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Manawatu Herald, 4 June 1903, Page 2

To-morrow Ihe election of a Councillor in the room of Mr T. Westwood will be held in the Library. There are two candidates, Messrs G. Simpson and Overend, and the supporters of both are sanguine of the success of their candidate.

It is surprising the number of owners of bicycles in Foxtdn, showing a vast improvement In the roads to days past. Mr H. Christian, in another column, notifies that he has taken over the agency from Mr Watt, of the Dayton cycles, He is also sola agent for light' strung high grade cycles. Mrs R. Gray kindly informs us that the ist examination of theory held in Foxton takes place on Saturday, 6th inst., from n a-.mi to 2 pun. at the Triad Hall. It will be ntlder the su-, pcrvision of Mt Stewart, head master of the Borough School, and is in connection with the Foyal Academy of Music, and the Royal College of Music, London. Great interest attaches throughout the industrial and farming, community to the Winter ShO\V which is to be held at Palmerston on July 28th, 29th, 30th, and 31st under the auspices of the Mauawatu and West Coast A. and P-. Association. A glance at the schedule (which may be obtained from Mr J. C-. L.-rie, Fmx 85, Palmerston North), discloses that prizes have been awarded for dairying machinery, poultry appliances, merchants 1 exhibits, and agricnhnral, horticultural, and home Indus'ri.:s of various kinds. Already entries (says the Manawatu Times) have been received in the dairying classes from places as far distant as the Thames in the North, and Invercargill in the South, and there are indications also that from ail industrial point of view the exhibition will be one of rare educational value. So many dairying firms have intimated their intention of installing working dairy ex hibits that already it has been found necessary to enlarge the accommodation in the A. and P. Association's spacious exhibition buildings. The dates of closing of entries in connection with the Winter Show are detailed in an advertisement appearing in another column.

Mr McCarthy (secretary of the Master Bakers’ Association), was examining a witness who had been in business as a baker for a period extending bver some forty yetlftt, aS to the prevalence of asthma amdhg bakers, and requested him to give the Court his views. He replied that in the course of thirty-eight years’experience he had only one man in his employ who was asthmatical, and the complaint in this instance, he believed, was constitutional. Mr McCarthy! Have yon heard of a Oonlplaint called " bakers’ asthma ” ? Witness : Yes, I believe I have. I know of a complaint called “ baker’s thirst.” (Laughter.) Mr McCarthy : It is a thirsty trade then ? Witness : Yes, it appears to he. The thirst is more dangerous than (he possibility of contracting asthma I The special ,f porter of the Post, referring to the Noith Island main trunk line, says : —Beyond Ohongo there has been designed by Mr Holmes, Inspecting Engineer of the Public Works -Department, who spent seven years surveying the Main Trunk Line, a clever piece of work that calls for notice. The difficulty in this steep 25 mile grade is to keep the grade down to the standard one in fifty. In order to get length for this purpose, the line is run "in an ascending spiral, a complete circle, and after that hvo- loops. This will involve patting in two tunnels, the longer being iS chains and the smaller very short. As the result of the circling, the train will emerge from the tunnel directly above the point it previously passed; but the grade will be maintained. The extra length of line necessary to thus keep the grade is two miles.

On Saturday last at the Police Court Dr. Bennett, J.P., inflicted the following fines e for breaches of the School Attendance Act: —A. Langley, two charges, 2S and costs ys on the first charge, and 23 on the second ; C. Nelson and Mrs Coley, each fined 2S ; T. Chamberlain, two charges, 4s on each.

The many years • that Wolfe’s Schnapps has been before the Australasian public, and (he ever increasing popularity it enjoys, has proved it to be a stimulant of great medicinal value. The agents in a new advertisement in another column suggest to readers that for the prevention and cure of colds and influenxa Wolfe’s Schnapps should .be taken hot with lemon at bedtime. The difference between this and other spirits will come in the, after effects, you get lasting good from its use.; Captain Warner, of the English Eleven, writing in the Sportsman on the tour, says:—“ Our record is a brilliant one, but we were always immensely superior to our opponents, even the New Zealand eleven being no match for us The fielding

was generally very fair, and occasionally brilliant, while the whole side worked together splendidly, both on and off the field. There were too many matches against odds, and a little too much travelling and rushing about from place to place, but we had a delightful time, and the hospitality we received was everywhere unbounded. . . The Wellington Chib will live in our memory, for we were made to feel absolutely at home there during both our visits to Wellington, and the hospitality we received from everyone, and more especially from our hosts Dr. Collins, Mr Bell, Mr Coates, and Mr Simpson, was lavish. There was no sword of Damocles hanging above qur heads as we feasted in those festive halls We had, indeed, a

magnificent send-off, and one which made a great impression on us, but it was only a repetition of the kindness and good feeling which has been extended to us throughout the colony.”

A woman named Marguerite Boyenaoal, living near St. Quentin, who has been in a deep and uninterrupted sleep for aO years, partly the result -of fright, and has been kept alive by artificial feeding with peptonised food, recovered consciousness on Wednesday, and died a few hoUtbl later from exhaustion. Sister Amy, lady evangelist, will deliver an address in the Methodist Church on Sunday evening next- This lady has been appointed by the Conference to visit all the Primitive Methodist Churches in the North Island. The Rev. W. Harris has secured her services for three weeks, during which time she will conduct services at Shannon, Moutoa and Foxton. In a letter to Mr J. W. Hirst, Major Bartlett writing from Klipfontein Farm, Boksburg, says! I hope you are all well. Tell the boys that lam so-so, and only wish I had been here three months earlier to have got in some crop, as mealies are Worth 333 per sack, also potatoes, and the latter will reach 453 before the next lot comes in. Beef is is 2d per lb, and mutton rod ; eggs 8s per do2. My neighbour expects to take off aboilt £15,000 worth this season. This has been a terrible year for horse sickness. Some people lost every hoof, others 50 per cent. Both farms each side ot me lost heavily, one six out of seven, the other seven out of 13. t lost one °ut of four, and mine took " pot lildk.”