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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3530, 3 June 1905, Page 2

Ssven Anarchists from Snain have been attested in Paris. Two stated that they intended to kill King Alfonso. The Canadian Government will take over the naval stations of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Esquimau, British Columbia, on tst »f July. The Everton Grange has sailed from Brisbane for Hongkong with 1339 horses— a record shipment from Aus(ralia. The anarchist Carl K mssean has been sentenced to (onr yearn’ imprisonment for sending an infernal machine 11 board the steamer U-n r.a at New York. Four thousand starving peasants from several villages marched to Malaga and begged tor bread and work. Famine caused a no" In the Province ■ >f Toledo. At a conference on tin- unemployed questions in Sydney reso’utions were adopted-in favour of extending the experimental farms, with a system of Ini solos for youths in connection therewith. Mr Bnnkill (consulting engineer), Mr Jones (manager), four other whites, and several natives were suffocated while trying to 1 icate a fire in old vorkings at Vereeniging Colliery, near J fiiannesburg. When the Per..- Ma r qiierelte railway inquired two Ontario l ues the postion of the Canadian officials on those

‘ nes was rendered very uncomfortable mt they resigned, and their places were given to Americans. Eleven ot 1 tie latter have now been deported under the alien labour law.

An Established Church Assembly -fitting at Edinburgh resolved to apply to Parliament for power to modify the -ense in which the Confession of Faith is accepted. The Earl of Aberdeen expressed the opinion that the proposal might bring the churches closer together. A ratepayer in one of the back streets of Milton, who had tried every conceivable means to keep the stray cows out of his garden, g«t up rather early one morning and milked two bovines which had fed sumptuously on his cabbage patch all night. He intended (says the Bruce “ Herald ”) to continue this profitable treatment for the future.

An unusual incident happened at the Manaia public pound on Sunday morning. An individual who had had bis stock.impounded made a demand on the Poundkeeper to release the stock. As the latter was unmoved by the request, the other produced an axe with which he threatened to cut down the gate. The Poundkeeper opened the gate! A marriage for which the opening of the Kiel Canal was responsible took place m Belfast recently. In the Kaiser’s suite was Captain von Versen, of the Prussian Guards, and among the visitors was Miss Edith Carlisle, the daughter of the general manager of Messrs Harland and Wolff, the niece of the Right Hon. W. J. Pirie. The young couple fell in love, and a present from the Ka : ser was among the gifts they received on the occasion of the wedding at All Souls Church. The Japanese nurses are perhaps the best in the world. Their sweetness qf temperament and their patience are marvellous; and as (curiously enough) they are quite indifferent to suffering, they are always calm in difficult circumstances. I have seen them assisting in the most cruel operations with quiet movement, smiling faces and incredible presence of mind.—Special correspondent of "Le Temps,” Paris,

A church parade of the local cadet corps is contemplated at ad fe'dny date;

The Fpjdon School Committee Meets on Wednesday evenirig next at the Borough Chamber's/

A reminder is given to those re 1 qniring furniture of the clearing sale of Mrs Hands’ Main Street hoarding house furnishings on Monday next.

M' - F. Pirani has inter! Seleht/d by the Wanganui Education Board as a School Commissioner for the Wellington district.

To-day the Prince of Wales attain 3 bis -fist year. The holiday will he Observed locally on Monday, The adjodrned special m£e'ting trf the Borough Council, to complete the business of List Monday’s sitting, will be held dri Monday evening af 7.30.

At Pahiatna ygstel’day Glaiide Ernest Newport was fined £3 and costs, Or 14 days’ imprisonment, for using obscene language td a gill in a public plabe;

The lease ot the 'target Reserve, submitted at auction this afternoon by Messrs Wyatt Clark and Co., realised £SO per annum, Mr G. Brewer being the purchaser. The average attendance at the Foston Slate school for the past week was 193, and absences 60, making a roll nunl'ier of 433; The wet weather Interfered with attendances during the' last two davs;

The Rome correspondent of the “ Cork Examiner,” reports that the Pope has dismissed the Marquis McSwinney, Chamberlain of the Cape and Sword at the Vatican, on account of the version of an interview between his Holiness and Mr J. E. Redrnand. M.P., leader of the Irish Nationalist Party, which the Marquis commnnicatecl to the press, representing PiusX, as favourable to Home Rule. Tne pnhlished version of the interview is stated to have given great offence at the Vatican. Th* Marquis accompanied Cardinal Vanntelli to Ireland in 1904. The reported dismissal is since denied.