Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, MARCH 81. 1896.

Manawatu Herald, 31 March 1896, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, MARCH 81. 1896.

Mr Andrew Jonson secured the work of repairing the Wirokino punt. Messrs Abrahams and Williams hold a stock sale at Palmerston on Thursday. Milk at the looal creamery up to test is now 2|d per gallon.

Men when engaged in battle have to take matters as they come. It may not be out of place to mention that at the last match of the Polo tournament both Messrs McLennan and Gower were very ill, and should not have attempted to play. No one grudges the Manawata Club again securing the Cup ; they were good hosts, and had worked hard to make the tourna- j ment a credit to Palmerston, but nnder other circumstances the odds were not likely to have been so great as are now reOorded. Meeting Mr John Stevens, M.H.R., the other day, We took the opportunity of asking him about the custom in India as to the indiscriminate use of ponies in polo. Mr Stevens naturally took much interest in the game in India, and saw three of the best matches played. He is sure that the use of one pony for every ten minutes' spell is only what is allowed. The usual sitting of the S.M. Court will be held on Thursday. The Frohtbitionist reports that it was Messrs Pearce and Thynne who voted against granting the transfer of the Post Office Hotel, at the last lioensing meeting. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., reports that locally hemp cantinues in poor demand at prices lately ruling. Pluck is exemplified in the local Tennis Club sending a team to do battle with the .Otaki Club on Easter Monday. The Otaki Club have the privilege of Miss Nunnelley, the lady champion being a member of their club. Mrs Stewart and the Misses Whyte and Purcell, and Messrs Aitkens, Gowles, Cook and Little are chosen as the Foxton representatives. The Easter holidays are close upon us, next Friday being Good Friday. Shooting commences on Saturday. The Banks take many holidays. After locking up on Thursday they open for business no more until the following Wednesday. Sir Walter Buller, Messrs Venn, Rolls, and you would-be representatives of this electoral district, if you cannot raise the price of an advertisement, you might at any rate seize an early moment to let us know something of your views political. To a good man such an opportunity as the present should be most valuable. Joe Tos has grown many onions this season. Tn the large shed at the back of his Btore are onions from floor to roof, a wonderful mass all tied to upright scantlings, thus forming rows of circular pillars of onions. He expects to harvest some 150 tons. The Rev. H. M. Murray, Presbyterian clergyman, of Feilding, has the reputation of being the best Hebrew scholar In the colony. Mr Chettle, who has been accountant in the Bank of Australasia at Palmerston for the past two years, has received notice of his promotion to be accountant in the Dunedin branch. The Registrar-General hopes to have the result of the census ready for the Representation Commissioners by September. If the election is to wait for the re-adjust-ment of representation, it will not be held till late in the year. The Campbelltown Dairy Company recommended in the annual report the payment of a dividend of six per cent. In Campbelltown the average price paid for milk was 3Jd. The Tikorea School was examined by Inspector Bindon last week. Presented in standards, 23 ; passed, 23. Standard represented 3, passed 3; Standard 111. — presented 3, passed 3 ; Standard II. — presented 6, passed 6 ; Standard I.— presented 11, passed 11 ; Primer Class, 9. The Inspector considers a highly satisfactory year's work has been done. Mr James Nairn is the teacher. With a paid-up capital of £561, the Oampbelltown Dairy Company sold £7026 worth of butter. The directors reported they had made no losses in the business. The Wellington Education Board has decided to establish cooking classes in connection with the schools under its charge. How would it be to do something in that line in the local school ? At 5 o'clock on Sunday evening it was reported to the police at Palmerston that two boys, aged between 9 and 12 years, sons of Mr William Weekes, farmer, of Awapuni, had been drowned in a stream of the Manawatu River while bathing. Both bodies were recovered and conveyed to the residence of their parents. The sad accident was a terrible blow to the bereaved parents, and the deepest sympathy for their great misfortune will be felt all over the district. Standard. According to intelligence from Formosa, the capitalist 3at Taiwan-lu, the capiial of the island, and the peaceful entry of the Japanese, which brought the long campaign to a conclusion, were due to the gallant conduct of two Scotch missionaries, Messrs Ferguson and Barclay, who at the critical moment, when the excited population were expecting the worst, approaohed the Japanese and led them in peace into the oity. Miss Balfour, in her book "Twelve hundred miles in a waggon," says that at the capital of Germau East Africa there were numbers of native women working on the roads, and " being driven to their work by a white man carrying a large raw-hide whip." The number of convicts astonished her. " Everywhere you oame upon gangs of four and eight, often women, chained together by the necks, and hounded along by a black policeman or soldier." Mass will be celebrated in the Catholic Church, Foxton, at 11 a.m., and evening devotions at 6.30 p.m., on Sunday next. Certainly the most effective medicine 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 accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burnsr scaldings, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy— no swellings— no inflammation. 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Under this system any of the parcels advertised will be sem co any address in New Zealand, post free, the prices charged being exactly the same as those at which the goods are sold over the counter in Wellington. As may be imagiued, however, this liberal offer is only extended to cash customers, and all orders for advertised parcels must be accompanied by cash for the amount, before the order can be executed at Te Aro House, Wellington. In illustration of the system we will give an example. Take for instance No. 7 parcel, which contains 7 yards of double width stylish fancy cheok tweed ; 2 dozen buttons and silk and twist to matoh ; 2 yards of body lining and 4 yards of skirt lining. This complete parcel will ba sent, post free, to any address on receipt of 15s 9d, from Te Aro House, Wellington.