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Manawatu Herald, 23 February 1905, Page 2

The sale of Dr Bennett’s furniture on Tuesday proved very successful; Good prices were realised throughout.

A start has been made with the local Tennis Tournament, and much interest is likely to be taken in the decision of the championships. Amongst those who have passed their dental examinations, we notice the name of Mr Sydney until recently manager of W. PL Poole's Foxton branch. Hr Ashton has onr heartiest congratulations on his recent success.

It is rumoured that by the victory of the local horse Fnrneanx at Wondville, yerterday. a large amount of foreign capital will ibid its way into Foxton. Fnrneanx won the. County Hack and paid £lO. We wish Alf. Wright future successes with his charge.

It is expected that the Premier will deliver a reply to the Leader of the Opposition in Taranaki at an early date. Mr Seddon will probably visit Stratford on his return from Auckland in about three weeks’ time, and he has also been invited to speak at Eltham. ,

Whilst Mr Deßidder was in the act of speaking of the power required to drive, an electric light plant at last night’s meeting, a listener reminded him of rme of New Zealand's turnons water falls. “Of course, you can go to Niagara Falls if you choose and get plenty of power,” answered Mr DeRidder.

In 1904, 887,776 men, women, and children in New Zealand consumed liquor to the value of £3,152,849, or £3 10s lofd per head. This is the highest average since igoi, when (he average was £3 us per head. In the last 35 years £86,807,105 has been spent in intoxicating liquors by the handful of population in this little Colonv.

■ At Palmerston North yesterday, judgment was delivered in the case of Rapley v. Miss Crawford, a claim for £IOO commission alleged to he due on the sale of the Royal Hotel. Mr A. D. Thompson, S.M., gave judgment for the full amount claimed with Court costs £2 10s, witnesses expenses £2, and solicitor’s fee £6. Security in case of appeal was fixed at £l3O.

The contest for the howiing championship of the Colony between Gisborne (winners of the North Island championship) and Newtown (winners of the South Island)* is being played on the Wellington Club’s green. Gis borne won the first ol the three matches by 24 to 15, the result being largely due to the fine generalship and play of Pnnsford (skip). A water famine is being experienced at Feilding. Five shillings for 250 gallons is the current market value of this Indispensable article. Washing operations are being carried on at the river. We in Foxton are almost in the same boat. At least one person in Main street claims that £ao will not cover his water-carriage bill this summer.

It is not often, in this colony at all events, that the double function of a golden wedding, and the marriage of one of the children of the couple, is celebrated on the same day. This, however, occurred at Burnside (Otago) on Saturday, when Mr and Mrs D. Kane had the pleasure of celebrating their golden wedding and witnessing the marriage of their younger daughter. At last night’s meeting the Mayor took the advantage of referring to the paragraph in the last issue of the Herald to the effect that he may not seek re-election as Mayor. He explained that certainly he received little encouragement from Councillors to act in that capacity, but as it had been told to him that there would be an opponent in the field, he would meet the wish of those who favoured progressive ideas and again contest the Mayoralty. He hoped ratepayers would return a set of men as Councillors who had the welfare of the district sit heart.

Swainson and Bcvan require three scutchers. Apply at Levin or Manakan.

Mr E. A. Coley inserts a notice that tenders for the contracts advertised hy him have now been accepted.

The University ot Pennsylvania lias conferred the Doe'.orship of Laws upon the Kaiser and President Rooseveil. Tis said that an influx of Chinese storekeepers and fruiterers at Taihape is deeply concerning the European business people of that township. The largest electrical pumping plant in the world is at Utah Lake. It raises 5,000,000 gallons of water a day for .irrigating Great Salt Lake Valley.

A New York cable says President Roosevelt will submit to the next Hague Peace Conference a .general scheme for international arbitration.

For picking no a dog by the enfs with his teeth and swinging it in this fashion for two minutes, a Wealdstone costermonger Was fined £i and costs at Ed gw am. The membership of trades unions fell last-mar from 1.(323,000 to 1,902,000 in the United Kingdom, while the funds were the highest on record, totalhug £4,550,000. h ranlein Wilke- headmistress of the Physical Training college, Chelsea, at a conference of school managers at Horsham, described corsets as “instruments of torture.”

According to Major J. Moore, of the British Army Veterinary Department, the horses of the world number nearly eighty millions) twcntydhree millions being in Russia. There has been found at Newcastle, coiled round the stem of a bunch of West Indian bananas, a snake so dangerous that lioiic c’F the wild animal proprietors will have anything to do with it.

In response to an appeal for £3O for thirty needy survivors of the Light Brigade in the jubilee year of the famous charge; Mr T; H. Roberts states that he has received only £j 15s up to the present. Mr Justice Phillimore (Eng.) counts ambidexterity among his many attainments. At the Liverpool Assizes (says the "Liverpool Post") he used his hands alternately In siting down notes of the evidence.

Henry Underwood* wrongly _ sentenced at fiiririinghahl for jjbtaining money under false hot delivering goods alleged to been promised when canvassing, has been liberated, the Home Office inquiry showing that the conviction was based upon mistaken identity.

When a Hackney woman was served with a summons for her husband to act as juryman at an inquest, she replied, " He won’t be able to attend, as he belongs to the unemployed.” The man failed to answer to his name at the inquest to which he had been summoned.

One of the most striking features at the Naval, Shipping, and Fisheries Exhibition at Earl’s Court next summer will be a novel and interesting fleet. This will consist of a specimen of every minor vessel, such a Esqui maux kayaks, Indian dug-outs, and birch-bark canoes, Malay proas, catamarans, gondolas, and Irish and Welsh coracles.

George Dean, the central, figure in one of the most exciting criminal cases of the century, now lives quietly in a Sydney suburb. He has resumed his old occupation of ferry-boat master and finds employment as a casual hand with one of the ferry companies. The long term of gaol left its mark on Dean, but he is still a fairly younglooking man.

Major-General Sir A. Turner says that if the British Artillery had to go into action with their present guns, the batteries would be destroyed before they could damage the enemy. “ We are standing on the brink of a ( precipice,” he said, in stating at a' meeting of the Army League that Die rearming of the Artillery would take two years.

Hon. T. Vh Duncan, Minister of Lands, narrowly escaped a serious accident in Wellington on Monday. He jumped off a moving tramcar and fell heavily alongside the track. The bogie struck one of his boots and twisted him round as he lay on the ground. His body was afterwards struck by the rear of the car. Mr Duncan was picked up by the onlookers, who were astonished to find he was uninjured. Our local Celestial, charged with knowingly acquiring possession of opium that could be made suitable for smoking, was fined £25 by Mr A. D. Thomson, S.M., at Palmerston North on Monday, who at the same time announced his intention of writing to the Department stating that if it were possible a lighter fine would have been imposed. On a charge of having opium in his possession accused was fined £5 and costs.

The Wanganui Garrison band returned home from the Auckland contest on Monday, and met with a great reception. They marched to Cook’s gardens, where over two thousand people had assembled, and addresses of welcome were delivered by the Mayor and Mr Remington, the member for Rangitikei. The conductor, Mr Crichton, was presented with a handsome gold medal from the citizens.

Only one creditor, the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Co., was represented at the meeting of Creditors in the bankrupt estate of Fred Yanko, jnr., farmer, Himitangi. Debtor was milking on shares, and attributed his failure to the fact that he had only received £ls per month from the milk of 70 cows, and had to pay out of that for labour. He had thus lost £6 or £7 a month since August, 1903. The immediate cause of the failure was pressure by a secured creditor. The meeting agreed to take no action until the stock was realised. —Manawatu Standard.

The Feilding Show yesterday was in every way a success.

It is regrettable to have to record that only two Councillors, besides the Mayor, were present at the Public meeting last night. News has been received at Hamilton that a woman and two children were killed by a falling tree on the railway works at Pnkerimu. No details are available.

The murderer Ellis, when fold yes terday morning of the decision of the Executive, received the intimation with coolness and indifference. The execution will take place early next week.

The Colonial Secretary has suspended Captain Hare, Commissioner of Police, as the outcome of severe criticisms passed by Dr Roth’s report on the aborigines. The Orizaba’s hull and the balance of the cargo will be sold.

Although Mr De Riddcr’s schemes were rejected at the Public Hall last night, we think that gentleman deserves a word of praise for arousing interest in the water scheme. Possibly Ins constant advocating powers had something to do with the large attendance last evening,

Mrs Nixon, a Nelson'telegram says, mother-in-law of Mr Henry Edwards, well-known for his long connection with Sclanders and Co. (now Levin and Co.), attained her hundredth year to-day. She is still hale, ( with all faculties practically unimpaired. She has lived through five reigns and re members seeing soldiers passing through English villages in tSi5 on the eve of Waterloo,

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