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Manawatu Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 833, 4 September 1906, Page 2

The quarterly sessions of the Supreme Court open in Palmerston at noon to day.

A second offender, John Hirst, pleaded guilty yesterday to being drunk on Saturday last in the tiquare, and was fined 10s.

Capt. Edwin te'egraphed yesterday:— Strong winds to gale from between north east and north and west, glaßs fall soon ; rain prcbible,

The Orchestral Sooiely has deoided npon November 27th as the date for their next oonoert. A snooessful praotioe was held last night.

Since the beginning of the present year 370,369 ounces of gold, of tho value of £1,495,880, has been exported from New Zealand.

A Chinaman known as "Patoh," who had been ailing at Tapanui for sometime, died while beiug brought to Dunedin on Saturday for the purpose of being treated at the hospital.

The tender of Price Bros,, of the Thames, has been aooepted by the Bailway Department for the supply of twenty locomotives for the New Zealand Railways,

A man named Mark Blake died sud denly in a boardinghouse at Christchurch on Saturday evening. He had recently been in a railway accident at Geelong, and was on his way toHanmer Springs to recuperate.

At the Supreme Court, Wanganui, yesterday, Robert Boss Moore, charged with perjury, false pretences, and the making of a false declaration, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment.

Par from Mangaweka Settler: Owing to Constable Eales having lift Mangaweka, all thoss who promised him donations towards the Seddon Memorial, ore respectfully aßked to hand over their subscriptions to Mr J, Dawkins.

The Dairy Union has plaoed another 50 tons of its output at a price equal to 11'62d fob., Wellington, and is in negotiations for a further 50 tons at the same price. This is said to be the highest prioa yet obtained in this psrt of the distriot.

Yesterday afternoon Constable Hunter arrested a young man named Bayward Mounslev,on warrant from Christohuroh, on a charge of obtaining by false pretences, £45 from Fredeiiok 0. Baphael, Christohuroh. The aooused will be formally oharged to day and remanded to the southern oity.

The body of Ken. Dagg, 82 years of age, who had been missing from his home at Upper Plain, MastertOD, sinoe Sunday, August 25tb, was found in a hay shed a short distanoe from the homestead about 12 o'olook yesterday. Search parties have been soouring the oountry looking for deoeased for the past week.

The following tenders have been received by the Government for the erection of the Wbataroa bridge, Westland: —Acoepted : Fitzgerald and Bignell, Groymouth, £10,992. Deolined: Fraser, Alexandra South, £11,818; Dillon, Greymouth, £12,834; Mouat, Greymouth, £12,879.

Says Woodyille Examiner:—Some people are never satisfied. Dannevirke agitated and agitated until it got the Tamaki blook out up. Now the Minister is being bustled into paying a visit to the plaoe with the pleasant prospeot of hearing the settlers' grievances. The rents are too high, and generally " things ain't wot they ort to be." The Minister r< poses at Tamaki on Friday evening.

In the course of a will oase at Auckland on Friday, counsel said, in reply to a remark by Judge Edwards about a bequest to a library, " that is the evil effeots of Mr Carnegie probably," whioh elicited the opiuion from the Judge: -" I wonder New Zealanders are not ashamed to accept Carnegie's money. 1 should think he ought first of all to arrange something for the unfortunate workmen who are helping to earn his money."

At the Wanganui Supreme Court yesterday morniog, Leonard Aehwin, who was found guilty of manslaughter, was put forward for sentence. Tbe charge erose out of the death of a boarder who was staying at Ashwin's bcardiughouso. Athwin set tbe house on fire and the boarder was suffocated. The Chief Justice sentenoed the prisoner to 10 years' hard labour. A oharge of arson against him was held over.

The fortnightly meeting of Court Manawaln, A.0.F., was held in the Foresters' Hall last night, Bro. John Rosanoek', CR, presiding A large amount of business was transacted. It was decided to give a return social to Court Pohargina on October 2nd, After the business of the Court was concluded, the oard tournament was started, for whiob Bro. Peaoh has given a trophy. Bro. W. J. Morris proved the winner after a very interesting game of euchre.

Two unfortunate accidents attended the oloeing hunt of the season in Taranaki. The meet wss held at New Plymouth, and during the day Captain Mitohell and Mr J. Hastie, both of Manaia, received falls. Mr Hastie sustained a broken arm and injuries to his ribs, and Captain Mitchell was trampled on by his mount, and had hid jaw fractured and most of his teeth knocked put. He was in a serious oondition for a while after the accident, but it is understood that he is now progressing favourably.

Mr Gilruth, addressing a mealing of Taranaki Pastoralista, said the A. and P. Sooiety should be alivo for the whole year; aad to do that members should meet and disnusa matters. If the Department issued a leaflet let them opme together and discuss that—let tbempuil it to pieces. The Department was always glad to know the opinions of anybody; and valuable bints might come from the most unexpected quarters. In this country people seemed too prone to talk about politics; but politics were not) of much use, and it struck tbe speaker that farmers would do better to unet and disouss wajs and means of increasing their prosperity

Tho iatopt thing tho Government are asked to interest themselves in is the health of ferrets. The Kaikoura (Canterbury) district is badly plagued with rabbit', and a deputation has approaohed the Minister for Lands with the object of securing tbo Government assistance, which it was suggested might be moat effective in providing for breeding and liberating ferrets. As distemper plagues ferrets as badly as rabbits plague the farmer, the deputation suggested that the Agricultural Department might innoculato ferrets against that disease. The Minister promised to bring both (suggestions beforo the notioo of the Ministry.

Tbo cycling season is upon us and intnnding buyers of wheels should mspeot CJarksuij's now stock.*

Intending exhibitors r.re reminded of the Aiuuteur Flower Show whioh takes place to morrow in tho Zsalandia Ha'l. Owing to thu ini'daees of the season a V t Cry #°u d t3ißpla y ot flowers will be staged by both amateurs and profeßJional nurserymen. The committee have obtained the services of Mr G. A. Chapman, of the Lower Hult, as judgo of cut flowers and pot plants; Mesdames Sherwill and Aylmer, of Pc-ilding, for the decorative claeses ; and Mrs Lovelock, of Rangitikei Line, for the homo industries. A strong committee bas boon put in charge of the evening entertainment which will consist of children's fancy dancing in floral costumes and concerted musie by local amateurs. Dances nlso will be given by children in the afternoon. There will be refreshment and Bweet stalls under capable management.

The Mariborouph brauoh of tho New Zealand Teachers' Institute passed the following resolutions at its annual meeting on Saturday: —" That the Exeoutive of the New Zealand Institute be requested (1) to bring under the notice cf tbo Minister and Committee of Edoca tion in Parliament the faot that a deli brrato attempt is being made 1 y the Marlborough Education Board to deprive teachers in this district of the privi'eges and benefits csnforrod by the Teachers' Incorporation and Court of Appeal (referring to reoent year to year appointments) ; and (2) to atk the Minister and Committee to promote this session whatever legislation may bo necessary to conserve tbe rights of teachers under the said Act.

Mr Foster Fraser, in his new book, " Pictures from the Balkans," supplies some interesting information concerning the world's richest perfume, prepared from the roses of Kasanlik, No perfume 13 quite so strong as attar. The yield is less than 1*25 of 1 per cent ('O4) of the roses used. For lib of attar more thsn 40001b of roses ore needed, The peasant gels about 18s an ounce. For the same thing, as sold in Paris and London, the prioo is £8 an onnoe. So strong is the odour that nothing short of a hermetically sealed jar will rostroin it. A glass stopper, however tight, will not keep it back. Indoed, so strong is genuine attar of roses that it is nauseating. The time to visit Etsanlik is about tho bir hof Jane. Then yon can get astride • your horse and ride for two days, forty miles a day, feast your oyes on a land of damask blooms, and breathe the scent of millions of roses. When the wind is gentle the roses of Kasanlik have their perfume oarried fifty miles,

William Smith (represented by Mr A. M. Ongley) was yesterday oharged at the Polioe Court with having shot a wild duck at Hckowhitu on Aognst 16th, viz, during the close season, and with having same in his possession, Smith pleaded not guilty. Mr Innes appeared for the informant, the Aoolimatisation Society's ranger, Valentine Smith, It was admitted by the defence that the duck was shot, but evidenoe was brought to show in mitigation that the act bad been committed on defendant's own property; that Smith had gene out rabbit ehooting, and seeing the duck overhead bad fired at it, The informant asked that a substantial fine should ho imposed as an example to other offenders, ae a good deal of shoot ing out of season was going on. A fine of 40s with costs £1 12s was inflicted.

People shonld never lick postage stamps. Apart from the dirty fingers through which tbey may have passed, one olass has now been proved to be absolutely poisououe. A Lincet man was recently struck with the brilliancy of the yellow ooloting used in tho threepenny stamp, and it was found on analysis that this coloring was duo to a poisonous salt chromate of lead (ehrome yellow). Eaoh threepenny stamp weighs rather more than half a grain,, aad the quantity of chromate of lead present was found to be 2.53 per oent. On this basis Beventy stamps would oontain one grain of poisonous lead salt. As little as one-fifth of a grain of this poison proved fatal to two children who had suoked the coloring from some pastry ornaments containing obromate of lead. The ornaments were imitations of bees, or porhaps wasps, and eaoh contained about one-stzieenth of a grain of chromate of lead. According to an analysis therefore of the threepenny postage stamp, a fatal dose (one-fifth of a grain) of obromate of lead would be oontained in fourteen stamps. *

Christohuroh Truth's version: There can be no doubt that the Beoiprooity Treaty was framed with an eye to dealing a blow at tho two principal combines in New Zealand at the present time—ihe Coloni.il Sugar Company and tho Flour Millers' Association. Nor can we woik up a great deal of sympathy for either. The effeot of tho r< mission of £1 per lb on Queensland sugar, apart from being a remission of a duly whioh principally falls on the workers, is a direot approval of the White Australia pohoy, It shows that we are prepared to euoourage the substitution of white for biaok labour in the Queensland cane* fields, as against an industry that haß made a futtune out of the employment of ooloured labour in Fiji. A great deal Is nude of the fact that it will mean the closing of the Auckland refinery and diepl :C3 289 wage earners at present working under an award for a pittanoe cf JE2 2s a week downwards. To our thinking the country is doing a kindness to these workers to f oroe them into some other channel of industry, the odds being distinctly in favour of tbeir betterlog their position. Meantime free sugar means a saving principally to their fellow wage earners of £185,000 a year.

Olarkson's, Ltd., of the progressive cycle store, have wheels to suit all prioes.*

Mr William A. Barns, Commissioner for Canad?, aooompanied by Mr T. fide Sbhryver, managing director of the Imperial Export Company, of Canada, arrived in Chriatchuroh on Friday, and was oonduoted through the Exhibition buildings by Mr D. 0. Mclntyre, Director of Exhibits. Speaking to a Truth reporter afterwards Mr Burns said that the management of tbe Exhibition was to be complimented on the manner in whioh tbey had brought tho buildings to a stats of completeness in time for the reception cf exhibits, whioh was unprecedented in the history of all the Exbibitions he bad ever bad anything to da with, aud he had controlled Canadian Courts a'< seven different World's Fairs; Usually he had to go to buildings on whioh tbe roofs had not beon plaofd, and the exhibits had to be exposed to the weather u - til the building was finished. When he saw the New Zealand International Exhibition buildings that morning he was astounded at the onergy on the part of the management in order to have the buildings ready for the exhibits.

An interesing d, bate ensued between tho Young Men'B Literary and Debating Booiety and the St. Patrick's Bociety on the proposition tin! "A Monarchical Form of Government in Preferable to a Republic" The debate v* as held ia the y.M.C.A. gymnasium, was kindly lent for the purpose, and there was a large attendance of the public Mr W. Stubbs was chairman, and Mr P. Baldwin judge. The speakers representing the Palmerston Notth Young Men's Debating Sooiety were Messrs Robertson, Drew, and Kerebke. and St. Patriok's, Mesfra, Riokard, O'Donnell, and MoKeown, the speakers following in this order respectively. The original intention was that four speakers should represent eaoh side, but this was altered through a member cf oca fido being unable to at*n d. | The number and quality of tho argu ments produced and the refutations showed that the participants had delved deeply into the question from both sides. The leaders, eaoh with much ability, gave a general sketch of the pros and oons of the subject, and tho others followed on particular arguments. Mr Kerslake's speech was one of the most fluent of those delivered. Mr Baldwin in awarding a viotory to the supporters of Monaroby (the Young Men's Society's team) said he had found exceptional difficulty in adjudicating. Mr Riokard. ho said, developed bis main thoughts well and Mr O'Donnell spoke with eloquence, but the o'ber side bad had tbe best of it. (Applause) Votes of thanks were passed at the conclusion to tup ohairman and the judge,

Tho relianoe which the settlers in this colony place on their parental Government was demonstrated at Mr Gilrnth'i meeting in New Plymouth laßt week. The lecturer stated that when a oow was in certain stages of mammilla, the owner, as a good citizen, should kill it. A gentleman in the audienoe asked t " And would the Government give compensation?" Mr Gilcuth said it would not—the disease was not soheduled in the Aot, "but," he said, " I don't suppose that would stop you claiming for it all the same."

In answer to an enquiry addressed by Mr Boss, M.H.R., to the Minister of Lands asking for the distribution of oatalpa trees to the settlers in the Forty Mile Bush dietrioi, the Ministor replied as follows:—" In reply to your letter of the 19ih inst., there are a large number of catalpa trocs available for distribution free of charge at the Eotorua railway station, freight therefrom being payable by the persons to whom they are consigned. If you will let mo know how many trees are required, and the address of applicants, instruction wiii be sent to the nurserymen in oharge at Hotonift railway station and have them forwards at the cost of applicants."

Messrs H. Palmer (ohair), E. Wilson, Millar, Pickering, Mitohell, Holben, Ink* pen, Clausen, and Swallow weto the members present at the monthly meeting of the Campbell-street School Committee last night. The heed. master (Mr Watson) reported the avert age roll to be 647 75 ; average attend, anoe 589.45; highest attendance 6181 present roll 648; number of half-dajj SK™ 40 •**«»*• attendanoe one week 599 7. Owing to the alterations beinc °'!?j*« n u B Z ?otk of the B °hool baa with difficulty been sustained, especially as Standard II had to work in two divisions. The visiting oomraittee for tho ensuing month are Messrs Holben and Clausen.

The Agricultural and Paßtoral Committee of the New Zealand Exhibition propose, in regard to awards for the District Court displays, that the first prize shall be 60 guineas, second 80 guineas, and the third 10 guineas. The suggestion is that the prizes be awarded to the best and most attraotive display of agricultural and pastoral products and other resources exhibited in either of the District Court! within the Exhibition. It is sag' gested that the exect date on whioh these competitions will be judged should be as late as possible (say Marob) in order to enable all Courts to include in their representations the produoe and fruit of the 1907 season.