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Manawatu Herald, 6 December 1904, Page 2

We understand Mr H. Frankland has taken a lease of Mrs T. Nye's new residence, it being Mrs Nye’s intention to take up her abode in Wellington. At the court yesterday morning before T. Bennett and A. Fraser, J’s.P., prohibition orders were granted against the following persons on the applica tion of the police : —John McGill, Rose McGill, and C. Nelson. A correspondent writes“ Does the law allow clairvoyants to practice their arts in New Zealand ? If so it is time, the law was altered, so that a stop could be put to the silly nonaence which is poured into the ears of susceptible females.” Only six bands entered for the contest at Feilding next March, in consequence of which the time of nomination has been extended to next Saturday. Should no further entries be received, the advisability of abandoning the contest will be considered. Our local Tennis Club secretary, Mr H. Frankland, left Foxton on Saturday last tor outside parts. Rumour has it he is shortly to face the altar and that he will return to Foxton possessed of a bride. We join with others in wishing him all happiness and prosperity in the new era ot life he is undertaking. The local paper at Collingwood says that in the recent fire not one of over a dozen “ fireproof” safes resisted the effects of the heat. Documents contained in them in every case were roasted to cinders, and were rendered absolutely worthless, and in one case some loose gold lying in a recess of one of the safes had actually run into a solid mass. 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. “ Charley, dear,” said young Mrs Torkins, “don’t you think it would be better for you to let me pick out horses for you to bet on ?" “ You don’t know anything about horses.” “Of course I don’t. But I’ve noticed that the people who know all about them are the ones who always lose their money." The Agent-General cabled yesterday :—“ Hemp market firm. Good business has been done. Price of New Zealand hemp good fair Wellington grade on spot to-day /31 10s; January to March shipments, £3l 10s; price of Manila hemp fair current grade on spot to-day £4l ; the stock of hemp in London is 133810n5, as against 1077 tons this date last year. The funeral of the late Mrs G. Nye was very largely attended on Sunday afternoon last. An unusually large number of vehicles and horsemen followed the cortege to the cemetery, where the Rev. W. Harris performed the last sad rites at the graveside. Visitors were present from all parts of the district, bearing good testimony to the esteem held for the deceased. A cable has been received which I states that E. R. Terry, the world’s champion axemen, A. Clark, J. Deegan, and G. A. Gocld (champion sawyer), leave Tasmania on Friday for New Zealand, to represent the Common wealth at the New Zealand axemen’s carnival at Eltham, on the 26th and 27th December. Blanc, Chellis, and McCarthy, were unable to obtain the necessary leave.

A plain, honest, retiring old road overseer was the recipient of a presentation at Levin last week. In responding, he said it was no use his saying he was taken by surprise, because he had known for ten days past what was going to happen, and he had carefully prepared a speech for the occasion, but somehow or other he couldn’t for the life of him remember a word I (Great laughter and cries), “ Go on, old man.” Says a Blenheim newspaper:—A man who drank to excess on Saturday night probably owes his life to his habit of snoring. The constable on late duty heard a nasal sound in the vicinity of Alfred-street bridge, and, attracted thereby he found a man asleep on the steep river bank, in a position from which he would most likely have rolled into deep water. He was partly supported by a willow stump, and Was slipping down head first into the river. As he was quite drunk that eventually would have meant drowning. The constable had to get assistance and a rope to pull the man up the bank. The London correspondent of the Daily Times says that a leading Sheffield steel-maker, who has had a ton ot Taranaki ironsand on trial, has discovered a way of smelting it by means of a particular kind of electric furnace, and can turn out steel of the finest quality at a comparatively small cost. A sum of from £200,000 to £300,000 has already been guaranteed, and the promoters are quite in earnest. They mean to see it through. The idea at present is to send out men and erect works in New Zealand, but some anxiety is felt as to the operation of the New Zealand labour laws. Obviously, it is absolutely necessary to have skilled labour, but it would be essential to ensure that the operations should not be interfered with by trade unionism or other labour agitation, else all the capital invested might easily be fooled away.

Clement Wragge predicts a drought commencing during the middle of December, and extending to next winter.

A bicycle event of three miles has been arranged to take place at 6 o’clock to-morrow evening in Victoria Park. Those competing are : —G. V. Dunn, scr; J. E. Marshall, 40yds; W. Wallbutton, 60yds. The Palmerston Racing Club’s nominations are very satisfactory, a slight increase on’ last year’s total being recorded. Some of the best owners in the land intend to flash their colours to an Awapuni audience.

The other day a well-known counsel examining the plaintiff in a breach of promise case inquired of her : •* Was the defendants air when he promised to marry you perfectly serious, or one of jocularity ?” The complainant replied : " If you please, sir, it was all ruffled with him running his hands through it.” “ You misapprehend my meaning," said the con- el. “ Was . .e promise made in utte; sincerity ?” ‘ No, sir ; it was made i the washhouse,” replied the plaintLi, amid roars of laughter. On Saturday afternoon, Messrs Gifford Moore and Beale, at the instance of A. G. Hickford, of Rongotea, issued a writ claiming £sot damages for ab leged libel) from Messrs Kirton and Cilrtis, proprietors of the Feilding Star. A writ was also issued against Mr C. Palk, district organising secretary of the Prohibition League, claiming £IOO damages for alleged slander. The actions have arisen out of a statement made by Mr Palk in a debate on prohibition at Feilding some months ago, the statement being reported by the Star.

The appeal on behalf of Miss Gertie Campion, the actress, who is now lying ill in Johannesburg, has reached £364 18s sa. Mr Bert. Royle has re* ceived the following cablegram from Johannesburg: “ Doctors entertain no hope Miss Campion undertaking passage some months. Has had relapse. At present in nursing home here." It is hoped by benefits given in Miss Campion's interests in different parts of the colony, to raise enough money to bring her back to New Zealand, and to Send her to one of the colonial sanatoriilhiS. Some of the handsome silvermounted Japanese maple-wood bangles made in Japan by those clever little Japs have found their way to Palmerston North. Messrs O’Connor and Tydeman, “ the leading North Island jewellers,” who always look well ahead for Xmas novelties, have imported a quantity of these. They are round Nellie Stewart shape, made of Japanese wood and mounted in silver. Each bangle bears the Japanese hall-mark, and they are undoubtedly very pretty. No article of jewellery is sought after so much this season in England as the Japanese bangle. The bangles, like the Japs themselves, are very hard to beat. We anticipate Messrs O’Connor and Tydeman will do a tremendous business with them. The price is within the reach of all. The bangle is dainty enough for a queen, but would not be out ot place on the wrist of a peasant girl. An English actor was a member of a company snowbound in the Sierras, while en route from Calilornia to New York. Before their train was pulled out of the drifts they had been reduced to eating the coarse fare of the railroad laborers, and got little enough of that, so that they all had a magnificent hunger when the train reached a small station at which there was a restaurant, and the Englishman was 'he first to id a seat at a table. “ . ;ing me, in . hurry,” he said to the andlord, a larly Western man, “a orter-house steak, some devilled kidneys, a brace of chops, plenty of vegetables, and two bottles of Bass’s bitter beer.” The landlord stuck his head out of the dining-room door and yelled to some body in the rear apartment : —“ Say, Bill, tell the band to play ‘ Rule, Britannia.’ The Prince of Wales has come.”

While overseeing a gang of men, ‘who, with mule teams, were hauling loads of dirt—a friend of mine—a ventriloquist—came up and stood by my side. Presently a mule, driven by a fiery tempered fellow, baulked right in front of where we were standing. The driver lost his temper and began to beat the animal. Every now and then the mule would turn his head and look reproachfully at the fellow, but refused to budge. “Now just watch him,” the ventriloquist whispered in my ear. At that moment the fellow gave the animal a kick with his heavy boot. The mule turned his head, looking him squarely in the face: “ Don’t you do that again 1 " The voice sounded as though it came directly trom between the mule’s parted lips. The whip dropped from the fellow’s hand. For a moment he stared at the mule, and then, without a word, he bolted down the street as fast as his legs could carry him. At an Ideal Banquet at Greytown last week, Mr Hornblow, in proposing the toast of “ Greytown —Past, Present, and Future,” stated that Greytown’s public men had held their own in many walks of life, ev*n to the Inspector of Nuisances. He then read the follow! ig challenge which appeared in a Greytown Standard 28 years ago:—“*Silas Pugsley,” of Greytown, is affronted because the Post expressed a belief that Mr Pilmer, ot Wellington, is a better Inspector of Nuisances than he. The Post thinks Mr Pilmer can smell a nuisance two miles off. This is nothing in the eyes of Silas, as will appear from the following telegram sent by him : —“ To the editor of the Evening Post. Challenge. Greytown, Thursday. “I, Silas Pugsley, do hereby challenge Mr Pilmer, Inspector of Nuisances, Wellington, to smell him any distance from two to ten miles. “ Silas Pugsley.’ 1 What Mr Pilmer will think of this we do not know. We are assured that the Greytown candidate declares he would be able to smell the Wellington Inspector if he were coming over the Rimutaka, provided the wind blew the right way.”

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