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Manawatu Herald, 5 November 1896, Page 2

Mr Kebbell commenced shearing at Ohau on Monday Millers have raised the price of flour £2 a ton, and a further rise is expected. Messrs Abraham and Williams ho'd a ho<-3e sale at Palmerston cm Saturday. It is proposed, it is said, to mount the Telegraph bojs at Feilding on bicycles. We have to acknowledge the receipt from tha Government Printer of a bounc; copy of the Statutes passed last session. The N.Z. Loan and M*.A. Company report during last week a keen demand for potatoes. The schedule of the 0. chard and Garden Pests Act contains only the vine louac, apple scab, and codlin moth. In another column Mr Kellow announces that he will address the elector* at the Foxton Public Hall on Tusday next, 10th instant. . Mr3 Durie, the widow of Major Durie, died on Sunday at her residenoe in Wanganui in her 77th year. The funeral was to have been yesterday. There is a vacancy on the Otnki I iconsing Committee, aud we hear that Mr F. E. J-iiiks will likely bo appointed to the position, and a very good man too. Mr Roe has become the landlord of the Wereroa Hotel. He always showed great interest in assisting the removal of the Manukau Hotel to that spot. Tho Levin School Committee have advertised their intention of prosecuting parents who do not send their children regu arly to school. The N.Z. Times the other day informed its readers, as a piece of news, that Joe Tos was sending vog tables from Fox on to Wellington. Neeing that Joe Tos has been pur. uinf this practice for many years tho news i3 a little behind the times. The Chronicle understands that Major Kemp has announced his intention of Btanding for the Western Maori electorate, for which he is strongly supported by the natives. _ The Town Clerk deires us to mention that through an error he mentioned at the Borough Council meeting the receipts from the previous dog tax collector, P. Guerin, to have been only £19 2* Gd, whereas he finds it should havo been £24 17s 6d. There is a rush for claims at Whangaruru, near Whangarei. Mr Clenden, S.M., wired to Mr Cadman that it was reported that a large reef near Whangaruru had been discovered, containing gold of the value of £40 per ton. Dr Neville, in his presidential address to the Synod at Dunedin, said he thought it matter for regret that the Prohibitiou outcry being raised was out of all proportion to the necessities of the case. The evil of drunkenness was very great, and he favoured a reformatory for those who lost their self-control. The quarterly returns of the Wanganui Education Board, for the quarter ended September 3TKb, show the number of schoo's under the Board a? 120, and the number of toache» as '258, the Bexes, curiously enough, being evenly divided, viz., 129 ma'es and 129 females. The number of children attendiug the schools at the beginning of the quarter was 9749, and at the end 99C4, of whom 5136 were males aud 4823 females. The average weekly attendance is shown as 5225 male3 a 4901 females, or a total of 10,126, while the working average was 8189 and the strict average 8120, the highest yet recorded in the history of the Board. Mr J. E. Taylor, of Mangerp, near Auckland, has utilised the action of the tide in an ingenious way. He has built a dam across a tidal creek on his property, and baa provided it with a door which swings open when the tide flows and closes as soon as the tide goes out. The imprisoned water is used to drive an nndersbot wheel, which develops from 6 to 8 hone j power for about 8 hours. i A singular exemplification of the maxim 'Truth will out' is mentioned in the Taranaki papers. Seventeen years ago Mr James Hill, who at that time was steward of the New Plymouth Hospital, was accused of a serious crimiual offence. After being tried twice, and the juries each time failing to agree, the Crown entered a nolle proaequi, leaving Mr Hill in the position of having a stigma cast upon him which he was unable to disprove. The other day a chanoe remark made by a woman to a local trades* man led to a further investigation of the facts, with the result that an affidavit was sworn before a clergyman and a justice of the Peace, entirely exonerating Mr Hi.l of the charge, and proving that he was the victim of a vile plot. The vindication singularly comes to Mr HiH on his death bed. He is an old Freemason, and the facts were made known at the meeting of the Grand Lodge in New Plymouth last week. Certainly the most effective medicine in the world is Sanders and Son's Eucalypti Extract. Test its eminently powerful effect in Coughs, Colds, Influenza ; the relief instantaneous. 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