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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 13 October 1891, Page 2

Owing to the late hour the advertisments were received we can do no more than just call attention to them. Our two leading grooers call attention to the prices which they nre crarging. Next issue we shall have more to say. We have to apologise' for the delay in the appearance of the court news, but unfortunately our " copy " wont astray for Saturday's iss^o. Mrs Jefferson Davis, widow of the exPresident for the Confederacy, has brought a suit against the Belford Publishing Company of New York for royalty accruing from the publication of her late husband's memoirs. With vega d to the famine in Eussia, the VossischoZr rung says Russia is undergoing aperiodic.il rV.mine.'to which she is subject, and whicn becomes more serious with each resniTonco, o'ring to the primitive husbandry and the indebtedness of their paasants. In the Waiiganui Supreme Court on Friday the ju:y found Caroline Peyman " Not Guilty." The accused was accordingly discharged. The financial condition of Guatemala is represented as deplorable. For the three months previous; to September Ist neither tie army nor 1 lie Federal employe.? had been paid Scarcity of food in the capital was causing much suffering. Gounod, the composer, gives it as his opinion that Madame Melba will soon surpass all living singers. His Excellency the Governor has, through his private p^cretary, conveyed to the officers of the Salvation Army, an expression of a desire to attend Genera l Booth's address on "Darkest England," in Christchurch, to which the officers have at once acquiesced by reserving seats for His Excellency and party. The Emperor of Germany is fully confirmed in his determination to have passed at all hazards at the next session of the Ueichstag a Bill to diminish and punish drunkenness. The Radical members will oppose it to the uttermost, on the ground that it is an unconstitutional interference with personal liberty. The Palmerston Resident Magistrate's Court was occupied on Thursday with hearing an information under the Licensing Act against Soloman Abrahams, for acting as a member of the Licensing Comin ttee, and, in conjunction with the other members, granting a license to the Empire Hotel, of which ho. was a part owner. The Resident Magistrate dismissed the information, mniiily on the gr und that the defendant had "transferred his iuterest to his wife the day proceeding the election. Notice of appeal was given. News from Apia is to the. effect that the schooner Urea, owned by a German linn, which left, Apia on July 25th for Truros and Takaopo, is given up for lost. *he had on board the Rev. Pere Didier, of the Koman Catholic Mission, and one of the Marist Brothers, besides several Samoans. Mr Gladstone, in a letter to the press, predicts an early re-union of the Presbyterian bodies, and also of Baptists and Congregationalists, but thinks it will be difficult to include the Methodists. The polling for the Christchurch election is as follows :— Stand ford, 1851; Smith, 1105) ; George, 637. The Argentine Government has sold Baron Hiisch a thousand square miles of land in the Gran Chaco. The London correspondent of the Anck land Star writes:— Who will say that Captain Verney has been insufficiently punished? Under the will of his Int.uncle, Mr Calvert Q.C., he would m tha ordinary courne of things have inherited £100,000. After his conviction this bequest was revoked, and now neither the misguided officer nor his unfortunate children benefit to the value of sixpence. It seems bard on the chi'dren, tloesn t it ?

An immensely rioh Rilver lode has been discovered f-t Sloouu, in British Columbia. The second direct shipment for the season is just to hand ex s.s Tainui, 73 cases and packages have been received by us to date for the present season, and the very pick of the Spring and Summer Fashions and Nove ties is now obtainable in all departments at " The Bon Marche, Palmerston North, Residents of this district visiting Palmerston are respectfully invite 1 to inspect these extensive shipments of new and fashionable Drapery, Dress Goods, Mantles, .Villinery, and Novelties v hich surpass anything previously shown at the Bon Marchfi, Palmerston North.— Rosa & Sandfobd. , The appearance both externally and in ternally of our widely known Family Drapery Warehouse is now extremely brilliant. With the advent of the Spring Season come an entire change of Fashions. The dark, sombre tints of winter are now completely effaced by the light, cheerful, beautiful new colors that distinguish the present season's fashions at Te Aro House, Wellington. An advantage to customers not possessed by any sma 1 traders anywhere is the immense range of choice in every description of Fabric and Fashions to be always seen at Te Aro House, Wellington. The colors of the new Dress Fabrics are principally Grey, Grey-Blue Lavender, Cornflour Blue, and the most delicate tints of Dove and Fawn, at Te Aro House, Wellington. Patterns of our new Dress Fabrics with se'f-measurement chart, will be forwarded post free on application to our only address, James Smith, Te Aro House, Wellington. THEBE IS ONE THING every house wife should know, and that is that Hercules BAKixn Powder is the best. Why ? It is the cheapest because the Best for makng breads, pastry, cakes, puddings, scones, &c. Beautifully light and wholesome, in Gd and Is tins. From all grocers. Visitors to our Warehouse will view with wonderment our vast piles of every description of Spring and Summer Dress Fabrics, consisting of Jacquard Beiges, natural Homespuns, Art Diagonels, French Corduroy, French and Scotch Chirids, Saxony Suitings, Camel Hair Tweeds, Jacquard Vigoreaux, Twilled and Plain Beiges, French Delaines, Printed Bengalines and Foulards,' Floral and Striped Bengalis s, Silk Grenadines, Summer Serges and Fonles, &c, &c, at Te Aro House, Wellington.