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Manawatu Herald, 31 May 1904, Page 2

A reward is offered to the finder of a silver watch, chain and brooch. In the Rangitikei district farmers are getting only £z a ton for their potatoes. At the Court yesterday morning before G. A. Simpson, Esq,, J.P., George Lind, for drunkenness was convicted and discharged. It is reported that a well-known New Zealand firm, large purchasers of butter and cheese, has lost £15, 000 on the year’s operations. Large stocks of both butter and cheese, it is stated, are being held by them in London for a rising market. A thirsty man rushed into a Fielding hotel on Friday and said, “Give me a pint of beer. I will come back and give you the sixpence in half an hour.” The urbane barman replied sweetly, “ Right you are ; but we will end for end it. You come back in half an hour with the sixpence and then have the beer.” —Star. During the hearing of a charge at Christchurch of using obscene language, the very high character and respectable position of the accused person was pleaded in mitigation, and as a reason for making the penalty not a severe one. Mr W. R. Haselden, S.M., who occupied the Bench, said : “ I will put a problem before you. Why should a gentleman who uses language as bad as could possibly be used by any stoker escape the punishment that would be meted out to a stoker ?” Counsel could not but admit the justice of this, and the Court marked its sense of the gravity of the offence by inflicting a fine o£ £lO.

A meeting of the school committee will be held to-morrow evening at the school at 7.30 p.m. A Taranaki doctor was once riding over a wild stretch of country, and asked the lonely milker how he managed to get medical assistance for his wife in the isolated cottage where they lived. “ Well, sir,” replied the farmer in good faith, •’ we kwnn’t ha’ no doctor; we just dies a natural death.” On returning from a masked ball recently, the pretty young daughter of a well-to-do tradesman in Berne. Switzerland, appeared greatly agitated, and refused to speak to her parents. Next morning she was found dead in bed, having poisoned herself with arsenic. It was stated that while at the ball she proposed to a young man, and, overcome by shame and grief at his refusal, sought oblivion in death. When in England last year Mr J. B. Clarkson had an opportunity of inspecting the breect ovob fnotr, r ier, in the world, and after doing so came to the conclusion that the Premier Cycle Company 01 Coventry were the most up to date and progressive in their manufacturing department. They have just finished spending £5,000 in improvements at their Coventry works, and their annual output of bicycles is 70,000. After due consideration Mr J. B. Clarkson accepted their New Zealand agency and is now busily engaged pushing “ Premier Cycles.” This firm have the proud distinction of being appointed “ cycle manufactures by appointment” to his Majesty King Edward VII. Catalogues free on application to the head office, Palmerston North. Sometimes motives of malice, and sometimes a mistaken sense of humor, prompt people to send dangerous packages to selected Victims through the post office. A messenger in -a gold fields office in Western Australia was recently startled to discover a live snake in a box addressed to the wife of an hotelkeeper. He pulled it out with a pair ot tongs, and found (after despatching it) that the reptile was 31 inches long* Another package was addressed to a gentleman at the same hotel, iu the same hand-Writingi This was handled very Cautiously; but it was found to contain nothing more deadly than half a lemon. The lady to whom the reptile was addressed was in a delicate state of health dt the time. Her hilsbahd has offered a reward lor the discovery of the sender of the package; and as an offence against the Postal Aet has been, committed, this reward has been supplemented bv one of £3 from the Postmaster-General.

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