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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3503, 30 March 1905, Page 2

A branch of the Navy League has been forttied sit Mapteri

The man Monday, who was stuck-up on the Toowong road and shot, died in (he Brisbane hospital. The Glasgow Exhibition yielded a net profit of /dffiooo, which will be distributed among local institutions!

The Misdes Collide CorhrnenCe taking juvenile pupils for dkncing bn Saturday afternoon next at the Public Hall;

Owing (d a dispute dver the dteaoier receipt!, the ilegotiatidns for the Towns-Stanbury match are at a standstill.

The Rongotea sports, which were to baie been held yesterday, had to he postponed owing to the fain. A date Will be fixed later.

At the Wangailili Polide Court a prisoner named Smith, undergoing a sentence of six months for vagrancy, was ordered 14 days’ Dread and water tor striking a warder. The rain which has been falling steadily since Tuesday night Was do< cidedly Welcome, and already a marked improvement Is noticeable in the general appearance ot pasture—to say nothing of the tanks.

The Premier to a fanner in Ashburton s “ Previously yoU milked four teats of your cow—three for the moneylender and one for yourself. Now you milk three teats for yourself and one for the money-lender."

The Moeraki) which arrived at Sydney on Thursday night at g o'clock, made a record trip from Wellington to Sydney of three days three and a halt hours from heads to heads. The best day’s run was 402 miles. Owing to the epidemic of dengue fever, at Brisbane, the Courts have suspended their sittings, the theatres have closed, and many businesses are in a sorry plight owing to the sickness of employees.

The assault case at Auckland brought by William Richardson against the Hon. E. Mitchelson, Mayor of Auckland, was dismissed. The informant was ordered to pay costs (£8 ns), which allowed £3 33 for solicitor’s fee.

The meeting of the Borough Council called to confirm the burgess list and accept tenders for ranging lapsed for want of a quoruu. Surely, councillors generally take a lively interest in Borough affairs. Those present fixed Monday next for the adjourned gathering.

Mrs Gray’s pupils and friends are again reminded of the social to be given them at the Triad Hall on Satur. day afternoon. The certificates pertaining to the National College degree will be presented by His Worship the Mayor (G. A. Simpson, Esq.,) at 3 o’clock.

A replace advertisement in this issue from Messrs Ross and Co. of the Bon Marche, Palmerston, announces the opening up of new winter goods tor all departments, a few particulars of which are given in the advertisement which will repay the perusal of our readers.

At a meeting of the Athletic Club held at Whyte's hotel on Tuesday evening, Mr L. Furrie presiding, Messrs F. Martin, J. Frew, J. Jillett, L. Furrie, and M. Perreau were appointed a deputation to interview the Borough Council to urge the apportionment of a subsidy of /as to improve the cycling track.

It is considered probable that the Oregon timber found at Long Island was part of the deck cargo from, the wreck of the Siskin. It is an old story. The wreck occurred in 1896, when the vessel was engaged in an Island cruise, all the crew escaping. The owner subsequently returned and took off the stores.

An outbreak of fire in a clothing factory in Flinders street, Melbourne, jeopardised the lives of sixteen workgirls. Tlie manager succeeded in getting the girls from the top story to the first floor, and then had to push them from a window into the street below, where they were caught in blankets. All were rescued uninjured. Monday night,s concert in aid of the Foxton School ot Physical Culture promises to be a pronounced success in every way. The best local and outside talent has been engaged, and we should advise all who wish to spend a pleasant evening to visit the public Hall on the evening in question. Tickets are going off rapidly, and a glance at the programme published elsewhere cannot fail to ensure a largo bouse.

J. Arnst, the well known cycling champion, of Christchurch, gave a fine exhibibition of riding on Saturday last at the Wellington Amateur Athletic Sports by winning the three cycling events from scratch against large fields. His success of Saturday brings his total number of wins in first-class racing to ten firsts for the season. He weighs xzst 41b and rides a National bicycle weighing aolb. These facts go far to prove the quality and speed of the National bicycle, for which E. A. Howe is agent. When the Warrimoo returned to Melbourne from Wellington some days ago with her cargo on fire a portion of the cargo was left at Melbourne and brought on by the Moeraki, which arrived on Saturday. One case of drapery goods, consigned to Messrs George and Lersley, was found to be smouldering and it is surmised that there was fire in it when it passed through the insurance adjuster’s bands at Melbourne and that it had been smouldering on the Moeraki all the! way

Captain Edwin wired to-day:— "Gale from between north east and north west after 8 hours from now; glass fall; tides good; Considerable rain, probably heavy.” j A shocking fatality occurred at 1 about 8 o’clock on Thursday night at the Private Hotel, Clyde quay. Mrs Annie Jane Parry engaged a room at the hotel at about 6.30. An i hour an half later a noise was heard as of a heavy fall in the back-yard. On examination it was found that Mrs i Parry had fallen frond the fire-escape I of the third story, and Crashed oa to j the asphalt yard below. A doctof was 1 called in, but life was extinct. The j woman’s neck was broken, her skull 1 was ftadtilfed, and one thigh was j broken, Mrs Parry, Who Was stated to have been a widow, was about ! thirty-six years of age. She had re--1 sided lately at 55, Clyde quay. At the Inquest yesterday a verdiut of suicide j was returned, ,: fME best ’■’ poultry, The “ Poultry Herald/' Salilt Paul, Minnesota* says“ The result of the Ailsffalkn laying competition furnishes evidence of what wa* already certain ■ —-that there is no best- bread or ' variety. Of course some variety had • to stand at the head of the list, and the pen that did stand first represented one of Our most and beautiful j varieties ; but. no on* would claim j that it is. therefore established that the j Silver Wvariddtte is the best of all j varieties fttf laying. As if for the very purpose of making the breeders of this variety suitably humble, a Silvei’ Wyandotte pen stood at the foot of the list. We should be sorry if some variety should be able to establish itself as the best of all breed*. It would be a blow to the fancy, as one-half of the breeders of standard poultry would not take up this variety. On ; the other hand, it may be said to be | established once for all that no variety ’ ever will be a more useful one than all the rest. We believe in every variety jin the standard. All are beautiful, • and all are useful, but some, like the j American varieties, are more widely j bred than the oraniental breeds, and ; Ought tq be. This is saying nothing ■ Whatever against the Ornamental 1 varities, There is more In the strain, 1 in the quality of (he individual, and in proper handling, than in the breed or variety."