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Manawatu Herald, 5 January 1897, Page 2

We regret .to learn that Mr Arthur Perreau died in tha Wellington asylum yesterday. The four acres of meadow hay offered for Bale through our columns have been satisfactorily disposed of. The high winds of last week have done damage to the formation on the Avenue road. The consent of all the Premiers has been obtained to the Conference to be held on February 2nd. The Queen has forwarded a message of sympathy to the sufferers by the recent bog-slide at Killaruey, It is Btated that the receipts from the Exhibition have paid the whole of the expenses and 11 handsome balance is already in hand. Mr A. E. Nixon, late manager of the Bank of Australasia in this town, has entered into partnership with Mr E. N. Lift" ton, auctioneer, of Waneanui. It is said that Nansen will get £25,000 for the rights of bis new Arctic book, Ihc-rewillbe simultaneous English, Norwegian, French and German editions. Mr J. Fulton, manager and locomotive superintendent of the Manawatu Railway Company, has resigned. Thi9, it is said, ia the outcome of the collision on the line' on Boxing Day. |T«£While Lord William Beresford was takiug part at a hunting meet at Gatwick, his horse fell at. a fence, and turned a complete somersault on lop of Lord William, who sustained serious internal injuries. Writing of the Levin State Farm, and the proposed pale of the land, the Press remarks : — That institution will be remembered for years to oome as a colossal monument of Ministerial incapacity. La3t week a Maori woman named Wahanga fell into a boiling spring nt Ohinemutu, Rotorua, and though she managed to walk home she died next morning from the effeots of the soalding. The Maori who fell into the boiling hole at Tikitere is progressing favourably. The Levin people are talking of going in for an artesian water supply. We think they are bound to get it, but not at the outlay they suggest— £3o. If the well is to be sunk where the buildings are the driving will be expensive through the boulder bed the town rests on. The Manawatu Times says the totalisator tax paid to the Government in connection with the Man iwa'u Racing Cub's Summer meeting amounted to £196 12s. The total receipts at the meeting were £2308 7s, and ihere will be a profit of over £600 on the two days racing. *As the outcome of the recent publio meetings in Ireland on (he question of taxation, the Irish Party in the House of Commons will take the opportunity of submitting an amendment to the Address-in-Reply dealing with the financial grievances in Ireland. The Indian National Conference has had under discussion the famine now prevailing in India ; and declares that it U due to poverty which is the result of many years' excessive taxation and over-assessment, coupled wiih expensive) governmental administration. The Conference has further resolved to cable to Lord George Hamilton, Seoretary of State for India, asking him to permit the publio to contribute to a fund for the relief of the sufferers.. The " Conservative " political pionic at Rongotea failed in its conservatism in one point. No one but a conservative is desired, except those who can " blow." The band requested to attend has consented, not beoauae they are conservatives as the majority of the members are not, but simply to oblige. The Conservatives will do all the " blowing " in talk. There is one man in Foxton who fancies matters are not better managed e'sewhere. Mr George Coley went with a team of six horses to remove an engine from Brandon Hall estate to Foxton last week. When he got the engine to the Bulls Bridge ha was told it was not strong enough. He next drew the engine to tho Ha combe bridge, and was stopped with the sa-ne reply. He will have to take tho engine back to the nearest railway station and send it by train. He wants to know what is the good of making a fuss about having a bridge over a river which will not carry, as he terms it, a wheelbarrow. His opinion as to Councillors and members of the House has been lessened, to put it mildly, by bis past experiences.

Th« first importa'icin of Jdtmfcft oranges in'o London has proved bucc ssful. The t j nd«>rs fir a C>lisr»l wirk of manufacturing 150 000 ton of "steel rails cosed at Sydney on 30:h D c°inber. only one local t*ndir binf? ivcei?»d. Under the t D rms of th» cn'rad the nils have to he mndß id the cn'onv, and ui'l involve an imm dia'e (-xpendinve of £100 000 on the rtltchinpry and pro-.id* com ant employ men. for at lemt 500 m>ni Th? expenditure during !h« oon inuano 1 of ihe contract will be over half a million in wages alon?. \ Riva 1 c Id b'Hat of pxplana'ion has nl «ady *>et in among the defeitt-d (Wd T.-a and lory p«f ties in .M L. (■»avs the Bulletin). Each party sayß the iroubld was >arge>y owing to the other splitting the totes, and putting up unsuitable candidates. Also, the defeat is owing to wholesale bribery, corruption, roll-stuffing, and mis-couattng of the ballot ky a " k-rupt Guv'ment " and its hangers on ; to bribery, corruption, personation, roll-stuffing and the working of the dead-man vote by the publican, to woman suffrage, trades-unionism, godless education, and the machinations of the devil; Further; it isn't a defeat at all, but a " moral victory." Also neither party wanted to win, and preferred giving the democratic Government enough rope to hang itself with. Also 2827 other things. 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 accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scaldings, Druises, sprains, it is the safest remedy — no swellings — no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced I in Croup, Diphtheria, Bronchitis, Inflammation of the Lung 3, 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 ejeot all others. — [advt.] We are asked to announce that at the Bed House they are showing a grand assortment of Xmas goods in electro-plate and white metal ware and being a parcel of traveller's samples are to be sold at low price?. They comprise butter disheSi sugar bowls, desert dishes and cruets, about forty pieces in all. All are asked to call and inspect without being pressed to buy. McKee and Gamble, Photo Engravers and Lithographers, Wellington. Send for quotation.