LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10972, 11 June 1903, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

' Hew- time flies! It is' two years to-day since the Duke and Duchess of York arrived in New Zealand. The Chief. Postmaster wishes to notify foV ffenetal information that the' "Neflr Zealand Handbook" for 1903 may now be st-en on application at any Post Office which is 'a money order office. ■ • • A Maori named Tauri, alias Hori Wiri- , haua, was brought into town to-day' frbin\" Hawera, where he was arrested on a charge ■■$ of the theft of a horse, saddle and bridle from W,an«anui. The accused has beeft remanded for a week to enable the police to make inquiries into several ""other charges ' which are pending against him.

The Wanganui Hunt Club's "meet" j£»a held on Saturday on Mr Alex. Higgle!! property — "Blink Bonnie." There ' was r a big muster of members and f riepds", ' (uJly. 10.) riders and drivers' gathering at .the rendezvous during the afternoon, -and *» most enjoyable outing was spent. The next "meet* will be held on Saturday at Mr J. Blair's 'Rapanui." '"- • A life raft, to be carried as part of tlje equipment of passenger steaaiers, • has been devised and' patented by Captain It. Williams, master of the schooner Morning Light. It possesses 'several advantages over rafts of the ordinary typft,' being more compact, less liable to injury, and carrying its equipment of water, • provisions, rockets, and blue lights in such. a manner that they are aiwaya : -.protected against weather or accident, and are easily .. got -when wanted. , The raft is practically a boat and raft combined. ' „ "If the Legislature observed the .same . solicitude for females of our own nation- . aiity as they do with respect • to -Maori women it would be more to the ppint," observed a Justice of the Peace who presided at the Police. Court this morning. Ihe remark was called forth when a. woman was charged with- drunkenness. Sergeant Norwood stated that sha, waa found by the police yesterday in the pelting rain lying within five yards of the river's brink in a helpless state di' intoxication, her clothes Vet through and"' covered with mud. "The slightest movement towards the river, and she" would have f alien over the bank," , added the Sergeant, "and we had to secure th'e'ser- - vices of another woman to wash and dry her clothes." >*In reply to the .Bench, the Sergeant stated that accused had a drink at a hotel and then purchased some btandy, which she evidently drank before lying down to sleep off the effects. After giving expression to the remark above quoted, the Bench reminded accused that but tor the police there might hare' been • an inquest, and inflicted the- usual penatyy — ss, or 24 houra. ■ ■ , • The prodigious undertaking of catering, for tho^e who attended the recent Delhi Durbar has been referred to before, btjt has not been ' spoken of so well as by , a writer in Btackwood's Magazine. He say.tr: lt is difficult for the, unitiated to .reali«s. what is meant by the sudden concentration in one place, usually almost deserted (i*'e refer to the country, round Delhi as dis-;,t tinguinhed from the city' itself), and far & from any great centre of supply, of dQpao $ 4003 European visitors, as.., well as -14,000 British troops; at least 4QOO Indian visitors of the upper classes, about 20,000 natife troops, and an enormous number of native followers and attendants >of all sorts, which it is very difficult to. estimate, but « which rah hardly have been, less than 175,000. To keep this multitude, and the beasts -of burden or draught of all sorts' which ac- • . companied it, supplied with food and drink - ( ov a fortnight was alone a prodigious task. Of course we do not mean to imply that the whole Were dependent on any single J agency^ 'but a very large number 1 were sodependent, and the question of supplies had necessarily to be considered with regard to the requirements of' the whole camp population, even though various items thereof were expected to' make their mdi- • vidual arrangements for ■ themselves. r According to a despatch $,tpm S^ount . Athoß, sa^s the Odessa correspondent, of the Standard, there is again some trouble- - brewing amontr'tbe various nationalities of ■ merries iiM.-hat hiijjffe agglomeration of, mjan« , aperies. Altogether^ there are. 1Q,650 monks , withing the monastic 1 precincts pf, Mount \thos— viz., 5 000 'Russians',. 4,000 Greeks, , I,ooo' Bulgarians 1 ;"' $00 ttoumanians. and. so. Seibs. Ihe. eoWtainjf pjf the,, moment in 'hat' the Busaiajt 'orj^qdox, 'mpn^s ar* not TdeqnitpTf retoresentWj Jn f £bs afrminwir* * f !o»i of tho MoWn,t, $ii what .one may call i Y tbe, ..Monastic Board Jof .jDhirectoip these is •.bufcbne Eussjan, .whijist the, Greeks have 'o fewer than seventeeu representative*. Under these circumstances, it is alleged? Hie Greeks -find it an easy<,inatter to deprive. br dssrrees the Russians of some of their • original nossesajons. They have »Ir«q/*v, it io affirmed, expropriated the Russian mn"ks of rirop^Hv valued nt one nnd i-half ■pvllion of roubles. In 1896. on the day of the Czar's Coronation, a union waa .formed - amoner the Russian monks for their mntuil against the aggression of the ' (?reekp but Respite that bond, the despatch 'ays, the Helenes are still intriguing and norn-feggive . atl d j n or der.to pntj.an '«"i#i-. +i this ptotp of things, the protective influov,n P o f fv>« Riwsian K.nTy Sv»>od is' now lonqrht bVthe nriom of the Russian monns-••orj-q P f "Mount Athog. „ .The &#uiurotat > ■ ""V 1 v '.i-'>a monks are. also inimical to the , Russians. ' „

To-day it is the' -sixtieth anniversary of the Wavrau massacre, „ A couple of gilded sixpences were passed off aa half-sovereigns in a Masterton auction room during last week. The "Bale of sections, of the Piriaka Block, Taumaranui, which took place yesterday, resulted in -44 out of 72 sections being sold, aggregating £7M. ' According to the Star,- Messrs JEoult and Son/ of Feilding; - have shipped 200 horses to the South Island during the past six months. „ , lV , The cable chess match between Great Britain and America resulted in a win for the latter by five games to two and one drawn. America -wdri -the match last year.. The relief ship Moriiing is' "to stay 'at Lyttelton until Deceinbef Veiti-' If the>Dis-. covery u'oes not- arrive .Irom^t^e-Afttar.etip. regions before the^the.M^prn^g wilj r §taj;t ( on her second relief expedition in the first week of that month. t [ „ '• New Zealand gold dredgeß "have' gone 1 "to" almost every confer" ctf the wofld"; r antl' : N%rw Zealand dredgettaßtets' :&re"td be'fonnd in Burma, India, Afeicaj ."Ni,geria,. Ashanti, M -Calif.ornja i , Russia, and Brazil. , ,1 .-U - A gentleman yiio. is^ a recent arrival in 'New" Zealand states that' he. has felt the cold more keenly dUririg ! the past few days than in the midst o£ an: English winter,, with the- glass several de-, grees below freezing point. Another poison haswheen discovered in tobacco, the effects of which are violent headache, -trembling, and giddiness. - This accounts for some of the toxic effects' of tobacco which- were not; wholly -accounted* for by the presence of,.jucatine. ,. . Horses always point one ear forward, when they sleep, why .this is done no human being.Mcai..teU»..but the probability is that the practice "is a relic of the time when they were oblfefed to be<on guard, even when 'slumbering. ," »•' >' Particularly sharp frosts ;-' nave 1 lately been experienced in the Wairarapa. Considerable damage has been "• caused to^ winter feed and vegetation generally, as well as stock, in mostiparWof 'ifte neighbourhood. Such penetratingly cold weather has not been experienced for many years. An American doctof h'as'made a ■startling statement as to the endurance of bdcjllli. Specimens which he, placed in the canal fifteen miles below.,q|iicagO} ifr traced through, the Illinois and,. T M>Wiisaj"Bpj' to,-St, Louis.', They were- taorfe/active ' and - deadly , after their 300-mile swim than before he" released them. , , Mr Leatham, a member of Lord BTawke's, cricket team, who remained in New. Zealand after the team had sailed, a^d, spent, a few weeks in pursuit of deer in theWairarapa^ left Sydney last week in one of <the vessels / ol 'the Nippon Y,use^ Kaishaj. en .rpute to, Japan. " After making a tdu'r <n theia.ud^pf, the little "brown" man he will' take ship for Aitferica and England* : . ' ' "«Tjie veteran colomst, Mrs'lfule.'who died 1 a^ P&hiatua the .other day, aged 'ninetyfouv^'left quite, a little 1 township ,of de- t acendfrats. Of her ownfanxUy ,s,ix are living,", and these 'are suppleniented by fipy- , eight grand-children, . -.seveuty-orte, great-, grand-children; and two great-great-grand-children, making a total of one hundred and thirty-seven. •».:, •'' '*>•-»' ''-.;.. ' • ,'^ie other day a. train,, near,. irhe, scene , of the accident in i the Wairarapa, where Foreman-- Eee met his death' -areeentty, came upon a bull on the railway, line; i:, The animal galloped ahead of;, the engine , for ,a quarter of a mile*' and $hen tamed- round and. charged. ..There . was a smash, and 12cwt of live me^t *ud* two vshiaWered horns Fell with a thuS-iafcoitßa^ditciij >;.-. r j » Mr W. A. TrewSeke', of Ryne 1 Hill,' near Chipping Norton, Oxford, England, has sent the following particulars' of an extra-, ordinary lambinfir of : the 'first 100 ewes in his registered '"Oxford" Down' 'flock: — 194 lambs from' 100 eweg^jnade up of nine triplets, 76 twins, 15} singles. -One ewe had; three dead lambs '<uid two others had twoJ Five lambs died^from^different causes. Two' ewes died after laitfbingy leaving 98 ' ewes with 182 lambs/a ll in excellent condition.' This is a breeders' record. ■[■ , Among the passengers i>y the JRuapeliu; on Monday wars; Mrrß. El McE,ae, a;Taranaki farmer,' wh.o, intends. to establish, a. New Zealand, settlenjenij jn' the Transvaal, where he has' selected'-.a 'block of 40,000 v acies. .The land,.,wiiich ia.in 'the.Ermelo) district r is, he states, fertile and well, watered, and he sees.<nd- reason why the district should- not ;• become a good dairy-, ing country. He 'intends to cut up the land into suitably^ized holdings,, for the New .Zealand settlers, and,, will give, the first- chance of selection to, people in Taranaki. . >. '•. ..,t, , , , ' -'• The task that the Cunard Cp-mpany, aided by 'the British Government, have, set' themselves of placing in the Atlanticservice two ?50f t twenty-five knot' ships is proving of formidable, proportions at the vary outset (says '.the > Scientific I '. Amtefican), for it seems thai; the' announcement that these contracts had been let was, , premature, and that- the builders are hesitating to.; put their nain'ea to a cdntract' tarrying Bublt .onerous. c<*»i*fitio±ij« -Jl3 are .imposed in hhe caee ol b)ie; Wo- vessel's. - A6doi:ctin!g po tli'e latest reports that have re&ched this si^e, of the water, the vessels 'are required tof. show an aye-rage speed, -'of- twenty-five kriota over several thousand^ miles of contijijious steaming, the average speed to be maintained irrespective! 'of -the' conditions' of wind and weather.' Now; while we'believe that such* conditions of trial speedai this are the ; oaly i satisfactory ' ones, ■ since they are '^conditions that-«xist- in every-day service, it will be realised;' at once that they -are,< enormously 'more bur- 1 densome than the requirement that a veß-. *el 'should show;; a -similar. speed over the measured mile. If the new Cunardersare to be capable of- j^aiataining ; an' average . speed of twenty-fiv#, knots ,on,-a .Westward,; passage, they mus,t ; be prepared. to da so in-Qpite'of a succession of' westerly SHch* as incoming vessels 'have;; recently reported. To accomplish. ,thi,B they, must not only be. . built '„ of. strong scantling, With " special . construction ior-ti or-t Ward, to' enable them to withstand the Ijeavy seas .thi.€" ; > toe "'certain' to come' aboard, but to 'inaintarh s t?weiity-five knots in heavy weather* fjiey 'Must -I>'e Capable of at least twentyifiiSfyan'a^'aiji^f 6r ]bwe»|y r eeven knots' spe'**- lhf KmWt^'w^r/^Ve have seen the B^'^toot De'nt*ch)Wnft 3 l>HncF pushed into a wHbl& gale ; frdiri \%e 'SIW,/' when her ehgih^g^ were 1 ' J 'itfdi<saVilM ; ff some, P5,Q00 horse-p<)wei? h<. bnt'^^B'' 1 f rjcgt -sflee'd' that she.couldt itadke^tlrider 11 , ditiong w;»s twgHtSr^jtfe Wititi rfcr'HiSviT: ii-thoys-h she averaged >-2sf- Kfto^ r> pa?* I hou^ on the run «*'. (*«■« eastw^r/f ,>M , *?*£' weather. Of .couiMei' the- -greater,' weign't and power of tbe J^ewCttnaraerswoul^'be in their favour; biit^ in^ any case, they mnst have a large^margin of power to enable them to maintain-' a twp'ntyifive knot average in bad; weathers while '• the r-ov-. structiou of the bridges, deck houses, boat fastenings, d*ek rails; etc., :will call for special consideration on the part of the designer. »vc •; ■ V'

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