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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3631, 31 March 1906, Page 2

Our tennis platers left for Smdon this in ruing to play a tournament with

the club there. Mrs El'fclhciu thanks all those kind friends who expressed their kindness

and sympathy with her in her late bereavement.

The Awahou Football Club Secretary I acknowledges with thanks a donation towards the funds from Mr John Stevens, M.H.R. The rope works is being pushed on, under Mr Rough’s supervision. Once in full swing, things may liven up considerably in these parts. The building trade is brisk in Foxton just now. We understand than Mr i Rimmcr has half-a-dozen residences to ! erect. All the other builders and 1 painters are full-handed. | A bullock in the Gore district died ; the other day, and a post mortem re- | vealed a pocket knife, with three blades | open, in the stomach of the unfortunate brute. I At a meeting at Sanson on Saturday nieht, it was decided to hold a sports meeting at Sanson in about three weeks’ j time. A definite programme is to be ■ drawn ont by the committee on Saturday next. It is proposed that horse events will be the chief items for the afternoon’s sport, j A terrific hailstorm broke over Otaki ; and district early on Tuesday morning ' and continued with unabated fury for some time. The lightning was most , vivid and the thunder peeled like the 1 roar of heavy cannon. The weather ■ turned bitterly cold, and for a time the ground was well covered with hail- ; stones as large as peas. j The other day a voung colonial bride not believin'* in being pelted with rice, turned round and broke her umbrella over th'- li-ad of the princinal thrower, and ’ had t i he h nfied off before she started on li ;r honeymoon journey. : The now woman is evidently deter- : mined to pot dmm all the old-fashioned i customs with a strong hand —and um- i brello .

The German Reichstag has voted the amount required for building six large cruisers.

W, Jupp and Co. invite tenders for the right of grazing on 300 acres of land, more or less, at the Makcrua, Swamp.

Mr C. Spiers, poundkeeper, gives notice that if a red and white heifer is not claimed before 14th April, it will be sold to defray expenses.

A Sydney cable states Stanbury knows nothing of the approaching visit of Durnan, the Canadian oarsman, but is willing to meet him. Mr E. Pigott, Shannon ferryman, gives notice to-day that the punt will not cross the river on Sunday, April Ist, between the hours of 8.80 a.m. and 4 p.ra. We have received a copy of Exhibition Commemorative Ode which won first honours in connection with the Christchurch Exhibition. The honour was received by Mr Johannes C. Anderson, of Christchurch.

Mr 11. N. Spiers, timber merchant, gives notice in our advertising columns to-day that ho has a large stock of totara, rimu, and, in fact, all classes and variety of timber on hand. All orders will receive due attention.

Holiday excursion tickets are to be issued by the Railway Department from Tuesday, 10ih April, to Monday, 16th April, and these will be available for return up to and including Tuesday, 15th May. Mr A. E, Gibbs, secretary for New Zealand of the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance and member of the Citv Council, has been appo'nted manager for England of the Colonial Mutual Co., and leaves in five w *ck-’ time.

Reports from the Hospital show that Mrs Harris, who a'tempted suicide last week after shooting F. Muriitt, is progressing very favourably. She is pronounced to be out of from the effects of her self-inflicted wound. Mr T. East had the misfortune to have his fingers jammed in the v .Hers at Mr G. Coley's mill tile other day. The sufferer went to Palmerston North yesterday to have one of Ins fingers amputated.

A young man named Charles Rippon, engaged as fly-boy at Mr H. Coley's Porotawho mill, died yesterday from in juries received through becoming entangled in the machinery. From the meagre particulars engaged, we under stand young Rippon got caught in the belting. Ho Was Conveyed to Levin, where an inquest will probably be held to-day. Mr H. Coley left for Levin this morning. The Frimley fruit-canning works, Hawke’s Bay, though established only about two years, are already fulfilling large orders from India and elsewhere. The jam-making plant can turn out a hundredweight a minute of the fitiished product. Nine tons of plums were put through the works lately in a single day. The most scrupulous cleanliness is observed in every department. A witness at Lambeth County Cour lately, spoke of “a married couple without encumbrances,” “ I presume you mean children when you speak of ‘encumbrances,’” said Judge Emden. “Yes,” was the reply. “Say children, then,” rejoined the judge. “To refer to children as ‘encumbrances,’ cither in speaking nr in advertisements for persons wanted to fill situations, is only helping the present d ,-cline in the birth I'a-tc.”

A few years ago a native interpreter had a long conversation wi h Te Whiti on the subject 6f a school at Parihaka. The shrewd old man listened attentively. He then asked the interpreter to point out the good that Maoris had done who had been educated. Te Whiti went on to say that education had only made the Maori rob his own people, made them lazy, and much worse in every way before they wont to school.

| It is alleged by Glenn, the New Ze i- | laud forward, that the of ! Thompson probably prevented the King i from shaking hands with each of the ! half-dozen members of the team at the I Agricultural show. “ His Majesty 1 shook hands with Tyler,” so Glenn told I a Sydney reporter, “ and would, no 1 doubt, have extended the courtesy t,. , the remainder of the ■ half dozen had it | not been for the fact that Thomson, who was next to Tyler, got into such a funk that he would not put out hi« hand."

A “ confidence ” man who quietly

| visited Masterton last Saturday has left two tradesman a little wiser and the police active. He got away, it is alleged, with about £lO in a simple but shrewd manner. Taking blanks, with butts, from the cheque-book in the office of , Mr (J. F. Gawith, solicitor, while the charwoman was at work end the staff enjoying the customary half-holiday, and also getting hold of an unpaid I tradesman’s account, together with a second one from Mr K. K. Jackson’s, also a solicitor, the man is said to have [ coolly presented the bills with forged cheques in payment, and collected money in each case. ! While a ploughman was at work in one of the fields at Smalley Right Farm, Stanley, Wakefield, his ploughman struck an earthenware vase, and exposed to view a large number of bronze coins, which must have been buried in the earth for something like 1500 years. The vase which was scarcely 2ft below the surface of the ground was unfortunately broken to pieces. The coins, of which there are some 6000, all of bronze, date from the time of the Roman occupation of Great Britain, and many of them are in excellent state of preservation. Mo-t of them are about the size of a six pence, and a little, if any, thicker, while the largest are no bigger than a shilling. Some of the best preserved bear the name of Constantine, with the word Constantinopolis. while others have on one side a head, with the inscription “ Urbs R >nn,” and mi the other a design depict ng R unulus and Remus being suckled by the siiawolf. Some were evidently struck in the time of Nero. The vase was about iSin high, and of rough ungl ized earthenware. No similar discovery had been made in the district before;

We understand Lord Soiilt broke down badly this morning. This is rather unfortunate for his owner and trainer, as'the pony was very well and had good engagements. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the “ Daily Mail ’’ states that the Commission ot Inquiry appointed to consider the circumstances under which Port Arthur was surrendered to .ho Japanese in January, 1905, holds 'hat the for f re->s might have been held by the Russian army two months longer, and censures General Stoessel lor surrendering without the knowledge and concurrence of any of his officers.

Dr Ramsay Mailer, of Melbourne, sounds a warning note in the March “Review ot Reviews” just to hand He points nut the necessity for reform in the treatment of the Insane in Aus tralia, and the picture he draws is sufficient to make one shiver as to their fate if mental disease attacked them. This number of the “ Review ” i? a very fine one, if anything beyond the usual high-water mark. There is a verv interesting article by the Editor (Ur W. H. Judkins) on what he has very aopropriately termed “ The Land ol Silence,” It is upon the life of the Deaf and Dumb, and gives a capital idea of what has been done, and of what ought to be done for them, “ The largest Turbins Steamer in the World,” “ The Indeterminate Sentence.” and “How Calif»rnia Treats her Fruit Pests,” are three bright articles. The last is most informing, and will be read with interest by every farmer and fruit grower. We recoin mend onr readers to particularly look at this article. A very fine article on “Jno Burns of Battersea,” by Mr W. T, Stead. A splendid number is comoleteJ with the usual masterly survey, of the world’s magazines, the history of the world in caricature, and pictures from “ London Punch.”

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