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Manawatu Herald, 6 January 1898, Page 2

The frozen rabbits disposed of in London for ten months ending 31st October were equal in weight to over 350,000 Australian sheep.

The other day Mr R. Gray brought in a couple of nice cucumbers, but he also complains that they are very backward.

In Mr Whibley's garden ha has some large sized tomatoes, just - beginning to colour. He expressed a wish that they were ripe as they were selling for a shilling a pound in Palmeraton.

The Manawatu County Council invite tenders for lowering and grading the Shannon ferry cutting. Tenders to be in by the 12th inst.

Cucumbers are very soiree. Mr Whibley has grown a few, but says that they do not come on as they should.

During the ten months ending 31st October last the imports of foreign meat into London showed a surplus of 65,000 tons in comparison with the previous corresponding quarter.

A seaman on the Taranakt, now in Wellington, hung himself on the shrouds on Tuesday morning. There ia nothing to account for his act and he was unmarried and a native of London.

Much has b3en written about the risk to travellers over the Rimutaka but the Post says as to thfre being any risk incurred by the overworking of the train staff at the Rimutaka, we cannot and do not believe it lor a moment in face of the Departmental statements which we now publish.

The privileges in connection with the Foxton Racing Club's Summer meeting are advertised to-day. Mr A E. T. Nixon is the auctioneer, so that his friend* wil! have an opportunity of cong atulating him on his n-jw Una of business.

The next Eng'ish and European mail via San Francisco will close at the local office on Wednesday the 19 th day of January, at 3 p.m.

We have received a copy of the Eltham Aryus recently started and congratulate the township on having a paper of i!s own. The paper is well printed, supplied with local news, and appears well supported by the business people. Thi3 paper 1 is printed and published in Eltham.

We learn, says the Standard, that Mr J. Kennedy, a well-known settler of Oroua Bridge, benefits to a considerable sum under the will of his brother lately deceased in Queensland. Mr Kennedy is in receipt of a douceur to defray travelling expenses to Queensland, for which place he leaves shortly.

Polite. The French President and the Russian Czar have exchanged cordial New Year greetings.

The first act of Mr Van Wycks, the new Mayor of New York, was to replace 52 chief municipal officers with members of Tammany.

The exports from Victoria of frozen mutton last year decreased by 68,000 carcases compared with the previous year: The export of butter increased by 767,---0001 b.

The Standard says that Mr E. Wood, the well-known starter, has had Marama, the crack sprinter, broken into harness, and drove the speedy son of laaack Walton to the Bangitikei races. Marama takes to harness very kindly, and trotted along in fine style.

In the sculling carnival on the Tyne, J. White won the Christmas Handicap, defeating James Wray, of New South Wales, who conceded him 17 seconds starfj. George Towns, the Australian, competed in the semi-final, but was defeated early in his heat.

The British War Office proposes to create 12 additional batfalion3 of infantry.

The Queen of Denmark is eighty years of aga.

A steady correspondence goes on between the Czarina of Russia and her grandmother, Queen Victoria. It was the young Empress herself who begged the Queen to write to her, in answer to her own letters, which arrive on an average once a week.

Women are coining to the front in England. In the recent University of London examinations, the B.A. passes were, in the first division 14 women and 11 men ; in the second division 58 women atid 71 men. The B.Sc. passes were, in the first division 2 women and 28 men and in the second division 11 women and 57 men.

Four young Corean gentleman, one a blood relation of the present Royal Family of Gorea, and all of them likely to occupy positions of great importance in Corea, are in England studying Christianity and Western civilization.

Yesterday Mr and Mrs John Davic entertained a very large gathering of friends at their residence at Kereru. A number went from Foxton. The day was fine but a strong wind made the drive particularly unpleasant. Once there all enjoyed the profuse hospitality of Mr and Mrs Davies.

It is said tbajf letters dropped in the p< si office of Paris are delivered in Berlin in an hour and a half and sometimes wiibia 35 minutes. The distance between the cities is 750 miles, and letters are sent by mean 3 of pneumatic lubes.

Never be alarmed if a living insect enters the ear. Pouring warm waier into the canal will drown it, when it will generally come to the surface and can easily be removed with the fingers.

An eminent London pbytioian has obtained good results in dressing burns with milk. Bandages are soaked wih milk and laid on the burn, to be removed night and morning.

A good number of bush fire 1 ? were set yesterday along the Manawatu Line.

To The Dkap and those troubled with Neise? in the Head or other Aural Troubles. Dr Nicholson, of London, the world famed Aural Specialist and my ntor of Artificial Ear Drums, has jus issued the lOOib edition of his illustrated and descriptive book on Deafness and Aural Troubles. This book may be had from Mr Colin Campbell, 160, Adelaide Road, Wellington, N.Z. Mr Campbell was cored of hi? deafness by Dr Nicholson's system, and takes pleasure in spreading the news of the great specialist in New Zealand. A little boook on the cure of Rheumatism. Corpulence, Lumbago, and Indigestion by the same author may be had from Mr Campbell, lso free.

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