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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3556, 5 August 1905, Page 2

Messrs C. M. Ross and Co., of the Bon Marche, Palmerston North, have an inset in this issue. Mr Donald Fraser, of the Raugitikei district, is reported to have purchased 12,000 acres in the Morrinsville district (Auckland). Bishop G-’imes, speaking at Mi hurton on Sunday ast, comber-! -a the statement so often made nowadays that young New Zealander;, were becoming , addicted to the “ drink habit.” In another column, Mr and Mrs Alfred Arbon have a notice of thanks to friends via extended to them so much sympathy and kindness in connection with the emmn or their infaotdau-i.-ier on Wednesday last. The funcriU •: ook place yesterday afternoon. Waihi people -Moning Parliament asking plebiscite on the Bible-in-. e .juestion be taken, the only ques; u should be: “ Are you in h'.'om- of the present, secular svstern of education being maintained ? The criticism by Messrs Fisher, Taylor, and Bedford of Government methods and ailogationsof sr-uander-ing'the colony’s money has fallen flat, and the or--v harm likely to accrue is <o *!a? attackers- themselves, whoLa’-e Mdtmtiy been unguarded i rccidviog information. Opinion -■-!■ -A to be chat ihecnO o rn was doe more to personal a-mm -.-ity against the Premier than to public interest.

Tile annual general meeting of the Clfib will bo,held,in the Racing Ciubrooms oi» IteflnestlaY evening next. The Hawora Borough Council has to offer the Governmenfc_ a site at noiihiiiu fonts far a dairy experimental school. , The Western Australian Cabinet urges {lis piirciiaso'- o'f the Midland Railway of that Shtle hi the Government for a million and a half sterling.

ffevbri meri were hilled trnd eight injured during untie practice in the Gulf of Finland, through a lidilt striking a submarine mine. Dufmg a demonstration by_ unemployed in Liverpool a collision occurred, with the policGj and a mim her of men met With iflinol? injuries. Several arrests were made. An Auckland J. P. was fined £lO and costs £B 9s for signing as witness m a signature on an electoral enrolment Claim Without hearing the claimant’s name personally declared; Mr Asquith, in a speech at Sheffield, said all Liberals acknowledged Lord Lansdowne’s success as Foreign Minister, but foreign Governments knew they were dealing with only the caretakers of Great Britain.

A vote of censure on the New South Wales Government was moved on ' uesday in connection with the Lands Inquiry Commission. In Western Australia the Premier (Mr Daglislf) contemplates resignation owing to disaffection in his own party.

Speaking at Christchurch on Monday to supporters of the New Liberal Party in the House, Messrs Taylo>-, Laurenson and Fisher stated it was intended to tour the North Island during the session if possible, and if not then after the session, to further public interest in their political aims.

The desirableness of some measure being attempted to prevent th« flooding of the country in the vicinity of the Makerua swamp by the Manawatu Fiver was brought up by several speakers at Monday night’s smoke concert. The Government had refused to take action because it was alleged that private property would be benefited, but the speakers pointed nut 'bat public interest would also be served. An effort was now being made to get a Fiver Board established, and members of Parliament were asked to assist in attaining this end.

Mr John Stevens, on rising to recpond to the toast of “ The Flax industry ” at the smoke conceit on Monday evening, received quits an ovation, and had to pause for awhile until the popular acclamation had subsided After congratulating the promoters of the function on the snccesafnl manner in which it had been carried out. Mr Stevens said there con’d beonlvwenpmion in a country Hkn this—and that was the need for mean* of carrying g™ds fcsettlers and taking away their produce He revetted that no concise statement of what the Government was required 'o do had been foimnlated, hut it was not yet too late K remedy this Years ago he had t-ied to get the Government to_ take from the nroposed cotnpanyfLevin-to-ffo-d) running right over the line if bni't. hut, the reply was that it was not politic, nor in the best int°re=ts of the country, that any |in°s continue in p*ivate hands. That, however, was a consideration which the Government ought not to take exception to, m the Mana,watu line must sooner or i a ter he bought out ''ne greet which the co >m.!etiou of Foxton wifh Grearford would ennfewoiild he the direct communicatin'* wi'b a port, for the very t,-. -/c timber export trade a trade whom had great possibilities before it. 1‘ reight could be redv:cod per cent a 3 against: railage to \Vanga‘''Ui, where heavy gradients added to the cost of haulage. I 1 was pirfible for local bodies in complete the connection at the Grna-ford end, and if this were done ihe enterprise wou’d. he was return i.en ner c n nt’-n the outlay. Regarding the flax industry be hail in the past done his best, but the Goverum-mt had still neglected the Industry. The millers paid grading expenses, and the charges for thi had been made so high that the department bad money in hand,_ which was wrong. Tt should assist the flax industry as much as ifc had that of the dairying coratpunity. _ The industry was only as yet in its inhnev. arid a capable m m should be gent to London to handle all hemp as it came from the colony, and to exploit new’ markets Mr Stevens further advocated that systematic planting should be gone in for on the large areas of land in the colony which W’epe fit for very little else. Mr Oswald Gardner also deplored the fact that there was no control over the hemp after it left the colony and this was a serious defect. It had recently been found that relations practices were in vogue among some Home dealers, and be urged that one plan of meeting this would be to put traders’marks inside the bales in"fond of on h i out -ide, thus making it more difficult for marks to he inter femd with before reaching the consumer.

Floods in the A Mrfualwatu are washing away the Clifi Boat!, near the Manawatu polo grounds, arid soriie ddticWn! is felt at the probabic early disapp&ir'ririrtO the whole roadway at the spot. Mr'J. H. Kennedy, an old and muefe respected resident of Or on i Bridge, the victim of last Thursday’s accident at OroufS Bridge railway station, succumbed to his injuries in Palmerston on Thursday mornipg, He had not regained consciousness since the accident«