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Manawatu Herald, 15 August 1896, Page 2

It is averred that the Prince of Wales netted £50,000 by his Derby victory.

Mr J. R. McMillan will, on Thursday next, sell at Foxton, by public auction, a consignment of fruit trees from Messrß Newport <H Son's nursery.

Quotations for rabbitakins are:— Best winter greys, lid to Is Id ; medium 9d to lOJd ; autumns, 6d to B Jd ; summer 3Jd to 5£ per lb.

The third test match, England versus Australians, was won easily by the English team by 66 runs, the Australians only making 44 runs in their second innings.

A wire was received this morning to the effeot that the Kia Toa footballers would not arrive today on account of the weather, but will play here next Saturday if fine.

The Education Board has agreed to send the money for the fenoing at Moutoa school on teoeipt of voucher. The Board would not agree to ereot a poroh.

To celebrate the opening of his enlarged premises, Mr Loveday has decided to hold a clearing sale for 21 days, when bargains will be offered sufficient to tempt the coin from the longest of pockets.

In answer to Dr Newman on Wednesday, the Premier said he had never spoken to the Public Trustee or the Stipendiary Magistrate about the appointment of Auditor and Controller-General.

The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Company, Ltd., quote sheepskins as being in good demand. They also advise that skins ahou d be hang across battens and dri d under oover.

The jury found Austin Kirby guilty of aocussing and threatening to accuse. Gertain quebtions were reserved for the Court of Appeal and sentence was deferred until the questions were decided by the Court.

The Minister for Lands says he intends to introduce legislation with a view of making Mount Egraont a forest reserve and the Pahia Banges a national park. The 'Bill is being prepared and would be introduced at an early date.

There was a bit of shuffling of feet in the Masterton District Court the other day says an exchange. The constable was requested to keep silence. He did so by exclaiming in a loud voice, "Owld yer tongue theie widyer feet."

It is advertised that a tea and concert will be held at the Public Hall on Wednesday evening, when a farewell will be taken of the Rev. George and Mrs Aitkens, and a small presentation will be made to them. The charge for admission has been fixed at a very small sum.

The rapid manner in which certain modern ohurns convert cream into batter is one of the wonders of the dairying age. Batter oan now be made while the breakfast table is being laid, 5 or 6 minutes being a 1 the time needed to churn, while ia a few more minutes the batter oan bo made up and brought to the table.

In Meßsra P. Hennessy & Co's window there it a very fine show of smoked hams and bacon. The meat is well cat and oared, and we are glad to learn was bred and fattened in the district. The coring was done in Wellington Last year Messrs Hennessy & Co introduced this plan of transforming pigs and found the method was much appreciated by buyers and tellers,

The property of the Salvation Army in the U.S.A. is valued at nearly £1,000,000.

The second innings of the Australians lasted only an hour and a quarter. Mr Mclntosh, the Viotorian sportsman, has won twenty of the leading events in shooting ia England, New York and Belgium.

We learn, says the Manawata Times, that Dr Rockstrow will be a candidate for No. 2 Ward at the approaching Borough elections.

We have on view at oar office a map of the North Island showing the boundaries of the eleotoral districts as proposed by the Bepresentation Commission.

Two and a half-millions is going to be borrowed by Went Australia for a water supply to Ooolgardie and the mining district around it.

Miss F. Williard, the head of the temperance movement in America, recommends cycling as a means of reformation for drunkards. Miss Willard is a devoted cyclist, as is also Lady Henry Somerset. The experience of Germany proves that a State provision for old age is a very complex matter, and needs wise statesmanship, as well as ardent philanthropy, to make it safe..

The Review of Reviews writing of the last colonial Budget says— A balance-sheet usually has some of the qualities of a orytogram bat Mr Seddon's arithmetic is exceptionally obscure, as, according to it, both the surplus and the publio debt of the colony have increased in the same year I

The Mexican Herald has a print showing John Ball in a flying-ship with a big gan at the bows pointed at a person in the clouds. It is headed " Only a question of time." And gives the imaginary conversation of John Bull with St. Peter— "Hullo there. I hear you have some streets paved with gold, well, 1 want a re-survey of the district showing that they belong to me."

The startling announcement is made that there are over 160 lepers in Paris. One of thesa was picked up in a f tinting condition and taken to the St. Louis Hospital, where there is a special leper ward. The patients are attended to by an infirmarian who suffers periodically from a jnild form of leprosy. Dr Hallopeau, of the same hospital, does not oonsider the leprosy now in France aa strongly contagious. A. remarkable take of fish was made last Friday night from the boats of Mr W. Huroomb, when working on the Terawhiti side of Island Bay, is reported by the Wanganui Herald. There were in it sixteen different kinds of fUb, five of which Mr Huroomb is unable to identify, though he has been in the business some twentyseven years. Prominent among them was a fine fiah having some resemblance to both the mountain brown trout and the butter fish.

The Sydney Bulletin takes off, in a Bketch, Mr Ziman's proposal to offer £1000 towards the cost of a £500,000 battleship for the British Navy. It presents a large steamer with the following painted on its side "The Holy Moses Investment Company of New Zealand. 200,000,000 shares at £1 each." A. man in a rowing boat says " Mein Gott 1 Isuk, think of der moral efleot upon der British inveßtor."

The latest trotting sulky ia an entirely unique departure. It has only one wheel (whioh is of oourse air-tyred and tangentspoked), and the driver site over it as on a bicycle. There are no shafts, the frame being modelled somewhat after the principle of a safety bicycle, which, extending forward, iB fastened to the centre of the horses. This arrangement although keeping the sulky upright, yet allows euffioient ' play ' for the wheel when taking corners.

A deputation representing the flax industry waited upon the Minister of Lands on Tuesday morning, urging that an expert be sent to America and Great Britain in connection with tha grading of fibre, and to make a general canvass of manufacturers as to what are the causes injuring the sale of the New Zealand article. Petitions in favour of this course were presented on behalf of Manawatu, Wellington and Marlborough flax growers and they suggested that Mr John Holmes, of Wellington and Marlborough, should be selected as grader. The Minister promised to give the matter full consideration.

Mr J. G. Wilson introduced the deputation of members interested in the flax trade to the Minister for Lands and presented a petition signed by flaxmillers, storekeepers, and merchants in the Foxton district urging Government to take immediate steps to revive the hemp industry in the colony, and pointing out that its expansion largely affected the interests of the colonists. He also expressed the opinion that the revival of the industry would go a long way towards the solution of the unemployed difficulty, as it would absorb a great deal of the unskilled labour of the colony. Mr Hogg also spoke in favour of granting the petition.

Under this system an; of the parcels ad* vertised will be Bent to 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.

Certainly the most effective medicine in the world is Sanders and Son's Eucalypti fixtraot. Test its eminently powerful effeot in Coughs, Colds, Influenza ; the relief instantaneous. In serious cases and acoidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scalding?, 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 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 article and eject 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 sent, 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 inortaaed price he has to pay for any articles o' 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 tin? new parcel system whioh has been in- >:, orated ai Te Aro House, Wellington . YOU CAN'T I

Have a case and eat it too, but you can hay« your meat and keep it in the warmest of weather by using " Saisauxe/' tba great food pwwrrative.