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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 4052, 15 May 1900, Page 2

Stock quotations and other reading matter will be found on the fourth page Mr H. H. Bridge, of Fairfield, has returned from his trip to Sydney. Mr George Lloyd has sold his Richmond Park property to Mr T. Butler. It has boon decided by the South Australian Government to construct a graving dock at Port Adelaide. Mr Cecil Williams, son of Judge Williams, who had been missing for a few days, has turnod up safely. The Waipawa Fire Brigade have ordered a stock of fireworks, in order to make a display when the relief of Matching is announced. The Sydnoy Chamber of Commerce urges the formation of a harbour trust, with power to resume all wharves and approaches, and have full control of the wharves.

The imports to the colony for the March quarter totalled £2,684,105, as against £2,230,877 in 1899. The exports were £5,293,734, as against £4,301,310 in the corresponding quarter of 1899.

The matron of the Waipawa District Hospital reports as follows for the week ended May sth: Patients in hospital, M 15, F 10 ; admitted during the week, M2, FI; discharged, M 1, F 0 ; died, MO, F 0.

At May’s Hall, Takapau, on Thursday and Friday next, Mr E. F. Eagar will sell by auction a first class stock of drapery, clothing, fanoy goods, etc., absolutely without reserve. Particulars are advertised.

The Levin Farmer says : Fifteen head of diseased cattle were trucked from the Horowhenua and Heatheriea districts on Monday to the Longburn works. The cattle wore in a bad state. “ And stili there’s more to follow.”

The Waipawa Dramatic Club are making capital progress with “ Withered Leaves ” and “ The Turkish Bath,” which will be staged on the Queen’s Birthday. This double bill should prove attractive to theatre-goers, and form an enjoyable evening’s amusement,

As the outcome of a conference of dairy produce graders Mr Ruddiok, Chief Commissioner, strongly favors the colony adopting a higher grade for New Zealand butter for export, but the Agricultural Department deem this inadvisable just now. James Quinlan, a laborer, 50 years, and a widower, living with his children in a suburban street, at Timaru, shot himself in his house last night. Death was instantaneous. Ho had been complaining of his health lately, and seemed stupid. At the inquest a verdict of temporary insanity was returned.

The presenco of rats in the post-offices being to a largo extent due to the practice on the part of the public of enclosing wedding cake in paper packets or card board boxes, the Postmaster-General has decided to rigidly enforce the rule compelling tin boxes to be used for transmission of the article named.

The following tenders have been accepted for the privileges in connection with the Waipawa Racing Club’s Birthday meeting : —bars, Mr- G. Oakenfull, £23. Messrs C. O’Donoghue, C. Vesty, and W. I. Limbriok were the other tenderers. Books, Mr. D. Annand £lO 15s 6d. Mr J. Mogridge was the other tenderer.

Lord Wolseley is to vacate the office of Commander-in-Chief in November next when his five years’ term of employment in that capacity will expire, and it is practically settled (says Truth) that Lord Roberts will succeed him. Lord Roberts, being a Field-Marshal, is exempted from the operation of the compulsory retirement rule.

The population of Melbourne is again creeping up. The highest estimate reached was in 1891, when everyone was drawn to the city by the factitious prosperity of the boom, and the figures read 491,700. After that there was a rude awakening, and a fall to 441,891 in 1894. Now the figures for “Greater Melbourne ” are back to 477,790 after an increase last year of 7876, 5118 of which represented excess of births over deaths.

Mr W. J. Standloy, who is leaving Waipawa, offers for sale the whole of his pure white Leghorn fowls. These fowls have taken many prizes and this is an opportunity for fanciers to secure a good strain at a moderate cost.

Mr James Moulder’s residence, near Kaikora, was burned down this morning. The fire broko out in the kitchen and spread with such rapidity that nothing was saved. The insurances wero £l5O on the building and £SO on the furniture. Should news of the relief of Mafeking be received before one o’clock on any day this week all post offices will close from 4 p.m. to 5 p.ra. If the nows is received during the night nil the o !ioo3 will be closed the following day, at some hour to be .hereafter notified. Mrs N. Douglas, a married worn m, residing in Grant-street, Clifton Hill, (Vic)., committed suicide in a determined manner. Hor husband, who is a commission agent, arrived ho.no about midnight, and, going into the kitchen, saw his wife’s body hanging from a rafter. Deceased had doubled up her logs to prevent her feet touching the floor and had thus strangled herself. Trooper E. Knapp, who is with the Second Contingent in South Africa, has proved himself a good man in the saddle. A special correspondent sends the following : —Our horses were allowed out, but promptly etampeded, and vanished over the sky-line to our Major’s horror. He got his horse, and gallopod after them, and found that our guard had lost themselves, but ouo man, Knapp, had stuck to the herd, and received enough praise to make-diim a happy man for a week. When the Major gives praise it’s well worth having. The Foxton Borough Council has passed tho following resolution : —That in view of the representations made to this Council by the Government re the bubonic plague, tho Government be requested to stop the issue of bank notes a second time, it being within the knowledge of this Council that filthy notes are issued, and no doubt are the cause of the spread of disease, and that a copy of this resolution be sent to the head office of tho Bank of New Zealand. In the course of an article dealing with the possiblo retirement of Mr Seddon, the Dunedin Star says : —“The country will be quite satisfied to see Mr Ward at the head of the Government. He has proved himself a singularly able administrator, whilst his broad views on political, social and economic questions generally commend themselves to the intelligence of the people. As leader of the House we believe lie will be a success, being tactful, good-tempered, ready in debate and most conciliatory in manner.” Writing in the Clarion , the leading British Socialist journal, Mr William Ransted, a gentleman of independence and a traveller, who recently visited this colony, says : —“ When the war is over, from all parts of the world people will be flocking to Johannesburg. Heaven knows what they will do when thoy get there. There’s only one city to go to, and that will bo filled by its old inhabitants. Plenty of them wore out of work before the war broke out, and they will be lucky if they all find employment when work starts again. Emigrants cannot take up land and live on it. The country is about the most barren and inhospitable spot I ever put my foot in. New Zealand is a paradise , compared to it, or, indeed, compared to any other British colony. Only the Boer can live and thrive in the Transvaal. They are hardy, acclimatised, and put up, in a phlegmatio sort of way, with discomforts which would drive a Britisher to despair.”

In America some peculiar ideas are acted on. The following telegram appeared in an lowa journal just to hand by the mailßloomington, Ind„ March 29. —The Rev. Mr Sheldon’s experiment in running the Topeka Capital as Jesus would run it has suggested the proprietors of the Bloomington Daily Star an experiment along an entirely different* line. The paper carried this announcement on Monday : •* A good many newspaper readers think thoy can run a newspaper better than the editor. No doubt his satanic majesty thinks the same thing, so next week we propose to give him'a trial by turning over the Star to him for one issue and letting him run it according to his own notion. In other words, the Star on Saturday, March 31, will be a devil of a papor. Suitable contributions for such a paper, briefly written, will bo received and considered if sent in early this week. No church notioes nor reading matter nor advertisements of a religious nature will be received for Saturday’s paper. We opose to let the devil have full sway.”