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Manawatu Herald, 3 November 1904, Page 2

Tenders are called to day for the purchase of book debts in the estate of E. J. B. Osborne, bankrupt. We have to acknowledge receipt from the secretary, Mr J. C. Lane, of a copy of the Manawatu Show Catalogue.

In 1893, 147,199 people had £3,966,849 m the Savings Bank of New Zealand. In 1903, 280.011 people had £8,432(958 put away. The Exhibition buildings at Blenheim have been sold at auction to a private bidder for £560, or about £lO more than the reserve fixed by the Exhibition Committee.

The name of A. G. Kennedy was inadvertently omitted from those handicapped in the Half Mile at the local Sports. This competitor has 35 yards allotted him.

Liberal prize money for the children’s races has been received from Mr C. Easton for the local sports. Levin & Co., Wellington, also forwarded a guinea, for which the Committee return thanks.

Whilst engaged in household duties on Tuesday last, Mrs Frank Cook had the misfortune to break her arm. It was in the act of hanging curtains that she slipped and tell, thus causing the injury. We join with many others in wishing Mrs Cook a speedy recovery.

“Every credit belongs to Sir Robert Stout,” said Mr Seddon at Wellington on Wednesday, “for the initial step he took in regard io higher education in Wellington.” It would be for the generations to come to mark their pride of the fact that he took the first step, and that six hundred youths now were enjoying that higher education.

A Christchurch architect informed a Christchurch reporter that he believed next year would be an. extraordinary busy one for the building trade. He said that there was no manner of doubt whatever that the present slight depression would soon pass away. One day last week, he added, his firm had taken fresh business representing £1 6,000.

Probably the best reply to the statements in the Sydney Morning Herald regarding the excessive friability of Westport coal is the fact that last week the Westport Coal Company shipped a cargo of Westport coal for the Admiralty at Sydney, and this week the Sheila is leaving Westport for Hongkong direct with a cargo of 5000 tons for the Admiralty there. The death is announced by cable message from London of Mr Dan Leno, aged forty-three years. The deceased was one of the best-known actors on the English vaudevillle stage. His particular forte was singing comic songs, by which he earned wide reputation and a high salary. His parents were on the stage, and the deceased made his first appearance when he was three years old. Lord Erskine, when he was at the bar, was retained for a woman named Tickle, against whom an action Of libel had been brought. On the trial he commenced his address to the Court thus: “ Tickle, my client, the defendant, my lord.” The audience, amused by the oddity of the speech, were almost driven into hysterics by the judge replying : “ Tickle her yourself, you are as well able to do it as I.” While at target practice at Fort Ballance (Wellington) yesterday morning, the breechblock of a 12 pounder blew out, killing one of the gun squad, J. A. Palmer, and wounding five others —H. C. Peterson, I. T. Slines, R. Fordyce, L. F. O’Neill, and H. J. Sweeney. Palmer was severely injured in the region, of, the chest and arm,-and 'blown several .yards. The mishap occurred .shortly alter eleven o’clock. Palmer died before noon. It is hoped all the, others will recover.

Notification is made in our advertising columns to-day of the concert organised by the Sports- Club to be held on Wednesday night next at the Foxton Public Hall. Mr E. E. Smith, who is interesting himself m the compilation of the programme, promises those fortunate enough to gain admission a real good evening’s enjoyment. What with comic, coon, and sentimental song, step-dancing, &c,, by artists entirely new to Foxton, there should be no end of fun. The appearance of some of Palmerston's best lady and gent vocalists should draw a big house. Mr McKeown, the hero of the 1903 Sports, is attending from Masterton, and will contribute two items. A Pahiatua settler has a novel method of rearing calves. The gentleman referred to, Mr Jacobs, has ten cows mothering 20 calves, and couples the calf of another with each cow’s own calf. He says: “ A cow will naturally allow its own calf to suckle, and while it is having a drink, she will not prevent the other calf from having one.” By experimenting in this way, Mr Jacobs considers that a lot of work is done away with, and not only is this advantage gained, but the calves thrive better on new milk than they do on skim milk and he is quite sure he will make more out of the calves reared by the cows than he would out of those hand fed. He is well pleased with the experiment, and perfectly satisfied as to what the result will be,

Mr A. Seabury advertises to-day that he has a five-roomed house to let. The Czar has appointed his newborn son to the command of the Fiftyfirst Finnish Life Guards, to the colonelcy of the Twelfth East Siberian Rifle Corps, and to the rank of hetman, or general in chief, of all the Cossack cavalry. The infant Czarevitch is little more than a month old. He has not yet learned to distinguish a rattle from a sword, nor apaulets from teething rings. He still prefers swaddling cloths to the gold embroidered uniforms which he is entitled to wear, and is far more interested in the commissariat department provided by his nurse than in the victories or defeats in Manchuria of his East Siberian riflemen. Yet the regimental colours—at any rate, those of the Fifty-first Fin nish Life Guards —are kept in his nursery,in accordance with the military regulations, which prescribes that the (lags and standards ot each corps shall be preserved in the quarters of the commander when not in actual use, and all the regimental reports are issued in the Imperial infant’s name.