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Manawatu Herald, 18 October 1904, Page 2

Mr Hornsby, of Carterton, has defi nitely announced he will not be a can didate for Parliament at the next elec lion.

Mr C. Bannerman, the well-known Australian cricketer of international fame, returned to Christchurch last week to again become the coach of the Christ’s College Club.

Gladsome, who started a firm favourite (4 to 1 against) was beaten out of a place in the Caulfield Cup. The winner turned up in Murmur (6.12), whose starting price was 8 to 1. The official opening of the Foxton Lawn Tennis Club has been fixed for to-morrow (Wednesday) Oct. 19th, at 2 p.m. There should be a large attendance of members.

The following notice appeared on the premises of a local business man yesterday. Whether it was a joke or not, we cannot say“ Gone to get married. Will be back at three o’clock if possible.”

Before Mesfefs G. A. Simpson and T. Bennett, Justices, yesterday morning, William Kinley for disorderly conduct was convicted and discharged. For resisting the police, Kinley was fined 20s, costs ss, or seven days.

The social gathering in Connection with All Saints church, notified , for October 31st, has been postponed to Wednesday, November Cjtd. This has been necessary owing to the dates of the Manawatu A. & P. Show and other important fixtures at the end of October and beginning of November. One of the mightiest amongst the trees of the world, the “ Grizzly Giant,” of California, which stands on the Sierra Nevada, has been found to be in a tottering condition. This is not to be wondered at, when it is stated that the tree is over 4000 years old. It is 224 feet high, 105 feet in girth, and 33ft in diameter. At present it is out of the perpendicular. Mr George E. Trask, an old resident of the Manawatu, was found dead in an outhouse on his premises, Feather-ston-street, on Sunday morning, having taken his life by hanging himself’ Deceased had been a great sufferer through an accident he sustained a few years ago, and it is believed this caused his mind to become unhinged. He was aged 70 years, and resided at at Foxton for about fifty years.—Manawatu Standard.

Replying to Mr Vile’s questions relating to the Levin State Farm, the Minister said that the intention of the Government is to utilise the land as an experimental and stud farm, also as a site for the dairy school. It is not correct to say that the amount named (£3000) has been lost, as the bulk of it is represented in the purchase of stock, clearing, stumping, fencing, draining, painting buildings, etc. The enhanced value thus put upon the land would more than recoup the Government for the expenditure.

From home to hear news. Thus correspondence in last Week’s Free Lance Dear Lance.— Your Taihape mud-scramble, in last week’s issue, is really a bit good, but it doesn’t quite come up to an incident that happened at Foxton, near the Wirokino bridge, a few weeks ago. A man was driving a four-ton load of flax out of the Swamp, when he drove into a mud drift. On his non-arrival at the mill, a search party went out to look for him. They found the lash-end of a whip-thong lying in the mud. Further investigations proved that the man was sitting on the top of his load, holding up his whip as a signal of distress. It’s really true, too.—Yours, etc., Reader.

How the succession to the throne of Russia was secured is not generally known, but a New Plymouth man claims that he was the indirect agent. This local resident has written to Mr Seddon, the Premier, telling him in effect, that 30 months ago he read that the Czar of Russia was sorely perplexed because a male child had not been born in order to secure the succession of the throne to the present line. The New Plymouth man thereupon wrote the Czar giving him certain instructions. He now learns that a male heir has been born, and the New Plymouth man has no doubt but that the birth of the male child is due to the information he supplied. He now asks Mr Seddon to ,use his influence to get the Czar of Russia to grant him (the local resident) a sum of £30,000 or £30,000, as some small recompense for the valuable information he had sent the Czar, It is problematical, however, whether Mr Seddon will urge the Czar to vote the money to the New Plymouth resident,—Taranaki News.