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The Patea Poultry Company are now sending nearly two hundred pairs of poultry to Wellington every week.

Last week Mr Fitch, the govern* meat pomologist paid a visit to this district in place of Mr Palmer who is up north busy attending to the gogovernment vineyard. In the course of conversation he remarked that the apples here had a far richer colour than the apples down South obtain.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Premier of Canada, has been informed that the British Columbia Bills prohibiting the employment of Japanese would be disallowed unless amended.

At the Auckland Supreme Court, Emma Bell pleaded not guilty to a charge of having on September 6th performed an illegal operation upon a girl named Clara Payne. The accused is a woman about 50 years of age. A number of witnesses, including Clara Payne, a young girl of about 18 years of age, gave evidence. The jury after 5| hours’ absence, returned a verdict of guilty. The prisoner was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. Mr Justice Connolly said this abominable trade was carried on to a frightful extent.

Attention ! Eyes right. Just so. Tomorrow afternoon our sons, husbands and sweethearts, members of the Foxton Volunteers go into camp. We understand that the experience obtained in Wellington has secured great attention to the catering and that important part of camp life has been entrusted to the Messrs Langley. The company should be weighed prior to going into camp and again on leaving. At P.ilmsrston the representatives of the local bodies elected Mr Wood, the Mayor of Palmerston as their representative on the Wellington Harbour Board, with distinct instructions to resist to the best of his ability any attempt on the part of the Board to levy a rate on the country.

Papers have been filed in the Supreme Court in a libel case which will raise the point of whether a newspaper has the right to publish con tinuously a record of disqualifications imposed on individuals by racing clubs Last year the number of Chinese in the colony was reduced by 70. The departures in the twelve months were 145 (of whom five were women) and the arrivals 75 (one being a woman). During December there were thirteen Chinese arrivals and ten departures.

Codlin Moth is a nuisance but to clear an orchard there is no need to go to the severe point of cutting the trees down. The tree is no temptation to the moth, only the fruit, and anyone who has almost decided to cut the trees down has only to deprive himself of the fruit for a year or two. Directly the apples are formed pick them all off and destroy them by boiling, and let no apples lie on the ground. The moth cannot live without the apple. News has been received at Sydney that the Governor of Tahiti, at -the request of the Queen’s sons and headmen, has annexed the Island of Rimatara and its dependencies, over which France for some time exercised a protectorate.

A correspondent assures the North Otago Times that the plan of hanging pieces of mirror glass in his garden is the best scare for small birds lie has ever tried. He hangs the mirror on an arm extending from a piece of stick stuck in the ground, and with every puff of wind the glass revolvs, flashing in every direction. The birds will not stay near the glass. Even in dull weather the glass is able to scare the birds, as there is a flash from it as it turns on the hanging string. The men who are clearing a large slip caused by the Cheviot earthquake on the Bluff road, unearthed a swag, which has been identified as the property of John Connor, a single man, aged 40, who worked at Cheviot up to October 29th. Just before the earthquake Connor was at Port Robinson, asking when the steamer Wakatu would leave for Christchurch-. He was told she would not sail that day. He shouldered his swag and left apparently for MacKenzie, and has not been seen or heard of since. It is surmised that he was caught in the slip whilst passing under the cliffs when the mass fell. The body is expected to be found in the debris which is now being cleared away.

A horrible state of affairs. The “ man who paid the rent,” told the Wellington Stipendiary Magistrate the other clay that in the two-roomed house he occupied there also lived two married couples. Both rooms _ were bedrooms, and he slept on a sola in One of them, where a man and his wife i also reposed. The Agricultural Department is being urged by various firms which handle flax in large quantities, to bring into operation the system of compulsorily grading all hemp intended for export. The Department has been informed that flax of inferior grade is being shipped Home in certain quarters, and a fear is expressed that unless the Act of last session is immediately brought into force the good name which New Zealand hemp has obtained on the London market will be further injured. The representations made to the Department have caused it to bestir itself in the matter, and it is probably that compulsory grading will be insisted on from the rst prox.—Post. The New Zealand Flour Millers’ Association has notified a further rise of ios per ton in the price of flour. The War Office is purchasing large quantities of New Zealand meadow hay for South Africa. At a meeting of delegates of the New Zealand Polo Association in Wellington, it was decided that the annual polo tournament should start at Palmerston North on the ißlh March. Competitions will then take place for the Savile and the Handicap Cups. Speaking to a large meeting at Liverpool, Lord Roseberry said it would be madness to entrust Ireland’s destinies to men who earnestly wished to see Britain overthrown on the battlefield. An independent Parliament at Dublin was not on his slate.

A Home Office warning has been issued regarding the danger of such war relics as filled and unexploded shells from South Africa, a.nd attention is called to the penalties imposable under the Explosives Act for keeping such articles in an unlicensed place.

On the Horowhenua lake on Saturday the two Wellington Clubs had some racing. The Stars beat the Wellington in the four-oared race by length and a half, for the Maiden fours, and in the senior fours the Wellington beat the Stars by three lengths. Two members of the above clubs raced for the senior sculls, Wellington winning by half a dozen lengths. This must have been most exciting sport.

Although King Edward did not notify his accession by special ambassador to the Vatican, the Pope is desirous (says an English paper) of being represented at the Coronation ceremony. Accordingly, negotiations are now proceeding on the subject, with special reference to the question of precedence. It is stated that Leo XIII would be satisfied with a private reception of his mission by the King, similar to that accorded to the Papal Mission on the occasion of Queen Victoria’s Jubilee.

A volcano of molten lead was poured into the air at Pittsburg on December 19, when an accumulation of gas caused a big blast furnace of Messrs Jones and Laughlin to blow up. Fourteen men (says the Morning Leader’s correspondent) , were at -the top of the furnace "trying to adjust the disarranged machinery. Five were blown bodily into the air. Four others fell from the platform, 130 ft high, to the ground, practically encased in molten lead. The remainder clung on to the edge of the furnace, and were badly burned. Nine were killed on the spot two are still living. All were Slavs and Poles answering at the foundry to numbers and not names. Tons of metal, cinders, and slag were poured over the adjacent houses. We are pleased to inform our residents that the petition for the erection of a receiving letter-box iu the Avenue close to the windmill on the advice of our local postmaster, Mr MacDennott, through whom it was forwarded to the head office in Wellington has been granted. A meed of praise is due to Mr B. Spelman, who instituted and took a considerable share in preparation of the petition.

Mr Speirs has the contract to erect a flaxmill in Carnarvon for MrTennett.

On Sunday Mr and Mrs Rand had an accident whilst out driving, and today they tender their thanks to those who assisted (hem. We direct the attention of Good Templars and all others whom it may concern to the notice in our advertising columns regarding the Ideal Good Templar Lodge. SANDER ana SONS EUCaLPYTI EXTRACT. According to reports of a great number of physicians of the highfcest professional standing, there are offered Eucalpyti Ex tracts which possess no curative qualities. In protection of the world wide farae ot Sanders and Sous preparation we publish •a few abrdraots from these reports, which bear .fully out that no reliance can he placed in oilier products Dr. VV. B Rush, Oakland Pia., writes ft is sometimes difficult 10 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 winch 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 thmk it is by far the ber-t." Dr L. P. Preston, Lynchburg. Va.. writes—“ I never used any preparation other than Sander and Son’s, as 1 found the others to be almo -i nselns *. 1 Dr.T. T. Oormril, Kansas Guy, Kans., —“Care has 10 be exercised not 10 be supplied with spurious preparation', rs done by my supply druggi-s .” Dr ri. H Hart, Now York, says—“ It goes wMio.t saying that Sander and Sous’ Eucilyp’i Extract is th> best in the market.” Dr James Reekie, Fairview, N. M.—“ So wide is with me the range of applications of Sander and Hons Eucalypti Extract that I carry it with me wherever I go. I fin I it most useful in diarrhoea, all throat troubl, d bronchitis, etc.”

WADE’S TEETHING POWDERS for the babies are sooth, ing, reduce fever and prevent blotches. Price,!/-

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Manawatu Herald, 18 February 1902, Page 2

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Tapeke kupu
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Untitled Manawatu Herald, 18 February 1902, Page 2

Untitled Manawatu Herald, 18 February 1902, Page 2

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