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Manawatu Herald, 12 November 1896, Page 2

To-morrow night Mr John Stevens will address the electors at the Public Hall at 7.30. In another column Mr B. 0. Bruce announces the dates of his meetings in this portion of the electorate. Up to the present upwards of 300 bales of wool has been . brought in by the tram from the Sandon district. The Returning Officer notifies that the nominations for Major must be delivered to him before noon of Thursday next. The Manavatu Times says :— lt is rumoured that there wll be yet another oandidate for the Palmerston seat. A firm of solicitors at Melbourne has received a cable message from .Johannesburg stating that the High Court of the Transvaal has delivered judgment in a case ! brought by a representative of the principal goldmining companies in the Band against the African Gold Becovery Company for the cancellation of the MacarthurForrest patents in Africa. Plaintiff's suit was successful. The decision is final, there being no possible appeal from it, consequently the use of the cyanide process will now be free in the Transvaal, and no further royalties can be charged. As we predicted some capital games have been played in connection with the tennis tournaments in the second round on the local club's courts. On Nov. 4th Mrs Stewart (6 points start), defeated Miss Puroell by 6 points, and on Nov. 7th Miss Collins with a start of 4 points, beat Mrs Cook by 1 point. The games were 30 points up, and Miss Symons held a bye in this round, and also drew another bye in the third round, so that she remains in the final. The gentlemen's games were as stubbornly contested as their predecessors, Mr Cook defeating Mr Curtis, both starting level, in a game of 50 points by three on Nov. 9th. Mr Hamer beat Mr Little on Nov. 10th the former getting a start of 5 points by seven. Mr Austin held a bye in this round. The drawing for the third round brought forth Messrs Hamer and Austin as opponents, so that Mr Cook remains in the final. We are informed that the Palmerston North Lawn Tennis Club are trying to arrange a match with the Fozton Club. At Mr Stevens' request we applied to the Chairman of the Moutoa Sohool, over a week ago, for the use of the sohool for a meeting, and yesterday we received a letter saying "I am sorry that I cannot grant the use of the sohool room to Mr J. Stevens on the 14th, as this committee passed a resolution that it should not be used apart from sohool purposes owing to a plight mistake arising through the same cause." In reference to this we would draw the chairman's attention to the Acts relating to elections, one clause stating that " any candidate at an election may, for the purpose of public meeting of electors convened or held for electoral purposes during the period of an election, use, free of charge, other than the cost of lighting and cleaning after use, and of repairing any damage done, any suitable room in any primary sohool receiving a grant out of moneys provided by Parliament, after the ordinary sohool hours." In faoe of this no doubt the Moutoa Committee will admit they have made a mistake.

Mr H. Coley autfered a loss yesterday by one of his draught horses, working at King & Co.'a mill, dropping down dead. Messrs Kebbell, Davies and Bartholomew Were elected yesterday as Councillors for the Wirokino Hiding. At Mr Pirani's meeting on Tuesday night he said he would vote on a noconfidence motion for the present Government! The Horowhenua County Council decided to strike Shannon off the referendum papers for the site of County offices. This leaves the vote for Otafei and Ley in • The candidates for the Mayoralty are very quiet. Have they nothing to suggest as an improvement on the present state of things? Mr Michael Travers, one of the County roadmen in the Wirokino Biding, drew The Skipper, the third horse in the Melbourne Cup, in Tattersall's pound sweep. This means £2250 for Mr Travers. The particulars of the " FoXton Health Resort " are advertised in the last Gazette. We notice that the loweit rental is ten shillings, and the highest £2. The tenders must be in by the 21st Deoember. We have to thank the Government Printer for a couple of mounted notices of the regulation* under which telegrams are authorised to be transmitted on the tele' graph lines belonging to the Government of New Zealand. We are glad to see Captain Harvey once more in command of the Queen of the South. He was, we understand, advised not to have left Wellington, but the pressure of doing something was beyond resistance. We hope he may soon be thoroughly fit for anything. Sir George Grey is about to become a New Zealand mining director. He has acoepted an honorary seat on the fioafd of the Hauriraki Consols Company, which has taken over the New Whau and Clunss mining properties. Another rather distinguished director of the new company is Sir Somers Vine, late secretary of the Imperial Institute. The Manawatu Standard, referring to a meeting to be held by the member for Palmerston, says "Mr Pirani has been fortunate hitherto in not imparting any bitterness into his political contests, and there seems to be no reason to doubt but that the pending eleotion will maintain such a satisfactory state of things." This we hope may be said of the future, but is not strictly accurate as to the past. Referring to house-to-house canvassing by candidates for Parliament, the Lyttelton Times saye: — To the ordinary householder there is no more unmitigated nuiaanoe than having to attend to people who deliberately violate the spirit of the ballot, and it would be an exceedingly good thing if a practice that is so highly objectionable were to be abolished by statutory enactment. In the Christchuroh bye-election the touting on behalf of the Conservative candidate was in some instances pushed to a shameful extreme, and a prosecution on the ground of intimidation was narrowly averted. In the present contest there has already been most unwarrantable peessure brought to bear. But the electors are I learning wisdom by experience. Whatever reply they may deem it expedient to give to eanvaiß&rs,, they know that the secrecy of the ballot is absolute, and that in the polling booth they are free to reoord their vote as they please, assured that no one can work them harm. 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. In serious cases and acoidents 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, &0., Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Disease of the Kidneys and Urinary Organs. In übb 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. — [abvt.]