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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 6, 21 September 1880, Page 3

The Sultan has 4000 servants; and yet we daresay, when the furnace fire won't work, the Sultana tells him it is the hired girl's night nut, and he has to go shinning around in the cellar to warm up the harem again. There is something passing strange about Luman nature. If a man had to support his family by playing billiards at 10s a day, he'd complain he had to work awful hard for a living. A short Italian prayer which is not without wisdom : "I pray that I may never be married. But if I marry I pray that I may not be deceived. Hut if I am deceived I pray that I may not know it. But if I know it I prny that I may bo able to laugh at the whole affair." Preachingi by Telephone. — A .New York paper gives a report of a sermon preached through a telephone by Mr Beecher, with two transmitters under the pulpit, connected through the central office of the Bell Telephone < bmpany with about fifty different places in and about the city. The success was perfect.

NEW ZEALAND ROADS. URENUI R~OAD TUiIPGE, COUNTY TARANAKI. Public Works Office, Wellington, 16th September, 1880. Vl/RITTEN TENDERS will be V » receeived at this office up to NOON on WKDtfKSDAY, the October, 1880, f-rthe above contract. Ihey must be addressed to the Hon. the iMinister for Public Works, Wellington, and marked outside "Tender for Urenui Road rfridge Contract." Plans and specifications may be seen at the Public Works < ffices, New Plymouth, Foxton, Wanjiomii, Carlyle, and Wellington, ielegraphic tenders, similarly addressed and marked, will be received if presen'ed at any Telegraph Office by N^ON of the sains date, provided that written tenders in due form are lodged at a District or Resident Engineer's Office by the same hour, and accompanied by a cheque on some bank in the town where the tender is lodged ; snch cheque to be specially marked by a banker as good for twenty-one days, and to he in favour of the Receiver General 1 $ Deposit Account only, and not to bearer or order. The lowest or any tender will not neces6arily be accepted. By command. JOHN BLACKETT, Engineer in Oharge, North Inland. KOTICK. ri^BE draught Entire Horse CHAMPION Can be bought reasonably, or exchanged for a go id draught horso or mare. " Champion "is in first-class c ndition, ami a sure foal getter. For further particulars, apply to A. W. LIJMSDEN, Foxton Line, Sanson. OPENING OF THE SPRING SEASON, 1880, AT THE MANAWATU CASH STORE. A VERY Large and Fxtensive Assortment of New Clothing has just arrived, consisting of Men's Tweed £uits>, Trousers and Vests and Trousers. Boys' and Youths' Tweed Suits, Trousers and Vests and Trouserß. Children's Knieker Suits. This will be found the best Store to get a thorough Good Fit-out. MCST OF THE~ DRESS MATERIALS HAVE ARRIVED. The Prints and Newest Shapes in Summer Straw Hats will be on yew about the 23rd of this month. The above are all of First-class quality and cheap, and will compare wi*h any in the district The Giocery Department will be found complete. C. HONORK, Proprietor. September 16tb, 1880.