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Manawatu Herald, 9 February 1897, Page 2

There must be something in the wind that we have not fathomed, or why this invasion of bakers ? For some time we have got along with one baker, and he jet holds ground, atill three more of (he same trade have decided upon starting here. One man takes Walls'; old shop, next to Osboroe's tailor's shop ; Walls is building an oven at his father's house, and Langley is building one at his late father's residence. The Mail says the Otaki Maori Baoing Club, at a meeting held on Saturday last, definitely deoided to hold a two-day's meeting next May, but the exaot dates were not fixed. A rough programme was prepared, and forwarded to the Club's handiwpper for approval. No less a sum than £550 will be given in stakes. The new mail contraot just entered into between the Imperial Government and the Orient and P.O. Companies oommenoei ia February of next year. The time of delivery of the mails will be reduced to thirty days sixteen hours between London and Adelaide. The gain compared with the present lervioe will be slightly nnder four days.

The next English, and European mail per Manapouri to Sydney via Brindisi will close at the looal office on Friday, the 12th day of February, at 8 p.m. Tbiß includes mails for Tasmania, Australia, China, etc. A statistician compotes that Queen Victoria is now sovereign over one continent, 100 peninsulas, 500 promontories, 1000 lakes, 2000 riven, and 10,000 islands. The suits of the Lord Mayor of London's livery servants cost nearly £100 each. At the end of the year they are Bold for a few pounds. Reports from San FfantSisco state that Butler wa£ a sailor at Hull in 1892, and has been working between England and Australia. Whitehead, one of the Irish dynamiters released last year, has escaped from the lunatic asylum in New York, where he has been confined for some time. Mr Bradlejr has retired from the Post Office Hotel, and today he notifies that Mr P. L. Harnett is his appointee. Mr Harnett is an old officer of police and should prove a good landlord. Prinoe Caraman Chimay has obtained a divorce against hit wife, who eloped with Jean Rigo, a Hungarian gipsy, and the princess has been ordered to pay 75,000 f ranos a year for the support of her children. Self-evident.— She: " I wonder why it is that women are so fond of wearing widow's weeds?" He: "Because it is the only garb that ■ woman can wear which informs the world at a glance that she is disengaged ana open to an offer." < The Roman Catholics are going to hold a concert on St. Patrick's Day at the Public Hall in aid of the funds of their Churoh. The programme will be a remarkably good one, a number of friends from other parts having agreed to help. Tickets can he obtained from Mr Alf Eraser. Mr Bauckham met With a singular and painful accident yesterday, In passing a cog wheel, part of a horse-power, he bit the calf of his leg hard against a sharp corner of it, but though the skin was not broken, the leg began to swell until it attained a very large size, and the sufferer had to call in Dc Rocktttow. It » thought that a vein has been broken. The leg was bandaged and Mr Bauckham left for Ashurst this morning. The judge of the Rotherham County Court, England, gave such a lucid definition of a husband's responsibility for his wife's debts that a quotation in full will be of advantage to many readers. "It is well known," said Judge Waddy, " that a husband is bound to pay for any necessaries his Wife may get for the house. But if a husband proves that he has supplied his wife with adequate mean 3to keep the house going and that she exceeded those means wuhout necessity, I shall always give the cues in the husband's favour." A scauial has been caused at the Lariboisiere Hospital by the arrest of one of the female attendants, who has been there for over 20 years. During the greater part of that time she has superintended the removal of theNslotbes and valuables of deoeased patients, and it appears that during that time she has sytematically plundered the dead, with the result that when her trunks were searched they were found filled with a most miscellaneous assortment of property, including money to the amount of £4000, and bonds of even greater value. .

Certainly the mo9t effective medicine in the world is Sanders and Son's Eucalypti Extraot. Test its eminently powerful effect in Coughs, Colds, Influenza ; the relief instantaneous. In serious cases and aooidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scalding*, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy — no swellings— ?no inflammation. Like surprising effects produoed in Croup, Diphtheria, Bronchitis, Inflammation of the Lungs, 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 ; orowned with medal and diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this approved article and eject all others. — [advt.] We are asked to announoe that at the Bed House they are showing a grand assortment of Xmas goods in eleotro-plate and white metal ware and being a parcel of traveller's samples are to be sold at low prioes, They comprise butter dishes, sugar bowls, desert dishes and c?aeta, about forty pieces in all. All are asked to call and inspeot without being pressed to buy,