the same offence, they intended in future to deal severely with all such cases. The fine was paid.

Miss Loudon, only daughter of Mr Frank Loudon, of Wellington, was married at St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral, Wellington, on Tuesday, to Dr Edward Crosby Peers, of London. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. T. H, Sprott, assisted by the Rev. J. Jones, of Lower Hutt. The bridesmaids were Misses Constance, Myrtle, and Esme Dean, Miss Margaret Milne, and Misses Irene and Aif'reda Palmer —all cousins of the bride. Mr W. Loudon, brother of the bride, was best man, and Mr Rawdon Beere was groomsman. ■ ' . • Lhassa is a city of women, says the Strand. The entire population, excluding priests, can scarcely exceed ten thousand persons, and at least two-thirds of these are women. The clerks in the shops, excepting those kept by Kashmir and Nepanl merchants, are nearly all women. Not only Lhassa, but Thibet itself can be described as the land of women and women’s rights. This is due to the vast number of celibate priests. The results of the institution to a large part of the population are complete independance both in business and in personal conduct. In family life both polygamy and polyandry arc met with. The marriage of several brothers with one wife, or of several sisters with one husband, is regarded as the ideal condition.

The arrest of a man named, John Parrel for being drunk and disorderly at Napier on Wednesday night led to a remarkable scene. The man resisted violently, and was incited by a huge crowd. Parrel was finally lodged in gaol, and three -youths were also arrested for inciting him to resist the police. Parrel, who had only came out of gaol the day before, stated in court that he had been thirteen months in the colony and had spent twelve of them in gaol. He was sentenced to six months’imprisonment. The youths were charged with inciting the former to resist the police, and were remanded.

Says the Nelson Colonist: —We learn that recently a splendid stag, with twenty-five points, was shot in the "'cinily of the copper mine. The boast is said to have been a very fine one, and already the owner has refused £25 for the head. He intends to ship it to Australia, where capital prices rule for this class of ornament. Twenty-five points are very rare, and it is believed to be the first obtained in this district. “ The trail of the serpent is over us all.” “ Elijah ” Dowie said at Adelaide ; —“ I have said nothing except what a man may say lawfully. I am fighting liquor all the time; yet I am living in hotels where it is sold, because I find I cannot live in these temperance hotels. They are miserable places, where there is no proper provision for me. One needs servants, telephones, ■nd telegraphic communication.” Quite so. Mr J. B. Tunbridge, who resigned the position of Commandant of Police and left New Zealand last year on account of his health, has been rather seriously ill with gastric influenza in England. A letter dated March 10th states that Mr Tunbridge was then able to get about again, although he was very weak. He has been occupied in having a residence built for himself under his own direction at Hythe, in Kent. Mrs R. Gray, teacher of the pianoforte and singing, has been appointed the local secretary to the National College of Music, London. Examinations will be held in the month of November or December at the Triad Hall, Foxton, by the examiner who has been appointed for the colony, viz.,E. W. Hillsdon Hutton, A.N.C.H., L.C.M., the certificated teacher from Trinity College, London. It will be satisfactory to parents and pupils alike to have the examinations conducted locally in the future. Mrs Gray also announces that candidates’ names will be entered to 31st May, also the days and hours of her theory and singing classes.

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