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Manawatu Herald, 7 February 1893, Page 2

Aolitions to Messrs Gorton <* £'ou's Bulls Sheep fair appear to-day; The United Farmer's Alliance ho il a stock sale at Palmerston on Thursday. . Tenders are invited for scrub cutting on the Himatangi run. Mr Greenwood of Greenwood & Hooper, dentists, will visit Foxton on Monday the 20th. Mass will be held next Sunday at Shannon at 8 a.m., and at Foxton at 11 .a.m. The late owner of the race horses She and Mirabelle has run his race, for a time, and brought up at the bankruptcy post. He asserts he lost £300 by them, his creditors appeared to think much more. The above two horses, with another one not named, had cost £135 and had been sold for £75. He had mentioned to a friend that it cost £5 10s a week to keep racehorses going. It is all because the 'Liberal' government are doing their best to tax the landowner out of the country that prices for the farmers produce are hardening. Outsiders doing the best possibly to soothe the countryman's feelings. The latest quotations state that the frozen meat market is firm, but it is some years since the tallow market reached the following quoted prices, fine mutton 32s 3d per cwt, good beef 31s per cwt. Despite bad government the colony will hum. Almost a McKenzie —cvm-pickle-jar incident occurred in the N. S. Wales Parliament on Friday night. A close division on a want of confidence motion was the cause, the motion being lost by 60 to 57, for after the division had been taken a disgraceful scene occurred on the floor of the House. An altercation arose between Messrs Young and Lyne, during which the former struck Mr Lyne. For some few minutes a free fight looked imminent, and although the combatants were separated the Speaker had to take the chair to quell the disorder. In our happy colony members should not be allowed to meet together outside the Speaker's control, then ' painful 'incidents might be avoided. A good story is told of the Emperor of Germany's mania for reviewing. A soldier in the streets of Windsor heard a cry raised of " the Emperor," he fled round the corner remarking, " If the bloomin' oldJHeraperor sees me he'll want to review me by myself I'm off." ' Mr .T. T. Stewart, has presented to the Wanganui Museum the figure head of a war canoe. The carving is about 6ft long, richly cut in scrolls and faces. The wood, though very old, is in fair preservation, and \9 tke finest relic the Museum possesses The section from one of the big California redwood trees, which the Government will exhibit in its building at the World's Fair, has arrived at the Failground?. Eleven freight oars were required to convey it across the continent. It measures thirty feet long by twenty-three feet in diameter. The section is hollowed out and when placed on end, divided into two stories and lighted, as it will be, it will form a rustic house! large enough for a family to live in. President-elect Cleveland will take steps to repeal <\ho. Sherman Silver Act immediately he takes office. A well-known Covent Garden fruit firm have, it is stated, cabled out £50,000 to be devoted to the purchase of Tasinanian ruit for shipment to England during this season. " Odd Triek ri explains that 8.-tina paid the liaadsonie dividend of £17 4s in the Wellington Cup because her connections had no money on her. They trusted someone else to back her for them, and the money was pul on the wrong horse. An Adelaide girl of 17 was in a trance for over a week, and it was found impossible to wake her except by applying the strongest stimulants. A strong electric current applied to the soles of the girl's feet took some minutes to effect any change, in ono case three and in anothersix minutes elapsing before the patient gave signs of feeling. By means of electricity alone was the medical attendant able to sufficiently arouse the girl for a little while so that he might with great difficulty fores her to take nourishment in liquid form. A band of women lynchers in Texas tortured a negro with hot irons, kerosene and fire for outraging a child. The most approved methods of artificial ice making and cold storage will be exhibited at the Worli's Fair. These pro cesses will be snown in a very fine building, 130 x 255 feet, and five stories high, with observatories at the oorners and a lofty tower at the centre. About tons of ice will be manufacturer daily, three methods being employed, satnely: the plate system, from filled water; the can system, from condensed steam filtered and purified; and the'can system from deaerated water. Three different processes of cooling jpoms will also be shown. A committee of the Senate of the New York Legislature propose to introduce a Bill limiting the price of coal. MrCarrGlyn. Chairman of the Assetts Company, intends to send out a number of small farmers from England to form special settlements on some of the Company's blocks if suitable arrangements can be made as to passages and capital. Mr Glyn states that he has had a number of applications on the subject in question. On Friday next a meeting of all persons interested in holding a regatta will be held at Whyte's hotel. THE SUN BAKING POWDER eclipses «11 others.

The Showroom is abundantly stocked with choice goods for present, requirements, of wliieh we invite inspection and comparison. Boss \nd Sandfoiid, District Im» porters, the Bon Marche, Palmerston North, — A dvt. Every one will remember the famous Melbourne " Boom." That is a matter of history. All readers of ,«New Zealand newspapers and (" their name is legion ") will know that tne " boom " has burst and that a terrible depression has settled upon that city. To residents in all party of the Province of Wellington it will be a matter of intense personal interest, which they will fully ascertain by a visit to the " Erupted Boom " Sale. Commencing on Thursday the 26th inst at Te Aro House, Wellington. The proprietor of Te Aro House has just returned from a visit to that city of the Erstwhile " boom " and subsequent collapse, where he made some targe and fortunate purchases at prices that would ; thoroughly astonish the oldest stagers in I the Drapery trade. The prices also at 1 which we shall offer this vast mass of new and seasonable goods will be veritable eye. openers to the most astute bargain hunters at the " Frupted Boom " Sale, Te Aro House, Wellington.