Manawatu Herald SATURDAY. MARCH 18. 1889

Manawatu Herald, 18 March 1899, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY. MARCH 18. 188 9

The Railway Easter excursion fares are notified in another column. The Commissioner of Taxes gives the annual notice, to make returns. A memorial service will be held to» morrow night in the Methodist Church, to the late Mr F. Walker, when Mr Woollass will deliver a special sermon . and Mrs Woollass and Miss Anderson will sing by request a sacred duet, : " Sleep on Beloved." All his former workmates and flaxmill hands are particularly invited to be present. '

The only point in the evidence at the Gatton inquiry so far shows up the absence of precaution taken by the police when the tragedy was discovered. The officer who made notes is to the positions of the bodies lost chem. Mr Curtis, agent for Dante, the conjuror, has sought an injunction to restrain the latter from cbaling \v!il: certain paraphernalia, pending a suit for breach of contract. The Court sanctioned a mutual arrangement whereby performances could be carried on under the supervision of a receiver of the Court, Dante being required to deposit £1000 before removing the apparatus from the jurisdiction of the Court. News from Brisbane says that two coloured women during the hurricane swam ten miles, each with a child on her back. When they landed both children were dead. The force of the gale is shown by the fact that stones have been embedded six inches in the trunks of trees, while rocks weighing tons have been thrown up by the sea. The other day a very well-known young man gave a reason for his not lancing, the spirit of which might be made to apply to a great many failures in life. " I should like to dance," he .«ud, •' and 1 sliould dance, only I find hat the music troubles me and the ?irl gets in my way." According to the Washington correspondent ot an English paper, the Sower grower in Massachusetts, who has cultivated a new pink carnation of great beauty, has been offered /1200 tor it by a wealthy Chicago man. This is the highest price ever bid for a carnation slip of any kind in the world. The grower had refused an offer of £1000. Wealthy men and florists from Darts of the country are competing for the prize. The New South Wales dairy expert has been trying to improve the butter it several factories. He finds that many of the defects in butter — includng, he believes, fish flavor- -are caused by the presence of unfriendly micro organisms, all of which would bo lestroyed by a proper system of Pasteurisation, and the introduction of a pure culture of lactic ferment into the cream in just the same way as brewers of light beer introduce a pure "«-><;t into the wort after it has been boiled. At the Wellington S.M. Court on Wednesday, betore Mr Kenny, an application by Mr Geo. Fisher, M.H.R., to have an order made against him of 20s a week for the maintenance of his wife, set aside on the ground that there had been no failure to maintain and that she had annulled an agreement to receive £2 a week, by returning home. Mr Skerrett, for Mrs Fisher, agreed to the quashing of the order and the commencement of the proceedings over again. The case was then adjourned for a week to enable Mr Fisher to be represented by counsel. The N Z. Times says he appeared to be laboring under "repressed excitement." A Wellington resident, while on a visit to Christchurch recently, conversed by telephone with a friend in Invercargill, 370 miles away. The conversation lasted some time, and was carried on with the greatest of ease. A copper wire is laid between Christchurch and Dunedin, but between Dunedin and Invercargill there is only an iron wire. The best wire between Wellington and Auckland is one of copper, ot too small a guage to enable a person speaking into a tele- j phone instrument in one city to be neard distinctly in the other, but if the Government could see its way to replace it with one of copper as heavy as the ordinary iron wire no difficulty would be found in carrying on conversations by telephone between the two cities. The apple is such common fruit that few persons are familiar with its remarkably efficacious medicinal properties. " Everybody ought to know that the very best thing he can do is j to eat apples just before going to bed. The apple is excellent brain food, because it has more phosphoric acid, in an easily digestible shape, than any other fruit known. It excites the action of the liver, promotes sound and healthy sleep, and thoroughly disinfects the mouth. It also agglutinates the surplus acids of the stomach, helps the kidney secretion, and prevents calculus growth, while it obviates indigestion, and is one of the best preventives of diseases of the throat. Next to lemon and orange, it is also the best antidote for the thirst and craving of persons addicted to the alcohol and opium habit. A very old resident and business man of Wellington passed away yesterday. We allude to Mr Edward Barber. The deceased, who was born in Dover road, London, and who was in his 56th year, came to the colony in the ship Princess in 1891. He was engaged with his father in business at the Hutt for a number of years and then joined the firm of P. and H. Barber, butchers, with which he has been connected ever since. He married in 1871 a daughter of Mr John Minifie, whom he leaves together with three sons and five daughters. The late Mr Barker had the reputation of being one of the best judges of stock in the colony, and for many years he was a judge at the Canterbuay A. and P. Association's show. The deceased was buried at the Hutt yesterday.— N.Z. Times. We have received the Government Insurance Recorder for the first qnarter of the current year. The'total new business last year of the department was 3386 policies, insuring £713,---489 at death or maturity; and annuities, immediate and deferred, amounting to £2,602 15s yd per annum. The annual premium income represented by these new policies is £23, 292, and £9,271 was received as single premiums for assurances and annuities. The net result is that the policies on the books of the Depart- " ment at the close of the yestr have ! increased in number by 1,674, and in that amount the sum insured by. £302,---140. This brings the total in force up J tO £lO,QQO,QQQ. '

The reward of £'558 for the discovery of the principals of the Yarra mystery, has been awarded to C. L. Pratt, who gave the first information which led to the arrests and Dubberke's confession. The Town Clerk gives notice that forms ot claims for enrollment in the Burgess List can be obtained on office days on or before the 31st March. On Go.xi Friday General Bootii win be in Palmerston," and will deliver an address at the railway station. The directors of the Bank of New Zealand have decided to close all its offices in the colony which are found to be doing an unprofitable business. Mr *S. Savell notifies that he has good grazing, close to town, to let. He will take every care but no responsibility. Dr Devenish-Meares has his card in this issue. He can be consulted at his residence in the Avenue, the house lately occupied by Mr Little. A cricket match between Taikorea and Eoxton is being played in Victoria Park to-day. At the lunch adjournment the Taikorea men had made 44 runs in their first innings, with one wicket to fall.