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Manawatu Herald, 16 April 1903, Page 2

Mi R. Walden advertises for a scutcher and a good cook. A reward of xos is offered for the return of a lost war medal.

The Inspecting Officer of the Cadets is expected in town to morrow night, and will put the corps through their drill.

Last Sunday the Queen of the South ran an excursion to Kapiti, which not being advertised, was not very well attended. Those who went had an enjoyable time and came back loaded with fish, mostly rock cod. The steamer left Foxton about 9 a.m. and returned to wharf at 9 p.m,

Messrs 0. Cook & Co. wish to inform the inhabitants of Foxton that they have just received a punt load ot firewood, and are prepared to deliver it at reasonable prices. The deal made the other day by Mr John Davies was with Mr George Coley, who is now the proprietor of all that block of land known as Cook’s estate, with the exception of certain portions previously sold. Mr Osborne brought to onr office yesterday an enormous mushroom, which weighed two pounds, and measured in diameter inches and 34J inches in circumference. We await a larger one..

t Applications are invited up to 27th April from persons willing to take the duties of poundkeeper, who will have the free use of cottage and reserve, the term is for five years. Tenders are invited by Messrs Thos. Westwood & Co. for the/purchase of the iron building on the Easter encampment ground. Tenders close at noon to-morrow.

Mr Alfred Cook has been appealed a lieutenant in the Foxton Cadets. Both Capt. Hamer and himself are busy perfecting themselves in their duties by attending regularly the school of instruction for officers held in Palmerston.

Writing about the encampment the Post says:—The general opinion was that Foxton is a pretty spot, and the width of its main street was much admired. Foxton, old-established and quietly progressive, was a marked contrast to Levin, where everything seems, by comparison, to be glaringly new. Foxton has an ambition to be come more and more the main port and outlet of its hinterland, from Palmerston North down.

Genera! Pienaar, the. Boer Leader, who in 1900 surrendered with 1200 men at Komati Poort, and who has since been interned at Portugal, latterly g< ! nj 1 ; dary difficulties and came to London, where he was treated so generously that he shed tears at Mr Chamberlain’s kindness in' assisting him and his family back to Johannesburg and reinstating him in nine town lots he owned there.

The Post’s reporter with the Wellington battalion writes" The ambulance has had about twenty cases to treat so far—not nearly the number treated in the Wairarapa. Tbpugh walking through Manawatn sand is heavier than travelling over Wairarapa stone fields, the soft going does not knock up the feet so much, and that accounts for the difference,"

A German warship has arrested a number of native teachers and preachers connected with the American mission at Rouk, one of the Caroline Islands, alleging that they preached against Germany.

Several parents have recently written to Mr Thomas Mackenzie, complained about their children being punished for going to school without boots, and asking if the Board’s regulations permit that to be done. Mr Mackenzie thinks that perhaps the best reply is to have the Board’s regulation on the subject published in the press. Regulation No. 82 provides as follows Teachers are not allowed to refuse to admit barefooted children to the school.”—Dunedin exchange. The United States Government reports on the crops indicate that there will be a hundred and seventy-three million more bushels of wheat this winter than in 1902 V while the condition of the grain is described as nearly perfect. SANDER au i SON - EUO\LPYTI EX TRACT. According to ruports of a great nu uVr of physicians of the hightcst professional standing, there are offered EucalpyU Ex tracts which possess no curative qualities. In protection of the world wide fam ? of Sanders and Sons preparation we puVOh a few abstracts from these mpo’ts, which bear fn'ly out that no .r. iianoe can in placed in other products:—D-. W. B Rush, Oakland Fia.. writes It is som.t'-i e difficult lo obtain the genu it- a. tic'-e (Sander and Sons). I employed differ nt other preparations; they had no :h -r-t politic value and no effect-. In on ■ c<. the effects wcrosimiiar lo the 01* cam.iUo; the objections. hir action oi which w I known.” Dr H. 11. Drake, Foi land, O m, ga y S _>‘ Since I became acquainted w th this preparation (Sander and Sons) I u e no other form of encalyn’us as 1 thin' it is by far the best.” Dr L. P. Pro > m ... Lynchburg, Va., writes—'' I never used any preparation other than Sander and -on ■■■• as ■ found the others to he alrans- u.vh.vs.'’ Dr J. T. Connell, Kansas City. Kan?., ays —“Care has 10 be r-xiroisod no. .«> he supplied with spurious p.-epar.t ion s done by my supply druggis .” ,Dr j. H. Hart, New York, says—“ It goes wi no t saying that Sander and Sons’ Encil,- jH Extract is the best in the mark t, ” Or James Reekie, Fairview, N. M.—So w. ;e is with me the range of applications of Sander and Sons Eucalypti Extract tha I carry it with me wherever 1 go. I fin i it most useful in diarrhoea, all throat troubl d bronchitis, etc.” Catarrh is Always the Result of a neglected cold. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy will not cure catarrh, but will euro the coid and so prevent that disagree.'be malady. This remedy, not only relieves the local irritation of the threat and lungs, but removes the causes of the diseased condition. It leaves the system in a natural and heal .by erudition. It always cures and cures quickly. W. Hamer, chemist, Foxton, sells it.

The Elusive Pigskin is the source o' much sport and the cause of many injuries. Foot ball players should use Cham' berlain’s Pain Balm, an anfe p'.io liniment, (’specially va-uab’e for sprains and bruises. One application gives rc-ief. Try it. W. Hamer, ohem st, Foxton, sells it. Is asthma curable ? Mrs E. Pierce, an old leaideut of Gam ridge, Waikato, N.Z., writ s to P. Bock & Co., chemists, Auckland ;—Dear Sirs,—For mmy years I was a sufferer from asthma. I am now eomp’etely cured ibrough using your.excellent mediciuo, Bock’s Balsam. I kuow of quite a number of people that were cured by it both of asthma aud bronchitr. I have also u ed it for severe colds on the chest with really wonderful results. Sore and Swollen Joints, sharp, shooting pains, torturing mu:-clos, no rest, no s ulep— that means r’m uraatism. It is a stubborn disease to fight, but Chamberlain’s Pain Balm has conquered it thousands of times. One application gives relief, Try it. W. Hamer, chemist, Foxton, sells it.