We have to thank the secretary of the Manawatu Racing Club for a complimentary ticket for their autumn meeting. The Borough day men are now e*gaged grubbing all noxious weeds off the roads, the majority of which are lupins. A visitor has written in a visitors’ book at Rotorua“ I came here for change and rest. The Maoris took the change; the tradesmen tpok the rest. Daring last month 7347 bales of flax (1476 tons) were graded in Wellington by the Government experts, as compared with 7770 bales (1558 tons) in the previous month. A Sydney baker was fined recently 5s for every ounce of short weight in 140 loaves found on bis premises. The total shortage was 5750 Z, and the total fine amounted to £143 15s. Touching Dowie's assertion, made in America, and reiterated in Australia, that he can work miracles, an American paper says“ If you do not believe that Mr Dowie can perform miracles, you should see him at a big dinner.
The total number of arrivals in the colony during February was 2318 against 3159 for the same month in 1902. The departures numbered 2155 as compared with 1842 in February 1902. Trespassers are warned by advertisement that prosecutions will follow those found on the Motoa Estate after this date with dog or gun, and a notice to the same effect appears from Mr F. S. Easton, the owner of part of the estate. Sportsmen beware! Barham’s flaxmill, at Ferntown, Nelson, was totally destroyed by fire on Monday, with three tons of fibre. The mill was in full work at the time but the men were unable to cope with the flames, which spread rapidly. The origin of the fire is unknown. There was no insurance. The body of a stillborn female child was fonnd on Monday in a closet at tached to the ladies’ waiting room at the Christchurch railway station. The body was naked and there was nothing to assist identification. Probably it was placed in the closet on Saturday night. An inquest was held on Tues day afternoon and a verdict ot born dead was returned. The police have at present no clue to identity. The experience of a Gore trader (says the Standard) suggests that there is something in the contention that plentitudeof money is one of the benefits that follow in the wake of no-license. Three months ago he quitted business, and since then he has collected over £IOOO of book debts. ? A great proportion, no doubt, were not difficult to collect, but the trader considers that twelvemonths ago be would not have met with such success.
The lady elector is quite conscious that she has become a power in the land (says the Melbourne Argus.) One lady canvasser for Sir Malcolm MeEacharn explained to the chairman of the committee that a motor-car must he sent at half-past 4 o’clock for a certain lady. “ She absolutely refuses to vote unless she is taken in a motor car,” remarked the canvasser. At a sale of seed potatoes at Spilsby, Lincolnshire, six tubers of the Eldorado variety were disposed of by auction, the lot weighing only five ounces. They realised £53 3s 6d, which works out at £402,658 13s 4d]|per too. One potato sold for £ll, and another , for ten guineas. Nine guineas were paid for a tuber that weighed only half an ounce. A stone of a new variety, which has been named the Sir John Franklin, and which has only been on the market a fortnight, sold at the rate of £3OOO per ton. It is stated that the Moriori race is now all but extinct. There are only eight pure Motions living on the Chatham Islands. The youngest is a man about twenty, and there are no women of his age, or that he could marry—thus he becomes the last of his race. In 1862 a census was taken by the Morioris, and a copy of the original document is now in Dr Pomare’s possession. According to this census there were 945 males and 727 females living in 1836. Epidemic diseases and tohungas are held responsible for the decay of this interesting race. A large crowd of interested spectators assembled at the riverside on a recent afternoon to witness the launching of Felix Tanner’s “ark” the second, says the Wanganui Chronicle. The craft, in appearance, is anything but prepossessing being more suggestive ot the Chinese than any other style of marine architecture. The craft was freely critcised by local boatmen, who inclined to the opinion that want of beam would militate against its effectiveness in a heavy sea, while sailing in a strong wind would be— to say the least of it—risky. The “ark” was safely launched at 2 p.m., the cheering being with held in anticipation of the craft’s departure, which is now being expectantly looked forward to,
The secretary of the Foxton Racing Club calls a meeting of the committee for to morrow night. The Mayor is at present on a combined business and pleasure trip to the South Island. Tenders close at noon on Saturday next with Mr J. T. Levett for painting interior of St. Mary’s Church, Foxton. Mr Geo. Stiles has lately been re ceiving large importations of new seasonable goods, and in a replace advertisment mentions a number of lines that have been cut down in price. From Saturday next and for two weeks following these goods will be under offer to the public. Spitting is freely indulged in in American theatres. Mr W. J. Abingdon, who has just returned from the States, says his composure was somewhat upset when on one occasion he stepped upon the stage of a particular theatre and saw fixed in front of the footlights a board, bearing In Urge letters, the announcement, “ This is not a spittoon.”
Among the Danes, Norwegians and Finns, women are employed as sailors and prove themselves to be expert mariners. In the smaller sailing ships, when there is a woman on board, whether she be the wife of the skipper, or the stewardess, she is expected to take her turn at the ordinary work of the sailor, not even excluding the duties of the man at the wheel or of the night watch. Denmark employs several women as State officials at sea. Experienced captains assert that the women make excellent sailors, and are equal to most seamen in dexterity and power of endurance. For some years past the Marine Department has been endeavouring to destroy the cats on Stephen’s Island, in order to prevent the destruction of the tuatara lizards there. The lighthousekeepers (says the “Post”) were supplied with a gun and ammunition to shoot them, and-arrangements were made to pay the men who take the mail over for all they could destroy. It having been found that owing to the rough nature of the island and the thick scrub with which it is covered it was difficult to exterminate the animals by shooting, it was decided to attempt to destroy them by poison if it could be done without poisoning the lizards. The department was advised to try catharidin as being a poison which might not affect the lizards, and a supply of it was recently sent to the principal keeper, with instructions to try it on two or three of those reptiles before leaving it for the cats. A report which has been received from him shows that the lizards to which it was given died within half an hour of receiving it, and it has therefore been decided not to use it for the cats, but the amonut which has hitheto been paid for shooting will be increased in the hope that this will lead to the destruction of a greater number.
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