Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1904.

Manawatu Herald, 26 April 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1904.

The Rev. R. Young, of Carterton, has been appointed to the Palmerston parish. The finder of a gold pin, with chain and bell attached, will be rewarded on returning same to Miss Haywood, Whyte’s Hotel. Messrs O’Connor & Tydemao, the well-known jewellers of Palmerston N. have a replace advertisement of much interest to the matrimonially inclined. Entries are published by the N ,Z. L. & M. Agency Co. of their next Himatangi sale on Monday, and May, at 12 noon. Further entries are solicited early. The poll for the election of Mayor takes place to-morrow. Polling hours are from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., the candidates being the present Mayor (Mr P. Hennessy) and Mr G. A. Simpson. With regard to a recent paragraph that officers of the Bank ot New Zealand are to receive a bonus of 5 per cent, on their salaries as they stood at March 31st, it appears that this will he. the first bonus the bank has been enabled to pay its staff for a period of 26 years. The sum of £1.519,052 was deposited in the Post Office Savings Bank of the colony during the March quarter, against £1.443,835 for the same period in 1903. The withdrawals were £1,515,610, as against £1,349,242 in March of last year. The excess of withdrawals over deposits was £3441 in March last, as against £94,592 in 1903 period. With reference to the opening of the shooting season, Mr J. A. Millar, M.H.R., received the following telegram from Sir J. G. Ward: —“ Re opening of the shooting season, I am advised that it is not possible for me to fix the date on Monday, the 2nd May. I have endeavoured to do so, but find that the legal difficulties cannot be overcome. I propose next session to alteqthe law to make it read ‘the first Monday in May,’ so that when the first day of May again falls on a Sunday the present difficulty which has arisen will be legally overcome,"

Mr Harrison Power, a wealthy American, won £ 7,1,000 ai Monte Carlo in a fortnight, and Lord Collier £30,000.

The telegranh revenue for the col ony for the March ([carter amounted to £52,303 and Ihe postal revenue to £101,275, as against £48,247 and £93, 359 respectively for the corresponding period of last year. A branch of the English Fish Trawling Company will he established at Wanganui. Operations will probably begin in August. One of the trawling Vats will he ''■liL-end at nor'. Wanganui will be the distributing centre for this coast.

According to the Wellington Post, Colonel Webb, officer in command of the Wellington Volunteer District, is mentioned as likely lo become Undersecretary for Defence in succession to Sir Arthur Douglas, who has taken up his permanent residence in London. The survey of 25,000 acres of land in Piako (Thames district) has been commenced. As soon ns the work is completed the land will be thrown open for settlement. A portion of the block is between the Thames and Waikato. For (he remainder a comprehensive drainage scheme must be in stituted.

A mysterious disappearance is reported from Ohingaiti. A young girl under 16 years of age . was sent to a settler’s place to assist in the house work during the illness of the settler’s wife. After some months the parents of the girl went to take her home, but her employer stated that the girl had left, and refused to toll her whereabouts. A box addressed to her was found at a railway station further down the line. On being opened it was found to contain a quantify of rubbish —jam (ins, straw, cast-off clothing, besides other debris. The box was consigned by the girl’s late employer. The matter is to be placed in the hands ot the police. An exchange reports the clever invention of a potato planting machine by Mr Frederick Bolton, a Taranaki settler. The apparatus is skilfully put together, being drawn by one horse, and kept in planting order by four cog wheels and two belts. The potatoes pass through two different divisions and fall on the ground at an equal distance of about a tool apart, being unable to move from where they are placed. The invention is what farmers have been looking forward to for many years.

Among the comparisons between Japan and Russia which are inevitable just now, there is one which is peculiarly striking. It is that although Japan has only a population of some 47 millions and an area of some 163,000 square miles, against Russia’s (circa) 130 million inhabitants and nearly nine million square miles. J qrm has, never theless, more pupils in her schools than has Russia. In Japanese elementary schools there are, according to latest avail:.hie statistics, 4,302,623 children, in Russia only 4,193,594, or 92 in every thou and Japanese agairnt 32 in every thou a-d Russians. Vise figures for sec ruiary schools and universities are equally markedly in favour of Japan.

For some years past the streets and footpaths of Nap if have been treated to a new system o! t nrir.g, which lias many advantage? over ordinary asphalt. The treatment consists of the application to the bare roads ..f tar which has h en raised to a high tern perature and dei.j A iu oy-pro ducts. The result of the boiling of the tar is said to impart to it properties of elasticity and durability, enabling it to stand the heaviest traffic for years, requiring a fresh dressing about once a year. The process ii.i ■ boon found much cheaper than the ordinary asphalt treatment, the cost for three coats of tar being under ninepence per square yard on roadways. In Napier (says the Post) the highest opinions are held of the new process, which is the invention of Mr T. Waterworlh, Borough overseer of that town.

The winner of the first prize in the Christmas lottery in Li.-hon, which amounted to £33.000, is Scnor Rnfmn de Carvalho, who h is been in Africa for twenty three years, and returned only on the morning when it was announced that he had won the prize. He immediately found himself the most famous man in Lisbon, and since he set foot on his native soil he has been deluged with petitions, followed by crowds in the streets, assaulted by beggars and hooligans demanding money, and besieged in his hotel by. 300 beggars. The last experience was the worst of all, for the crowd of mendicants fell upon him on the landing, nearly tore the clothes from his back, and obliged the frantic hotelkeeper to summon the police. Senpr Carvalho has recently distributed over £SOO to the poor. He has now taken refuge in the provinces, where he will hide himself until his luck is forgotten. When be left his hotel he was obliged to disguise himself to avoid attracting attention. The civil tribunal at Brussels has refused the application by Princess Louise and Stephanie (Countess Lonyay) to set aside their mother’s will. The Court held that the marriage act of the King and Queen constituted a diplomatic treaty. The action, though nominally an action for the ladies’ shares of their mother’s fortune of £20,000, was really intended to elicit a decision that the King was bound by Belgian law, that his daughters must inherit half his fortune, and that his very large gifts to the Belgian State must be considered a waste in the sense that the property belongs to the family. The King’s counsel argued that the matter was outside the purview of any Court, the marriage settlement being a treaty and not a contract.

Rheumatism is a stubborn disease to fight bu C'nainbcriain’s' Pain Hahn has cured it many times ami will do so whenL'vov opportunity oiler-:. This remedy is a genera l family liniment and not only does i quickly relieve rheumatic p ins but it also cures lame hack, still neck, sonmo-s of the muscle i and s illness of ihe joints. It is auti-eptie and when applied to cuts, hruis s, burns or scalds, heals such wounds without maturation and in le=s time than by any other treatment, and, unless the injury is very severe, will not leave a scar. For sale by all dealers,

At the meeting of householders last night at the schoolroom the following gentlemen were elected to constitute a committee for the year: —Messrs A. D. Clemett, H. Austin, S. H. Baker, G. Coley, F. E.Jenks. H. Bradcock, C. L. Barnard, ||Geo. A. Simpson and Rev. H. F. Wilson. Messrs Clemett and Baker were unanimously re-elected chairman and secretary respectively. Mrs R. Austin, with her two daughters, Misses M. and L. Austin, returned to Foxton last night after a trip to \ mcrica and the continent. They have Lid a nu.it enjoyable time during Hum absence from Foxton extending over some months. In New Zealand the last year has seen a decrease in the number of old>ge pensions from 12,776 in 1902, to 12,481 in 1903. The total amount paid to pensioners remained nearly stationary, being £210,140 as against £207, 465 in 1902. This result has been obtained by enforcing a stricter system of examination to prevent misrepresentation and fraud. There are now in Tokio 37 foreign war correspondents—namely, 20 Bri dsh, 15 American, and two German. It is a striking indication as to the degree of journalistic enterprise m the various countries. In America’s case the habit of combination tends to reduce the total number of correspondents, but the broad fact is that An glo-Saxondom sends 35, the rest ot the world two! SANDER and SONS EUOALPYTI EXTRACT. According to reports of a great number of physicians of the hightest professional standing, them are offered Euoalpyti Ex tracts which possess JlO curative qualities. In protection of the world wide fame of Sanders and Sons preparation we puhffsh a few abstracts from these reports, which bear fully out that no reliance oaa be placed in other products Dr. W. B, Rush, Oakland Fla., writes Ft 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 weresimilar to the oil oamphora, the objectionable action of which is we I known.” Dr H.B. Drake, Portland, Oregon, sa ys_«Since I became acquainted with this preparation (Sander and Sons) I use no other form of eucalyptus as I think it is by far the best,” Dr L. P. Preston s Lynchburg, Va., writes—" I never used any preparation other than Sander and Son's, as i found the others to be almost useless,” Dr J. T. Oormell, Kansas City, Kans.-, says —“Care has lo bo exercised not to be supplied with spurious preparation--, as done by my supply druggia -.” Dr rt. H. Hart, New York, says—"lt goes witho.it 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 Sous Eucalypti Extract that I carry it with me wherever I go. I fiud it most useful in diarrhoea, all throat troubles bronchitis, eto.” A great slaughter of human animals, ~uoh as fleas, flies, lice on plants, on fowls, on horses and on children’s heads, cockroaches, will be effected by using Bock’s “ Mortein ” Insect Powd r and spreaders. Will kill within five minutes every fly in a closed room Price Is. Bock’s " Mortein ”is world fair and cunningly iraita f ed. The public will kindly see that the proprietor’s name—" P. Bock and Co.” — is on every tin a* none is genuine without it. All chemists and stores, locally of M. H. Walker, Red House, Foxton.