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Manawatu Herald, 22 October 1896, Page 2

Mr John Duthie has decided not to seek re-election. Mr Venn has definitely decided not to contest this electorate. The launching of Mr Howan's new steamer will not be held next week, owing to its being the Palmerston Show week. Sir Maurice O'Eorke, Speaker of the House of Representatives, haa decided to retire from political life. New Zealand, with the exception of Victoria and New South YVales, has the largest debt of the Australasian colonies. The Timber Conference recomm ends the disuse of the terms "red pine," "white pine," and "black pine," in favour of 11 rimu," "kahikatea," and " matai." Promises of support to the Football Sports have been so encouraging as to secure their being held on the date proposed. The proposal to fell timber during a certain Reason, or to have trees ringbarked, has been pronounced by the Conference as a faddist's idea. The Timber Conference was very "rough " on the N.Z. Times, the chairman speaking of one of their reports, said — " I think it is far better for people not to report at all than to report so incorrectly." The New Zealand Herald understands that a cable message has been received in Auckland announcing that a reconciliation has taken place between Sir George Grey and Lady Grey, after many years of separation. Mr Perrin, the Viotorian Conservator of Forests, says the best of the eucalyptus can be grown in Victoria fit for sawnailling purposes in about thirty to thirty-five years, and they are the red-gum, box, and string-bark. Sharp Custom House officers. A witness at the Timber Conference in explaining how badly the white pine was cut, said that at Sydney, when the Custom House officers saw that the timber was thicker at one end than the other, they made a claim for the excess, and the captain of the vessel learning this, followed suit and made his claim, with the result the importers had to pay £85 m.ore. When the application was made to the licensing Committee for the transfer of the hotel from Manakau to Wereroa, 1 Levin, every effort was made to show how far away it would be from the State farm. la tha advertisement for H.s sale a point is , made of its " being clvsc to tho State farm." The Itutur statement is the most correct one;

Duriner the 78 days in which Parliament has been in session this year 81 public Bills have been passed into law, while for various reasons 95 were dropped or rejected. The average length of each day's Bitting was 9hrs lOmin, and the (ate" hours kept by our legislators May be judged by the fact that 148 of the hours of sitting were after the midnight hour. A highly interesting experiment with j»he Roentgen ray 3 was niade oii tlie occasion of the i'ecent Psychological Congress at Munich, in the Presence of Princess Theresa of Bavaria, who writes under *he pseudonym of "The Baaev," of Prince Louis, the Minister of. Public Instruction^ find & small group of. invited gueßts. It involved the illurrjinatiori of the' hiinlan body by meads of the improved Roentgen tubes of the Berlin National Society of Eleotricity. The resnlt was a most surprising one. Not only were the bones of the whole body Visible, but all the softer organs, such as the stomach, the heart; Qtci, could be plainly seeii at work. This discovery created a great sensation in medical circles.* In connection with the drought in the northern pastoral districts of South Australia a peculiar statement was made to the manager of the Leigh's Creek station, who forwarded to Adelaide a quantity of bones of rabbits which he alleged were taken from the stomach of a sheep killed by one of his men a few days ago. He says this will give an idea of the state of the drought in the far north, when sheep have lived on dead rabbits. He adds, it is the severest drought ever known; The station lost all the lambs last season, and it is getting too late to expect any next year. Nearly all the breeding ewes are dead. The number of sheep shorn last year was 26,000 below what was expected, this number representing the viotims of the drought. r _ 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 accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, soaldings, 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 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.] _