Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1906.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3621, 8 March 1906, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1906.

A section of land at Hastings, which was originally bought for £4O, changed hands recently at £7OO.

A lost black boa fur is advertised for. Finder please leave same at this office.

Rifle-shooting at Trentham still progresses. T, Marratt (Taranaki) leads Irvine (Nelson) for the bolt by six points. We understand tickets are going off well for the banquet to Mr John Stevens next Tuesday evening. A number of members of the Foxton Presbyterian Church attended a concert at Oroua Bridge last night, and enjoyed themselves immensely. The drawing of Mrs Hamer’s art union has been postponed a fortnight, and those wishing to secure tickets better do so at once.

A sporting man in Philadelphia won a bet of £5 by putting a billiard ball in his mouth. He piid £lO to a surgeon to take it out.

Great interest is evinced in a pony match to take place on Saturday afternoon next, both parties being confident of victory. A young married man named William Phillips was charged at Auckland with attempted suicide. He was remanded for a week in order that be might be medically examined. The drapery sale conducted 6y Mr Mmnsey, auctioneer, in the Masonic Hall was a success, many good lines going off at fair prices. Bidding was brisk at times, avid competition keen.

The Government has informed the Meikle Committee that it has taken steps to appoint a Commission of Judges in response to Meikle's request for the investigation of bis case.

The poll taken m Rongotea on the proposal to raise a loan of for purchasing an electric light plant, resulted in the proposal being carried. Fortyeight votes were recorded, 39 in favour of, and 9 against the proposal. At the inquest in regard to the fire in an Auckland boardinghouse, the jury returned a verdict that Joseph Brady, in the interests of his aunt, Annie Lock, the proprietress, caused the fire, the furniture being insured greatly above its value, and that Annie Look was an assessory to the act.

We are pleased to record a win at the Dannevirke meeting for Lord Smlt, the aristocratic bred Soult—Antrim nag trained by Alf. Wright, and owned by Mr J. Symons. The win was popularly received, ard the pony’s connections must have shared a deal of the good dividend paid,— £3 4s 6d.

A London shareholder, speaking at the annual meeting of the National Bank, said, “ Ton cannot buy a foot of land at Palmerston North under JIOO. It is one of the largest centres in New Zealand, and there is no National Bank there. I was there in 1866, when there were only two or three houses. Thera is now a large town. The whole of the ocean steamers go there to take the whole of the mutton and wool away, and there is no National Bank there.” And ho *' was there in 1866.” The Maori Committee of the Bxhibitlon, which has been in consultation with Mr Hamilton, Curator of the Wellington Museum, have agreed upon a scheme for Maori representation at the Exhibition. It is proposed to ereet a building wherein various arts and customs of the Maoris shall be illustrated; and to obtain from the North Island fifteen Maori men and ten women, all experts in different branches of the old art, to afford illustrations. A small fortified pa, it is suggested, will also be built; a site baa been selected for the ereotion of a building and plans have been prepared by the Exhibition architect. Poi and haka dances will be given in the Concert Hall by the natives of those tribes which are most proficient in these, Mr Hamilton will submit plans of the proposed building to the Native Minister. The New Zealand footballers arrived at Auckland on Tuesday afternoon, and were accorded a splendid reception. About 10,000 people assembled at the. wharf, and enthusiastically cheered our boys. They were driven to the Munich pal Chambers, whare the Mayor (Mr Myers) welcomed the team home in an appropriate speech. The Premier, Mr A. E. G. Rhodes (president of the New Zealand Rugby Union), and Mr B. Wylie (secretary) were amongst the speakers. Both Mr Dixon (manager) and Gallaher (captain) responded on behalf of the team. In the evening, the team were entertained at a banquet by the N.Z. Rugby Union, amongst those present being the Premier and Mr Mawey, MiHißi

Splendid crops of strawberries are being grown in the Marlborough Sounds district.

A silver chain, with two silver and one gold medal attached, is advertised as lost.

A special meeting of the Foxton Rifle Club will be held at Haywood’s Hotel this evening.

A final reminder Is given of the sale to be conducted by Mounsey and Co., auctioneers, at Mr Fred. Shadbolt’s premises, corner of Purcell street and Wirokino Road.

It has been definitely decided that the No. 3 Battalion of Mounted Rifles will go into camp at Foxton racecourse during Easier. The corps representing the battalion will include the Manawatu, Feilding and Hunterville Mounted Rifles. We understand Levin and Co. and other merchant firms, together with local millers, are interesting themselves in the erection of flax-grading and storing sheds in Foxton, and that, in all probability, with the sanction of the Government wo will have our flax graded here before long. A Palmerston North building contractor, speaking to our representative the other day, was of the opinion that, though there was plenty of buildings to be erected in the Chicago city, still people who should know seemed anxious to dispose of property at little more than cost price. Some of the land agents have large numbers of houses to let, and a few of them predict a slump.

Mr England has severed his connection with the Bank of New Zealand, and Mr Chisholm, of Palmerston North, has arrived to manage the Foxton branch. We understand Mr England, who is at present up North, returns to Foxton in a few days, when it is the intention of our citizens to make him a presentation. Mr England has been connected with the Foxton branch for about nine years.

A well-known cockatoo Who rejoices in playing practical jokes had an experience whilst at his pranks the other evening which he is not likely to forget, and which may end his "joke " career. The individual in question, who rejoices in the Christian name of Dan, readied himself up for the occasion and laid in wait out on the hills for two gents whom he knew were out that way. It was the intention of the clever one to scare the approaching two, but he did not count on the latter being armed with firearms fully loaded,—and consequently he may congratulate himself coming out of the ordeal with his life. When the myth presented himself, both gents aimed their weapons at " Dan." and were in the act of downing him, when Dan realised his perilous position, and with hands up and shrieks ot " I’m Dan! I'm Dan ! ” fell down in a faint. It took some time to bring, him, hack to a states of convalescence Thar Dan discovered that playing ghost is not the game it is cracked up to be, and be counts himself lucky not shuffling off this mortal coil. The others smile, and aver it is nothing short of a miracle there is no tuneral.

The Bulletin on our recent weather : “ The gales which have pervaded Maonland lately are attributed to sunspots mostly. At any rate the islands appear to be on a very exposed section ot the globe. In Southern Wairarapa they tether the children to the back door in the infant schools, and much skill has to be exercised in grain sowing. It is broadcast about two paddocks to windward of the ploughed section, such precaution being necessary to prevent the next door neighbour reaping a dishonest harvest. Most crops grow lying down, and will find it bard to change the habit when things resume the normal —if they ever do.” The above must be counted clever, but our office boy attempts to go one better by relating results of the big Australian drought, which, he vows, “ was known to have converted into vapour a pint of Australian liquor ’ere it passed from the pewter to the receiving depot adorning the physiognomy of an Australian tramp; transformed into flames the tether ropes and chains binding the Darlinghurst * school ’ attendants ; ripened into abundant harvest in less time than it takes to tell grain which was thrown broadcast by the gales—so much so that the reaper of the dishonest harvest was able to repay with interest to the rightful owner; and that since the drought, things are never likely to resume their normal state. In fact, the Bulletin writer referred to lives in hopes of another drought for his 1 copper * would again become heated above ordinary temperature. This would give, him an opportunity to indulge in unlimited feasting at the * Shrine of Bacchus,'— and it such did happen be would have reasonable-excuse to once again drift into idiotic imagination.”

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