Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1902.

Manawatu Herald, 24 July 1902, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1902.

The railway department is putting together some punts on the bank of the river to hold a dredge, being an instalment of improvements to be carried out at the wharf and down the river.

Mr Speirs is building a cottage on ■ is firm up the Avenue, having secim d a tenant ready to go into it when ready.‘ Mr Harry Coley has made a start with building bin mill at the old site at Poroutawhao, the flood at ■ Waipawa .having been just too much for him. Mr John-Collins has been entrusted with the work.

Mr T. Easton has Mr Harry Coley’s new dwelling roofed in and weather boarded. It is being built on the site of Mr Rhodes’ old house.

Mr Edmund Osborne put his plateglass front in before-the rating poll was held, but though the poll was doubtful he never hesitated in making improvements. Such is the case everytime. If the improvement is thought worth doing whether the rating is on the unimproved or rental value, makes no difference.

The defeat of the proposal to accept the unimproved rating for the rental, does not seem to have deterred building operations in the town. Mr George Coley has erected a comfortable fourroomed cottage next to his old residence, and is having another one built alongside. The first one is let and occupied, and he has a tenant for the second. The State Government has established wireless telegraphy between Brisbane and Cape Moreton. The Wanganui Education Board has accepted, with regret, the resignation of Dr Smyth, chief inspector, and decided to offer the position to Mr W. Gray, of Palmerston-North.

The Canadian Government is inviting tenders from Liverpool shipowners to run eighteen-knot steamers between Vancouver, Australia and points ef call on the Pacific; also for commodious quick cargo steamers. A large and representative meeting embracing all Protestant denominations was held on Monday night at Palmerston to promote the question of Bible-reading in schools. .Addresses were delivered by both clergy and laity, and resolutions were carried forming a society to carry out the promoters’ scheme. The Rev. C. C. Harper, anglican, was appointed president. Jarvis, the English swimmer, won the long-distance championship from Kew to Putney, on the Thames in 73mm aysec. The Sydney swimmer Read was second Cavill third, in 76mm sosec. The British habit of celebrating everything by a dinner lately received a rather remarkable illustration. The Imperial Yeomanry Field Hospital and Bearer Company were captured at Roodeval, and they intended to commemorate that event by a dinner at the Criterion. It is supposed that this is the first occasion on which a body of men dined in celebration of the enemy.

Playing for Surrey against Middlesex Lockwood took six wickets for 35 runs.

A singular death occurred in an English country village some thirty odd years ago. A farm labourer was wending his way homewards with a scythe on his shoulder and when he came to a stream he paused to admire a large trout swimming almost at his feet. At the end of the handle of the scythe there was inserted an iron spike, so the man determined to capture the fish by spearing it. He raised the weapon and bringing it down with all his force, apparently haying forgotten to turn the blade from him, he cut off his own head which fell into the stream. Strange to say, the fish was impaled on the iron spike, and the cause of the death explained. A man believed to be the Rana Beni Mabdu, of Shankarpur, who figured as a prominent leader in the great mutiny of 1858, has been arrested at Lucknow for preaching sedition.

The Coronation naval review will be held on August 16th. Chicago barbers'Jsays an American paper) have refused to admit women to fellowship in their unions on the ground that, they talk too much.” And coming from a barber too! The Mayor of Christchurch telegraphed to the Acting-Premier and Mayors of other large centres, suggesting that the Coronation celebrations throughout the colony bo held on ; Monday, August nth, instead of Oh Saturday, the gth, as the latter is an inconvenient day. He pointed out that in any case New Zealand will not hold the celebrations when the ceremony is taking place. The Commissioners of the 1851 London Exhibition awarded Richard Hosking, of Melbourne, and Albert Hunter, of New Zealand, the science research scholarships of .£l5O a year. The Wellington Education Board and Mr Stuckey, of Levin, are at variance over the site of the Levin State School. Mr Stuckey holds a lease of the land upon which it is proposed to build the school and has it is alleged, threatened to burn any timber placed upon it for building purposes. The Board has decided to take legal action against Mr Stuckey for the possession ot the site. Twenty samples of butter taken from various Taranaki factories by an officer of the Agricultural Department have been recently analysed in the laboratory of the Department’s chemists. The .proportion ot water was found to range from 9.4 to 14. 1 per cent, but the Tatter- figure' vyas exceptionally high. On elimination this, the average number was 10.9, the variation from this figure being with the above excep'ion not more than units. This is, of course, an extremely satisfactory results ar.d tends to bear out the opinion of Home experts as to the high value of New Zealand butter by reason of its low proportion of moisture) and consequently high percentage of fat. A tall woman entered an omnibus accompanied by a small boy, who wore a saucepan on his bead in place of the more usual hat. His appearance provoked comment. “ Wot’s ’e doin’ it fur ? ” asked one traveller. “ Doin’ it fur ?” cried (he mother. “Why, he was playin’ at bein’ Lord Kitchener or somethin’, and ’e wanted a ’elrnet. so e’ puts the saucepan, on ’is ’ed, and now’e can’t get it off, so I’m takin’ ’ini 10 the ’orspital.” “ Poor kid," said a sympathiser. “ Poor kid ! ” cried the mother, “ it’s poor me ! ’E was in such a ’urry that ’e never looked to see wot was in the saucepan, and now ’e’s got my blessed breakfast on ’is ’ead.” . Mr J. R. StanselL proposed the following resolution at the Te Horo branch oftheN.Z. Farmers’ Union:— “ That the Government be requested, through our member, Mr W. H. Field, to protect the settlers on this coast against any overcharges (hat are made by the Wellington and Manaw.itn Railway Company, as the settlers are handicapped by having to pay more for their produce and goods than if they were sefttlers on a line owned and rnn by the Government.” This was carried. Are rabbits profitable to the country ? asks the Taieri Advocate, and goes on to state that judging by the heavily-laden trucks of rabbits we see passing Wingatui from Central Otago a lot of money must be distributed every month amongst the workers of that district. There is no doubt that the advent of bunny caused work on many a wide expanse of sheep-grazing land, where formerly a shepherd and his dog were the only objects to be seen, save the sheep they tended, and the Maori hen, now, unfortunately, almost extinct. Recently’ (says the Nelson Colonist), the flooring of a pigstye oil a section in Toitol Valley was removed, when the ground beneath was found to be literally swarming ‘with rats, which had burrowed into the earth, Though the floor of the stye did not exceed gft. square, no fewer than 91 rats were killed and quite as many escaped. In turning over the ground with a fork rats were turned out as though potatoes were being dug from a good crop. The Palmerston North Starr-Bow-kett Society has distributed £6,800 among members during the four years of its existence. It has now a bona fide share list of six hundred financial members. Japan’s latest curiosity is a baby boy who at the age of ten months weighs nearly four stone and is oyer three feet in stature. His parents have taken him to Tokio to have him adopted by a wrestler. Cairo is much the biggest town in Africa, with 400,000 people, ot whom 25,000 are Europeans. The Wairoa County Council is framing a schedule of works for a proposed £30,000 loan. Should the Pope live till 1903 he will celebrate his diamond jubilee as a bishnp. The Feilding authorities, have decided to build abbatoirs for their borough, and plans are now being prepared. A Gisborne resident is taking out a patent for table bowls, which should prove a very attractive game. Captain Bruce Beale, of Palmerston North, who went with the Ninth Contingent, in writing from South Africa, says:—“As regards business, New Zealand is fair, but this country cannot be beaten. I have seen Pretoria, and am very much taken with it. This country undoubtedly has a future before it such as no country can beat. Even for farming it cannot be improved upon. As regards climate, I hope I never live in a worse one.”

Mr Thompson, of the Palmerston Dental Surgery, will make Bis next professional visit to Foxton on Thursday, July 31st and he can be consulted at Mr Rickard’s.

A reminiscence by Judge Denniston, evoked by the Porirua - foreshore actions:—ln the early days all the racecourses on the West Coast were below the high water mark, and very good racecourses they were, too. The grandstand was a ship wracked in the ■andi

At the Court this afternoon, before Alf Fraser and P. Henncssy, Esq.’rs, J.’s P., John Lindsay, alias Newton, who was arrested and remanded from Wellington for the theft of a suit of clothes, pleaded guilty, and was convicted and sentenced to three, months’ imprisonment m- Napier gaol. The same accused has to appear at Waipawa on the ,31st to answer the charge of stealing a bicycle. SAN DE U and SON > EDO VLPYTI EX TRACT. According to reports of a great number of physicians of tho tightest professional standing, there are offered Euoalpyli 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 eai lr placed in other products:—Dr. W. B Rush, Oakland P.a., Writes It is sometimes difficult !o obtain the genuine'article (Sander and Sons). I employed different, other preparations; they had no therapeutic value aud no effects. In one case the effects were similar to the oil camphors, the objectionable action of which is wed known,” Dr H. B- Drake, Portland, Oregon, says—“ Since I became acquainted with this preparation (Sander and Sons) I ore no other form of eucalyb'be as I th nk it is by far th ; best.” Dr L P. Prc ton's Lynchburg, Va., writes—“ I never used any preparation other than Sander and»tou s. as 1 found the others to bo a'mosi useless. ’ Dr J. T. Cornell, Kansas City. Kans., wye —“Care has to be exercised npt 10 be BUpplied with spurious prepara'donrs done by itiy supply Dr K. 11. Said, Now York, aays—“lt goes WiSho t Saying that Sander and Sons’ EuoM.vp d Extract is the- best in the market.” Dr James Reekie, FilsrvieW, N. M. “So vn ais with me The Hinge of applications cT Sander and Sons Eucalypti Extraor thn ; 1 carry it with me wherever 1 go. I fin • • most useful in diarrhoea, all tiuor.llvoub; U bronchitis, etc.” , ;

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