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Manawatu Herald, 26 June 1894, Page 2

The New Zealand Times says that Cap tain Mair is engaged in important Native land purchases for the Government. Mr Cobb has taken 100 ram lambs for sale in Sydney. -Ir Scobie Mackenzie has retired from the Tuapeka contest in favour of Mr C. C. Rawlins. We beg to acknowledge the receipt from the Registrar-General of the first three parts of the statistics of the colony for 1893. Now they will be happy. Members of both Houses received gold railway passes on Friday evening, the " leather medals " having been given up. The Past says :— Dr. Newman has on the stocks a "Bill to admit women to the General Assembly," and also a " Pharmacy Bill." Besides Mr Stansell we now find that Mr Gibson and Joe Tos are able to boast of having ripe tomatoes- at this season-of the year. The Times says : — Before proceeding with his Direct Veto Bill this session, Sir Robert Stout will wait to see what the Government propose in a Bill to be submitted to amend the Alcoholic Liquors Sales Coutrol Act. Our correspondent writes : — Parisian theatres are otherwise not very flourishing just now, and the month of April and the latter half of March were very disastrous for them, owing to the excessive heat we had to bear. Work on the construction of the Basilica of tlie Sacred Heprt at Montmarte has been resumed. The receipts during March amounted to nearly 100,000fr. The total of all receipts thus far figures 27,094,437fr. of which 2 -,632, 981 fr. have actually been expended. A man named James Howard got a month's imprisonment for using threatening language to the secretary of the Wellington Benevolent Trustees on Friday, and a month for imposing on the Trustees, to run concurrently. Eobert McKillop also got a month with hard labour for imposing on the Trustees. Serve them right. Mr Rowland Ward, the well-knowu naturalist of Piccadilly, has become the owner of tsvo precious treasures, in the shape of a stuffed Great Auk and a perfect egg of that extinct bird. These prizes cost him COO guineas, a tall price, but not a farthing too much considering their rarity. The egg alone, being absolutely perfect, must be worth more than half the sum, while the stuffed specimen of the bird is, I believe, almost matchless.

Baron de Hindi's br f La Fleche won the Gold Cup at Ascot. It has been decided to erect a building in New York twenty Btories high. Tlle jury brought in a verdict of " acci^ dental death " in the Auckland explosion inquiry. We direct attention to a letter in another column from the Rev. F. W. Boys, which should be well worthy of consideration. Mr Kerr announces that he is prepared to make large reductions in the prices of goods he has on sale. Rewi Manga Maniopoto, the celebrated Native chief who led the Waikato natives against the British in the war, died last Thursday night at Kihikihi, aged about 70 years. Shakespeare's reputed birthday was celebrated on April 23, with the usual festival I at Stratford-on-Avon, aud the church bells rang merrily. A bronze statue of the poet was unveiled the same day in Chicago. We ought all to be very good in the sweet by-and-bye. Sir Robert Stout intends to introduce a Bill designed to check gambling. It would be more direct to introduce a Bill to amend human nature first. The theft of sacred vessels from Notre Dame is traced to an extraordinary sect known as " Luciferians," or worshippers of Satan. They have ser.ices consisting of mock masses, stolen communion plate being used. The members of the Annamite Embassy, who went to Paris with M. de Lanessau, the French Governor of Indo-China, were by the latter presented to President Carnot the other day. They were the bearers of costly presents to the Chief of the Republic, who at the conclusion of the ceremony drank a toast to the prosperity of Annam. It is stated that Colonel Fox has declined to draw his salary, on the ground that he does not think people should be paid for doing nothing, which is what he is compelled to do. It is further stated that he ha .i practically given up the nominal duties he was " permitted " to perform, pending the decision of Parliament. On Friday in tho House Sir Robert Stout took the Government to task for not haying the Tuapeka election earlier. He said " the least the Government could have done was to call the Registrar's attention to the fact that he was not fulfilling the rajnircments of the Act of 1802." Probably tliis particular Registrar is of the right ' colour.' The Wellington Co-operativo Bus Company appears lo be in an unsatisfactory financial position, judging by the report of a shareholders' meeting in the Past. Tlie plant has been seized under mortgago, and the total liabilities of the company were said to be about £1323, and the amount owing on shares £160. | The Archduchess Elisabeth, daughter of the Crown Princess Stephanie, says the Hanover Courier, is the possessor of the smallest dog m the world. This little dog can rest comfortably in the palm of the iiaud, and can be fondled by children without fear of being hurt, as is often the case with a cat or dog of a larg .r growth. It is about tive inches high, and six and threequarter inches long, and weighs about half-a-pound. Tlie Rev. James Sketrett, a young Pr .3byterian minister of Glasgow, was suspended from the Ministry and deprived of his church and barred from tho privileges of full commission for the henious offence of meeting a female member of hisjcongregation three times in the open sireet and conversing with her. A charge of impropriety was made against either the minister or the lady. The severe action of the Synodical Commission before which the case was brought raised a rumpus in the town. Mr William Waldrof Astor means to make the Pall Mall liuthjet tho finest paper of its class England has known, says a London correspondent. Mr Lewis Hind has carte, hlunche for two years to spend what he likes on it. The new series, when the paper will be doubled in size and appear resplendent in a fresh cover, commenced on June Ist. Amongst othor novel features there will be a short story in each issue by i some first-class novelist, a literary caiwrir. j j by Jy.-- G .llienne, a column of sage reilec ] ; tions and odd ideas by eiiher Augustine ; Birrell or George Bernard Shaw, and very J strong lady's chit-chat by Mrs Ciawford, I Miss Fripdrichs, Mrs Meynell, etc. As to | illustrations, I myself have it from best ! possible authority that Mr Astor has authorised au expenditure of close ou a hundred pounds per week upon this portion of the paper aione. The exact amount I believe he named was .£8"), but even if it wero exceeded to good purpose, I don't suppose lie would grumble. 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 distriot. Buyers are invited to make their selections early while first choice of this magnificent range of new goods is still obtainable at The Bon Marche. Ross and Sandford. — Advt. Certainly the most effective medicine in the world is Sanders and Son's Eucalypti Extract. Test its eminently powerful effect in Coughs, Colds, Influenza ; the relief instantaneous. In serious cases and accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy — no swellings — no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in Croup, Diphtheria, Bronchitis, Inflammation of the Lungs, Swellings, &c, Diarrhasa, 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. — [advt.] With a view of making this sale the event of the year, two special buyers were despatched from Te Aro House, one to attend the great sale of Edwards, Bennett & Cos. wholesale stock, and the other to pick out bargains from the manufactures of the well-known Kaiapoi Woollen Co. Both these gentlemen have returned after a most successful trip, and the total result of their efforts is to be seen in the astonishing bargains now being sold at the Wholesale Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellingtou. With all these advantages in purchasing, it would be strange indeed if the sale was not one to be remembered. Any attempt to enumerate even a tithe of the cheap lines \ now at the disposal of customers, would be worse than useless in the space at our command, but a price list which has been printed will be sent, post free, to the address of any person applying to the Wholesale Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington.