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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9402, 31 March 1898, Page 2

Some 20 tons of ironaand is now being bagged np at New Plymouth by Mr 13. M. Smith for shipment to London for a manufacturing firm, through the AgentGeneial. " A poor juror " has generously donated his jury money to the Cook's Gardens Board of Control for tho benefit of the grounds. Auckland telegrams state that 100 tons of wheat have been landed in that city from Sydney, which cost less, duty paid, delivered there than it could be piu chased free on board in the south. Mr E. P. Donnelly, who died fiom a fracture of the skull at Auckland, was well kuown in rooing circles, and was a brother of Mr G. P. Dornelly, the wellknown runholder in Hawke's Bay. Judd's Foundry at the Thames was partly destroyed by fire last week. The damage amounted to £1000, and there was only a small insurance. Three members of the Fire Brigade weve injured while at work suppressing the flames. We understand that the new lighter for the Wanganui Freezing Company, which is being built at Whangaroa (Auckland), is nearing completion. The hull of tho vessel is finished, and the machinery is expected by the next 'Frisco boat. Four prominent amateur members of the Wellington Cycling Club— W. J. Pollock, J. Chalmers, Caultou, and G. Dorm —have decided to race for cash in future, and have thrown in their lot with the Reliance Cycling and Athletic Club of Wellington, a club affiliated (otheLeaguo of New Zealand Wheelmen. A member of the Otago Education Board says " teachers as a body are men whom it behoves one to deal with tenderly, because, in point of discretion as a body, they aro not the wisest class of men in the worl4 and sometimes run their heads agaiust a brick wall when they need to take only tyro steps to tho right; to avoid

Member of the Old Boys' Football Club are requested to roll up for a practice game at the College ground at 3.J0 on Saturday aftoinoon. The Wellington Racing Club has reduced the entrance fee for membeiship from three guineas to one guinea. The rnles were amended givmg the geneial meeting power to expel any member guilty of miscondnct. A team of Wanganui Collegiate School " old boya " defeated the Hawke's Bay fiist at Napier yesterday in a polo match by nine to iive. Tho school was represented by C. aud S. Burnett, W. Lloyd and N. Wilson. The Town Clerk and his assistant have been kept busily employed during the past few days attending to lafcepayers, who have swelled the Borough account by £1000 during the eunent week. Hates unpaid after to-day will have interest added, and defaulters will be placed on the list. Mr Arthur 8. Giaham, of tho Waiinlcei Hotel, Tuupo, is at present in town, completing arrangements in view of next reason's touust tiaihc. He has. had two fiames of photos taken, showing some of the most liitoiesting spots of this wonderful locality. These views will be on exhibition in a few days. Speaking lecently in Adelade of the worlceis whom he expects to take with him to Naw Guinea, Bishop Stone- Wigg said ; " Those who go out wilh me will do S3 simply foi food and raiment. They receive no salary, but theie is a common i table which all shaie, and theie is a small allowance for incidental expenses." A ciemation lpcently took place at Hamilton, Victoria, when the body of Ali Singh, a Hindoo hawker, was burnt in a gullynear the town. The corpse was soon reduced to ashes. The teeth and other small bones collectable will be sent to India and thiown in the Ganges. A Westrahan jury awatded £425 damages for injunes sustained by Thomas Victor Wright, four years old, on board the staamor Barcoo. On the arrival of the steamer at Freemantle, tho child pnt his hand out of a porthole, ami had the thumb crushed so seveiely that it had to he amputated. A London cablcstates that the Carthage, with the passengers, mails, parcels post and specie from tho steamer China, left Peiim on Sunday night for Brmdisi. Thoru wens two casualties. The pumps are preventing the leak m tho hold from gaming. A powerful salvage steamer has b<jen sent to assist m gotting the China off. The Noi th Otago Times last weekstated : —Tho difficulty of ploughing lea land is intensified by the continued diought The giound in like a brick, and no implement will long survive contact with it. Large areas of stubble land have boon turned over in readiness for seeding, but mm is wanted befoie tins can be properly earned out. The Phcanix Club (Wellington) are sending their team to Wanganui at Easter to meet tho Wanganui C.C. The match will bo played on Victoria Park on the Saturday and Monday, play commencing at <j o'clock sharp each morning. Tho following will ropicsent the Wanganui C.C.:— Cave (5), Orcsswell, Marshall, Msldrum, Wilson, S. Parkes, and McLean. In connection with tho TJ.B.C. Subscription Pnus, the following bents weie drawn last evening:— ll. Thurlow rows AY. Sharpo, Thuisday, 5.1)0 p.m. ; R. Lanmgan rows J. Hamilton, Friday, 5.30 p.m. ; W. Webb rows W. Williams, Saturday, 3 p.m. ; J. Cairell rows E. Goidon, Saturday, •! p.m.; 11. Davis rows A. Williams, Satuiday, 5 p.m. J. Eanlan rows a byo. At a mooting of the Puma Road Board ycE.terd.iy it was resolved to consent to tho whole of tho roads within tho district being declared district roads. A quantity of loutme business was disposed of, and r.iiitlei'a rotating to the roads, and ovorlianyiug trees, dealt with. Accounts amounting to £142 15s weio passed. It was resolved that defaulting ratepayers bo notified that all mtos unpaid on 30th Apul will bo sued for. The final ovont of the Championship Reg.itta, tho eight-oared race, was got off last night at Dunedimn semi-darkness. It was originally intended to make the lace one between Canterbury and Otago, but as Canterbury could not all stay it was changed to North v. Otago. Tho noi thorn men were at tho disadvantage of never having rowed, in an eight-oar boat, and Otago won by three or four lengthp. In fjt. Paul's Hall this evening, nndsr tho auspicos of tho Wanganui Sunday School Union, a limelight exhibition and dcsoiiptive lectnio will bo given. Tho views to bo shown aro of a most interesting nature, including scenes in the Holy Land and Egypt and recent discoveiic3 in Pompeii. Appropriate songs will be contributed during tho evening. Iho entertainment commences at 8 o'clock, the price of admission being— Adults, Is; children, Cd. Tho funeral of the late Mr Timothy Coakley took plaao yosterday afternoon and was largely attended, amongst those present being some twenty members of the Now Zealand Votorans' Association, of which deceased was a membei. Solemn Requiom Mass for the repose of deceased's soul was celebrated at St. Mary's yesterday morning by thu Vory Itev. Father Kirk, and in tho afternoon, previous to tho funeral, the Eov. Father Tymons pronounced the absolution. A young mnn's society, having for its object the spiritual, intellectual, and physical culture of young men, has been foinied in connection with St. Paul's Church. The Key. R. M. Ryburn was appointed piosidcnt; ftfr A. D. Thomson, vice-president; Mr T. Boyes, seaotary; Mr W. Thomson, treasurer; and Messrs Boyd, G. Armstrong, and A. Tuckor as a committee of management. A Pros 3 wire from Hasting? states that a young man and woman named Tyson were ariested on a charge of murder. They were only married on Tuesday. The woman somo time ago gave birth to twins, one of which died on Sunday and tho other yesterday. The inquest on tho infant daughter of Mrs Tyson, at Napier, showed that death was due to somo irritant poison, and tho enquiry was adjourned. A large number of scholars of the Wesleyan Sunday School attended the funeral yesterday afternoon of their late young friond, Miss Evelyn Cannons. The servico at the gravo was conducted by tho Rev. G. Bond, and several hymns weie sung by the teachers and scholars. Over fifty wreaths wero sent by sympathising friends. Mr and Mrs Camions desire to thank the kind friends for the sympathy extended to them in their beieavement aud for the many beautiful wreaths sent. Wo understand that Miss Evelyn's death was not due to cancer, hut to lymphadononia. The Rev It. M. Ryburn yesterday celebrated the wedding of Miss Jessie Robb, youngest daughter of the late Mr David Robb, and Mr James Poison Maule. The ceremony took place at tho residence of the bride's mother, Mi s Mon ison, Glasgow Street. Xho bride was given away by her uncle, Mr W. Reid, Mr Charles M. Burrell acted as best man, and the attendant bridesmaids were Misses Jessie Mitchell and Isa Roots. Tho former was attired in a fashionable silver giey costumo, and the latter in an appropriate white costume. The bride's dress waß of brown tweed, with cream facing and trimmings to match. The guests, fifty in number, were afterwards entertained at tho wedding bteakfast. The prospectus" of the Gibson Patent Brand Company has been issued. The company is formed for the purpose of acquiring and purchasing an invention patented by Mr Harrison Gibson, known as a patent composition for branding horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs without lire and without injury to the hides. The value of the invention may be gauged from the fact that in the Australasian colonies from 3350,000 to £500,000 is annually lost by the injury caused to hides by the fire-brands now in use. Mr Gibson's invention has already been patented in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia, Great Britain, United States, Canada, Cape Colony, Denmark, and the Argentine Repubhc, and steps are contemplated to secure patent rights in other parts of the world. Yesterday a number of animals, branded with the patent, were exhibited at Messrs F. E. Jackson and Co.'s yards.

A lady having generously donated a set of gold medals to the Aramoho Boating Club to bo rowed for by tlio members of the club the secietary wishes m to intimate that entries will close on Saturday evening next. At Teepookana (Tas.), a sad fatality occun ad. A seven year old son of Mrs J. O. Boyle was getting some water from the river when he fell in. The mother, in endeavouring to rescue her son, also fell in. Both mother and son were diowned. An astronomer of Hamburg is alleged to have made the discovery ot a second moon, which will be visible on July 30, 1018. The new luminary is said to be distant doublo the space from the earth compared with the moon with which wo are acquainted. It iB expected that about 780 men will be under canvas at Miramar during iiaster. The whole of tho corps in Wellington, Taranaki, and Hawke's Bay are to be present. | Lieut. -Colonel Newall is to be in command, and Colonol Penton intends to be present. A brake will leave Hawke's stable 3at 5.30 p m. to-morrow for the social and dance to bo given by the children of tho Brunswick School in the hall. We understand that an evcellont programme has beon prepared, and an enjoyable evening should be spent. At Nelson a oyclist had a strange expenenco a short timo since. A bewildered fowl i iished against the machine in such a way that it stuck its head through the spokes ot the front wheel. The fowl was decapitateJ without the cyclist being so much as turned from his coiuse. Another magnificent-looking bullock, to all appearances one of the fiuest yet received at tho abattoir at Castlecliff, was condemned on Tuesday by Mr Marsack, the inspector. On inspection tho viscera was found to be extensively diseased, emitting a sickening stench. Mr J. Carrell, who is leaving Wanganui to try his luck at the Klondyke goldhelds, has been presented by his fellow-employees at Mr A. D. Willis's establishment with a handsome smoker's outfit. Mr Carrel! is a member of the Fire Brigade and Union Boat Club, and will carry with him the best wishes of his many friends. W, Harker writes to the Lyttelton Times — " The speculators are busy trying to bny up all the potatoes. The same drought that has made all ccieals so scarce of courso affected the potato crops throughout Australasia, and their combined scarcity will make both vory dear. If our growers reap the benefit, the wives and children of our workers are well fed and clothed ; if tho speculators get it, tho very reverse is the case." A little incident at the Auckland Police Court last week carries its own moral. A youth named Andrew McKeown was cbaiged with inciting a prisoner to resist Constable Bock in the 'execution of his duty, and tho offence being proved, Mr Hutchison imposed a line of 10s, with tho option of 48 horns m gaol. " I'll do the 43 hours," called out McKeown defiantly, and flung out of tho dock. " Como back here," said tho magistiate. " You'll do four days." A Bio do Janeiio inventor is repotted to havo devised a submauno photographic apparatus for use by divers. Tho operator ha^ an incandescent electric lamp with a rofleolor fixed on his head-piece, and is provided with an ordinary oamora enclosed in a rubboi envelope having a gla'is front. Giurent for the lamp is supplied fiom the boat above, and pictures aro taken by pressing buttons through the rubber covering. It is stated that objects in Bio de Janeiro B.iy havo been photographed under water by this means at a distance of ton or twelve fo°t as easily as in full daylight.

An unrehearsed incident occurred during tho performance at Fitzgorald's Circus at Waipawa. It appears that when the elephant w<i3 being attended to after having performed in his first act he seinod his attendant, thiew him down, and trampled on him Di Eecd, who was in the ciroii3, was sent for, but little could be done for the sufferer, who was paralysed m hi<j cxtiemities, and he was scut to tlio county hospital. It is said that he had ohastised the animal during tho day ; hence the attack. It must, however, bo of a gentle disposition, for it was afterwards taken to the Railway Station by a small bay.