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Manawatu Herald, 5 April 1902, Page 2

In the local Justices Court the other day a case of obspene language was being heard. The witness was asked to state the words used, but the prosecuting constable urged him to utter them as there was no one in Court but was used to them ! Pleasant for the Justices I A hotel proprietor in the Patea district maintains thirty eats on his premises. He says it is cheaper to keep cats than rats, and not so bubonically suggestive. India, we are assured, possesses a practically inexhaustible supply of coal although the development of the mining industry is a matter of comparatively recent date. In 1900 the output was 6,000,000 tons, and, owing to a variety of causes, it is rapidly increasing. Marconi’s experiments cost a good deal of money. Each mast 130 ft. high means £4O. Masts are so troublesome (bat he proposes to build towers for permanent stations. Kites are liable to be blown down. Marconi does not see why the rates for transAtlantic messages should not be reduced to one halfpenny a word in future.

Just what is wanted, A German firm has perfected and obtained control of a beer small tablet that, dropped into a glass of water, will turn it into beer as as it just drawn, it is asserted. * The English memorial service to the late Right Hon. Cecil Rhodes will be held at St. Paul's Cathedral on the 10th inst.

The excellent deer-shooting which can lie had in New Zealand is proving says an exchange a distinct source of attraction to sportsmen from other p arts of the world. Among those now in the' colony for that purpose are sportsmen from India, England, and Australia. The best coal in France is found near Pouchamps. It is so valuable that it pays to mine it at the great depth of 3,313 ft. The King has offered a £ioo cup for an international yacht race organised in connection with the forthcoming Cork Exhibition. It is expected the Mefeor, Columbia, and Shamrock 11. will compete, “ I see the bankrupt kept a race horse,” said Judge Kettle in the Bankruptcy Court at Masterton the other morning. “ But he made no losses on it,” remarked counsel. “Oh no,” said his Honor, “ men never lose on racehorses or the totalisator! ” The Judge went on to say that honest men always tried to pay their debts, whether they wore discharged from bankruptcy or not. It was always pleasant for them to be able to walk the street, look every man in the tace, and in the words of the song, say, “ I owe not any man.” A Military Board is inquiring into some sensational incidents which occurred at recent Saturday afternoon manoeuvres at Melbourne. 111-feeling existed between the infantry sections of a corps and the field artillery portion. The battery came into collision with the infantry, whereupon the officer in charge of the infantry ordered his men to fix bayonets in order to prevent the artillery from taking their ground. A horse attached to the battery was wounded before the charge was stopped. The Matoppos, where Mr Rhodes desired to be buried, are described by Mr W. Ross (who was a lieutenant in the Fourth Contingent), as a most picturesque spot, a few miles from Bulawayo, on the toad to Fort Tuli. The surrounding country has been the scene of many fierce engagements with the blacks, and some fine monuments have been erected there to the memory of the officers and men who fell in the wars with the natives, and especially notable are the large marble monument erected at the foot of the Maloppo Hill, and another beautitul slab alongside it erected to the memory of George Dempster, 12th April, 1898. The Fairfield Engineering Company, at Govan, have contracted for the construction of one of the King Edward VII type of battleship, and the Viokere, Maxim and Seas Company another.

During Major-General Babington’s recent visit to Palmerston, h« informed the officers of the cadet corps that he was endeavouring to induce the Government to acquire the freehold of all the rifle ranges in the colony. The s.s. Waione is a splendid addition to Mr Hatrick’s Wanganui river fleet. This fine vessel is built of Siemen’s steel, is 91ft. long by 14ft. beam, on a draft of i6iu., with a speed of 15 miles an hour, engined with two sets ot triple expansion engines and a Thornycroft water-tube boiler, of 240 h.p.; she is licensed to carry 2x3 passengers, and has dining saloon accommodation for 30 persons at one sitting. The owners have spent a large sura of money on her internal decoration. The vessel, we understand, cost about £6,000.

The Prince and Princess of Wale* have started on a visit to Copenhagen. The newspaper “ Novosti ” says that the refusal of Great Britain and Japan to allow Russia a base on the Pacific will compel her to advance on the Indian Ocean, even if the independence of, Afghanistan and Beluchistan is destroyed. Lord Ranfurly is taking considerable interest in poultry breeding, and a shipment of prize birds, which has arrived from England yesterday to his order, indicates that he is entering into the practical part of the business in a practical manner. The birds are of a very high class, and should be an acquisition to the existing strains. The Feilding Jockey Club made £IOOO over the Easter meeting. Mr Lee, late Inspector of School?, has been elected to Wellington Education Board by a substantial majority. We are glad to report that the missing man from Walden’s mill returned on Thursday night, after much rough experience, having lost his way more than once.

On Monday at All Saints’ Church, Amelia, the fifth daughter of Mrs Williams, was united in wedlock to Richard, the fourth son of our old townsman, Mr R. Walden. The bride was prettily dressed in blue and wore a white straw hat trimmed with white silk and feathers. The bridesmaids were dressed in white. In the evening a dance was held at Moutoa, where the young people were the recipients of many valuable presents. The honeymoon is being spent in Wellington. The shooting committee of the volunteers met last night when ft was decided that the shooting for prizes would be on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, and not less than a squad of six to go at a time. If, however, at any lime a squad of six arrange together to fire an officer will accompany them. Letters of thanks were directed to be sent to all who had presented trophies. Yesterday morning we regret to announce, Mr H. P. Thompson, of Rongotea, was found dead in the Square. It appears that in the evening ho rode to the Post Office for his mail, and whilst there his horse got away. He started to find it, and all that is known is that his wife not finding him early in the morning, started with others to search for him, and found him lying on the side of the road with a box of matches in his hand and a burnt match in the other hand. It is supposed death arose from heart disease.

At the last meeting of the Sluggish River Drainage Board it was resolved that joint action be taken with the AOrangi Drainage Board to serve notices upon Messrs Austin Bros, and •Seifert to abate the nuisance in the Oroua River, failing which that joint proceedings would be taken to enforce the Board’s determination. SANDER and SONS ETJOALPYTI EXTRACT. According to reports of a great number of physicians of the hightest professional standing, there are offered Euoalpyti Extracts 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 camphora, the objectionable action of which is well known." Dr H.B. Drake, Portland, Oregon, sa y a _<> 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’s Lynchburg, Ya., writes—" I 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 —“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 bast 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." WADE’S WORM PIGS-the Wonderful Worm Worriers—are a safe and sure remedy, in 1/boxes; sold everywhere.