Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1904.

Manawatu Herald, 12 April 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1904.

Tenders are called for painting the inside of St. Mary's Church. Specifications can be seen at the Manawatu Hotel.

A general meeting of the St. Patrick's Sports and Picnic Club is convened for Thursday evening next at Mr Levett’s Hotel. Messrs Abraham & Williams’ Levin and Shannon stock sales are advertised elsewhere; additions are also made to their Palmerston stock sale. It is feared that the six historic cannon which were stolen from the Rotunda at Woolwich in December last have been melted. Several arrests have now been made.

It is now stated at Westport that the Admiralty has stopped orders for coal for Hong Kong stations, excepting 20,000 tons to conclude the charter agreement of the steamer Mercedes. Copies of a petition asking the Palmerston Borough Council to take a poll on the abattoir and opera house questions and requesting the Council to resign were circulated in that town on Saturday. ‘*The moment you ally the holy name of God with the base tricks of the politican,” said Dr Neligan re cently, “ you strike a blow from which the nation can never recover, at least for many generations," The Feilding railway station was broken into on Wednesday night and about £3 was stolen. The safe was not opened. The burglar, who had evidently used a candle, is believed not to have been a professional. At the Court yesterday morning before Messrs Hennessy and Fraser, J’s.P., Alick Petersen, for drunkenness, was fined 5s or 24 hours’ imprisonment; Robert Campbell, for using obscene language, was fined 20s, costs 7s, or 14 days, and for indecency was fined 20s, costs 7s, or 14 days. It may not be generally known that there are three known cases of leprosy amongst Maoris in New Zealand—one in the Raglan district, one up the Wanganui river and one {a woman) in the Taupo district. In the last report of the Department of Public Health, Dr Pomare describes these cases fully and illustrations are given of two of the victims. It is specially mentioned that in each case the sufferers had been inveterate smokers and drinkers.

We are in receipt of a copy of the Wanganui Board of Education Inspector’s Report for the year ended 31st December, 1903. The Don Soft Goods Syndicate will be moving in a few days in' 1 shopin Speirs’ Buildings when thoy will open with an entirely new assortment of season’s novelties. There were half a million divorces in America during the past 20 years, which is doable that of the whole of Europe. Many churches, in denouncing divorces, declare it is equivalent to progressive polygamy. An hotel proprietor in Lyons has solved, or thinks he has solved, the tip question, so that no longer will the patrons of the house be worried by the demands of the servants when they are about to depart. He simply adds 10 per cent to the bill, and turns that part over to the servants, among whom it is divided proportionately to the importance of each. As showing how shipping companies may be the innocent victims of Circumstances, it has just transpired that recently a gentleman at Rochampton purchased a single ticket for New Zealand by the A.U.S.N. Company. He transhipped at Sydney into the Union Steam Ship Company’s boat, and afterwards developed symtons of insanity. On arrival at Wellington the authorities refused to allow him to land, and he had to be taken back to Brisbane at the expense of the A.U.S.N. Company. _ He went into the bar, pushed over a sixpence, and called for a " Scotch.” The polite bar tender handed him a decanter and a glass, which the customer grasped firmly in his left hand, and with equal firmness he held the decanter in his right. Filling the glass almost to the brim, he put down the decanter and said, “Give me the water, please,” The bar tender gave a look of surprise and asked gently, “ Where are you going to put the water ? There is no room in the glass,” The customer “sighed not, neither did he blush,” but swallowed the lotion and softly faded away. The barman is better now and is " able to sit up and take a little nourishment.”

There died in Dover, England, in February last a gentleman, who, besides being esteemed for his many excellent qualities as a citizen, was noted for his huge proportions. This was Mr T. Langley, proprieter of the Star Inn, who weighed no less than 46 stone, his height being just over 6ft, and his chest measurement 83 inches. From his youth he developed great size in body, and in the course of time he came to be considered the heaviest man in the United Kingdom. For thirteen years Mr Langley had been confined to his house. The last time he visited London he had to travel in the guard’s van, it being impossible to pass his huge bulk through the doorway of an ordinary carriage. Heavy as he was Mr Langley’s weight was 6fst. less than that ot the heaviest man of whom history has any ..record, Daniel Lambert. Some idea of the great girth of this celebrity, who was born at Leicester in 1770 and died at Stamford in ISO 9, may be gathered from the fact that his waistcoat, which is still preserved at the inn in which he died is sufficient to enclose seven ordinary persons. There is a wellknown case of a girl of four years who weighed over ißst. Arthur Orton, the Tichborne claimant, compared with Lambert, shrank into insignificance, Orton’s weight at the time of the first trial was a mere zost. or so, although he is said to have put on- flesh subsequently at an alarming rate. The ways of the house-hunter in Waihi are peculiar. The other day” a lady noticed a family leaving a house in one of the streets in the west part of the borough, and she asked the furniture remover if the house was taken; He didn’t know, but advised her to “dump her furniture in quick and lively.’’ She sent to her husband, telling him to find the owner, and meanwhile bad her furniture conveyed to the empty house, where she remains, no one with a prior claim having as yet turned up. The rush for houses just now is verging on the frantic. A very extraordinary proclamation has been issued by the Mayor of the Kansas town of Severance, which has no fewerthan 1500 inhabitants. “ During the year 1904,” declares Mayor Wyncoop, under the seal of his office, “ every bachelor in Severance must accept an offer of marriage made him by any unmarried lady in the city, or give a good or sufficient reason for his refusal. Such reason will be considered invalid unless the bachelor is already engaged. Any bachelor violating the provisions of this proclamation will be considered an improper person to in habit the city of Severance, and steps will be taken to deprive him of his citizenship.” SANDER and SONS EUOALPYTI EXTRACT, According to reports of a great number of physicians of the hightest professional standing, there are offered Eucalpyti 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). I employed different other preparations; they had no therapeutic value and no effects. In one case the effects were similar to the oil camphora, the objectionable action of which is wefl known.” Dr H.B. Drake, Portland, Oregon, says—" Since I became acquainted with this preparation (Sander and Sons) I use no other form of eucalyptus as 1 think it is by far the best.” Dr L. P. Pre«»m s Lynchburg, Ya., writes—" I never used any preparation other than Sander and Son’*, as 1 found the others to be almost useless.” Dr J. T. Cornell, Kansas City, Kans.-, says —“ Care has to be exercised not to be supplied with spurious preparation-, as done by my supply druggist.” Dr !l. H. Hart, New York, says—“lt goes wiiho t saying that Sander and Sons’ Eucalypti Extract is the best in the market.” Dr James Reekie, Fairview, N. M.—“ So wide is with me the range of'applications of Sander and Sons Eucalypti Extract that I carry it with me wherever I go. I find it most useful in diarrhoea, all throat troubhs bronchitis, etc,”