Manamatu Herald. TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1804.

Manawatu Herald, 24 July 1894, Page 2

Manamatu Herald. TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1804.

The Commissioner of Crown Lands gives notice that certain Crown lands will be open for application o,n Wednesday, Ibth August. 'TH3&S desirous of obtaining land will see the position of the blocks clearly setout in the advertisement. !

Messrs McMillan, Rhodes & Co. will sell a consignment of fruit trees and evergreens from Mr Laird's celebrated Egmont Nur scry.

It will be noticed that the annual parish meeting will be he'd in' All Saints' Church on Thursday evening.

It is probable that MoroWhenua Block will be sold about the end of August, or early in September. It will be sold under the Village Settlement Scheme and sections will range from 5 to SO acres at prices from £") 15s to £7 an acre-. A choice lew near Mr JJartlvrtlonte\V's mill will be valued slightly higher.

The peculiar Master and Apprentice Bill has been vti'hdrawu.

The Legislative Council has fixed the age of consent at 15 years. It is at present 14 years.

Mr Waldcn has now slarted his fiaxmill at MoiUoa.

Mr J. (*. Wilson keeps moving for the district and now asks for a telephone for Ohau.

Has the dispute as to the ownership of lands out of iho lA-milo limit wi:h (he Manawatu railway b.en decided? Mr Wilson wants to know.

Mr Wilson has got a promise that the prica of the L?vin Special Settlement shall ba reduced considerably. Bravo. These unfortunate people were charged only £15 an acre ! This gave no prospect of an uncarupd increment.

Major Lockctt's house in Wanganui was totally destroyed by fire on Friday evening.

We have to thank the publishers, Messrs Saxon it Co. of London, for " Everybody's Cookery and Household Guide." This work has been specially compiled to meet a Mt want of a cheap, concise and plain guide for the use of the housewife. The price is only sixpence.

, Messrs Jl. Bell & Co. are reported to intend establishing a- faotory-f or thomanu facture of wax matches in Wellington. The business is not generally supposed to be a healthy one.

Messrs Abraham & Williams hold a stock sale at L:-vin to-morrow, and orn at Palmerston on Thursday.

It has been decided to establish a drainage district /or the land included in the Manawatu Road Board.

In reply to -Mr Wilson's question about a better tißin service the Premier said he had been informed by the Commissioners that they are prepared to make the timetable more convenient, but until the Company saw its way to run a faster train between Wellington and Palmerston North the Commissioners cjnUl do nothing, nor did they think that anything could be done until both lines were under the ownership of the Government.

Mr Corpe told the meeting at Campbelltown last week that according to the c'mrn tf>st it took iv October and November 271bs of miik to make a lb of batter, 261bs in December, 2olbs in January, 24£lbs to 21§lbs in February, 2Hlbs in March, 21ilhs in April.

The Campbelltown Factory commenced op:iation3 on September 7th last, ami sino Ihen, within ten months, 205,730 gallons of milk had been received at the factory. For this quantity of milk £3473 7s {id was paid.

The Ban-aba murderers wore executed at Tamworth last Friday at Sydney. Leas walked to the aouffold, and was apparently indifferent to the fate that awaited him. Cummins', however, was in a fainting condition, and had to be wheeled there. Lees, in his speech from tho scaffold, deolared that Cummings was innocent, and he denifcd that ho himself was guilty of murder. Cunimings was practically dead before the, bolt was drawn.

" A physician, was a maa who put drugs of which he knew little into a stomach of which no knew less." Quotation from Voltaire, used by Captain Russell.

The St. James* Gazette says that the practice of eating arsenic in order to improve the complexion prevails to a large extent among Australian women, whose health is wrecked by the ravages of the poison, and it points to the Sydney ladies in proof of its assertion.

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 Hues now at the disposal of customers, would be worse, than useless in Xhe space at our command, but a price lisf; which has been printed will be sent, post free, to |the address of any person applying tothe Wholesale Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington.With a view of making this sale the eyejitvoM&e,!j^j l iwo_si©oj# b&f9tßi*&& despatched from Te Aro House, one to attendthe^great-saliof Edwards; Bennett & Co'sr wholesale' stock, and* (lie "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 Whole* sale Drapery Warehouse,, Te Aro House, Wellington^ .... . Certainly the most effective medioine in the world is Sanders and Son's Euoalypti Extract. Test its eminently powerful effect in Coughs, Colds; Influenza ; the relief instantaneous. In serious cases and aooidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scalding?, 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, 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. — [advt.] 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. this magnificent range of new goods is still obtainable at The Bon Marche. Boss and Sandford.— Adyt.

I' lt's. an. ill wind lijat blows nobody gqod" is a very old. saying IJut dope the less thie: Whilst tHe great depi'eSsioh existing at Sydney at the present time, has caused a deplorable amount of misery, jet the people cf Wellington and the surrounding districts will reap a gigantic benefit. During his vi"it to Sydney recantly, Mr .Tamos Smith purchased at absurdly low prices a large stock which is now being sold at the Wholesale Drapery Warehouse, re Aro House; Wellinglbrii