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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3499, 21 March 1905, Page 2

If is notified in another column that Mr J. Cameron has been appointed traveling representative for the Mana\Vatu Herald.

Messrs Schmidt and Saunders, sawmillers, of Shannon, have a notice in this issue of interest to builders and others. Messrs Abraham and Williams on Saturday offered at auction some sections of land at Shannon in the estate of the late James Wallace, but bidding was slack and the lots were passed in. The Labour Department in February assisted 100 married and 206 single men having 353 persons dependent on them. Ot these 36 were from Great Britain and 21 from Australia.

Another Austrian gnrndigger from New Zealand has been victimised at Hobart by the confidence trick.- The police, after a severe struggle, captured the men and recovered the hulk of the money.

An interesting function was held on board Messrs Burns, Philip and Co.’s newly-refrigerated steamer Guthrie, at Pinkenba, Brisbane, on February 25th, to mark the first shipment ot frozen meat by the Queensland Meat Export Company to Singapore.

A Christchurch bookseller states that American works of fiction are meeting with a large demand in this colony. He says that colonials understand the phases of life depicted by American authors, and like the bright style in which the books are written.

The contractor for the erection of the new Masonic Hall (Mr A. Jonson) is now nearing the completion of the work, and the lodge room will be used, it is understood, for the next ordinary meeting. The formation of Lyddell Street roadway and footpaths would greatly improve matters there.

Those miscreants who go to the theatre for the express purpose of aiming missiles at persons in the front seats would do well to refrain from that practise in future. We hear complaints of some members of the fair sex being made the targets of hoodlums last evening at the Public Hall. Beware lest it be too late !

The addition of twelve large rooms to the Albion Hotel, Shannon, has made that hostelry one ot the largest and most comfortable on the coast. New bedrooms, sitting rooms, and a dining-room measuring 80 x 60 are the principal alterations, which are sure to commend themselves to the travelling public. Mr J. Curran, the proprietor, is to be complimented on bis enterprise.

Dr Rosby, who has just returned to Sydney from New Zealand, has given the press impressions. He was forcibiy struck with the almost entire absence of signs of abject poverty, distress, social derelicts, and-neglected children like those seen Sydney.'- The colony’s land legislation led the world, and he was deeply impressed with the excellent results of the temperance legislation.)

A" British Budget surplus of several millions seems assured.

The next Spring Shown! Palmerston lias been fixed for November ist, 2nd, and 3rd.

Attention is directed to a replace advertisement inserted to-d iv by Mr E. Healey, of Medical Hall, F jxton.

Football in Pal nl irstoa North I his ycar’is going to be particularly keen. There are to be efgat. senior teams, whefcils hist j'oir there were only four.

It is stated that (ho shippers of the last line of sheep that left Fox ion for Ly 'elton cleared about £zyj-'oii lire lot, in suite of a loss of 30 or 40 sheep on Hie voyagi.

A meeting of the Foxton Ride Club will be held at 8 o’clock this evening at Whyte’s Hotel; wheri arrangeirients for a n'iatcli against the F union Rifle Club, to b; fired on the local range to morrow, will be completed. Captain Fdwb wired to-day:— !I ;strong wind to gde from between northeast and north and west after 20 h aurs from now, with glass falling, tides high, so,a heavy, indications for fain diia.T that tinier:

MS'Srs Dalgety and Coy., Ltd., Dave received the following cablegram front 1 heir London office, dated 16th inst.:—■’* Wheat market weak and dull. Since the date of our last telegram prices are lower by 3d per q uarter.”

Prospects for the school children’s railway excursion to the Manawatn Gorge on Wednesday week are not too bright. At a meeting ot tha cdmmittee last evening at winch parents were in vited to attend to give the committee an idea of what support would be fn Hicoining tin he parents rolled up. As things arc, unless there is a change the picnic may be considered “ off.” The installation of the acetylene gas in the local public had proved thoronghlv successful on its initial public trial last evening. Now is the time for “Fiat Lux” and some of our old edrfosponden! friends td start’ a crusade, so that in the coming winter of onr disconlent we may at least be in (in our streets) some measure of illumination.

Ail who tdire an interest in physical culture should make a point of attending the meeting to be held to-rrlofrow evening in the Public Hall, when Bro. Fox will give a short address on the subject. The subject is one which is attracting a great dml of attention nowadays, and is given ptVicticsl trial in the larger centres, iii colleges and seminaries all over the world, and its study and practice must produce racial benefits ot incalculable magnitude. Fro. Fox is endeavouring to establish a small chib in Foxton, and the effort merits success.

Entries for the cadets’ rifle meeting at Palmerstan on Saturday next include x? from the Foxton School Cadets audio from the Foxton Defence Cadels. Prizes comprise £2O in money, two challenge baits, and 25 trophies. The total entries are 120.

The Government has decided to guarantee id net returtl per lb on shipments of apples from New Zealand to London this season. For the purposes of each shipment will' be regarded as one lot. The quantity must he large enough to fill the chamber of the ship. The grading and packing must be done under the supervision of the Department of Agriculture, and shippers have to make all arrangements for collection, ship ment, receiving in London, sales, etc. On Sunday Messrs J. A. Nash, president of the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce, L. Simmonds and P. C. Freeth paid a visit to Foxton, and inspected the beach and the route of the proposed railway line thereto. The whole project will be very fully gone into m Tuesday next, when representatives from the various centres will he present in Palmerston. The Mayor of Foxton, Mr G. A. Simpson, will attend, with two members of the borough council. It is considered certain that some definite plan of action will be evolved, and that at no distant date the Government may be prevailed upon to do sometiling if the people interested will only show that they are in earnest.

Particulars respecting the sale of the Antarctic ships Discovery, Morning, and Terra Nova were received by the English mail. The Discovery, which was specially designed and built for the expedition in 1901 at a cost of £45,000, to the order of the Roval Geographical Society ot London, has been purchased for the sum of £IO,OOO hv the Hudson’s Bay Company, and in June next will he employed in carrying cargoes of furs from Canada (n England. She is a vessel of 736 tons gross, and is remarkably strongly built. The relief shin Terra Nova has been acquired hv Mr Wm. Zeigler, of New York, for £g6oo, and the Morning bv Mr David Bruce, of Dundee, for £I6OO. The Terra Nova, it is said, will at tempt the relief of the American North Polar Expedition, of which nothing has been heard since it left two years ago.