Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1904.

Manawatu Herald, 23 April 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1904.

Potatoes at Pongaroa (Forty Mile Bush) are fetching 14s a sack. The Manager of the Makerua Estate warns persons against tresspassing on the estate. A good cook, housemaid-waitress, and a general are wanted for the Manawatu Hotel. Messrs Robinson Bros, insert a notice elsewhere warning persons from trespassing on their estate after this date. We regret to learn that Mr Charlie Baker, of Woodviile, has had the misfortune to be thrown from his horse and to have his leg broken. It is reported that the Lyttelton Times paid the Royal Geographical Society £4OO for a copyright account of the Discovery expedition. A bay mare and two steers are impounded in the public pound. If not sooner claimed and all expenses paid will be sold on Monday, 2nd May. The Mayor (Mr P. Hennessy) by advertisement regrets his absencee in the South Island will prevent him being present for polling day next week, but trusts the ratepayers will exercise good judgment by placing the best man at the top of the poll.

Mr J. Hunter, in a fresh advertisement draws attention to some new importations just received direct by the s.s. Ath'-nic, in paperhangings, white lead, gla.-s, etc. Pictures and picture frames are stocked largely, and Mr Hunter is also the local agent for the D.I.C, pianos and organs. Felix Tanner’s ark, which cleared the Wanganui bar on Tuesday morning, is now at Plimmerton, whore Tanner put in for shelter. The steamer Queen of the South sighted the ark off Kapiti Island plugging in a dirty sea and offered assistance, which, however, was declined. Tanner speaks highly of the sea-going qualities so far displayed by his craft. A pathetic circumstance in connection with the recent fatality at Reefton, whereby three young men lost their lives through suffocation in the Energetic mine, was that two of them --George Eslick and Thomas Lindsay —had been comrades since their early childhood in Victoria, had worked together, died together and were buried in the one grave.

A passenger by train from Shell Harbour to Wollongong, New South Wales, got out at the latter place and left behind him in the train a bag containing £'Zoo, He did not discover his loss until the train was well on its way to Sydney. The telephone was called into'play, and at Oxford the money was found as left by the lucky man. In a case against (wo men charged with drunkenness at North Loudon, a police-sergeant said one of them was singing “ The Death of Nelson.” Mr Fordham: That is sure evidence he was not drunk. Did he do all the very low notes and give out “ England expects that every man this day will do his duty” without jumbling the words together ? The Sergeant: Yes. He sang it very well. Mr Fordham: Then I shall not convict either man of being drunk.

“ Gossip parties ” are being held in America. The gentleman and lady guests are arranged in pairs, a settled subject is announced, and concerning it each pair have to talk for ten minutes. Then a bell rings and the guests are arranged in fresh couples, with another prescribed topic of conversation. So every gentleman present talks with every lady, and at the close of the entertainment prizes are awarded to the gentleman and to the lady who, by the votes of the opposite sex, are held to have been the most interesting conversationalists. The treatment meted out to the stowaway from New Zealand to Australia is sufficiently severe on “the other side ” to deter anyone attempting to make the trip to Sydney without paying their passage money. According to the Australian St.tr of the 14th April a labourer named Henry Fox joined the Warrimoo at Wellington on her last trip to Sydney, and when asked for his fare did not have it. He wn« taken before Mr Wilshire, S.M., and charged with" travelling from Wellington to Sydney with intent to avoid paying the fare (t'3 15 ;). He pleaded guilty, and was lined £5, in default one month’s imprisonment with hard labour.

For many seasons past (says “Vanity Fair”) the voice of the hall-giving hostess has been cl uuonriiig in the desert. Men wore not forthcoming, or at least, if th -y were, it was n-nriDy at the hour of .‘-upper, after which I hey went away with the same languid air that character! -V T -E p. N .w, all is changed. Hostesses seem (0 be having it all their own wav. Young men am becoming quite civil and are actually beginning to answer invita tions, dance with the (laughters of the house, and occ.is.io i.diy go so far as to ask a former hostess if she has had any supper.

The case of the gentleman who es teemed it an honour to be kicked by the august foot of George IV. is quite surpassed by that of the Rev. C. Myers, of Brooklyn, who recently attended one of the public receptions at the White House and shook hands with Mr Roosevelt. Mr Myers esteems it such a privilege to have shaken the hand of the President of the United Slates that he has not washed his own hand since. He says himself: “I do not think I will ever wash the memory off that hand. I would like to take that splendid grip with mo out of this world into the next and have it as part of my resurrection life.”