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Manawatu Herald, 11 January 1902, Page 2

Mrs Haywood advertises for an assistant for dining room during race week. Acceptances for the Foxton Racing Club’s meeting close on Wednesday next. Great reclamation works are projected at Table Bay and Simon’s Bay, with a view to improving the harbour and railway works,

Mr Silk is now in Foxton making his usual business tour, Orders can be left at Mr Al£ Fraser’s shop.

Yesterday morning Messrs Fraser and Jenks, J.’s P. convicted and discharged four first offenders for drunkenness. W. Lapham and H. Hughes were fined 5s each and 5s costs for breach of the peace. Jeremiah Leahy received 24 hours’ hard labour for indecency. This morning Jeremiah Leahy again made his appearance before the Bench for drunkenness, and was fined 5s or 24 hoars’ imprisonment. British firms are organising an exhibition to be held in Capetown next year. Lord Kitchener declines to assume the position of Commander-In-Chief in India until the conclusion of the war in South Africa.

A few weeks ago Canterbury farmers were praying for rain to save their crops from being dried up; now they are equally desirous of a spell of fine weather, as, with the exception of some of the root crops, further rain will mean heavy losses. Harvesting operations and sheep-shearing have been seriously interfered with by the weather.

There is a statement that opals are not. to be worn at the coronation. Opals are thought to be unlucky. In the old days the opal was believed to possess magical virtues as the con-' ferring of invisibility when wrapped in a bay leaf. “ King " has the following. “No point in it." Vendor, “Do you want to buy a trunk ? ” Looker-on, “ A trunk! What for?" Vendor, “To put your clothes in, of course." Looker-on, “ Then what will I wear ? ” Referring to the cry for a White Australia the Bulletin has a sketc_ of six little blackamores being whitewashed by the Commonwealth Premier and a side note “ In a few days British New Guinea will become a part of Australia. If Australians persist in their cry for a White Australia there’s a big job in front of Barton.”

The “ Bulletin ” has a wicked cartoon of a ccene in Maoriland. Crossing the boundary, fresh from Prohibition District. This is a train stopping opposite a pub with a race of all sorts of conditions of men and women rushing for a drink.

The growth of telegraphy. In 1851 the first cable was laid between Dover and Calais, a distance about twenty miles. Now there are nearly 300,000 nautical miles oi submarine cables, have absorbed a captal approximately of fifty millions!

The secret of the marvellous and well sustained prosperity of New Zealand (says the Westminster Gazette) is explained in the new Official Handbook, published by direction of the Minister of Lands. New Zealand, in brief, is the paradise of the farmers and the dairyman. What may be called the natural industries of the soil yield £9,000,000 out of a total export list of £12,000,000. And the true source whence come the wealth of New Zealand is its rich grasses. The rich meadow grasses of New Zealand are not so much the gift of Nature as the creation of human industry. We, Advocate, regret fo have to re’ port the death ou Wednesday afternoon of Mrs Hadfield, wife of Bishop Hadfield.

The Pope urges French Catholics to accept the Republic. His Holiness is displeased that the Monarchists disobeyed him, thus provoking the Reli. ous Assdciations Law.

In a sham fight off Cherbourg, on the northern coast of France, between two coast defence battleships, assisted by a torpedo-boat destroyer and five submarine boats, all the submarine boats were struck by torpedoes. Mr Bernier, a Canadian, is now in England raising ten thousand pounds to complete the sum of thirty thousand required for a North Pole expedition. He intends to utilise wireless telegraphy. President Roosevelt has agreed to review the decision in the case of Admiral Schley, who was held by a Court of Inquiry to have displayed a lack of enterprise at the battle of Santiago. The great unpaid. The Justices have anything but an easy lime in this town. During the last year they held 68 sittings and dealt with 149 cases. The Justices were Messrs Thynne, Fraser, and Jenks. Mr Fraser sat by himself 28 times and in conjunction with Mr Jenks 11 times and with Mr Thynne 10 times. Mr Thynne sat 10 times by himself and 24 times with Mr Jeuks and xo times with Mr Fraser. Mr Jenks sat 4 times by himself and as above with Messrs Thynne and Fraser.

In an able article in the “ Times,’’ entitled “A Modern Juggernaut," DrMason says:—“l have no wish to belittle the value of other preventive measures such as the inspection of milk and meat, etc., but this I say, with all the fores that in me lies, that if people would only band themselves together and insist that all infected sputa be destroyed, consumption would very soon cease to be the power for evil that it is. When one remembers that every cough from a poor sufferer is far more inimical to the health of the people than fifty long toms discharged among troops in close formation, it is easy to see the value that must accrue from such a league.”

Yesterday the scutching shed of Mr O. Austin's got on fire, and being noticed by the employees of Messrs Hickson and Reeves they stopped their mill and went to put it out. Messrs King and Baker hearing of it also stopped their mill, and the result was the extinction of the fire with little loss. Mr O. Austin has a notice in today’s issue thanking the employees for their kind help.

Mr John Gillespie submitted himself for inspection yesterday at Palmerston, and passed all the steps satisfactory for joining the Bth Contingent except in the matter of sight, so he has been unable to secure enrolment. Mr E. Dunn likewise failed to pass inspection. A member of the Foxton Rifles, Private James McGregor, has been accepted in Wellington for the Contisgont.

We understand that a bicycle race between two young men,is coming On almost at once. The distance is to be a mile and the stakes a pound aside. We remind our readers that the dressmaker at Mr Stiles’ drapery establishment has now got to work and is giving eva*y satisfaction to those who have had articles made by her. It would be wise to lose do time in placing orders for dresses for the Foxton races. SANDER and SONS EUOALPYTI EXPEAOT. According to reports of a great number of physicians of the hightest professional standing, there are offered Buoalpyti Ex tracts which possess no curative qualities. In protection of the world Wide fame of Sanders and Sons preparation we F u °*| s “ a few abstracts from these reports, which bear fully out that no reliance can be 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 were similar 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, Ya., writes—' 1 X never used any preparation other than Sander and Son s, as 1 found the others to be almost useless. Dr J. T. Cormell, Kansas City, Kans.-, says — ll Care has to be exercised not to be supplied with spurious preparations, BS done by my supply druggist." Dr H. H. Hart, New York, says—“lt goes without saying that Sander and Sons’ Eucalypti Extract is the beat in the market.” Dr James Reekie, Fairview, N. M.— “ So wide is with me the range of applications of Sander and Sons Eucalypti Extract that I carry it with me wherever I go. I find it most usuf ul in diarrhoeas ali throat troubled bronchitis, etc."