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Manawatu Herald, 18 February 1905, Page 2

Cavalry the West coast oi Madagascar ride oxen.

The number of Chinese ouside ol China is estimated at over 7,640,000,

A new brick post office, to cost £SOOO, is to be erected at Nelson. To keep the whole German army in the field one week would cost £6,009,000.

Paris has the biggest debt of any city m the world. It amounts to about £80,000,000. Those in want of a cottage cannot do better than give Mr Alf. Fraser a call. Look up his special ad. to-day. There have been 78,152 fatalities on the United States railways in 10 years, the death-roll last year being 9,983. The Berlin police have arrested restaurant keepers for fraud for having dummy musicians in their orchestras. While looking down the lift-well of a rubber factory a little Manchester boy was decapitated by the descending cage.

A woman in Russia, until the day of her death, if she remains unmarried, is under the absolute sway of her parents Nineteen pianos, everyone of which was a wedding present, are in the possession of the Prince and Princess of Wales.

“ Guilty to three pints," was the answer of a man at Newport who was charged before the Bench with being intoxicated.

In 1896, American immigration into Canada amounted to only 44 persons, and in 1903 it amounted to 47,780 persons.

Mr M. Cohen has been elected President of the Manawatu A. and P. Association for 1905-6, and Mr J. M. Johnston has been re-elected treasurer. The annual meeting is being held today. Mrs Masters, who was shot by her husband at Hastings recently, is re covering. Accused has been remanded until next Wednesday. Foxton is at present receiving great attention from touring companies. The latest announced is Cooper’s Biograph Coy. on Monday, 27th Peb.

The Foxton Borough Brass Band will play out in Victoria Park to-mor-row afternoon, when there should be a large array of listeners to do honour to the selected programme of music.

At its meeting on Thursday evening, the Foxton Rowing Club considered the matter of reducing the entrance fee, and decided in favour of doing so. It is hoped the change will have the desired effect, and that present members will not only meet their subscription arrears, but also that several new members will be enrolled. The Foxton Racing Club Committee met on Thursday evening, when accounts in connection with the recent race-meeting were passed for payment. The Treasurer reported a profit of something like £3OO over the last gathering. The matter of general improvents to the lawn took up the time of the committee, and it was decided to call a special meeting of the Club to consider the proposal to borrow £SOO for the work. Something bordering on jßiooo will most likely be spent on Improvements this comlug year.

The Privy Council has received its judgment in the appeal case New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company v. Reid. A Wellington telegram states that the Seddon-Taylor slander action has been settled out of Court. The conditions are published elsewhere. W. Sneddon (Wellington) won the E Flat Cornet solo competition at the Auckland Contest yesterday. The Wellington Australian cricket match commenced yesterday afternoon, Colcroft (Wellington) winning the toss and deciding to bat. Mr Henry Burling, sCnr., of Waterfalls (Wairarapa) is now In his to4th year. Mr Burling is Still active, and takes an intelligent interest in the affairs of the World.

On Tuesday next, at 1.30 p.m., Mounsey and Co, will sell the whole of Dt Bennett’s furniture and effects, at the residence; Those in Want should not fail to atlfcndi A glance at the advertisement in another column should suffice.

A. H. Sims, a Dunedin swimmer, swam from Dunedin wharf to Waverley and back, without a rest, a distance of three miles; hi two hours; with the tide against him both ways, On Friday. He will swim to Port Chalmers shortly. The Westport News states that at Martha, at the back of Reefton, there are hot springs somewhat similar to those at Hannler in Canterbury, and Rotorua in Auckland; and judging by some of the reports; some wonderful Cilres have beCri effected. The Feilding Jockey Club have an attractive programme arranged for their Easter meeting. The Cup is worth £SOO, the six furlong Mangone Stakes £3OO, and the open Hurdles £3OO. Ail these events are riin On the first day. In all, £2850 is given in stakes for the two days. At the Auckland Band Contest, D. Boyd (Kaikorai) won the B Flat Trombone, C. Forest (Wanganui) the E Flat Horm, and E. Kerr (Kaikorai) the B Flat cornet solos; Buckley (Wan ganui) was sehond in the latter, whilst Parker, the Wellington champion, did not compete.

The secretary of the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce, Mr G, Hirsch, has received st letter from the Carterton Chamber, stating that the Minister has intimated that he will be pleased to receive a deputation on a day to be fixed, on the subject of the Improvement of the Wairarapa—West Coast railway service* (general Severs in a Speech at Petersburg, said that Unless respom sible Government is granted immediately, the Boers would be compelled to steal in order to feed their families. Other leaders deprecate such indismet tactics. English correspondents emphasise the fact that the Boers are malting a hold bid fdf power. They are demanding responsible Government and the retention of their old electoral districts, Mr Gullet, a Sydney journalist, and a recent visitor to New Zealand, on being interviewed, speaks highly of the efforts of the Tourist Department to assist visitors. He declares that New Zealand is the best advertised country in the world, and that the colony has reached a state of great prosperity was undoubted. The explanation of this was the very large increase in its output. The superiority of New Zealand over Australia for agriculture lay in its well-distributed rainfall.

A large number of intending purchasers from the South are visiting Gisborne with the object of inspecting the lands of the East Coast Native Trust, shortly to be placed on the market for settlement. These are in large areas in a pastoral country, and it is expected their settlement will add materially to the prosperity of the district.

At a meeting of the Council of churches at Dunedin, it was unanimously resolved to respectfully request the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association to exclude from (heir papers all references to Tattersall’s sweepstakes and their winners, on various grounds set forth. One of these grounds was that some of the most influential newspapers have already resolved to exclude all references to Tattersall's.

A patient at the Otaki Hospital named O’Hara, who had been allowed out for a walk on Saturday, was overcome by the heat, and dropped insensible in the vestibule of the post-office. He was carried into the Town Hall, where he shortly afterwards died.

Mr Kinsella remarks“ I regret to see that soap is still being used at some factories to wash churns and cream-cans. This, in my opinion, is a very dangerous practice. Its use for the inside of dairy utensils must be strongly condemned. This is a matter worthy of attention, seeing that the soap is almost sure to contaminate the whole output of butter from the factory. At the Carterton Registry Office the other morning Mr “ Bob ” Elliot was married to Mrs Webb, formerley Mrs Gibson, and befere that Mrs Bishop, well-known in Greytown, Bob is an old age pensioner and 79 years of age. His bride is in her sixties. The young couple came round to Palmerston North to spend their honeymoon. The happy bridegroom is well-known in Foxton, where he resided for some time.

A remarkable sea story was told at Hull Police Court on December 14th. A foreign seaman, named Mybaal, belonging to the London steamer Zillah, was charged with disobeying orders at sea. The captain’s evidence was to the effect that when his steamer was entering the Suez Canal they encountered the Russian Baltic fleet, which opened out all its searchlights on (he steamer. The prisoner, who was at the wheel, appeared terrified, and wanted to alter the ship’s course. He had to be palled from the wheel, and placed in irons, but twice escaped. If he had altered the vessel’s course, she might have struck a rock. Prisoner was placed in his berth, but escaped, brandishing a knife. Eventually he was secured, and a special member of the crew set to guard him till the vessel reached Hull. He was sentenced to weeks' imprisonment.

The totalisator investments showed over £3OOO decrease at the recent Hawera meeting, compared with last year. Fact t London Merchants complain at the irregularities of the New Zealand ’Frisco mails. Three only of the last eighteen have arrived to time, last week’s being five days late. “ Records ” seem to be ibe lot meted out to N. Z. Institutions. The Band Contest at Auckland and the recent Masterton Show are the latest to be agreeably affected by progress. The Land Commission opened at Dunedin, yesterday morning, > when it was decided to have the meeting open to the Press, 90 far M the taking of evidence, but discussion would be in committee. The Committee adjourned to Invercargill, where the first batch 0 evidence will be heard on TiJCsday^

A special bargain is being give'.u by Mr G. Stiles to night and during u np . week while the goods last. A range ot colours in Japanese silks are being offered all at is per yard, which is exceptionally good value. Mention must also be made of the corsets which are being offered at is 6d and which can not be replaced when sold out. The body of a mao who. for a fortnight past, has been at Greymouth under the name of Chas. Gordon, war found in a mudhole in that township yesterday. Deceased’s coat was found on the bank. In his clothing war found letters that indicate he was ii; business in Palmerston North under the name of Charles Revans. Enquiries are being made. The case is supposed to be one of suicide. [The man Revans was in business as a grocer at Palmerston North in the Square.] The man Armstrong, whom we reported in our last issue as having been refused admittance to the Palmerston North Hospital early in the month, died in Foxton on Thursday evening. An effort Was made to convey him by afternoon train on that day to Pal merstou North, but the Railway authorities refused, we undersatod, on account of the regulations preventing them from doing so, the man suffering from an infectious complaint—consumption. He had already been placed on the train, when he was removed to Mrs Harris’ boarding-house in Main Street, where he died a little after six o’clock the same evening. The Palmerston North ambulance waggon was telegraphed for in the afternoon, and conveyed the corpse to the northern township for interment. Heard on the train.— Portly persons " Great mistake this show at Feilding. Large breeders Cannot support these small affairs, and without* ns'—well, you have heard of an eclipse of the sun." Keen cultivator; “Well, I think it’s rather a good idea to give the small farmer a chance to show wha' ha can do, and, there's not a doubt about it, he will be found in large num hers at the Feilding show.’’ Tirefi traveller, passing friendly, flask: “Ts all ri’; too slow—ought to have shtarted show shenturies ago. ‘There ish . affair in th’ tide of man wbisch, when nipped in th 1 bud, leads on to forchine.’ Nuffsed."

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