Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1900.

Manawatu Herald, 21 July 1900, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1900.

This morning a prohibition order was made against Simeon Wilson.

Messrs Stnale & Hay announce that their stocktaking sale has now commenced, and a discount of three shillings in the pound is being given. Special bargain reductions are to be had in ladies' capes, jackets, macin toshes, &c,

Mrs M. A. Whyte has for sale certain properties in Foxton in a good position and at very reasonable prices. See advertisement.

Joseph Barre was arrested by Constable Forster yesterday charged with desterting his wife at Napier since Sept., 1899. and was brought before Mr Aft. Fraser, J.P., this morning, and remanded to Napier.

The Borough Council held a special meeting last night and approved of the alteration in the tolls for the Wirokino bridge as proposed by the conference of the local bodies. They also approved of the draft of the address to the Governor prepared by the Town Clerk.

The secretary of the Celebration Committee advertises the date of the luncheon to His Excellency the Governor, the price of the tickets and where obtainable.

Mr Harrier has designed a new gasometer for the acetylene gas, which he has erected upom his premises, and after more than a week's trial finds it a complete success. It certainly saves the labour required to clean the present gasometers and the supply only requires changing once a week. The simplicity and cleanliness of the arrangements will do much to bring this light into more general use.

Great heat is being experienced just now in Europe and America. Temperatures of godeg. Fah. in the shade have been registered in London and 95 degrees at Paris ; while in New York the heat has risen to iO4deg. Many cases of sunstroke have been reported.

Dales' Dubbin 13 advertised to-day. It is claimed for it that it makes boots and harness waterproof as a duck's back. It is sold by all up-to-date boot stores, saddlers and ironmongers.

It is announced that Great Britain is prepared to ratify the Convention arrived at by the Powers in the International Conterence held at The Hague last year, by the Czar's invitation.

At the meeting of the Horowhenua County Concil on Saturday, the Chairman (Cr Simcox) while recognising that the traction engines were a great boon to farmers in harvesting operations, said that in his opinion they were an unmitigated nuisance to general traffic. At the present time no lady, at any rate, was safe in driving along the County road without a male compan : on.

Mr Brabant, S.M., at Auckland in dealing with the case of a youthful criminal said juvenile depravity seemed to be on the increase in Auckland. Some cases coming before the Court showed the criminal instinct in a marked degree. In the present case a boy of twelve stole a pair of boots and wrote a letter to a second-hand dealer purporting to come from his mother asking him to purchase the boots.

A correspondent of a contemporary describes a new method of " topping off " pigs, and making the flesh hard instead of flabby. About an hour after the animals have had their usual ration whatever it may be, give each one a small quantity of dry meal of whatever kind is preferred. It is not to be mixed with any other substance, nor is it to be moistened in any way. The pigs eat it slowly as they are compelled to do on account of its dryness, and will take a good half hour to get through a small ration The effect of this dry ration, given by itself about an hour after the usual feed, is to impart a firmness to the flesh which is difficult to obtain by any other method of feeding. The pigs appear also to enjoy the dry meal thoroughly.