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Manawatu Herald, 6 December 1894, Page 2

Yesterday afternoon the Tennis ground was gay with members and their friends who had assembled to hold an afternoon tea to bid good-bye to Dr and Mrs Dermer. Dr Dermer has acted as honorary secretary of the Tennis Club for some time. The quantity of wool coming down from up-country is very great, and has been increased by the circulars forwarded to sheep owners by the steamer's agent, pointing out the saving in cost via Foxton and the steamer, to overland carriage. An advertisement fixes the day and hour and place for the garden party which is to be held in aid of the funds of All SaintsChurch. Messrs Gorton «fc Son's Bulls sale will be held on Tuesday next. Entries are advertised. Messrs Prouse Brothers want to lease a portable engine. Particulars should be sent them at once. Messrs Loveday Brothers have a new advertisement in tliis issue, referring to the opening up of packages for the Christmas and New Year's trade. The quarterly tea and Concert in connection with the Primitive Methodist Gongfegatioli was hold last .tnesday eVefaihg, and was ill every way as successful as its predecessors. Quite a variety of music comprised the programme, including anthems, solos, trios, duets and a quartett, and recitations were also given, all the items being rendeied yery nicely, and in consequence much enjoyed. Addresses were also delivered by the Rev. Mr Boys and Mi* West* wood, aud the report for the last quarter as read by Mr Gibson was highly satisfactory, and presented to those present the amounts that had been received from different sources, and lhe total expenditure tliat had beeu made. By the united efforts of the congregation the report showed that the indebtedness of the church now only I amounted to a little over £4, and it was the wish that the minister's stipend should be increased. A coffee supper was lipid when half the programme had been completed, t and an assorted and plentiful snpply of cakes was handed round. He that snoreth, read. Lord Aberdeen left London at mid-night in a sleeping car for the north. In the morning, when he . was awakened, he saw a stranger opposite him. -'Excuse me," said the stranger, " may I ask if you are rich " Somewhat surprised, his lordship replied that he was tolerably well to do. " May I ask," concontinued the stranger, " how rich you are ?" " Well, if it will do you any good to know," was the reply, " I suppose I have several hundred thousand pounds." " Well," went on the stranger, "if . were as rich as you and snored as loudly as you, I should take a whole car, so as not to interrupt the sleep of others." Mr J. G. Wilson, M.H.R., has addressed the following letter to the PostmasterGeneral : Dear Sir, — Now that the local bodies have to pay for their own valuation they find it falls very heavily upoa them. In some instances the valuation costs more than £100. The clerical work of sending out notices to each person will be large, and the cost (if stamped) considerable. I write to ask — aa representative of several local bodies, all of whioh have more to do with their money than they at present overtake—to ask you if you could see your way to somewhat lighten that expenditure by allowing the notices with valuation and rates to go .free by post. By doing this you will assist the local bodies considerably and at small cost to Government. Trusting you will comply with this request of the looal bodies. — I have the honour, etc., J ajjes G. Wilson. Experiments have been made by Drßuehor in submitting working bees to a regimen of alcoholised honey. The effect is astonishing. They revolt against their queen, and give themselves over to idleness, brigandage, and pillage until they are cast out by their fellows! A contemporary says : — " Shopkeepers would do well to keep a sharp look-out for counterfeit florins." Yes, but at the same time shopkeepers had better not re-lax their look-out for the real florins. Every coin is of consequence now-a-days. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. (Ld.), hold their first wool sale of the season in Wellington to-morrow. There appears to be an impression that prices will rule very low. We hope not. We understand Councillors are satisfied with the way the Messrs Dudson's have carried out their Moutoa road oontraot. Sir Bichard Owen discovered by observation that a sheep moves its jaws thirtythree times over every mouthful it swallows. Every Mormon pays 10 per cent. of his inoome to the churoh, Charles Dickens continues to be the Prinoess of Wales's favourite novelist. She has read every one of his tales several times through; Not satisfied with having acquired monopolies of the tobacco trade, and more recently of the lucifer .match trade, the French Government now hanker after tbe monopoly of the trade in spirituous liquors. A bill having this object in view is now before the Chamber of Deputies. Madame Lindt, a Parisian, recently made a personal application to the court of the 18th Arrondissement of Paris, and on being informed that her case had been struck off the list, she swiftly opened a red cotton handherchief, seized what the horrified spectators imagined to be a round, white bomb, and hurled it at the President's head. Clerks, avou.s, and secretaries bowed their heads and crouched low, but the majesty of the law neither ducked nor dodged from his seat. The bomb struck the panel close to the President's left ear, burst into a thousand fragments, and turned out to be— a rotten egg. The plaintiff became the defendant, and was sent to prison.

The Wanganui Committee have refused all applications for 11 o'clock licenses, but the quarter of an hour after 10 o'clock is is still allowed. A Wellington paper saya "the fact remains that those who, looking at the surface of society, imagine there is but little sufferiug or distress in the community have but to attend a single meeting of the Benevolent Trustees in order to be disillusionised." And still the Opposition papers We condemned fd t' reminding the public that the times are worse than they have been for years. Mr H. S. Fitzherbert of Palmerston has been appointed solicitor in connection with the Government Advances to Settlers Act. More spoils to the victors. The next English and European mail, per s.s. Gothic, via Eio de Janeiro will close at the local oflice on Tuesday, the llth day of December, at 8 p.m. The 'Frisco mail closes at 8 p.m. on 'Xmas Day. Dr and Mrs Dermer left Foxton by this morning's train en route to Wairoa, north of Napier. Dr Harris was in town last night and left this morning for Levin where he proposes to take up Dr Dermer's practice. Mr Henry Coley has made a good start with his metalling contract, and has now twelve drays at work. He is getitng the gravel from the old pit in use by the Borough. We are informed that Dr Wilkinson will arrive in a few days to take up Dr Dermer's praotice in Foxton. The Queen of the Sonth has been sailing with full loads of wool from this port for aome time. She takes in 400 bales today. Marshall, Field & Co., of Chicago, are doing somewhat the same kind of business that the "Louvre" and "Bon Marche" do in Paris. Their wholesale store floor space covers twelve acres, the building is 130 feet high, and there are 1800 employees, tn their retail establishment they employ 3000 men and women behind the counters. • One of Mr Nelson's patent machines for clearing land was made by Mr B. H. Barber, and despatched to Mr Cooper last week. Mr Barber is now making one for the Messrs Barber Bros., of Himatangi. Sir W. Vernon Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has sent a delegate to Sweden to report on the Gothenburg system, by which alcoholic drinks are dispensed by persons deriving no profit from their sale. After prolonged diplomatic effort, a five years' treaty between England and Tibet has been settled, opening a plaoe called Yatung to British subjects for trading purr poses. The treaty came into force on the first of May last. On the __th November, Edwin Hardy, undertaker, of Kurow, was charged with neglecting to transmit to the District Registrar of Deaths a certificate of burial, as required by Section 32 of the Registration Act. Defendant was fined, and ordered to pay in addition 7s costs. Undertakers should take warning by the above case. They are not only liable for the transmission of the burial certificate, but are responsible under Section 23 for the registration of any death when in charge of the funeral, and the proceedings will be against them when the law is not obeyed. London had hospital accommodation for one sick person out of every 133 residents 200 years ago, but now it has only accommodation for one out of 660. Every year there are 70,000 more residents in London. 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, <feo., Diarrhcea, Dysentery, Disease of the Kidneys and Urinary Organ_. 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 artiole and ejeot all others. — [advt.] Messrs Boss and Sandford, of the Bon Mabche, Palmerßton, are now showing their new spring and summer goods in all departments, ex s.s. Aorangi and lonio. The seleotion 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, i present season's show of general drapery, dress goods, mantles, blouses and millinery, &c.,&c. Boss and Sandford — Advt. With a view of making this sale the event of the year, two speoial buyers were despatohed from Te Aro House, one to attend tbe great sale of Edwards, Bennett & Cos. wholesale stook, and the other to piok out bargains from the manufactures of the -well-known Kaiapoi Woollen Co. Both these gentlemen have returned after a most suooessful trip, and the total result of their efforts is to be seen in tbe astonishing bargains now being sold at the Wholesale Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington. With aU these advantages in purohasing, it wonld be strange indeed if the sale was not one to be remembered. Any attempt to enumerate even a tithe of the oheap lines now at the disposal of customers, would be worse than useless in the space at our oommand, but a prioe list whioh has been printed will be sent, post free, to the address of any person applying to the Wholesale Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington. "It's an ill wind that blows nobody good " is a very old saying but hone the less true. Whilst the great depression,existing at Sydney at the present time, has oaused a deplorable amount of misery, yet the people of Wellington and the surrounding distriots will reap a gigantic benefit. During his visit to Sydney reoently, Mr James Smith purchased at absurdly low prices a. large stock which is now beibgsold at the Wholesale Drapery Warehouse,' Te Aro House, Wellington.