Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1904.

Manawatu Herald, 7 May 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1904.

The Goverment offices throughout the colony will be closed on the 24th inst., Empire Day. The tickets for Messrs Furrie and Hunter’s art union of pictures are going off well, and the drawing is to take place shortly. Mrs M. Hood advertises a comfortable house with 12 acres of land for sale or to let. Further particulars can be obtained on application to Mrs Hood. In connection with the escape of two prisoners from the Terrace gaol, one warder has been fined for not reporting the disappearance of prison tools used by the escapees, and the services of an acting-warder have been dispensed with.

At the Guildford (W.A.) Police Conti a woman charged with bigamy suddenly dropped dead. Cyanide of potassinn was found in her pocket, also a loaded revolver. It is understood, says the Post, th; 1 the Government has under considera lion the question of acquiring a fainof about 1500 acres in the Porirua dn trict for closer settlement purposes. Sergeant Shirley slated in the Grev mouth Court that the usual practice 1 the Police force was not to arre 1 “drunks” if friends offered to tal-i care of them.

The Taranaki Herald says the Gi ■ vernment have decided to settle the claim Mr F. Watson made against them tor injuries received by the racing mare Okoari (and loss of her services) through becoming entangled in a loose telenhone wire at the Hutt last spring. At a meeting of the FieldingChamhi 1 of Commerce the chairman stated that seven persons had ganranteed £ll- - the proposed band contest at Feiiding, and there would be no difficulty in obtaining a gaurantee for the balance ot £3OO. The chairman and secretary were requested to interview the North Island Bands Association at Marton next week on the matter. A notable fact in connection with the recent publication of the colony’s finances for the past year is the circumstance that the beer duty has amounted up and shows an increase. In spite < 1 ihe fact that at the last election six districts carried no-license, the amonm of duty paid on spirituous liquors wa greater than it had ever been before.— Post.

For years Oamaro has suffered unfit r the reproach of being the most heavily rated borough in the colony, but seemingly there is a prospect of a reduction at last. At the last meeting of the Borough Council it was resolved to reduce the rates by 6d. During the discussion it was stated that the reduction might entail a small overdraft before the end of the year, but the increased value, present and prospective, justified the step. There is a considerable amount of building going on. The Gore Standard reports that Mr Duncan McNab, brother of the menib< r for Mataura, returned on Saturday from the Old Country and South Africa. Mr McNab says that South Africa is in an awful condition ; in fact, worse than it was under the Boer regime, of which he had experience, having been for some years a land-holder in the Transvaal. Mr McNab is of opinion that the country will take fully ten years to recover its position. At a meeting of the Wanganui Licensed Victuallers Association, held on Thursday reference was made to the Fact that an Oamaru publican had been fined for refusing to take in a deceased body for the purpose of an inquest. It was resolved that the secretary com rnunicate with the Health Departmmi' on the subject and point out that, seeing the strict hygienic rules being enforced throughout the colony in hotels where visitors are continually coming and going, these should be the last places for deceased bodies to be brought to for such purposes. The Association suggested that isolated morgues .-be provided for the purpose in every town.—Chronicle.

While driving into Palmerston on Thursday morning, Mr J. H. Hankins and a friend were thrown out of a trap, owing to the horse shying at a firewood cart, met on the road. The horse attached to the trap bolted into town through the Square, up Taonui-slreet and thence to Terrace End, where h was secured with only a portion of the shaft broken and the axle bent. Tim shaft had been broken through a c 'Hi sion with a horse, and from the blood md other marks still adhering to th ..haft when the runaway was secured ii vas evident some horse had been severely staked. Mr Hankins, unfortunately, had a small bone broken in his arm when the accident occurred. — M. Times. A railway guard’s mix 'd luck is the subject of a story in the Taieri Ad vocate. It was in the years gone by that the guard was talking to the only passenger in the train to Barewood. The guard, in course of conversation, took out of his waistcoat pocket a small black pear shaped object, which he thought was a black pearl. He stated that while eating some oysters at the Bluff the object got into his mouth, and he nearly swallowed it. His com panion thought, also, that it might be a pearl, and offered him a pound for it. The owner refused, and took it toa Dunedin jeweller who carefully ex qunined the object and pronounced it a black pearl. He offered £ia for it. and the offer was at once accepted, The pearl was sent Home, placed in skilful hands, carefully polished and mounted, and was sold in London to a Russian nobleman tor the sum of £6OO. A dastardly act is recorded by the Ashburton Mail as having occurred in that district. Someone, who had evidently formed a deliberate intention to wreck a combine thresher engaged on Mr Harrison’s farm, placed a piece of iron Sin long, inches wide, and half an inch in thickness in a sheaf of wheat in one of his paddocks. The iron was a portion of a bar, which had evidently been cut through with a cold set in a blacksmith’s shop. Unfortunately, the bar was not noticed when the sheaf was being put through the combine on Saturday, the first indication of its presence there being given in the sudden bursting up of the machine as the metal entered the concave, wrecking both that portion of the machine and the drum beaters. A belt from the drum cut through the straw walloper, and narrowly missed Mr Morris’ man, who was building the straw stack. Half an inch nearer and it must have struck his head, in which case serious injury would have befallen him. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Is 63. Chxldbes Like to Take It. —Tho finest quality of granulated loaf sugar is used in the manufacture of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and the roots used in its preparation give it a flavor similar to maple syrup, making it quite pleasant to take. Children like to take it and it has no injurious after effect. It always cures. For sale by all dealers.

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