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Manawatu Herald, 17 June 1899, Page 2

" At the meeting of the creditors of F. R. Young, held at Palmerston yesterday, it was agreed that his immediate i discharge be recommended. At the last meeting of the Education Board it was decided to acquaint Mr W. S. Stewart that his explanation of the result of the examination was ! not satisfactory. An alteration to F. Lovedays advertisement will be foTind in next issue. To-night there will be a display of trimmed millinery to be cleared at cost price. We would advise an early visit to secure the pick. Notice is given that the Judge of the Assessment Court will hold a Court on Monday next at Palmerston North to hear objections to the valuations of many districts, amongst which are the Foxton Borough and the Manawatu County. Affairs in the Transvaal Republic have assumed a more hopeful outlook, and South African stocks, which recently slumped considerably, are now recovering. The P. and O. Company has paid the salvors of the China, the steamer that went ashore last year at Perim, a barren island used as a coaling station by Great Britain in the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, the sum of £57,000. The vessel was floated off the rock, and taken to England. Mr C. A. Fitzßoy, Mayor of Hastings, has definately decided to contest the Waiapu seat with the Hon. J. Carroll. The Uganda Railway has now reached the 300th mile-post, more than half the distance to Lake Victoria being thus completed. The last 100 miles have been laid in seven months and a half. Customer — " Look here ! The first time I used this cheap umbrella I bought of you the black dye soaked out and dripped all over me." Dealer " Mein freint, that was our new patent self-detective umbrella. If anyone should steal that, you'd know him by his clothes. The German newspapers, in criticising the Peace Conference, allege that Sir Julian Pauncefote's proposals exceed those of the Russian Minister's I (Count Mouravieff s) programme. The newspapers fiercely accuse Great Britain of a desire to wreck the conference and to create a fued between Germany and Russia. The English is the best lighted coast jin the world. Of the 335 lighthouses in existence, 56 are scattered round England's rocky coast, some of the lights being so powerful that they are visible 20 miles out to sea. The late Mr James Orr, of Glasgow has bequeathed £93,000 to charities. The Bulls bridge will be on the truss principle with the stays chiefly of iron work and built on piles. It will be 1565 feet long, made up mostly of 123 feet spans. It will have a rise from the river bank of one in one hundred, and will be 36 feet above the water on the Manawatu side. Here the approach will be through a cutting 20 feet deep. The piles of the bridge will be driven to their full depth then cut off at water level, and piers built on the top. The piers will be sheathed with totara on both sides, and in river. From the long embankment on the Rangitikei side and in an up river direction will be built 320 feet of sheath piling. Where it touches the river it will be double, and filled with stones. The piles will be driven below any assumed possible scour.— Advocate. It is understood that the Britis-h Treasury is reconsidering the advisableness of granting a liberal subsidy to the Antarctic exploration party. It is probable two vessels with start on the work in 1901. An extraordinary tragedy, says Dalziel, is reported from Revest, where a man named Henri, aged 81, shot his son, aged, 40, while they were at dinner. The soup did not please the old man, and becoming enraged he picked up the tureen and threw it violently on the floor. . The son stooped to pick the broken vessel. This seemed to further exasperate the old man, who took down a loaded fowling piece from the wall and shot his son dead through the chest.

The dining rooms opened by Mr Morley are in the building known as the Ready Money Store, and by the advertisement appearing elsewhere he invites one and all to give him a call. As on Tuesday next Her Majesty the Queen completes the 62nd year of her wonderful reign, it has been arranged that a special festival service, in commenoration of this event will be held at All Saints' Church in the evening, at which the Vicar will officiafe, and will also give an address. There will be special psalms sung, and Gdtl Save the Queen, and altogether the service will be most interesting, and the church will likely be packed. The estimation our Vicar was held in by the parishioners of St. Matthew's Dunedin was exhibited by the very many presents given him on leaving, and yesterday he received a handsome travelling Communion bag, in which the cup, spoon, and plate are of silver, the bottles for wine and water of glass silver topped, and an oak box for the bread. The articles are all filled into an inner case in the bag which is large enough to hold a surplice as well. These goods have been imported from England, hence the delay. Mr Leach has also been notified that a marble font for private baptism is on its way out for him, the duty on which has been thoughtfully sent. The Government has issued instructions that in every case of an old age pensioner being convicted of drunkenness no further instalment of his pension shall be paid to him personally, but to a duly appointed agent instead. " An' whoo's the guid wife, Sandy ?•' said one tarmer to another, as they met in the market place and exchanged snuff boxes. " Did ye not hear thak she's dead and buried ? ' said Sandy, solemnly. " Dear me ! " exclaimed his friend, sympathetically " Surely it must have been very sudden ? " " ye, it was sudden." returned Sandy. "Ye see, when she turned ill we had no time to send for the doctor, as I gied her a bit pouther that I had lying in my drawer for a year or two an' that I had got frae the doctor myself, but hadna ta'en. When the pouther was | I dinna verra weel ken, but she died soon after. It's a sair loss to me. I i can assure ye, but its something to be thankfu' for I didna tak the pooather mysel'." " Observer," in the Wellington, " Post," writes :— " On the night of the 32nd 23rd June there will be a total eclipse of the moon. The moon will { be high up in the sky, so that, if the j night ba clear, all of interest will be seen. The times for different parts of the eclipse are thus given in the Nautical Almanac : — First contact with penumbra (or half-shadow) 10.07 p.m., 22nd June; first contact with (full) shadow 0.2 a.m., 23rd June ; beginning of totality, 1.02 a.m.; middle of eclipse 1.47 a.m. These times are for an observer at the earth's centre, and require correction for perfect accuracy, but they are near enough for us. Some splendid deeds of heroism were done at the Hotel Windsor fire, but nothing finer than the self sacrifice of William Guion, an elevator man at }he hotel. He had been employed at the establishment for twenty years, and had charge of the elevator ijoing through smoke and the gravest peril, repeatedly bringing down loads of frightened people. When the collapse of the building became imminent he was pulled out of his car by the police. But he was not yet ready to run. It is said that the elevator bell rang once more- At anyrate, he started for one more trip. On his way down the top of the shaft fell in. The car stopped and Guion and whoever was with him were caught by the flames and perished. The New York people showed their appreciation of the brave man's act by instantly raising a fund of i'rooo for the support of his mother and two sisters, Mr J. W. Doane one of the survivors, starting the fund with a subscription of £10. When Lord Salisbury visits his villa at Beaulieu on the Riviera he apparently goes there to enjoy quiet, as the house only contains sufficient rooms to accommodate his family, guests chambers being non-existent. Six taxameter cabs now ply for hire in London. This instrument not only marks the distance run but announces the fare, so that the usual regular dispute with cabby has not to be looked forward to. On Thursday we were glad to see ' that a most deserving couple had their pensions granted — Mr and Mrs Sullivan. It transpired that they had had eleven children, all settled with only one at home, and we all know that during the 25 years they have resided .in the coloqy, they have lived all the time in this town and have borne an excellent character. These are satisfactory pensioners, and we would all were like them.

I have engaged a reliable watchmaker, and can now undertake the cleaning of watches and clocks. Watohes cleaned for 5s 6d • main springs for 5s ; clocks cleaned from 2a Gd. Watches and dock - guaran te' d for 12 months. Brooch pins, Cd eac'.i — Joe Tos, Main-treet, Foxton. Fo* Children's Hacking Caug'ig tako Woods' Grea- P -ppennint Cur >, 1/ti and 2/6. To The Übvf and thos* troubled with Noise3 in the H ?ad or other Aural Troubles. Dr Nicholson, of Londo i, the world famed Aa.'al Specialist and inv ntor of Artificial Ear Drums, has jus issued the 100th edition of his illustrated and deaoriptiv. boo'{ on Deafness arid Aural Troubles. Thi3 book may bs had frjm Mr Colin Campbell, 160, Adelaide Rjad, We!liugf,on , N.Z. Mr Campbell was oared of hi- deafness by Dr Nicholson's 6yatem, anl takes pleasure in spreading the n;w3 of the great , specialist in New Zealand. A little book on the cure of Rheumatism Corpuleaoa, Lumbago, and Indigestion by the same author may be bad from Mr Campbell, also free.