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Manawatu Herald, 21 June 1904, Page 2

Further additions are made to the entries of the Himatangi stock sale. The Mormon sect reckon that they have 50 labourers in New Zealand, and 5000 converts —mostly Maoris. A meeting of footballers is called tor to morrow night at Mr Haywood’s hotel for the purpose of arranging a match with a team from Motuiti.

The Wanganui Chronicle says it is reported that an attempt was made to wreck the Public Works engine by laying a rail across the line near Utiki. Detective Bishop and Constable Jackson are investigating. A nasty accident befell Mr J. Collins at Messrs Hickson and Reeve’s flaxmill at Oroua Bridge on Thursday. A beating bar of a stripper fell on the thumb of the left hand, severely crushing it. He at once went to Palmerston and Dr Graham found it necessary to amputate the injured member. Mr Collins received every attention from several employees at the mill at the time of the accident. In Admiral Makaroffls house at Kronstadt there hung over the mantlepiece a portrait of his grandfather, Captain Basil! Makaroff, who commanded a famous Russian line of battleship, the Viestnik, in the eighteenth century. This Basil Makaroff had three brothers, all of whom were drowned; so the fate of the late commander of the Pacific squadron was not unique in the family.

We have been hearing some funny things about Salt Lake City lately. Here’s another: A Salt Lake City baby swallowed a nail a fortnight ago. The other day a steel wire, attached to a powerful electro-magnet, was thrust down its wind-pipe and the current turned on. A click was heard, the wire was withdrawn, and the nail clinging to it. Next, please ? The natives of the East Coast (says the Poverty Bay Herald) are stated to have become demoralised through the practices of the tohungas. Employers say it is difficult to get Maoris to work for them, and even those who have been steadily employed for years have thrown up bush contracts and joined the other natives in their undesirable courses. The settlers and more enlightened natives are helpless to stem this last outburst of belief in the power of the tohunga. Depew called at a friend’s house, where he attracted the attention of a small boy of eight. Alter he had left, the boy’s father said to his son, “That was Chauncey Depcw, the world’s greatest story-teller.” A day or two later the senator happened to be at the same house, and the boy, running up to him, said, “ I know you.” “ Really, my little man, and who am I ?” “ Why,” replied the bright youth, “ my poppa says you’re the biggest liar op earth 1”

Two Burnham absconders, O’Toole and Crowther, who tramped from Can terbury to Greymouth and thence along the sea beach to Westport, have been arrested and will be sent back to the Industrial School. There have been a large number of weddings in Gisborne; in the last few months, one clergyman, the Rev. J. G. Patterson, having conducted no fewer than twenty marriage services in the half-year, which establishes a record so far as he is concerned. ine Chronicle states that an elopement of a sensational character occurred a few days ago, the parties being employees at a well-known business establishment at Wanganui. One is a married man and the other a young girl. The Waitara Mail reports that while a party were engaged in road excavat ing at Pukearuhc, the remains of a horse were found, which the Maoris declare are those of the animal shoi when the Rev. John Whitely was mur deredi

Mr H. Christian, our- local bicycle manufacturer and photographer, is now offering some bargains in cycles. Photograps at 12s 6d per dozen should be a sufficient inducement to those in want of cheap pictures. A few of the bicycles stocked by Mr Christian are given in his advertisement, ranging from the Grand Excelsiors at £22 down to the Remingtons at £l2. All accessories Ore stocked. We once more remind our readers of the sale pi work in connection with All Saints’ Church, which opens in the Public Hall to-morrow afternoon at 3 o’clock. In the everting an acceptable programme Of nlusidai items, etc., has been arranged for* which should alone be well worth the price oi admission asked, viz., isj and children half-price. From the prdgr’dnlnie appearing elsewhere it will be noticed that several new performers are taking part, and an enjoyable evening’s amusement is anticipated.

On Friday the young fellow, Commons, died at Dr Graham’s Hospital. It will be remembered he was one of the victims of the accident to the Quehii Of the South’s foremast. It was hoped that he would be able to pull through the terrible injuries he had undergone, but unfortunately the ordeal was too great. The fact of the deceased being only married a few weeks prior to the accident makes it also particularly sad. The body was taken to Christchurch, the home of his parents, on Saturday evening for interment.

An animated correspondent is going on in English agricultural journals on the subject of motors taking the place of horses in general farm work, and both sides of the question are warmly defended. Mr John Scott (of Edinburgh) goes fully into figures, and" makes the first cost of plant for a 400acre farm under horses at £763, and under motive power at £565. He figures out the cost per acre at 7s for horse traction cultivation, with four men, and by motor, with one man, 3s 4jd per acre. Eight horses are supposed to cultivate four acres per day, and one motor eight acres. The day wage of a man is put down at 5s each, and the cost of a binder at £35. A young man who was about to get married ' startled his sweetheart not long ago by calling on her and announcing that he had something dread fill to tell her. She gasped and turned pale. “ What is it, Will ?” she asked. “ Well," he said “it is a very serious business, and I think I must tell you before we get married.” “ What is it ? For goodness sake tell me!” “Well, Jennie, I’m sorry to say I am a somnambulist !” “ Oh, well,” she said, re* assuringly, “ what does that matter 1 My father’s a Baptist, and my mother’s a Methodist !”'

The Winter Show this week should be of great interest to flaxmillers and all those tor whose business steam, gas or oil is the motive power, for there is on the grounds the biggest display of engines ever made in Palmerston. Mr Burges has by far the largest entry in steam engines, including: r 7 h.p. Marshall’s traction, 1 4ft 6in threshing mill, 1 12 h.p. compound portable, with automatic expansion gear, and 1 12 h.p. “ Britannia ” portable engine, also 3 Campbell gas and oil engines. No doubt the flaxmillers will take special note of the compound, as those mills that have adopted this type of engine are saving as much as £l5O to £2OO a year in fuel alone.

At a well-known luncheon room near the Square, Christchurch, a somewhat startling incident occurred recently (says Christchurch Truth). A cat chasing a mouse on the first floor din-ing-room knocked over a big flower pot, containing a palm, which smashed, and fell through the thick glass that serves as floor and ceiling in the centre of the upper and lower rooms. Glass, pot, and palm all came tumbling down alongside one of the diners, some of the fragments just grazing his shoulder, the rest falling clear of tables and people. The incident caused some alarm for a while, but the gentleman who so narrowly escaped injury was the coolest of all. Taking another seat, he called the waitress, and mentioned that he had ordered soup, not pot plants and broken glass.

A Timely Suggestion —Thi/ i- the season of the year when the prudent and careful housewife replenishes her supply of Chamb;rlain’s Cough Remedy. It is certain to be needed before the winter is over, and results are much more prompt and satisfactory when it is kept at hand and given as soon as die cold is contracted and before it has become settled in the system. In almost every instance a severe cold may be warded off by taking this remedy freely as soon as the first indie ition of the cold appears. There is no danger in giving it to children for it contains no harmful sub stance. It is pleasant to take both adults and children like it. Buy it and you will get the best. It always cures. Sold by all dealers. L Colds are quickly cured by Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It acts on nature’s plau, loosens the cough, re l-ws the lungs and opens the secretions, effecting a permanent cure. It counteracts any tendency of acod to result in pneumonia. For sale by all dealers. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, for Coughs and Colds never fails, la 6d.