Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1906.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3655, 5 June 1906, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1906.

The Foxton Borough Brass Band again treated towspeople to a musical treat on Saturday evening last. The estate of Mr George Lansell, the Bendigo mining magnate, is valued fo* probate at £600,000.

The Palmerston to Longburn and back walking match yesterday was won by !)• Pears in 1 hour 20 minutes. J. Archer came second four minutes later.

The All Saints Ladies Sewing Guild have arrangements well in hand for the sale of work to be opened t wnorrow afternoon at the Public Hall. Good business should be recorded.

A tender has been accepted from England for the manufacture of a chiming clock to be erected in the tower of the Palmerston Post Office, and it will shortly arrive in the colony.

Seals have lately been seen near Pert Ahnriri. A Napier resident captured one a few days ago, but released it. learning from the Collector of Cusloms that he was rendering himself liable to a fine of £2O.

The High Commissioner cah’es on June 2nd : —“ The hemp market is at 'ady, and there are signs of improvement ; average price, spot g.f.a.q. is £3l 10s; June-August shipments £31.” Mr Alf. Fraser (Town Clerk) inserts an advertisement in another column calling alternative tenders for the erection of Municipal Offices and Public Library in either brickwork or timber. See advertisement.

Joseph Wilson ot Cincinatti, took laudanum on March 29th to gain his wife £6OO insurance from a policy expiring on April xst. A doctor who was called prolonged the man’s hte until April 3rd, and the insurance money was lost. An important find of copper ore on the Ruahine ranges is reported by a Waihi prospector (says an exchange). The lode is reported to be over 4ft wide on the surface, and gt wide on the low level. The test showed are turn of 10 to 33 per cent of copper, and there is every indication of the lode being payable when worked. A private communication received from a colonial student at the Edinburgh University states tha( out of twenty medals awarded in all classes no fewer than four of them were gained by New Zealanders. Four each went to Australia and South Africa, and two to Canada. This is a gratifying result to colonials generally, and to New Zealanders in .particular. Thus Robert Louis Stevenson, in his essay on San Francisco, written many years ago:—“ Such swiftness of increase ns with-an overgrown youth, suggests a corresponding swiftness of destruction. We are in early geological epochs, changeful and insecure, and we feel as with a sculptors model that the author may yet grow weary of and shatter the rough sketch.” Hiring at Otaki yesterday was largely patronised by Foxtonians. There were some close finishes, and betting was spirited. A noticeable fact about the day’s outing was that there was no spirituous liquor booth on the course. Lyrist won the Cup easily, while Medallist (another of Hon. j. D. Ormond’s) accounted for the six furlong flutter.

A well-known resident of this town was in Wellington recently and took advantage to near Mr Lemare, the notd Organist at the Organ Recital last Saturday night. Amongst the items rendered Mr Lemare introduced with splendid effect a description of a thunderstorm. In tact, it was so realistic that an elderly lady who was sitting near our informant when one of the thunder claps rolled out, jumped up excitedly, saying, “Oh my, this is getting serious!”