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Manawatu Herald, 10 July 1894, Page 2

We regret to learn of the death of Mr John Cockburn on Saturday afternoon. I Mr Cookburn has a number of relatives in the Sandon and Bangitikei districts. Some time ago he poisoned his foot, and though it had apparently healed it again broke out lately and confined him to his bed. He resided for many years past with his daughter, Mrs Henry Hammond, of Waitohi. The Racing Clubs in the Wanganui Metropolitan District have elected Mr J. G. Wilson as their representative at the Metropolitan Racing Conference, which will sit at Wellington very shortly. Mr S. Wilson, who has gained a name as a first-class workman whilst in Mr Coley's employ for the past two years, has started business 83 a blacksmith and wheelwright on his own account, opposite Whyte's Hotel. To secure a share of the trade and to let owners see what he can do, he has lowered the prioe for shoeing very considerably. He should get welLpatronised. A Requiem Mass in/ connection with President Carnot's death has been celebrated in the Melbourne Roman Catholic Cathedral. The conflict between the Premier and Sir Robert S(out beoame exoiting last Friday night, especially during the Premiers reply, when there was an exceedingly strong display of feeling on both sides, witnessed by the whole house and the galleries with strained attention, Bays the Times. Captain Russell says the Government'! land system is a system of ballot by which gambling is instilled from the earliest moment in the minds of would-be settlers." The position as to Bellamy's was put very shortly and clearly by Sir Robert Stout that the law already made ample provision to deal with the question. In the Licensing Act, 1881, any refreshment room could be licensed by the consent of both Houses. If one House objected, the license was withdrawn. That was the law now. The House having withdrawn its consent (o the license to Bellamy's, there was no license to cancel. There was already Prohibition. Ths new Chief Justice of England has been referred to in recent cablegrams as Lord Russell. This is incorrect. His title is Lord Kilowen. He was known as Sir Charles Russell previous to his elevation to the Peerage. A new disease is reported to have broken out in several provinces of France, especially in Vendee, Brittany, and Anjou, where great damage has already been done. The disease takes the form of a white microbe, whinh attacks the roots. A London firm is negotiating with the Bank of New Zealand to take up the whole issue of the preference shares at slightly above par.

The annual meeting of the Foxton Racing Club will be held at the Club's office on Thursday week.

At a meeting of the Wellington City Council, Councillor Fraser said Mr Macdonald was without doubt, an artist at gulling the public.

The Oaths Act Amendment Bill gives an additional form for swearing witnesses in Court. Under the Bill a witness may be sworn without the book, simply raising his hand and repeating the prescribed oath.

Truth says a West-country clergyman the other day described " Mother Church " as standing " with one foot firmly planted upon the earth, while the other pointed towards Heaven." And at her age, too ! Skittish old thing !

A People's Palace is to be erected on Glasgow Green at a cost of £19,000. It will consist of two large reading rooms, a museum, picture gallery, and an extensive winter garden under a glass roof. The building will face the London street entrance to the green.

The Pahiatua Sohool Committee have decided upon the appointment of Mr Thomas, second master of Mount Cook School, Wellington, as headmaster.

What a "come down!" A thief at Hawera has taken to robbing the street lamps of oil.

The Queensland Government offer a reward of £500 for the conviction of the person or persons connected with the in* cendiary fire at the Ayrshire Station.

The results of the annual examination of pupil teachers and cadets at Wanganui have been published. There were in all 60 candidates examined. In the first class 2 failed, in the second 4, and in the third 12. In the first claps as passed appear the names of John Nairn and Josephine Kay, both of Foxton In the third class Annie Carter, of Foxton, passed.

The balance sheet of the Foxton, Wanganui, and New Plymouth Railway Sick Benefit Society shows the income to be £195 19s 8d ; expenditure on account of sickness and accidents, £173 14s. In addition to distributing this large amount, members and others have generously subscribed over £70 to assist their comrades who have suffered from lengthened illness and severe accidents. The total membership of the society is 283.

Not a desirable character is that given by the Post. Mr Macdonald is an incomparable actor, and has the fatal gift of plausible fluency of speech. He is an adept in the art of making the worse appear the better cause. No man can do that more effectively. He loves to sway the unthinking multitude, to dazzle them with glowing words and specious assertions, and to hold their judgments captive,, even if it be to their own undoing.

Mr William Halse, Acting District Secretary of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, died about noon on Saturday, Bays the Post at his residence in Hankey-street, of typhoid fever and other complications, with which he had been confined to his bed for about three weeks. The deceased was very widely known and generally esteemed. He was a son of the late Mr Henry Halse, Judge of the Native Land Court ; was born in the Taranaki district, and has been in the service of the A.M.P. Sooiety for a period of 21 years. Deceased, who was in his 38th year, leaves a wife and three children, with whom the deepest sympathy will be felt. His life was insured in the A.M.P. office for £1050.

At the Christchurch Supreme Court on Friday, application was made for leave to employ Mr George Harper, a member of the late firm of Harper and Co., as clerk. The Canterbury Law Society opposed the application, on the ground that Mr Harper, on whose behalf the appointment was made, was olerk in the firm of Harper and Co. up to the time of their bankruptcy, and had been in business for himself only a short tune. Mr Justice Denniston took time to consider the matter.

It is reported that the last has not been heard of the Sergeant-at-Arrns question, and that Sir Robert Stout intends to bring it forward again.

The Appeal Committee of the New Zea. land Union has decided on tha question submitted by the Wellington branch of the Referees' Association that the ball should be plaoed in tho scrum by a player, not by the referee, and recommends that when a scrum is ordered for infringement of the rules, the ball should be placed in by a player of the non-offending side, otherwise the ball should be placed in by a player of the side having possession.

Sixty-eight oases 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 ohoice is obtainable in the district. Buyers are invited to make their selections early while first ohoice 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 oases 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, Bronohitis, Inflammation of the Lungs, Swellings, Ac, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Disease of the Kidneys and Urinary Organ*. In use at all hospitals and medical clinics ; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy ; orowned with medal and diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this approved artiole and eject all others. — [advx.]

"It's an ill wind that blows nobody good " is a very old saying but none the less true. Whilst the great depression existing at Sydney at the present time, has caused a deplorable amount of misery, yet the people of Wellington and the sur rounding districts will reap a gigantic benefit. During his visit to Sydney reoently, Mr Jameß Smith purchased at absurdly low prices a large stook which is now being sold at the Wholesale Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington.

With a view of making this sale tha 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 aeen in the astonishing bargains now being fold at the WholeBale Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington.

With all these advantages in purohasing, 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 spaoe 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.