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Manawatu Herald, 8 December 1900, Page 2

A reward is offered for finding a gold brooch. The altered advertisement of The Bon Marche will appear in our next issue. The School Committee have decided on having a flagpole on one of the gables of the school. Reitfontein, near Bronkhorst Spruit, the scene of the engagement between Paget and Viljoen, is twenty-one miles south- east of Pretoria. The Chinese tortured a British officr mptnred at Kalaga for four d_ays beKu'e putiiug him to death.

The Borough Council meets on Monday night. A thousand feet of a great embankment on the river Tiber has collapsed owing to the floods. The Governor of Ceylon reports that the Boer prisoners are well and contented. A bank of the Royal Mint is to be established in Canada to coin Canadian and British currency. News from St Petersburg states that the Czar has so far recovered as to be able to sit in an armchair at intervals. Cabinet has decided that the salary of the Secretary of the Department of Industries shall be £450 per annum. The programme for the State School Concert on Friday appears to-day. In our next issue wo shall refer more fully to it. A summoned meeting of the Foresters will be held on Tuesday next at 8 p.m. Business — nomination of officers and general. Captain Hunter notifies that every enrolled member of the Foxton Rifles is required to attend on Monday evening to be measured for uniform. Messrs Fredk. Ireland & Co. advertise their Xmas hampers in this issue. They have secured a very large trade in this line owing to the excellence of the contents. The Rev. Joseph Parker, in imitation of the journalistic effort of the Rev. C. Sheldon in America, will edit and control the " Sun " for one week " on Christian lines." A body of infantry, cavalry, and artillery is leaving Bombay for Jubaland, in East Africa Protectorate, where the Ogadyn Somalia recently murdered the Commissioner, Mr A. C. W. Jenner. A memo for Sir G. O'Brien— lt is stated that the Maoris who own the land upon which Greymouth is built live in idleness and plenty at Arahura, drawing about £5000 a year from the land. A seam of coal 17 feet thick has been discovered in the Wangapeka district, Nelson. The coal burns freely, and leaves "only light cinders. According to Mr Harnett's (vine inspector) report, there are now 4570 vines in the Horowhenua County. The inspector states that he found no trace whatever of phylloxera in the district. Under date Pretoria 22nd October Lord Roberts reports to the War Office as follows : — " Lord Erroll occupied Buffelshoek from Ottoshoops on October igth without any casualties owing to the good work done by the New Zealanders under Capt. Poison." We direct attention to the shop windows of Mr Alf. Fraser's establishment where a very large assortment of handsome and useful articles are to be seen most suitable for presents. His windows have lately been most interesting, as they have had a change of dressing once a week. With this issue Messrs C. M. Ross & Co.. of the Bon Marche, Palmerston, circulate an inset announcing a big bargain giving epoch and grand Xmas fair throughout their establishment for the whole month of December. Buyers of general drapery, clothing, boots, shoes, and fancy goods suitable for Xmas presents will find the inset of particular interest at the present time. The Privy Council has dismissed the appeal lodged by the Jewish Colonisation Association against the payment of succession duty on considerable sums of money which were left to the association by the late Baron Hirsch, the Jewish philanthropist, and others. I The Imperial Treasury will benefit by I the decision to the extent of about a j million and a quarter. The record consignment of dairy produce yet shipped from a New Zealand port is included in the freight of the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Paporoa, which has just left for London. The total quantity from all ports consists of 31,178 boxes butter and 4203 cases of cheese. The total value of the vessel's cargo amounts to between £350,000 and £375.000. We would advise our readers to carefully study the altered advertisement of Mr Alf. Fraser's in another column. It will be seen that he has a great assortment of goods suitable for the Xmas trade. We are informed that no less than nine cases of fancy goods, toys, &c, have been opened up and marked off during the past three weeks, and Mr Fraser claims to hold the largest stock in these goods that has ever been shown, in Foxton, and which we quite believe. There can be no doubt that the rlext fortnight will be a busy time with him.

To The Deaf uikl those troubled with Noise? in (h? Hrart or other Aural Troubles. l)r Nicholson, of London, the world fam^d Aural Specialist and inventor, of Artificial Ear Drums, has jus* issued the lOOih edition of his illustrated and descriptive booh on Deafness and Aural Troubles. This book may be had from Mr Colin Campboll, 160, Adelaide Road, Wellington, N.Z. Mr Campbell was oured of hi" deafness by Dr Nicholson's system, anl takes pleasure in spreading the nows of the great specialist in New Zealand. A little book on the cure of Rheumatism Corpulence, Lumbago, aud Indigestion by the same author may be had from Mr Campbell, also free. Unnecessary Loss of Time. Mr Y/. M. Whedon, Cashier of the First National Bank of Winterest, lowa, in a recent letter gives some experience with a carpenter in his employ, that will be of value to other mechanics. He says: "I had a carpenter working for me who was obliged to stop work for several da\ s on account of being troubled with diarrho a. I mentioned to him that I had been similarly troubled aud that Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and D arrhoea Remedy hud cured me. He bought a bottle of it from the druggist here and informed me that one dose cured him, and he is again at his work." For sale by W. Haraer, Chemist, Foxton. TO THE DEAF.— A rich lady, cured of her Deafness and Noises in the Head by Dr Nicholson's Artificial Ear Drums, gave £5,000 to hs Institute, so that deaf people unabie t > procure the ear Drums may have them free. Address No. 699, D. The Nicho'son Institute, Longcott, Gunnersbury, London, \Y.

SANDER and SONS EUCALPYTI EXTRACT. According to reports of a great number of physicians of the hightest professional standing, there are offered Eucalpyti Ex tracts which possess no curative qualities. In protection of the world wide fame of Sanders and Sons preparation we publish a few abstracts from these reports, which bear fully out that no reliance can b? placed in other products: — Dr. W. B Rush, Oakland Fla., writes It is sometimes difficult to obtain the genuine article (Sander and Sons). I employed different other preparations ; they had no therapeutic value and no effects. In one case the effects wereeimilar to the oil oamphora. the objectionable action of which is well known." Dr H. B. Drake, Portland, Oregon, says — " Since I became acquainted with this preparation (Sander and Sons) I use no other form of eucalyptus as I think it is by far the best." Dr L. P. Preston, Lynchburg, Va., writes — " I never used any preparation other than Sander and icon's, as I found the others to be almost useless." Dr J. T. Cormell, Kansas City, Sans.-, saya v — " Care has to be exercised not to be supplied with spurious preparations, as done by my supply druggist." Dr H. H. Hart, New York, says—" It goes without saying that Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extraot is the best in the market." Dr James Reekie, Fairview, N. M. — " So wide is with ma the range of applications of Sander and Sons Eucalypti Extract thar'l carry it with me wherever I go. I find it most useful in diarrhoea, all throat troubled bronchitis, etc.."