Wanganui Chronicle. AND PATEA-RANGITIKEI ADVERTISER. "NULLA DISE SINE LINEA." FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1888.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 11284, 29 June 1888, Page 2

Wanganui Chronicle. AND PATEA-RANGITIKEI ADVERTISER. "NULLA DISE SINE LINEA." FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1888.

; The Union Boat Club ball takes place tonight. • In Newbury, N.Y., recently; a fifteen-year-old boy died from the effects of a quantity of alcohol he had taken. At the Police Court yesterday a native woman named Karo was fined 5s or in default 24 hours' imprisonment for drunken- • ness. The rumour that Mr Ballance tvould be ' present at last bight's meeting of the Pern:• berton Speoial Settlement Association turned '. out to be incorrect. ', j Mr David Simmonds, a well-known old resident, who was at one time custodian of the Hospital, died rather suddenly yes-. terday. ' , The insurance of £150 on the furniture 1 contained in Mr Campbell's residence at Durietown, recently destroyed by fire, has ', .been promptly paid over by Mr Notman, 'agent of the Colonial Insurance Company. The Rangitikei County Council Chambers were burnt to the ground on Wednesday ' night. They cost £900, and were insured in the. Standard for £600. The origin of the fire is a mystery. We are requested to correct an error. that occurred inthe telegraphic- report of Messrs" Freeman R. Jaokson' and Cos. Johnsonville report, viz., beef quoted should be 15s, and not 18s per lOOlbs. The Princess Theatre has been engaged for the Bryce banquet. The circle -Will be reserved for'ladies, passes being procurable by purchasers of banquet tickets. Some 25 members are expeoted to arrive by tomorrow's train from Wellington. ' At the middle of April 2,000 foreign Jews received a week's notice to quit the city of „ Odessa. The foreign Jews consist of about • 10,000 families, and the members of these i' families are computed at the lowest figure at • about 3o,ooo. Theyareprobablymorenearly 45,000. A summoned meeting of the Bishop Lodge t of Druids was held last .evening, when there > was a (large attendance of the brethren. 1 The principal business was the nomination ■ of officers, and judging from the number of propositions, considerable interest should be taken in the elections at next meeting. The lodge learned with deep regret of the death of Bro. Simmonds, whose funeral will take place on Sunday afternoon. 1 There was a fair attendance at the Rink yesterday. Professor Durnley, the instruc- • tor, will give an exhibition of skating on . stilts and skipping on Friday next at the carnival. On Saturday afternoon a juvenile race will form a special attraction. We are requested to state that tickets for the t carnival may be obtained from the manager on and after Monday next, and that as only a limited number will be issued,, prompt application should be made for them. The New Zealand .edition of the "Illus. trated Australian News " for June, just to hand, oontains a number of capital sketches. One of the most interesting is . that referring to the Chinese question, while those descriptive of the processes employed 1 in the manufacture of sovereigns are also very good. The " Coffee Palace of the Melbourne" is also interesting, the buildings, being quite worthy of the title of palaoe, ; most of them being four or five-storey buildings. | The Advocate says : — On Wednesday last a son of Mr Bennett, of Sanson, while looking for cows on his father's property at Awahuri, discovered in the bush ■ the body of a Maori hanging to a tree. Frightened at the" spectacle, the boy ran .away, and though search was subsequently made for j the body by Mr Bennett, the exact locality has not yet been found. The body, which was that of a well-dressed Maori, was apparently in an advanced stage of decomposition. An {inquest was held at the Upokongaro Hotel yesterday on the body of Jas. Barry. A post mortem examination had been made by Dr. Earle, who certified that the cause of death was apoplexy, , accelerated by drink and exposure. The unfortunate man was supposed to have died on the Sunday, but the supposition was incorrect, inasmuch as he was seen on the Monday sitting on a log, in a half stupid condition. A beer bottle, containing rum, was found on his persou. A verdict was returned in accordance with the facts. The Advocate says that 100 tickets for the B.ryce Banquet might have been sold in the Marton district alone, had any other time been chosen than Saturday night, which is exceedingly inconvenient to country people, « inasmuch as it involves remaining in town over Sunday. We understand that Saturday , nigbt , has been fixed upon for the convenience of members of Parliament, who otherwise would not be able to leave Wellington, Saturday and Monday being the two off days on which the House does not meet. Consignments of New Zealand horses for the Indian market are becoming frequent, 1 and quite a number of gentlemen in the ' colony are engaging in the venture. A shipment of 50 horses goes shortly from Auckland ; the Te Kapo, we hear, has been chartered for another trip to India, on her return, on behalf of a Southern syndicate ; and recently a Canterbury horse-dealer was : in the Manawatu district buying horses for • the Calcutta market. From Home files we glean that purchases are being made in England by Indian officers for this market. — Advocate. Mrs Minnie Lebuenchaner, of New York, has poisoned her three children. The mother also suffered from the effects of poison taken at the same time. She tells a pitiful story. Her husband died two years ■ ago. She had struggled to keep the ohildren together, but failed. They were taken from , her and sent to the Juvenile Asylum. Only recently she got them back' with infinite trouble. She was opposed by poverty on the one side and the persecution of her husband's ' relatives on the other. Work was f ailin&and food getting scarce. She foresaw that she must lose them soon, and decided i. to kill them. f Speaking of the escaped Jonathan Roberts, ' the Wairarapa Star says:— We are very 1 glad to see that one prisoner has had the ' pluck and manliness to set gaol regulations at defiance, and exhibit the weak side of oriminal administration. Someyears hence the notorious Jonathan Roberts will be regarded as a man who taught the people of New Zealand a wholesome lesson. He has clearly demonstrated that if a prisoner is resolved to have his liberty the prisons of the colony will not prevent hira. He has t also proved — a thing that is of far greater L consequence — that public opinion and criminal jurisprudence are not in harmony, r A correspondent writes as follows regardi ing the establishment of a Stud Company 3 on this coast for the purpose of breeding 3 horses for export to India : — Some time I since I saw in the papers a proposal for the 1 starting of a Stud Company in Wanganui. t I hope the idea has not fallen through, as 1 it is a matter of great importance to the l welfare of New Zealand that a good class t of {horses should be bred here, not only for i the Indian market, but also for our own use, d as a good liorse is uot often to be got. r Sufficient attention has not been paid to , the breeding of horses, aud they arc fast t degenerating and becoming mere weeds. It 1 is high time for us to wnke up, as a Vict torian firm has recently imported 14 entires is of \ arious classes, as they find nothing but - a change of blood will improve the cUiss of l horses. I hear that Mr Redwood, a high a authority on horses, is about to go to the a old country for sires, .and I hope somo en- - terprising geutlenian ou this ooast will folf low suit, as it has been proved as good as 1 any part pf New Zealand for brecdiug horses.

S-WMS-MM»M*W_BIM_B_--i--MB-M-M«--W_-_C-^W__m-Over £73,000,000 is invested in gasworks in England. England's death rate last year was the lowest onreoord. The invention of the organ is attributed to Archimedes about 220 B.C. The capital invested in tramways in Great Britain amounts to £12,573,000. In Scotland there are 129 distilleries, and some of which pay in individual duty over £400,000 annually. The widower Duke o£ Norfolk, the greatest matrimonial catch in England, is to marry a French count's daughter. A London dealer in orchids employs sixteen collectors in South America. Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands. Yearly 1162 practitioners are added to the Medical Register as against the average death of 588 members of the profession. On her trial trip the Reina Regente, the new Spanish war-ship, which has just left the hands of her English builders, developed .a. speed of 21 knots. The trousseau of tho Viscountesse Rouge was so magnificent that it was publicly exhibited in Paris. It is said to be the most beautiful ever made. ' Among the Jews lately expelled from Russia was a local manufacturer, employing between 800 and 1,000 workpeople of both sexes. These people, of course were thrown out of employment by closing of the manufactory. An Italian senator, Signor Pissavini, exprcfect of Novara,who was tried for offences against public morality' by the senate sitting as a high court of justice, has been degraded from his rank of Senator, and condemned to seven months' imprisonment. A woman named Kilpatrick was lynched, by hanging, at : Gallatin, Tennessee, U.S., April 19, on suspicion of setting five to a house. Her husband, who was not suspected, followed the mob, and as he might identify some of the leaders, was shot through the head. The Vienna journal announce as a positive fact that a peasant who had died in Bielsoh, in Moravia, had attained the remarkable age of 142 years. He is stated to have left a son aged 115, and a grandson a.^c-.l do, besides numerous children, grandchildren, , : and great-grand-children. Tho deceased centenarian enjoyed, it is said, the best of health to the last. The Crimean Peninsula is to have a canal cut through it. After many schemes have been discussed by the Russian Government and Russian private enterprises for piercing the Isthmus of Perekop, there appears now every prospect of the undertaking being carried to a successful issue, not by the Russian Department of War and Communications, nor by Russian private enterprise, but by a French company and French capital. According to a statement in the Times the principal lead merchants of the United States have entered into an agreement with the European producers of that metal for the " call " of their output for three years at the price of £16 per ton. Lead §has not moved up' since the activity in the metal market began at the rate at which tin and copper have done, but it is expected that a considerable advance will now take place. Last September the price of English pig wos £l 27s 6d, and it is now £15 per ton.- --•' Man-eating tigers have, says a correspondent, become so numerous along a certain road in Malacca that quite a panic has seized all foot- travellers, and they will not go along it now unless they can do so in company with a string of carts ; and carts will not travel at night. One brute has for the last five months taken his two or three men a week regularly, and another has done the same at another plaoe .for three months, while at five or sixiother spots, on the road men are frequently taken off. The statistics of death by tigers in Sungei Ujong during the last half-year must be enormous, for as many as three men a day have been, taken, off along the 24.jnilewo£ its principal road..' . „ .f.i-v -'". . • • . ■ Elizabeth Bell and her two sons, Albert and Edwin, were brought before the Marl-borough-street magistrate, charged with stealing two volumes of Burns' poems, valued at £83, and belonging to the Earl of Rosebery, from Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square. Albert Bell, it.was stated, offered the books for sale attheshop of Mr Parsons, in the Brompton Road, asking only 30s for them: 'They bore date 1793, and, being part of the second edition of tho poet's works,, were yery valuable. |The police were communicated with, Elizabeth and Edwin Bell were arrested as they were leaving Mr Parson's shop, to which they had gone for payment. Albert, who had been at work at" Lansdowne House, was subsequently arrested. All these prisoners were commuted for trial. The monthly meeting of the local Fire Brigade was held at the station building last night. Captain Cummins presiding. Out of a total of 33 members, 31 were present. The principal business was the nomination of officers. The following nominations were received : — Captain, T. D. Cummins ; Lieutenant, J. H. Keesing (Mr Spurdle declining re-nomination, owing to his inability to attend as he would like to to the duties of the office) ; Foreman No. 1 Company, Ereuse and Ferry; Foreman No. 2 Company, Kitchen; Foreman No. 3 Company, Davenport, Copeland; and Sharpe ; Secretary and Treasurer, Ri Hughes ; Auditors, J. G. Sharpe, A. Hatrick, and Keesing ; Surgeon, Dr Earle. The nomination of a committee was allowed to stand over until next meeting. The Chairman reported that it was the intention of the Palmerston Brigade to hold a competition shortly, open to. allcomers, [and on the same day the Marton Brigade would hold a similar competition, but limited to their own members. It was resolved to celebrate the anniversary of the local Brigade by a social evening at the Steam Packet Hotel,, after the election of officers next evening. The prize photos presented by Fireman Battle, and which were won at the recent competition by Fireman Davenport and Foreman Sharpe, were distributed by the Chairman, after which, before closing the meeting, Captain Cummins expressed the sympathy of the Brigade with Fireman Campbell in the misfortune he had suffered by the burning down of his house at Durietown. . At the Fire Brigade meeting last night Captain Cummins said he had been asked to perform a very pleasant duty. He had receivod a letter from the Secretary of the Nelson Fire Brigade requesting him to present, on behalf of the Brigade, a handsomely illuminated address to Mr Wimsett (who was present in the room), as an expression of the esteem in whicii he is held by those who were so long associated with him in fire brigade work in Nelson. The address, which was enclosad in a neat frame, read as follows: — "Mr Horace Wimsett. Dear Sir, — We, the undersigned, on behalf of the members of the Nelson Brigade, who have been connected with you for the last seven years, cannot permit your leaving our society without expressing our appreciation of the efforts made by you towards the advancement of the Brigade during that period. Throughout the whole of that time your behaviour has been such as to commaud in the highest degree tho respect and esteem of your associates, whether officers or men. Always patient, obedient, and respectful, they feel certain that if your future career is followed out as in the past, you will seoure the esteem of your fellow citizens. Wishing you every prosperity, we are, &c, — William Cooksey, Hon. Sec, W. Fitziierhkut, Captain." Captain Cummins said th -.1 the Nelson Brigade, like the Wanganui '..ne, was carried on on the volunteering principle, and the representatives from it that he had from time to time met at the various colonial competitions had beon held in the highost esteem by their fellow competitors. He had therefore all the greater pleasure in makiug the presentation. Mr Wimsett, in responding, said he hardly knew how lo express his feelings of gratitude at receiviug such a handsome and flattering testimonial. Duiing the seven years ho had belonged to the Nolson Brigade ho had tried to do his duty, and it was pleasing to know that his efforts had met with such appreciation. Unfortunately there did not appear to be much prospect of his obtaining employment in Wanganui, or it would have given him great pleasure to have thrown in his lot with the local Brigade. No sthnulaut ia more reliable thau Wowe's S.una.._.