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Manawatu Herald, 26 May 1900, Page 2

Dr. Rockstrow has left Foxton and taken a house in Palmerston.

The Wanganui Education Board has appointed Miss Wanklyn a pupil teacher and transferred Mr Gabites to the Foxton School from College-street.

The next English and European mail via San Francisco will close at the local office on Friday, the Bth day of June, at 8 p.m.

To the late Mr Qladstone Is attributed the saying that the wisest politician he had ever known was the Queen herself.

The Borough Council invite applications for nightman up to 6 p.m. of 4th June.

We regret to learn that Mrs J. W. Gower died at Levin yesterday. The deceased lady had been in indifterent health for a long time past.

A football match was played on the racecourse on Thursday between the local team and the Motuiti footballers, he game resulting in the defeat of the latter players- by 20 points to nil.

Parents and guardians are reminded that the State School re-opens on Monday, as the epidemic of whoopingcough seems to have considerably abated. Regular attendance is truly an essential of successful work, and all parents would do well to bear this in mind.

To-day Mr Wiinsch of the Foxton Bakery notifies that he has secured the services of a first-class baker who has baked in such well-known establishments as Keller's, Wellington ; and Buchanan's, Auckland. He feels satisfied now that his bread cannot be beaten and his customers will be well served. Small goods will as usual be a speciality, as well as hot pies and coffee on Saturday nights.

Gen. de Galliffet is Minister for War, and perhaps, upon the whole, the most important man in France. There is, therefore, a peculiar significance in his remark in the Chamber in April. " I know something about 'coups d'etat,' for they have often been proposed to me."

A shilling subscription has been inaugurated at Cambridge near Auckland for making a presentation to Colonel Baden-Powell. The presentation will probably be a walking stick of New Zealand wood inlaid with greenstone and mounted with gold.

On the 4th April there died at Constantinople Ghazi Osman Pasha wellknown as the hero of Plevna. Osman reached Plevna in July 1877 and defended it successfully against a vastly superior number of Russians until the 10th December, when the garrison starved out made a sortie in which they were compelled to surrender. After the surrender he was greeted with cheers and cries of " Bravo, Osman" by his captors.

General Buller has at least two trusted and expeiienced military spies in his employ, at the present time. These men have rendered invaluable Service already, and the information gathered by one of them a few weeks ago had much to do with the capture of Colenso. The other man, whose knowledge of the country is perfect, has been in and out of the Boer camps a score ot times since the war began. On one occasion he was disguised as a burgher, and acted his part so superbly that he was not even suspected.

Lord Kitchener, when acting as military spy in the Red Sondan, years ago, was wont, says the Bristol Observer, to carry in his waistcoat pocket a tiny phial containing cyanide of potassium — a swift foe to life, which he preferred to that meted out by the dusky enemies among whom he moved. One day he saw them capture a spy, whom they skinned alive, partially roasted, and afterwards hung head downwards to die. After that Kitchener carried his own method of death ; but, fortunately, never had to employ it.

Mr George Hutchison, questioned as {o the prospects of trade with South Africa, expressed the opinion that there is every reason to believe that a very large produce trade could be cultivated with South Africa in the near tuture- At present, however, the market for produce such as hay and oats is dull, as the British Government is pouring in those products by thousands of tons, and the depots are stacked with them. At East London when he was there recently, the Knight Templar arrived with a cargo of New Zealand oats, and had great difficulty in disposing of it. There will, however, Mr Hutchison is convinced, be a large market in South Africa for all kinds of produce, including butter and cheese, when the Rand mines are re-opened.

Count Adalbert von Sternberg, the Austrian who was taken prisoner with General Cronje at Paardeberg has declared to a Daily Mail representative that " It is easy, from an office desk in Europe, to criticise the English generalship, but whoever has experienced the difficulties of the country, the almost impossibility of obtaining supplies, and the terrors of the climate whoever know how great a part the water question played, and can realise or has seen the thousands of horses, mules, and cattle which had to be fed with no possibility of getting a blade of grass or of any pasture from the soil — whoever can understand and realise all this, will realise how hard a task it has been to carry on a war 6000 miles from home." The opinion of Count von Sternberg is that the British army is a splendid body of gentlemen, and in saying this, he alluded not only to the officers but to the men. " For Tommy Atkins I have the sincerest admiration and respect. He is a fine, healthy, straight-thinking gentleman, and I admire and love him, as every soldier mast."

Cricket, Tennis, and Croquet. — Wm. Park announces that he has opened oat a shipment of Summer Games, which in olude^ Wisden's celebrated Bats, Bills, Tennis Backets, Croquet Setß, Jto. This h undoubtedly oae of the very best importations that has come to the district. — Advt.

To The Dea* and those troubled with Noises in the Head or other Aural Troubles. Dr Nicholson, of London, the world famde Aural Specialist and inventor of Artificial Ear Drums, ha 3 jusr. issued the 100 th edition of hi* illus< rated 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 oared of hi« deafness by Dr Nicholson's system, and takes pleasure in spreading the news of the great specialist in New Zealand. A little book on the cure of Rheumatism Corpulenoe, Lumbago, and Indigestion by the same author may be had from Mr Campbell, also free.

Wade's Worm Figs are most effective and not unpleasant ; children thrive after taking them. Price, Is.