At .the Volunteer ball Mrs Haywood has promised a prize of one guinea for the best fancy-dressed gentleman, and Captain Walsh and Lieutenant Baker have promised a similar prize for t the best fancy-dressed lady.
Mr John Collins having erected a neat flagstaff over the Herald buildings has received many ordets for staffs for other business premises. He makes them well and cheap.
The point of a casting vote has frequently exercised one of our leading citizens. At the Borough Council oil Monday night a resolution* in opposition to the Mayor was carried by 5 votes to 4 votes, and though the Mayor had voted against the motion he stated he thought he was entitled to a “ castihg-vote” as well! I I Not; “ made in Germany.” The Kaiser’s new yacht Meteor is to be furnished and decorated at Southampton.
The Admiralty floating dock for Bermuda, built by Swan and Hunter, Wallsend, lifted H.M.R. Sanspareil, of u,ooo tons displacement, with armor, guns, and stores, bodily out of the water.
Egypt has a desert railway which runs 45 miles in a straight line ; but the longest straight piece of railway line in the world is from Nyngan to Bourke, in New South Wales. This railway runs 126 miles on a level, in a dead straight line. A Spanish scientist named Figueras, a Professor of Physics at Las Palmas, the chief town of the Canary Islands has invented a simple generator capable of collecting atmospheric electriciiy, and storing it for the use of railways and factories. Ho predicts a tremendous economic industrial revolution. The inventor is about to visit Europe with the object of patenting his discovery.
In the House of Lords, Viscount Goschen, referring to the financial aspect of the war, said that in 1888 it was estimated that the 3 per cent consols, if translated into per cents., which was subsequently done, would have been worth 82, whereas they now stood at 97, despite an exhausting war and borowing of a (hundred and fifty-nine millions, A terrible eruption of Mont Pelee took place on Saturday. Darkness lasted from ten o’clock in the morning until two o’clock in the afternoon. The plains of Mornerouge were covered with hot mud. Some lives werejost. The damage doce is moderate. The dates arranged for the representative of Messrs Bridge and Andrews’ are Otaki June 30th, Foxton July xst, Shannon 3rd July, and Levin 4th July. Three men have been arrested on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of Mr Murray Spicer, of Spicer Brothers, paper, makers, Aston road, who was killed by a gang of “hooligans” at midnight after the peace celebrations. Troops to the number of 1400, representing each regiment of the British Army in South Africa, aboard the transport Bavaria, are expected to arrive in London on the 25th instant. These troops will take part in the Coronation festivities on the 26th instant, if the transport makes a fast passage. The Lord Mayor of London presided over a great meeting at the Mansion House to arrange a Coronation gift to the King, who has desired that it be given to a hospital. It was resolved by the meeting to open a national fund towards it; The sum of ,£55,000 was subscribed by those present.
Mine. Ravellote’s husband has , applied in Pads for a divorce. He alleges tnat his wife’s affection and jealous teraperment are intolerable. Three months ago he casually mentioned at table that a certain woman he was acquainted with before he married would come to town within a few days. His wife flew into a rage and to pacify her he promised not to see the woman during her stay in Paris. This did not satisfy her. -She caused to be constructed unknown to him, and in a distant part of the house, a cage like a menagery cage, into which with the help of a powerful servant maid and the coachman she thrust him intending to keep him there until the woman in question had left Paris. He was rescued after three days by his The Court adjourned the hearing for a fortnight and ordered the wile to appear to “ corroborate or deny the petitioner’s almost incredible charges.”
At the Kairanga County Council a letter was read from I. Cooksley, asking that Ngawhakarau Road contract stand over till spring, and stating that it will take about £SO to complete the contract.—lt was resolved that the contract be completed by Nov. Ist, subject to the immediate completion of the bridges. We have to thank the editor of the New Zealand Times for his invitation to the opening ceremony of the new printing and publishing house on Saturday next. It would be a pleasure to attend such a function but we regret we shall be unable to take advantage of the invitation.
Tn reference to the roads which the Manawatn Railway Company wished to close in the Linton swamp, it was decided by the Kairanga County Council not to agree to their being closed owing to the objection of Mr W. Akers. Some light is thrown upon the conditions of living in Queensland by a letter received by the Wellington section of the Australasian Federated Seamen’s Union from the Queensland branch. The writer states that all the necessaries of life in that State have gone up to almost double their Usual price—namely, butter from rod to is icd per lb, meat from to 3d per lb, and vegetables are hardly to be had for money. Retrenchment, he adds, is going on throughout the State departments, as well as in most of the private firms, and thd labour market is stocked with unemployed. Further, it is stated that Queensland is on the verge of a water famine, there being little water in the reservoirs.
At the present time, says an exchange, there are about one hundred and fifty natives at Papawai undergoing the sulphur bath treatment of the Maori doctor. One and all, whether they are suffering from any ailments or not, are taking the baths, some as a curative and others as a preventative. The Maoris are placing great faith in the treatment, and give an instance of a Maori waihin'e from Dannevirke, who has been bed ridden for fifteen - years) now being able to walk after a series of immersions. They aver that asthma, consumption, rheumatism, or paralysis can be driven away l-y the Tohunga.
A special thanksgiving service for peace will be held in the Primitive Methodist Church on Sunday evening next. The Rev. W. Harris will deliver an address* and special hymns will be sung. An inset with this issue from Messrs C. M. Ross and Co., of the Bon Marche, Palmerston, announces the commencement of their winter drapery sale on Saturday last. It will be noted from the inset that the day which they chose for the commencement of their sale was the tpth anniversary of their commencing business in Palmerston, and a cordial invitation was given to customers and the public generally to participate in the prosperity which has attended their business! career during this period, and We note with satisfaction from the Manawatu Times of Monday that Saturday’s business at the Bon Marche was the largest ever recorded in one day. Mr Thompson, dentist, of Palmerston North, advertises that he will visit Foxton on Thursday, June 26th. As Palmerston is so near patients can easily visit there if any work cannot be finished at time ot visit. SANDER ana SONS EUOALPYTI EXTRACT. According to reports of a groat number of physicians of tho higbtoet professional standing, there are offered Enca'.pyti Ex tracts which possess no curative qualities.^ In protection of tl I'■ world wide fa no of Sandora and Sons preparation wo publish a few abstracts from these reports, w. ich bear fully out that no reliance can bo place t in other products; —Dr. W. B Rush, Oakland Fla., writes it is sometime difficult to obtain tbs genuine artirio (Sander and Sons). I employed differ ni other preparations; they had no therapeutic value and no effects. In one case the effects wore similar to the oil camphora. tho objectionable action of whicii ;s w? I known.” Dr 11. P>. Drake, Portland, Oregon, Btt y S _“S:noo I became acquainted whb this preparation (Sander and Sons) I ore no other form of eucalvotoa as I think it is by far tbs best.” Dr L. P. Proton’s Lynchburg, Ya., writes—“ I never used any preparation other than Sander and Son as ? found tho others to be almost uselei s. ’ Dr J. T. Connell, Kansas City, Earns.-, -ays —“ Cara has to bo exercised not to be supplied with spurious propara 1 ions, "S done by rny supply druggis .” Dr ft. rl Hart, New York, says—“ It goes whim t saying that Sander and Sous’ Eucalvp'i Extract is the best, in tho market.” Dr James Reekie, ifairvuv.v, N. M.— “ Ho w.,lris with rac the range of applications of Sander and Sons Eucalypti Extract tha‘ I carry it with me wherever I go. I find it most useful in diarrhoea, all throat troubled bronchitis, etc." ** To Prevent Croup, begin in time. The first symptom is hoarseness; this is soon followed by a peculiar rough cough, which is easily recognised and will never be forgotten by one jvho has heard it. The time to act is when the child first becomes hoarse. It Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is freely given, all tendency to croup will soon disappear. Even after tho oroupy cough has developed, it will prevent the attack. There Dno danger in giving this remedy as it contains nothing _ injurious. It always cures and cares quickly. V/; Hamer, Chemist, sells it. Asthma, Sore-throats, Coughs and Golds speedily cured by taking Bock’s Balsam, remarkable for healing cuts and sores, price 1/6. TO THE DEAF.—A rich lady, cured of her Deafness and Noises in the Head by Dr Nicholson’s Artificial Ear Drums, gave £5,000 to his Institute, so that deaf people unable to procure the ear Drums may have them free. Address No. 699, D. The Nicholson Institute, Longoott, Gunnersbury, London, W. WADE'S WORM PIGS-the Wonderful Worm Worriers, are always effective. 1/- boxes everywhere*
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