NEWS OF THE DAY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 11287, 5 July 1888, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Council of the Chamber of Commerce meet this afternoon. The Hippocampus mare Spray was sold by auction at Feilding last week for £14 10s. Coal has been found in the vicinity of the copper deposits at Woodvilie. Mr and Mrs James Maclean and family leave for Napier by the 1.20 p.m. train tomorrow (Friday). The Egmont A. and P. Association have a credit balance of £01. The next show is to be held on the racecourse. The s.s. Napier on Friday last laid a second 3-ton mushroom anchor from the Pleione. The Hawera Star says it is proposed to start a co-operative butter factory in the Ngaive district. Stepniak's work on the Russian Peasantry is in press in England. It will not be permitted to circulate in his own country. The Hawera School Committee have decided to nominate Mr T. Hutchison for the vacancy on the Education Board, caused by the resignation of Mr G. V. Bate. We would draw the attention of our readers to a notification from ' Mr J. C. Dallas, saddler, which appears in another column. We regret to hear that word has been received of the serious illness of Mr A. Treadwell, at Dunedin. The Rev. Mr Treadwell left for the South yesterday to bring his son home. Captain Bend all states that the Pleione plight to be in Wellington harbour within two months. She is gradually hauling herself off the beach, having moved (iO yards during the last high tides. Mr George Flyger notifies in another column his intention of retiring from business, and that he will therefore sell off the whole of his stock. The sale commences on Saturday and will last three weeks. Messers G. D. Jones and Son have instituted a novel competition in the shape of guessing the weight of a wax doll, representing the youngest daughter of the Czar of Russia. The lady who guesses- nearest becomes the possessor of the doll. The Salvation Army intend to hold special meetings to-day, being the anniversary of the organization of the Army. A " music recital " is to be held to-night, when some music composed by a Wanganui lady will be s.ung. The charge of admission is Id. Mr A. Barns, auctioneer, has been instructed by the D.O.A. to sell on Thursday next the lease of the premises known as the London Butchery, Ridgway-street, and also all the fittings &c. of the shop. He will also sell on the same day, at Moss town, the lease of the slaughterhouse and yards lately occupied by Mr F. A. Suisted. The Post is requested to state that on account of urgent private business, calling Mrs Walker to England, the whole of her drapery stocks in Wellington and Wanganui, together with the unsurpassed business premises situated on Lambton-ijuay; Wellington, and Victoria Avenue, Wnnganui, ara for absolute sulo. A correspondent writing on the subject of horse-breeding, suggests that all horses, in avery district, used for stud purposes, should be subjected to an examiuation by competent judges, one of whom should lie a veterinary surgeon, ns to their soundness and otherwise suitability. He further suggests that a penalty should be imposed on .a horse serving lor fees, that had not passed tsueh an examination.

James Brown Potter indignantly denies the rumor that he is about to begin divorce proceedings against his wife, the actress. Edwin Booth is probably the wealthiest of living actors, and, anomalous as it may seem, he is also one of the most generous. A little girl at the table, after gazing several minutes at a gentleman opposite who had a waxed moustache, exclaimed : "My kitty's got smellers, too. " • ■'■•* LordLonsdaleis pushings teadily towards the North Pole. Nothing but the weather can prevent him from reaching his destina-, lion. : Carman Silva, the Queen of Houmanis, lakes the grand prize of the French Academy for her book, " The Thoughts of a Queen. Strawberries in England have boon costing sixpence apiece recently, peaches half a guinea and cherries have sold at about their weight in gold. It is proposed to raise a memorial fund in Westminister Abbey and found a scholarship in the name of Mathcw Arnold in Oxford University. Welsh spellingis going to be revised. This will be tough on Welsh editors, some of whose most brilliant articles have been the result of pied ads. It is asserted that naturalization of the British-born residents of the State of New York would add in four years 90,000 citizens to the voting population, Prince Henry of Germany is one of the vainest ofanortals. ' Ho has had 700 different photographs of himself taken. He ought to make it 1,000 anyway. The total costs awarded by the Resident Magistrate against the defendant in recent affiliation case, including the 14 years' cost of maintenance of the child, will amount to £205, exolusive of defendant's own costs. Young men, beware ! — Hawera Star. We are informed that some of the farmers on the No. 2 Line have had their last season's wheat gristed at the Warrengate Mills, and that a very good sample of flour is the result. Some of the flour has been nlready sold, and there should be no difficulty in finding purchasers for the'balance. Mr Henry Redwood (says a Blenheim paper) goes Home for the purpose of in : speeting various racing studs and selecting sires for importation to his own stables | here. Mr Bedwood's judgment and enterprise are such as to make it assured that ho will very soon have a stud farm second to aone in the colony. The Waverley Lodge of Good Templars met in the old Town Hall, Waverley, on Saturday evening, Bro. J. K. Silby in the chair. There were about 40 members present. After the usual business had been gone through, the Lodge went into harmony, readings, songs, stump speeches, and recitation, &c, being rendered by members. The Hawera Star, writing on the recent scholarship examination, says :— It is worthy of note that no less than five out of ten of the candidates are Collegiate pupils. It would be interesting to know whether the Collegiate boys have any special advantages accorded to them, and, if so, to what extent the State school pupils are handicapped in the race. The following players will represent the Gordon Football Club in the Cup match against Wanganui on Saturday: — Fullback: H. Manson ; three-quarter- backs: T. Copeland, Saunders, and Kitchen; halfbacks : Armstrong and Walker ; Forwards : Townsend, Gray, Mahoney, Keegan, Jamieson, Krogan, Adamson, and Nicholls ; emergencies : Bason and Cionin. The advertised trip of the Tuhua to Pipiriki gives a splendid opportunity to sportsmen for two clear days' shooting, and to those wishing to see the Waimarino Block and the inland beauties of the river. Every convenience for sleeping, ifec, will be made, and passengers can, we hear, either take their own provisions or get them on board. As quail, pheasants, and pigeons are in large numbers sportsmen should come back with good bags. The attendance at the rink still keeps up. Yesterday morning there were some fifty or sixty ladies present, some, no Hloubt, practising for to-morrow night. The presence of the Garrison Band last night attracted a good number. Those intending to take part in the carnival are requested to attend between 4.30 and 5 o'clock this afternoon to practice tyie grand march. Patrons of the rink are notified that Hie rink will not be open to the public to-mor-row until the evening, to allow preparations to be made for the carniyal. The doors will be open at 7.30, and the grand march 'will take place at 8 o'clock. The special cable operators — Messrs Kirker, Price, Levy, and Copeland — who have been working the Wangauui-Waka-puaka cable since the breakage of the Cook Straits cables — were summoned, back to Wellington by wire at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and left by the Huia almost immediately, the steamer getting away at 6 o'clock. The gentlemen named, who are amongst the moat efficient operators inrfhe service, had become highly popular in Wanganui, and will be much missed by the many friends they had the pleasure of making. The whole of the local staff went dpwn to the steamer to see them off, ' and to wish them good-bye. A criminal of Szerb-Klari, in, Hungary, who had been sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment for homicide, was released the other day, before the expiration of his term, on account of his good conduct. He went home, and arming himself with a revolver, • fired at the magistrate who had committed him, but missed his aim, and killed the magistrate's wife. Then he repaired to the notary's, and finding him absent, shot his clerk dead on the spot. A gardener, who went in pursuit of the murderer, was also njprtally wounded, as well as a passer-by. To crown all, the assassin next killed his wife and child, and suddenly disappeared from sight. The suicide of Count Victor Karolyi a member of one of the oldest familes in Hungary, has created a painful sensation in that kingdom. Possessing an income of £24,000 per annuni;he secluded himself from ( the world, and spent many mouths of each' year in one of his estates in the middled of a forest. The countess, on the other hand, loved society, occupied a beautiful palace in Pesth, and was celebrated for the number and brilliancy of her entertainments. Under the will of her husband she will only receive £2,000 a year, and the bulk of the property will devolve on the younger brother of the deceased. Miss Mary Burton, the well-known Idinburg lady Guardian and School Board member, contributes to a Scottish daily paper an interesting article on the cheap food question, with reference especially to .school children's dinners and lessons in cookery. She says that " the dinners in Birminham do not cost a half-penny for the food ; and in Edinburgh a lady has proved that half-penny dinners are a possibility. Mrs Forbes, who has for some years taken charge of the Edinburgh Soup Kitchen started last winter self-supporting halfpenny dinners, and found them so much more satisfactory than tile charity soup kitchen dinner that this winter sb,e has hired a room in Causewayside, and supplies meals from morning to OTening to all who come with a half-penny, finding it self-sup-porting if she gets 200 attendances." — London Queen. An American exchange, the Christian Advocate, tells a good story of a sick but loquacious preacher { — He offered a brief prayor, and arose to express his regret that he could not proceed. He said it \yas a great dioappointment to him. He had hoped that morning to be able to speak to lh«m upon the following beautiful passage of scripture (announcing the text), but owing to ill-health ho should not be able to do so, and would merely state the lino of thought which he intended to communicate. After speaking for a while on that, he snid— " In the evening, had I dared to venture out, I should have hoped to follow these re/lections with a few renmrks- upon suiotbor subject" (announcing the text). After a while- a brll rung, fie stopped, placed his hand to his head, and said to one of the dencons, " What is that bell ringing for? " Said he — -'That is the one o'clock bell, and you have spoken about two lionrs in filling us what you would have said to us in the morning mid in the evenin;; if you hud boor, well enough to speak." I

Alady who 'died at Marseilles requested that her heart might be placed in the tomb of her second husband, but her body in her first husband's tomb in America. The English Government offers owners of over twenty horses an annual retainer often shillings [for each horse for the option of pnrchasing them in time of war. It may be true that old maids look at the moon in the hope of seeing a man, but it can't be said of them that they ever go out between the acts of a play to see one. Lord Augustus Loftus now presides over the bookkeeping department of the millinery store recently opened by lady Loftus. They have no other means of support. Amanda Taylor, a miss only eleven years old, is teaching school in Owon country Ky. There are 400 Indian youths in the Haskell Institute at Lawrence, Kan., 125 of them being girls. The young Viscount Belgrave, grandson of the Duke of Westminister, if ho lives to inherit his patrimony, will, it is stated by a London contemporary, be the richest man in the world. Europe used £13,000 worth of American pork last year, in spite ot all efforts to exclude it. The American hog may not be absolutely perfect, but the Old World can not get along without him. Matthew Arnold drew a pension from the British Civil List. The pension lapsed at his death, but it is understood that Queen Victoria will be asked to contiuue the pension to Mi Arnold's widow. The son of W. Story, the American sculptor, has followed in his father's footsteps. He has recently received a very large order 1 from Baron de Rothschild, which will probably take him five years to fill. Cardinal Manning, if created a life member of the House of Lords, will have as companion life Peers the Protastant and Catholic primates of Ireland and the senior Bishop of the Episcopal Church of Scotlland. The nettle is cultivated in Germany, its fibre having proved valuable for a variety of textile fabrics. In Dresden a thread is produced from it so fine that a length of sixty miles weighs only two and a half pounds. The Free Church of Scotland has 1,090 ministers, 305,000 members, while it is claimed that the adherents number 954,000. The United Church has 504 ministers, 55'J churches and about 170,891 members and adherents. ■ A Paris despatch says : The Free Masons throughout France are opposing Boulanger hotly. They are nearly all .Republicans and are mostly fairly well-to-do x'eoplo of the burgeois. Their opposition had been fatal to a good many politicians. Berlin, Frankfort, and Vienna capitalists are considering a gigantic canal scheme to link the Danube with the Neckar, Elbe, Oder and Vistula, thus piercing the Continent from the Meditteranean and Black fcJeas to the Baltic and North Seas. Great Britain is to follow the example of France, Germany, Italy, Austria, and liussia and spend millions of pounds for defensive works. They are all very peaceable, nobody threatens anybody, yet all are getting ready to defend themselves. Bismarck's paper mills produce fifteen tons a day more than other mills in Germany. Ho is also the second largest lumber-dealer in the empire. But lig has refused to accept the title of Duke on account of the ex])enso of living up to it. It is proposed to establish in Bethany (the town of Mary and her sister Martha, where the Lord raised Lazarus from the dead) a home which shall form a centre of Christian work. The village has to-day about five hundred inhabitants, who live in squalor and die in ignorance of the Gospel. The ministry of the Church of England is described by a not unfriendly writer as consisting of latitudinarians, attitudiuarins, and platitudinarians. A writer in the Atlantic Monthly spoke of the church under three aspects : The church militant, the church constructant, and the church termagant. W. W. Wilson, nearly seventy years of ago, is begging at Montgomery for means to take him to Mobile, whore he has a relative. Many years ago he made money by a booteiimping machine of his iureution and by his skill as a bugle-player. He lost all by betting £15,000 that Tildon would be elected President. A new figure in the cotillion has been introduced in Paris. It is called "Le Iletour dv Generate." Gentlemen put on blue spectacles, turn up their coat collars and simulate heroes returning from battle by walking lame. They then pass before the ladies, and each lady chooses a " genorale," whereupon the lamness disappears and the dancing continues, Twenty-live years ago a boy in Cressville was sent to a store for a quart of molasses. Instead of performing the errand, he put the pitcher under a stono step and went to sea. For years he was mourned as dead, but last week he returned home, and before reaching his parent's house he thought of the pitcher. The stone step was still there, and when he reached under for the pitcher he was surprised to find it — gone. It never happened that way before.— Js'orristown Herald. A British Consul reports that female labour is the secret of the great success which the Germans have attained in the ready make clothing trade. In Berlin cloak-makers earn from eight shillings to nine shillings a week ; beginners and loss skilful hands averaging from four shillings to five shillings. THe makers of underclothing earn from -five to fifteen shillings a week. Of course they cannot live on such wages, and must depend upon the help of relatives. Where such aid is wanting, the condition of the workers is exceedingly pitiable. Numerous instances of this' are given. No crape was worn at the. funeral of the late Lady Marian Alford, in accordance with the memorandum which she left for her daughter's guidance in arranging matters for her funeral. " I think," she wrote, "' that in this short life too much is given to signs of griqf for the departed into happiness. I should prefer np mourning for myself, but I should not like to shock any one's prejudices on this account, and would only set an example as restricting the matter to the smallest qompass. I think that crape mourning is a cruel tax to the poor ; it is expensive and tawdry, and nasty the moment it ceases to bo fresh, and, therefore, I would wish you to set the example by not wearing it for me," " There," said an old gentleman, transferring a bloodstone ring from tho index finger of his left hand to a less conspicuous placo, "I've managed to remember that little errand and the ring can go back to the right linger." " I've a better plan than thai," said a bystander. "When I've sOmeting important to do I write myself a postal card. When I get to the oflice in the morning with a dozen things to do there are the postal cards mailed the night before to remind me of any matter that I might overlook. The post office is a grpjit convenience. I know a man who habitually posts small packages to his home address simply to save himself tho trouble of carrying them up town. That plan, he says, is cheaper and safer tjiau ' using a messenger service." The statistics of deposits in lrisl) savings banks, given in the IJcgistrar-Gcneral's recent report, prove the truth of lny statement that, speaking generally, Irish poverty is a myth. Ever since ISSI the deposits have been increasing continuously, the total increase amounting to nearly a million and ' a quarter sterling. The precise figures were on December 31, 1881, £,705,000, and on December 31, 1887, £4,975,000. The money |in these banks represents siijall savings, and comes almost entirely from the agricultural popi^ation, which, be it observed, has diminished during tho period. Tho startling statement may, therefore, be made with confidence (hat the tenant farmers of Ireland, as a class, are considerably richer than they were six years ago, and it may be inserted wilh equal confidence that the same could not be said of any other class of the community in the United Kingdom. — London World. WoiiFu's Scunapi's, the purest, safest, and best ar.tiele of its kind in use. H troubled with biu;im.-bs cares and over work, indulge in Wolfe's iScuxu'ks.