Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1904.

Manawatu Herald, 2 April 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1904.

“Thank you; it will be a long time before I come to Brighton again,” said a defendant when fined £lO at Hove for driving a motor-car to the public danger. A Manaia (Taranaki) settler had the misfortune to lose half-a-dozen valuable calves lately through their drinking water out of a paint drum, there being several inches of paint at the bottom under the water. “Elijah” Dowie to a Sydney audience on smoking:—“You men get cancers in your throats through smoking. You deserve to get them, too, you dirty stink-pots. You call yourselves Christians! You smell like devils. The Christian should be sweet and clean, but you stink I Ugh ! you dirty dogs; you make me sick to think ot you.” “ I must pay my way first,” was the sturdy reply of a weak old man, who, on applying at Wellington to the Benevolent Trustees for admission to the Home, was told that he could be admitted at once if he wished. He is an old-age pensioner, and he was firm in his determination to draw his March instalment to pay his debts before entering the institution. It was explained to him that he could enter the Home at once, and draw his pension when it fell due, but he refused the offer. He must pay his way first, he repeated. The Trustees have granted him rations in the interval,

Farmers'and dealers are rf that the Himatangi stock saie takes' place on Tuesday next, F~ which large entries have been received.

A young ,yving evidence at the Rangiora Magistrate’s Court, says the Lyttelton Times, respecting a domestic quarrel which he had witnessed,- was asked by Council why he did not interfere; “ Well,” he replied, “ the reason was I have been told it is unwise to interfere between a married couple when they are quarrelling.” “You arc quite right, my boy,” re marked the Magistrate.

A public.meeting of the citizens of Palmerston North on Wednesday night expressed its disapproval of the conduct of the local Borough Council, and called upon them to resign in a body. The Canterbury Acclimatisation Society has resolved to recommend the incoming committee to vote £ioo for importation of feathered game, this sum to be in addition to a similar sum voted previously for big game and not yet subsided by the Government. The committee of the Wellington Police Provident Fund has decided to grant the widow of the late Constable Smith, of Carterton, (who met his death in a buggy accident), the sum of £lB a year while she remains a widow, and 5s per week was granted to the child untii it reaches the age of 14 years.

The Women’s branch of the New Zealand Natives Association, at Auckland, has passed a resolution imploring the Government, in view of the dis astrously diminishing birthrate and other evils, to increase the tariff on corsets to such an extent as to prohibit altogether the sale of these injurious articles of women’s attire. A South Canterbury schoolmaster was dealing with the word “capacity,” and explained that it meant “holding power.” To test if the pupils had obtained a grasp of the function of the word he asked: “Now, what would be the capacity of an ordinary teacup ?" “ Please, sir, the handle," was the prompt reply of a sapient scholar. The Canterbury Jockey Club has decided to try the experiment of . a 5s totalisator at the Easter meeting. It is probable also that the club will have a double event machine on the Easter and Autumn Handicaps, open to the people both inside and outside the enclosure. Should the double not be picked the money will be returned.

The second ark with which Felix Tanner, of fasting fame, contemplates sailing round the world is ready for launching at Wanganui, It is barrel shaped and built on muph the same lines as the ark in which Tanner started on his tour from New Plymouth in. It is a novel craft, iSft long with a beam sft Gin. He will probably leave Wanganui next week. At Launceston (Tasmania) a man named Alfred S. L. Rellim has been convicted for practising as a physician without being registered. He exhibited a brass plate at his residence, which was called “ The Rellim Institute. Ad' vice gratis.” It was proved that he gave medicine, consisting principally of eggs and lemons, for which he charged £l, A cardinal having received information of a conspiracy in America to assassinate the Pope, the Italian Government was informed of the matter and it has taken the precaution to have all arrivals from South America watched. The Government is also exercising the greatest vigilance around the Vatican. Steamers arriving from Genoa are watched.

At Messrs Puttick and Simpson’s auction room (says a Home paper) a two-penny post office blue Mauritions postage stamp was sold. The stamp was the property of Mr James Bonar, of Hamstead. The last one of its kind sold a few years ago realised upwards of £uoo. It is one of the rarest stamps in the world, and only four or five unused copies are in existence. The room was crowded at the time of the sale, upwards of 600 persons being present. The first bid was one of £SOO. This figure was followed by hundreds, and did not slacken until £I3OO was offered. Then a gentleman suggested a further £ 2O , but this was passed, and £1450 the stamp was sold to a Mr Crawfoad, acting on behalf, it is understood, of the Prince of Wales.

Mr O. Austin and party, who left here on Thursday morning for Kapiti by that gentleman’s oil launch, - had a very adventurous voyage. After steaming a few miles down the coast (hey ran into a gale and a heavy head sea, which tried the capabilities of the little vessel as a sea-boat to their utmost. At some parts of the journey they could not make more than a knot an hour headway, but placidly determined to keep on, and after hours of buffetting about arrived at their destination none the worse for their adventure. Some members of the party arrived home last night, preferring to have the old “ Queen ” under them rather than chance another ‘ shaking up.’

The great haste of the much deluded public to purchase quack remedies is, says Christcurchh Truth, one of the perpetual phenomena ot the earth. A pachydermatous quack has only to come along and call himself the freak* eyed Kaffir, or the healing Hottentot, or the only white-faced Zulu, and engage a large hall, and a brass band, and assert the great wonders of his medicines with sufficient frequency and colossal confidence, and the public will assemble and hand over its odd half-crowns with much enthusiam, and go home in the firm conviction that it is going to enjoy perfect health for evermore. There is an uncertificated philanthropist selling his doubtful drugs on a wholesale scale in Christchurch just now, assisted by the indispensable brass band, and an unrestricted flow of “ patter.” He is probably a comparatively harmless quack, because, unlike a lot of other fakirs, he appears to limit himself to magical tooth wash and mysterious liniments. But even tooth wash and liniment may be dangerous to the public health, and the man who purchases this quack’s nostrums had better try them on his neigh, hour’s dog before he experiments with himself.

The Manawatu Herald will not be published on Tuesday next. Messrs Abraham & Williams’ Levin stock sale for the Bth April is advertised to-day.

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