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Manawatu Herald, 4 June 1898, Page 2

The Borough Council meets on Monday night. The channel in the Wanganui Jriver has improved and there is said to be ten feet of water on the bar. ; Eight of the most remarkable marriages on record took place within a few weeks in the parish of St. Marie, Quebec. Two neighbours, named Morin and Bheaume, have eight children, four sons and four daughters. Bheaume's four sons have married Morin's four daughters, and Morin'a four sons have married the daughters of Bheaume. At the Otaki Magistrate's Court on Wednesday George William Taylor recoTered the sum of £15, and costs £6 7s 6d, from Alexander Small for damages on account of defendant's burning spreading to plaintiff's land. Messrs Abraham and Williams hold a stock sale at Falmerston on Thursday. Next week arrangements have been made for the Rev. Frank W. Isitt to give two addresses in Foxton, one on " Fred Douglas — or from Log Cabin to Senate House," and the other on Prohibition. We are sorry to learn that Mrs Henry Border died last night at Wellington. She had been ailing for a long time. The Cape- Government has ordered 10.000 Lee-Metford rifles, 15 field tins and. WMfcxiuu.

A reminder if given to-day by the Commissioner of Taxes to all persons to make a return of their incomes. Persona who do not receive form 8 can get them at the Post Office. No loophole is given to escape thi3 pleasing operation. The American natal tactics appear deficient in energy or else are unfortunately too briefly reported, M we. hear of two torpedo boats being compelled to retreat. but hear nothing of their being oaptured or evan pursued I During the month of May the rainfall in England doubled the average. I Shah Mahomed, leader of the gang which a few months ago murdered Mr Graves, a telegraph official in the country adjacent to the Persian Gulf, has been executed.; I Since the British entered into temporary possession of Weihaiwei, surveys of the harbour and fortifications have been made, which shows a greater expanse of deep water in the harbour than was before known, but the fortifications are weaker than was expected. Prince Henry of Orleans has abandoned his proposed expedition up the Nile. A movement has been initiated to raise a national memorial to Mr Gladstone. Some £5000 has already been subscribed. The Hon. Mr Cadman has come to object to Royal Commissioners ! This is at lrast satisfactory, as the Ministry he belongs to has been marked for the number of these commissions they have set up. Just at present Royal Commissions are unsatisfactory, that of the Police is showing up the Force in any but a pleasant manner for the Minister under whose charge it was presumably under. The Horowhenua Commission has been proved a ghastly failure, its decisions on every point having been reversed by the Supreme Courts. No wonder one Minister is sick of such costly failures. Sheep from New Zealand are now admitted into Tasmania on condition that they are accompanied by a declaration of health by the owner or agent, and by a certificate from the Inspector of Sheep at the port of shipment that they ore free from disease, and have not been infected with disease during the preceding 12 months. Mr Haselden, S.M., has publicly notified that in judgment summons cases where an order is asked for, and the alternative is imprisonment, ho will make no order against a debtor who is earning a less rate of wages than £2 per week. In this action he has the support of his brother Magistrates. A new syndicate was preparing when the last mail left to set up in London, in positions sanctioned by the oity corporations, a number of majestic-looking lamp-posts that are not only to give light, but will afford a perennial spring of hot water, and, if required, will dispense all the other requisites for a cup of tea or coffee or cocoa. The lamp-posts (says the Daily New) are all ready, tea and condensed milk have been squeezed into compact little penny blocks, the cups to be attached to the hot water taps are provided, and nothing remains to be done but to set up the posts, tarn on the water, and light the gas, and two or three halfpennies in the Blot will do all the rest. You drop a coin into one slot, and out comes your block of tea or cocoa with milk or sugar, which of course you put into the cup, and then another ha'penny will place a whole gallon of hot water at your disposal. Lord Salisbury speaks best when he rests his elbow on something. In the House of Lords he usually finds the support he needs in two or three books placed one above the other. Somebody one day removed one of these (it was some book of reference), and Lord Salisbury missed it immediately. His eloquence was checked, he floundered in his speech, and did not resume it until it was returned. On another occasion, at his own house, where there was a political meeting, he began to speak rather lamely, and after considerable hesitation he walked across his drawing room to where there was a rather high fire-screen. He got inside this, with his back to the fire, and, facing his audience with his elbow on the soreen, proceededjto make a most eloquent harangue. A most miraculous escape from a serious accident happened on Tuesday night, says the Standard. As the 5.30 train for Wanganui was steaming opposite the Sash and Door Company's yards in Main-street, three drays, the property of Mr J. Dobbs, which had been carting furniture and were returning to Fergusori^street, were crossing the line, the train ran into the horse and dray which were in the centre, smashing the cart and mangling the poor beast in suoh a fearful manner that it had to be destroyed. Fortunately there was no driver in the dray, the horse being tied behind the leading one. The driver of the leading vehicle said he did not see the train approaching or hear the whistle of the engine, and the only warning he received was when the train was almost on too of him. The dray contained some of Mr B. Cobb's furniture. We have been asked to state that there will be a morning service at All Saints tomorrow, as an impression was abroad that ther would be none. There was to have been a dance at Moutoa last night, certainly a capital sort of a night for dancing, but only a couple, it Is said, turned np! Evidently something went wrong in the arrangements. Certainly the most effective medioine in the world is Sanders and Son's Buoalydit Extraot. Test its eminently powerfnl effect in Coughs, Colds, Influenza ; the relief instantaneous. In serious cases and aooidents of all kinds, be they wounds, barns, soaldings, braises, sprains, it is the safest remedy — no swellings — no inflammation. 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