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Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1904.

A five-roomed cottage is advertised to let. Messrs Abraham and Williams' Palmerston and Levin stock sales are advertised to-day.

During last month 6679 bales of flax (1343 tons) were graded in Wellington as compared with 7347 bales (1476 tons) in the previous month. It is understood that the proprietors of one of the oldest established hotels in Christchurch have decided to surrender the license to their house and convert the building into business premises. A telephoto picture of the Chinese battleship Ting-Yuen, a few minutes alter she was struck simultaneously by two Japanese torpedoes, is described by Mr Arthur Diosy as probably the most wonderful photograph in the world.

The Manaia (Taranaki) Maoris have refused to permit the Electric Lighting Company to erect the poles to conduct the mains through the Kapea Block, unless the company undertakes to instal the electric light gratis at the Waiokura pah. A stranger recently visited a farmer of this district to transact some business. As he was leaving he pointed to a great sheet of water near the house and said: “ What a beautiful lake you have there I” “ Oh, aye,” replied the farmer, “ it’s beautiful enough, but, unfortunately, my turnips are below it 1” —Opotiki Guardian. A teacher in a school was examining a class of boys in geography. After telling them that north was in front of them, west on the left, and east on the right, asked: “ What have you got behind you ?" There was a pause. “ Now then, Charles, surely you can tell me,” “ Please, miss, a patch on my trousers, and I told mother you would see it,” replied the boy. Things must be in a bad way in Ashburton. It is reported that several boardinghouse-keepers have within the past week refused lodgers on suspicion of their being detectives or informers gathering evidence to justify another liquor raid. Strangers coming to Ashburton, unless they have the wherewithal to engage apartments in a first-class hotel, must have an uncomfortable time until they can establish their bona fides, Mr Kawai Tauri, a well-known Putiki native, was (says the Wanganui Herald) fortunate enough to discover five pearls in the shells of some oysters and mussels which he had purchased the other day from Mr R. Yarrow. These pearls are of a grey colour, streaked with dark, and the largest was bigger than an ordinary-sized marble. It is said that a local jeweller offered Mr Tauri £6 for this specimen, but this was de dined. The other pearls are all of a fair size, and consequently worth considerable money. At the Manawatu County Council meeting a letter was read from the Rongotea branch of the Farmers' Union suggesting the extension ol the Sandon tram to Rongotea. The county clerk reported he had been present at a meeting held in connection with the matter. It had been a mixed meeting, townspeople and members of the Farmers’ Union. The latter were rather in favour of a through line to Levin but the townspeople were in favour of extending the line from Sandon. No definite proposals had been before the meeting. The clerk handed to the chairman an estimate of the cost of the suggested extension, which he set down at £6OOO, a sum the chairman thought was under the mark. A desolutory discussion took place on the state of the line of route and it was eventually decided that the county clerk should report to the Council upon the feasibility of the scheme, the estimated cost and maintenance, how the money could be raised and generally upon all details. The report will be submitted at the next meeting.

A medical expert in the North of England has just been denouncing as dangerous to health, and even to life, the habit of getting up in a hurry, and has laid down the agreeable axiom that people on waking should calmly stretch themselves and rise at leisure. Some may be glad to know that one of the most eminent specialists, Dr Seldon Talcott, of New York, declares that early rising is the most prolific Cause of madness. “ The free and lazy savage,” he points oul, “gets up when he feels ready, and rarely or never becomes insane.” And he adds that a peremptory command to get up when one’s sleep is as yet unfinished is a command which “grinds the soul, curdles the blood, swells the spleen, destroys all good intentions, and disturbs all day the mental activities just as the tornado destroys and levels with advancing ruin a forest of mighty pines.” A curious legacy has just come to the coffers of the National Lifeboat Institution of Great Britain. In 1891 a lady left to the institution the residue of her estate, a sum of about £4OO, but it was not to be paid till the death of her favourite cat, on which in the meantime the interest of the money was to be spent. The cat in 1891 was just emerging from kittenhood and had every prospect of long life. But after a time it developed wandering habits, and for two years nothing has been seen of it. So the splicitors, presuming death, have paid over the money. But the institution has been obliged to enter into an undertaking to provide for maintenance should the cat ever succeed in rebutting the presumption of death.

About 379 years ago, at the time of the Spanish conquest of Peru, some £g, 000,000 in gold was handed over to Indians by the Peruvian Incas to be paid for the ransom of the Emperor Atahaulpa. But the money was never paid, and the Spaniards killed the Emperor, as readers of Prescott's fascinating history know. Since then innumerable exploring parties, native and foreign have made fruitless search for the treasure. It has remained for a party of British and American engineers to unearth the gold, or part of it, writes an American correspondent. The greatest excitement has been caused in Bolivia and Peru by the discovery. The lucky finders came upon the ancient treasure quite accidentally. They discovered it while making a survey and driving stakes. The find was made at Chayaltaya, in Bolivia. A dispute has arisen among the finders gs to division of the wealth,

At All Saints’ Church on Thursday afternoon last a quiet wedding was solemnised by the Rev. H. Wilson, when Mr Charles Procter, fifth son of Mr John Procter, was united in holy bonds of matrimony to Miss Paul. We wish the young couple every happiness in their wedded life. Hansard is anything but an exact record of what takes place in Parliament. According to Mr Massey after a member has spoken he is supplied with a proof of his speech, and may delete anything objectionable 01 add anything he thought he should have said. As an Auckland member once remarked “ Hansard was a record of what members did not say.” As a-magnificent steamer, the property of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, was steaming into Southampton harbour, a gtimy coal-lighter floated immediately in front of it. An officer on board the steamer, seeing this, shouted, “ Clear out of the way with that barge.” The lighterman, a native of the Emerald Isle, shouted in reply, “Areyou the captain of that vessel ?” “ No,” answered the officer. “Then spake to your equals,” said the lighterman. “ I’m the captain 0’ this.”

In an assault ease at theChriscthurcb Police Court, on Thursday, in which the informant was a Chinaman, with a European wife, Mr Donelly, appearing for the accused, asked the informant when he was married. Witness gave the dale, which Was in July last. “Now is it true," asked Mr Donelly, “that on your wedding day your wife ran away to Wellington to another man ?’’ Witness explained, with signs of embarassment, that she did not go away on his wedding day, but afterwards. She went for a holiday, he stated. Finally, amidst laughter, " she went away for her honeymoon. I very -.busy, could not go with her.”

All the Czars of Russia have been crowned in the famous Kremlin in Moscow, and in the Treasury there are the thrones of all the Emperors of the past, as well as historic jewels and the choicest plate now owned by the Rus sian Crown. There are £120,000,000 worth of gold and silver and precious stones in that Treasury, and there are basins of gold which are as big as a baby’s bath tub, and two card tables of solid silver, which are worth a king’s ransom.

The Czar betrayed his state of mind in a remark that fell from him when he was last brought into contact with a number of English friends some years ago, " What would I not give," he said, “ to be a plain English country gen tic mail instead of CZaf of All the Russias."—Pall Mall Gazette.

A recent Canadian invention consists of bricklaying by machinery instead of by hand. The machine, worked by two men and a lad, will lay 400 to 600 bricks per hour. Door and window spaces cause only a slight delay. The machine is suited for all plain woi;k, such as walls, sheds, mills, factories, rows of cottages, and piers of bridges. Considerable pressure is put on the bricks, and it is claimed that the work is more firmly done than by hand. The invention will do the work of six or seven skilled bricklayers, and it is believed that a machine adapted to build a factory covering about sixty by forty feet could be put on the market for £IOO. The apparatus can be readily worked after a fortnight’s instruction. In the course of a missionary address recently delivered in Nelson, Bishop Ridley spoke of his travels in Japan. He said he firmly believed, from what he had observed, that it was to be the mission of Japan to reform the Chinese race. Referring to the Chinese and Japanese in his former diocese (British Columbia), the speaker said the latter did some of the best of the public works. While in China he had seen hundreds of missionaries of all the Christian churches united, and he believed that if ever church union weie brought about, it would be as a result of the missionary enterprise, A meeting of the Rowing Club Committee which was to have been held last night in the secretary's office lapsed for want of a quorum, only the captain, secretary and one member of the committee being present. It seems unfortunate that members of public bodies who do not take a very keen interest in their duties should waste the time of active members by rendering meetings fruitless by their absence. Persons who undertake to act in such capacities should carry out what is expected of them. Unreliability, even in matters of small importance, is a poor business recommendation. The secretary proposes calling a meeting again next week, when it is to be hoped the results will be more encouraging. We would suggest that when a full meeting is obtained (if ever) the fact be celebrated in the same way as very remarkable events frequently are by raising the standard in the township. We have just received from Mr L. Johnstone a copy of Flurscheims’ latest book the “ Clue to the Economic Labyrinth ” dealing with all the questions which are exercising the minds of thinkers in the social and political world. The book has obtained a very hearty reception from the Press, and they all agree that it is written in an attractive manner, specially suited to general readers. We shall review the book at a latter date and in the meantime we may say that Mrs E. Hussey has obtained the local agency. The author and publisher made special armeets for New Zealand, which reduced the price from xos 6d (in Great Britain) to 3s 6d in New Zealand.

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, _ . for Cougbs and Colds never fails. Is 6d. Ths Deaf Hear.—No 494 of The Illustrated World of 626, Chiswick High Road, London, W., England, contains a description of a Remarkable Cure for Deafness and Head Noises which may be arried out at the patient’s home, and which is said to be a certain cure. This number will be sent free to any deaf person ending their address to the Editor. Protect Yourself and family against attacks of pneumonia by securing at, once a bottle of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy: If this remedy is taken on the firs'. appearance of a cold all danger will be avoided. It always cures and cures quickly. Sold by nil dealers,

SANDER and SONS EUOALPYTI EXTRACT. According to reports of a great number of physicians of the hightest professional standing, there are offered Euoalpyfci Ei 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 nlaced 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 camphors, the objectionable action of which is we 1 known." Dr H.B. Drake, Oregon, says—" Since I became ' acquainted with this preparation (Sander and Sons) I Uh? 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 auy preparation other than Sander and Son's, as 1 found the others to be almost useless." Dr J. T. Cornell, Kansas City, Kana.-, says —“Care has to be exercised not to be supplied with spurious preparation as done by my supply druggist." Dr tf. H. Hart, New York, says—“lt goes witho it saying that Sander and Sons’ Eucalypti Extract is the beat 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 troubles bronchitis, etc," A great slaughter of human animals, cuoh as fleas, flies, lice on plants, on fowls, on horses and on children’s heads, cockroaches, will be effected by using Book's “ Mortein ” Insect Powder and Spreaders. Will kill within five minutes every fly in a closed room Price Is. Bock’s "Moriein ’’ is world fair and cunningly imitated. The public will kindly see that the proprietor’s name—"P. Bock and Co."— is on every tin Ad none is genuine without it. All chemists and stores, locally of M. H. Walker, Bed House, Foxton. A Sore Core for Croup.— -The first indication of croup is hoarseness, and in a child subject to that disease it may be taken as a sore sign of the approach ct an attack. Following this hoarseness is a peculiar rough cough. If Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is given as soon as the child becomes hoarse, or even aft * the croupy cough appears, it will prevent the attack. It is used in many thousands of homes in this broad land and never disappo nta the anxious mothers. We have yet to learn of a single instance in which it has not proved effectual. No other preparation can show such a record—over thirty years’ constant use without a failure. For sale by all dealers.

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Manawatu Herald, 14 May 1904, Page 2

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Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1904. Manawatu Herald, 14 May 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1904. Manawatu Herald, 14 May 1904, Page 2

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