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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3493, 7 March 1905, Page 2

Additional entries for the Himitansi sale on Monday next are advertised. The annual conference of fire brigades representatives is being held this week in Dunedin. Burglars are busy just now in Hawera, half a dozen places having been visited during the past tew days. At the Melbourne Bicycle Club neeting on Saturday, in the team- tost, Fllegard and Farley beat Lawson and M >oFarland by 19 points to 18. The police made a raid on Saturday night 0.1 two places in Bnlclutha, and h is understood a considerable quaniiy of liquor was fun d in one place, and a small quantity in (he other. The body of a native girl named M ite, aged 19, was found hanging in a whare at Tangipana station on Friday. She had apparently been dead about three days. In the Mile Swimming Championship of New South Wales at Sydney on Saturday Keran broke his previous world’s record by main 19 2-ssec. He won by over 200yds in 23rm'n 162-5360. The domestic issue of a ten millions sterling loan in Japan was covered twice. The Imperial household took halt a million and the associated bankers six millions. Norman McLeod, aged 27 years, committed suicide on Saturday. He wao living by himself on his own farm some (,on miles from Wanganui, and his brother on visiting the place on Sunday found him hanging. Garfield’s report on the United States berf .industry shows that the packers’ coinoanies are not over capitalised, Hie profit being onlv two per cent upon the gross capital. When prices ware highest, in 1902, some packer? wer§ biing money,

Captain E* 1 w rl telegraphed at nOOII to day : —“ M 'derate to strong westerly winch ; glass rise; lid js good ; sea considerable."

It was rumoured frj Palmerston on Sitnrday that men in possession of dynamite and Mvnlvots had been arrested in New Plymouth, The Bank*.of Australasia has dedrtv d n. dividend df twelve per edit and carried to the reserve / yls'do. to the premises account /T.pooo, and carried forward /Jib.9sl. The *'Fi.tiiaOi.il 'rimes” c udders it a bad precedent for the Queensland Government to redeem tiie forg. d Treasury notes, a number of which .were discovered a couple of months 'ago, even if they were splendid imitations.

A sSrious, accident h ;ppenc d, to Mrs Law, wife of a Hiikhdr on Pembroke road, Steal ford, white harnessing a horse. The a.ihnal, rearing, crushed her against a post, a shaft breaking (wo of her ribs and billeting internal injuries.

The harvest thanksgiving services conducted in AH Shuts ’Anglican Church o.i.Sunday were well attended. Willing IHprrs had worked .a great change in the Hand appearance of the Church interior by tasief.nl d’AffiaiiorC appr -pria'e to Ihe occ ision. A rather serious accident happened at Jupp’s H uiihll about noon to day, by which a mm named Cnnninghame, about 23 years of age, was badly injured. He was jambed between a drav and a nasi, su-tabling internal injuries. Mr H ealay, chemist, attended the man, who was subsequently seen by Dr Rogers, and ordered to be removed to the' hospital at Palmerston.

A private HEeiing Of fl ixmillors was held on Saturn iv nt:ortn on, the Pal inci sion Times reports, when the question of accid-nt insurance was discussed. General complaint was made against the excessive rates for accident risks imsposed on the millers by the insurance companies, and the proprie tors of eight mills in the district decided to eater into a mutual agreement to compensate each other’s employees in case of accident. At the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce’s quarterly meeting on Friday the question of the North Island Main Trunk Railway was discussed. It was decided to urge the Government to secure a larger appropriation during the coming session of Parliament s> as to expedite (he completion of construction. All Chambers of Commerce and local bodies in the North Island are to be written to asking for their cooperation, and an influential deputation is to wait upon the Ministry on the matter. “TRUST THE PEOPLE!" At the- Methodist Conference last week the Rev, S. Lawry, the outgoing president, in his retiring address, referring to the Bti>le in Schools movement, said this was still a phrase and little m >re. The Bible was not in the school;; of the clony, and at present it could hard ; y be said to he on the way there, “It is the custom of pur politicians,” he said “ when it soils their purpose, to raise the cry, ' Trust the people.’ but in this case they refuse to act on this principle. Possibly our best reply to their want of confidence in the people on this question will be to say 1 we cannot trust the people.,' We must appeal to them hy the only power that some of (hem recognise—the power of the ballot and insist on our rights as Christian citizens being respoclcd by th \se who pro-ess to represent our interests in Parliament.’’ Referring to the Licensing Act ef last session, he said it represented a g-cat advance on f rmer legislali-’i;, ami should ’war good fruit in the near future. Ha (rusted (hat everywhere neonle wmld strike out the top hue. ?! i : e C'nlrnl n-'d municipal control were red herrings drawn across the scent, and wherever tried they led Ito such ci motion that no one -'cvioii-ny prop isml to introduce them on nnv know i forms, but always with sundry modifications. GRUESOME ENTERTAINMENT. The Paris correspondent of the “ Standard " has recently given some pnticnlars of a remarkable case, in Paris. The plaintiff is an eminent Parisan surgeon, the defendants a firm who took cinematograph films of his operation®. This lie allowed them to do, no (hat he might get scientific records, but the films once obtained 'lave been sold and even exhibited at country fairs. In one case we are told that a Parisan hostess, anxious to entertain her guests as they had never been entertained before, had a cinematographed operation performed after a select little dinner party. Other ladies followed (he example thus set, until one fine evening a ladv who had some time bef re imderrone an operation happened to be present where the cinematograph proceeded to give a granhic representation of- her own sufferings. Naturally she was much cut up at thus being wounded in the house of a friend. We are not surmised that the surgeon should claim heavy damages For the use of the films. Meanwhile the photographers claim that (hey can do what they like with their own.