Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1902.

Manawatu Herald, 27 May 1902, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1902.

Mr Akers has let tlm draining advertised ia these columns to Mr S. Saveli. Dr. Graham has lost a bay gelding, and elsewhere offers a reward for its recovery. Mr M. H. Walker offers a reward for the return of a pendant he lost near his shop. Messrs Bridge and Andrews’ representative has had to alter the date of his visit to Foxton to Saturday, 7th June. Mr Bullard calls attention to his horse and cow covers which he makes on the shortest notice. He also keeps all classes of harness and saddles. He acts as agent for fruit trees and acetylene gas. In an advertisement the Borough Council call upon the residents to destroy rats and burn them —where ? in their fireplaces! Other towns provide a place for this gentle art. •

In London a Welsh assault case was heard lately and at its conclusion the magistrate thanked the interpreter" for an interesting lesson in that terrible tongue.”

A lady from New Zealand visited Scotland lately and she reports that at a meeting New Zealand was mentioned at which the assemblage arose and cheered. A cynic wants to know what the cheering was for—he suggests that it displayed the pleasure of the meeting at being 16,000 miles away from the colony. Baltic or Candian pine is unsuitable for butter boxes on account of the resinuous nature. Owing to white pine being inodorous a miUer has had inquiries from Ceylon for timer for icechests and boxes, which at present they are importing from Japan. An automatic electric music-leaf turner is one of the latest inventions. It is claimed for it that it can be easily attached to any piano music rack, and it is operated by .touching a button with the foot. Taxes amounting to over one million sterling are collected every week at Somerset House. In 1880 they were paying in Melbourne 2s 6d for butter boxes which today they are paying is 4d for.

The Agricultural Department is offering prizes of twenty and ten guineas for the best plans, with complete specifications, of a cowshed suitable to house 50 cows, with fodder sheds, and dairy; also prizes of seven and three guineas for the l est plains and specifications of a silo for the same number of cows. The plans must reach the Secretary for Agriculture by 31st August next. Before using, the wick of a lamp should always be soaked in vinegar, and thoroughly dried. This precaution will prevent the lamp smoking. A woman stated in the Auckland Police Court that she had changed houses eight times in eighteen months to get away from her pother-in-law, and she was now preparing to move from her present house with the same purpose. In Tartary, onions, leeks, and *arlic are regarded as perfumes. A Tartar lady will make herself agreeable by rubbing a piece of freshly-cut onion on her hands and over her countenance. The Union Steamship Company* whose steamer Poherua towed the damaged barque Gladys into Wellington Harbour on Wednesday, has lodged a salvage claim of against the owners of the sailing vessel. The two Boer representatives sent by General Milner to inspect, with Lord Kitchener’s permission, the Belfast concentration camp, reported that they were perfectly satisfied with what they had seen, that the Boer refugees expressed themselves satisfied with their treatment and had no complaints to make, and that the delegates themselves had been courteously treated during their visit under the flag of truce, . At the hearing of the Foxton malicious prosecution case His Honour said that in his opinion it is was a monstrous thing to lay an information against neighbours under such conditions of things—without giving them an opportunity of explaining possession. An action has been brought in the Perth Supreme Court against Alfred Woods, of the Wood-Williamson Dramatic Company, for having given a performance of “ Barrabas ” at Kalgoorlie on a Sunday for payment. The information was laid under the Act of George 111., which, it was contended by the council representing Woods,' did not apply to that State. The Chief Justice, in giving judgment, said that he agreed with the judgment of the Appeal Courts of Victoria and New South Wales, which had been given in s*niT’r inf-'tnnHonp. that the Act was i u i , c iai; biaiu, ai d fined the defendant the penalty fixed by the Act, which is £l9O.

The death is announced of Lord Pauncefote, the British Ambassador at Washing’ on. Six inches of snow were recorded at Lime Hills, Invercargill, during Friday night. Dr. Graham has found it necessary to alte * the days of his visit to Foxton, and will now come down on Mondayand leave in the afternoon of Tuesday. Subscribers to the Medical Fund are i requested to remember that payments must be made to Mr Rickard, as the collector will not call as in the past. This is only reasonable, as the collecting entailed a lot of work which subscribers had no business to expect. An extremely powerful committee, representing the noblest and wealthiest people in England, has organised . a scheme for entertaining the colonial and Indian contingeats at the Coronation. It will embrace all amusements in . the metropolis. Theatres, music halls, clubs, racing officials and provincial corporations are eagerly proffering assistance, and the committee finds it impossible to accept them all.

We regret to learn that Mr Thomas Clune, who was injured in a trap accident at Foxton, bn the 2ist April, and was admitted to the Palmerston Hospital on the 23rd April, died at that institution oa Sunday evening, says the Times. He had been a resident of Carnarvon, near Foxton, for over 20 years, and was well known and respected by a large number of residents He leaves a wife to mourn her loss. A Parliamentary Committee presided over by Mr A. Akers-Douglas, First Commissioner of Works, condemns the entire system of Army education at Sandhurst, which should be remodelled. The course should be fixed at two years, the cost at £ll2 instead of £l5O and there should be only one examination of candidates at Woolwich or Sandhurst. Fifty, commissions should be granted yearly for students from the colonies, and a hundred for University candidates.

“Is tea intoxicating ? ” This is the question propounded by a correspondent of the “ Ceylon Observer,” who proceeds to give an answer by quoting from the remarks of Dr D. H. Lord, at a Seventh Day Adyeptist meeting in Western Australia. A cup of tea, according to the doctor, contained more poison that an equal quantity of beer; the theino or poisonous principle found in tea was more injurious to the nerve and brain than alcohol. In proof of this be said that one cup of tea, as ordinarily made contained two and one-half grains of theine, or sufficient to kill twenty frogsTwo cups contains five grains and five grains would destroy a rabbit. Seven grains of theine found in three cups of tea would kill a cat, in spite ot the proverbial nine lives. He affirms that the stimulation produced by tea is intoxication, the same as by whisky or beer Our Ceylon contemporary calls upon tea experts to furnish a roply to these statements. The Stock Protection Board of N.S.W. in the West is urging, in view of the drpught in New South Wales and Queensland being of unparalleled seventy, and. the Federal Parliament should temporarily suspend the grain and todder duties. The Board understands that New Zealand has a larger amount of produce on hand than for many years, and with the £1 per ton duty removed pastoralists would, no doubt, purchase largely in order to their stock. The calendar for this year, 1902, has not been repeated sinca the year 1834, a period of 68 years, inasmuch as Easter Sunday falls on March 30, and rules all other movable feasts and festivals accordingly. This will not happen again until the year 1975, another period of 73 years, so that persons born on any of the movable festivals or feasts since 1834 have not had a birthday on such festival or feasts until this year, 1902 ; i.e., a person born on March 28 in any year since 1838 had not had a birthday on Good Friday until this year; and it may also specially interest the clergy of the Church of England to be reminded that few 'if any) living to day have ever before conducted the services of the Church in the same order as they are doing this year.

In a passage of his volumne, ‘ The Book of the Rifle,’ the Hon. T. F. Fremantle tells the following amusing story:—'Sir Henry Halford on one occasion—it was not a very clear day—was about to begin shooting at 1,000 yards and thinking that the marker must flow he ready for him to begin, asked him ’through, the telephone, ‘ Are you all fight'?’ The marker replied, ‘ All right, sir, in a minute ’; but unluckily, Sir Henry took ‘ All right, sir,’ instead of the whole sentence, and removed the telephone from his oar. He laid down and fired his shot, and on leaking through the telescope to see where it had hit was horrified to see the marker with a perfectly white face staggering away towards his shelter. He was intensely alarmed, and in "a moment there came a ring at the telephone, 1 What has happened ? Are you badly hurt ?, ‘ No, sir, I am not hurt; but I had a bucket of whitewash between my legs painting the target, and you put a hole into it, and splashed it all up in my face 1 ’ SANDER and SONS EUG.ILPYTI EX TRACT. According to reports of a great ntunbvr of physicians of the hightesi professional standing, there are offered Eucalpyu Ex tracts which possess no curative qualities. In protection of the world wide fame of Sanders and Sons preparation wo pa’.i:i>h a few abstracts from these reports, which bear fully out that no reliance can ho placed in other products Dr. W. B. Rush, Oakland Fia., 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 we 1 known.” Dr H. B. Drake, Portland, Oregon, says—Since I became acquainted wiih this preparation (Sander and Sons) I use no other form of eucalyptus as 1 think it is by far thi> best.” Dr L. ,P. Pro-don s Lynchburg, Va., writes—“ I never used any preparation other than Sander and Son’s. m I found the operate be useless.”

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