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Manawatu Herald, 5 July 1904, Page 2

A meeting of the school committee will he held to-morrow evening. Footballers are reminded of the meeting to be held this evening at the Post Office Hotel. At Napier for failing to destroy rabbits on his run, Thomas Perry Peddle, was fined £2O and costs, it being the second conviction within the last few months. Police Sergeant Charteris, of Capetown, has been sentenced to fifteen lashes and two years’ hard labour for receiving money from houses' of ill fame. An appeal has been lodged. A man “ on the road,” informed the Eketahuna Express that there were dozens of men in Wellington who were literally starving. Them men are compelled to keep to their beds for days, for the reason that they have not the necessary money to procure a meal. A cheap lot. The Napier Herald says the Mohaka Hotel was put up for auction at Hastings on Saturday by Mr R. Sowersby, and was knocked down to Mr King, of Pohui, for £l6O. The house contains eleven rooms, and was built only a couple of years back. About 750 acres of leasehold land goes with the hotel at a rental of £2O per annum. It is not generally known that Thibet has a regular postal system. But a correspondent sends to the Times a specimen Thibetan stamp. It is a most primitive affair, being merely a native • character impressed in red sealing wax. When it is required to post a letter in Thibet the sender takes it to the nearest official post-office and pays the amount due for postage. After this formality the letter, is impressed with this seal, and it is then considered properly posted and is forwarded to its destination but letters not bearing the seal do not receive this polite attention.

An extraordinary case of horse-steal-ing, carried out with the utmost daring, is reported by the Dannevirke Advocate. Mr A. B. Larsen, of the Tahoraiti sawmill, found two valuable draught; horses were missing, hud search for some day? was resultless. On Tuesday he was making inquiries at the toll gate, near Woodville, when he saw a man coming along the road in the direction of Woodville leading both the missing animals. Information was at once given to the police, and inquiries elicited that the man in charge had purchased the horses at the sale at Pahiatua on the previous Saturday. As the result of further inquiries a man named F. Ford, alias Scott, alias Gainsford, was arrested at Dunedin, and will be charged at Woodville with the theft. It is alleged that the horses were actually advertised for sale before they were removed from Mr Larsen’s paddock.