Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1905.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3542, 4 July 1905, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1905.

The School Committee meets to morrow evening.

The Municipal Conference opened at Wellington yesterday.

The Captain Seddon testimonial fund, now dosed, totals _A bfancli bf Ihe Kes sdalßnfl Farmers 1 Union has been formed at Levin.

The local Cadet Corps will parade for drill (without uniforms) this evening in the Public Hall. The Fox ton Literary and Debating Society will next Monday discuss the question of establishing a social club. At Palmerston yesterday, an application to vary an order made against W. Bowling, of Foxton, for wife maintenance, was adjourned. While attempting to board a train at Palmerston yesterday, a porter narrowly escaped being killed, and the “ Standard ” suggests that porters should be prohibited from such practices.

Miss Tenny, of Hall Palace, Spalding, England, has received the leaf of a tree sent through the post from Hew Zealand. This unique postcard, with a message on the back, arrived in good condition—excellent testimony to the care of the postal authorities. Mr Lewis, M.H.R. (says the “ Lyttelton Times”), has drafted a bill for presentation to Parliament rendering compulsory the registration of motor cars throughout the colony. The bill will be on the same line as the English one.” At a meeting of All Saints Vestry last evening, the,question of rebuilding the vicarage, rer'enily burned down, was considered at some length. A meeting ot parishioners will be held on the 19th inst. to consider the matter, and meantime the vestry will make further inquiries, and will inspect the site to-morrow afternoon. Says the “ Lyttelton Times ” : —ln a case in which a -man was charged with having assaulted a constable, it was stated that the riotous mob had consisted mostly of footballers. No reason was given for this statement except that the rioter# had used a. policeman’s shako as a football.

Arthur Eddy, a young chemist, of superior education, who obtained sums amounting to £I2OO by pretending to have invented a searchlight, fvr which the Government was to pay £133,000, was sentenced in England to three years’ penal servitude. Referring to the forged documents (some with the Royal arms) produced by the prisoner, the Recorder said that it was curious to note what faith people had in any document if only it was printed. Not only had the prisoner plundered Irs relatives, but he had decended to robbing a young woman of £ll.

Stratford-on-Avon celebrated the 341st anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth. The old Warwickshire town was full of visitors, and floral wreaths and garlands and bouquets of every description were placed upon the poet’s grave in the chancel of the Collegiate Church, the ceremony being attended by over a thousand people. Inthc nffernoon an open-aT representation was given in Bancroft Gardens of Ben Jonson’s masque, entitled, “ Pau’s Anniversary, or the Shepherds’ Holy Day,” special mus c being composed bv Dr Vaughan Williams, who conducted. It is believed that this is the first performance of the masqne since it was presented at the Court of King James. The annual series of dramatic performances were opened in the Memorial Theatre by Mr Benson’s Company.

The recent issue of an addition to Sir Mountstuart E. Grant Duft’s “ Nates from a Diary ” concludes the series, which extend to fourteen volumes, and covers the period from New Tear’s Day, 1861, ?to the first Privy Council of King Edward. The volume contains a rare collection of anecdotes, one of which tells ot Professor Blackie giving an entertainment to the inmates of a lunatic asylum, “singing Scotch songs, dancing the Highland fling, and what not.” Next morning an old woman, one of his patients, said to the doctor in charge : “ Wonderful are the Works of God! Only to. think that I am shut up here, and that yon body is going about loose I ”

The “ Evening Post,” in describing Mr Taylor’s speech in the House on Friday night, says “ His theme wa-i the shadow of Seddonisna, and for half an hour he treated the galleries to an exhibition of bitter brilliance that is rare in the gloomy walls of Parliament, where old faded platitudes and the mangled remains of grammatical rules He inches deep on the floor. His assault embraced almost the whole range of Government administration, compressed into a speech of eloquent and direful magnificence that never once fell below the highest level of Parliamentary rhetoric. From banter and biting sarcasm he passed to ringing periods of stern destructive accusation and passionate appeal (hat scorched and bit and burned their way home. The galleries were breathless, and strained forward in tense absorption—the House was almost spell-bound beyond applause. The Premier and his followers, at first fretting in impotent rage, gradually shrank into an ashamed and motionless legion, as if they were cowering under a thunderstorm. Early in the speech the Premier smiled. “ A gruesome smile,” commented Mr Taylor, with a deadly white scorn, and he heaped the Pelion of disaster on the Olympus of destruction, and the Ossa of obloquy over all, and crashed- the combined amazing' mass on the i Premier’s flabbergasted; .ljead>mffidentally>blightit>§.lhe Minis-j ■ter of laifiiable ■ in-: efficient, we all' J'aagh kiy? denuncilffeop2aft& :-The*&§ihister ofl, Justig# arose and spoke—rain water 1 , afterifeampagne." ...

Work on -the Levin Industrial School buildings is now almost completed,

A movement is on foot for the establishment of a consumptives’ sanatorium at Otaki, Great dissatisfaction exists among rifle club members geierally at the discontinuance of the issue of free raiU way passes to teams travelling for the purpose of firing in matches.

Eketahana Chamber of Commerce is urging on Shannon people the desirableness of pushing forward claims for the cnnstrilction df a road over the ranges between tflC twd townships.

The Law Union and Crown Insurance Co. is withdrawing from business in the colony. The reason it gives is that it takes exception to the policy of reducing the rates with which the Associated Insurance Companies have met State competition, and declines to follow It*

The “Manawatu Farmer " understands that the “ Foxton bar has beeil altered in such a way as to cause considerable inconveniendd ft) visiting that port.” As a miilfei' df fact the bar is now better than ever, it was, though the flood waters have caused the up-river channel to be altered somewhat.

A remarkable bit of financing has been done by the Postal Department at Waimate, An old wooden postoffice years ago became too small tor the requirements of the business, and a new anil large one was built in brick. New, Sir W. J. Steward says, the old place is let as a shop and dwelling at a rental which pays 7 per cent, on the cost of the new one—-that is, it pays interest and sinking fund for the better office.

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