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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7779, 1 March 1904, Page 4

A smart lad for the printing trade is wanted at the Standard Office. Secondhand cycles, £2; Dayton (secondhand), £S 10i. Clarkson's, Coleroan Place.* A cricket match between Terrace End and Bunnythorpe on Saturday, was won by the latter by an innings and 33 runs. The Shannon residents hare decided to hola. a sports meeting in their town on Easter Monday. It is notified in another column that programmes can be obtained from the Secretary, Mr J. Toomath, of Shannon. The S3le of sixty-three sections near the railway station from Mr J. H. Han-' kins to Messrs D. and 0. Monrad, parti- j culars of which were were given in a recent issue of the Standard, was completed by Messrs Brophy and uo. Yet another religious sect has been aUdei to the man.y already existing in New Zealand. Amongst the names of officiating ministers published in the Gazette in that of the head of the Pilgrims of Poace. The yacht Water Lily overturned at Kaipara on Sunday, jane Hannagan 2S years, and Edward Linton, 26 years! were drowned. The only other occupant swam to the shore. The parties were employed at the New Zealand CanniDg Co.'s works. Mr W. Eroon, representing the London Organ and Piano Company, of George St. Dunedin. is now in town. His firm are agents for the celebrated Boosey and Oo.'s Comoensatino:, Piston Band Instruments. Visiting bandsmen are requested to inspect the"display of instruments on the Showground. When Mauritius was ceded to Great Britain in ISIO, there was a gigautic turtle in a court at Port Louis which is still there, although almost blind. It weighs 3301b5, and" stauds two feet high when walking. Its shell is.B.V feet long, and it can carry two men on its ; back with ease.

\■ A lad named Harry Lyford, aged about mne years, met with a serious accident in front of the l?oyal Hotel %s morning. While riding "a bicycle the lad collided with a spring cart, one of the wheels of the vehicle passing over his body. Lyford rose from the ground but almost immediately felt insensible. The lad was taken to Mr b(:ott s chemist's shop, where he received attention from Drs. Wilson and Jiartla and was subsequently removed to the. hospital. Lyford is injured in:e:rca>:T.

Gents' Warren cycles, i£ll; twelve months' guarantee. Ciarkson's, Coleman Place.* A Norwegian named Solien,' a : single man, fell out of a rowing boat .n the Wairoa river on Sunday and* was drowned. The annual raeeiing of the N.I. Brass Band Association will bo held to-night. The meeting of the Borough Council to have been held to-ni»ht nas been adjourned till next Tuesday next. The Manawatu Cycling League -intends holding a series of test races toselect a representative to compete at the championship meeting to be held at Cnnscchurch on March 26th. The towel-washing bill in connection with the Sydney post office is rather a big affair. Sir Philip Fysh, who has been going into the matter, finds that the cost works out to £130. The Hawke's Bay Herald states that 31 r Ulassey, leader of the Opposition in- Parliament willf commence a southern political campaign this month. _ Should the appeal to the Privy Council oa the Newtown licensing question be successful, an understanding has been arrived at (says the Bruce Herald) between the contending parties in Bruce not to enter freEh litigation, but to grant licenses.

Tue meeting of Maoris at Parihaka on March 17th is expected to be larger and more important than usual. The claim of Mahuta to the title of king will be the principal subject of discussion. A. number of Waikato Maoris are understood to be on their way to attend.

As a result of several inquiries made the Executive of the Band Contest Committee decided, yesterday afternoon, to issue season tickets at ]0s each. A. number of tickets were sold yesterday afternoon and last night, the receipts from tuts source aggregating £9.

At the SM. Court yesterday afternoon Mr Thomson, S M., ordered Chas. T. Harvey to contribute 7a per week to the support of hi 3 child till she attaius the age of li years and to give security for £12 ia the meantime Mr Cooper appeared for ths applisanfc and Mr Hank-In? for the defendant.

A medical guide to the health resorts of iSew Zealand is being published by the Tourist .Department. The guide is being Drought out in sections, the first section, relating to Eotorua being now m the pn-ss. It is intended to circulate the guide largely in England and. America and other countries. Vital statistics for the registration district of Palmerston North for the past month:—Birrhs 37, deaths 18, marriages 15. Eleven de&tbSj infants, were due to enteritis. The Hosoital statistics for the same period ars aa follows .--Patients in the Hospital February Ist 25, admitted during the month 25, discharged 29, patients ia ihe Hospital March Ist 21. At their land mart, Wellington, tomorrow, Messrs MacDonold, Wilson and Co. will hold an important sale of ssctions in the town of Trentham, Hutt. The sectJcas to be sold number 96, ranging in area from a quarter acre to over two acres each, there should be a good demand ior them, especially as Tronthau* is close to Wellington, and the land is suitable for country residencas. llr Laldlow, the bandmaster of. the Kaikorai Band, performed an act last evening which has been highly spoken ot by the public and by local and visiting bandsmen. He attended the practice of the Municipal Band and gave the members three hours' instruction in the test piece? and other selections. Theaction or Bandmaster Laidlow was tully^ appreciated and the Municipal iianagare him three ringing cheers at the conclusion of the rehearsal. At the inspection of the Christchurch abattoir last week, the secretary of the bociety for ihe Prevention of Cruelty to Animals suggested that shooting would be a quick and painless method of killing animals. Other members cf the party replied with more or less gruesome stories of unsuccessful attempts tokill animals with firearms, and suggested thar should revolvers or rifles be used the mortality among the abattoir employees would probably be high. At Wood and Sons' horse sale in Masterton on Saturday, bidding was dull and .only a feu- animals were sold under the hammer. However, a number of [ sales were effected privately, though [ prices were somewhat in favour of j buyers. Good express horses sold to £81, unbroken hacks to £5 os. quiet buggy pomes £10 to £11, aged harness horses £5 to £S 7s-6d, unbroken harness horses to £6 15s, gig and harness £1G 10$, gig harness £4 2s 6d. General Booth made a novel appeal ia a speech at Exeter Halt recently. The Salvation Army, he says, is doing a great work, but cannot get along without the sinews of war. Therefore, let every person fn the British Empire— and, indeed, outside of it—bequeath something on death to the Salvation Army... These are lota of things—weddins rings, falsa teeth, for instance— that- people do not know what to do with at- their death. Lee them send them to ihe Salvation Army, who will gratefully accept- theta. American false teeth are what the Army want, says the Genera!, because a large proportion of thetn is good. General Booth intends to' propound his false teeth scheme in tho TJni. ted Siates.

Speaking to an Auckland reporter. Mr A. Eastfjare, late Stipendiary Magistrate in Fiii, made some rather uncomplimentary comments on Auckland school playgrounds, contrasting them with the school playgrounds in Fiji. He said he had been surprised in his perambulation?! around Auckland at the rondition of the playground?. In Fiji the plaj'grounds are cultivated mio beautiful grass lawns and shrubbed:'--. and everything is arranged to please ihV eve, most of it being the work of the children, who are encouraged by the headmaster to take an interest m horticulture. He was surprised to find that ip Auckland the playgrounds were entirely v.-anting in this respect.

| Tiie ladies who organised and carried out the leap year social and dance fa the Foresters' Hall last week are ■doing' their utmost to cater for the enjoyment of the visiting bandsmen-. * They hav e .decided to hold a -dance in the Foi esters' 11 all on- Thursday evening- next in honor of tile visiting 'bands, ami judging oy the arrangements'already made the -affair will be asplendid success. Misses Mills art* L'yo are the joint .secretaries. Miss M. Murphy will o-flieiate as M(j and vhe music will bo supplied-by Messrs Mattson and Barrow. The coinmitU'e comprises Misses Nieoll CJuntcr, WiJJiaais, and Mills.* '

Ladies' Tribune "Blue tStreak" cycles, from £20. Clarkson's, Coleman Place.* • .Mr Prouse has Ijecn elected to fill the. vacancy .on the Horowhemia County Council caused tiy the retirement of Mi* J. Davios. The Horowhenua . Co-operative Butchery Association'"Share list is full and its registration is now ber ittg effected. Kever::l visiting soloists have been granted the use of Hawkes and Son's contesting models for solo work at the present contest. These instruments are on view at Messrs G. H. Bennett and Co. s premisi s Messrs Milverton ani:l Sons inform us that .the letters they'have sent to the Kairanga County Council in reference to the Ngawhataaxau metalling, contract are without prejudice and they ait; hopeful that an amicable settlement will be arrived at without resorting to legal pro. ceeSings.

A claim under the Workers' Compensation for -Accidents Act has been lodged for hearing by the Arbitration Court by the relatives of the jockey, DaviS Snodgrass, who met his death while riding1 the horse Seatonia at Patawai last Boxing Day. The claim is made against Mr T. A. George, gnxser, of Onchunga, and the amount is £400. Thomas Snodgrass, of Paeroa, has lodged the application, and others alleged to have 'been' partly dependent upon deceased are his mother, two brothers, and two sisters.

A case was heard at Poxton last week in which the keeper of a room was charged with allowing it to be open after 11 p.m. and a number of persons ■were summoned for being found there. The defend set up was that the room was not a "billiard '' room ?t all, inasmuch as the game ot billiards was never played there, butonly bagatelle, skittles and a shooting gallery. It was argued that the room could not therefore come within the definition of the Act, section 2 subsection 4 of which reads " a publ'C billiard room rnraus a billiard room where billiards or any similar games are played for payment, but does not include a billiard room in premises licensed under the Licensing Act, ISBI, or a club." Mr Thomson, SII, decided the ease in favour of the defendant.