The Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, DEC. 20, 1902.

Manawatu Herald, 20 December 1902, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, DEC. 20, 1902.

Notice is given elsewhere that the vaccinator will attend at his residence between 2 and 3 p.m. every Wednesday. ' Nearly all the storekeepers notify in an advertisement that their shops will be closed for the Christmas holidays including Saturday the 27th inst. Mr Stiles expects a very busy Christmas this year, and therefore request customers to show as early as convenient during the week. He wishes all a Happy Xmas. All the storekeepers announce that they will not give any almanacs in future nor any Christmas boxes or presents from to-day. It is probable that the dawn of the New Year will witness a change in the ownership of one of our butcher’s shops. We much regret to learn that Mr George Coley, who was at work assisting the sports at the Victoria Park on Wednesday was suddenly attacked with sickness.

It is intended to tender a large public luncheon to Mr John Stevens at Foxton at the beginning of the New Year. The arrangements are in good hands.

A general meeting of the Foxton Athletic club will be held on Wednesday next the 83rd inst at the Racing Club’s office.

The secretary of the Shooting Committee advertises that the competition for Mr W. Gray’s gold medal will be held on Ist January at 8 a.m. Entries close of Saturday next. Messrs Hennessy, Spring, Walker and Westwood advertise that their stores will not be open on Saturday next.

A terrible explosion of cordite pccurred in the Government factory at Waltham, owing to grit in the mixing machines. Three persons were killed. The Railway Department notifies the Christmas train arrangements. On Thursday the 11.40 p.rn. from Palmerston and the 3.10 p.m. train from Foxton will not run. On Boxing Day the morning train will leave at 8 a.m. Instead of 9. a.m.

Mr John D. Rockefeller has given another million dollars to Chicago University. Mr Brokrick, Minister for War,estimates the cost of operations in Somaliland during the present financial year at a quarter of a million. Mr and Mrs Chamberlain have left Mombasa, on the east coast of Africa, by train for Victoria Nyanza.

The mission in the Methodist Church will close with the services to-morrow. The Rev. G. H. Mann will preach. Subjects—morning, “ Building the Altar” and evening, a special address to young people. Everybody invited. The St. James’s Gazette does not look kindly on the proposed visit of a New Zealand brass band to England. It says“ New Zealand is sending a brass band to give a series of concerts in this country. This is a of colonial enterprise and patriotism which does not arouse our enthusiasm. When it comes to peripatetic brass bands we are Little Englanders, and we look with a great deal of apprehension on this new zeal and torture. An illustration of the rush of emigrants to South Africa is given in the fact that the big liner Delphic, at present on her way from London to New Zealand has 264 passengers for the Cape and none at all tor this colony.

Saccharine obtained from tar is 220 times sweeter than cane sugar, and is used in sweetening and preserving jams, fruit preserves, and jellies. Un like ordinary care sugar when soused, it is not liable to mould or ferment. On the other hand, it does not fatten or nourish the body, and in certain ailments is therefore recommended by doctors for sweetening coffee, tea, and other beverages, in places of the ordinary cane sugar.

A petition signed by 3000 persons has been presented to the Italian Go* vernment asking for a pension of £73 per annum to be conferred on a woman named Maddgdene Gramietta, who has gi%’en birth to sixty-two child-ren—fifty-nine boys and three girls—during her married life. In nine years she presented her husband with eleven sets of triplets, three groups of guadruplets, one group of sis, and the other eleven came singly. She is now fiftyseven years old and incapable of work.

Prior to bearing a will Case at the Supreme Court at Brisbane recently, Mr Justice Real, who had heard many will cases since his elevation to the bench, said: “If I had my way I would not allow any man to make a will after he arrives at a certain age. I have had a good deal of experience of old people. I have found that when they arrive at a certain age they become so much under the domination of people around them that their life is not worth living unless they do what they are wished.” Mr T. Kennedy Macdonald, who wielded the hammer at the commencement of the sale at Levin, announced that the directors of the company had resolved to give to the public of Levin are an important concession in the shape of a new level crossing at Tyne street, and that this would be constructed in the early da vs of the New Year.

Those who hold strong teetotal views do not seem to object to take advantage of the comforts of a good hotel. Last week this town was honored by a visit from Messrs Vile and Pirani and though their opinions on the drink question are well-known, they made for the nearest hotel on their arrival and had meals there, and passed the remainder of the evening at another hotel. In fact till they left they were only inside of the doors of one hotel or another.

In another column the Mayor announces the particulars of a loan the Borough Council propo'se to raise to metal the streets of the borough. The names of the streets and (he amount to be spent on each are duly set forth. This notice has to appear for a month when the Mayor will call a public meeting, after which a poll will be taken. It will be more than a luxury to have good roads about the town.

M. Kovalevsky, Assistant-Minister of Russian Finance and Director ot Commerce and Industries, has been compelled to resign, owing to a liaison with an actress. The incident has caused a sensation, inasmuch as M Kovalevsky was considered to be the eventual successor to M. de Witte, the present Finance Minister. SANDER and SON- EEC LPYTi EX TRACT. According to reports of h great no nher of physicians of the hightest professional standing, there are offered Eucslpyvi Ex tracts which possess no curative qualities. In protection of the world wide fam ■ 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. VV. B Rush, Oakland'Pla.. writes ft is sometimes difficult to obtain the genuine a tie'e (Sander and Sons). I employed differ,-nt 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 w-.> 1 known.” Dr H. B. Drake, Portland, Oregon, sa y S _>< Sines I became acquainted with this preparation (Sander and Son 1;) Iu -o no other form of eucalyptus as I think it is by far the best.” Dr L. P. Prestms Lynchburg, Va., writes—“ I never used any preparation other than Sander and -Son as I found the others to be almost useless.” Dr J. T. Cotmell, Kansas Oily, Kans.-, .-ays —“Care has to be exercised not ro be supplied with spurious prepara.ions, as done by my supply druggist.” Dr ii. H. Hart, New York, nays—“ U goes wrboat saying that Sander and Sons’ Eucalypti Extract is the best in the market.” Dr James Reekie, Fairview, N. M. —“ So wide is with raa the range of applications of Sander and Sons Eucalypti Extract that I catry it with me wherever 1 go. I fin! it most useful in diarrhoea, all throat troubled bronchitis, etc.” The Dat Hear,—No 491 of 7he Illustrated World of G2G, Chiswick High Road, London, W., Eng and, contains a dese.ription of a R. markab e Cure for Deafness and Heal Noises which may be carried oat at the patient’s home, and which is said to bo a certain cure. This number will be sent free to any deaf person sending their address to the Editor.

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