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Manawatu Herald, 3 April 1902, Page 2

Mr John Stevens or his agent will visit Foxton on Saturday; Shannon, Monday; Levin, Tuesday ; and Otaki, Wednesday; to purchase horses for remounts for the Imperial Government. t If Mr John Holmes has not left the colony he will do so in a day or two, on a business visit to Loudon. Ail who know the energetic Mr Holmes, at one time the N.2. Trade Commis.doner, will wish him a happy and prosperous trip and a safe return. The visit of Mr Holmes to England is oi more importance to the colony than an ordinary bnsimv.g man's visit, as we know from experience that in onheavouring to help himself he is bound to help the colony. Mr Holmes does not hide bis light under a bushel, and it is well that he does not do so, for he has a comprehensive grasp of the products of the colony, and is possessed of the silver tongue of eloquence with which to announce them to one and all. The Berlin “ Post,” in an inspired paragraph, declares that the renewal ■if the Triple Alliance is assured.

Ths Colonial a:iJ Imperial Institute?., Iho Colonial and Australian Clubs, and the British Empire League are combining to promote a banquet to colonial Premiers present at the Coronation proceedings. Fish have been plentiful in Wellington Harbour during the past few days, says the Post. On Good Friday two men caught 300 larakihi in Worser Bay, and on Saturday last very large hauls of that variety of fish and rock cod were made in the vicinity of the Heads.

In the Wellington Harbour Board's report is the following : —The unusually great surplus of hemp in 1900 did not continue into 1901, bat the shipments, though reduced, were ths greatest with the exception of that year since the boom of iSSg-go. The death is announced of Sir Andrew Clarke, Agent-General for Victoria, aged 78 years iu London.

It now transpires that Col. Grimm, the Russian officer who was recently stated to have been executed at Warsaw, in Russian Poland for selling military secrets to Germany, has been sentenced to imprisonment for lifo, and is confined in an underground dungeon at Schlusselburg. Grimm is stated to have received £43,000 from Germany as the price of his treachery, and the cable service has told ns that the secrets he revealed comprise all Russia’s plans for an invasion of Ger many or for repelling a German invasion of Russia. Schlusselburg, the place of his incarceration, is a prisonfortress on a rocky islet in tiie Neva, where it issues from Lake Ladoga, east of St. Petersburg. Here it was that the dethroned Tsar Ivan VI. (1740) was murdered by authority, after twenty-th r ee years’ imprisonment in this and other fortresses.

Mr Cohen, a well-known concession-aire-in connection with Delagoa Bay schemes, is suing the Portuguese Government for /750,00 c as damages for breach of contract with respect to the Delagoa Bay pier. On March 16th, Messrs'Nelson Moate & Co.’s head office and packing warehouse at Wellington were destroyed by fire. In a little over a week from that date, the firm had settled down to work again in very commodious new premises on Jervois Quay. As a matter of tact there has practically no suspension of business, as, notwithstanding the great loss sustained, the firm having immense stocks of tea in their Wellington Bond, and at their Christchurch, Dunedin, Auckland, and Hobart branch warehouses, have been able to fill all immediate trade orders as usual. The firm were very for'unate in having duplicates of the most important machinery stored in bond, which enabled them to have the necessary plant again speedily at work,

The volunteer camp at Wanganui was not a success, owing to the indifference shown by the local corps and the Palmerston and Feildiog corps, who sent very few men. We understand that there were not many over two hundred in the camp altogether. We appear to be a happy-go-lucky people. This has been a year of plenty in apples, yet directly, such fruit will be hard to obtain owing to the want of care on the part of the few orch'ardists ithere are. These have been selling apples direct from the tree, which will not keep, and selling good keeping sorts indifferently with those that will not keep. Some better arrangement will have to be made in the future. We have been frequently asked why a fence has been put in front of the Post Office. One reason has been to keep the building tidy, as the walls were used for a nightly lounge by the then unemployed, and another reason is to secure the peace and happinness of the postmaster, whose sitting room abutted on the footpath and was useless owing to the foul and filthy language used by persons loafing outside. This may be unpleasant, but it is no less true. The holidays have been marked by most perfect weather, and the holidaymakers have all had a thoroughly good time. On Monday a very large number enjoyed themselves on the sea shore. A party qf young men from Palmerston spent their leisure at the beach in Mr Jonsoq’s houses, and stayed from Thursday night to Tuesday morning, when they left for their labours loaded with fish and rabbits.

A photograph found amongst the papers of Colonel Grimm, the officter who has been imprisoned for life for treason, has proved to be the portrait of a widow living at Charkow who acted as an intermediary in his negotiations with the German Government, often travelling abroad to allow documents to be photographed and then restoring the originals. Friction exists between President Roosevelt and General N. A. Miles. The latter declares that the Government is trying to deprive him of the command of the army. After the coronation review the combined fleets will undertake manoeuvres. Later, the Channel and cruiser squadrons will join the Mediterranean fleet, making a total of a hundred vessels, and the whole engage in a series of manoeuvres extending from Malta to the Gulf of Nauplia. Lord Roberts has directed commissioned officers to see that colonials who may be commissioned to regiments in the regular army are cordially treated. Now that Queen Victoria’s birthday i£ no longer a public holiday (says an exchange), an amendment will be required hi the Banking Act to enable the banks to keep open on May 24. In any amending Act that may be introduced the whole question of bank holidays will no doubt come under review, and the three .Saints’ days will probably be struck out. Tenders for the erection of a cottage for the caretaker on the racecourse were opened by the committee on Tuesday night, when the tender of Mr A. Speirs at £l4O 14s 6d was accepted. The other tenders were—France, £l6l 10s; Jonson, £l7l 6s; and P. Robinson, £lB6 15 s - The following have been picked to represent the Awahou Football Club in their match against All Comers on Wednesday next at 3 p.m. sharp:— Full-back, R. Calcutt; three-quarters, P. Robinson, Spence, Lightbourne; half, Howan; wings, Marshall, Blanche; forwards, Liddell, F. Robinso.'i. ker, Rieka. 1, Gillespie. Munn, Level I, Cook. Emergencies, Spiers and Tozer. Any of the above players unable to play are requssted to notify Mr Lightbourne at once.

The postal and telegraph officials in Hobart have been instructed to detain all iorrespondence addressed to Tattersall or any of his staff. The following appointments appear in last week’s Gazette: —James Penny (Rongotea), Robert N. Keeling (Palmerston North), Ernest VV. Tompkins (Mangaweka), John P. Aldridge (Taihape), Vernon Roberts (Greytown), Jack H. Vincent (Ashburst), Herbert Logie (Feilding), George W. Mitchell (Sanson), and Win. C. MacDermott (Foxton), to be vaccination inspectors for the districts mentioned; Bernard C. Aston to be an analyst under the Dairy Industry Act. An advertiser requires permanent board and residence. We are informed that several persons who partook of the lawyer-fish alluded to in our last issue have had an attack of melanc(h)oley. SANDER ana SONS EUOALPYXI EXTRACT. According to reports of a great number of physicians of the Lightest 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 oamphora, the objectionable action of which is, well known.” Dr H.B. Drake, Portland, Oregon, says—“ Since I became acquainted with this preparation (Sander aud Sons) I use no other form of eucalyptus as I think it is by far the best.” Dr L. P. Preston’s Lynchburg, Va., 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 —“Cate 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 Extract is the best 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 1 go. I find it most useful in diarrhoea, all throat troubled bronchitis, etc.”

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