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Manawatu Herald, 27 March 1902, Page 2

We are glad to report there being a lillle interest taken in the coming Mayoral election. A poultry farm is ifluch needed here judging by difficulty those well-known caterers, the Messrs Langley have had in filling their wants. On Easter Monday two marriages will be solemnised of residents in this district. One will be near Wellington, the bridegroom being a resident of this town, and the other at All Saints’ Church, both of the contracting parties having been born in town. On the 14th June the King will review in Hyde Park eleven thousand members of the Boy’s Brigade. • Two thousand deaths from plague occur daily in the Punjab. Half the province is infected with the disease. The election of officers at the annual meeting of the N.Z. Polo Association, resulted as follows :—President, His Excellency the Governor; vice-Presi, dent, T. Crosse, Esq. Committee. Messrs Strang, Williamson, W. AKeiller, R. S. Abraham, and Skerrett; Secretary and Treasurer, Mr Crawford. Mr E. Gerald, accountant in the Official Assignee’s Wellington office, has been appointed agent of the Official Assignee in New Plymouth until a permanent official is appointed there. MrTheo. Barclay is temporarily performing Mr Gerard’s duties in the Wellington office. Mr Alfred Stringer, of Ecclesfield, Sheffield, set a trap to catch mice in his workshop, and caught a mouse with a head and beak all"feathered like a sparrow, the rest of the body that of an ordinary mouse. Reliable information has reached Mr Barton with regard to the failure of the French New Hebrides Company. The Premier states that he is pleased to know the way is cleared to some extent for the development of the New Hebrides by Britishers. 11 The Standard ” says Mr Seddon’s proposal made in his speech at Haihilton for a triennial meeting of colonial Premiers and British statesmen possibly contains the germs of a practical form of federation. His far-sighted remarks 011 art Imperial reserve, the paper says, are deserving ot attention. Signor Bragato, viticulturist to the Department of Agriculture, is enthusiastic in his recognition of the delicacy and flavour of pure Auckland wines, and declares that only a few parts of the world can produce light wines equal to those which can be produced there. He holds that Auckland can easily compete with Australia and similar countries, both as regards quality and cheapness. Even without an export trade, he points out, there is a local consumption of wine in New Zealand that is worth over £60,000 per annum.

Mr Grattan Grey, formerly chief of the New Zealand Hansard staff, is re turning to Melbourne to take up journalistic work there. At North London Sessions, Arthur Nicholls, 22, addmitted the theft of two coats from shop doors, and assaulting P.C. Bradley, who essayed to capture him.—Mr Purcell prosecuted. —Several previous convictions were’proved.—The Judge (to Nicholls): Do you ever do any honest work ? Nicholls: No; not much.—How do you live them ? Thieving.—What do you intend to do in the future ? I intend to thieve and always shall. —Mr Purcell: There’s an honest candour about the prisoner.—Judge: A dishonest candour. (Laughter.) Twentyone months’ hard labour.

The cross-examiner was a smart man, whose object was to disconcert the witness and discredit his testimony. “ What did you say was your name ? ” was the first question. “ Michael Doherty." “ Michael Doherty, eh ? Now, Doheity, answer this qnestion carefully. Are you a married man ? ” “Oi think so. Oi was married,” “So you think because you were married that you are a married man. do you ? Now tell ms whom you married.” “Who Oi married? Oi married a woman.” “Now don’t you know know better that to trifle with the court ?Of course you married a woman ; did you ever hear of any one marrying a man ? ” “ Yes, moi sister did.”

Those who have carefully noticed the new King Edward postage stamps, will have observed says an exchange that the King’s head faces in the same direction as that of Queen Victoria and will have to be turned round. Another defect which has been noticed on the new, Edward stamp, is that upon the forehead there appears a scar clearly to be seen with the naked eye, as though His Majesty had been slashed with a sword. It is curious that this does not appear on the penny stamp alone, where it was first noted, hut on each of the halfpenny stamps. How it appeared on each of the issues in exactly the same shape and on the same part of the forehead is puzzling philatelists. These stamps will, of course, be greatly valued, despite their inartistic appearance, as uew designs are to be prepared.

The next polo tournament has been fixed for Hastings. The Austral Singers gave one of their very enjoyable entertainments before an appreciative audience at the Public Hall on Tuesday evening. The instrumental and vocal contributions were well rendered. Mr Broad’s song “ Out on the Deep ” was one of the best items of the evening, and the singer was recalled, Mr Howells, the funny man of (he troupe, was successful in his comic songs, and Miss Alice Appleby’s violin playing was a treat to listen to. .. This morning Wiata Arapere, for being drunk at Shannon was fined xos and gs 6d costs in default 7 day’s imprisonment. Joseph Gatton was fined 5s and 7s costs, in default two day’s imprisonment for drunkenness; and Charles Olsen for using obscene language was fined 40s, costs gs, or 7 day’s imprisonment, and for threatening behaviour was fined 10s, costs 7s, or 48 hour’s imprisonment. Mary Connahan for being drunk, was convicted and discharged. In another part of this issue Mr Pegden the well-known furniture manufactorar of Palmerston invites the inspection of his complete furnishing establishment. As so many of our townspeople reject “ Punch’s ” advice about marrying, a place where the best of furniture and furnishing can be obtained is of moment, and we advise a visit to Palmerston previously to purchasing elsewhere. We refer to the advertisement for the various lines that are offered for sale. Mr Pegden has been in business many years in Palmerston and has made a name for himself for good work. Owing to the floods in the northern district of Canterbury the damage is very serious. Cattle, pigs and poultry have been drowned, stacks submerged to the eaves, and houses inundated. Potatoes and other root crops will suffer very heavily. Roads ara almost impassable. . The floods have done much damage in the Lower Shag Valley district, mostly to farmers’ crops. In a few cases a tew head of stock have been lost. The potato crop on the low-lying ground is expected to be a failure. The latest from the Taieri district states that the river has commenced to fall, and no further damage is anticipated. The chief damage has been to crops in stock and to turnips, large areas of the latter having been injured. The proprietors of the Evening Post have decided to put in May-Oatway fire-alarms throughout their buildings, and the contract has been placed with Messrs Turnbull and Jones, the New Zealand selling agents. This patent system of fire protection has been applied to some half-dozen buildings in New Zealand, and amongst other places in the Ilford Asylum in England, where, its merits wpre amply demonstrated recently before a committee ox experts. Its main advantages are—-irtrtnediafe notice of fire by the action of the special thermometer employed, and its suitability for conveying the alarm through any street alarming box system to the Fire Brigade Station. An important feature of its operation is the fact that the flame of a fire acting on the service wires connecting the thermometer with the alarm by burning the insulation off the wires used in connecting the thermometer with the indicator, so that a much larger area is protected than that covered by the thermometers themselves. SANDER and SONS EUOALPYTI EXTRACT. According to reports of a great number of physicians of the hightest professional standing, there are offered 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 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 camphors, the objectionable action of which is well known.” Dr H. B. Drake, Portland, Oregon, Ba y3_‘< Since I became acquainted with this preparation (Sander and Sons) 1 use no other form of eucalyptus as I think it is by far the best.” Dr L. P. Preston’s Lynchburg, Ya., writes—" I never used any preparation other than Sander and Son’s, as I found the others to be almost useless.” Dr J. T. Cormell, Kansas City, Kans.-, says —«Care has to be exercised not to be supplied with spurious preparations, as done by my supply druggist.” Dr EL H. Hart, New York, says—" It 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 useful in diarrhoea, all throat troubled bronchitis, etc.” You can depend on ridding your children of Worms with WADE’S WORM PIGS,. the wonderful worm worriers. Price 1-