THE HERALD CORONATION SOUVENIR.

Wanganui Herald, Issue 10722, 15 August 1902, Page 2

THE HERALD CORONATION SOUVENIR.

--■ ' " -, '—* ■""^V '• "■ '■-* Owing to the 'special. Souvenir Coro-' nation Edition of the "Herald" being : much larger than anticipated, its,publication .has been delayed' till early next -veek. It will now contain over* 40 oages of illustrations, representing more than 100 vie^wsi, including the. tableaux md procession last Saturday, as also pictures of Wanganui public ' instituions and businees premises.. It will be' -lie most -complete publication : "yet dsued illustrative of the com•uiercial progrsss "sjid ; prosperity 'of Wanganui. _. The intention of the souvenir is to- show the outside world, not only what was done' locally on, Coronation Day, but, what is of more moment, to demonstrate 'the oommerial importance of Wanganui. . 'tbe price of the special edition will be 6d per copy, and orders will be' booked at the "Herald" office, by our agents, or l>y any of the local booksellers.

A large quantity of interesting reading matter will be found on our first .ue Rothschilds employ 27,000 men in the various copper mines which they .wrh. > German locomotive engineers receive • a gold medal and ,£IOO for every ten years of service without, accident. The • receipts at the** Masterton fish i.itehorios from the sale of young fry and ova is over £400 for the season*, and about £120 from licenses. " The'plea, pn't forward by the,carpenters in Christchurch, for an advance' in wages, is that since the. last award was made rents had increased, and living was more expensive.

About a thousand 'New Zealand sheep, which arrived at Sydney late, sold -after ,he regular sales, many buyers waiting. ..Crossbred, wethers sold v at ,465,. About 100,- on behalf of Mr Scales,,of'T^clliugton, ranged from 25s 6d to 54s 6d.

A Fiench. committee has. been formed to erect a monument on the Crecy battlefield to 'King John of Bohemia, the only foreign, ~ Sovereign -ever killed in tlie French service.' The City of Prague 'tas subscribed £85. Russia produces' 240,000,0001 b. of wool .i year, the record for Europe; England comfia next with 160,000,0001 b; then France, with 12,000,0001 b. Australia produces 420,000,0001 b, and the United St»te» 320,000,0001b.-'

A storekeeper was committed for trial at Nowra, (N.S.W.) recently on a charge of publishing an advertisement tending to bring- the ' administration of justice into contempt, and to scandalise and vilify 'Coroner Bice and a jury.

There is a -widow in Preston who has just celebrated her 103 rd birthday, and she is quite able to sew and read without spectacles. She does nearly all her own household work.

It is reported that one of the life assurance companies doing business .in the colony has accepted a 30 years' endowment policy for 410,000 on the life of a "gentleman in the North Island, the annual premium being Jt?OO 8s 4d. . .

At the Auckland Police Court last week a 'good deal 'of amusement was cauaed by a constable producing a sixpenny toy revolver which he had drawn on a recent occasion 'to intimidate a man who was inciting a prisoner to reGist.

The Bruce Herald states that a local resident, who recently went to New South Wales, writing to a friend in Milton^, informs mm that a consignment of sheen bought in New Zealand at 15i, and shipped to Sydney by \he tame heat he travelled in, brought £2 per Head in the Sydney markets.

A collision occurred this morning between two bicycles travelling in opposite directions rounding the oorner at the intersection of the Quay and the Avenue. The front wheel of one of the machines wm very much twisted through the. collision, but both riders escaped with a few bruises.

i Captain Edwin, telegraphs: — Moderate to strong easterly winds, loir tides, glass fall slowly, frost to-night. - On the last day* of the season, several good bags of ducks -were secured at Lake Euesmere. One sportsman got 129, duoks and, two swans. A 'miner named John Ward was crushed to 'death in the Jumbunna Colleiry, at Outtrim, Victoria, by a large mass of stone falling upon him. A strong effort is about to be made to place the boot trade of New South Wales upon a proper footings in order to ptevsnt Victoria capturing it. Kalgoorlie (West Australia) Tailorates' Union objects to married women working at the trade whilst their husbands, are in a position to support them. The city of Metx is the only large 1 town in Europe which not only has no { tiobt, but .has a surplus in hand of ™me &o,Otib. ' ' ' , ' A Press, wire states that Mr Charles ■Todd, later- of the Post and the Time., Wellington, hat been appointed to the ritetM-f staff of tho Evening Mail, Nelsot» ' o * A milking machine at work at fawkesbury Agricultural College, New > South Wales, is giving the best results, most of the dairy herd' being milked >y «>• ' / . - - The Mail states that the Otaki faqris have" lately, taken a-great inter"ft in ping pong,, and have- now formed <y-"clubv Several of the 1 natives show Considerable skill at 'the game. At- Bulga, a. great ' orange-growing V-ej-Strcin the Singleton dUtrict, New £outh Wales, th* orops-thia jeason are very light, owing to the excessive dry, weather. • ' > „, The following is the drawing for the* J-Wng-r-iui Cheps and Draughts Club's draughts tournament to be played tolight:—Piper v Young, Hunter v Anderson, and Allums v 'Armstrong. ".-A horse attached to.* -baker's cart, stnd a dog-, were kiUed in George-street vVest, Sydney, owing to an overhead tramway .wire breaking and coining in l 'on&ci with them. '. "^Afe the-flasV-'montbly meeting of the Wanganui' School Committee it was,, re* solved that the Coronation holidays to which the. school children were entitled j-vouhj. be granted about the end of September. , We are pleased to notice .that the -Wanganui Borough Council. proposes %o adopt a suggestion we- (the Feilding Star). made some yean ago to the effect 'that the original Maori' mode' of spelling the name' of the Town — Whanganui —be revej*fed to. A French military court-martial has sentenced a sergeant-major to- 20. years' penal servitude for stealing money ' irom the barracks at Marseilles: Another soldier,, for a similar offence, got 10 years' imprisonment, while a third received 15 years for striking a nom-com. - A movement Is on foot among the whole. of the carters, gardeners, fruitgrowers, and dairymen of Christchurch and "suburbs (including Sumner), to present petitions' to Parliament setting forth., thair grievances under the-sys-tem of rating 'on unimproved Values. ■- ."During- a recent very violent eruption of the Waimangu geyior, KctOf tnahana, a rock measuring 8 tott by 10 feet was ejected from the crater, and -now ,lies about sixteen v*rds from , the edgd' overlooking the boiling pool. The geyser has beea active daily • lately. - y < V< A- shipment of 100 bags of sawdust from Auckland was sent to Sydney by j .he Mararoa, consigned to a Brisbane linn. The sawdust is. from kauri'timber, and ia used for "the smoking' of : bacon and hams. A great deal of the sawdust ha* been sent to Brisbane at various ttntes during 'the past few x years and is said to be the best thing for Bmoking 'hams and bacon that can be procured for the purpose. t' Mr P. yan Der Hogg, of Erimpen an JDer. £ek, Holland, owner of . the ; barque Gertrude, which was lost in* the Indian < Ooean,>and,'of, which the capfiain with his wile and. ship's company were rescued by $h© troopship Drajton ;drange and" taken to Natal, has written the editor of Lloyd's Shipping Ga<ctte, thanking -Captain, Bennett and his officer* ana crew for the kind and generous* treatment' they accorded his people whilst on' the Drayton Grange.

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Some -of the new first-class- railway carriages with' reclining seats were (.Bays the Lytt-eltoA Times) sent for a trial run on. the north Jine on Friday, rhe carriages ran smoothly, and the new seats" ari .eiteejiagly comfortable, md will', be> a great "boon to long'-dia-i-ince travellers,' especially invalids going to Hanmer Baths. The backs of ..-the seats are high, comfortably padded «rith'a head-rest, and can be readily placed at any angle, There is also a rsst for the feet. \ An '- attempt to climb the highest Himalayas will be made this year by a party .consisting, of thr^e, JBnglishmen, two Austrian*, and a Swiss, Dr Jacot-Guillarmod. They '- are accom»p*nied by Swiss guides. They will begin with the' Godwin Austen, 28,260 feet high, and Dapsang. 28,665 feet •high. If. they are 'successful, they will ■"then try 'Mount 'Everest, the highest mountain in the world, 29,000 feet; -bighv ' The Himalaya 'record is held by Sir Martin Conway, who climbed the pioneer, peak,. 21,000 feet high, ten years ago. ~- r. ' " s*o less than three football matches will- be played to-morrow afternoon, be.tween Wanganui and Hawke's Bay teams. The Wanganui '"representatives meet Hawke's Bay at Napier, and although the. Wanganui team is by, no "means the strongest that might have been put in the field, it will give the H.B. representatives a close 'contest. The other two games are those between the Te Aute. College and " Wanganui College, First and Second Fifteens, and. will take place ' at Wonganui,' on the College. Ground. The games should be fast and interesting, and no donbt will ■be witnessed by a large number of spectators. ■ , " Major McCabe who died so heroically in his efforts to save the Uvcb of the 'entombed miners in the, Mount Kembla, was an experienced colliery manager, and< .possessed an intimate acquaintance with the workings of the Kembla mine. For many , years he managed and adjoining- colliery known a* Mount Kaira, at which he was also one of the proprietors. About three years 'ago this colliery was sold,' and Major McCabe proceeded to Western Australia., On rctu.ning to New South Wales he' established a practice as a .mmmg 1 and general surveyor, .his headquarters-being in Sydney. He was about 40 years of > age, and leaves three children. . , ■ , "A 'War Special' told me recently," writes ''M.A.'P.'," ' how- on one occasion he presented himself to get Kitchener's signature to his pass to go to the front. .Seated, at his .table with despatches all round him, the 'man of ice and iron' looked 'up with a welcoming smile. 'I suppose you've come for your papers,' he<jaidv and, then- twisting 'the pass about?- ne added: TDo you know what I .would like to do with you?' ,'No; nothing -severe, I hofoe,' 'said his visitor. 1 should like to have' you ' sent to the rear 'and shot,'' went on the autocrat, "but as I .can't have my "way, I suppose you' must have your pass,' and, with a stroke of hi* pen he completed and laughingly landed over the license for tho civilian oritio."*

An officer who acted as military contributor to a London paper before the war and during its earliest months has just been invalided home. He thus describes his 'second meeting with Lady Methuen at~Wynberg hospital: — "Lord Methuen had been very badly wounded and she had just arrived from England. She came up to the hospital to find out all. the details she could about her husband's- fignt from two officers we had there then, who had been wounded in it. 1 thought'! never saw a woman more brave under the trying circumstances, cheery and bright as before with all around her; but one could detect below the surface the anguish she was undergoing. Lady Methuen read us out' the wire she had received from General De la Bey on landing at Capetown. It ran thus : ' 'Have been after your brave husband for the last three years, have caught him at last. This is good.' That night she left for Klerksdorp -to join her husband."

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