Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1897.

Manawatu Herald, 13 May 1897, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1897.

Mr Bichards has been oleoted chairman of the Horowhenua County vice Cr Engels, resigned. Maria Sarah Arundel was ordered by the Court at Dunedin the other day to oout.i' bute 5s per week towards her husband's raaintenanc?. Mr M.Hardy has been elected President of the Manawatu A. and P. Association, An extraordinary case of wife-selling has occurred at trthlingborough, a shoe manufacturing village of Northamptonshire. A party of shoemakers, having spent all their money at a pablic-house, and havihg nothing handy to dispose of to get more, one man offered to sell his wife for two shilling?. A customer in the bar accepted the offer, and, to make the , bargain complete, one of them was induced to go through the streets, publicly announcing, on behalf of the husband, that he had " sold and bequeated " his wife to the purchaser, and giving the names of two companions as witnesses to the transaction. Lord Dudley, spoken of as the next Victorian Governor, was a visitor to Melbourne about eleven years baok, and has one record —hia We is insured ior a heavier sum than that of any* other Britisher, namely, £1,200,000. Mr Curtis has quitted a good deal of his furniture during tbe last few day3. To-morrow evening the many friends of Mr and Mrs P-. Curtis take farewell of them at a social to b 9 held at tbe Methodist Hall at 8. There will be some music and, poss-ioly, a little talking. Anyway it sh.uld bi a pleasant evening and a goodly githering. Big pumpkins are not at an end as Mr Stansell has one in his bar whioh will tuke a lot of beating. A curious incident in connection wiih the late floods at Hawk s B.^y is mentioned in a letter received by a representative of one of the leading mercantile houses in Wellington. A bale of scoured wool from Messrs Anaru und Boyd's station in Napier broke adrift, and was oarried by the storm water, to a distance of over 50 miles, where it was eventually found almost intact* As art evidence of the height of the Storm Water it may be mentioned that in this distance the bale had been Ci'ried over fences, hedges, &c, of more than or-, dinary height. The writer states that a rainfall Of over 20jin. had been registered in two days. Tuesday's Pelorus Guardian has the following: — After seven years consecutive service an postmaster at Havelock, Mr MacDrrmot* one of the moat painstaking and ob iging officers of th. Department, leaves in tlie course of a few days, to take up the duties of Postmaster at Foxton. A3 an official and a private citizen, Mr MacDsrmott has gathered round him a host of admirers from all portions of the district, and his ever-courteous manner and genial face will be sorely missed by those whose bußinr S3 brings them into daily communication witb the Havelock office. Socially both Mr and Mrs MacDermott have always had the respect and highest esteem of all grades of the community, ever foremost in acts of a charitable nature, and their absence will be a matter of regret to many, who have never been denied christian advice and assistance. . We are glad to find that the transfer is a well-deserved promotion, and we are only voicing the wishes of all those who have had the privilege "of the friendship and acquaintance of Mr and Mrs McDermott in congratutating him upon th 9 V step " he has received, and wishing them both " God speed." The sixty-four rooms taken at the Hotel Cecil, in London, for the colonial Premiers and their suites foira but a corner of that vast building. It contains, 1200- apartments altogether. Tbe Gillon divorce oase has been concluded, and judgment reserved. The Brisbane Government Bacteriologist reports that the results of- the tick inoculation experiments show that the inoculation diminishes the susceptibility to the disease in adult anima's. He. believes that if thi animals were inoculated at their birth they would be free from ths disease, and that the micro-organism of the tick fever find? a permanent home in the blood of cattle, and that, once infected, they will infallibly transmit the organisms to their progeny. He is confident that he is on the right | track to make the Australian cattle free from the tick fever. The Bishop of Wellington has asked the clergy throughout the diocese to hold thanksgiving services in connection with the Queens Becord Reign celebration in June, the offertories to be collected to be devoted to the establishment of a fund for the ereotion and maintenance of a " Horae for Women " in Wellington, to be called " Victoria Diocesan Home." Certainly the most 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 accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, soaldings, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy — no swellings — no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in Croup, Diphtheria, Bronchitis, Inflammation of the Lungs, Swellings, &o„ Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Disease of the Kidneys and Urinary Organs. 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