Events Worth Nollns:.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7404, 20 September 1902, Page 3

Events Worth Nollns:.

Mrs Essex makes additions. Lost—Gold pin with pearl. Lost—Brown Volunteer coat. Blacksmith's shop in Longburn for sale.

Lease of one of best country hotels in colony.rfor sale. Cartage of 70 cords of firewood is advertised to-let. Young woman requires board and lodging in private family. Meeting of Alhambra Cricket Club to-morrow night. Double furrow plough, disc harrows, McCormiek reaper for sale. Mrs C. Jansen, Bunnythorpe, inserts a notice of thanks in this issue. Otaki-Manakau Dairy Co. require a first assistant. Evangelistic services will be held in Stoney Creek Hall this week. Tenders are invited for purchase of stocked dairy farm at Rongotea. Train arrangements for Hawke's Bay show are notified. Wairorapa A. and P. Show on October 29th and 30th. Entries for Manawatu Show close on October 27th. Pulmerston Band will hold social on October 29th. Sale of building sections at Shannon on October 23rd. Entries for University examinations close on October 23rd. Hawke's Bay A. and P. Show on October 22nd and 23rd. . Entries are. advertised for Abraham and Williams' Palmerston sale. Entries advertised for N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Co.'s Palmerston sale. Miss Bacon's Art Union pictures are at present on view at Mr Beadnell's shop Oroua Lodge r U A-0 D, will hold a complimentary social on Tuesday night. Mr T. R. Hodder will address |the electors at Palmerston on October 22nd and at Longburn on Friday night. The N.Z. Axemen's Association's Carnival will be held at Eltham on November 10th. Mr W. T. Wood announces that he will address the electors in the various centres shortly. Abr»ham and Williams have valuable residential property in Terrace street fer sale. Wellington Meat Export Co. insert a notice in this issue in reference to purchasing sheep by weight, Mr Harry Rickards' Company will appear in the Theatre Royal on Saturday nigbt, Mr H. J. Manson will address the electors at Ashhurst on Tuesday night. Mr:W. T. Wood will address the electors at Longburn on Thursday night. Advertiser has McCormiek reaper and binder and mower for sale. On Thursday next Messrs Mounsey and Co. wiU sell section with residence in College street. Messrs_Mounsey and Co. will hold a clearing sale on the premises of Mr H. S. Mnnro, Shannon* on October 29th. At their Feilding sale on Friday, Messrs Gorton and Son will sell 20 draughts on behalf of Messrs Hoeken Bros.

On Tuesday, October 23th, tho N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Co. will hold a clearing sale on the farm of Mr 3. Shapleski, two miles from Kimbolton. Seven lots of Crown Land in the township of Carnarvon will be offered for sale in Palmerston on October 25th. The friends of the late Mr T. E. Martin aro respectfully informed that his funeral will leave his late residence, Main street, to-morrow afternoon.

(Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Per Press Asset lation.)

Lokdos, Octob:-r IS.

The Admiralty is inciting tender* for » new data of battleship of 18,000 ton?, to bo tho fastest aud most heavily armoured afloat.

One . will be built at Devonport, snd one or two at private ship yiirds. Tenders are also asked for four 23----knot good sea-goicg vessels to act as scoots, of 3000 tons each. Renter's Agency cancels the previous cable io reference to the alleged statement made by Herr Koerber in the Beichsraatb, Vienna, tbat it was proposed to settle the question of war3b;p3 pasting through the ritraits of Dardanelles by arbitration. The speaker did not refer to tbe Dardanelles. A tele, graphic Emulation caused tbe misreport.

Tbe Daily Mail repsrt, that Russia bad proposed to Turkey the renewal of the Unkiarskeleasi treaty, has caused a newspaper Eensation. The treaty was signed at UnMarskelessi in Jane, 1833. Amongst other conditions, it transferred the control of tbe Dardanelles to Russia, and converted tho entrance to the Black Bea in!o a Russian fortified outpost The Western Powers at tbe time refused to recognise the treaty. Mr Balfour has announced tho Government will accept nn amendment in the Education Bill securing local education, and adding that the finance, a3 far as Becular education 13 concerned, will bo in the hands of the body levying the ratcß; and providing that the staffs of the schools snd payment of the masters is a matter for the purely local authorities.

The announcement has greatly dis concerted tho Opposition.

■While Mr Healy and a few Independent Nationalists offered the Government seme support on th-3 Education Bill, the rest affect to abstain from divisions.

The Government are alert as to tho possibility of a defeat, eg the result of a sudden coalition of tbe Nationalists with tbe Opposition. The Right Hon St. John Brodrick, in a speech at Farnham, declared that tbe higher officers of tbe War Office were the architects of their own fortune?. In every military appointment under the new Army Corps eyitem some were made by the joint authority aud advice of Lords Roberts and Kitchener. Since peace was proclaimed 140,000 troop 3 were brought away from South Africa, being at the rate of 1000 per day, an achievement which ho justly characterised as extraordinary.

Renter's Pekin correspondent states that negotiations for tbe evacuation of Shanghai have been suspended, Britain desirirg a definite arrangement with regard to the status of the Yangtsi Valley, together with precise stipulations in regard to the non-alienation of territory in the Yangtsi district. Losdos, October 4. The following has been delated in transmission: —

President Roosevelt invited tbe mine owners ard Mr Mitchell to confer w.h bim on tbe coal strike. Addressing the conference, President Roosevelt emphasized tbe fact tnat the disputants incurred a grave responsibility by paralysing the coal mining industry in tbe face of caring for tbe needs of the community. Ho appfokd to them for patriotic reasons to desist in their attitude &l obstinacy, and make individual sacrifice for The general good. He carnestlv invited them to submit proposals which would relieve the present distressing aituaiion.

Mr Mitchell agreed that tbe disputo might be settled by a committee appointed by President Rocsevelt. Berlin, October 18.

Addre?Bicg a icceting of 3000 at ihe Philharmonic Hall this evening, GemvA Bolha, in ccknowledgiog the enthusiasm af bis reception, r-if ra!ed bis previous Btateincnt3 a" to Kruger's integrity, tie said thn cs-Pr silent bad lent £-10,000 to the Tranfvot.), which he c-.uld never recover. He &3dtd that the Ftfttesman of the war was Mr Stejn. If tbo Boer people wete praised tc-day it was Mr Steyn who roa-'-'e thcrn worthy of prsi=e. He concluded by t&\irg " Nobody can doubt but tbat we will rticain loyn!, for German sympathy lias united the two peoples." Genera! D; Wet dtclared that tbe worst was past, b&t the situation wai Btill dark He eulogised the women for erabliDg tbe Bstr3 to prolor.g the straggle. They were so biave that bt or.cc teid they ebcu^d have laws permitting a man ef-tr fh» war to ttke two wives. He plctded for a wegon and two oxen for c:.eb U ,er, then ths people would not go under. Tho sale <»f ik-kits and po U.'.rdi b?ariog the Genc-ral.*,'purtr^i'.-; ii..i!iscd 27,000 irsrks. UheGtnerals sent'.e'eg-aaj-i i-jKreger aod Stcyn. The most stiski'.g fcitare of lhA: virit to Beriin is tl-at while ro'tit.u-i!;.v protesting thtir l-y.iity v> E.-.g^nd, tho Generals a-socia'.Q cxc'ry.-i-je'iy v.ith Germans who are Ergltcd's bitterest enemies.

Received Ou-'oi'2r 10, 4 ZH p m

The GcncM'j vislied the Re chitag. Amorg=t lho-<? whowelcomid ti;(:m was Prices HtiLrrt I'isiM.rck. Speaking English, Y.i, rtcr mit..tr,di d ihc Gcne.-als to come to en ur.dcrf.ti.dirg -.villi ?>lr Charabtrliii'). Piir.ce i'.iwnrck declan d Mr Ch»i.'ilt-r!«in v.-s; ,: prcc-tic 1 man, and he-aito fu!rgi-id ifrßr.lfi.-ur. >'kv/ Y.jLk. Octobii 18.

A Reciprrci-y Ctjntn br, i.dni:i:::.'g Newfouudli.-.d pi^h;eU fr- c U, Am:iicd, has been sig; f d ■■■'. ViV.-bi.-fcM . General I'hmin :ir,d 200 Hv.Jiun rebeta tre gci;:;.; l 0 Magna, o:-e of tbe Bahaiua is'.cu-d', in a sttuocr.

The rcbils have turteiitfered 'he town of Gonaive?, S', Mir-?.

The decision of a t'/.c-tbirdi nn.joiity of tbe Ccmin;s-i:on oppoi.-.led by President Roosevelt to adjudicate on the cosl strike wiil be.j binding Tbe reprcicntiitivi a of tho u.ir.e owners vehemently dtc':nf dto recognise cither Mr Mitchell or ih: Ui:;ci\>' Uui&n, and suggested tha' inji- iJ:;a! gi'tvances against individiitil (mooter* is.ijbt hi submitted to ilie Juclg-.suf '.!< ■■■ Di.-irict Courts. They «.l-u, wa<mly e;i'.k-i-<<l ibo conduct of tic Fcde-.a! :.dmir;i-tialio;i in refraining from sending tran; ■; to the mines to prouct (he con-Unionist workers. Under the circumstances the conference proved Iruitlcs. Mr Thomas Bu.t, member fci Morpeth, and Secretary to the N> rthumberland Miners' Union, r-xpretrcs hiuirclf ertirely in sympathy with tho stiikir:>. Ths Pennsylvarjia miners aro the poorCBt and lowest psid labourers in tbe United Slates, and Eomo of them have bten starved i;;'o Fubinissicn. end latterly small ba'.chis of famished men have resumed woik. Pekis, October 18. China has sanctioned a loan of forty million franc?, to be floated in Paris, through a Rufsisn bonk, for the construction of tho Chingtianfu-Taiyuaufu railway. Pkkik, October 19. Sir Ernest S*tow. British Minister, lias declined all social intcrcourfo with the Chinese Court because the officials rcspoßsibto for the murder of Messrs Biuee and Eewif, missionaries, fixed tho blame for the deed on a few ignorant pooplo who were bohoadd. Capetown, October 18.

Tbo Bill providing for an additional compensation for the war was read a third time. Sir Gordon Sprig" resisted Ds \\aal s amendment wheicby the valuo of horses taken for military purposes if valued at upwards o! £5, i-hould bo assessed accordingly to their value prior to tbe war. The amendment was carried by 38 to 80. The minority included the Government and the Piogressivcß. bvtiNEY, October 19,

The police are advised tho official sent to Melbourne has positively identified tho body of ibo man who shot Constnblo. Johnson at St. Kilda, and then shot himself, as that of Shaw, tho murderer of CoDßtablo Gailfoyle, near Sydney. Melbouiink, October 19.

A part of tho echemc < f lctrercbmont Is that tho Government have raifed iho retiring bgo in the police from 30 to 65 years.