Expenses of the Duke of York’s Visit.

Manawatu Herald, 9 June 1904, Page 2

Expenses of the Duke of York’s Visit.

- - & According to a return furnished to Parliament the expenses connected with the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York, amounted to £BB,931 G*s. Of this amount £2250 went to reimburse the Governor for expenses incurred by him-. 3132,517 Gs 5d wont for reviews and massing troops, veterans and cadets at various centres, with passages and incidental expenses. -C27,458 IGs 7d was absorbed by miscellaneous entertainments, including Commissioner’s salaries and expenses, also expenses of invited guests from Australia and elsewhere, and Press representatives. £13,722 19s Gd went to the Railway Department for carriage of troops, cadets, veterans, Maoris, etc. £10,541 was paid for street decorations, arches, platforms and safeguards. The Mayor of Christchurch was reimbursed £247 for expenses incurred by him. £3G! 19s Gd was granted to Ministers and their secretaries for expenses incurred by them ; while £2386 9s lOd for police protection, passages, etc., was paid. Those formed the bulk of the total amount.

Fowls are selling in Wellington at 6d per lb live weight. A Wairarapa farmer has vail'd over iooo (o th e chv in the past lour months. G. G. Fitzgerald died in the Timam hospital on Tuesday morning, aged 70 years. He was well-known in journalistic circles and editor oi the Timam Herald slice 1885. He was at one time a member for Westland, and in the early days occupied the position of Warden and Magistrate at Ilolciiikn. He was a brother to the! dc Comr.lisrGeneral.

Frank Toomov, Dunedin licensee of the Se.ielilT 1 hotel, was charged with refusing accomodation to two travellers in the ielegrripli service. He told (ho Bench the rooms were all occupied, hut he could have given the men a shake down only they were cheeky. Mr Cruickshanks, S.M., dismissed the information on the ground that the police had not proved there were beds to spare.

According to private letters from St. Petersburg the Czar is in a very nervous stale and is in constant fear of assassination. At the, best his Majesty has anything but a strong physical and mental organisation, and this has been farther weakened by the events of the last few weeks. For, in addition to the wav in which the Emperor has taken to heart the initial disasters to his navy, it is understood that he has been very much upset by the discovery ol his having been misled, or in plainer words, deceived by the members of the war party. Tlfe s.s. Queen of the South, when coming up the river yesterday afternoon, took the ground in the bend opposite Mr Duncan’s residence. The sand bank on which (he steamer lies has been a nuisance to navigators for some time past, and is the outcome of the dredging operations which were carried out in the river some time ago. We pointed out some months ago the necessity of the Marine Department being approached to have the channel in this part of the river improved, but no move was made in the matter. The Pekin correspondent of the “China Times” recently reported that a Frenchman with a complete balloon equipment has gone to the front to take observations of the Japanese position for the Russians from altitudes which will enable him to g ithcr vain able information. He receives 20,000 francs a month and all expenses. ITleft Pekin on March 23, where he had gone to submit his agreement for the approval of the Minister. At the same time he engaged a young countryman of his to go With him as assistant.

The returning officer at Wanganui indignantly denies the allegation the Rev', Mr Girt made, on i!m authority of the Rev. Mr Cocker, that a ballotbox was left ail night in a shed at a flag station in Wanganui for the guard of the early morning train to bring into town. The facts are, according to the returning officer, that the guard was deputy returning officer, and the box was never out of his charge. Immediately the poll closed the ballot-papers were removed from the box and placed in another, and at once taken to the returning officer at the chief pollingbooth. The box seen by the Rev. Mr Cocker-contained no ballot-papers, and was in charge wf tho guard,-

The Borough Council meet on Monday next. Mi' and Mrs 11. Austin left on Tuesday for Auckland to catch tlie mailboat Sierra on a trip to the St, Louis Exposition. A Hawcr.i resident was on Tuesday night knocked down by two men at bis own gale, upon reluming home. His wife heard a scuffle, and rushing out, (he pair decamped. A Wellington publican fold a Bos' reporter that 10 o’clock licenses wore a mistake. “It is often hard to clear the liar at to o’clock without using physical torco,” said boldface sadly, An Ecclcs (English) woman, charged with refusing to send her boy to school, was fined five shillings, or seven days. She said : “ I’ll do the seven days ; it will bo a rest tor me.”

An abnormally heavy sheep was killed by Mr Baxter, of Tuapeka West, last week. the dressed weight of the carca.o being it h..d been ran rung wild on a rocky portion of hi; firm for !V- i-d three years, and was only secured by means of a rifle shot. Tho meeting d: the Manawatu Licensin'.; Commute:- was held at Marton this morning. Licenses wore granted to all hotels in Foxton, and the Committee notified that certain alterations to the Family Hotel were to be made within three months. The committee, acting on the police report presented, warned three publicans foi' alleged Sunday-trading. An old man, who said he was a hundred years old, was found sitting on a doorstep in New York leccnily. He said he had been turned adrift because he could not pay his rent. Some years ;igo he had a comfortable fortune, but a'daughter had induced him to let her have control of his money, and had then disappeared, .and left him penniless.

Much anxiety is caused to retailers by the advent of the American Tobacco Companv. Many declare thM the public will have to pay /jo.ooo a year more for its tobacco and cigars. The wholesale men are not anxious, declaring that in a small country like this, the law can easily be changed to prevent extortions, and some retailers think with them. A certain millinnare has a brother who is rather hard of hearing, while he himself has a considerable nose, faking it altogether. Dining at a friend’s house recently he sat between two young ladies, The ladies were vociferous, and one oi them having shouted a commonplace remark in his right car, turned (o her companion and said in an ordinary tone, “ Did vos 1 ever see such a nose in yonr life !” “ Fualm 1110 !” exclaimed the millionaire, “ it is my brother who is deaf.” The Grevtown Standard says: —It is believed that McKenzie, wanted in connection with the murder of Collinson, is still in (he vicinity of To Awaite. During the past we 1: a whare near tiie scene of the late tragedy had been broken inti. At the request of the a dice all contracts have been snsp aided, and the men sent to Orongor .ngo, as it is felt that McKenzie, if in that vicinity, is receiving assistance horn some of the men 1- onl back.” One of the most extraordinary cases of sleep walking on record is (hat of a vonng servant girl of seventeen named Bn-ih. who went peacefully to sleep in her mistress’s house at Roughtnn, and, to her great astonishment, woke up a,t Norwich, eighteen miles away. Stic walked every step of this distance done, in (he dead of night, and no one seems to have taken any notice ol her until a policeman found her wandering on Monsehold Heath. Then, opening her eyes with a start she gazed in bewilderment upon her surroundings, and could give no account of her presence then. She was well dressed.

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