Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] THURSDAY, DEC. 1, 1904.

Manawatu Herald, 1 December 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] THURSDAY, DEC. 1, 1904.

On the Himifangi completing her discharging on Tuesday evening, she took on board a load of stock and sailed the same night for Greymputh. We understand that Mr S. Easton has leased 75' acres of the Motoa Estate from Messrs Stevens, Easton, and Austin, for dairying purposes. Another block is also under offer to a local resident for the same pwrposet

Our report of the Old Boys v. Debating Society cricket match has been, unavoidably held oyer till Saturday. Yesterday morning a large number of local sports took advantage of the fine weather and left by train to attend the Feilding races. We erroneously stated in our issue of Tuesday last that the cases of Ah Pat against F. Robinson, Alf. Morgan, were contested. Judgment was given by default. Mrs Austin, senr., has disposed oi her residence in Park street to Mr W. Juppat a satisfactory figure. We believe it is Mrs Austin’s intention to build a smaller residence for herself. A Wellington gentleman who is in a position to give a reliable opinion ha? informed us that “no license ” will he carried in the Capital City at the next election. Scotland Yard has warned the police at St. Louis that over 500 well-known thieves have left Great Britain and Europe for America, presumably for the Exhibition, within the last few months. Mr Wydhei'ley, the senior member of the firm of Wycherley & Sons, saddlers and harness makers, paid a business visit to this town yesterday. This gentleman, Who litis been on an extended visit to the Old Country, arrived back in Wellington last week. The Chief Justice of Victoria, in the Divorce Court recently, recommended that husbands who deserted their wives should be locked up on an indeterminate sentence, as soon as divorce proceedings were completed, and compelled to work for the support of their wives. Mrs Wright, in a change advertisement, thanks the public of Foxton for the support accorded her during the past twelve months. She also announces the arrival of new fruits, groceries, _ toys and fancy goods. Dressmaking and plain sewing are also done on the premises. At the Court yesterday morning before G. A. Simpson and A. Fraser, Esqs., J’s.P., A. Rogers was fined 5s and costs 2s, tor drunkenness ; Thos. Robb, ■ charged _ with drunkenness, second offence within six months, was fined 20s or 4 days. A prohibition order was also issued against the him on the application of the police. Two men named Dennis Dee and Thomas Jackson, flaxmill hands, were arrested at Alfredton on Monday in connection with the assault upon the man Dempster. They were brought before the Court on Tuesday morning, charged with assault and robbery, and remanded. A London weekly contemporai-y tells an excellent story. A man and his wife were in a railway accident. She was relating the incident afterwards to a friend : “We were suddenly thrown out on to an embankment. John said to me, ‘ Are yon hurt ?’ I said, ‘ Not a bit.’ Then he up with his fist and gave me a blackeye, and we claimed £IOB damages. Now, I call that real presence of mind.” In another column will be found an advertisement inviting tenders for the purchase of a block of flax land situated at Wirokino. Without a doubt this is one ot the best blocks ever offered in this district, and competition ought to be keen. Particulars and conditions of tender can be seen at the Herald office. Tenders close with Mr Charles Robinson on 13th December next.

The ways of the Maori mind are be* yond the comprehension of the average pakeha. In a case at the Taihape Police Court, a Native who was accused of an offence against the law elected to have an interpreter. At the conclusion of the case, when he was found guilty and fined a substantial amount, he stood up and said to the bench in excellent English, “ I have got co money just now, but if you give me time I will pay it!” Collapse of the interpreter. As an instance of the careful (?) way in which the Education Department conserve (fie public funds, Mr Pirani mentioned at the meeting of the Board at Wanganui last week, that out of the vote for the building of primary schools in newly settled districts, the Department bad allotted /800 for the High school in Palmerston North. How the department manages to look on a high school in a populous town as a primary school in a new district he left to the imagination of the members. w At the closing hours of the First National Bank at San Francisco on Sept. 17th, a man walked behind the counter, helped himself to a bag containing £4OOO in gold (says an exchange), and before the astounded clerks could interfere had walked out (no wonder they were astounded, as £4OOO in gold would weigh nearly Solbs). However, the yarn goes on— A bank official followed, and in a neighbouring hotel seized the thief, who declared the money was his own. He asked the hotel proprietor to accompany him back to the bank to es* tablish his innocence. On reaching the street corner, the thief, still holding the bag of gold, suddenly jumped on to a tramway car and got clean away. He is still at large. Re Wanganui Education Board matters, the Herald says:—This year’s vote to the Board for maintenance purposes is £2999, of which so far only /750 has been received, £SOO is required for painting buildings, so that from now up till June next the Board will have only £I7OO to come and go on, and with the many urgent works that are being pressed upon them from all sides, they are at their wits’ end to know how they will make both ends meet. This will appear with more force, when it is stated that among the works required to be done out of this amount are the rebuilding of the Fox ton and the Wangaehu schools. The former school is in a very insanitary condition, and the health department, rightly enough, insists on Us being at once attended to. Still, as the Education Department refuses to allot sufficient money for the Board to undertake the work, the latter may be excused tor not knowing what to do about it;

A good feeder is wanted for a flaxmill at Martinborongh. The teacher was explaining the meaning of the word recuperate. “ Now, Will,” she said, “If your father worked hard all day he would be tired and worn out, wouldn’t he ?” “ Yes’m.” “ Then when night come?, and his work is over for the day, what does he do?” “That’s what ina wants to know.” During a visit to Niagara an Irishman sought the services of a guide, who was very attentive to the visitor. At the close the Irishman asked, “ Sure, and that is all ?” “It is,” said the guide. “ Upon my honor,” replied the Irishman, “ I don’t see why people should come from all the world to see this at all, at all.” “ Why,” said the guide, “ don’t you see that magnificent cataract of water rushing over that precipice ?” “ Sure, 'now,” said the Irishman, “ and why shouldn’t it ? Is (here anything to hold it back ?” The following story from the Taller is enough to destroy one’s faith in bridge players:—Two ladies were partners at bridge during Henley week against two well-known rowing men. One of the ladies passed the make to her partner, who promptly declared diamonds. On her hand being put down it was found that it contained only two small diamonds, “ What on earth,” said the dealer, “ induced you to go diamonds On such a hand. You have only two ?” “ It’s you who are to blame," was the reply; “ why did you touch your necklace ?” The “ Cornhill,” in some reminiscences of Oetlefal Qfatlt) telle this story, which he Was fond of relating. At the battle of Shiloh a private who had never heard a gun fired before was so perfectly panic-stricken by the second or third volley and seeing his comrades falling around him that he threw down his gun and started for the rear as fast as his long legs could carry him. In his flight he passed General Sherman wha shouted to him, “ What are you running for ?” and the frightened man, without- stopping, yelled back, “ Because I can’t fly.” Fortunately Sherman’s bullet missed him and he became one of the bravest officers in the Western army. s Considerable sensation has been created in London by ceftdifl fettlarhs concerning Anglo Russian relations, attributed to Sir Walter Lawrence, private secretary to Lord Cnrzon, He was staying at a country house quite recently, when he electrified a dinner party by declaring that, without doubt, there would be waf between England and Russia next spring. It is not only his private opinion, but also that of Lord Kitchener and of all high officials in India, and he added that many big guns were being* sent out quietly to India all the time, and every preparation was being made tor a long campaign. I have seen New Yorkers making holiday on Coney Island ; I have mingled with holiday crowds in Tokio; I have watched the Australians at play upon the beach of St. Kilda; I have gone in and out among the festival crowds of a great Indian city or the myriads who throng the vast pleasure resorts in (he neighborhood of Canton ; I have spent many a holiday week in the favourite playgrounds of the Canadian trippers, but never in any part of the world—in Paris, or in Naples, in Athens, Cairo, even in Port Said itself, or in Melbourne, Sydney, Montreal, or New York, have I seen anything to approach the foul, shameless, and blatant misbehaviour of the Cockney crowds in Hastings, Margate, Southend, or Ramsgate. And I grieve to say that the women are more shameless and abandoned than the men. Oh! for half an hour of the sturdy police of Berlin or New York.—Mr Raymond Blathwayt, in the Daily Mail. The November number of the Bulletin —the official organ of the First New Zealand Mounted Rifles Association—is to hand. It is snappily written, and quite up to previous numbers. Here is a par in respect to the fourth annual dinner :—“ And the Association and the annual dinner, and the annual hob-nobbing isn’t dead yet by a jugful or a cutter-full. It was good to hear: “Hello Charlie!” “What ho, Jack!” “Why there’s Jimmy!” “What price George with a whisker on?” “How’s Palmerston North, Arthur?” “Wool’s up, I hear, Jack!" “How ye livin’, Arthur?” “ Good Heavens, ain’t Thorny fat ?” “ How are you, sir ?” (this to the officers—the boys don’t forget their manners). “My word, there’s Cromie, Fall em in, Ned, ‘two thick.’ Good old Kimberly 1” “ Who said chickens ? Specs it was Sarn’t Watts !” and so on, and-so on. All unintelligible to outsiders, but plain as a cow gun to those in the know.”

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