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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 20 August 1891, Page 2

To night at half past seven, the meeting of all those interested in securing the servioes of a doctor, and who have signed or are willing to sign the guarantee list, will be held at Whyte's hotel. Our local tailor ! suoh is the heading of an advertisement elsewhere. We are glad to say, from experience, that our " local tailor" is a good one. (He is an old soldier, not in any offensive meaning of {the words, as he is a very hard working man, but he was one of the 18th Royal Irish regiment whioh received many hard knocks and small pay. We do not say Mr Ennis is our only tailor, but he is one that deserves a trial, when he is confident he can please, as he was a master-tailor of his regiment. Our local tailor is a very pronounced radical but if his views are not quite right we can say his fit is, and that is all that is neoessavy. Mr Seabury informs us that in response to the advertisement calling 'for tenders for erection of a dwelling, he received yesterday, at noon, the following, A. Jonson, £257 ; A. Speirs, £252 10s ; H. Aldridge, £260. Mr Speir's tender was accepted, the tendering was within two pounds of the estimate. The tenderer is to find everything. Tne committee of the Dramatic O!ub, in another column return their thanks to Mr and Mrs Stansell and to Mr Koch. The secretary informs us that the performance will show a fair balance in Mrs Carroll's favor, as far as he can tel at present the gross prooeeds will be about twenty pounds five shillings ; expenses six pounds with ba anoe fourteen pounds five shillings. We think this result is very satisfactory and arc glad to see that our predictions of a good house were so well fulfilled, Rumour says that it is the intention of the Club, either to repeat " Snowed In" in one of the near townships at an early date or to pace another piece into rehearsal at once. Services will be held next Sunday at All Saints Church as follows : — 11 a.m., Matins and Holy Cummunion ; 8 p.m., Baptismal Service ; 6.80., p.m., Even Song. On the last trip of the Manapouri to Melbourne she touched ground slightly during a dense fog near Cape Shank. Captain Logan reported the matter to the Marine Board, and at a meeting of the latter a moti n was carried cautioning the captain to be more careful in future. The vessel was placed in dock, but on examination proved that she had sustained no damage. The Commissioner of Customs is not satisfied at the Board's decision, and iB considering the propriety of ordering another investigation, the authorities thinking that the captain's oonduot is deserving of more severe treatment than a oaution. Sir Morell McKenzie, D.D., in the course of an interview with a representative from the Gaulois newspaper, stated that the diseased the ear from which the Emperor of Germany is suffering is serious, but it is possible that His Majesty would live to old age. He predicts that the reported accident to the Emperor is merely a stiff knee. At New Plymouth on August 17th a we' come soiree to Mr Courtney and his immigrants was largely • attended. The Mayor occupied the ohair, and eulogised Mr Courtney's preseverance as immigration agent under great difficulties. The immigrants expressed themselves pleased with the district and their prospects. A clock is to be seen at Brusse's which comes about as near being a perpetual motion maohine as can be invented, for the sun does the winding. A shaft exposed to the solar rays causes an up draft of air, which sets a fan in motion. The fan actuates mechanism, which raises the weight of the clock until it reaches the top, and then puts a brake on the fan till the weight has gone down a little, when the fan is again liberated and proceeds to act as before. As long as the sun shines frequently enough the clock will keep in perpetual motion. Mr Perritt of the Jutfction Hotel showed us two fine porkers he had just ki led yesterday. On enquiry as to the reason why the skin was such a colour, we were informed that the har was burnt off instead of scalded. Mr Perritt informed us that he never scalds hi? pigs when he kills them. The burning, he says, preserves the bacon better and prevents it from " dropping" or " leaking" when hung up. Bacon ourers take a note of the above.— Mercury,

A curiosity was dredged up by the Taniwha on Saturday, in the sh -,pe of a live bottled crab. In a clear glass bottle of the kind in which fruits are preserved, with half the neck broken off, was ,an ordinary shel'ed crab, whose shell is now just as wide from Bide to side as the bottle, and from front to back a good deal wider than the opening of the neck. The animal must have adopted the bottle as its home when much smaller, and have grown within it until it could not get out again. As a refuge from larger enemies its choice could not be surpassed, but whether it obtained a fair ration of food in its prison one cannot say. There was a good deal of mud in the bottle as well as the animal. It was given to Mr Stumbles, who took it to the Royal and gave it a feed of oatmeal. tie will hardly preserve it alive we should think.— Timaru Herald. A meeting of the Foxton Racing Club is convened for Wednesday next.

Look at the prioes of our Surplus Stock in the Mantle Department. Ladies C'oth Jackets reduced to 6/11, 8/6 and 12/6. Cloth Dolmans reduced to 7/6, 12/6 and 15/6. These are fully one half the usual price at the Sa'e of Surplus Winter Stock. Te Aro House, Wellington. Look at the prioes. Ladies Cloth Palitots, reduced to 12/6, 18/6 and 20/- Ladies Black Jackets reduced to 6/9, 7/6 and 10/6. Wonderful bargains those at the Sals of Surplus Winter Stock, Te Aro House, Wellington. Look at the prioes. Ladies Sealette Jackets, reduced to 23/6, 29/6 and 85/6. Ladies Tweed Ulsters, rednoed to 6/11, 8/9 and 12/6. Garments like these can only be obtained at these bargain prioes at the Sale of Surplus Winter Stock, Te Aro House, Wel'ington. Look at the prices. Children's Ulsters, reduoed <o 1/11, 3/11, 4/11, 5/11, 6/11 7/11. Pur Capes reduoed to 8/11, 4/11, 5/15. Fur Fisohus reduced to 10/6, 12/6, 15s, at the Sale of Surplus Winter Stock, Te Aro House, Wellington. The last day of the sale is Saturday, August 15th, to write or visit at once the Surplus Winter Stock Sale, Te Aro House, Wellington. The annual stock-taking sale at the Bon Marche, Palmerston North, is now on. Visitors to Palmerston are requested to inspect the bargains in every department. Millinery, mantles, ulsters, household drapery, Men's and Boy's clothing, a'l at clearing prices at the Bon Marohe, Palmerston North. Boss & Sandfobd. THERE IS ONE THING every house wife should know, and that is that HbicoiiES Baking Powder is the best. Why ? It is the cheapest because the Best for makng breads, pastry, cakes, puddings, scones, Ac. Beautifully light and wholesome, in 6d and Is tins. From all grocers.