Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, DEC. 22, 1898.

Manawatu Herald, 22 December 1898, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, DEC. 22, 1898.

To-day the Returning Officer notifies the election of Councillor in the room of Cr. Alf. Fraser elected Mayor. Captain Kemsley resigned his position in the Wellington Fire Brigade on Monday. Mr W. Hamer is erecting a fourroomed cottage at the Sanatorium, and has the frame up and roof on. This will make the fourth dwelling at the beach. The Government has decided to recommend Dr George E. Kenny, at present in charge of the hospital at Hamilton, for appointment as medical officer at Rotorua. The Anarchist Conference, held in Rome, has agreed to a uniform police system of dealing with dangerous anarchists, with a complete system of home control instead of expulsion. A miserly English woman, named Coen, has bequeathed the sum of £38,500 to the London City Mission. An artist name Heine has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for caricaturing the German Emperor. District Judge Kettle has, on the application of Mr Innes, granted probate of the will of W. W. Turley, late of Shannon, to Mrs Turley, the widow. Sergeant Gillies of the Thames, and Sergeant Ellison, of Wanganui, are to be the new Police Inspectors. At a banquet tendered to the Hon. Mr Cadman and Mr McGowan, M.H.R., at the Thames, Mr Cadman announced that owing to ill-health he would shortly retire from politics, an announcement which was received with expressions of regret. At the Justices' Court this morning before Alf. Fraser and E. S. Thynne, Esqs., J's.P., the following parents were fined two shillings for each child for being absent from school: — J. Walls, E. Dukes, A. Reeve, Lyne, and T. Chamberlain. The cases against Anreason were further adjourned to the S.M. Court. The Government has had under consideration the question of connecting the colony's lighthouses with the telegraph stations with a view to establishing prompt and effective communication tor defence purposes, and it has been decided to consult His Excellency Admiral Pearson to advise as to what he thinks are the most important connections to be made from a strategical point of view. The work of clearing up the debris of the Royal Oak Hotel fire is now going on. Among the articles found were Mr S. Gilmer's gold watch, albert, and sovereign case, and a pair of pince-nez and delicate chain, which were all on the floor of his bedroom. The gold is not injured, only tarnished, and the glass of the watch and the pebbles in the pince-nez are all intact. —Post. We are in receipt of the Jubilee Commemoration number of the Mutual Provident Messenger, which is full of interesting matter. There are two views given, one of the Newport workshops of the Victorian railways, and the interior view of the Society's branch office in Wellington. The most interesting engraving is that of Sydney in the Fifties, which appeared on the earlier policy forms of the A.M.P. Society. It is a fitting record of the work of one of the best Insurance Societies.

We request adverriaors to note that the Manawatu Hekald will not be published next Tuesday. A Nelson parson states that overdressing on the part of churchgoers is a curse to Christianity. The Town Clerk gives notice that the Council office will be close from to-day until Friday January 6th. He also reminds ratepayers that January 6th and 9th are the two last chances they will have of paying rates without the objectionable addition of ten per cent. In another column Messrs Kemp and Jupp advertise that their steam launch Florence will run Juring the summer regular trips to the beach every Wednesday afternoon. The leunch can also be chartered by picnic parties by arrangement. The Florence was purchased from the Union S.S. Company, having been used as a tender for the trips in the Sounds. She was built at Dumbarton and is very roomy and fast. Her length is 37 feet and she has 8 feet beam with a small draught. The danger of sitting on railway carriage steps was again exemplified on Saturday afternoon, says the Post. Robert Dann, a slaughterman, was coming in from Ngahauranga by train and sitting on the steps when his knees were struck by a post at the dead end of the adjoining parallel line at the Wellington station. This post had only been displaced a few moments before by a shunting goods train, and there had been no time to remove it, though there was no danger unless, as should not have been the case, there was something projecting. One of the man's legs was broken and the other slightly injured, and he narrowly escaped being dragged off the carriage. Drs James and Henry attended the wounded man and ordered his removal to the Hospital, where he is now progressing satisfactorily. The case of the present Marquis of Normanby is v as interesting as it is honourable to him. When, eight years ago, he succeeded his father in the Marquisate it was found that there i was not available funds necessary to keep up the ancestral home, Mulgrave Castle. The new peer was informed by his father's executors of the stern necessity of letting the mansion. Lord Normanby declined to submit to such indignity. If the estate did not yield sufficient to keep Mulgrave Castle free from the intrusion of the stranger, the new owner would by personal labour earn such increment as was necessary. Lord Normanby Is a ripe scholar, having taken his degree with honours at Durham University. Taking Orders he for eighteen years served as Vicar of St. Mark's, Worsley, a not too riohly endowed parish in Manchester. The new Marquis resolved to open a school, and this he did forthwith. His schoolhouse is the stately ca6tle near Whitby; the headmaster is the Marquis; he has an adequate staff of tutors, and as many pupils as he cares to take. At a time when disclosures in the city have done something to damage the reputation of our Old Nobility this plucky and honourable procedure of an impoverished peer is worth remembering. The Manawatu Railway Company will run a late train, leaving at 11 p.m. on Saturday (Christmas Eve), in connection with the special Wanganui River excursions announced by Cook and Son. The Mayor, in another column, invites the business people to observe the 36th and 87th December, and the 2nd and 3rd January as public holidays. In another column Mr Walsh returns thanks to his supporters. The post and telegraph holidays are also duly announced elsewhere.