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Manawatu Herald, 6 December 1902, Page 2

The first entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams’ stock sale at Palmerston next Thursday are advertised to-day, and there is one Jjne of 1250 wethers for sale without reserve and 100 3-yr bullocks also without reserve. Early in the autumn Mr Taylor purposes having a nine-roomed dwelling erected on his Taikorea property adjoining the Oroua Downs, He has leased the estate he held nearer Sanson. ■

Good prices are being realised for fat sheepj as much as x6s for wethers and i2s for ewes off the shears. These prices are likely to continue or increase.

A good deal of shearing has been completed in this district. Mr Alt. Fraser’s shop windows are now displayed with a large and bandsome assortment of presents, which, at this season of the year should command attention.

Negotiations with Colombia regarding the Isthmian canal are progressing. Mr Hay, the Secretary of State, has secured the incorporation of a clause in the agreement conaeding the United States perpetual control of the strip of land necessary for the canal

Half the Russian Customs officers stationed at the port of Nikolaiev, on the Black Sea, have been dismissed for blackmailing foreign shipbrokers, who paid to secure the prompt loading and despatch of their vessels. A recount of the Lyttelton local option votes shows that reduction was lost by thirty-seven votes. The number of voters was 3874, and they voted —Continuance, 1783 ; reduction, 1900; no-license, 2013-

The King has conferred Coronation medals on th® Agents-General.

A merchant in Christchurch has torwarded to Mr D. D. Hyde (Government Poultry Expert) a copy of a letter, dated October 22nd, from a firm in Durban, which says:—“We wish to express our satisfaction with the consignment of poultry just received from you. Both ducks and fowls are the best we have yet handled, whether from Australia, New Zealand, Canada or England, and we have personally imported and sold very many from each of these countries.” A large order, with a promise of continuance, accompanied the letter, which is a signal proof of the improvement in the quality of New Zealand poultry and the prospects for this industry. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, leader of the Opposition, in a thin and listless House, moved the rejection of the Education Bill on its third reading. His motion for the rejection was negatived by 286 votes to 134, and the third reading was adopted by 346 to 123. China is establishing a direct line of steamers to Mexico, which is the only country open to her emigrants. The prohibition vote in Bruce means the closing in June next of eleven pub-lic-houses. In Ashburton thirteen are affected.

The action in which Mr E, G, Jellicoe sought to recover £5Ol damages from Mr Hasclden, Stipendiary Magistrate, for an alleged malicious and false utterance while acting as Commissioner in the prison inquiry, has been settled. Mr Haselden has expressed regret that the words used should have been capable of the interpretation put on them by Mr Jellicoe and which was not intended. Haselden pays ten guineas cost*.

It will be welcome news to the parishioners of Bulls, Sandon and Greatford, says the Advocate, that their new vicar, the Rev. Mr Isaacson, was in Bulls on Tuesday, and though returning to Wellington first, has arranged to return on Saturday next to permanently reside. He will take the services next Sunday at Greatford in the morning, Sanson in the afternoon and Bulls in the evening. There will be an opportunity for parishioners to make Mr Isaacson’s acquaintance and to welcome him to the parish at the social gathering to be held on the loth inst. It is hoped that this social will be the means of drawing the Church members together again, and that with the new vicar’s arrival new life will be given to the Church work in the parochial district.

Messrs Ross and Coy of the Boil Marche, Palmerston North, have a replace advertisement in this issue, intimating the commencement of their annual Xmas Fair. Special attractions and bargains are the order of the day in alldepartments. A summoned meeting of the Foresters of Court Pride of Foxton will be held at the Good Templar’s Hall on Tuesday next, at 8 p.m. It is requested that all members should attend this meeting, as moat important business will be transacted.

The Government Poultry Expert has returned from the south, where he found the industry showing encouraging signs. One firm in Dunedin has just received an order for 30,000 fowls for South Africa. The Christchurch depot is already very busy, about 100 head of poultry being put through every day. This will probably be trebled at an early date. Taking the whole of the depots, more birds have already passed through this season than for the whole of last season. Last year the export was 38,000, and Mr Hyde anticipates that by the end of the present financial year the output will be 'IOO,OOO head. The season will shortly be in full swing.

Britain is trying to attach the £130,000 in bar gold which was concealed in the Transvaal, and has sinca been handed to Dr Leyds, on the ground that it is entitled to the assets of the late Government of the Transvaal. Mr William Ah Ket, a Chinese, has qualified at Melbourne as a barrister and solicitor, taking the Supreme Court prize of £4O. It was his father’s wish that he should-become a lawyer in the interests of his countrymen. In his early teens William acted as interpreter in the law Courts. Few people are aware that Britain’s mistress-ship of the seas is more than an assertion, and that it is acknowledged by every nation. On entering a foreign port, marine etiquette requires a man-o’-war to salute the national flag by dipping its own, and in return the host lowers its flag. But no British ship dips the Union Jack until the foreigner first dips his colors. In all seas, both home and foreign, Britain claims to be saluted first, and this homage is rendered by every nation as the tribute to her sovereignty. The annual sale of work by the ladies of the Methodist Sewing Guild, with Christman Tree, etc., will be held in the Public Hall, Foxton, on Wednesday and Thursday, December 10th and nth. There will be the usual attractions, competitions, music and mirth. The doors will be open on Wednesday from 3 till 10, and Thursday from 7tolo pm. Tickets is. The Chartered Company is spending a million in 1903 and a million in 1904, chiefly on the Cape to Cairo and other railways, extending the former as fa? as Bendkaff.

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