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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7542, 15 May 1903, Page 4

It is stated thai the Ijcal football and hockej' executives are moving with a view of securing the u>e of the High School ground for sport. Fortj-one stowaways were discovered on board the s.s. Sophocles utter she had left London recently for South Afriei. All were financially "on the rocks"; one was the proud possessor of h:>li.:i-erown, but the others scarcely owned as :nueh between them. Two million iivo hundred thousand pills and three lent of cough io-re/igt's .".re dispensed every year ::l the London Hospital. Ninety-two miles of lint, I7ii miles of bandages, also G tons tf cottonwool, and nine miles of plaster :;re used annually. livery day half .1 ton of ice and -100 syphons of j-oda. water, and six and a-hulf miles of eggs sire used. One of the most iniijuitous tnxi'Srf this colony of ours is the sheep rate, which, imposed uj,o:i :v section of the community for the purpose of eradicating "scub,'' has been perpetuated as ii source of revenue over since. It is a matter for consideration at all conferences whether this special "01.-iss " tax should be continued ur abolished. That one of the leading sources of our income should befir an exceptional burden, and all others be exempt, is an act of injustice which calls for kii immediate expression of opinion from Uio Farmers' Union from the North Cape to the BlulY.— N.Z. Dairyman. A London correspondent writes :—An appeal has been put forth by Bishops Itobhousc (formerly o( Nelson, NewZeaaud) and Shrewsbury, Prebendary Seiwyn, and Dr Hornsby. Provost of "Ktor.. It runs as follows :—•' It is proposed, if a suilicicut sum can be raised, to provide some suitable memorial to the Kight Keverend Clmrles John Abraham, who was called to his rest on February -1 last. As Bishop Abraham was the colleague, both in New Zealand and m this country, of Bishop Geor^o Augustus Selwyti, such meuiori.nl might take the form of a 'Bishop Abraham Scholar.vhip.' at Selwyn College, Cambridge, the foundation of which he was the first to suggest and took v leading part in securiog.' 1