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Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6713, 4 June 1900, Page 2

Fourth Pace.—Report of the Manchester Road Board, war news, and otlicv interesting articles will be found on onfourth page to-day. ! SUNSET. — Tlie sunset on Saturday | evening was one of the most beautiful J seen on this coast, for a long time past. ] To Eldorado.—Mr H. B. Doboie. formerly District Traffic Manager at Blenheim for the Railway Department, . has gone to South Africa. "" j Personal.—Mr A. D. Thomson, j Clerk of tha Court at Wanganui, has ! receired notice of his transfer to Wellington, to succeed Mr James GuEENIIOUSE.—Mr J. ilockin.'.r, of College-street, has instructed Messrs Bennett and Sollitt to erect ;t greenhouse, | the price being close upon A'lOO. j Kawau Bkidgk.—Tlie contractor for j the repair of the Kawau Bridge is making good progress with the work, and i has now nearly the whole of the piles driven. AVuite Pine.—Tlie Dannevirke sawmillers have been informed that the Minister of Railways cannot at nresent reduce the existing freight rates on white pine timber. Prohibition.—At die close of next month all licenses for the sale of alcoholic liquors in the Clutlia district will terminate (says the Chitba Leader), and cannot be renewed. The Clutlia will then be a no-license district. • Pkkscnal.—Tlie many friends of Mr T. Bassett, of Christchurch. will be glad to learn that a letter received from him from Hong Kong states that his health I is good, and that ho was proposing to ! leave for Japan on May '25th. After a stay there of a month or so Mr Bassett proposed moving towarals tlie Old Country. A Record.—Mr AY. Sinclair, who. during his residence in Lyttcltoa. has been instrumental in saving seventeen persons from being drowned, is leaving for Otago. Mr Sinclair and his brothers and sisters have saved no few than thirty-two lives. _ Unfcrtunatk.—Mr TYauk Gibbons, of Narton, had the misfortunr> to again break his leg on Thursday through'" his horse slipping and falling 'while lie was riding on his farm at Hunterville. Mr Gibbons had only just recovered from the fracture sustained at the last Marton race nicetma*. Original. — A youngsters' brigade created some amusement at Dannevirke on Friday. They had improvised a howitzer, and one of their number who for the time being adopted a corporation and other features in resemblance of Kruger,underwent the iudignitv of being made a target of. Each discharge ol the artillery laid young Kruger'low. but he recovered in time *" for the next fusilade. —Bush Advocate. Character Reading.—Madame Antoni, the famous Egyptian characterreader, announces that sho may be consulted at her premises, YYarburton's buildings, opposite the Courthouse, Main-street, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily, AYe notice from our exchanges that this lady has earned a high reputation as a delineator of character, both in New Zealand and Australia, and we have no doubt she will be well patronised here. S.M. Court.—At the S.M. Conn, this morning, Mr Greenfield, S.M., struck out the case (without prejudice') against Thomas Young, for paying one of hit employees on his licensed premises. A resident of the Borough was lined 5s and 7s costs, for allowing her chimney to be on firc^and an inebriate, who did not appear, was fined 5s and 2s express hire or in default 21 hours' imprisonment with hard labour. In the case against Young a new information will probably I be laid so soon as the principal witness can be found. Accident.—On Saturday afternoon a sensation was caused in the Square by the boltiag of a horse driven in a trap which was occupied by Mrs and Miss Cewpor. It is supposed that the horse took fright at the string of ilags which was stretched across the street iv front of Messrs James Grace and Co*'s premises, and as a ' rosult Miss Cowper was thrown out on the road and rather severely bruised. She was at once carried into Mr Leary's chemist's shop, where she was attended by Dr Campbell, wko happened to fee passing at the time. Privilege.—Tlie Hastings correspondent of the U.B. Herald writes :— A case of Parliamentary privilege was brought up this morning at the .Magistrate's Court. Three judgment summonses had been issued against Henry Tomoana, M.L.C. These, the Clerk of the Court said, could not be served as the date was within the period of privilege. Moreover, defendant was seriously ill. Mr Dinwiddic, who appeared for tho judgment creditors, admitted the illness of defendant, and said it was probable that Tomoana would be unable to take his seat in Parliament next session through it. Hard Luck.—A London clerk named ATilliam Higgins, found the way of the transgressor exceedingly hard. Some time ago he was impelled by adverse cirj cumstanecs to steal a small sum of money ,1 from his employers, aud on baiting « &} __ a note to promise speedy repayment. But no sooner was he in Scotland than he was arrested by mistake for another man who had bsen defrauding landladies. Yfilliam Higgins was in . the dreadful predicament of being unable to prove his innocence without at the same time proving his guilt: so he endured five months' imprisonment. Then ho proceeded to Bristol, whither his ill-luck pursued kirn. He was again arrested in mistake for a fraudulent lodger. This ' was teo much for Mr nigging, who, electing to stand on his own demerits, owned :up to his firm. The irony of tke case is completed by the refusal of the firm to press the charge. There's a time for all things ; after Wednesday next will be too late. Andrew Young street, most convenient house, 6 rooms, bath, <fee, well worth £350; we will take considerably less, haying no option, wo must sell. This notification is as good in its way as tho fall of Pretoria. AVc will lend most of the money if required. Apply, pearce's Land Mart.

Obituary.—We regreat/fy> learn of the death of the eldest daughter of Mr D\ Rowlands, the well-known Jackeytown settler, which occurred onySaturday, at tho early, age of 21 years. - Minstrels.—His Worship tho Mayor has received from the Wandering Minstrel Nigger Troupe, the sum of 10s 8 id, collected on account of the siik and wounded Kind at Friday night's demonstration. Ti'.vchkus.—ln discussing the proposal of the Government to introduce a national scale of salaries for school teacher;-', the chairman of the Wellington Education Board remarked that there was already so much power in the hands of teachers as to jsstii'y the remark that Kdueation. lloarcls were controlled by the teachers, instead of the Boards controlling the teachers. -* Tiik Latest.—What next ? We clip the following fram the Scotsman :-— "Horror! Are we to have smoking servants as well as dishonest servants, lazy servants, ineapablo servants '? ' A mistress writes to the rjapers : —" I should like to be allowed te warn ladies relative te servant girls smaking. I intend for the future when writing for a girl's character to ask tljjs question, " Does she smoke?' I have had to discharge a girl of twenty for smoking in ' her bsdroeui and in the kitchen. The I master's cigarettes suffered accordingly." Si'iii'TUsKD.—A young man, whose cjiaraclcr is above suspicion, was recently asked to call at the Christchurch Police Btation to take part in the process of identifying another man, alleged to have committed an assault. He did so, but when the prosecutor came in he immediately picked out from among those paraded this young man as being the one who had assaulted him. Being innocent of the charge, he was naturally | very much surprised, the more so as his • explanations were only received with } roars of laughter from those assisting in the ceremony,—Press. Hasdv.—The Christchurch Press says :■ —A female witness at the Supreme Court yesterday evidently has a maxim of her own. "Every woman her own policeman,'' and the efficiency with which she acted up to it probably saved the law a good deal of trouble in the arrest of a prisoner who was convicted of a serious offence yesterday. She stated, and her j evidence was corroborated by witnesses, that she interrogated the accused in the I ■ street, and his answers not provfag satis- I j factory, started to march him off ta tha J j-police statioH. He attempted to escape j j on tlie way, but while she waa struggling \ l with him a constable came along, and she promptly handed him over. As the \ J prisoner was of by no means a weak ; I physical appearance, tko lady's feat is i | ono to be prowd of.

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