Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, OCT. 21, 1902.

Manawatu Herald, 21 October 1902, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, OCT. 21, 1902.

In another column Mrs Mackie re* turns thanks for the help and sympathy extended (o her since her late husband's death. Entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams’ Levin stock sale are advertised to-day. General De la Key's claims to be of French descent has chilled many German pro-Boers, who were accustomed to describe the Boras as low Germans.

Mr Kowin, colonial representative of several targe firms in London which purchase dairy produce, predicts that cheese will fetch a record price of 60s per cwt at Home this season. The biggest orchard in the world is near Saata Barbara, in California. It covers 1,700 acres, and contains 10,000 olive-trees, 3,000 walnuts, 10,000 almonds, and nearly g,oco other fruit and nut trees.

Only 2000 bales of wool have been received at Darling Harbour, again it 162,000 bales in the same period last season. Some wool trades predict that the season will close with a shortage of from two to three hundred thousand bales.

The report of the British Board of Trade foreshadows a bad winter. The. number of unemployed in England is rapidly increasing, wages are falling and there is an enormous increase of emigration to places outside Europe. An American syndicate has offered to bnw up all the paU nts taken out by the Daubh company exploiting Mr Poulseu’s famous invention, the telegraphone, for £120.000, cash down, md part of the shares in the new company to be formed by the syndicate. At a meeting of the shareholders the offer was not considered tempting enough to accept, owing to the recant technical improvements made in the invention.

There is at least one country in/the world where it costs nothing to die. In some of the cantons of Switzerland all the dead, rich as well as poor, aro buried at the public expense. Coffins and other necessary articles are furnished on application to certain undertakers designated by the Government. Everything connected with the interment is gratuitous. One who has come back from a Volunteer camp tells (he moving story of a certain officer who was much disliked by his men, One evening, as he was returning; to damp, he stepped into some deep water, and a private in his regiment, after much difficulty, pulled him out The officer was profuse in bis thanks, and asked his rescuer in what way he could reward him. “ Say nothing about it,” was the reply. “ But my dear fellow, why ?’’ “ Because," came back the answer, “if the other fellows know I’d pulled you out they’d chuck me in."

It is officially announced that Berlin official circles will not take notice of the Boer Generals’ presence. The police have forbidden the Generals’ carriage to enter the Brandenburg Gate of the city, or to pus the British Embassy in the Wilhpnstrasse.

Messrs Abraham and Williams bold a stock sale at Palmerston on Thursday, and one at Levin on Friday.

Nominations for the Foxton Athletic Club’s sports close to-night with Messrs E. E. Smith (secretary;, Foxton, and R. W. Armit, 51, Lambton Quay, Wellington. Mr R. E. Beckett, of Marton, writes to the editor of the Advocate as follows : —“ I regret that I cannot contest the Manawatu electorate for the following reason -About a month ago Mr J. Vile asked me whether I intended becoming a candidate and intimated that should I do so he would not come forward. I then told him that my business engagements wonld not allow me, and he announced his candidature. I cannot now, in fairness to Mr Vile, go back on my promise. I should not like to enter politics feeling that I had behaved shabbily. I shall hope to be a candidate at next election.”

Since peace had been proclaimed, 140,000 troops bad been brought away from South Africa, being at the rate of a thousand per day—an achievement which had been justly characterised as extraordinary. We are requested to remind our readers that the sale of sections in the town of Shannon to be held in the town hall there by Messrs Macdonald, Wilson & Co. will take place on Thursday next at 2.30 o’clock. There are 31 sections, each of an area of about a quarter acre and fronting Nathan Terrace, Sheehan and Thomson-streets and opposite the public school and the Oddfellow*' Hall. Very imf terms m tc fe* giviti fsrpaysiimi

Last night at the Foxton Public Hall the Coronation {Cinematograph Syndicate gave their promised entertainment to a good hours A large nutn her of pictures we/-: shown, which the audience seemed to enjoy. It is not only in New Zealand that hisiicc is served out in a tangled condition, says a contemporary. A Melbourne groom who stole a rug worth 3 ■ (his first offence) was ,l sent up ’’ for ■three months. The rug was restored to the owner. A gentleman who stole £383, which was not recovered, seeing it was also his first offence, was discharged under the First Offenders’ Act.

“ Kruger," the baboon, escaped from VVirth Pros.' circus, and, entering the house of a Belvedere resident who was ah-.ent at the circus performance, regaled himself on bread, cakes, and titer delicacies left over from the evening meal. The baboon frightened an inch of growth out of an individual who happened to be standing at the gate of the premises In question. That the gourmandise still flourishes in the land was unmis’takeably demonstrated the other day at an hotel not a thousand miles away. It was tea-time, and a big, bearded settler planked himself at the table and seized the bili-offfate with a determined air. “ Roast beef, boiled mutton, steak pie, pig’s check, curry and rice, boiled, eggs,” and a host of other dainties struck his glistening > eye. “ I’ll hev pig's cheek and boiled heggs.” he bawled in a voice of thunder, “ with roast beef, steak, pies and a bit of curry and rice ter follovV ! ” It was thirty six hours before the waiter recovered from the shock.

A good story is related against him self by one of (ho Dunedin Magistrates. He had held a silting of (ho Court at a certain township recently, and, being somewhat delayed, chartered a cab to the railway station, arriving just in time for the train. He handed tire driver half a sovereign, but the cabman was unable to change it, and the S.M. replied that lie would get it next time. A week or Hv r later the* Magis trate had occasion to charter the same vehicle, and reminded the driver of the change owing. “ Oh, that's all right, Mr replied the Jehu, with a grin ; “ you fined mo id boh last time for allowing my cow to wander—so we're scpiare.” The general election has been definitely fixed to take place on Tuesday, November 23th. SANDER ana SONS RtfCALPYTI EXTRACT. According to reports of a great number 0! physicians of the lughtosl 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. W. B, Rush, Oakland Pia., 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 camphora, the objectionable action of which is well known.” Dr H.'B. Drake, Portland, Oregon, says—“ Since I became acquainted w. h this preparation (Sander and' Sons);.;! u. ; e no other form of eucalyptus as I think it is by far the best.” Dr L. P. Preston’s Lynchburg, Va., writes —“ I never used any preparation other than Sander and Son’s, as 1 found the others to be almost useless, ’ Dr J, T. Oormell, Kansas City, Kans.-, says —“ Care has to be exercised not to ho supplied with spurious preparation-, as done by my supply druggist.” Dr it. H, Hart, New York, says—“ It goes wi bo t 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 tlia' I carry it with me wherever ] go. I fin ! it most useful in diarrhoea, all throat trocibl d bronchitis, etc.”

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