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Manawatu Herald, 16 October 1894, Page 2

Yesterday the polling for three Councillors took place at the Library Building*. The Town Clerk was the Returning Officer. Not much interest was taknn ih the event, and comparatively but few Burgesses recorded their votes. The result was announced by Mr Gibson shortly after six o'clock, and the candidates or their representatives thanked the electors. Parliament agreed on Friday to renew the Sun Francisco mail service for a further period of three years. TheiM is no subrfi-ly, but eleven shilling* i* paid for carrying the letters. Mr George Hughes claims to have picked the first ripe strawberries, Mr Stansell, who always caters excellently for his table, has now new pota toes for dinner. 'I hese are no importations but are from Joe Tos's market garden. Gooseberries bid fair to be a heavy crop this season, as in Mr Whibley's garden the bushes are covered with fruit. At the nest meeting of the Borough Council we hope gome steps will be taken to have the cuttings lowered in the cross road. Not so surprising. The Hon. Mr Jenkinson, a recently nominated member to the Legislative Council, speaking at the railway dinner at Palmerstou on Friday evening, said, ' since he had become a member of the Legislative Council he had changed his mind as to its value." Others may have also though in a contrary manner. Admiral Avellan asked the Sultan to grant the Russian fleet a coaling station in the Mediterranean, suggesting the island of Patmo3, and offered as an inducement to wa'ch the British fleet for Turkey. The Grand Vizier promised to consider the pro posal. Councilor Harcourt has stated that the Wellington Corporation workmen's holidays cost th* City Council about £600 a y ar, He thought the public should know this. " In Chicago'" says Mr Samuel S nail, " I saw a marching body of men, 18,000 strong, carrying a banner inscribed, ' Our Children cry for Bread ' And then they marched to a picnic ground and there drank 1500 kegs of beer. ' Frogs and toad 3 are said to be of inestimable service to fanners and gardeners ; each creature is estimated to devour every season 57 limes its own weight in insects. Bolata, the product of a tree in Sumatra, threatens to become a rival oi indiambber and gutta-percha. Fighing and cannibalism continue at Tanna and Espiritu Santo, in the New Hebrides. The traders are petitioning Great Britain to take possession of the group and put a stop to the fiendish war fare among the natives. In England each year about 15 persons out of every 1,000 marry. The average ags at which women marry is 25 years and the men 27. Large packs of wolves are reported to have been seen in the neighbourhood of Avallon, France. M. Oansin, a farmer of that district, who had left h)3 sheep in a meadow close to his farm building*, a few mornings ago found that nine of them had been devoured during the night. Since July there have been five hundred cases in the London workhouses of a new I Bkin epidemic. It is more fatal than soar let fever. The Parnellite Party is reviving. About 22.000 members have been enrolled, and a fund of £10,000 is being rained. The pro- . moters expect to obtain, £2000 from Ausl tralift.

On Saturday Messrs McMillan, Rhodes & Co; hold a stile to close consignments. Messrs Gorton and Son hold a stock sale at Campbelltown on Friday. Entries are advertiser! » The latest Mashonaland " find " appears to be of interest to archmologista. Some prospectors seeking gold in the morintains neat the famed Zimbabye nuns hdve discovered, and sent to Mr Ehqdea at Cape Town* a Wooden plate carved most curiously with the figure of a ciocodile or lizard, the sun, th<! moon, and three stars, ami a number of figures said to be intended , for signs of the Zodiac. The plate or dish is about thirty inches in circumference. Mr Hubert Buflhauan has a sad tale to tell at the end of thirty years of authdrship and twenty-five of theatrical enterprise. His liabilities rank at nearly £16,000, with > assets nli. Mr Buchanan's financial , troubles do not seem, however, to have damped his spirits. He was able to score off an adverse counsel at his public examii nation in the Bankruptcy Court. Mr ■ Shearman : You are in the habit, I believe, of riding about in a horse and carriage ? The Bankrupt {—Certainly not ifl a horse — in ft carriage, nlid I find that a very economical mode of conveyance. (Laughter.) ) „ " Tt's an ill wind that blows nobody s good "is a very old saying but none the , less truo. Whilst the great depression existing at Sydney r.i the present time, has caused a deplorable amount of misery, yet ■ the pecn; 1 ' 1 ci Wellington nnd the sur rounding districts will reap a gigantic bencfic. During his visit to Sydney recently, VJr James Smith purchased pi; absurdly low prices a lai>;e stock which is now being sold at tde Wholesale Drapery Warehouse, i o Aro House, Wellington. , Certainly the most effective medicine in the world is Sanders and Son's Eucalypti Extract. Test its emiuently powerful ■ effect in Coughs* Colds, Influenza ; the relief instantaneous. In seriou3 cases and accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy — no swellings — no inrlammatiou. Like surprising effects produced ' in Croup, Diphtheria, Bronchitis, Inflammation of the Lungs, Swellinga, &c, Diarrhcoa, 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. — [apvt.] 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 & Co 1 ?., 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 ?old at the Wholesale Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington. Messrs Ross and Sandford, of the Box Marche, Falmerston, are now showing their new spring and summer goods in all departments, ex s.s. Aorangi and lonic. The selection to choose from is without doubt one of the finest on this coast, while the values are superior to most houses, and equal to the very best obtainable in the colony. They invite inspection of their present season's show of general drapery, dress goods, mantles, blouses and millinery, &c. , Ac. Ross and Saudford— Advt. With all these advamngps 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.