Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] SATURDAY, OCT., 15, 1904

Manawatu Herald, 15 October 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] SATURDAY, OCT., 15, 1904

The Hirnatangi stock sale will be held on Monday. A team of Foxton footballers left by coach this morning for Levin to play the Wanderers, We are led to believe that a local business man is to be proceeded against next Court day for a breach of the Factories Act. At the Court this morning before A. Fraser, Esq., J.P., Thos. Hayward, for habitual drunkenness, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment. Mrs Carrie Nation struck a cigarette from the mouth of a youth at Tennessee Fair recently. As she did it a second lime the youth knocked her down, and the crowd applauded. It is understood a charge is laid against a wrong-doer for creating a disturbance at the Public Hall last night. Strikes us the Magistrate will have a busy time next Court day ! Mr Oliver Johnston, of Dannevirke, writes to say that he has much im proved in health since arriving in Australia. “ Sydney is full of spellers, loafers, unemployed, salacious shes, corrupt politicians, and people with rotten teeth.”

An item of news that will be of interest to Our readers is that the Town Clerk is now busy with the first batch' of summonses for unpaid rates-. He informs ns that the list is rather longer than usual, and he expects to have quite a field day the next time the Magistrate comes down. Frank Erwin, employed on a waterrace at Waikaia, fired two shots from a revolver at Mrs Thornton, on Wednesday, at Invercargill, shattering the bone of one of her arms and wounding one of her thighs. Erwin was found dead by the police close to his hut, having shot himself. The woman has been removed to the hospital. It is supposed Erwin’s mind was unhinged.

A Wairarapa lawyer asked a person before the court the other day if he could read. He stiffened with pride and said he could, “ and write too.” The lawyer asked him to read an account owing by him to the plaintiff. “ Since my wife threw boiling water in me eyes,” he replied, “ I haven’t been able to read.” And the wife, who was in the court, was restrained with difficulty from getting that husband into ‘•hot water” again.

The gale on Thursday was the heaviest on record in Wanganui. The yachts of the Sailing Club were wrecked and their fleet has been practically mined. Four chains of Castlecliff railway were washed away. During the whole afternoon clouds of spray broke across the Town Bridge, the action of the gale on the outgoing tide producing huge white-crested waves. Windows were broken, trees uprooted, and fences blown down.

Messrs Myerson and Bloustein, eyesight and spectacle specialists, also watch and jewellery experts, are taking their departure in a few days’ time to Palmerston North so those that wish to have their eyes properly examined by the latest scientific methods and proper spectacles adapted will have-to hurry up; at the same time Mr Bloustein is still cleaning and overhauling watches at 5s with a 12 months’ guarantee. He has still a few St. Louis watchchains left, which he is still selling at 7s 6d. Hurry up. The following good story is in circulation. When the King was lying in a somewhat critical condition alter lh,e operation for appendicitis, one of the little “ Yorks ” being allowed to go in and see “grandpa,” stole very quietly into the sick chamber. The King greeted his grandchild with a smile that prompted him to speak. “ Haven’t I been good, Grandpa?’’ “Yes, dear, very good.’, Thus encouraged, the little, one coaxingly replied, “ Then please may I have, just one little peep at the baby 1” The King had to laugh, though the orders were to keep, him . quiet. ■ ' ’ - A German traveller claims to have discovered in the forests of Borneo a people who still wear the tail of our, primitive ancestors. He does not write from' hearsay; he has seen the tail. It belonged to a child about six years old, sprung from the tribe of Pee , As nobody- could 'speak the Poenan tongue the youngster could not be questioned; but there ' was ; his tail sure enough, not very long, but flexible, hairless, and about the thickness of one’s little finger. The Poenans are reported to be very simple, honest, folks, with a childish system of barter. They deposit in public places the goods they wish to exchange, and a few days later they find there the equivalents they desire. Nobody ever dreams of stealing. This is almost as remarkable as the vestige of the ances tral tail.

An eminent lawyer, whose wife had eloped with the butler, has taken her back to his home and reinstated her in her full marital rights. And this is his reason “If I ever failed to comprehend the utterly desolate position of an offending though penitent woman—-the hopeless future, with’its dark possibilities of danger, to which she is doomed when prescribed an outcast —I .can now see plainly, in the almost universal howl of denunciation with which she is followed to my threshold, the misery and peril from which I have rescued the mother of my child. And although it is very sad for me to incur the blame of friends, and the reproaches of many wise and good people, I shall strive to prove to all who may feel an interest in me that if I am the first man who has ventured to say to the world an erring wife and mother may be forgiven and redeemed ; in spite of all the obstacles in my path, the good results of this example shall entitle it to the imitation of the generous and the commendation of the just.”

There are numerous instances on record of individuals being afforded the rare privilege of reading their own obituaries. Such a case occurred in Gore last Tuesday (relates the Mataura Ensign), the subject being Mr Nathan Chatterton, an old and well-known local resident. The rumour obtained eurrency on Monday that ton had died, and it duly appeared in print. How such a report came to be circulated is not quite clear, as Mr Chatterton was in the best of health, and had had no illness for some considerable time. However, he was reported as dead. A lady friend of the family proceeded to Mrs Chatterton on Tuesday morning to offer her condolence. Just as she passed the door of the workshop, Mr Chatterton himself appeared on the scene, the lady nearly fainting from shock, and it being several seconds before she fully com prehended the situation. Early ’the next morning Mr Chatterton was standing at his gate when an acquaintance rode past on horseback. Mr Chatterton waved his arm in salutation, but the friend took on a look of horror, deeming he had seen a spectre, and with difficulty retaining his seat on the horse. Most of Thursday morning Mr Chatterton occupied in calling upon many who knew him to assure them that he was not dead yet.