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Manawatu Herald, 3 December 1896, Page 2

The Borough Counoil invite applications for two day men, and al o tenders for lamp lighting. Next Tuesday the Methodists bold a sale of work and fanoy goods at their hall. Great preparations hare bean made for this event, and we trust to reoord a suooessful result of the workers' efforts. A very fine specimen of a golden eagle, caught in a trap in Sutherlandshire, has been received at the British Muieum, to be stuffed and mounted for exhibition in the natural history section of that institution. Mr Alf Fraser has been appointed the deputy-returning officer for the general election at Foxton, and to have oharge of the booth. Mr McElwain is the deputy for the licensing poll. Every little helps. Mr Rhodes informs ns that the cocoa nuts so moon in evidence at the garden party on Tuesday were given to the church by Messrs Q. Thomas & Co., of Wellington. The many friends of Mrs Reeve, sen., in this district will regret to learn that when on a visit to a relation on Tuesday in Wellington, she became suddenly ill, and on a doctor being called in he pronounced her as suffering from bronchitis, a slight attack of paralisis, and from the breaking of a blood vessel in the head, causing her to lose her ipeech. All will hope soon to hear of her Bpeedy recovery. The Queen of tbe South brought up yesterday a "Combine" for Mr Brookie, Sandon. The maohine weighs five tons, and the agent had ordered the large crane on the railway on (Saturday last, but when the steamer arrived it was not to hand, and Captain Harvey had to lift it with bis own taokle, which he did expeditiously and safely. A Glasgow girl thus wrote to the Queen • —"47, Castle-sf., Sept. 26, 1896. Dear Queen, — I write to say how glad lam that you have reigned so long, and I hope you may still live for many years to come. I do not think you have ever been in Dumfries, the place lam writing from. This is my home, and lam 9 years old. I have been an invalid for nearly 3 years, and for the last 12 months have not been able to sit up, so please excuse the writing. With much love and best wishes, believe me, dear Queen, your affectionate friend, Catherine M. Smith." The Queen sent her a generous reply and her portrait. An aorimonious newspaper correspondence between the Ruv. C. H. Garland and the President of the Licensed Victuallers' Association, respecting a oharge against two hotelkeepers at New Plymouth, has terminated by Mr Garland publishing a letter admitting that the charges were founded on hearsay evidence, that he cannot prove them, and that he regrets having made them. The matter has been exciting intense interest there, and the opponents of Prohibition are much slated. %\ the re•ttlt.

The Magistrate's Court Was adjourned thii morning to the 14th of January, We have to thank Mr Relemeyer, Secretary of the Ashurst-Pohangnia Hack Racing Club for a complimentary ticket for the meeting on the 29th instant. On Tuesday afternoon the Methodists had a working bee and planted close on an acre of potatoes for the good of the churoh fnnds. Mr Liddell has been engaged in erecting six divisions in the Courthouse for voters to retire to to-morrow to mark their voting papers in private. Mr Kellow addresses the electors At the Public Hall to-night. Another meeting, still we trust a large number will roll up. Mr Kellow is very well satisfied indeed with his reception everywhere, and believes when the numbers go up the other two candidates will experience a shook. Mr Martin, the Board's carpenter, commenoed at the alterations to the schoolmaster's residence, which he anticipates will take him a fortnight. The alterations are an addition of an extra room for a kitchen, with a now chimney for a stove, also a chimney in one of the bedrooms. The Esquimaux doctors fare worse at regards their remuneration than our own medical men. Each visit is paid for at the | time ; but, unless the patient recovers, the whole of the fees paid have to b« returned to the representatives of the decea»ed. Instruments for le'f-tortare, including a spiky anklet, a rough horsohair belt, and a " barbed heart," are being sold at a shop ' in London. The dealer says that for every order he reoeivts from a Roman Catholio, he has three from " advanced " members of the Church of England. The Medical Board of Calcutta report! that several wards of the city contain a population of 100,000 to the square mile, while one ward has 145,000. The report recommends that the worst portions of the wards be demolished, and that model dwollings be erected in the place of the present buildings. The Prince of Wales has been content with the peppercorn rent of £99 for the celebrated grounds of the Surrey Cricket Club at the Oval. If he wen to let the land on building ground rents his* royal highness would realise several thousands a year. However, he has granted a new lease of 80 years to the club at a higher rent than £99, but still a •mall one. One of the conditions of the lease ia that soldiers, sailors, po3tmen, and railway employes in uniform are always to be allowed admission free, and at every matoh there is always a good sprinkling of the representatives of these services on the ground. When luo schooner Waiapu came up the rivor about noon on Wednesday last at a fairly R.->od rate of speed and with nothing in Ihs way of sails to carry her along, there with not a few anxious to know wherein lay the hidden motive power. After the natty looking little, vessel had been securely berthed at the town whnrf and it was elicited that she had arrived from Oisborne wiih 500 sacks of grass seed, Captain Martin soon ! explained away any apparent mystery connected with her movements. Situated aft ia a 12 h.p. gasoline engine— in very compaot form— oonnected with a small dynamo, and this provides the motive power, driving the schooner by means of her sorew— which di&oonneots at will— at the rate of fully six knots an hour ; indeed, taking relatively the size of the vessel it seems wonderful that so small a pieoe of machinery is capable of doing so much work. In express* ing himself as thoroughly satisfied with its working, Captain Martin states that about a month ago the engine drove the vessel laden wiih 56,000 feet of sawn timber over the Eaipara bar again it a heavy sea. We understand that several of the small vessels employed on the coastal trade in the North are fitted up with these handy engines, amongst them the new schooner Medora.— W. Herald.