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Manawatu Herald, 4 October 1904, Page 2

Mr Rogers, of the Criterion Cafe, 14, Manners Street, Wellington, is offering the highest price for whitebait. His advertisement is worth perusal. We are informed that the local storekeepers have received advice that the price of sugar has risen ten shillings per ton. A man named Arthur (alias) Cecil Quartermain has been arrested at Mangaweka, charged with forging a money-order telegram at Foxton on the 15th September last. Our advertising columns to-day inquire for the whereabouts of Alex. Mclntosh, who left New South Wales about January of the present year. His address will be welcomed by Mr W. J. Mclntosh, Foxton Post Office. The Foxton Athletic Club’s Sports Programme, to be held on the King’s Birthday at Victoria Park, caters for both cyclists and pedestrians. The prizes have been liberally endowed, and nominations, which close with Mr Endell Wanklyn (secretary) on Oct. aist, at 10 p.m., should be unusually large. Lovers ot dancing are given another opportunity of enjoying themselves by attending the ball to be given by the natives at Motuiti to-morrow night. Included in the items to be rendered are Poi and War Dances by the Maoris. Gentlemen will be charged 3s, and ladies admitted free. Dancing will commence at 7.30 p.m., and Mr N. Heta (secretary) promises an enjoyable time. From the walls ot the Foxton Public School, which has just been undergoing alterations by the carpenter, some very amusing notes have been rescued, dating so far back as 1888. One of these, which may possibly renew some of our present parents thoughts of childhood days, reads as follows :—“ Dear Tom, —I told M.G. to keep her love because she is only fooling us." Another, dated some years later, dealt with the SpanishAmerican war, and read : “ War Office cable out America has defeated Spain and Cuba, 1898.” If town talk be reliable, Foxton football enthusiasts are likely to witness an up-to-date game next Saturday, when Kiwi are matched to play Huia for the Cup final. It is said that Huia will have the majority of Horowhenua reps, doing battle for them, whilst several of the players mentioned as likely to do battle lor Kiwi have played for Manawatu reps, this season. Foxton must be coming into prominence as a football centre, and possibly the two outside Unions may see fit to sanction another struggle between their reps, ere next Saturday comes along. However, the contest should be interesting to watch, as Horowhenua’s full three-quarter line are said to be in full training for the event. A correspondent writes to say that a very extraordinary event has been noticed in connection with one of the local churches, namely, that it has been regularly attended for some time past by two solicitors. Our correspondent goes on to say that some curiosity has been aroused as to the reason ot this, and the only explanation that can be afforded is that the unfortunate Church is about to be involved in impending litigation, it having been observed by intelligent persons that crows always gather where there is a possibility of carrion. The most inexplicable feature of the occurrence is, he says, that both lawyers are always found on the same side, and last Sunday they were actually seen sitting together, with another budding limb of the law near at hand. As to what these strange manifestations can portend, our correspondent cannot venture to offer an opinion.

The Cathedral Choristers appear here on Monday next, Mr D. Pirani, formerly part proprietor of the Manawatu Standard, and a resident of Palmerston for thirteen years, will issue a new paper at Cambridge early in November, under the name of the Waikato Independent. Promises of substantial support have been already received. A respectably dressed young mail named Harold Harvey was arrested yesterday by Constable Forster, in pursuance of instructions from Levin, on the charge of theft ot a suit Of clothes and a pair of boots. Harvey had ridden over from Levin on a bicycle, and was about to put up at one of the hotels, when taken into custody.

A State school teacher, instructing her class in composition said : “ Now children don’t attempt any flights of fancy; don’t try to repeat things you have heard, but just bS your own natural selves, write what is iu you.” And a nice, natural numbskull wrote : —“ I ain't going to attempt any flights of fancy. I’m going to write a tew lines about whars In trie, rind I've got a hart, a liver, two lungs, and soirie other things like that. Then I got a stummick, and its got in it a pickle, some pie, a bit of lickerish, two sticks ot lolly, and my breaktast." A man who returned to Scotland from South Africa after an absence of twenty yeafs, with hint an interesting relic of Ladysmith in the shape of a certified catalogue of _Mr J. Dyson, the auctioneer, of the highest prices realised for articles daring the famous siege, pfete ate a few samples: —Eggs, £2 8s per dozen j condensed milk, xos per tin j one vegetable mar row, £1 8s; lib of jarri, £i its; one plate of potatoes, 19s; fowls, 18s 6d each ; £lb tin of cut tobacco, £3 ; fifty cigars, £g ss; one packet of cigarrettes, £is ; one case of whisky, £l4si

We have the authority of the Latin grammar for saying that “ the inhabitants of the islands are sailors." Whether this is so of not, it is a feet that the inhabitants of the British Isles have been the greatest sailors in the world, and there is no rdason why New Zealanders, who are far more isolated from any mainland than the inhabitants of any other country ot the same size, should not be experts on the water. The Manawatu Rowing Club meets on Friday week. This will give residents an opportunity of becoming members, and by taking a share in the pastime contribute their quota to the maintenance of the imperial reputation. A swagger named Michael Barry, died at the Waikato hospital on Thursday, having been removed thither from the Ohaupo Hotel. Deceased arrived at the hotel on Monday morning and asked for beer, but as he was in a weak state and hardly able to walk or breathe, the hotelkeeper served him schnapps and lodged him in a stable, doing what was possible to relieve him. The constable who took the deceased to the hospital, found him in a filthy condition, the result of long-continued neglect, and could not approach him without using disinfectant. He considered he had not washed himselt for at least six years. At the inquest on Friday a verdict that death was due to neglect and exposure, and that no blame was attachable to anyone, was returned.

Nelson papers report that a youth named George Cawfield, an inmate of the Stoke Industrial School, had complained to the police that he has been wrongfully assaulted by an officer of the institution. Cawfield is a returned licensed-ont inmate, 17J years of age, and apparently admits that he was not wholly blameless in the matter. The specific allegations made by him are to the effect that having been told to do a particular thing he did it care lessly. He was then ordered to “stand up, sit down —stand up, si! down," while in class, and because he was slow at it one of the teachers came behind him and pulled him up and down on the bench, and when he used violent language, he was struck in the face by a teacher’s fist. He also alleges that he was beaten with a slipper by the wife of the schoolmaster, ap parently for impertinence. The authorities, it is stated, admit a slight contravention of the law, and that the lad was struck under circumstances of great provacation. It is understood that both the police and the legal manager of the school have enquired into the case, and that the matter has been reported to the Education Department.