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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3615, 30 January 1906, Page 2

A few sports left for Pahi'atua races this morning. An all wool Robe length of 7 yards for 6/ix at the L.M.S. Sale cpposife Police Station, Main Street.

A lost kit bag, containing money, cheque for a goodly amount, and other valuables, is advertised for. Finder please return to this office. Ths Palmerston North Hospital Fete to be held at the Showgrounds to-mor-row afternoon is attracting much attention, and the funds of the needful institution should benefit considerably.

The Borough Council workmen are making good headway with the Avenue crossing, and the sandbank which has been an eyesore for weeks past will soon be no more.

When a gentleman becomes engaged to a lady in Russia he is expected to seed a present to her every day. This custom makes long engagements expensive, consequently they are the exceptions.

“ Don’t ask which is Wallace,” says a waggish scribe in referring to the New Zealand footballers, “If yon see a man dash past four Englishmen, throw another into touch, and then, when tackled by five more, kick a goal, you may be sure that’s Wallace.” It has been generally supposed for some time that the white heron, one of New Zealand’s most beautiful birds, had become extinct. Speaking to a representative of the Lyttleton Times recently, Mr C. J. Roberts stated that there were several heronries of this bud in existence. A white heron is well known at Okarito. It comas down close to the township and fishes in *he water there. Residents have become jjuite well acquainted with it. There is a general understanding that it enjoys absolute protection. Sawmillers are now making their way towards the heronries, and it is feared that some of the birds may be shot by thoughtless people.

A silver-mounted stock-whip awaits an owner at the Herald office. The Public schools throughout the district re-opened yesterday after the Xmas vacation. In consequence, many mothers hearts have been gladdened.

It is rumoured that Mr Mclntosh, General Manager of the Bank of New Zealand, is severing hia connection with the Bark, owing to some difference of opinion with respect to the Government banking account. The Wellington correspondent of the Press telegraphs that ft is likely that Mr Seddon will visit Auckland for the purpose of welcoming home the New Zealand football team on its arrival there on March 6th. Nelson commenced a carnival week on Sunday last, and a record number of outsiders are reported as having visited "Sleepy Hollow" for the oocasion. There is racing, Band Contest, Fire Brigade and cycling sports, regatta, etc., to amuse the multitude. The Hawera people run the Baud Contest to the credit of £IOB. On account of the Christchurch Exhibition Contest there will be no North Island Band Contest next year. Walter Tohi andßopaMana, charged with drunkenness on Monday last, at the local Police Court, were remanded to Thursday on account of there being only ene J.P. to sit on the bench. The others could not be obtained.

By winning the cricket match on Saturday against Moutoa, the Foxton Cricket Club members become possessed of a set of eleven silver medals generously donated by a lady enthusiast.

Manawatu Cricket Association hays bean successful in arranging a match with the Melbourne Cricketers on tour through the colony. The match at Palmerston commences on the 17th, and extends over the 19th and 20th.

We are pleased to note that those gentlemen directly interested seem perfectly sanguine as to the ultimate establishment of a rope works in oar midst. The right men are at the bead of affairs, and good results should follow.

A London cable saysln response to a suggestion that men discharged from the Chatham dockyard, and the unemployed generally, should be employed on the construction of a channel tunnel as a national undertaking, the Admiralty states that the Government is not prepared to support the proposal.

In addition to the robberies committed on the last voyage of the ban Francisco mail steamer Ventura before reaching Auckland, a saloon passenger named Whitson was robbed of a valuable watch and chain during the run from Auckland to Sydney, and a saloon steward lost i!l7.

Notice is given to-day that the Palmerston North High School re-opens on Tuesday next, Feb. 6th. The Reetor will be in attendance at the School every day this week to receive applications for new pupils. A prospectus can be obtained on application to this office.

The new 11 Mark D ” bullet, which is to replace the present bullet in the French armv, is made of solid bronze, and is a bright yellow in colour when new. It tapers to a point like a fine pencil, and the base is hollow. In describing it, the Petit Parisien states that the resistance it offers to the air is so slight that the range of service rifle wil ! be increased by several hundred yards. In some experiments one of the new bullets, fired from a distance of 400 yards, traversed six 2in oak planks placed 15in apart, and penetrated a full yard into the clay at the back. The point was still intact.

The death is recorded of Mr George R. Hall, storekeeper of Shannon. Mr Hall left Shannon by train on Thursday morning for Palmerston, being than apparently In his usual health, but at about 1 p.m. was taken suddenly ill while in the sale yards. He was taken in a cab to his hotel, and a telegram was sent to Mrs Hall, who arrived by the next train. Meantime medical aid had been called in, but in spite of every attention death took place just before 6 ■•’clock in the evening. We are (n receipt from the secretary (R. Major, hon, sec.) of a copy of the programme of the Bongotea sports events to be held on Wednesday, Feb. 21st. The prize money allotted amounts to £9O in all, and includes nedestrian, cycling, horse and pony jumping, and sheep guessing events. Tn the evening, a concert is to be held at whieh the presentation of trophies takes place. A Ball, said to be the Rnngotea event of the year, follows the concert. The district residents look forward with pleasure to their annual sports, which is termed Rongotea’s Gala Day. In all probability, a fair number will attend from Fox'on.

Mr P. W. Robertson, Rhodes scholar for New Zealand, who took up residence at Oxford last October, has won an open science scholarship at Trinity College. The value is £BO a year for three years; but as Mr Robertson is receiving the emoluments of the Rhodes scholarship, he will only be entitled to the honour of hie newly-won distinction and to certain privileges attached to the title of “ Scholar of Trinity.” The college authorities, however, intend to give him the benefit of the scholarship by enabling him to pursue his studies abroad for a year at the close of his Oxford course. The winning of this scholarship is con sidered at Oxford to be a greater scholastic feat than the winning of the Rhodes scholarship. John Frederick Crook, who was undergoing a sentence oi three years’ Imprisonment, escaped from the prison works at Mount Cook, Wellington, shortly after three o’clock on Wednesday afternoon. In July, 1004, Crook was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment for breaking into Warnook and Adkln’s establishment, and stealing goods to the value of £7O. On Decern her 11th last he was sentenced at the Supreme Court, Wellington, to three years’ hard labour on three charges of burglary and theft at the Commercial and Clarendon hotels, in that city. The police description of the youth !• as follows Age 19, height 6ft 2in, medium build, fresh complexion, brown hair, grey eyes, of very boyish appear- i anco.” He has since been recaptured and sentenced to an additional six, months. I

Mr J. W. Sigley, an old resident of Takaka, and for man; years enairmen of the East Takaka School Commltte, died last week.

Five oases of dyptherla, two of enteric fever, and one of tuberculosis were reported last week to the Wellington Health Department. A final reminder la given of the entertainment to be provided at the. Public Hall this evening by Mr Fred holey, a mueh travelled and gifted entertainer. He should draw a goed house.

It has been computed that if the sea were emptied of ite waters and all the rivers of the earth were to pour their present floods, Into the vacao* space, allowing nothing for evaporation, 40,000 years woaid be required to bring tbs water of the ocean up to its present level.

The sum of £3o*o was voted by Parliament for distribution amongst the public libraries of the colony. The last Gazette notified that the distribution wili take place on the 6th prox., and that no claim wijfcJjs entitled to consideration that has hot been sent in before the end of the current month.

The local state school re-opeaed yesterday with an attendance of 237, a very large number for an opening day. This morning *43 were present, which censiitutes a record, we understand, and aa new names have been added to the roll, which is also a record and very gratifying to the school committee as well as to the teachers.

The body o! a newly-born mala child, with the feet and hands tied, was washed ashore at the Great Barrier Island recently. At the Inquest the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder by some person unknown, adding that the child had been strangled after birth. Several articles of woman's clothing were wrapped around the body and the child’s neck was tied with a piece of rope. The police have not yet made any arrest In connection with the mysterious affair. The sheep king of the world is said to be G. A. Waldron, of Patagonia. Mr Waldron is the principal owner in % company that has 750,000 sheep and which has annually a wool output ol 4.500.000 pounds. On the sheep range he has two packing houses employing 500 men, uud .they prepare 70,000,000 sheep for the' market each year, la that far-off land he owns a territory 1200 square miles in extent, with a frontage of *7O miles of se* coast. In addition, be owns most ot the island of Ticrra del Fuego, and 40.000 acres of the Fauklaod Island.

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