Manawatu Herald. [Established (Aug. 27, 1878.] THURSDAY, OCT., 27, 1904.

Manawatu Herald, 27 October 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. [Established (Aug. 27, 1878.] THURSDAY, OCT., 27, 1904.

Further additions have been made to the entries of the Himatangi stock sale. In another column Mr T. Betty inserts a notice stating that he intends to apply for an order of discharge from bankruptcy at the District Court, holden at Palmerston on the 17th November. On and after Ist November the Railway Department notify that the train service between Palmerston and New Plymouth will be revised. Further particulars can be obtained from timetables at stations.

A full report of to-day’s Court proceedings will appear in 'Saturday’s issue.

At Timaru, a line of seven bullocks, described as “ walking mountains ol meat,” realised £x\ each.

We learn that Mr Alf. Fraser has been nominated for the vacant seat on the Wanganui Education Board. The Railway Department advertise particulars to day of the holiday ex cursion tickets in connection with the Christchurch Show and Races, Mrs Annie Wallace, a domestic servant, has been left a property in Sydney returning £2060 per annum under the will of a former lover. A farmer named Win, Taylor was fiercely attacked by a boar while feeding pigs at Rusworth (Vic.) last week. The animal’s tusk pierced his leg, and Taylor died from Irortl loss of blood a few minutes afterwards.

An Eketahnna scholar, after receiving a birching, told his schoolmates that he had discovered something new. “ Forty rods may make one furlong,” he said, “ but one rod makes an acher.” A well known evangelist minister, preaching in New York on the text of “ Selfishness ” seCUred the record collection of £BOOO from the congregation. When the amount was announced the enthusiastic congregation added £BOO more. Ladies, according to Dr Greenwood, of Christchurch, are “ the victims of a most terrible and barbarous fashion, a relic of barbarous ages. If they knew how that fashion originated,” he added, “ I don’t think many of them would ever wear a corset again.” According to reports received in Sydney by the French steamer Pacifique, a huge shark measuring 12ft in length, was recently caught in Noumea harbour, and upon being opened was found to contain portions of the head of a European woman. The Eketahuna Express gets home on a long-winded subscriber as follows; —A man to whom we recently appealed for payment of a long-stand-ing account, replied, asking, “ What do you take me for ?” We take him for a pendulum, for he is strong on the “ tick,” We shall get the Magistrate to wind him up one of these fine days. In another column will be found a replace advertisement from Mr Alf. Fraser announcing the early arrival of latest novelties from the English market, as usual. Mr Fraser is to the fore with Xmas goods of all description and the addition of nine cases to his already large stock, indicates that the public will have no cause to grumble at the assortment to be ottered to their inspection during the coming season. An elderly and wealthy widower of Bale, Switzerland, who recently advertised for a wife in the local paper,* re ceived in reply a bundle of letters and photographs. To his great astonishment his three daughters and a neice were among the number who offered to become his wife. He carried on a typewritten correspondence with all four, “just to see,” he said, “what they thought of themselves.” Then he made appointments with them all in the same place and gave them a sound scolding. A curious part of the story is that, although the three daughters lived under the same roof, each was unaware ot the others’ part in the affair.

The siege of Port Arthur is insignificant when compared with some of the sieges of the campaign of the nineteenth century. The.longest siege occurred in the American Civil War, when tde confederates defended the town of Richmond for 1,485 days, or just over four years. Sebastopol, in the German war, held out for eleven months, while General Gordon defended Khartoum against the Soudanese for 300 days. Fifteen men held the fortress of Kars during the Crimean war for 163 days against a force of 50,000 and then only surrendered through hungsr. In the Franco-Ger-man war, Paris was besieged for 131 days, Belfort for log days, and Metz for 70 days. The sieges of Ladysmith, Kimberley, and Mafeking, in the South African war, lasted 120, 123, and 261 days respectively. The constable and detective, who have been camped on the Te Awaite ranges for some months past, on the look out for the man Ellis, alias McKenzie, who is “ wanted ” in connection with the Te Awaite murder, have now (says the Masterton Times) been withdrawn. It is understood that they came across what were supposed to be traces of Ellis in the shape of camps, camp fires, etc., and, on one occasion, they found a cow which had been shot. The course of the bullet was traced, and the bullet itself was recovered and .proved to be that from a .303 tifle, which is a similar type of weapon to that which McKenzie was known to have possessed. It was by a bullet from a .303 rifle that the victim of the Te Awaite murder was shot. Itjs be- r lieved m some quarters that Ellis is still idllhWdcality in which search has been made for him, while other's are of opinion that he is gone to some other more remote and less accessible hiding place.