Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1902.

Manawatu Herald, 10 April 1902, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1902.

The Mayoral election will be held on the 30th inst. The cost of his earldom to Lord Roberts was about £650. Mr Edmund Osborne in his replace advertisement invites the public to inspect his autumn and winter goods. Owing to poison being laid on both sides of the river, persons are warned against using rabbits for consumption. The English newspapers compare Mr Rhodes’s will with that of Caesar, and praise his consistent devotion to the ideals of Imperial unity. A rich find of gold has been madt in the Pilbarra district, about 90c miles north of Perth. Twelve men obtained 400 0z in a fortnight.

The Trans-Siberian railway gives the cheapest rate in the world. It is possible to buy an emigrant’s ticket, covering 6000 miles, nearly three weeks’ journey, for 13s 6d. Mr J. G. W. Aitken will again be nominated for the Mayoralty of Wellington. Mr Rhodes has entailed his Newmarket estate to his brothers with a stringent condition that no one should inherit it without having spent ten years in an occupation, or if he had “ loafed."

The strongest animals exist entirely on vegetable food. It is the ferocity of the lion rather than his strength that makes him formidable. An elephant is a match for several lions, and is a vegetarian. The animals with most speed and endurance—the horse, the reindeer, and the antelope —are all vegetarians. The American newspapers in their comments on Mr Rhodes’ will, express the belief that the education bequest? will form a perpetual link with America and Britain.

Lord George Hamilton, Secretary for India, is responsible for the statement that on six rupees a month, a family of four people in India could have three meals a day. “ Whenever I go into a house,” says a throat specialist, “and see a silk muffler hanging in the hall, I know that I have a possible patient there, Nothing ever did so much to weaken the throat as these mufflers. It is only necessary for a man who wears one of these things to go without it on a cold day. After that he is ready for me or a member of my profession.” True to his calling or there’s a time for everything. “Are you feeling queer Bill?” “Yes, bad I" “Well why don’t you go off and see a doctor ? ” “ What I In my own time ? ” In the last Review of Reviews, in the note on the war on the attempt of the Boers to break through the cordon it is written “ To New Zealand pluck was mainly due the surrender of nearly 700 Boers at Harrismith some four tour days after.” By the permission of the head master, Mr Thynne took his Graphophone to the school on Tuesday afternoon at the close of school hours and gave a number of records. The children seemed well pleased and interested in this wonderful machine, and at the conclusion gave Mr Thynne q • • •.< vr i cheers. We believe that the actual inspection of any novelty is of great educational value,

The newest automobile grassmower uses a five-foot scythe, and will cut 22 acres ot grass in nine hours. The Railway Department notify that holiday excursion tickets will be issued to Wellington on the 10th (to-day), and the i xth April, available for return till 29th April. The Vickers-Maxim Company has submitted to the War Office an armoured motor-car lor coast defence purposes, which can also be adapted for service in the field. It carries a pompom and two smaller guns of the Maxim pattern. An extraordinary police and press scandal has come to light at New York. An educated criminal in conjunction with a District Attorney of New York and some reporters of the “ New York Herald," bribed the Bowery police to promise immunity from arrest as receivers of stolen property, the police supplying them with house-breaking implements. The exposure has caused a panic amongst the police. They have retained the best lawyers to defend the accused.

The New York Chamber of Commerce is inviting the Prince of Wales to attend the dedication of its new chamber in September. The lawyer Patrick,' who was convicted of murdering William Rice, a New York millionaire, to secure a million pounds under a forged will, has been sentenced to death,

The Government is publishing all the despatches relating to the Spionkop affair.

Captain Stormer, of the Kron Prinz Wilhelm, recently described the experience of an American young -lady who visited London and was shown some of the sights by a boastful Englishman. “ Here is a cannon captured at Bunker Hill,” said the Englishman. “ How appropriate!” exclaimed the young lady. “ I must explain,” said the gentleman tauntingly, that this cannon was captured from the Americans by the English.” The young lady retorted : “ Well, you have the cannon; we have the hill 1” The Bishop of London, speaking at a meeting in London recently, drew attention to the fact that 1500 of the clergy of the Church of England r£ceive less than £67 a year from their “livings,” and that in nearly 5000 cases the income was under £155 a year. He contrasted these stipends with the incomes received by ministers of the Free Churches, and declared that he “ was ashamed of the Ckurch to which he belonged that these things Were possible.” Yesterday afternoon the s.s. Florence got wrecked in the river. She was, what was thought, securely fastened to the bank, but the flood caused her to pull the stakes she was fastened to away, and drifting down the river got foul of the wire across the river at Paiaka, and turned turtle and sank. It is feared she cannot be recovered. The loss will be a heavy one to Mr Jupp. The heavy rain in the Wairarapa has caused a flood in the river, but we have not heard of any disaster. The water ran in over the road at the Shannon ferry yesterday as well as over the Wirokino road, hut the latest reports were that the water was falling.

Mr W. W. Astor tells the following story. A man who was always late for everything, suddenly one day, when he was expecting a party to stay with him, rushed home after all his guests had arrived. On the stairs he met a man, with whom, to make up for lost time, he shook hands most warmly, exclaiming, “ Oh, my dear fellow,” I’m so glad to see you! Do make yourselt at home and enjoy yourself 1 ” It was a burglar, very much surprised at his cordial reception, for he was carrying off all the valuables I SANDER and SONS EUOALPYTI EXTRACT. Acoording to reports of a great number of physicians of the hightest professional standing, there are offered Euoalpyti 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, ga yg__'* Since I became acquainted with this preparation (Sander and Sons) I u-e 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 bo almost useless. 1 ’ Dr J. T. Cornell, Kansas Cily, Kans.-, says —“ Care has to be exercised not to be supplied with spurious preparation-, ss done by my supply druggist.” Dr H. H. Hart, New York, says—“ It goes whho it 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 I go. I find it most useful in diarrhoea, all throat troubled bronchitis, etc.”