Untitled

Manawatu Herald, 10 November 1896, Page 2

Whitebait yesterday were caught in large quantities. Messrs Abraham & Williams hold a stock sale at Palmerston on Thursday. Oar market gardener, Mr Joe Tos, hat now on sale some very fine brocoli. Mr F. P. Kellow addresses the elector! to-night at the Public Hall. The Mayor takes the chair. The Maoris say when whitebait come in early and are very plentiful it ia a sign of a very hot summer. The Bay. R. Young opened the new Church at Levin on Sunday morning. There was not a very large congregation. Mr John Stevens has had to alter the date of his meeting at Shannon to the 14 ih and Tokomaru to the 11th. Mr Stanse'l took a coach load of passengers yesterday morning to Levin for the races and brought them back last night. Mr MoElwain notifies that as he will be leaving Foxton shortly, advantage should bo taken of being photographed at the reasonable prices he quotes. Tenders are invited by the Postal Department for a daily mail service between Foxton and Levin. Tenders are to be in by Wednesday, the 18th mat. Though gooseberries are short in many gardens yet, from a vißit we paid Mr Whibley's garden the other day, we can state he, at any rate, has a large supply, but not so many as last year. Mr A. J. Parsons has assured a member of the Chronicle's staff that he has no intention of standing for Patea against Mr Hutchison, and that there is no agreement between the Premier and himself on the subject. Six 6-footed pigs, the progeny of a 6-footed yearling pig, aro to be Been on the farm of Jesse Carry, of Marion, Indiana. A seventh pig of the Bame litter had 7 feet, but it did not live. Mrs James Collins and her family, who arrived in Wellington by the s.s. Tongariro, came up to Fozton on Friday, and will, for the present, occupy the house just vacated by Dr Lamb. Mrs Collins is the eldest daughter of Mr T. U. Cook, and has for the paßt eighteen years resided in England. The King of the Belgians has contributed an important addition to the geological collections in the Cambridge University Museum in the shape of a reproduction of the entire skeleton of one of the great extinot land reptiles known as Iguanodon. Mrs T. Wilson and her daughter are visiting Foxton, the former as a gueat of Mr Stewart and the latter as guest of Mr Ray. They leave very soon to take up their residence at Makuri. Scotland possesses the smallest burial ground in the world. It is situated in the town of Oalashiels, between Bridge-st. and High-st. It measures only 22£ ft by 14Jft, and is surrounded by a ricketty wall about 7ft high. It has been closed for many years. The most a&cient piece of music in the world is called the "Blessing of the Priests." This song was sung in the Temple of Jerusalem, and even now in synagogues in Spain and Portugal it is frequently used. A sample shipment of fiva tons of cheese is to be sent by the Mamari from Wellington to the Manchester Co-operative store in London from the recently established oheese factory at Belvedere, in the Carterton district. This factory, which has been in existence only a few months, is already finding a large market for its goods, and an order has been taken for 100 tons of oheese to be sent through the season at a cost of about £35 per ton. In Franoe bicycles are taxed at the rate of about 9s per year. Th» tax yields about £80,000 per annum. In Naples the tax is ten francß on each cycle used for pleasure, and five francs for business purposes. In Mosoow there are nearly 5000 wheelmen, but only about half have permission to ride within the city limits. A hybrid zebra at Professor Oossar Ewart's experimental station at Penicuik, a cross between a Burohell zebra sire and an Island of Bum pony dam, continues to be a source of attraction, not only to persons in the locality, but to scientists and others from a distance. Should the experiments continue to prove successful, it is regarded as quite possible that the new hybrids may be fertile to each other, thereby introducing a new race of horses. At Ambaston, in Derbyshire, there is a loaf of bread 600 years old. It was included in a grant of land from the Grown in the reiga of King John, and has remained in the Soar family ever since. Sir Bobert Stout, in the course of an interview at Dunedin, said, with regard to the temperance party at the election, that the trouble in the past has been that many men have declared themselves for Prohibition who have no sympathy whatever in the movement. They have declared themselves Prohibitionists to catch votes. A dootor in the Highlands of Scotland, whose patients are scattered over a wide district, takes carrier pigeons with him on his rounds, and sends his prescriptions by them to the apothecary. He leaves pigeons, too, with distant families, to be Ist loow whin bis MXTioei art uttdtd.

Yesterday a very large number were out boating oil the river. 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 re* lief instantaneous. In serious canes and accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scaldings, 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.]