Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] SATURDAY, SEPT., 24, 1904.

Manawatu Herald, 24 September 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] SATURDAY, SEPT., 24, 1904.

Mr and Mrs H. Austin arrived home on Thursday from St. Louis. ” I don’t want to be any party to any Licensing Act that will grant compensation.” -The Premier. The fishing season opens on October rst. Licenses are obtainable at all the principal money order offices. Nine months ago the Eketahuna Express was threatened with a libel action by Sir Joseph Ward. The Express says it has not yet apologised to Sir Joseph and has no intention of doing so. A seven roomed house occupied by Mr F. Kavanagh and owned by Mr C. E. Waldegrave was burned down at Palmerston North on Thursday night. Very little was saved, the building being completely guttedi Mr W. Allen, a clerk in Messrs J. A. Nash and Co.’s firm, received a cablegram on Wednesday informing him that A fortune Of £40,000 had been bequeathed to him by a former employer of his in England. Mr Allien left Palmerston for Sydney on Thursday. The following joke at the expense of Dannevirke is cracked by a contemporary :—“ Dannevirke has a Prohibitionist Mayor, a high pressure water supply, and a councillor named Drinkwater. It should carry No-license at the next polls.” Messrs Ross and Sons; ah enterprising Napier firm, have started a rope and twine making works, which era ploys thirty-five men and boys, and turns out every month forty tons of rope and twine. The twine is made from New Zealand flax and the rope from Manilla hemp, The late Dr Ritchie, of Edinburgh, was examining a student who claimed to be a mathematician. Dr Ritchie doubted his claim, and, to test him, said : “ How many sides has a circle ?” “ Two,” was the reply. “ What are they ?” asked the doctor. ” The inside and the outside,” was the answer. Eltham’s new bacon factory, one of the best of its kind in the colony, was destroyed by fire early on Thursday morning. The origin of the fire is unknown, though incendiarism is suspected. A heavy gale that was raging at the time rendered Salvage operations impossible. The loss over and above insurances is calculated to be £1750. As a visitor was passing through Poroutawhao On board the Foxton coach the other morning, he was struck with the largeness of some of the pad docks adjoining the road. Perhaps the isolation cast a gloom over him, for he suddenly inquired with some apprehension in his voice whether there were any wild bulls or goats in those parts. The driver quickly reassured him, and the traveller’s agi tation subsided.

A Southland hotelkeeper, in order to protect himself against the consequences of imposition by Sunday “ travellers,” has supplied himself with a book of forms, one of which every person wishing to obtain liquor on a Sunday is required to sign, setting forth that the applicant for refresh ment is a bona fide traveller arriving from a journey, and that he slept at least three miles distant from the house on the previous night. An amusing story of Millais is told in a New York paper, on the authority of an American artist. While Sir John was painting “Chill October” one grey afternoon among the reeds and rushes of the Tay, a voice from behind a hedge asked : “Man, did ye ever try photography ? ” “ No, never,” said Sir John, and continued paint slowly. “ It’s a hantle quicker,” said the voice.” “Yes, I suppose so,” the painter agreed. Then the voice said, bitingly, “ An’ it’s mair like the place.” An accident occurred on Tuesday afternoon in the Taupiri Extended Coal Mine, at Huntly. Some men en gaged in driving headings placed two charges of gelignite, only one of which exploded. The regulations provide for a “ wait ” of three hours in such cases, but a young miner named Kyle returned too soon, and just reached the spot as the second charge exploded. Fortunately the coal was very soft and came away in small fragments, but Kyle received the head of the charge full in his face, which was terribly injured. The strange dream in which MiRider Haggard saw the death of the retriever Bob has a parallel in the case of the late Mr Michael Henry Williams of Pencalenick, near Truro. While in Germany on business he dreamt one night that the servant girl set out from the house to get water from the well, his pet terrier and a large black retriever accompanying her. On the way she patted the terrier several times, and the retriever, apparently jealous of the attention paid to the smaller dog, suddenly pounced on the terrier and worried it to death. The first letter from home that Mr Williams subsequently received recorded the death of the unlucky terrier just as he had dreamed it. “ One thing beyond all others my tour has convinced me of,” said Mr Hatrick to an interviewer, “ and that is the greater advantages of New Zealand as a tourist resort. In Europe you can get the historic places like Rome and London, whose interest is peculiarly their own, but scenically they cannot compare with our own land. There are the wondrously beautiful lakes and Alps of Switzerland, the placid grandeur of the Rhine, with its broad stream and broken castles; cross to America and, you get Niagara and Yellowstone Park, great in another way; but for grand beauty there is no place to compare with the magnificence of the Wanganui river.” Incidentally it may be mentioned that Mr Hatrick owns a line of steamers on the Wanganui river.

On and after October ist, the Wairarapa leader will be issued as a daily paper. Carterton will then have two dailies. The KingofServia has been crowned at Belgrade. It was expected that some attempts would be made on his life, but the ceremony passed off without disturbance. Dr Mason, Chief Health Officer, declined to be sworn by “ kissing the book ” at the Court in the abattoir dispute at Palmerston on Thursday, preferring to make an affirmation. Says the Post The ” weary waiting ’’ for grants for schools in newlysettled districts, which has been the experience of most of the Education Boards of the colony, is the subject of a long protest by the Wanganui, Board, which is to be forwarded to the Minister for Education. The Govertlniont is Offering a bonus of £SOO for the best method of exterminating noxious weeds. The basis on which the tests of the methods submitted will be conducted is : Time occupied in extermination of the weeds submitted for the trial; risk to Stock or otherwise, of using preparation; the cost of the means . adopted, and the results obtained front the test. Applications for the bonus must be in the bands of the Minister of Agriculture before November ist. The tests will be made before a committee. Two dozen Igorottes, naked savag^ 8 from the Phillippines, whose ony clothing at the World’s Fair at S** Louis consists ot a loin-cloth, wer e recently Invited to see President Roosevelt at Washington, Tor this purpose American tailors have been requisitioned. , The Igdrottes proved a great attraction at the Fair, Scime of the exhibitors entertained them one day last month at the Missouri Athletic Club. The Igorottes are very fond of baked dog, and this delicacy was served to them in the Turkish bathroom, Which Was Set aside for the banqitettmgdiall. The guests' wai'drobe on this occasion was augmented by a few bath-towels. After having furnished material for jesting by a generation of humorists, the jockey who ” pulls ” his mount has attracted the attention ofthe inventor. A Gazette supplement just issued contains particulars of the invention of an Auckland publican who has grappled with the problem. His idea is a bridle and bit combined, and made in such a manner that it is possible, when in use, to ascertain to what extent a racehorse is being pulled by its rider at any stage during & face ( and has. for its object the detection of font riding on the part of jockeys. A small fan shut close down is fixed dn the top of the bridle between the horse’s ears, and is connected by a cord to a spring in the bit-ring. When the reins are pulled beyond the set position the fan is opened out in proportion to the pull.—Feilding Stat. An intensely dramatic and thrilling situation Was brought about by an ungarded remark at the table of the British Ambassador in Russia by the grandfather of the present Lord Tennyson. In answer to a veiled allusion to the death of the Emperor Paul, “ What's the use of speaking in such a gingerly fashion about the matter?” he said. “We in England all know that he was murdered; that Count Zohoff knocked him down, while Count Pahlen strangled him.” An appalling hush fell upbti the Oompany. The guests passed presently from the room. Lord St. Helens, the host, drew Tennyson aside. “ Fly for your life,” he whispered, or no flag will save you. The man who sat at your right hand is Count Pahlen ; the man opposite you, Count Zohoff. You have publicly branded as assa§sins two of the most powerful men in Russia.” Just as he was, in evening dress, Tennyson had to fly. Four days and nights he drove, caught an English frigate leaving Odessa; and not until he reached England felt himseif safe from assassination.—” London Evening News.”