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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3588, 21 October 1905, Page 2

A lost wheel-cap is advertised tor in another column. Additional entries are made to the Himatangi sale list in to-day’s issue. Owing to a small attendance the All Saints' Bazaar Committee meeting was postponed until Thursday 20th, inst. Eretzohmar, an ex-German naval officer, while travelling from Berlin to Paris in a train, was robbed of a cheque for £53,000. The “ Pall Mall Gazette ” says it is extremely unlikely that the present Government will summon a Colonial Conference. It is estimated that 4,000,000 feet at timber will be required for the Christchurch Exhibition building, costing over £20,000. Four members of an Italian secret society, called “The Black Hand," murdered an Italian butcher at Brooklyn for refusing to pay 1000 dollars blackmail. We understand that a case of scarlatina has occurred in Foxton, and that unfortunately quarantine restrictions are necessarily adhered to. It is said to be a very mild case. Moors fired upon a British destroyer as she was proceeding along the Morocco coast between Ceuta and Tetuan. The destroyer was bit, but no one on board was injured. The Somali Mullah looted six thousand camels and many sheep from the Italian Mijertians, with whom the Mullah was for some time fighting. He also looted in the vicinity of Obbia. Sir Henry Irving's remains were cremated in the presence of his son, Mr Lawrence Irving. Great crowds are visiting the coffin at the Baroness Bur-dett-Coutts’ residence in London.

Nino hundred identured coolies in the West Indies have remitted £15,000 to Calcutta in ten years. German advices from Lindi (a seaport in German East Africa) state that native prisoners were courtmartialled and tWenty-ona shot instead of being hanged, as the natives had reported that the German rifles were Unable to kill. William Boyd and Andrew Carney, belonging to a gang of Australian con* fidence tricksters, have been sentenced at London to twenty-one months’ imprisonment on a charge of attempting to dissuade Henry Smith, an Ads* tralian from prosecuting other tricksters. There was a pathetic and remarkable scene at the Temple Ise, Japan, where Admiral Togo and many of his officers, with two thousand sailors, worshipped at the shrine of their ancestors, returning thanks for the victories gained in the late war against the Bussians. Vie hatte to acknowledge the receipt from the New Zealand Department of Agriculture of its aunual report in book form. The production constitutes 488 pages 0! useful and interesting statistics and reading, besides being Illustrated with photographic views. Anyone wishing to peruse same can do sd by calling at our office.

A young woman named Amelia Connolly, aged about 20 years, a comparatively recent arrival from the Wairarapa died rather suddenly at Hastings on Wednesday of last week under circumstances which caused an inquest to be held. The jury returned a verdict of acute blood pdiSoti* ing caused by a self-made attempt to perform an illegal operation* The Premier prdseißSdf tdfhe' HotfSfi on Thursday a summary of replies fd invitations to the proposed conference 0/ employers and employees, and also the Subjects for discussion. The replies were fof the most part favourable to the conference, with & generally expressed desire’ that if should be held early npxt yeftr., Mr Seddon stated that, lifter rrlakirfg inquiries,, he proposed, unless reasons were shown to the contrary; that the conference should take place early next year. As a five-horse brake with nineteen passengers was returning to Inglewood from Miss Jessie McLacblan s concert at New Plymouth, and was coming down a nasty hill, tb§ driver* fearing the incapacity of the brake to hold back the load, drove in the watertable and was unable to leave if. At the end of the cutting on reaching the embankment, the ground gave way and overturned the coach. Two lady passengers were shot through the roof and feu clear. The driver had his shoulder dislocated and two passengerS were badly and two slightly hurt. The others were only shaken. The brake was badly smashed and the horses unhurt.

A very old resident ot Masterfon planted some oak trees in his garden many years ago. The trees have grown, and the old settler informed some friends a day or two ago that he was about to have one of them felled and sawn into boards at a local timber mill. With the boards he proposes to make coffins for himself and his aged wife, and keep them in readiness for the days when they will be required. On seeing a large parcle-post basket afloat in the sea at Cowes, the curiosity of a lad named Day was excited, ana he dragged it ashore. As soon as be unfastened the lid the head of a boy telegraph messenger named Henry Bartlett appeared. He stated that he had been forced into the basket in fun by his companions, who afterwards closed the lid and pushed the basket into the sea, which was five feet deep at the spot. They then ran off, Bifle Champion J. W. Milroy, of the Nelson Defence Bifle Club, who was a member of the New Zealand team that competed at Bisley this year, returned to Nelson early on Saturday morning. In an interview Mr Milroy said the shooting was much better this year than ever known at Bisley before, due, the papers stated, to a new preparation for cleaning out the rifles, but he could not vouch for the statement. The heat experienced at Bisley during the shooting was very trying, and Bifleman Milroy said he had never experienced anything like it in Nelsen. Hawthorne, who was a member of last year’s Bisley team, expressed the opinion that this year's team was every bit as strong, if not stronger, than the 1904 team.

A gentleman down south, very fond of a pipe alter breakfast, settled himself down comfortably for a few minutes’ lapse into blue forgetfulness. He whittled a stick of tobacco till bis knife grated on something harder than a stalk. Curiosity led him to perform a surgical operation on the plug, and the autopsy revealed a mouse prettily embedded in a precious weedy grave. The animal looked as if its end had not been peace. The body was haunch ed up and flattened between two layers of tobacco. The delicate proportions of one leg had been but slightly damaged, and a set of tender toes filled the observer with admiration. He had a conviction that he must have smoked the tail, for he was working on the spinal cord when he discovered the mummy.

A remarkable case was heard at the Wellington Magistrate's Court the other day, when a middle-aged woman proceeded for maintenance against a man whom she alleged to be her husband. Dr McArthur, S.M., asked, “Are you sure you were married to him ?" “ Yes,” said the informant, “ and I was married by Mr “ iVho is Mr woman could not say any more than that he was either a Church of England or a Presbyterian. Chief Detective M’Gratb happened to be in Court at the time, and His Worship asked him if be knew anything about the informant or her alleged husband. The detective said that the alleged marriage was purely a joke, and explained that the defendant promised to marry the informant if she “ shouted ” him 8s worth of beer. His Worship dismissed the information, and said he would rehear the case whenever the Informant produced her marriage lines. The informant re- 1 plied that she could not get the lines, as her alleged husband had them. I

The Foxton Athletic Sports nominations close on Monday night with the secretary (Mr F. Whibley). There should be a large response. Apparently under a Berlin Inspiration the Neue Fret Press is conducting a violent campaign against Lord Lansdowne, British Minister for Foreign Affairs. The paper insinuates that King Edward ie a disturber of European peace.

A very pretty weddmg was celebrated in Otaki on Wednesday afternoon in the Native Mission, Church, when Miss Isabel McWilliam,. second daughter of thf Rev* J. McWilliam, was married to Mf Harvey Burr, of Palmerston North; '

Mr Henry Turner, o! Guernsey, lately determined to test the resu. urces of the Post Office- He wanted to go to the neighbouring island of Sark, and presented himself at the Guernsey ! post office as* a ” parcel/' He was accepted, after paying the fee of $» rod, and a messenger was despatched with him. He was duly “ delivered,” with punctuality, at his destination. The Wellington “ Post ” remarks editorially; ditions of the colony as revealed by the banking returns are entirely satisfactory ; if anything, the position is better than it was a year ago, and if the present prospects of high prices for all our produce, except frozen meat, are realised, there can be no possible set back to the prosperity that has been with us now for some years/’ Who would exchange country life for city tile f When in Wellington recently we wefe assured by the head of a large real estate firm that in one seVen roomed house they had the handling off here were no less than six families I When confronted with instances like thin, the dissatisfied country resident has reason to feel thankful that his lot is cast where it is. So says an exchange. A return was presented to Parliament on Thursday showing that the average cost per day of the sitting of Parliament in respect of expenditure is £46 2s 9d (not including any fixed expenses, iKJob as the honorarium of members, statutory or annual payment of officers of either House, or any expenses which do not Vary with the length of the session). The averitg® cost of printing “ Hansard ” is about £64 psf sitting day (not included in the above).

Quoting from a Chicago paper, the Journal des Debats gives some curious Statistics regarding the ■ “ Mammotl# City. 0 In Chicago, we are told, ai, birth takes place every eight minutes' 27 seconds, a death. every quarter of an hour, a murder every fa hours, a suicide every 18 hours, a fatal accident every five hours, an assault and battery every 26 minutes, a robbery with violence every three hours, a case of disorderly conduct id - the pun;, lo thoroughfares every six seedflds, an arrest every 7! minutes. Every hour there are three marriages, and one fire, and every 75 minutes d new building completed. Chicago hardly seems a suitable resort tor a rest cure,

The weight of a dead body does not differ in the slightest amount from the weight of the same body just before respiration ceases. The death process is not, therefore, accompanied by the loss of any material substance. What is it that departs when life goes ? Nobody in the present state of human knowledge is even able to surihise. So far as appearances indicate, nothing goes; the machine simply ceases to work. “ But at the bottom of all the phenomena of life,” says Professor Matthews, “there is one thing fundamental—namely, breathing. Living matter, as long as it is alive, breathes. That is to say, it continually consumes oxygen and gives off carbon dioxide. All other functions depend upon this. Life, vre may say, depends upon the continuance of this process in all the tissues of the body. Under perfect conditions it should continue indefinitely, and we should be immortal.” That we die seems, in the opinion of Professor Matthews, to be chiefly due to the fact that we do not know what and bow much food we ought to eat. The tissues get sick ; The cells stop breathing and we perish. We die, in truth, of selfpoisoning. The only remedy, in the present state of onr knowledge, is carefulness and moderation In eating.

The concert programme for Shannon was fully rehearsed at the Public Hall last night, and prom.ses to prove the best yet rendered by the party. Included in the number of chorus first part items, are “ When the fields are white with cotton" (Ettie Webb), “ When the sunset turns the ocean blue to gold " (Mr Hooker), “ Goodbye my lady loVe" (Bert Shadbolt), "Why did they sell Killarney (Miss Robinson), “My Sunbeam Lou ” (E. Sutherland), “A little boy in blue” (Jimmy Currie), “ The Coalman’s Wife" (Lizzie Laing), “ Under a Panama ” (Bob Grace), “ Parody on Bluebell" (Arthur Lloyd), and “ Good bye Mignionette" (Archie Harper). The “ Rainbow ” chorus will be used as an opening, and “ Every nation has a flag but the coon ” as a finale. The second part includes the doll turn by Lizzie Laing and Ettie Webb, sentimental items by Miss Robinson and Mr Hooker, comic turns by Arthur Llodv and Bob Grace, coon melody by E. Sutherland, and the everfascinating cakewalk by Misses May and Lizzie Laing, Bob Grace and Ted Sutherland. Since last appearance of the “ Sunbeams,” a new corner man has been discovered in Bob Grace, whilst Mr W. Hooker fills the role of interlocutor. Mrs Walls, the musical directoress, has been engaged by the Shannon Band to provide the music at the dance to follow the concert. Besides the new talent mentioned, a bass singer is to be added to the list for the Athletic concert on the 9th November. An extra couple (Miss Ettie Webb and Mr W. Edwards) are in training for the cakewalk on that date, while an additional child turn should prove acceptable. All the songs will be new to a Foxton audience. It is said a large number ol Foxtonians intend visiting Shannon next Wednesday, and they can rely on witnessing a first-class programme.

Mr F. S. Easton is having four Wo!" lesley shearing machines installed m hi shed at Motoa.

The Enterprise Nation’.®! Bank of Alleghany, Pennsylvania, has ™ s s“®d payment. The liabilities are dollars. Cork, the cashier, has mitted suicide. The local school children were as* sembled together yesterday afternoon* in the playground for the purpose of honouring Nelson. The Cadet corps saluted the flag, after which the "National Anthem” was sung by tbff whole school. The headmaster (Mr Stewart) dealt with Nelson’s life In an address, arid &apt. Furrie read a dl* soription of tlf* gw®* naval battle ol Trafalgar to the v-mugsten, after which three hearty cheers' were given In honour of the dead hero.

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