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Manawatu Herald, 18 February 1893, Page 2

A replace advertisement of Messrs McMillan, Btiodes ife Co , reminds our readers that their sale ia drawing to a close. There having been many inquiries as to whether there is a close seaaon for hares, we are enabled to state that in this district they can be kilhd all the year round, and rightly to. Though the poll was not carried for metalling the road from Shannon to the ferry we learn that'another attempt will be made. This is well, but not a single stpp must be neglected and personal interviews should be held with every voter. We earnestly trust that the third time may be lucky, as it is a work of very much moment to the advancement of Shannon. Perhaps the Wirokino Board may see the advisability of using extra means to secure publicity to what they have hitherto done. Mr Seabury gave an order for a dog>-cart to Mr Ahem, a short time ago. The cart is now finished and is a m st excellent piece of work, reflecting great credit on the builder. The body is of ash, the wheels having spokes of ironbark. All the wood work is varnished and the colours form pleasing contrasts. We understand that Mr Seabury is well pleased with the way his order has been carried out. An unfortunate man narced Cowan developed on Thursday decided symptoms of lunacy at Mr Gardner's mill and the services of Constable Gillespie was sought to remove him for medical examination. He had been at the mill a few months but had been, very quiet and it was not till he had been away a few days and had returned that he displayed any violence. He has the character of being a very sober man but sometime ago he had suffered from sunstroke in New South Wales. Constable Gillespie succeeded in getting the unfortunate man Cowan to accompany him quietly to Palmerston, and yesterday he was, on the certificate of two medical men, taken to the Asylum at Wellington In the Review of Review* a conversation is reported with one of the proprietors of a patent medicine and he declared that for this medicine 120 millions of pamphlets were disseminated annually, at a cost of £100 a day in postage stamps. He also asserted that there is no limit to the world's consumption of patent medicine, and it was found the more civilised and highly developed and prosperous a community is the more medicine it takes. The greater the health of the community the more medicine it ttans,k n s, it is only the downright sickly localities wh?re medicine seems at a discount ; people lose heart In prosperous communities, however, such as New Zealand and Australia, the demand for medicine is simply inexhaustible. There is more of this medicine taken per square mile in New Zealand and Australia than anywhere else on the world's surface. The Otaki river was in great flood on Wednesday. Mr James' house above the railway bridge is surrounded, but through the heroic action of Mr Carkeek, J.P., assisted by Hori te Wa v and Hoam Tawhiri no lives have been lost, as tiey rescued Mr James and his wife and family from the centre of the Otaki River by means of a boat. The flood is abating. Mr Crowther, a settler on the Kingston road at Shannon, has made an endeavour to obtain artesian water says the Times. A depth of 65 feet was reached by driving, but as difficulties then occurred, the pipes were drawn, and another attempt is now to be made by boring. It is to be hoped Mr Crowther's efforts <• ill be rewarded w th the success they deserve. News from Brisbane state it is again raining heavily and the rivers are rising.