Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY. MAY 27. 1899

Manawatu Herald, 27 May 1899, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY. MAY 27. 1899

Messrs Thomas Westwood and Co. have extended the time for receiving tenders for the cottage on the Moutoa road up to to-night. The Try Again Lodge of 1.0. G.T. has a notification to the members about attending the funeral of their late brother Joseph Morgan, to-morrow afternoon. The Government of Japan is issuing a four per cent, loan of ten millions sterling at ninety.

The unfortnnate victim of the flaxmill accident, Joseph Morgan, expired at his home early yesterdoy -morning. An inquest was held to-day. A Mernoriarn service will be held in the Primitive Methodist Church tomorrow night conducted by Rev. W. Woollass. At Sydney Mr John Strang sold two of his polo ponies. Marona, originally purchased from J. Birchley, was sold for £ioo, and The Pasha, once owned by Mr B. Gower, brought £75. Mr Southey Baker disposed of all his ponies at satisfactory figures. . Mr Edmund Osborue, now that he has secuced the freehold of his premises, is having the new gas laid on. This will be a great improvement, and shows our townsman keeps pace with the times. Why cannot some energetic councillor see whether this new gas could not be supplied to our street lamps--as it can be to bicycles, and our lampposts are not moved so often as bicycles. The Melbourne Leader publishes two photographs of the New Zealand polo players, one seated the other on their ponies in the field. Fitz- Harris and others who were convicted of conspiracy to murder in connection with the Phoenix Park murders have been released. Jas. Fitz-Harris was one of those who were sentenced to penal servitude for life for being implicated in the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr T. H. Burke in Phoenix Park, Dublin, on the 6th May, 1882. Five men had been convicted of murder in connection with the tragedy, and were executed in June, 1883. Some time ago the " Daily Telegraph" and the " Daily Mail " started the publication of Sunday editions in London. Owing to the agitation against such papers by the religious leaders and organisations, the " Daily Mail " ceased to publish its Sunday edition, and now the " Daily Telegraph " proprietors have dropped the publication of their Sunday edition also. The Manawatu Times says a man named James Packar, while felling bush for Messrs Gammon and Co. at Kopua (H. 8.) had his right ear almost torn off and his shoulder badly 1 bruised. A company has been formed in Palmerston with a capital of £2500 for the purpose of purchasing 127 acres of land at Hokowhitu for sporting and recreation purposes. The company will be known as the Manawatu Atheltic Park Company. Mr C. A. Cox, of London, has set cured 340 square miles of country in I Northern Australia, which he intends Lto stock with goats, to use the skins for glove-making. In the Court ot Appeal judgement was given in the case of Staples and Co., brewers, v. Carty. The defendant purchased an hotel from the vendor, who had himself purchased from plaintiffs. Defendant's vendor, in the conveyance to him, entered into a covenant with the plaintiffs for himself and assigns to sell no colonial beer other than was purchased from plaintiffs. The Court held on English decisions that plaintiffs were entitled to an injunction restraining defendant from a breech of the covenant, with costs. On Tuesday at Auckland, Augustus Rockstraw, a member of the Victoria Rifles, was charged to-day with stealing a revolver, the property of the New Zealand Government, which was missed from the Drillshed. He was committed for trial. Mr Jellicoe has inserted the following advertisement in the Wellington papers—" Mr Jellicoe regrets exceedingly that in consequence of his fighting for a principle his clients must necessarily suffer considerable inconvenience, but to minimise this as far as possible he is willing to be consulted on and after the 7th June free of charge." A Reuter's cable message states that Great Britain has disapproved of the action of the British sea captain who lent the Palawan Islanders a British flag as a token of protection during the troubles following the withdrawal of the Spaniards. The flag has now been removed. The Russian naval authorities are sending nine torpedo boats to Port Arthur, a well known Russian naval station on the Leatong Peninsular. His Holiness the Pope, in the ordering of the services of the churches in Rome on the Queen's Birthday, declared that Queen Victoria was the i greatest benefactor of humanity, and had secured and maintained the peace of the world in several recent emergencies.