Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1896.

Manawatu Herald, 7 March 1895, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1896.

| It appears to be the opinion that the •« burns " down the Company's lino have to:n very sa isfactoiy. i Grass seed sowing is now in full swing on the burnt bush. The Stipendiary Magistra'e travelled from Palmerstou to Uiaki on Tuesday morning on Licensing business. We wonder when he arrived at the determination to do so, as though he took the trouble to warn committee men on Saturday not. to go to Otaki, he never advised them of the faot that he intended to go ? Onoe upon a time, tho only hotel in Levin was own-d, so it is said, by Messrß Peter Bartholomew and Q. F. Roe. They, or the first owners anyhow, sold to MoCormiok, and Mi' Garland purchased v rom trim. We heard Mr Stuokoy very vehement in his denunciation of our Shannon contemporary, on Tuesday. It appears that a statement was made in iis columns that typhoid fever was bad at Levin. Mr Stuckey said that there was not and there had not been any typhoid fever in Levin, and that the spreading of such reports was most mischevious. He backed bis statement up by mentioning that a doctor specially sent up by the Government had declared that no such fever existed there. The West Coast Mail has fallen into on error, probably owing to the change of editorship and proprietorship in suggesting that our leading article of last Saturday was the first referenoa we had made to the attempt to place a second licensed house in I Levin where the people do not want it. Sh ep do not seem to be improving in ■ value. Ihe latest quotation by Wei uigton I buyers is, fat wethers 7s, fat ewes 6s t |

The okas of people who bny land at £16 and £16 an acre to graze sheep on is well illustrated by an actual conversation which took place at a sheep sale at Palmerston gui c lately. Auctioneer going round ihe yards to an elderly experimentalist " I will show you a pen of t.wo-tooth sheep " Buyer — " Never mind, I think I would rather they had all their teeth!" It strikes us the would be buyer of sheep had not cut quite all his teeth. The threshing machine shows that, some very fair crops of grain have be^n harvested in the district (says the Rangitikei Advocate). Several of the oat crops have reached fifty-five bushels, and a field of wheat grown by Mr T. Henson, of Sandon, threshed 37 bushels. Mr Gibbs says the whe t is one of the best samples he has put through his machine during the last three years. The state of affairs in Newfoundland is very bad. According to a pro in^nr. citizen of Si. John's, the colony and people are ruined. No regular business i 3 done ', there is no money 10 do it wi h. There is no prospect of it. There is no means of conveying food to the wre ched people round the coast, and they must apparently perish by hundreds. Mr Cecil Rhodes, the Premier of South Africa, said to a deputation which waited on him with regard to the sale of drink among the natives of South Africa, that he hud too clear an idea of what was profitable, to sell them any, adding " Wo want these natives to do our work on the line and in the mines, and do you think we sha'l be so ab^m-d as to kill them, or alow >•. .!. .v kill dieinstivfs, by giving them drink." A large hall is being buil* af Wanganni for missions and nnd nominoiionol preach ing. It has sheds for conveyances and horses. The Rev. Dr Moulton has been appointed a magistrate of the borough of Cambridge. Dr Moulton was president of the Wesleyan Conference in 1890. He is author of several valuable theological works, and was a member of the New Testament Revision Committee. This- is the first Wesleyan minister who has been made a J.P. Dr Jayne, Bishop of Chester, has eince 1892 been advocating the introduction into England of the Gothenburg system for restricting the sale of intoxicating liquors. A 'limes special correspondent has carefully investigated tho working of this systorn, and has shown in the columns of the Time* that the system is a failure in Gothenburg itself in preventing drunkenness. This special correspondent " has seen more drunkenness in a Scotch town on a Saturday night, but never in an English one " than ho paw in Gothenburg; it is worse than Cardiff nnd the evil ia increasing. Cardinal Vaughan appeai'3 to have set up a Papal Court in England. On a recent occasion tho Cardinal wearing the scarlet robe of a Papal prince, and assisted by Judge Stoner and Judge Bagslmwe, two of Her Majesty's County Court judgss, as legal assessors, held a court. The trial had relation to a monastic dispute. The Quern's counsel, Sir Edward Clarke, M.P., and other counsel appeared before the Court representing the parties concerned. Wo acknowledge the receipt of Messrs McKee & Gamble's N.Z. Pre.33 Ag-ncy Almanac for this year. It is a good specimen of the firm's capabilities in printing iv various colours. Mr H. Coley secured the contract for metalling the road from Levin to Heatherlea. He intends making a start at the work to-morrow or Saturday. Somebody has not approved of "Golden Coolgardie, " for on a tree at Woolgangee therp have been found the following lines : — D — Uoo'gardie, d — the track ; D — the road, both there and back ; 1) — the country, d- the weather ; D— the goldfields altogether! Though the Magistrate left Otaki on Tuesday direct'y he had arrived there, happy in the thought he had secured the adjournment he had previously so autocratically ordered, he should not have done so. Ths business before the committee did not consist only of considering the transfer of the license from Mauakaii to Levin, and others who had business, and who were in attendance were dismissed with the curt intimation that there was no quorum. The Otaki Mail endeavours to prove that our remarks on Mr P. Bartholomew's conduct at the Levin meeting could not be supported by the report published by it. We based our contentions on its accuracy, and if the report is accurate there can be no doubt but that we were right, as the conclusion of the meeting is thus given in the Mail:— Mr Bartholomew again roae and on the chairman explaining that Mr Atkinson bad not finished, Mr Bartholo mew said he wasn't going to stay all nigbt, and the uproar grew from bad to worse, nnril the obairman decided to leave the •hair. Mr J. R. Harper, who has been representing the Singer Manufao uring Com pany in these districts for the last seven years, is about to retire from the Palmerston office to take another appointment in the same company. During the week he has been paying his farpwell visit. As the change will be of considerable advantage to Mr Harper we congratulate him on having obtained the same. He has been no ed for his genial and obliging manner to all, and his promotion appears to be Well merited. Finikin sticklers for what are known as good manners, want to sneer at Americans and oth?r<» who are accustom' d, especially after dinner, to reclin • in a lounging chair wi h their f^et po-ed on something elevaied, th ■ mantelpiece for instance have had the ground cut from under then' f*et by the discussion at ihe Academy of M-di ciuo the other day. According to the latest medical theory this is the attitude most conductive to digestion, and is thai adopted, more or less, by all animals, even those whose organisation differs moat, from that of man. The ordinary sitting posture is the very worst possible. The doctors, likewise, discussed the case of an j actress, who long suffered from an apparently incurable form of indigestion, all traces of which disappeared on her having to take a role, in which she Was obliged to simulate an African dance involving various unusual contortions of the lower part of the body. Mr Patrick Guerin has been appointed collector of the dog tax for the Borough. The views of Berlin medical ciroles appear to be very much divided on the subject of the new cure for diphtheria. At a numerously attended mcc ing of the Medical Association held recently in Berlin, M. Hansemann, the assistant of Professor Hirchow, read a paper in which he stated that after a careful investiga ion of the question he had come to the following conclusion : — (1) The Loffler bacciilus oannot be indi-pu'ably recognized as the oause of diphtheria, as it occurrs in many ot ier diseases ; (2) the prophylactic character of the serum has not been proved ; (3) it i- not a specific remedy, as certain cures have not been demonstrated, and (4) the serum is by no means uninjurious to the human body Dr riansemann'a criti- ■ cisms were heartily applauded. I

The Paris correspondent of the Leeds Mercury quotes the evidence of ft member of the French University in reference to the effect of the present military system in France " A dozen years and France will be bankrupt, although we are the richest people in Europe. We spend one-third of our revenue, which is 3.500,000,000 francs a year, on the defences of the country." The death is announced of the Eev. George Pratt, survivor of the early band of Samoan missionaries, aged 77. He lent valuable aid in the translation of the Scriptures into the Samoan language, ! and compiled a Samoan dictionary and grammar. Archbishop Laud, whose memory is being revived in England by the commemoration of the 250ih anniversary of his execution, was hatdly a prelate whose memory is i worthy of preservation. For attending Di- j vine service at what was termed a dissent* ' ing conventicle, Laud caused some to have th' ir ears cut off, their noses slit, and their foreheads branded with the letters S S. (the meaning of which was " seditious Bcoundrel .) Sister Edith of the West London Mission was recently elected to the St. Panoras Board of Guardians at the top of the poll by a large majority. Certainly the most effective medioine in the world is Sanders and Son's Eucalypti Extract, lest 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. 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.] Heads of families, storekeepers, settlers careful housewives, young and old, rich and poor, alike will save heaps of money by making their purchases at the Great Partnership Sale, now going on at Te Aro Hoii3e, Wellington. The announcement made in another par of this paper that a sale of greater magnitude than ever yet attempted by To Aro [louse is now being held should arrest the attention of everyone in this part of the Colony. Early in the year Mr Smith admits to a partnership in his business a commercial gentlemen who has long been associated with the London buying for Te Aro House. To thoroughly reduca and prepare the stock previous to tho partnership stock taking sweeping reductions will be made in all D partments, the stock must be reduced by £15,000, and this splendid Drapery Btock at Te Aro House will be offered to the public at most tempting prices. Te Aro House has long held the premier position as the "Leading Family Drapery Warehouse," and further developments are now taking place to inaugurate the year 1895.