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Manawatu Herald, Volume VII, Issue 265, 7 May 1889, Page 2

It is satisfactory to find that oar business kneii are gaining a name for themselves in : the sp&ialite of the district. In our last issue we chronicled that Mr R. B. Me Kenzie intended starting a Hemp mill, at Rangitikei, and that he was in this town enquiring about all matters relating to the business of flax dressing. Mr MoKenzie has rather the reputation of being keen at a bargain, aud |t isj all the more satisfao- ' tory to learn that he was able to find it advisable- frtfnhn to oontraot with Mr J. R. McMillan for all his machinery, and with Messrs Bacon and Speire for all the mill wright , work. > Other intending millers would do as well, if they made enquiries in this town, before completing any - arrangements, as , the business people here are, from the experience they have gained, better able .to • supply the most approved material and work, that is needed in this particular trade. ■ As an indorsement of our last leader on the need of an association, and the many questions that Millers must consider for their protection, we give an extract from an article on the fire on the Mariposa. The New Zealand Herald says : — If it becomes a belief that flax is unsafe as a cargo then freight on it will be put at so high a rate as to make it unprofitable to manufacture when the price falls below its present high rate. Not only that but insurance will be high, and all goods shipped in vessels carrying flax is about double what it was only a short time ago, and there is every prospect of high prices continuing, and of a permanent and a steady demand continuing for the article. In these circumstances, and ;to show that there is no danger from spontaneous combustion, we think the Government would do well to have an experiment made under the charge of Sir James Hector or some other public officer. Parcels of flax might be made up as if for shipment and exposed to any required condition, to see if it is possible, under any cn-ounistances of pressure or heating, for the material to. take; fire. . It iB admitted that flax, like all fibres of .that nature, is readily inflamable, but that is quite another thing from the danger to biiist into flftaM ty the hold of s ship.* - i At the Wellington Racing Club's Autumn meeting at the Hutt on Friday a sensational dividend was obtained' by two investors. This ooourred in the Maiden Hack Race for 10 soya, distance half a mile. Eleven started. Won by Merlin by three lengths. There was not a- single ticket on the inside machine and only two on the outside. Dividend, £91 16s— one held by the rider James, son of the owner, and the other by a Maori. The, Chronicle states that when MoNish the levanting Wanganui gaoler, arrived at San Franoisoo, he was accompanied by a female partner. It is also stated that Dudley Byre has gone to Salt Lake City where he is expected to bloom as a Mormon Elder and utilise his peouliar talents. , By an Order in Counoil, the book entitled •• Manual of the duties of life ; being lessons in conduct, intended fur use in schools or in homes, by George Warren Russell, (Auckland, the Star offloe.) may be used in any publio school as if it had been described and inoluded in the list of works set forth in the Order in Council dated the sth day of July 1887. Only again. In Friday's issue we inserted an advertisement that Mr John Burr JH&j 08 * 8 toy oolt. and now before we can insert the advertisement again, it is found. Wt tow attention to the satisfactory announcement that the 8.8. "Ivy" is now ready, and that partioalara as to freights, . *c, 0M be learnt on bo*rd.

Mr Howard inserts an advertisement re engine for sale. Mr Pope notifies that orders can be left at the Bakery Co's shop, which he will attend to promptly. Mr Pope was a resident here some years, and has again fixed upon Foxton as a home. The new firm of Dutch Auctioneers now in town, known as the Musical Auctioneers from the manner in which they beguile the business of the evening, with tunes and songs, -are hard at it of a night, in tile! sample room belonging to Whyte's Hotel. The goods they sell are affirmed to be of good -quality and oheap, and' it Would be advisable to give them a call. They propose remaining a few nights. They give airs on foot different instruments) and are credited with singirig a good d<JHg. On Friday they purpose holding a concert and. sale at the Public Hall for a wind up. . Mr Rutherford wishes that the faot relating to the fate ot the hemp saved from the steamer Hero, should be more particularly set forth, It is a well known faot relating to the Hero that having caught fire was intentionally scuttled. Mr Charles Redwood was much interested in some of the cargo, and it was he that informed Mr Rutherford of the state of the. same when it was recovered from the wreck. The, Flax was thoroughly dressed hemp, prepared by Mr Rutherford, and though in the water as -lone; sis the bales of wool, when taken out they .^were, not even warm, and the wool bales were so' hot that they could not be touched and they had to be out open to cool them. This is such an important statement that we are glad to learn that it came from a gentleman unconnected with the flax dressing interest. Few men had a more intimate acquaintance with nature in her kindest moods than the late Rev. J. G. Woods, the wellknown naturalist says the N. Z. Times English correspondent. His prolific pen for many years past produced a large number of the most handy works on natural history published, and probably he had scores, if not hundreds, of readers in the Colony who will iegret to learn that he left a widow and six young children quite unprovided for. , The Rev. Alfred Whitehead, Reotor of St. Peter's Kent, is asking for subscriptions in' aid of the family. It seems strange that with such a, large sale as his books have had he was not able to seoure something in ihe shape of royalty. KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES oare Oou^ba, Asthma, Bronchitis. Medioil testimony states that no o'.her medicine i gp effectual in the cure of these dangerous maladies. On«l Lozenge alone gives ease, 6ne oft/twfr at bedtime eniores rest. For relieving difficulty of breathing they are invaluable. They contain no opium not any violent drug. Sold by ill Chemists in Tim, Is lsd and 2s 9d «acb.