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Manawatu Herald, 12 April 1902, Page 2

The Borough Council holds its monthly sitting on Monday night. Mr A. R. Osborne is about starting his tailoring business in the new shop Mr Hamer is erecting for him against Mr A. Pat’s premises. The port was very busy last Thurs* day, there having been five steamers jn the river, two going out and three coming in, all passing one another about half way in the river. Mr Hatrick, in response to a numer* ously-signed requisition, has decided to allow himself to be nominated fcr a further term as Mayor of Wanganui. The experiments now proceeding at Barrow in-Furness with the first submarine boat built for the British Navy are proving very successful. The boat has travelled a distance of six miles at a depth of fifteen feet. Before Messrs Jenks and Fraser at the Court yesterday, Patrick McGuire, for using obscene language was fined 40s, costs Bs, or 14 day’s imprisonment, and for threatening behaviour was also fined 30s and costs ss, or 7 day’s imprisonment, the sentences to be cumulative.

The annual meeting of the parishioners of All Saint’s Church, Foxton, will be held in the schoolroom on Wednesday next at 8 p.m. At the same meeting the returning officer will receive nominations for Synod’s man. During the past fortnight 350 horses have been purchased between Palmersion and New Plymouth for the Tenth Regiment. Several hundred have also been purchased by the Imperial Remount Officers. . It has been decided tc extend the Calliope Dock to 360 feet in length, with a dolphin at either end off the shore, with anchors and buoys as suggested b)r the Admiralty. The equipment of the dock for warships will be pushed on energetically.

Over six hundred men connnected with the pearling industry have removed to new headquarters in Dutch New Guinea This means the loss to Queensland of £25,000, besides the loss to business people at Thursday Island. In view of the removal of the head-quarters of the pearling industry the Government is making immediate inquiries with a view to seeing how far the circumstances justify the action which is being taking.

Mail advices via San Francisco state that after the surrender of Lord Methuen, General De la Rey rode up, and treated him with the greatest courtesy and ■ consideration. He ordered his return to Klerksdorp under the care of bis own nephew and and a medical officer. The correspondent of the “ Daily Mail pays tribute to De la Rey’s humanity and describes him as a “ brilliant fighter and a bom leader, who brings no bitterness nor racial feeling to his task, and who sternly represses any excesses on the part of his burghers.” The War office is inviting tenders for nine hundred thousand pounds of corned and compressed beef, and three hundred pounds of corned mutton. Tenders close on May 26th. In 1886 the money invested in the savings bank of Australasia amounted to over £12,000,000. In 1896 they reached to over £26,000,000. In igor they reached to over £37,00.0,000. Of this sum New South Wales holds £ll,000.000, Victoria £10,000,000, New Zealand over £6,500,000. Three workmen ware arrested at Antwerp for stealing five hundred stones of great value from the diamond workshops at Amsterdam The War Office has asked the Hon* H. Copeland, Agent-General for New South Wales, to arrange for the supply of 100 tons of jam from his colony—plum, apricot and goosberry. ,

The Federal Premier has received a communication from Messrs Burns, Philp and Company, stating that they have arranged to throw open 30,000 acres of rich alluvial land in the south of Santo, in the New Hebrides. Leases vt'ill be granted to British subjects only, in 500-acre blocks at a nominal rental. Settlers will be conveyed free to the island,

The American Beef Trust is limiting the export of live cattle, hoping to increase the price of beef in England. The Messrs Langley Bros, have secured the catering for the Autumn meeting of the Wellington Racing Club on the 24th and z6th instant, This evening Mr G. H. Stiles is showing a nice assortment in Ceylon flannels in up-to-date patterns, also costumes in all colors and prices with new trimmings, which can be satisfactorily made up on the premises. In a new advertisement all the new goods just arrived are enumerated. A visit of inspection would repay. The news that our American cousins purpose making a beef trust to raise the price of meal in London should be good news to graziers here, and should emphasize the necessity for the erection of freezing works at the mouth of the river, as the whole country around this port is an ideal one for forming beef. The Premier is a thorough judge of human nature, and in his speech at Christchurch the other day made Use of a remark true and useful if our local public men would take seriously to heart. It was this: “ People would forgive a man who made mistakes, but not one who never acted.” By the death of Mr Frank H. Peavey a draft for £200,000 —the largest single cheque, it is stated, ever paid out for life insuraece, has been handed to the executors by the Mutual Life Company, of New York. A London paper believes that no British company will take so heavy a risk, and, indeed, in the present case, no doubt a large portion of the amount was underwritten. The premium was 48,30odol (rather under and the policy was issued April aßth, 1900, so that only two payments have been made, Mr PeaVey was 50, and appeared to be in excellent life to a | special board of physicians who were appointed to examine him. But he went to Chicago on a business trip, caught cold, and died in a few days of pneumonia. He made his fortune in, wheat, but on the death of Cable, piano-maker, he bought a Controlling interest in that firm.

Mr H. W. Lucy writes to the Sydney Morning Herald:—Evidence has been given before the Court of Claims of some of the perquisites demanded by the principal personages taking part in the coronation ceremony. There is, in effect, a regular scramble. The Archbishop of Canterbury for fees carries off the purple velvet chair, cushion, and footstool set for his occupation during the Coronation. The Dean and Chapter of Westminster among other things, claims the cloth on which the Sovereign walks on on entering the west door of the church. The Lord Great Chamberlain not only takes up the King’s bed and walks, but claims the bedding and the furniture of the chamber where Majesty lay the night before the Coronation, with his (or her) wearing apparel and night gown. As lately as the reign of James II the Master of the Horse was permitted to loot the King’s table at the Coronation banquet of all the silver dishes and plates served thereat. Most of these timehonoured pickings and stealings have been abolished or compromised. But the resuscitation of the Court of Claims has thrown a curious light upon the manners and customs of our old nobility.

SANDER and SONS EUOALPYTI EXTRACT. According to reports of a great number of physicians of the hightest professional standing, there are offered Eucalpyti 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. VV. B, Rush, Oakland Ela., writes 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, saya—“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 Xi. 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. Cornell, Kansas City, Kans.-, says —"Care has to be exercised not to be supplied with spurious preparations, ss done by njy supply druggist.” Dr (J. H. Hart, New York, says—“ It goes wbho 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 1 carry it with me wherever I go. I find it most useful in diarrhoea, all throat troubled bronchitis, etc."