Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, OCT. 27, 1896.
Experts in London pronounce the shipment of Fiji tobacco excellent. It is satisfactory to know that the Court of Appeal upheld Kirby's conviction. The Motca estate was to have rJonlrnenced shearing (his morning. The net receipts ftom the Levin Anglican Church Bazaar were over -£17-. Sir Geol'ge BoWen has been married to the widow of the Bey. Henry White. The main crop of beet should now be sown. The accommodation advertised for through our columns has been obtained; The public stihool will observe Thursday aB a holiday. The long-talked-of Agricultural and Pastoral Show will be held at Palmerston tomorrow and Thursday. The i-nidday train will be run on Wednesday instead of Thursday this week, on account of the Show. , We commend to the notice of gardeners the tree marrow, which fruits and crops well and does not run. We have to thank the Secretary of the Manawatu A. P. Show for a complimentary ticket for Wednesday and Thursday. It took ten years to get satin-walnut into the London market, but now it is the ruling thing for furniture. Mr H. F. Davidson will show a number of his Cotswold sheep at the Palmerston ■show tiiis week. The railway disputes between the Orange Freo State and the Cape Colony have been settled. A meeting of the town improvement committee will be held at Whyte'a Hotel to night at 7.30. Mr Nolson is hard at work disoing and sowing down a large paddock at Mukaka, on the Motoa estate. Notice is given by the Beturning Officer of the Manawatu County Council of the general election of seven counoil'ors. The Oamaru Garrison Band was first in the Brass Bands Contest held at Dunedin, Wellington came second, aud Kaikorai third. Mr Callis came down last night and to-day is taking over the managoment of the Bank of Australasia, and . Mr Nixon will probably leave town on Thursday. There is a probability the Japanese timber will soon be competing, with the colonial timber, as there are extensive forests in Japan about to be opened out. The largest cheepowner in the world iB Eaid to be Mr S. McCaughey, who has 1,000,000 shaep on 3,000,000 acres of land in New South Wales. Th* re is no accounting for taste. The Queen of Servia sleeps on a narrow divan spread with a hard, unyielding mattrass, and without the vestige of a pillow. There is no likelihood of the timbor in Norway getting cut out, as the treea grow so quickly, and the forests are constantly being replanted. Mv Walter Bailey is a candidate for Rangilikei in the Liberal interest. His candidature is supported by the Government. Mr Bryce withdraws, and therefore (ho contest will be 'between Mr P. Y. Lethbrjdgo and Mr Bailey. Mr A. H. Arbon has an altered advertisement in this issue. He has been exceedingly successful since he took tho business over, and bas turned out his bread and small goods iv the best manner. The members of the District Survey Department presented Mr J. H. Baker, lafe Commissioner of Crown Lands, on Saturday afternoon, with a beautifully decorated testimonial and a gold watch, and wished him a hearty good-bye. Cabinet has deoided to acquire Mr Purveß Russell's Woburn estate of 27,200 acres, near Waipukurau, on the Napier line, under tbe compulsory clauses of the Land for Settlement Act. We trust this action is simply being taken for the good of the colony and not to pay out any old scores. A disastrous fire has ocourred at Kaigoorlie. Five business places in the main street have bten destroyed, while Beveral others on each side and a portion of the Bank of Western Australia were dismantled to prevent the fire from spreading all over the town. The damage is estimated at £10,000. The way public money goes. It is stated in Patea that the Hon. John McKenzie will pay a visit to that portion of Mr Geo. Hutchison's constituency soon after the prorogation. A visit from the Hon. J. G. Ward is. also expected. Both gentlemen may be induced to extend their politioal tour to Hawera. Masnly through" the intervention of tbe Duke of York, 2 old sailors, Shaw and Pink, who fought at St. Jean d'Acre in 1840, ara to be removed from Portsmouth Workhouse to Haslar Hospital, where they will spend the remainder of their days. The incident here recalled was the revolt of Ibrahim Pacha against' the Turks, when the allied fleet stormed the town and took it after a bombardment of a few hours. The British had but 12 killed and 42 Wounded. Sir Benjamin Baker, L.L.D., who is now Presideqt of the English Institute of Civil Engineers, is only" forty-six years of age. His'adv&nce in this great and useful professioU has been excrptionally rapid land distinguished Transferring himself, when very young, from a South Wales iron factory to London, he was given an appointment in Sir John Fowler's establishment, and did important work upon the London railways. Kising into partnership with Sir John Fowler, he ultimate'y took his Bhare in the designing and construction of the Forth Bridge, the greatest existing work of its kind. For this he was knighted six years ago. There hangs, says a Paris paper, round the neck of a statue in Madrid, a costly ring of pearls and diamonds suspended by silken cord. There is no fear apparently that it will ba stolen away. No one it in thought could have the audacity to take it. The story is that King Alfonso XII., father of the present boy King of Spain presented the riner to his cousin Mercedes on the day of her betrotha'. Her married life oame to a swift end. On her death, the King presented the ring to his grandma, Queen Christina. Shortly afterwards Queen Christina died. The King Rave the ring to his sister, the Infants del Pilar, who died within a month following. The ring was then given to the youngest daughter of the Duo de Montpensier. In less than three months she died. Alfonso, by this time fearing that there was an unlucky omen I connected with the ring, put it in hiß own | treasure box. He, too, soon died. Then the ring was hang from the neck of the | statue of a saint, aud no one tries to steal j it.
The stores will be closed on Thursday. Mr Bradley has a Cow neat calving for sal****. Mr Kellow paid the town a visit last hight and this morning and proceeds by the afternoon coach to Shannon: The trdsfees bf tlift ftunckley fund have ■purchased a houso which they will move on to a piece of ground they have secured on lease up the Avenue. He wipes the eye of every gardener. It is a fact and Mr Stansell is the man as lis showed us to-day pe&s grdwii by hinl in fuil pod-. Bear* hear. Cerlaitjly tlie njdst effective medicine in the world is Sanders and Son's Eucalypti Extract. Test its eminently powerful effect in Coughs, Colds, Influenza ; the relief instantaneous. In serious cases and accidents of all kinds, bo they wounds, burns, scalding?, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy— no swellihgs-^-no inflammation, t-ike shrprisibg effects produced in Croup, Diphtheria, Bronchitis, Inflammation of the Lungs, Swellings, Ac, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Disease of the Kidneys and Urinary Organd. 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 artiole and ejeot all others.— [ADVT.] . .A .
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