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Manawatu Herald, 14 December 1895, Page 2

Mr Gibson, the agent for the New Zealand Insurance Company, has now the useful office calpndara whioh are presented by the (Jompany to their numerous insurers. We are obliged bj the receipt of two for our business rooms. Mr George Hutchison has retired from the Midland Railway Arbitration ca3e. Mrs Jarlpy's Waxworks, whoever she may be, will be shown at the School Concert on Thursday nest. All the youngsters in the town must be taken to see them, family h'kenesses will be astonishing. Our worthy Stipendiary Magistrate wherever he may have been brought up evidently knows an Irishman and what he is like as a conversationalist when he has a grievance. On Thursday, in Court, a litigant from Ould Ireland desired dearly to express his feelings and asked "Your Worship, will yoa allow me to say a word ?" Mr Stanford knew what such a "word" wou'd be, and so replied " No, certainly not." The scholars at the State School are quickly disposing of the tickets for the School Concert.

We acknowledge that Mr Whibley'g raspberries are the ripest and best we have tasted this year, and we are obliged for the sample; Our services in such like matters are always at the disposal cf our readers. Our Woodville frienda must be getting a Iriflu damp as it is said by the Examiner that up to Wednesday the record was a continuous 62 days dtiring which rain had fallen, if the climate dees not change the townspeople will not care about " wetting their whistle " even in the 'Xmas holidays. A fatality occurred at Bushmere, on the Waipoka River on Thursday when two young ladies, Miss Paiethorpe and Miss Norris lost their lives, being drowned in a pool in that river. . The great Bacon said "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprise either of virtue or mischief." Yet a mau named William Cadman has just been sentenced iv London to seven years' imprisonment for bigamy. He was found to have no less than seven wives and 23 children. Boys have sharp eyes. A young hopeful introduced a beetle an inch and a quarter in length by a quarter inch in width, into our house the other day and placed it on the table, and every time its nose was hit it made as splendid a somersault as could be (leaked. The Parish of Shoreditch, London, has erected a plant by which electric light for the parish will be generated by the burning of the parish refuse. Great preparations are already being made at Moscow for the forthcoming Coronation of the Czar, which is at present expected to take place in the spring of 1896. The " new women " are coming to the front in Finland. They have formed volunteer fire brigades in Helsingfors and other towns, and have done first-rate work. There should _ be a glorious spree at the Russian coronation as the supervisors have had 6£ millions of roubles placed at their disposal. It is to be hoped no Nihili-.ts will be there. How regretfully many will learn the following fact. The duty on gin in Africa is only about Is a gallon. Apart from the duty it is asserted that much of this spirit is worth but 4£d per quart. In Lagos alone the natives drank no less than 812,000 gallons of this in 1893. The Diamond Fruit Company of California cultivate 600 acres of orchard and have 30,000 ppaeh trees ! Messrs F. Hennessy & Co. add a postscript to their letter to the editor which app j ared in the last issue on the third page, and will still be found there. Mr A. Kerr conveys .his 'Xmas greetings to our readeis by mpans of an inset in today's issue. Those who have a " sweet tooth" will be wonderfully well pleased with what appears in it. So are the little people whose heads are seen above the announcement. Everybody must goto the School Concert next week. Great preparation has been made to amuse one and all. All the flags for British ships of war, except the royal standards, are made in the Government dockyards, and the enormous number required may be judged from the fact that in the colour loft at Chathamalone about {18,000 flags are made in a year. The New South Wales Executive has confirmed the sentence of death pa??ed upon Thomas Sheridan, of the bogus British Medical Institute, for having murdered Jessie Nicholls, in the course of an illegal operation. At Mr Hobbs' bee farm at Aramoho, thpre are in all 170 hives of bees, which, owing to the very wet weather of late, have had to be fed, and have consumed no less than 16 cwt of honey (brought from Auckland) and 3 cwt of sugar. General Booth told an interviewer, in Melbourne, he was getting weary of the work of the Salvation Army. His successor was fixed upon, and would be nominated by himself, but he could not 1 disclose his name, because should the selected officer fall below the standard of Christian excellence, a change could easily be made. ' . * A document of astonishing interest has come to light in the Oriental department of the British Museum. It is a small clay tablet, about Bin by 4in, and containing about 98 lines of a very fine .cuneiform writing. It is made of Nils mud, and bears upon it the marriage proposal of a Pharaoh for the hand of the daughter of the king of Babylon. It is evidently the duplicate copy of a letter written about b.o. 1530. The document admits us into the innermost secrets of ancient palace life in Egypt, with the jealousies and intrigues of the harem. On Sunday the Rev. G. Aitkens will (D.V.) hold morning service at Shannon, and evening service at Eoxton. In case some of the readers of the Hekald should miss my advertisement on the other page, I wish to mention that aB Xmas is so near all requiring presents of fancy goods should pay me a visit. I can assure them of a very large stock to choose from and every attention to view wilhout being pressed to buy. Besides fancy goods I have tripod Japanese tables, workboxes, desks, and trays. In glassware, ornaments of the newest designs and prettiest colouring. Also handsomely bound and illustrated books just suitable for 'Xmas boxes. My address is Joe Tos, Main street Foxton. Certainly the most effective medicine in the world is Sanders aud Son's Euoalypti Extract. Test its eminently powerful effect in Coughs, Colds, Influenza ; the relief instantaneous. In serious oases and accidents of all kinds, bo 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, Ac, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Disease of the Kidneys and Urinary Organd. 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 1 approved article and eject all others. — [advt.] One of the drawbacks of country life, at least to the small settler, is undoubtedly the increased price he has to pay for any articles of clothing or general drapery, by reason of the extra charges for freight or carriage. This drawback need exist no longer, for extra charges are done away with under the new parcel system which has been inaugurated at Te Aro House, Wellington. Under this system any of the parcels advertised will be s^nt to any addrpss in New Zealand, post free, the prices charged being exnotly the same as those at which the goods are sold over the counter in Wellington. As may be imagiufd, however, this liberal offer is only extended to cash customers, and all orders for advertised parcels must be accompanied by cash foi the amount, before the order can be executed at Te Aro House, Wellington.

In illustration of the system we will give i an examp'e. Take for instance No. 7 parcel, which contains 7 yards of double width ■ stylish fancy check tweed ; 2 dozen buttons and silk and twist to match ; 2 yards of body lining and 4 yards of skirt lining. ; This complete parcel will be fcent, post free, to any address on receipt of 15s 9d, ' from Te Aro House, Wellington.