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Manawatu Herald, 21 May 1903, Page 2

Messrs Abraham & Williams hold a stock sale at Levin on Friday. Fifty thousand Russian troops are ia the Odessa district on a war footing. Mr Gray, Inspector of Schools, arrived in town last night and is to-day visiting the school. Mr W. R. Haseiden will take up his duties as Stipendiary Magistrate at Christchurch on June ist.

The death occurred at Featberston on Tuesday of Mr William Toogood, at the age of sixty-four years.

Nominations must be made to .the Returning Officer by. noon to-morrow for the office of Councillor.

Messrs Mounsey and Co. report hav. ing sold at auction on Saturday 227 acres of land, situated near Shannon at £l7, per acre.

The New Zealand Band opened its tour with a performance at Tunbridge Wells, on the border of Kent and Sussex. It scored a great success. The Times, commenting on the penalisation of Canada’s commerce, condemns Germany's astounding audacity in denying the British Empire’s right to manage domestic affairs.

At the London wool sales medium crossbreds are tending upwards, Continental buyers taking the bulk. Merinos have brought extreme rates. The Parorangi clip brought yd and the Pare clip BJd. At the Napier Supreme Court the civil case Wylie and Co. v, Barthomew Bros., a claim for £IOO damages for trespass and for an injunction restraining defendants from cutting timber at Piripiri, was heard. The claim arose out of a boundary dispute. The Chief Justice gave judgment for plaintiffs. The question of damages was left over until the amount of damage was ascertained.

Six hundred and thirty-nine hotel licenses have been refused on applications tor renewal in England and Wales during the last two months.

*. Mr Robert Lee has been elected to fill the seat on the Victoria College Council, Vacated By Mr' J. R. Blair. He polled 34 votes as against 13 by Mr F, Pirani.

The widow of Mf Gr. Bedford, an English merchant in Paris, haS been arrested at Liverpool on a charge of making a false entry with the Registrar of Births in London, pretending that she gave'birth to Mr Bedford’s posthumous child, the intention being to enable the latter to inherit forty thousand pounds. To-morrow Mr John Stuart and his Sister, Miss Stuart, leave for Raglan, where Mr Stuart has purchased a property of some 200 acres of land. He takes some stock with him by train to Waitara, and thence by‘ steamer direct to Raglan. Mr Stuart has been a resident of this district many years, having occupied a farm near the creamery. He has always been noted as a quiet, sterling settler, and the district he is going to will gain by his residence there..

Some desirable properties are advertised for sale by Mr Alfred Cook. A large number of both town and country sections are now in bis hands, so that anyone desiring a property should inspect his list. A two-stripper mill close to the Shannon Railway with one acre of freehold land, and with everything up to date as a going concern should find a ready purchaser at £2060, considering 'the high prices ruling for fibre. Full particulars are advertised.

The licensee of the Club Hotel, Titnaru, was prosecuted?; under the Public Health 'Act and fined £x for putting a scarlet fever patient into a cab without warning the driver, and £t for failing to- notify the local authority of a case in his hotel. He was also convicted of failing to notify the Health Officer of having let a room to a person without notice that it had been recently occupied by a scarlet fever patient* whereby that person caught the disease, The patient was fined at Dunedin for travelling by train whilst suffering from a contagious disease.

Mr Chas. Dahl, says the Manawatu Times, has purchased the Palmerston Hoisery Factory and has commenced the manufacture on a lairge; scale of hosiery work of all descriptions, undertVeaf, then's and boys'jerseys, sweaters, racing suits, &c. In the hands of so progressive a citizen as Mr Dahl, this industry should, if properly supported by the people of this and surrounding districts, flourish and prosper both the proprietor and those associated with him in carrying it on.

The following story is told by a Canterbury .exchange “.Two seasons ago the road board of a certain district not far from Rangiora ; suddenly, geared to buy sparrow'eggs. A colonial youth who had a number of eggs in hand, and was farming many nests in a plantation—that is keeping the sparrows laying by leaving one egg—met the slump in trade by putting down many dozens of eggs in an egg preserving mixture which his mother had beeu using to preserve, the eggs of poultry, The lad found it ta answer the purpose, and directly next season’s advertisement for eggs of small birds came out be was able to trade off his stock—quite fresh.” A magisterial inquiry into the stranding of; the steamer .Vlokau off the Manawatn river at 1.30 on the morning of May Ist was held in Wellington on Tuesday. The master attributed the mishap to having been misled by the Foxton light, which he sighted at midnight in fine weather. The Court found that Captain Graike had not been sufficiently careful in- approaching the land, that his soundings Ware not reli able, and that, he did not take precautions to ascertain whether they were correct or not. His certificate was suspended for sixjnonths.

A well-known local native, Hanita Te Awe Awe, chief of the Rangitane tribe, died at Masterton on Thursday last, aged 60 years (says the Standard.) His remains have been brought to Awapuni,- where a big tangi, attended by natives from Rangitikei, Hawke’s Bay, Foxton and Wairarapa, is now proceeding. Deceased was- an officer in the Maori infantry in the old troublous days and in recognition of his and his brothers services, her late Majesty presented the tribe with a flag which was handed to the deceased by the late Sir George Grey. The old chieftain was greatly respected by both natives and pakehas, Mr Ira Terrill, an ex-member of the Oklahoma Legislature, is serving a sentence of twelve years’ imprisonment in a Kansas gaol for manslaughter. He is the first victim of a law which he was the author, which aimed at putting down lawlessness. Terrill shot a man named Embree, with whom he had a quarrel about the ownership of some land. The ex-legislator ever stbee his conviction has been demanding his release on the ground that the law which he passed is unchnstitutional. As the author ol the law he claims to know more about it than anyone else.

A Piece or Flannel dampened with Chamberlairi’u Pain Balm and bound to the affected parts, is better than any plas'er for lame back or pain'in the side or chest, Chamberlain’s Pain Balm is a iniment that has no superior. One application gives relief. Try it. W. Hamer, chemist, sells it.

Book’s Balsam, price Is- 63; Bock’s Rheumatic Powder,: pries 3a 6d; Bock’s Powder foa the Liver* S omaoh and Blood, price Is; Book’s Herb Extract, an infalliable cure tor Toothache, price Is; Bock’s Neuralgia Drops, price Is 6d. -May be obtained from M. fi. Walk r and Thos. Westwood and Co., Foxton Wholesale from P. Bock & Co., Auckland, N.Z. Is asthma curable ? Mrs E. Pierce, an old resident of Cambridge, Waikato, N.Z., writes to P. Bock & Co., chemists, Auckland Dear Sirs, —For many years I was a sufferer from asthma. I am now comp etely cured ihrough using your excellent medicine, Bock’s Balsam. I know of quite a number of people that were cured by it both of asthma and bronchitis. I have also used it for severe colds on the chest with really wonderful results.