Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1904.

Manawatu Herald, 19 April 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1904.

The Don Soft Goods Syndicate have now opened in Speirs’ Buildings with a fresh stock of seasonable goods. The Railway Dept, advertise that excursion fares will be issued to Palmerston on 27th and 28th April, available for return till 3rd May. They also notify the alteration in the running of trains on the Foxton branch during those days. The Marine Department ordered a surveyor to survey Tanner’s new “ Ark.” The Minister has now authorised the release of the boat and Tanner is arranging to be towed out to sea to sail for Wellington direct from Wanganui. Horse stealing is becoming very prevalent in this district, various local residents having had hacks disappear mysteriously, and the latest to be victimised is Mr A. Laing, who on Saturday night had the misfortune to have a valuable mare stolen from his paddock.

In connection with the decision of the Railway Department to take off early morning trains from Palmerston to Foxton on Wednesdays and Fridays, Mr W. T. Wood, M.H.R., some time ago received correspondence from the Minister tor Railways, stating that the promise to try the extended service over some months 'had been carried out and the very poor passenger returns left him no alternative but to reluctantly cease running the trains indicated. Dowie’s dupes in Australia, so it is said, are being banded together by “Pastor” Voliva—the person with the volcanic language—for a general exodus to Zion. IfVoliva is to be believed (which is doubtful), he will take 1000 families away. The loss of 1000 families is worse than a decrease in the birth rate, yet the sort of people who would follow so thin an impostor as Dowie are not much loss, A thousand families of probable idiots are not a very valuable asset.—Bulletin.

Happiness in married life is the outcome of compatibility, character, and principle; our characters we develop ourselves, our principles we choose, and compatibility can be cultivated ; therefore the matter is in our own hands. The will to be happy, working on the right lines, is the power to be happy. But the married pair must will in the same direction and will together; that they do not do so is the cause of most of their troubles.—Mme. Sarah Grand, in the Daily Mail.

Additions are made to Messrs Abraham & Williams’ Palmerston and Levin stock sales. On Saturday the directors of Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., declared in interim dividend of 4 per cent, for the half-year. The dismissal of 14 privates and a sergeant of the Horowhenna Mounted Rifles is gazetted for absence from master parade without leave. It is understood by a southern paper that the Premier will make an effort to take the advice of his medical advisers and take three months’ complete political rest. At the request of a number of ratepayers, Mr G. Simpson has decided to contest the seat for Mayor, and in another column asks for the support of the burgessesi A writ for £I,OOO has been issued by a Palmerslon barrister against a Napier totalisator proprietor for alleged wrongful arrest of a client, who was accused of having “ faked ” a £5 ticket at the Woodville races. In the midst of the devastations of war (says the Daily Graphic), Russia is said to have found time for reforms in the interest of the newly-married. Special drawing room cars for the exclusive use of couples departing for the honeymoon are now and henceforth to be provided by one of the Russian railway companies. A medical paper reprints from an old 1698 journal documentary evidence of the birth of a family of thirty-nim children of one father and one mother. The records of the College Herald? show that the “ thirty-ninth ” petitioned the authorities to be allowed to make a difference in the family arms in commemoration ot the fact. This infrequent request was granted. Mr Wragge was asked privately at Oamaru whether he could give any hints as to forecasting' the kind of weather a man might expect to meet at home when he left his club in (he “ small hours." The expert said he was sorry that he could not, and admitted that the meteorologist had something still to learn. Says the Taihape Post:—A visitor to Taihape at the present time could not fail to be struck by the number of men who are going -about with their faces disfigured. Black eyes, cut cheeks, broken noges, swollen lips, gravel rash, etc., were never so common as they are now, and it would almost seem as it an epidemic of some sort were in full swing. A beautiful limestone cave was discovered by three young men recently at the head of Tadmor Valley, known as The Forks. The cave is nearly 1600 feet above the sea level, and eighteen miles from Motueka river railway bridge, and far surpasses the caves at Takaka for size and beauty. In this, like other caves, were found moa bones. The Dannevirke Atheletic and Cycling Club has decided in reference to the 880yds handicap, run on New Year’s Day last, to disqualify W. A. Tirrell on the grounds of alleged collusion and incorrect performances, and to withhold any prize money not already paid out in connection with this event. A sitting of the Supreme Court at Palmerston is being held to day before Mr Justice Cooper to hear argument in the case of Agnes McDonald and Margaret McDonell v. J. R, McDonald) a claim for settlement of accounts in connection with a.i estate at Iloruwhenna. Mr Moore appears for the plaintiffs and Mr Morrison for the defendant. A correspondent (“ Bushman ”) writes to the Nelson Colonist as follows : —“ Will yon kindly allow me space in your paper to let your readers know how the native pigeon is being destroyed. There are hundreds of them in the Rai Valley at present, and they are being shot and sent away in dozens. I have known the Pelorus and Rd Valleys for the last ten years, and I consider the way onr pigeons, trout, and deer are destroyed all the year round is something shameful.”

Dr Pomars states that from careful observation and figuring he is able (0 state that half the Maoris born in New Zealand die before they are four years old. This alarming infant mortality is attributed to the utter ignorance of Maori mothers as to the proper care of their young. “ What,” he says, “is really needed is to have some mother in Israel to go amongst the natives to teach them how to look after the baby, how to cook for the invalid, and how to administer the simpler remedies." The Taranaki Herald reports a coincidence and an unromantic meeting. On Wednesday of last week a young man was brought before the New Plymouth Court on a series of charges. Before his case was called bn another case was dealt with, and the defendant in this case was charged with the same offence as the young man. Both defendants came out from England in the same ship many years ago, and they had never seen each other since landing in New Zealand till they both appeared in the New Plymouth Police .Court. One got seven days, without the option, and the other got off with a fine.

Lord Ranfurly, in the course of his farewell speech at Dunedin, said : “ To the reply to the address that has been presented to me, I should like to add a few words of thanks to the speakers who have so kindly expressed thernselves as regards Lady Ranfurly. She was indeed a good helpmate to me throughout my stay in the colony. She, from the first, took the deepest interest in the work, and was ever ready when she felt able to assist and do all in her power. She left this colony with feelings of deep regret, having left many friends behind her whom she was sorry to part with. My children came young to the colony, they spent over six years in your midst, and I can only say that they left the colony with deep regret too. Under these circumstances, how could it be that we were not deeply attached to you and your interests ? I do not think it requires words from me really to say that, if it lies in my power in the Motherland to do anything for the good of New Zealand I shall not hesitate,”

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