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Manawatu Herald, 25 August 1896, Page 2

Scarlet fever is reported to be bad in Levin. There was a partial eclipse of the moon on Sunday night. Earl of Glasgow term of office expires in Fobruary, when he goes Home. The s.s. Waihi has been successfully floated and taken to Wellington. The Town Clerk has a notice to-day as to where the balance-sheet of the Borough can be inspected. Messrs Abraham & Williams hold stock sales at Palmeraton on Thnrsday and Levin . on Friday. A line in the London markets — about 5 tons of rams horns offered and a small proportion Bold at £4 10s per ton. To night, to celebrate the block laying ceremony for the Primitive Methodist Sunday School, a meeting will be held at the church at which addresses will be interpersed with music. We are informed that judgments were delivered yesterday by the Magistrate at Palmerston in the cases of Perreau v. Anderson and Anderson v. Ferreau, whioh were against Mr Perreau. Messrs Thos. Westwood & Co. have an alteration in their advertisement over the leader. They are showing samples of seed potatoes, garden seeds, and pot plants, besides the good9 concerned in their general business. In our next issue will appear a change advertisement for Mr Edmund Osborne in wbioh he deals, almost exhaustively, as to the advantages of insuring in the fire offloe for whioh he is agent. Mr Smalley, New York correspondent of the Times, telegraphs that at the present time Major McKinley is safe to secure 140 votes, and Mr Bryan 186, The remainder, numbering 171, are, he says, doubtful. Mr J. B. MoMillan has reoeived instructions to hold an unreserved sale of drapery, clothing and boots and shoes at his salerooms, Foxton. The goods are from Mr F. Loveday's, and will be a repetition of the sales the public now so thoroughly understand as being, as they are announoed to be, by this firm. Constable Thomas Ward on Thursday evening fell off the train in the Lyttelton tunnel at 6 p.m. The acoident was not noticed by the train officials, and Ward lay for twelve hours before he was found. He died during the afternoon. The deceased, who was a single man, about 42 years, was very popular with his comrades in the force. (He was a nativa of the North of Ireland, and had been in the police force about 12 or 14 years.

Peaob trees are now in flower. ' Li Hung Chang has sailed for New York. Hoofs are sold by the ton and in London realise from £3 2s 6d to £6 15g. In London good round shank bones fetch from £8 12s Od to £10 153 per ton. The annual meeting of the Foxton Cricket Club is convened for next Friday at 8 p.m. at Whyte's Hotel. Mr T. K. Warburton, the Public Trustee has received the appointment of Auditor and Controller General. Lecky, in his work on democracy, says that the bane of democracy is " fpoils to the victors." la the examination of a bankrupt at Palraerston it was stated that during last year he took £3002 over the bar. TWO Weeks ago Mr Hughes had his cherry plums in blossom. They are the white variety. On Friday the Aid to Public Works and" Land Settlement Bill was introduced in the House by the Premier and after discussion the debate was adjourned to to-day. It is rumoured that the Marquis of Dufferin, late Viceroy in India, is likely to succeed Earl Cadogan aa Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. A pleasing character from Mr Earnahaw — From the very moment the Liberal Government acquired office they have been more corrupt in their appointments than any Government which has preceded them. Professor Hilpreoht, of Pennsylvania, has discovered in a cave at Nippur, in Babylonia, vases on which are inscriptions that indicate their age as extending back 10,000 years. Mr Brabant, S.M., whose district extends from Wanganui to Horowhenua, is of the opinion that the Maoris are not decreasing, while the number of half-castes show an increase. An abundance of apples and its near relative, the pear, would give us clear, rosy complexions in a marvelously short space of time, instead of the many pallid, listless faces that are met upon all sides. An M.H.B. in the House declared " So far as the co-perative works of the colony are concerned, I say the Government have sweated labour, and under the present regime, the wages-men are worse off than they were under the old contract system." Mr Staff, of Heatherlea has, says the Express, the distinction of being the first in the Wellington meat market with lambs this season. On Wednesday he sent several away by train to the order of the Gear Company. All the lambs were strong, healthy aud in fine condition. If Dr Nansen's vessel, the Fram, had been embedded in the ice in East New Si. beria, she would probably have drifted to the highest latitude of the North Pole, where the only organic life to be found are sea birds— guilleraotß and fulmar3 — and whales. The Fram has still three yeare 1 stores on board. A medical writer says :— " Strawberries are especially salutary to persons of aenemio or rheumatic tendencies. They have been proved an antidote to malarial poisons. Fevers of this sort have frequently yielded to this agent alone. A generous allowance of the fresh fruit will rout the demon, biliousness, with more certainty than many a drug course, saying nothing of the difference of their acceptability. Certainly the most effective medicine in the world is Sanders and Son's Eucalypti Extraot. Test its eminently powerful effect in Coughs, Colds, Influenza ; the relief instantaneous. In serious cases and aooidentß of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises, sprains it is the safest remedy — no swellings— no inflammation. Like surprising effeots produced in Croup, Diphtheria, Bronchitis, Inflam* mation 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.] Under this system any of the parcels advertised will be sent to any address in New Zealand, post free, the prices oharged 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 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. 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 i 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 ox 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.