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Manawatu Herald, 2 October 1902, Page 2

A rifle match is being got up between civilians and the married volunteers. The dale is not fixed. The Bill for tha amendment of the Local Bodies Loans has passed both Houses, so (hat tha prospect of metalled roads in the town is most hopeful. Two boys named Henry Sergeant, aged 15 years, and Arthur Ruddlp, aged 15 years, hvc been arrested in Auckland, on a charge of breaking and entering with the intention to commit arson. The accused admitted having caused eighteen small fires in the city during the past month. ( We have been requested tb mention that holders of invitations to Die adult and juvenile ball on Friday, xotb Oc tober, may obtain their admission cards from Mrs W. Cook- The children are practising assiduously in their fancy dances, and the effect should be very pleasing for the eventful occasion.

We have received from the Amor can lobacco Company a handsome lithograph of the red bottle brush, .he dower of the Red Gum, It is splendidly drawn and coloured, and is ond of n series the Company are producing/

As Mr B. MilUow the newly appointed manager o f tae Union Bank at Hastings, was I ; ''ig the Bank's revolver from a drawer, on Monday morning, the weapon went off, the shot going through Mr Million's cap and grazing his head, caused the bloocl to flow freely. Medical assistance was at once procured, when it was found that although a small blood vessel had been severed, no serious injury had been sustained,

A trial was recently made in Austria (says Pitman’s Phonetic to decide in how short a space of time living trees could be converted_ into newspapers At Elsenthal, at 733 in the morning three trees were sawn down; at g 34 the wood, having been stripped of bark, cut up, and converted into pulp, became paper, and passed from the factory to the press, whence the first printed and folded copy was issued at xo o’clock. So that in ’143 minutes the trees had become newspapers.

The New Zealand Railways issue on the 6th aud 7UI mst. holiday excursion tickets available till the 27th. inst. from Foxton for Hastings and Napier, to give all an opportunity of visiting the Hawkes Bay Show, and the Napier Park races. Alderman Sir Marcus Samuel, KU has been elected Lord Mayor of London for the ensuing year. The booking for the series of concerts at Sydney, to be given by Madame Melba commenced on Tuesday. The sales represented £1653..

The Tongariro arrived from London lat the Cape on September 30th an i route to New X&'.\ land, with Mr Seddon j and party and the New Zealand Coronation Contingent aboard. Mr ; Seddon met with a cordial reception, : and was entertained at a public ;luncheofi.

The frontiers between Chili and Argentina and between Peru and Bolivia have been adjusted.

; The discovery of a huge petrified ' ship on the summit ot a high hill near : the Porcupine River, Alaska, announced some time ago, has now been confirmed.

In consequence of ihe frequent and severe eruptions of Mont Pelee, prac* : tically the whole 0! the north of Mar- ; tinique has been declared noinhabit- ! able. The townships have been i transfsred to the southern districts ot of the island, j In a speech at Clifton, Sir Michael ! Hicks-Beach, late Chancellor of the j Exchequer, advocated drastic reform !of the War Office. This, he said, was i impossible until officers in the army, j like naval officers, devoted their lives I to ther duties and until outside inter- ! ference in regard to promotions and appointments were abolished, i A well known commercial traveller I of Christchurch,' who has suffered from j rodent ulcer for twenty six years, and j had been treated by six or seven Christchurch doctors, and gone through I fourteen or fifteen operations under ! chnloroform, decided, in August of last year, to go to England by reading 1 an article on the X-Ray treatment in ! Pearsons’s Magazine, and when he j arrived ia London he was in a serious I condition. After commencing the ; treatment Mr Robertson felt noticeably | bettor in eight days, and from five or ‘six months he was quite well. The '■ process is' exceedingly simple* The i patient sits for a short time each day j with the light on the sore part, there i being no cutting, no medicine, no ; dieting.

Mr Walter Johnstone has commenced business in the Main street, as blacksmith and coach-builder. Having bad eighteen years experience he should be entitled to a share of the business. The shop ;s the one lately occupied by Mr J dm Spmnvu

Messrs Gosling ami Graham, the auctioneers of Levin, have a notice in to-day’s issue staling that Mr Walter Alzdorf will act for them in this town. They have 80 acres of land f»r sale near town at a reasonable figure.

Many will be sorry to know that Mr S. Rickard, who has acted as Dr Graham’s assistant in Foxton for the past seven months leaves this afternoon for Westport, where he has accepted a good position _as loann tsnens to Mr Robinson, chemist, of that town. During his short stay here Mr Rickard made many friends, particularly taking an interest in athletics, the Foxton Sports Club, of which ho was a joint secretary, will thus lose one of its most prominent officials. This is to be regretted, as everything possible has been done to make the sports a success, and his presence to carry out the duties for the gathering will be hard to fill. Mr Rickard has also shown an interest in other nutters, and will be missed socially besides. Last night a few of bis friends met together and wished him success. Mr Rickard has intimated that if possible he will try and be present on the day of the sports.

SANDER ana SONS EUCaLPZTI EXTRACT. According to reports of a great number of physicians of Ihe hightcsl professional standing, there are offered Eucalpyti Ex tracts which posses? no curative qualities. In protection of the world wide fame of Sanders and Sons preparation we publish a few abstracts from these report?, which bear fully oat that no reliance can be placed in other products;—Dr. VV. B. Rush, Oakland Fin,., writes It is sometimes difficult (o obtain the genuine article (Sander and Sons). I employed differ mt, other preparations ; they had no thera* pentio value and uo effect?. In one case the effects were similar to the oil camphors, the objectionable action of which is w 1 known.” Dr H. B. Drake, Pori land, Oi"gm, says—" Since I became acquainted w.'b this preparation (Sander and Sous) I iv c no other form of eucalyptus sr, I thin'; it is by far tho best,” Dr L P. Pro ton Lynchburg, Va., writes—“ I never used ;i ;v preparation other than Sander and >Son -• a? ; found the others to aimor. useln s. * Dr J% T, Connell, Kansas Ci*y. Eons., -av.*. —“ Caro has to be exercised not to be supplied with spurious preparation?, so done by my supply druggist. Dr H. H, Hart, New York, says—“ It goes wiiho .t faying that Sander and Sons’ Eucalypti

Extract is-thv* best in . the. mrvif'U*" p> Juntas Reekie, Fairview, N, M So ‘ is with m» ilie range of_ application- 'd Sander end ,;!oi.s Eucalypti Extract tl carry it with u wherever I go. i fin mov. useful in diarrhoea, all throat troab <> bronchitis, etc.’’

WADS’S WORM- FlG3—the Wonderful Worm Worriers, are always effective, il- boxes everywhere. What is Pain Balm P . Chamberlain's Parin' Balm is a liniment, aad whi'e adapted to all the ordinary oses i ■*’ a limmen , has qua'.tLs, has quaitios v-iiich distinguish it from other remedies of this oass. Pain Balm, is especially beneficial for rheumatism* Thousands of cases can be cited in which this remedy has effected a cure when the sufferer had previously tried the best medical Service without securing relief! Pain Balm is positively guaranteed 10 give relief in the most severe oases of chronic or acute rheumatism.