Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1905.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3584, 12 October 1905, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1905.

Patrick Cotter; a police constable, was lined Ids and Costs for drunkenness at the police Court at Auckland. Locke, a poultry fanner, was killed on the railway IFe at Lr-vm on Tuesday, lie was crossing bn a bicycle and wv; struck by the engine.

British demons regarding pfrac’y itl the Red Sea have been satisfied by the operations of a gunboat. The guilty were punished, three private dhows were destroyed, and the owners of tlio British dhows have been compensated for a portion of their losses. A iiannevirkO tolcgraill Says ft man n uwil Ernest Hardy* a clerk, recently from Palmerston, was sent to the Vvaipnkurau Hospital to-day suffering from wotindsin his throat, arm and» chest. Hardy had been drinking to excess, and inflicted the vVoiuuls with a pocket knife. His condition is not regarded as being sc’ ious.

Mr 11; N; Spoirs; Soil of Mr Alex.Speim, builder,' has been appointed b limber merchant by the Hawke s Bay Sawmillers’ Association, and lias commenced on his own in premises opposite I.aing’s Family Hotel, Mr Speirs is painstaking and energetic, and success should follow hint in Hus now undertaking.

A cow fit Echuea (Vic.) is reported to have given birth to a calf that had lour heads on one nock, and the cheeks were j fined together, ft had four front legs, and tht! vertebrae was divide’ 1 , it!to two separate parts, forming two distinct hindquarters. There were two distinct abdominal visoeras, Containing hearts; lungs, etc. The ears, noses, months and toiigiies were too disUrict;

There was an incident of an amusing nature during the progress of a Band of Hope entertainment given at Belfast on a recent evening (says the Lyttelton Times). One of the lady performers, an enthusiast on temperance matters, fainted. A call was immediately made; foV a vo'unkCr to proceed lei the nearest hotel (about ft mile away) lot brandy; which was quickly- procured, and tlntlcr its influence the patient made a speedy recovery.

The temporary telegraph wires erected at the Public Hall for Bazaar purposes have a lot to answer for, and much knashing of teeth, hair-pulling, and oyc-scraping will take place as r result of the messages despatched acro-s the electric cords. Certainly, some oi the giddy young girls and foolish youths had a busy time forking out threcpenc ;s in order to get even with, alleged antagonists. But it was fun, wo suppose. and helped to make matters enjoyable. During 1904 there were 52S homes in the colony registered under the Infant Lite Protection Act. These represented 72S infants. In the previ ous year there we:e 524. homes and 854 infants concerned. Throughout the year 21 deaths occurred in the homes, compared with 28 the year before, and five licensees were prosecuted for breaches of the Act and convicted as against six prosecutions and four convictions in 1903. The-edicenses were cancelled, but no neglect of licensees was disclosed at inquests. A mass meeting of members and others interested in the recently formec, Canterbury branch of the Political Re forpi League was hold in the Canterbury Hall, Christchurch, on Monday, when the Hall was filled. Speeches were dolivo'cil bv Messrs .1 Allen and L. K'-nlina'.i. M’s.ll. If., nrul P, Pi rani, who detailed the policy of the Opposition. The following motion was adopted unanimously“ That this meeting expresses thanks to Messrs Aden, H e dman, and Plra'd for their instructive addresses, and view with satisfaction and approval the political principles enunciated by the New 7 Zealand Political Reform League.

An up-country ex-publican (says an exchange) received a letter the other day, enclosing £9 from a man, who e\ plained that it was “conscience money, ’ He added that twenty two years ago h ■ had received a £lO note instead of a £l-note in change, and, having recent! ■ “ converted,’’ he wished to repair.the in jury. The publican sat and ruminated, because he remembered that at abon L the same time there was a land court in Iho township, and it was his custom to take a £5-note from a Maori in payment for two drinks, and return 19s in change. He hopes now that he vil! never get converted, because he never could locate all those Maoris.

A distressing suicide occurred a‘ Dannevirko yesterday morning, when a rparried woman named Alice Maud Bright, age d 31, cut her throat with a carving knife. Her husband left home at 9 o’clock, when everything was normal. He returned an hour later, and discovered his wife lying face downward on a stretcher in a pool of blood, with a knife lying beside l or head. Her injuries were of a terrible nature. Deceased was in extremis, aval died shortly afterwards. She had an family, and was alone in the house when the deed was committed. She had been in ill health for some time.

The Mayor is in receipt of the following letter from the Minister of Railways (Sir J. G. Ward), in reply to representations made to him re Foxton Wharf matters: —“ With reference to your representations in regard to the extension of the Foxton Wharf, I have the honor to inform you that on looking into the matter I find that the exis'ing accommodation reasonably provides for all the requirements of the business, and that of 225 vessels which visited Foxton Port during the year ending 3ist March last only six were compelled to wait and in consequence had to discharge the cargo at overtime rates, the extra Cost thus involved to the ships in question being only a little over .£3O. In these circumstances I regret that in view of the large number of urgent and important works which require to be undertaken but are standing in abeyance waiting funds, I cannot ssa my way to authorise any expenditure on the Foxton wharf at the present time,”

The Sunbeams meet at the Public Hall to-morrow night for rehearsal. Our advertising columns assert that there are vacancies in a private family or four or five boarders.

Playing against Hartlepool, the Hew Zealanders piled up 63 points to nil.

A sitting of the S.M. Clodrt is being held, at Foxton this afternoon, before A. t). Thoms >rt, Esq., S.M.

Tenders close at SanSoii to-morrow,-at noon, for the right of working the S >annon Ferry and collecting t ails’ therefrom.

German newspapers comment calmly on Le Matin’s articles and disbelieve til? story that British aid was offered to France,

The following advertisement appeared in a Yorkshire newspaper: “To be let, good grocer’s and bread shop ; large oven; lived in it for six years; satisfactory reason for leaving.”,

the gdid output from the colony since January 1 totalled valued at AT. 593,30;}, an increriset of £47,700 compared with the corresponding nine months of last year. Labour Day passed off quietly in boxton yesterday. Apart from th ; Bazaar and a cricket match, there was no df-tTionstra'inri to signadse t.ie memory of an Eight Hour Poficy. Mr Coleman Phillips, a Ruklida'e for a Wairarapa s-at, and an anti Prohibitionist and anti - Bible - inschools advocate, is going to s'art a church Of hio own in Carterton, says ihe Greytown Standard. A friend left Mrs Lucinda Gaasou, of Dcv-mport, lowa, £ba.:>a, 01 1 Lie condition that sine gave up her reli<dons beliefs, and accepted those of aSothef fb'.nc!. She reaotuccd the •Konev.

A find .itfunatefl tobe worth i‘4oo, states thtf Thrifts' hfm'fddi Was made, o'n the beach iic-Hr Hilioro on Saturday, by Mr Mcllroy, a mian vho; fn his yriunger days, served, on board the wfiaPng ship _ Diamond, which discovered u piece ot mrfhergris worth £-/mo. An Mu couple named Crocker, living at Mount Nei o, Taunton, have a record ot marriage life which would lie difficult to excel. They have lived tdgethdr 7t j'edr‘4 f the husband being >;G and the old haly q> Both ago in good tied! !h

, In the milking tests at (he rcce'rit New Smith Wales Agricultural Society’s ia Sydney, a cross-bred Darh:mn Ayrshire dairy co.v gave iqg.ql') ofVallk ia three day, containing 7. commercial butter. Hus Held r presents CP- gallons per day, add rPyMB’ over >nMb of butter per week. The poultry business in Bellnfai'k has si 1 cvii -igns ot great impr weiricnt during (he last ten years, chiefly owing to the co - operative system. The society was stained in 1895, and the sales of eggs only amounted to £4451 for the year; while in 1904 £214,806 was realised.

As a result of the football enquiry into the conduct of the rep. team which visited Wellington recently, the Manawatn Rugby Union suspended the full team with the exception of two who were staying away from the hotel. The Union were unable to sheet the charges home to individuals, and in consequence* were compelled to act as they did.

The Wellington Appeal Court was engaged yesterday hearing an appeal from the decision of the Chief Justice and Mr Justice Cooper granting the widow of the late John Plirnmer £IOOO out of the estate in addition to an

unity of Tl3O provided by the will

This was done under the Testators’ •family Maintenance Act, the Court holding that the provision of £l5O was not adequate for her support as widow of the* testator, who died worth £30,000. The executors of John Plirnmer and the residuary legatees ire the appellants. According to Mr Pool, a New York

nagis'ra-’e, there is proportionately nore wife desertion in New York than in anv other civilised city in the world. In the borough ot Manhattan alone, with a population of less than 000,000, he says 60,000 wives are deserted each year. The evil has grown to menacing proportions, and statues should be framed by the State to kill it. In most cases the man was at fault, and experience showed that the husband invariably tired of his wife sooner than the wife of the husband. According to the evidence nt Mr Pool’s chief officer, mother-in-law and troublesome relatives are frequent causes of desertion. In punishing the wife-beater, Mr Pool said, “It it was in my power to skin you alive I would do so you brute ! ’’

The Wanganui Chronicle of yesterday says that it was discovered rather late on Tuesday afternoon that there was nothing in the Shops Act making it compulsory to close on Labour Day. Clause 16 of the Act prescribes what shall apply to the,statutory half-holiday when any of certain special holidays (inclusive of Labour Day) have been observed, but this section does not make the observing of any holiday compulsory, and yet it is the only one in the Act that refers to holidays. It would seem that the promulgating of the idea that the day must be observed as a shop holiday is a piece of bluff on the part of the Libour Department. A number of shopkeepers therefore decided to keep open yesterday and to observe the usual Thursday half holiday.”

Ihe Foxton Cricket Club held a meeting at Mark Perreau’s rooms ou Monday evening last. Mr A. Shadbolt was appointed vice-president to act on the Vssociatiou, with Messrs F. Shad bolt and L. E. Reade as delegateThe captain, vice-captain, and L. E. Reade wore appointed a selection committee, while S. Wilson and L. E. Reade are to fill the positions of umpires for the season. Three new members were elected. The president of the club promised a silver mounted cricket ball, suitably inscribed, for the best bowling l average gained during the season. It was decided that alternate Saturdays and Wednesdays would be suitable for the playing ot matches, and the delegates were instructed to support that arrangement.

President Roosevelt strongly advises the Yale, Harvard and Princetown Universities to modify the iuter-Uni-versihes football rules, eliminating brutalities. ■

In the Hine-Hemierson equitv suit, Sydney, Mrs Henderson declared th.V the transfer of the property was made in ,'cpar ition of wrong’ done her. It prnctic illy am tinted to the sale of her husband.

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