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Manawatu Herald, 10 September 1904, Page 2

The fcow Surprise is still anchored in (he mouth of the Manawatu river. Mr R. T. Bell has resigned his position as a Government flax grader. A nugget weighing 270 ounces has been found at Dee, Australia. A rush has set in. Two thousand were killed and four thousand wounded in a battle between the Government forces and the revolutionary troops in Uruguay. During gun practice at Spithead an explosion occurred aboard the gunboat Comet. A 4.7 m gun blew off its breechblock. Three seamen were killed and three seriously injured. A slight shock of earthquake was felt in Foxton between g. 30 and 10 o’clock on Thursday morning. Prolonged shocks were felt at Napier, Wairoa, and Eketahuna. Overheard in the House recently. —Mr Houston to a messenger: “ Bring me a glass ot water.” It is brought. Mr Houston : “ Take it away; there’s too much water in it.” Mr George Fisher: “ Messenger, give it to me. Just what I want.” (Laughter.) An Italian paper states that pitiable scenes were witnessed at Charcow when the men of the Russian Reserves were called upon to go to the war. Many of them have large families, apd when the day arrived for embarking in the train the women and children bid farewell in a most heart-rending manner. Many went forward and lay down on the railway line to prevent the train from going out of the station. The train started and cut to pieces sixteen women and children. A very pleasant evening was spent at the Debating Society’s meeting on Wednesday last in the Good Templar’s Hall. Readings were given from Charles Dickens’ famous book “ Pickwick Papers,” and those present were in a constant simmer of merriment at the amusing episodes in the travels of Mr Pickwick and his friends. The following were present: —Messrs L. Jenks (in the chair) W. Barnard, Hunter, Fife, Wanklyn, Moore, and Wilson. It was decided to alter the night of meeting from Wednesday to Monday, owing to so many entertainments falling on Wednesday. Consequently the next gathering of the Society will be he held on Monday next, when the monthly reports will be read.

The debate in the House on the new Licensing Bill has commenced. The Himitangi sailed on Thursday evening with a load of cattle consigned to Greymonth. We are in receipt of a new paper, dm Monganui County. Times, the first paper to be published in that town. The committee of the Ladies’ Leap Year Dance, having a surplus, have handed a small contribution of 12s qd each, to the Church of England, Presbyterian, and Methodist Sunday School:', In Palmerston yesterday, James Dobbs was brought before two J’s.P. to answer a charge of bigamy. Accused reserved his defence, and was committed for trial at the Supreme Court on the 26th lust. Bail was allowed. A cyclist met with a curious accident a few nights ag ■ whilst riding on the footpath in Christchurch. Ho ran oV'-’- S'air C lug which he '.’might was a household pot, but which he after wards found to be a hedgehog. Almost heedless td say, his bicycle tyres were very effectually punctured. Mr J. H- Hankins has returned fiom an cxtmled trip to Rotorua rendered necessaiy by the trap accident which happened to him some time ago. His many frit nds will be pleased to learn that he is much benefited by (be change, though he lias not yet regained the full use of his injured leg.—Standard.

A local tradesman is of rather an ingenius turn of mind. He displays in his window a Idwi with the bine and black colours of the Kiwi Football team wound round its body. The bird has recently appeared wearing a pair of green spectacles, and with the following notice appended, “We specs to win.” The author evidently follows up the doings of the Kiwi’s with interest.

We omitted in our last issue to dfaw attrition to the arrival of a splendid range of millinery just received by Mr G. H, Stiles. These are displayed to great advantage in the window, and from' what we can gather are already selling rapidly. Another line this firm are doing especially well is children’s millinery in silk hats and bonnets in a great range, and those purchasing early get the best choiceIn spite of failure upon failure) the explorer Continues to turn his eyes towards the North Pole. At the present time there are no fewer than five Polar expeditions in prospect or in being. The most important are those of the Russian Baron E. Toll, who left the Siberian group a year ago, and has not been hoard from since, and the new Zeigler expedition, which left New York last spring, hut has met with obstacles so great that it has had to pause. Then there is Lieutenant Peary’s coming venture, which will start in September ; the Captain Drake expedition, also next year; and,lastly, there is (he Norwegian Amundsen expedition, which is believed to be somewhere among the Islands of British North America, searching not for the Pole proper, but for the magnetic Pole.

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