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Manawatu Herald, 10 December 1904, Page 2

The Seddon-Taylor slander case commences on Tuesday next. Special trains have been numerous of late faking coal north. It is with'pleasure we report subscriptions are coming in freely towards providing prizes for the children at the State School. The Foxton Borough Council holds its monthly meeting on Monday next, when tenders for Nos. a and 6 Lines will be considered. Mr Barnard, our local watchmaker and jeweller, has a replace advertisement in this issue which is worth perusal. Intending holiday-makers will be pleased to find an advertisement elsewhere relating to cheap train lares for the Xmas season. The Manawatu Racing Club have decided to exclude all bookmakers—whether horseowners or not—from their course at the Xmas meeting. Difficulty is anticipated in getting the guarantee of £SO tor a match with the N.Z. Football team in some ot the North of England towns. We would again remind those wishing to inaugurate a rifle club in our midst of the meeting at Gray's Hotel on Monday night at 8 p.m. The memorial service to be held tomorrow night by Rev. Harris and W. Hutchison in connection with the death of Mrs Nye is sure to be largely attended. A great improvement is noticeable at the Government Railway Station where an asphalt platform is being laid. When the Department see fit to erect a verandah, complaints should cease as to the necessities. Certainly we have experienced one or two typical summer days this past week, but the temperature of the atmosphere at present would indicate that Wragge’s stormy season has not played itself out yet. At Monday’s meeting the Wairau Hospital Board plunged into a sea of difficulties. The resignations of the medical staff were received; the architect expressed dissatisfaction, and suggested that his connection with the Board be-severed; the secretary protested that the Finance Committee had... displayed personal hostility towards himself; and it was reported the bug"'pest had spread to the nursed quarters. “If only the bugs woold sever their connection,” sighed a member. , Mr Bridge, the chairman of the Wanganui Education Board, ' has found'in the Empire City the Elixir of Life, or something just about as valuable to himself. Five or six weeks ago he was regarded as a doomed man. Cancer of the stomach had him in its deadly grip. There was one slender hope—the knife. He came to Wellington, and placed himself in the surgeon’s hands. The result is one of the most remarkable operations which have been performed in New Zealand. It was found that the cancer involved a large portion of the stomach, and the man with the scalpel had therefore to remove it. But, can a man live without a stomach ? you ask incrsdulously. Hold on. The surgeon had still the posterior wall of the deceased organ intact. He cleverly folded it back, and formed it up into a new stomach, stitched his patient up, and waited for developments. Last Sunday Mr Bridge lunched with his saviour, and declares that, in spite of his sixty-three years, he feels newer than ever, and is now busy planning out a holiday trip for himself. The skilful surgeon was Dr Logan, of Wellington (son of the Superintendent of Electric Telegraphs), and that cancerous stomach taken from a living subject is now on its way to the Otago Muiemn.—Free Lancet

If is stated that H. Hawkins, a Hawke’s Bay shearer at present engaged at the Brancepeeth sheds, Wairarapa, puts through about 200 sheep a day. “ Does your daughter play Mozart? ” inquired the young man with gold glasses. “ I think she does,” answered Mi'S Newfich affably, “ but I imagine she prefers bridge.” Many of the shop windows in Main Street denote the fact that Xmas is drawing nigh—at least, Wc should say so, if the beautiful display of goods if any guide. “ Halt the girls in the town will come flocking id tbd shoW if we invite officers and crew of the warship,” remarked the secretary of the Christchurch Horticliltutal Society; “ Many a girl will come to see a uniform Who Would not come to see a rose,” he added. ,A traveller just home from, the south of trandd tefllfi Of a certain village there where he discovered a barber’S shop bearing the following sign “ Ordinary shave, 2d ; careful shave, j shave m which every care is takflri. jad 1 It is reported that one of the cdiHfls df the, present advance in the jirice of wddl is d grub dr iiidth that is working havoc among the flocks ot tlid Argentine. It i* said that the insect, while not affecting the flesh ot the sheep in any way; feeds on the wool and simply tHItS the fleeces to pieces; There is said to be a great gliit, in the Wellington labor market. The Secretary ot the Wlffii't .Laborers; Union states that IdtOly there hate been many applicants for work on the wharves. A large number of the applicants came from Auckland, Westland, and Australia. ..Probate lias beCn granted id respect df tlid estate df the late Mr Qedrge Adams, in Tasmania. The personalty is about £130,000, and the realty £700,000. The records of the private benefactions of the late Mr Adams Show that they exceed the executors’ calculations by a considerable sum.Mrs Potter) wife df Colonel Porter) died suddenly at New Brighton last evening from a Heirt complaint; She was a cbieftainess of the Ngatiporu tribe in the Gisborne district and mother of Mrs J. Howie, the wellknown singer. Only a month ago Colonel Porter lost his son, Lieut. R. H. Porter,

The Methodist tllitilster of Chilli' Cotha, Mo., (says a New York paper} notified his congregation that he will refuse to serve it longer unless his salary is cut down by 200 dollars a yean The pastor.coolly figured it put that bis Congregation dould ndt afford to pay the salary he was receiving. The police are scouring the Whakarara district, Hawke,s Bay, tor McKenzie, alias Ellis, who is “ wanted ” in connection with the murder of Collinson at Te Awaite in February last. t A man answering McKenzie’s description has been seen in the district lately, and food and cartridges have been stolen trom several homesteads. A Chinese defendant in a summary separation case at the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court, last Tuesday, reports the Lyttelton Times, received some good advice : —I want you and all other Chinamen to know,” said Mr W. K. Haselden, S. M., " that if they marry white girls, they’ll find it very expensive, and very unsatisfactory.” Quite so. In the Supreme Court, Brisbane, AH Sizes, an hotel keeper, was charged with mixing nicotine with liquor, and also with having adulterated liquor for sale. He was found guilty on the latter count. The Chief Justice said, taking into consideration the prisoner’s- advanced age, he would not send him to gaol, but would fine him £2OO. Nearly 1000 men are now employed on the two ends of the Main Trunk railway. About 450 hands are engaged on the northern end, and upwards of that number on the southern end. The Public Works Department’s trains will shortly be running to the end of another stage, which will make the total length of the line open from Auckland some 193 or 194 miles. A cable states that Gas Blanc, winner of both the world’s championships in the big timber this year, left Australia in company with the Commonwealth team to compete in the New Zealand championships at Eltham on the 26th and 27th inst. Australia will now be represented by the winners ot every chopping championship. A man met with a painful accident in Fisher’s bush, near Terua, says a Waikato paper. He was standing on a limb of a tree watching the felling of another tree, with a pipe in his m mth. As the tree fell it struck the limb on which he was standing and threw him into the air. When he fell the pipe was jammed into the roof of his mouth with such force that the bowl broke several of his teeth. He was conveyed to the Thames Hospital. “ Is the • bot fly ever to be exterminated ?” I asked a local agriculturist, says' a correspondent of she Wairarapa Daily Times. “ Certainly,” he said, “ and we owe it to the starling. That bird is the best that has ever been introduced to New Zealand. They destroy all germs of bot fly in horse manure before it matures. Not only this —the starling never interferes with the crops, but they rid the sheep of ticks and the pigs of lice. The more they multiply the better for the farmers.” Not long ago the officials of the U.S.A. Department of Agriculture were much amused by a letter sent to the department by an occasional correspondent in Virginia. Amongst other things, the writer hastened to advise the Secretary to this effect: —‘t My wife had a Tame cat that dyd. Being a Tortureshell and a Grate taverit, we had the same berred in the Gardin, and for the enrichment of the soil I had the Carkis deposited under the roots of a Gooseberry Bush. (The Frute being up to them of the smooth varriety.) But the next Seson’s Frute, after the Cat was berred, the Gooseberrys was all Hairy—and more Remarkable, the Caterpilers of the Same Bush was All of Said Hairy description^ 1

At the Ashburton Magistrate’s Court three men were charged with being on the premises of Alexander, the defendant in a recent sly-grog prosecution. While the police were executing the warrant in search for liquor the two accused Gibson and Burgess —appeared. After hearing evidence the Magistrate decided to dismiss the cases. The other accused, Smith, did not appear and was fined £\ and costs.

A young Hiatt had read a newspaper item’ telling hoW A Stfeet car was cleared of passengers in short order wherl a man id the Centre' of the car announced that he had the sihall-pox. The next day he tried the game On a crowded car'. He sat down beside a big-fisted rilatt, arid remarked: “ I don’t suppose you mind Tiding against a small pox patient,- do you ?'* *• Not in the Idastj” replied the big man, “ but as some of the other passengers may object, I shall heave von out/ thereupon he took the joker by the collar and legs, Carried him to the platform, and shot him far out Ort the street.-

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