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Manawatu Herald, 25 June 1904, Page 2

Several criminal cases heard at the Court yesterday will appear in Tuesday’s issue. Entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams’ Palmerston stock sale are advertised to-day. We remind farmers and dealers in stock of the Himatangi stock sale to be held on Monday. Messrs Stiles and Coley expect to commence working their flaxrnill on a new site in a fortnight’s time. The late flood necessitated the removal of the mill. Yesterday the S.M. granted old age pensions to the following : —Rebecca Coley, renewals of £lB to J. L. Campbell; £l3 to J. McGregor; and £iS to Fred. Taylor. On Wednesday evening next at the Public Hall a large number will no doubt attend to witness the friendly bouts of boxing. Gloves.will be provided for both heavy and light-weights, and the admission will be is. At the S.M. Court yesterday on the hearing of the Fishermen v. Flaxmillers’ cases some interesting legal argument waa expounded at length by counsel on both sides. Judgment was reserved. A report will be given in our next issue. Another flaxrnill will soon be at work in fhe vicinity of Foxton, Mr Fred. Easton being at present engaged shifting the plant of one of his Rangitikei mills on to his properly, on the Moutoa Estate block, to a site at Mukaka hill. Mr Easton reckons to have nine or ten months cutting. Mr R. S. Rounthwaite, C.E-, has been spending the last two days in Foxton, and has visited different parts of the town to obtain such information as would enable him to place before the Council a means of obtaining a water supply for the town. From a conversation with Mr Rounthwaite he is of the opinion that a supply can be obtained. Mr Rounthwaite was accompanied by the Mayor in his inspection, and also Mr George Nye, the latter gentleman being in a position to give the engineer some valuable information. It is now hoped that the Borough Council will not delay in getting Mr Rounthwaite’s report, when the method and cost of the proposed supply can be ascertained. As the Mayor remarked at the last meeting of the Council it was a question the ratepayers would have to face sooner or later—and, as he said—the sooner the better.

The Taranaki News states that Messrs Corrigan and Paltridge intend to appeal against the disqualification imposed on them by the Taranaki Jockey Club. Corrigan and Paltridge, together with a jockey named Roberts, were disqualified for life in connection with the running of the horse Pharos at New Plymouth last Christmas, The Japanese never sleep with the head to the north. This is because the dead in Japan, are always buried with the head in that position. In the sleeping rooms of many of the private houses and 'hotels, a diagram of the points of the compass is posted upon the ceiling for the convenience of guests. Robbers are tried and convicted by ballot in some parts of Japan. When a robbery is committed the ruler of the hamlet summons the male population, and they must write on a paper the name of the person they suspect of having coramitled the crime. The one who receives tbs most votes is duly punished.

A social reformer lately visited a shirt tactory in London, and the foreman of it started a piece of cloth on the rounds and made it come out a finished shirt in just six and one half minutes. In ten hours in this shop a man can cut 250 dozen, or 3000 shirts. Just seven girls worked on the shirt. A policeman named Fronde brought an action in London against the General Omnibus Company and the London United Tramways Company to recover damages for personal injuries to himself and for the death of his wife owing to the alleged negligence of the servants of both companies) and obtained a verdict against bdth dortipariles lor £1536 altogether. The following is how the Eketahuna Express gets one home on a contemporary " The Carterton Observer thinks that most people would prefer Carterton politics td Eketahuna sanitation. Well, we don’t kndW. Both are repulsive to the nostrils, but the former, we fancy, is the most deadly. Besides, Eketahuna sanitation can he improved. Carterton politics cannot.” “Law Notes” (U.S.A.)characterises as “ unique” the methods said to have been used in securing the jury that acquitted Tilman, who murdered N, G. Gonzales. It is asserted that lawyers, disguised as picture agents, went all through the county, talked with every man, and found how he felt about the murder, and prepared lists that made it easy to select a favourable jury.

A smart little trick is said to have been unsuccessfully played at a saleyard in Canterbury a few days ago. The vendor of a line of sheep, before offering them, drafted a nufnber of culls from amongst them, and after the line had been sold, returned these inferior sheep to the society of their former companions. The transaction, however, was observed, and the buyer demanded and obtained a substantial allowance as the only condition on which he would accept the line. It is suggested that the Farmers’ Union should take up such cases in the interest of fair dealing. The habit of taking baths is, according to Science Siftings, sternly con demned by Dr Robertson, of Chicago. He who bathes much, says the doctor, must necessarily be filthy. By rough fricton he scars his skin, and makes it so hard that loose particles of dirt will cling to it. The doctor has not had a bath for two years, and has only had five baths in the last ten years. His secret is frequent change of clothes. “ Many people,” he adds, “ are bathed out of the world.” The case of a hearty man of ninety-four is mentioned, who has had two baths in his life. On each occasion he fell into a river.

A well known ex-crack footballer, who about a fortnight ago was com rnitted to the Porirua Hospital for Mental Diseases, has already twice escaped from that institution. A few days after his commitment he made his first escape, and shortly after two o'clock on Wednesday afternoon he got clear away for the second time. He was eventually found by two constables in a shop at Petone about ten o’clock the same evening and induced to go to the police station- He rode into Petone on a bay horse, with a cover on.—Post.

The Boston Citizen of April 3 states that Sister Annette, a nun, while teaching music in the parochial school at Burlington, lowa, fell in love with one of her older pupils. She was transferred to the home of the mother superior at Cedar Rapids recently. Harold Stevenson, the pupil, stood the separation as long as he could, then went to the Cedar Rapids, where he managed to communicate with her. Under cover of darkness, after all had retired, she stole down the fire escape to the waiting arms of her sweetheart, and together they boarded a fast train for Chicago, where they were married. We regret having omitted, in our report’of the sale and musical evening of last Wednesday, some account of the programme provided. One singer deserved especial mention. This was Mrs Gardiner, who had travelled from Levin for the occasion, and treated the audience to an artistic rendering of the beautiful song “ Queen of Angels.” The other lady vocalist was Miss Mackay, who sang “ Believe.” Mr Keys was in good voice with “ The Seventh Royal Fusiliers,” and Mr Walter Cook gave his friends a pleasant surprise in his first public appearance as a vocalist, singing two songs in capital style. Three instrumental items gave a pleasant variety. These were a duet for cornet and euphonium (Messrs McKennie and Betty), aquartett, contributed by the same players with Mrs J. Symons (piano) and Miss A. Symons (violin.) Miss A. Symons also contributed “Norma” beautifully—a difficult violin solo. Mention has already been made of the lady dancers who gave the Irish jig so excellently, and also of the four little coloured people, trained by Mrs W. Cook, who sang the coon song “ Shine, Shine, Moon,” and (later on) the amusing argument—“ It is so—Bah !” Mesdames Symons and Cook and Miss Cook accompanied the performers during the evening.

The New York Globe says:—“ Man for man, the war news is steadily convincing that the Japanese are superior to the Russians. Not only Russia, but the entire world has reason to alter its sweeping opinions concerning all Orientals,”

Another stage of complicated horse transactions was reached at Invercargill on Thursday, R. J. H. Hardinge being committed for trial on a charge of forging a receipt for £62 10s between Wanganui and Winton, and with stealing £37 10s, the property of H. P. Rasmussen. The prosecutions have arisen out of a desire of Rasmussen, who is the constable at Winton, to possess a racehorse. He had commissioned the accused to go north and buy, giving him the money to do so. The allegations are that Hardinge bought a filly and colt at Wanganui, brought them south, and said that he had given a certain sum for the colt, for which he gave Rasmussen receipts in the name of Mrs Rasmussen. Witnesses from Wanganui denied that they had given such a receipt, and also that the price paid for (he horse was as staled in the receipt. Rasmussen told the accused that he believed the receipt was in his own writing, and that he would see to the bottom of it. A receipt for £4O, signed “ W. Phillips,” was found in accused’s possession, also a pedigree by one Walker. The defence was reserved.