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Manawatu Herald, 5 June 1894, Page 2

To-morrow Messi'3 Abraham and Williams bold a clearing sale of the stock of MrW. T. Ward. Messrs McMillan, Bhodes & Co. hold a sale of general goods on Saturday next. The firm will sell at the same time a new sulky and one grey mare. A number of Scotch bankers and merchants are petitioning the Premier and Sir William Harcourt in favour of penny postage. They urge that the Marquis of Dufferin, Lord Carrington, or Lord Randolph Churchill should be sent as as a British Envoy to negotiate with the colonies.

The sftttionmaster has not yet received any instructions as fo running the train. Possibly communication may be opened on Thnrsdayi ] There will be no Mass at St. Mary's, Foxton, on Sunday next, but on Sunday following at 8 and lla m. The next English and European mails via Eio and Frisco (Rio per Rimutaka) will close at the local office on Tuesday, the 12th day of June at 8 p.m. Geo. Gibbs, who was sentenced to four years* imprisonment for embezzlement from Singer's Sewing Machine Company, attempted to esoape from the New Plymouth gaol by scraping away the cement round the bars of his coll. He was brought up at Court on Friday morning and sentenced to 10 days in irons. It is odd to hear of new potatoes at this time of the year, says the Post, but some fine specimens were received as a present by a Wellingtonian yesterday, having been grown by Mr T. Finlayson, at Tere Tai, Bemuera, near Auckland. The British Consul at Buenos Ayres asserts that the colonists from " New Australia " describe the settlement as a " hell upon earth." Last week an attempt was made to wreok the Blackball Aerial tramway at Brunnerton. A piece of wood was found tied to the standing rope, two trucks had been thrown off and the cotters taken from the doors of three loaded trucks. On the Midland railway also, at Stilhvater, it is thought an attempt has been made to wreck the train. The police are investigating the matter. The Land Board was decided on the motion of Mr F. Plrani, M.H.R., seoonded by Mr A. W. Hogg, M.H.R., to ask the Mini* ster of Lands to agree to state a case for the Supreme Court to ascertain whether the Land Board or the Commissioner alone has power to deal with village settlements, special settlements, or small-farm homestead selectors. A train caught fire in consequence of a collision on the Wisconsin Central Line, and 20 persons were burned to death, A London Times American correspondent states that the United States expenditure for eleven months exceeds the receipts by £14,000,000. On Friday the Club Hotel at Featherston and adjoining stables and outbuildings were totally destroyed by fire. The licensee (Mr Searl) and his family reside in a cottage about 30 yards from the scene of the iire. The boarders in most cases saved nothing but the clothes they stood iv. There was an insuraucc of £1100 ou the hotel and stables, in the Phoenix office ; besides £7-50 on the stock and furniture in the Commercial Union. Of the people in England and Wales at the present time, between the ages of 65 to [ 70, one out of every five is a pauper. M. Dupuy has announced the programme of the new French Ministry. He intends to actively promote the Democratic interest and solve thn labour problem, proving that violence is not needed in dealing with this question. Three hundred pictures have been promised in London on loan to the Hobart Exhibition. About 250 British, and 150 I ! French, Belgian and German exhibitors are negotiating for spaco. Messrs D. Buick and C. Voss have been nominated for the spat on the Manawatu lioad Board rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr Stubbs. According to the Napier Newa, a company is being formed in Hawke's Bay to establish a Maori-European newspaper at Hastings, to be called the Huia. Hon. j James Carroll and Wi Pere are said to be moving spirits, and £2000 has already been collected. The paper is to be run on Moderate lines. The United States Senate has agreed to timber being admitted free into the States. Another " mild joke " on the part of the Farmer. In last Friday's issue it amuses its readers with an account of an iceberg stranded on the Otaki beach. The West Coast Th»M suggests the editor has " got 'em again." It is evident our advice to the editor to label his jokes will have to be given effect to, or tho consequences will be serious. Next Thursday the annual meeting of the Licensing Committee will be held at Otaki. A sad story concerning Mile. Alice Pinard, a composer well-known and much appreciated in Parisian artistic circles v now told, having committed suicide under most dramatic circumstances. It is alleged that she had been seduced under a promise of marriage by a prominent ex-Se-nator, who is also a member of the Lique contre la Licence des Bues ! Her trousseau and wedding dress had been prepared when she suddenly learned by chanoe that her lover was a married man. Unable to believe the terrible truth, she went to his house, and a sensational scene occurred, after which Mile. Pinard returned home, attired herself in her bridal dress and committed suioide by means of oharooal fumes. The unfortunate lady was well connected. M. Camelinat, former Socialist Deputy, and M. Herve, two French delegates of the working classes have gone to England in order to study the English system of cooperative societies, the French labour party having come to the conclusion that their co-operative societies are very imperfect as compared with tho3e in England. A hint to our Borough Council . The Wanganui Borough loan of £55,000 has been 'purchased by the Bank of New South Wales at par, debentures bearing five per cent with a currency of 20 years, con». sequently there will be no expense to the ratepayers who previously reckoned it would cost £1200 to float. The negotiations were conducted between Mr F. B. Jackson (Mayor), and Mr Downes (Local Manager.) The tender of Messrs Bloorafield, Dalziel and Kruse, of £418, for draining the Makerua Swamp, has been accepted by the Manawatu Bailway Company. Edward Parkenson, accountant of the late firm of Harper & Co., was sentenced at the Supreme Court, Christchuroh, to two years hard labour for embezzlement. In the early telegraph days a message used to cost twelve shilling? from London to Edinburgh. The Government Labour Journal says " many people in both these places (Wellington and Christchurch) have been asking the Government to do impossibilities." Who taught these people to expect it ? Mr W. H. Ha no ay, formerly one of the Bailway Commissioners, is about to enter upon agricultural pursuits in the Wanganui district. Wife beaters in Germany are not treated like they are here. They are arrested every Saturday after finishing the week's work and confined to Monday morning. This is done regularly every week until the sentence expires. The object of course is that the man shall be always able to work for the support of hia family. Opossum skins, good ones, bring as high as 18 guineas each in London.

A vessel arrived at Thursday Island ft few days ago with sickness on board. The Queensland Government wired to China to know what it was called, and, according to the cablegrams, a reply was received stating it was known as the "Butonic plague." We do not know what that is, though ifr" • sounds bad enough as well as the statement that since the 10th May 447 deaths had been recorded from it. The plague, the great one which devastated Europe was known as the " Bubo " plague, andftis to be hoped the letter t does not misrepi^* sent the letter b in the above information. At a meeting of ratepayers in the Mana watu road district held at Palmerston on Thursday, it was resolved " That in the opinion of this meeting the time has now arrived when a drainage district should be formed under the provisions of the Drain* age Act, 1893, for the purpose of providing an outlet for the Manawatu Road Board drains and carrying out a thorough system of drainage for the district. " «t Among apiarists the raising of queen bees is a very important matter, and not a few beekeepers, especially in America, devote themselves principally to rearing queens. It is said that the most extensive breeder of queen bees is Mrs Jennie Atohley. Her address is Beeville, Bee County, Texas. The work of her extensive apiary is done chiefly by herself and her eight children. It was recently reported that Mrs Atchley had between 800 and 1,000 oolonies of bees devoted almost exclusively to queen rearing. She receives orders for queens from all parts of the globe, including Australia. Last year it is alleged that shs raised and sold more than 4,000 queens. One queen alone produced £200 worth of queens. Some of the best bred are valued at £20 each. There must be money in bees, when a Bingle queen is worth so large an amount. . " Perhaps the mos t;unique and valuable testimonial ever given, is that which the Empress of Germany has just sent to the Proprietors of Mellin's Food, in which she declares that their food has been used with the best results by the young princes, soul of their Imperial Majesties the Emperor and Empress. As the eldest of their seven eons was a full-blown officer at ten, Mellin's Food will doubtless soon be used in every German household. We hear, by the way, that Miss Maud Holmes, Major Knox Holme's granddaughter, the champion five-year-old cyclist of the world, was brought up entirely on Mellin's Food, to the efficacy of which her grandfather ascribes much of her phenomenal strength." Certainly the most effective medicine in the world is Sanders and Son's Eucalypti Extract. Test its eminently powerful eilect in Coughs, Colds, Influenza ; th« relief instantaneous. In serious cases and accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises, sprains, it, is tht safest remedy — no swellings — no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in Croup, Diphtheria, Bronchitis, Inflammation of the Lungs, Swellings, Ac, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Disease of the Kidneys and Urinary Organs. In use at all hospitals and medical clinics ; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy ; crowned with medal and diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this approved article and eject all others. — [auvt.] Sixty-eight cases and packages of new and seasonable good for all departments have now been opened out for present season at the Bon Marche, and it is freely admitted that no such choice is obtainable in the district. Buyers are invited to make their selections early while first choice of thi3 magnificent range of new goods is still obtainable at The Bon Marche. Boss and Sandford. — Advt. Our imports of new season's dresses^ millinery and mantles are now fully •com^* pleted. The choice we are enabled to show, and the strictly moderate prioea charged are much appreciated by our country friends while visiting Te Aro House, Wellington. Our new dressmaker, Madame de Verney, from " Worth's," Paris, is the leading dressmaker in the colony. We guarantee perfect fit, and the latest styles and designs, as known only to French dr«BSlnukers. Our charges for making dresses are from 22s Od at Te Aro House. Ladies can do their shopping by post, and save the inconvenience of coming to town. Our order department has been enlarged, and is under most efficient manage* ment. Patterns of all our general drapery and dresses will be sent post free on application at Te Aro House.