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Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue II, 4 June 1880, Page 2

Property Tax— Persons liable to pay property tax are referred to au advertisement in another column, announcing that Mr Crombie, of the Property Tux Department, will be in iheManawatu district next week, and will afford full information to those applying as to the correct wuy of making up the returns. Meat. — By an oversight, the alterations in Mr Easton's advertisement were not mnde in last issue. They have been effected this time. The New Bank.— Wo have been shown the draft plans of the new Bnuk of Australnsia, as drawn by Mr Olere. The building will be brought out flush with the footpath, and the nvnn entrance will bo on an angle at the corner of Liddell and Main streets. The building will bo extremely noat, with two windows on Main street, and threo to the side street, upon which the private entrance will also be. The dimensions of the whole building will bo 45 feet x 30 feet. Cwnty. Council. — The usmil siding of the/County Council will be held next dayFootball Cilb. — A meeting was held on Monday evening lust, at Whyte's Hotel, for the purpose of forming a Football Club. About ten gentlemen were present. Mr Young wis voted to the chair. It was proposed ly Mr Howe, seconded by Mr bhore, and carried — That a Club be formed, to be culled the Foxton Football Club. Mr Shore was appointed seoretary, and the tsub-cription was fixrd at hulf-a-ciowii. On tho motion of Mr Turner, seconded by Mr Howe, tho Kugby» Union rules were

adopted for the Club. It was then decided to hold a scratch match in Mr Whyte'R paddock to-morrow (Saturday) afternoon, play to commence at half- past two. About twelve members have already enrolled themselves in the new club, and we hope that it will have a prosperous career. As we remarked before, there are several good players about this district, who only require a little practice +o put them in first-class trim, and if steady practice is continued, we confidontly expect that the Foxton Football Club will be able to hold its own against any of the other clubs on the coast. Legal. — We are glad to chronicle the arrival of Mr J. 11. Uankins, solicitor, who has determined to settle in the township of Foxtou. This district is to bo congratulated on a gentleman so highly esteemed as MrHankins is having determined to cafct in his lot with the settlers, and we cordially welcome him, hoping that he will see no cause in the future to regret the step he has taken. Mr Haukius' temporary premises will be in the cottage opposite the Courthouse lately occupied by Mr Sill, next Mr London's store. We are requested to draw attention to a notice to the effect that Mr Hankins will visit Otaki next Monda y Samoax Nkws.— H.M. corvette Danae arrived at Auckland on Monday last from Samoa, and will probably remain till the end of June, when she proceeds to Wellington, and will nipet the Commodore to receive a fresh crew from the Raleigh. During her stay at the Solomon Islands, the Danao visited most of the islands of the group, and discovered a fine unknown harbor. During the last four months the ship has been employed in the Samoan. Islands in upholding the claims of King Malietoa. Constant quarrels among rival parties have frequently culled for interference, and only a few duys before she left an outrage by the people of Lufi Lufi on the Royal party necessitated the destruction of the town. Seamen and marines, in the face of an army of 3 )00 men, who were assembled in the neighborhood, landed, and destroyed the whole settlement. Cuke foe Dipthebia. — Should you, or any of your family, be attacked, do not be ularmoil, as it is both easily and speedily cured without calling for a doctor. When it was raging in England a fe.v years ago, I accompanied Dr. Field on his rounds, b"th in town and country, to witness the so called "wonderful cures" he performed, while the patient* of medical men were droppiug off on all &ides. Of course tfco remedy to be so efficacious and rapid must be simple. All that he took with him was powder of sulphur and a quill, and with these he cured every patient, without a single execution. He pat a large teaspoonful of the flour of brimstone into a wine-glas3 of water, and instead of a spoon he used his finger in stining it, as the sulphur does not readily amalgamate with water ; and as the sulphur was pretty well mixed he gave it as a gargle and in ten minutes tlu pat-ent was out of danger — brimstone killing every species of fungus in man, beast, and plant in a few minutes. Instead of spitting the gargle out, as mual, he recommended ihe patient: to swallow it. In extreme cases, to which he had been called just "in the nick of tiiLe" to rescue the sufferer from death, where the fungus was too nearly closing to admit of sufficient breath passing to enable the patient to gargle, he blew the sulphur into the throat through a quill, and whi'-n the fungus had shrunk sufficiently to ndtnit of sufficient wind passing to gargle, he administered the whole, occupyiug a few minutes, only, and hp nev. r lost a patient fro n diptheria. If you should meet with a patient that cannot gargle, take a live coal (stone or wood) from tho fire, pit it on a «hovel, and sprinkle the flour of brimstone upon it — a spoonful or two at a timo : — and let tho sufferer inhale it, hoLling the handover it, and tho fungus will die. H plentifully used, the whole room will bo filled almost to suffocation, and the patient may walk about inhaling the fumes, with the doors nnd windows shut. This mode of fumigating a room with sulphur has often cured most violent attacks of cold in head, chest, &■■:, it one timo. Now, try it or despise it, just as you like — it is simpl 1 , efficacious, and safe. — Exchange. This New Exglish Racecourse. — The Derliy is, after all (says the Homo News.), to be transferred to Gruveseud This year is the last when the race will by run at Epsom, the property on which the racecourse stands having passed info the hands of a gentleman who does not caie to i-ncouivgo rafting. The Gravesend course will be the be.-t in England when I hough th-it will not be t:ll very nearly Ihe middle of the present year. As a consequence, the Derby will have been run after next May ut Epsom for 100 years in succession, and will then cease. The o'd duys of going down to the .Derby by road arc accordingly well nigh at an end. FonoEitV. — A correspondent of the London Timos makes tho following suggestiors tor tho prevention and detection of foigery : — I tako any pale vegetable color, say blue, which should bo as sensitive to acid reac'ion a.s litmus, and with this colur I print Ov r the whole surface of the eh; que or O ner paper a fine eugine>tunu-d pattern, mus giving to its surface somewhat the effect of a pale tint extending ulj over the paper, and which iv no way interferes wirli any black printing or writing .hit may nf terwards be put thereon. Such paper ma)' be produced cheaply by the ream, and be used for cheques aud other purposes where it is desirable to prevent any tampering with ■whatever may be written there. Now, if any attempt should be made by means of chemicals to take out any portion of the writing on such prepared paper, all the surrounding parts touched by the acid solution wiil at once lose tho whole of the blue printed pattern, which is more sensitive and much more easily discharged than the common writing ink sought to be got rid of, and would thus leave a white patch whero all tho delicate tracery of the bluo pattern would be absent, and consequently the cheque with these evidences of the attempt to alter it would itself become valueless, and the would-be forger would simply lose the amount of the cheque he had spoiled. The old trio'c of altering the words six, seven, eight, and nine by the mere addition of the letters t and y, and thus increasing the valu9 to sixty, seventy, eighty, and ninety, would become impossible if the cheque had the word " units " printed iv largo pale-colored letters ex» tondiiig across it, such cheques being ro. served for sums under £io. Thb Female Voteu. —In reference to tho desire of Dr. Wallis to extend the franchise to womeu, a correspondent requests us (Auckland Herald) to insert the following passage from Dr. Vogt, a celebrated German anatomist: — "The type of tho female 9kull approaches in many respects that of the infant, and in a still greater decree that of the lower races; and with this is connected the remarkable circumstance that tho difference between the sexes as regards tho cranial cavity increases with tho development of the race, so that the malo European excels much more the feinalo than tho ucyro tho uegresfl." Our couvspoudeut adds: — In this state of affairs, and while upholding the real rights of women, might ii uot be better for tho Rev. Dr. to adopt the rok of >t. Paul, and occasionally vctuiud them of their duties;

for by becoming better helpmates to man, the difference in capacity of the skull would be lessoned, their physical frames more perfectly developed, and tho deteriorating influences of civilisation arrested. A Heavy Bet.— The Town and Country nays that at Adelaide a few days ago, all things considered, the largest wager ever made in Australia was laid, not excepting Thompson's wager with the Hon. James White, when he laid £10,000 to £4uO. The bet lately made was £10,000 to £100 about Rotharhild winning the next V.R.C. Derby and Cup. The bat was laid by Mr W. Branch to Mr W. Pile, tho owner, and the Victorian bookmaker also laid him £1000 to £100 about First Water for the Melbourne Cup in Rothschild is a two-year-I old, and hi 8 performances have been only . moderate. — He is a son of Countryman, own brother to the Stockwell horse Rustio, who ran third to Lord Lynn for the English Derby, while his dam is Tinfinder, by old Tarragon.