Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1904.

Manawatu Herald, 19 July 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1904.

A reward is offered for the recovery of a silver watch and Maori feather kit. The annual meeting of members of the Foxton Racing Club will be held at’ their office on Friday night at 8 o’clock. The N.Z. Loan & M.A. Co. advertise their next sale of stock at Himatangi for the 25th inst. Further entries are solicited. A meeting of (ho Awahou Football Club will be held at Mr Levett’s Manawatu Horn! at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday. A goon attendance of members is desired, as the business to be considered is important.

Mr Seddon has informed an Auckland interviewer that bis health is improving, and that he is not creating the High Cormnissionership for himself. Sir William Russell told the minister of Railways last week it was only a matter of the immediate future when Hastings would be the city and Napier the port. “ To discontinue advertising,” says a well-known millionaire, “is like taking down your sign. If you want to do business, you must let the people know it.” Mr J, F. Reid, who suffered a loss through being burnt out of home a few days ago, inserts a notice of thanks to those kindly-disposed persons who subscribed to the fund on his behalf. MrT. R. Hodder hasbeen nominated tor one of the vacancies on the Wanganui Education Board caused by the retirement of three members in rotation. Rev. Ross (Tnrakina), Messrs W. T. Wood, M.H.R., (Palmerston), and Fraser (Foxtou) have also been nominated. The value of land in Chapel-street, Frahan, Victoria, the busiest suburban street of the metropolitan area, was indicated last week by the sale of a three-storey brick building in the street standing on land having a frontage oi 35ft gin, with a depth of 100 ft, for £15,000, averaging £4OO per foot. The state of the building trade in Sydney is far from being satisfactory to the bricklayers and masons, many of whom have been unemployed for some weeks, with little prospect of an early start The carpenters, too, are complaining, though they are much better provided for in the way of work. It is slated that some educated Maoris arl translating into their own Manguagef early records of their race compiled and published by old European settlers in "New Zealand. The .object is to enable , 'them’'better to con-, cases'wben giving evidence of the nature required by the Native | Land Courts,. - . The Premier attended the launching of a steel screw steamer at Auckland on Saturday. He evidently learned something, for he said afterwards that had he known that Messrs Seager Bros., the Auckland builders, could have turned out such a boat, they would have had the order for the two Government mine steamers which were built recently at Home, At the Court on Saturday, before Messrs T. Bennett and Alf Fraser, J.’sP., a prohibition order was granted against Priscilla Wilson. The following were fined for failing to send their children to school :--W. Milne, 2s; T. Chamberlain, ss, costs 7s ; J. Lambess (two charges), 5s on each ; W. Neville (two charges), 2s on each ; A. R. Pollock (three charges), 2s on each. At Eketahnna, the S.M. gave judg ment for defendant in a case in which plaintiff sued to recover the amount of an order given by defendant as payment of board and loging supplied to an employee engaged in “ paddocking ” flax. His Worship held that the work man had no power to assign, as ac cording to the Truck Act, he must be paid his wages in full and not otherwise. Leave to appeal was granted. Mr Ah Pat is offering special inducements to his customers to purchase for cash. On all lines except general groceries and produce a discount of 6d in every ss, or 2s in the £ will be al lowed. Any purchaser will also receive a further rebate by way of is in value of goods on every purchase of 30s worth. A cash register on the premises supplies the tickets, and the machine should be ringing at top speed during the period of the sale.

The reward for information which will lead to thearrest of John McKenzie, alias Ellis, charged with the murder of Collinson, at Te Awaite, has been increased from £IOO to £4OO. Constable Armour, of Greytown, who went to Kiandra for the purpose of indentifying the man Baker arrested there on suspicion of being McKenzie, returned to Wellington on Wednesday night. He reports -that Baker bears a wonderful resemblance to McKenzie. Baker allowed his photograph and finger prints to be taken at the request of the New Zealand police. An extraordinary affair is reported from Zurich, The police, on examining the room of an old man who had -died of starvation, found a veritable gold mine. In every nook money, notes, |nd shares were discovefgdi and on an Inventory being made it was found that the miser had . left nearly 1,000,000 francs (£40,000). Nobody 'was ever seen to visit the miser, and as there is no will it is difficult to know bow to dispose of (he fortune.

Our cable messages state that the Grand Duke Boris is again in disgrace, this time having been re-called from the front by (he Czar and sent to Archangel, owing to his eccentricities.” It is interesting to recall that when this high personage visited America a few months since Mrs Roosevelt, wife of the President, refused to meet him owing to his “ record.” On the voyage from Yokohama he lost £iooo or so at poker and baccarat —“ like a gentleman and a prince,” we are assured. “ Owing to your previous good character we shall not prosecute you, but you may go away and hang yourself,” was the remark made a few weeks ago by the employers of Joseph Carcelon, of Paris, who had been seized with the craze for gambling, and had, after spending all his own money, been tempted to try to recover it by risking that of his masters, with the result that he lost that as well. The young man interpreted the words literally, for he went straight home and hanged himself in his‘bedroom. H.M.S. Challenger, the cruiser to be eventually manned by Australians and New Zealanders under the naval agreement, has arrived in Australia from Sheerness. She is a steel vessel of 5880 tons displacement, and was launched in May 1902. Her engines, of which she is supplied with two sets, are capable of indicating 12,500 horsepower, and the Challenger has a speed of 31 knots. Captain Tudor is in command, and the ship’s company numbers 475, all told.

A horrible accident occnnejd in the public street at Hawera, a few days igo, by which a horse was killed almost instantly. The animal was being ridden by a youth who carried the mail to Ara rata, when suddenly the horse appeared to swerve in towards a spring-cart being driven in the opposite direction. The shaft, which was fitted with a iron hook for a leader, entered the animal’s body just in front of the off hip. There was a crowd of spectators and assistance was at once rendered, but the horse milled himself further on to the shaft, ill the time emitting fearful shrieks. The shaft was at last withdrawn, but the horse dropped dead immediately. Luckily the lad escaped without injury. An up-country settler writes to the Wairarapa Daily Times as follows: — “ The pandering to the labor class and the danger of employing casual labor, owing to legal quibbles, has reacted upon children. Little girls are now made to do men’s work, with terrible results to their present health and future constitutions. Cases of rheumatic tever are reported, which are entirely due to exposure to wet from daylight to school time; when the little ones, probably have to hurry off to their lessons in damp clothes. Slavery amongst women and children is the outcome of liberal legislation ; whilst scores of idle men are tramping the country demanding feed from these overwrought settlers’ wives, and, if asked to chop a little firewood, whilst their meal is getting ready, become grossly abusive,”