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Manawatu Herald, 11 August 1896, Page 2

I The total length of fencing on the railway lines is 2,900 miles. The railways earned £2 16s per cent, on a capital cost of £15,435,532. Nearly two million of cattle, sheep and pigs travelled by railway last year. It is believed that whales may live for a thousand years, The Queen of the South arrived this morning a full ship " chock-a-block. 1 ' Mr and Mrs Pickering returned by the steamer, after a pieasant fortnight's holiday on Kapiti. The contract price for uniform caps for guards and porters is four shillings, drivers four shillings and nine pence. Bangitsinjhi, the famous Indian player, has completed 2000 runs in first-class cricket. A solid nugget, weighing eight ounces, has been picked out of the King Solomon mine, Mahakipawa, Marlborough. All the wells in the Rakaia have become dry, in consequence, it is thought, of the river having changed its coarse. The no-confidence debate has fortunutely come to an end in the House, resulting in a big vote in favour of the Government. At a trial of Thistle Milking Machines in South Australia the opinion was that the work of the machine was superior to handmilking. It is rumoured in Otaki that Mr A. 8. Menteith, solicitor, of Wellington, will contest the Otaki seat at the forthcoming general election. We are glad to learn that there is every prospect, according to the Levin Express, that Dr Lamb will be appointed doctor to the Horowhenua U.A.O.D. Lodge. Mr McCloskey notifies he has removed into larger and more convenient premises, which have been specially fitted up for him by Messrs P. Hennessy & Co. Intense cold was experienced in Central Otago about ten days ago, the thermometer registering 10 degrees below freezing point. A pot of ink in the office of the Mount Ida Chronicle was frozen hard after the fire had been burning for an hour and a half. The new railway bridge aoross the Oroua river is finished.- The bridge is a truss bridge of 60ft Bpans, built on two rows of ironbark piles. The piles are strongly braced with old iron rails. The timber in the bridge is all iron bark, and the work was done by the Railway Department. That is just so. During a recent debate, the Premier being the speaker, Mr McGuire inquired of the Speaker, " I suppose that you, Sir, cannot prevent prevent the Minister from drawing on bis imagination for facts?" To which Mr Speaker replied " No ; my control over members does not extend that far.' Two specimens of rare fi9h called scopelus, found on the New Brighton beach, have been presented to the Christchurch Museum, and are now believed to be the first of the kind found in the South Island. They are very much like the frost fish in shape. At night they swim on the top of the sea, and are of a silver oolour. At the Spitttemarkt, in Berlin, there ia a coffee tavern where waiters and tips are oonspiouous by their absence. All along the walla of the establishment automatic machines are placed, each with a label revealing its contents— beer, coffee, tea, <fee. You take a glass, hold it up to the machine, insert a penny in the slot and you are served instanter. Many of our business men are enjoying (?; themselves in Palmerston to-day. By this morning's train the Mayor, Councillors Walsh, Osborne, and Westwood, and a few minor lights left for that charmidg city. The purpose of it all is to enjoy some conversation with a one time resident who carried on the business of a baker here. It is not often so many will travel so far for so little. An ingenious exhibition in London at present is the " soda-water drop." It is a I little capsule of mild steel containing liquid carbonic acid at a pressure of I,ooolb to the inch. You pop one of these on the > mouth of an elegant soda-water bottle, ; bring down a patent stopper arrangement on the top, which not only seals the bottle, but liberates the gas from the capsule, and without more ado your "soda " or seltzer is ready for its partner the whiskey. Bengal tigers are an expensive luxury. > A Calcutta paper gives a report of a repast ; made the other day by one of these royal brutes. An inmate of a menagerie belong. ' ing to a native nobleman, it somehow broke out and went for its fellow prisoners in b'ne style. By way of a wet, it began by i swallowing three or four monkeys, just as , a human feaster would prelude with oysters. A deer then came in its way and ' followed the apes ; then went down a couple ■ of kangaroos ; a billy goat, horns and all, | concluded the dinner. Clearly, Bengal , tigers must be expensive things to keep. The Hawke's Bay Herald says :— There evidently very little intention of proceeding with many polioy measures this session. The bulk of the Budget proposals will be held over for the general election. It is persistently stated that Ministers intend to propose a large increase in the land tax so as to capture the city votes, but that pro* posal would be resisted by some of their own followers, who rightly assert that this cry comes only from those who have not land to be taxed, And who are utterly indifferent whether or not the farmers of the oountry sink or swim under the heavy taxation imposed on them. At the meeting of the Borough Council of Feilding last Friday night the Mayor reported that the scheme for lighting the town would have to fall through owing to the inability of the Counoil to borrow sufficient money to carry out the necessary work. The amount required to establish the electric light was £8000, but apparently the Counoil nad no authority to borrow that sum. In the proceedings which had been taken hitherto sub-section 1 of section 182, of the Munioipal Corporation Act, had unfortunately been overlooked. This read : — ' The Counoil may from time to time raise a special loan for the purpose of undertaking some special public work in such portion of the Borough, provided that the aggregate amount of all loans to be raised for such purpose shall not exceed in any portion of a borough four times the amount which may be levied by general rates in such portion of the borough in any one year.' The. amount which may be levied in the proposed special rating district in any one year was £500, therefore, the utmost the Counoil could borrow would be £2000. - Under this system any of the parcels advertised will be sent to any address in New Zealand, post free, the prices charged being exactly the same aa 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 oustomers, 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. » MAKING BOTH ENDS MEET," is rather a difficult task in life with many but the expense of gosd cooking is rednaed to a minimum by using the SUN BAKING POWDER, purer and cheaper than moßt •then. Give it ft trial.

Certainly the most effective medicine in ] he world is Sanders and Son's Eucalypti ( 3x tract. Test its eminently powerful iffect in Conghs, Colds, Influenza ; the re- ' ief instantaneous. _ In serious oases and Looidents of all kinds, be they wounds, mrns, scaldings, bruises, sprains, it is the latest remedy — no swellings— no inflamnation. Like surprising effects produced n Group, Diphtheria, Bronchitis, Inflamnation of the Lungs, Swellings, <fee, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Disease of the Eidleys and Urinary Organ rf. In use at all Hospitals and medical olinics ; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy ; crowned trith medal and diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this Approved artiole and ejeot all others.— [advt.] 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 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 aent, post free, to any address on receipt of 15s 9d, from Te Aro House, Wellington. 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.