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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9392, 19 March 1898, Page 2

Sixty thousand Musselraeu in Crete have intimated to the Sultan that they refuse to accept Prince George as Governor. Ijo Temps states that the French naval mobilisation is merely an experiment to ascertain the time that would be required to provision the Northern Squadron. Router's telegram statoa that the American mission at Chin King, China, has been attacked by a Ohiuese mob. One of the missionaries was murdered and several others maltreated. The Town Clerk notifies that during repairs to the culvert known as " Parkes 1 Bridge" on the boundary road at Springvale, vehicnlar traffic will be suspended on Monday next, 21st Instant. A match has been arranged between Weiss, tho Australian billiard champion, and John Roberts, the English champiou. Weiss receives fioOO points start out of 21,000. Spot and p'ush-'BtroKes to be barred. I Tho joint committee of the Napier and Hastings Conncils and tho HawkVs Bay County Council yesterday cairied ar.B >lv tion in favour of the erection of abattoirs at a cost of £5000; but there wag a difference of opinion as to the site, that point being deferred. From Hinomann'a Colonial Library is published " St. Ives," being the adventures of a Fronch prisoner in England. The book is written by Robert Louis Stevenson, and is well worth leading. Supplies are to hand through Mr A. D. Willis. A poll upon tho pioposal to borrow £20,000 for tho purpose of paying off the old loan of £7000 and constructing the water supply of Gtaborue was held jesterday. The proposition was defeated, the regnisito nnmbor of voteß in favour not being obtained. Borough ratepayers are reminded that ■the financial year expires on the 31st instant, and any persons whose rates are not paid on or before that date will have their names placed on tho defaulters' list, and be oharged 10 per cent on the overdue rate for the current j ear. Tho Rsv. J. Cocker commences his services in connection with tho Primitive Methodist Church in Wangnnui on Sunday, the 27th instant, in the Oddfellows' Hall at 8.15 p.m. Mr Cocker has also decided to make it a memorial corvico for Miss Frances Willard, the late president of tho Women's Christian Temperance Union. The new pork butchery and poulterers shop in the Avenue, presided over by Mr C. Heinold, is now in full working order. For cleanly-prepared and tastily-seasoned small goods and sausages, for mild and fine-flavoured hams and bacon, for reliable, tender poultry, and for pickled onions and ctvbbage, the establishment cannot be beaten in the district. Hams fa splendid stook at lOd per lh) are cooked free, if desired. An important salo of Japaneso goods and articles of vertu (consigned direct from Japan) is to bo held by Messrs Liffiton and Nixon on Wednesday and Thursday next at Mr Baddeley's producerooms in St. Hill Street. Some idea of the quantity of the stock may be gleaned from the fact that there are 8£ tons, comprising a large variety of articles, duly set forth in the advertisement in our auotion columns. The sale, commencing each day at 2 p.m., will be without reserve, and the terms are cash. Inspection is invited at Mr Baddeley's rooms on Monday. A most successful rehearsal was held last evening of the hymns to be contributed at the Wesleyan Sunday School anniversary services to-morrow, whioh will be conducted by the Rev. W. J. Williams. In all about 250 children and adults will be seated in the specially erected gallery, and at least a dozen instrumentalists will be playing in the orchestra. Apart from the pleasure of renewing acquaintance with a former popular pastor of Trinity Church, the singing we believe will be worth going a long way to hear. All the solos have been allotted to the children, and they are expected to do them full justice. Willing hands were busy to-day decorating the church for the occasion, and the sight of all the children seated in the gallery should be a pretty one. We anticipate the services— at 11, 8 and 7 — will be attended by crowded congregations.

A public meeting is to bo held 111 the Castlecliff Public Hall on Monday at 8 p.m for tbe transaction of important business. Timber supply contracts in ijohriectteh with the N.£. Government Rstlways are Advertised in another portion of this &tt Thursday 'nex\ far Koesrac! ,wW sell on thepiemisfjs, Riveu Balif;, a freehold Bection jvith,h6tlse. Particulars in our auction columns. During repairs to tho culvert known as Pivrkes 1 Bridf c, on tho Boundary Road, vehiculni traffio will be suspended on Monday noxt. Mr.Miller, of the local post offioe, who acted as mail agent in tho San Francisco mail steamer's last trip, returned to Wanganui j esterdaV; Captain ♦SdwiU wires :— Barometer rise, sea,, Jloavy, tides high ; southerly gales, with much colder weather, may be expected. Mr W. H. Olapham recoived a wire from Mr L. J. Lohr, Christchurch, this morning asking him to book the Drill Hall, Wanganui, for Finnic Thornton, for 2nd and 3rd May* Members are reminded that Monday is the Economic Building Society's pay night. The Sooiety hold an appropriation by salo of £300, iv two sums of £150 each, after tho close of the ordinary business. Tho steamei Cape Otway, which left Aucklahtl lust week for Juneau, the pott for thu Alaskan goldflolds, took from Sydney six females booked for Kl'omly lie, where the marriage market is said to be particularly brisk. Objections to the valuation list for the 1 Borough, o{uWfrnganui will be heard at the ( AssesSvuent' Court on Wednesday, 80th March, at 12 noon, in the Borough Council Chambers. In the Supreme Court, iti Chamb«M,oh Wednesday letters of (idfflihiatratloii of' the estata of John -W. •Fleetwuod) who diad recently lh 1 South Africa, were granted to Grace M. Fleetwood, mother and next of kin of deceased. Several townspeople who had decided to drivo to Mangamahu this morning to attend tho races there were pl'egluStga owing to the heavy olid pei'siatunt downpOW ut ratft which set in shtfrtlj after 6 ft hi. and continued for over two hoars. The sittings Sf tho Native Land Court will probably be resumed on Monday, Mr Edwards (Native Assessor) and Mr T. O. Jones (interpreter) having arrived in town from Palmerston, where the Court has been sitting for the past tllrtft weeks-. A quiet wpfluliW Was celebrated at tho residence df Mrs V. Bragg, o'ri Thhisdny, when tli<3 Re.v. H: T}eXM UIiUOO. iv mati'irodny WM Liiura A. S. Pholps and Mr Walter F, Biagg, both of whom are piomment members of the Salvation Aimy. In oonnpatlon with the Otasjo Jubilee SighOr Uai\oi»l, (incMtor df aniusemonts for Exhibition, wanted 180 pdrfdrniers for a spectacular torpsibhoriaii phty called " Paradise," Ho receiw) Ovor 1000 applicants for jtlhce's in I'araciige. The loci) Gan'ispW Band intend to settle down, to, ptcmjdy, prnctV-'e, in viow of .the nexJb.Bauds Contest. The committeo arc iv communication with the Drill Hall trustees, endeavouring to make arrangements for tho use of tho hall for pructico purposes, the present bnnd room being too small. , Ratepayers are remindod that tho Borough financial year oxpireson the 31st inst. Any persons whose ratoo arc not paid on or before that date, names will bo placod on the defaulters' list and 10 par cent charged on overdue general rates for tho cunent year. All rate's unpaid after Slot inbt will be sued for without further notice Under instructions from tho D.O.A. the bankiupt stock of W. .7. Paul, plumber, etc., will be sold on Wednesday next at 1 o'clock bj Mr J. H. Keesing. For the con venienco of sale, the stock has been lemoved to Feiguson's rooms, Taupo Quay, and there the auction will take place. The proprietors of the Now Zealand Graphio announce that they will Award five prizes (£? 103, Ho, £3, M, and £1) in connection willi tlielr annual Utpry competition., Tho stories nnist not bo less than 4000, ov more than 5000 words m length. The^ competitions closes on May ).sth, Condition's may be scon in tho N.Z. Graphic. Speaking at tho Molbourno Wealeyan Conference a, few days ngo, tho Roy W. L. Blnmires said Methodist Union had not been a success in Now Zealand, where it had brought with it fluancial embarrassment and difficulties in circuit stationing. A motion in favo.ir of the consummation of Methodist Uuioii in 1002 was, however, carried. There were 1610 applications for eight sections in the Tiratu Block, near Dannevirke, including bank managers, clerks, tradesmen, and a vory large number of women. The reason for the rush is said to be the belief that the timber on the seotions, whioh are close to the mill, is worth twenty times tho price put up on the lease. Our lady readers wilt be pleased to leafn that another treat, is in store for them this evening, when Messrs Eastwood and Co. intend making another of their delightful displays of _ a further shipment of millinery ah'd dress stuffs for the coming season which have just been landed and opened up. The display will includo all the loveliest things in dress stuffs, furs, trimmings, ribbons, gloves, hats, and bonnets now all the rage in the Old Country, anil will provide a veritable feast for the eyes of the fair sex. In the case of Mary Bamsbutlom, found guilty of the manslaughter of her illegitimate infant, His Honor, in sentencing tho girl, said :- -Prisoner, you have been exceedingly fortunate in that the jury have taken such a lenient view of your case. They would have been quite justified in arriving at a different veidict, which would have placed your life in danger. You have been in great peril. I can hardly imagine, under the circumstances, how you could be guilty of such cruelty as to leave your unfortunate child to die of starvation. Mr T. Dickson has just received, ox Ruahino, a shipment of tailoring goods which for quality and all-round excellence supersede anything previously imported to his order. Importing as he does direct fiom tho manufacturers in the Old Country, Mr Dickson saves thereby the middleman's profit — a consideration in these days of competition, —and the public consequently reaps the full bonofit. Being a practical cutter and tailor, Mr Dickson can readily give tho assmance that all orders will bo promptly carried out in a thoroughly satisfactory and workmanlike manner. Lecturing recently in London on " Through the New Goldfields of Alafaka to Behring Stiaita," Mr Harry do Wnult told some interobtmg anecdotes of lucky miners, one being of a Californian diggor named Berry, who, three years ngo determined to try his fortune in Alaska. Ho had a capital of eight pounds, and borrowed a further twelve pounds from a man who was afraid to accompany him, at a fabulous interest. He startpd with forty companions, but by the time he reached Forty-mile City he was alone, twenty-three of the others having deserted him and the remainder having died of exhaustion and exposure. At his suggestion his fiancee whom he had left behind in California, went put by sea and up tho Yukon, to Forty-mile City, where the pair were married. Berry and his wife were among the first to reach Klondyke. They obtained as much as £26,000 from one claim, and £120 from one single pan of earth measuring 18in in circumference and Sin in depth. It was anticipated by those well qualified to judge that Berry would one day be the richest man in the world. At the Police Commission at Dunedin yesterday Inspector Pardy, leferring to the suppression of sly-grog selling in Clutha, said that in the present state of the law total suppression was impossible. When he first arranged to take actionagainst the sly grog sellers, his plan was made known to delinquents before his men arrived on the grounds, and as none but the members of the force knew the plans, the information must have been given by them. The men employed on the railway were not to be trusted. He had heard of a guard boasting of having given the pohce away in Clutha. He said that Detective Henderson and another man since dismissed had defied him, stating that they had more power than he — and only political power could be meant. He stated there was usually more perjury for the defence in licensing cases than in criminal cases. It was ridiculous to suppose that the consumption of drink had not docreased in Clutha since prohibition was established, •