Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, FEB. l0, 1908.

Manawatu Herald, 10 February 1903, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, FEB. 10, 1908.

Messrs Gillanders Bros, advertise for first-class carpenters and joiners. Union men preferred.

Messrs Abraham & Williams hold a stock sale at Levin on Friday.

Mr Alf. Fraser announces the arrangement he has made with the Manawatu Daily Times. He keeps a full stock of all school books and requisites, and reading for both young and old. The advertisement is full of information and we, with pleasure, direct attention to it.

The Feilding and District Industrial Association Exhibition have a notied in to-day’s issue. The particulars ai e to be noted as entries close on the and March. The Rt. Hon. the Premier has promised to open the exhibition, We have to-day inspected tbe improvements to the billiard-room at Haywood’s Hotel. The table has been re-covered with one of the best West of England cloths, gas has been laid on, and the room thoroughly redecorated. We should say that this is now one of the best appointed rooms on the coast. As will be seen by advertisement it is Mr Haywood’s intention to give a handsome pipe to the maker of the biggest break during the evening.

Last year twenty millions of Australian rabbit skins were sold in London, and nearly three million of rabbits were frozen in their turs.

We have to acknowledge the receipt from the Tourist Department of their second issue of the “ Itinerary of Travel ” which gives in a clear and comphrehensive manner the routes, the distances and the costs, as recommended. It is sold at one penny and must be exceedingly useful to the tourist.

His Honor Mr Justice Edwards awarded C. W. Langatone two years hard labour and let Henry Stuart off on probation for two years, in the Patent Brick fraud case. The debates at the Colonial Conference have been published. The Review of Reviews says it would be difficult to find any other example of men equally able, discussing subjects of equal scale with the same frankness of spirit, fulness of knowledge, and hearty loyalty to each other. To read the speeches is, in a sense, a political education. The Warwickshire County Cricket authorities oppose the proposal to widen the wickets, but suggest the height be increased by two inches.

The winner of the E flat horn solo is only twelve years of age and is a son of Thomas Mellor, of the Waihi Brass Band, Auckland, and was trained by his father first, as a cornetplayer. Two medals were gained by the lad at New Plymouth last year. He was born at Newtown, New South Wales, but came to this colony at an early age. In .Tanuary the thermoneter registered 116.5 in the shade at Bourke, Australia, and at Texas, Queensland 121 degrees. A queer story is told of Lord Palmerston, Premier at the time he took direction of the Colonial Office whilst then Colonial Secretary was absent. He entered the office the first morning and said " Well, you hear that I’ve coma t« look after the Colonies myself now Russell’s gone. In the first place, Mr Merival, where are the Colonies ? Glad to sea that you have plenty of maps about. . ; I managed the British Empire, as you know, but I never could understand my latitudes or longitudes or make out where the British Empire isn’t I

la reference to what has been written about the advantages Egypt has enjoyed from the advice »n financial matters given by England, wa may mention that the last great work accomplished, the Assouan Dam, cost £*,500,000 but the agricultural earning power is reckoned to have beaa incicased by its erection at £3,690,009 a year.

Three plague-infected rats have been discovered in Brisbane.

It has been decided by the Government to re-appoint Sir James Prendergast and Mr F. de C. Malet, the retiring members of the directorate of the Bank of New Zealand.

The Tientsin correspondent of “ The Times " says that a rumour is current that the Empress Dowager is dead. The . report may possibly be true, announcement of the fact being suppressed until the Chinese new year observances are completed. Messrs Gillanders Bros, in their altered ad vertisement to-day announce that they are now prepared to execute any orders for building! The firm, of which Mr John Hunter has been included as a partner, has now in hand the erection ot an addition to Mr Arthur Reeves' house in Coiey-street. The building is being put on concrete foundations, the first of the kind in Foxton and after the Christchurch method, which is much better than the old fashion style of wooden piles. In an interview with Mr Donald Gillanders he informs us that the amount of moulding they have put into frames, since opening is Something like four or five thousand feet. To cope with the large number of orders on hand they have now doubled their orders from Auckland and Wellington, so that their patrons will have a large stock to select from. So that this large order may not hang on their hands they have made a reduction iu price. Mrs Penruddockej who was only fined instead Of beirig imprisoned on the charge of Crueltjr to her daughter) has caused the criminal classes to invent a new word for excessive leniency. When Scotch Maggie, at Greenwich, got “one month’s bard" for being drunk and disorderly) she hurled at the Court a parting siieef i( Not irfUCb Penruddocke about that.’’ Dr Aronson, of Berlin, has discovered a serum for protection against scarlatina. The Victorian Agency-General has disposed of in London the balance of the Agricultural Department's shipment of sixty-two hogsheads of tobacco at sd per lb. The whole realised .£2385. • Manufacturers regret the cessation of shipments. The quantity of flax graded at Wellington during January was §291 bales, weighing 1063 tons, as against j?g6B bales, weighing 1599 tons for the preceding month. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his “ History of the Great Boer War" says, of the fight at Rhedostfir Kop “ by common consent it was with the men from New Zealand that the honors lay. It was no empty complimenf when Sir Alfred Milner telegraphed to the Premier of New Zealand his congratulations upon the distinguished behaviour of his fellow-countrymen." The 28th of March is the date fixed for starting the polo tournament at Hastings. Already has been guaranteed for the systematic exploration of the river Tiber, where it is expected will be found untold wealth in the shape of money and jewellery, statues in gold and silver and bronze, weapons and armour, and, above all, the golden candlestick from the Jewish Temple. Mr George Fisher, M.H.R., was charged at the Wellington S.M. Court on Friday morning with a breach of a prohibition order, he having been found on licensed .premises. He did not appear, and Mr Jellicoe, who defended him, claimed that ha was not in a fit state of mind to know what he was doing, and that his friends intended to send him to the Waitati Home for inebriates tor treatment. The Magistrate granted an adjournment on condition that he was sent to the Home, and spoke very strongly concerning those who offered de fendant drink. SANDER and SON* EUO \LPYTt EX TRACT. According to reports of a great nmnber ot physicians ot the hightest professional standing, there are offered Euoalpyti 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 Fla., writes It is sometimes difficult to obtain the genuine : article (Sander and Sons). 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