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Manawatu Herald, 19 December 1893, Page 2

On Thursday evening the scholars at' tending the State School give art etlterlainincnt in aid o(F lh*ir School funds. We have scf-u some of their performances before and ih«>v have lu-en very pleasing,, anil as we understand ho pains hfrvie been spartil in geitiug Up luc iteffis we may expect an rtjuul plt&suro on Thursday. Anyhow the ( flforls of the teatihers and puplU to help themselves is mdst laiidabje, ami the toast the parents tlnu tHtfse liv •crested in c-duGatioH. »>&H &6, is to attend to show Ihfcil!- Sympathy and interest. A full house ought to be a cartainty. Messrs Ljveday Bros, announce that they have now to hand a consignment of hard ft-H ha's in all the fashionable F '^ljes. Messrs Henncssy, Weshvood & Co. are now showing a large stock of seasonable goods in toys, fancy goods, and glassware. They have also all new fruits. Christmas is evidently nigh. On Boxing night the Lorraine Melodists will give a concert at the Publitf Hall. The names of the perfol'mefs show that many ai'e \veli)cnown to the older residents, and it is fair to expect a very enjoyable evening. The Press is very emphatic as to their capabilities:. Additions are made to the stock sale? of Messrs Abraham and Williams and Gorton and Son. On Thursday Messrs Abraham and Williams hold a stock sale at Palmerston. Messrs McMillan, lihodes * Co. desire the public to look out for their Christmas Show, R3 they have the handsomest and most useful lot of fancy articles. Their advertisement reads most tempting, and their goods are all up to the mark. A by-law to the same effect will soon be needed in tills district. The Southland OoUfity Council has passed a by-law compelling any person riding a bicycle or tricycle on the public road to stop, dismount, and remove his vehicle to the side, of the road when he meets anyone witn a horse. A decree absolute was granted on Saturday morning by the Chief Justice in the divorce-case of Ward v. Ward, on the application of Mr Gray. His Honor also made an order that Mrs Ward, the petitioner, should have the custody of the child of the' marriage. The sale of horses and ponies at Messrs Barbel's yards, Hiinatangi, took plac3 on Saturday, as advertised. The attendance was not large, in consequence no doubt ot Messrs Abraham aud Williams' horse sale at Palmerstou on the same date. A few lines were quitted. Light hacks up to £ti, and pouies £5. It is reported that Mr It. Cobb's buildings and furniture were insured for £1)000, and that Mr Cobb estimates llis loss at fully £1,000 over this amount. The fire broke out in the wash-house. Several of the shareholders of the Longburn Freezing Company complained they had been misled by a canvassing agent, who had told them that when 1,000 more shares were taken up the company would freeze on its own account. The chairman said the prospectus was clear enough, and shareholders need not have been misled. We have b:eu requested to mention that the office of the Honorary Secretary of the Foxton facing Club has been removed to Missis McMillan, Rhodes & Co.'s premises. The Longburn Freezing Company is not yet in a satisfactory condition, as the chairman told the shareholders at the annual meeting that ths works could not be started again unlil they floated 2000 more share?. It was decided that the capital of the company be increased by the creation of 8000 new shares at £5 each. Mr Kobertstein yesterday inst wiih a painfnl accident at Ca:npbc!ltown. A milk cart wrs Wmpr ran away with by the horsK attached to it, when Mr Kobtr.stein endeavoured to slop it, but was knocked down and tin v.hwl passing -over his leg broke the small bones ivar the ancle. Sheep appeared to be unsaleable at Campbelltown yesterday, but cattle, great and small, sold freely. The meeting of tho lUbhit, Extermination Society called for last Thursday lapsed for .want of a, quorum, and is convened for Thursday this week. Mr Stewart has had to alter the place of his mevling to tho Public Hall, owing to tho Temperance Hall being engaged for to-morrow evening. "To my'-miad." said M. Blouet (Max O'Rell), thoughtfully, to a London interviewer, " the colonial characteristics are hospitality, cheek, conceit and irreverence for everything' that is respected. If you are stuck up don't go to the colonies ; but if you are willing to play the part of a good fellow, and willinglg to fall with everything then you may go." A rich discovery of silver ore has been made in the Mount Lyell mine, Tasmania. Seventy tons of ore, which were taken while tho miners were cutting a chamber at the 50ft level, yielded, when essayed, 98,0000z of silver. In the course of remarks at the opening ceremony of a school, the Prince of Wales slated that the Queen's early design with regard to the extension of primary education is being realised, and that Her Majesty hopes that schools, industrial buildings and dwellings would yet be built on sites now oconpied by prisons. The. hearing of the civil action brought in the Wellington Supreme Court by Mrs Stanton, of Palmerston North, to recover £175 from the Liverpool and London and Globu Insurance Company in respect of certain goods destroyed by fire resulted in a verdict for plaint ff for £120. Judgment was given accordingly with costs on the lowest scale; It is understood that within a few days the ratts on the Queensland railways will be assimilated, and the Zone system introduced. Two Chinamen quarrelled near Bairns, dale. Victoria, when one chopped the other to death with a tomahawk, aud then oommitted suicide by cutting open his abdomen with the same weapon. The Egyptian Legislative Council suggests that a policy of economy be adopted by refusing to pay the costs of the British occupation, and by abolishing the oftioes set up to repress slavery, also those for the command of priaons. These are most be* nighted folks, they want our Colonial Treasurer to put them right. Its money they want but do not desire to borrow, well ! Mr Ward can explain just right " the way we have in the oolonies," under the Liberal Government. The woman Knorr, found guilty of ohild murder at Melbourne has been sentenced to death. There was a terribly impressive I scene in the Supreme Court while the • Judge was passing sentence, and the prisoner had to be supported in dock. At the close of His Honor's words she fainted away. . The Judge held out no hope of the sentence being commoted.

The Czar's of Russia new yacht of which he saw the ket-1 laid on the 13;h October at Copenhagen, will be named the Standard. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily New* learns that she is to cost £2/50,000, and is to be nnishod in the ypar 18115. The new craft, which is alfto to be Used as a cruiser, is Id be itttat!h>d td tile do Called " vo'urtteer fleet '* ill the Hlack Sea-. She is to be #70 feet long and oO feet broad. She will be supplied with engines df 10*000 h p , and will be able to Sail at A great speed. As Some compensation for tlie rude re- | marks made by '« Max O'llell '.' be said of | all the coldriii'S he liked New . £eftladd Best I for scenery, But for li-ne eriUvinent give him SdtUJi Affi«i; The Chronicle in an article on apologies for slanderous statements, writes, "In our opinion, however, a public apology, however humble, is too cheap a let off for the person who maliciously defames private character." " Max O.Rell " is hard on the Women in the colonies as he told an interviewer that the Australian womeu are the most frivolous I have ever met. They can think of nothing but lawn tennis; tea parties, garden parties and calls, Thirty-thousand vigueroris in France' declare that the e'xp'ort df wide is decreasing, and demand protection from the State.