Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] TUESDAY, SEPT., 18, 1904.

Manawatu Herald, 13 September 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] TUESDAY, SEPT., 18, 1904.

Further additions are made to the Himatangi stock sale. The Antarctic exploring ship Discovery has arrived at Portsmouth. All on board are well. It is reported that yesterday a local resident netted throe tins of whitebait between 6 a.m. and 3 p.m. This is a big haul for the time of year. The Licensing Bill has passed its second reading. It is stated that the opponents of the Bill are withholding themselves for the final discussion. The Taihape News, started some time ago by Mr James Ivess, is about to be enlarged. Taihape is a wonderful place. With a small population it supports two newspapers.

On Thursday evening the Foxton Brass Band will, if the evening is fine, day a number of selections in the Main street. A collection will also be taken up in aid of the band’s instrument fund. The opening of the Levin .Moronic Lodge and the installation of ■i ■ .s, vill take place to-morrow at Levin. Vbout 14 members of the Te Awahou Lodge intend to be present at the ceremony. Burgess, the Paris champion swimmer, starting from Dover, swam twentytwo miles, covering fifteen towards Cape Marister, in eight and a half hours. Heavy seas compelled the abandonment of the attempt to swim the Channel!. The treaty which Colonel, YoungDisband, head of the British mission, ins been arranging with the Thibetans vas signed and sealed on a tabh lovered with the Union Jack In ih l -imrhn"nt at Potala, Lhassa. last Wednesday. Yesterday morning before A. Fraser, Esq., J.P., a first offender for drunkenless was fined 5s or 24 hours; and two others were convicted and dis charged as they had been in the lockip since Saturday night. The Borough Council invites tenders ip to Monday, 19th September, for planting sand grass find Covering with scrub a sand drift in the reserve leased by Mr Purcell. Specifications can be seen at the Borough Office during office hours. Sydney agents for London butterbuyers state that they are compelled to purchase New Zealand butter in preference to the Australian article, owing to the better quality, lower prices, and more reasonable freights than the mail Companies Charge. The second of (he combined midweek services inaugurated by tin Presbyterian and Primitive Methodist Churches in this town will be held to night in the Methodist Church at 7.45. It is hoped that there will be a good attendance, a hearty invitation being extended to all. The British nation claims the right of being saluted first in all places as Sovereign of the Seas. This claim was formally yielded by the Dutch in 1674, and by the French in 1704. The right has been claimed and nearly always exacted since the time of Alfred 871-901. News has been received of a terrible massacre at the Catholic Mission of St. Paul in New Britain, The natives attacked the Mission and killed nine of the inmates, subsequently mutilating their bodies. The Government im mediately sent a punitive expedition, which succeeded in capturing a hum ber of the assassins, twenty-six of whom were shot.

A meeting of the committee of the Athletic Club was held at Mr Gray’s hotel last night. It was decided to affiliate with the West Coast Athletic Association. It was also arranged that two men should be engaged to prepare the cycling track for the laying of limestone. A vote of thanks to the chair and to Mr Gray for the use of the room concluded the meeting. Alexander Nicoll, licensee of the Commercial Hotel, Blenheim, stabbed himself to death on Sunday with a sword-bayonet, which had been left in the hotel by a trooper some time before. He was an exCedirtgly heavy cigarrette smoker, and sometimes smoked 10 og 12 packets of cigarettes in one day. In the opinion of the doctor, such a quantity would have the effect of shattering his nervous system and demoralising his brain. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased died of a wound self-inflicted while temporarily insane. Mr Rutherford, in advocating the nationalisation of the drapery business pointed to the ladies’ gallery as ample evidence of the vast profits that would accrue to the State if his suggestion were adopted. He may have convinced his male hearers, but, though the ladies blushed at being suddenly dragged into the sphere of active politics, it was plain that they did not sympathise with the humorous member from Hurunui. Fancy the Slate regulating feminine fashions! Think of MrT. Y. Duncan, say, as Minister of Modes! Imagine a Departmental frock—a hat. in accordance with the Act I—(Casual Correspondent) Post. A big fire occurred in Wellington last Friday night at some bulk stores on the outskirts of the city. The Colonial Oil Company, Messrs Kempthorne Prosser & Co., and Johnson & Co., suffered severely, and it was only the strenuous efforts of the fire brigade that prevented the fire from spreading. Large quantities of oil and chemicals were stored in the buildings, and these added greatly to the labours of the firemen. Frequent explosions took place as the fire ran through the oils, acids, drugs, etc., but fortunately without injuring anyone. None of the firms affected by the fire are yet in a position to state the amount of their losses, but apparently they will be considerable. The origin of the blaze is as yet a mystery. A great slaughter of human animals, such as fleas, flies, lice on plants, on fowls, on horses and on children’s heads, cockroaches, will be effected by using Book's “Mortem” Insect Powder and spreaders. Will kill within five minutes every fly in a closed room .Price Is. Bock’s “ Mortein ”is world fan’ and cunningly imitated. The public will kindly see that the proprietor’s name— ■'P. Bock and Co.”— is on every tin * a none is genuine without it. AH chemists and stores, locally of M. H. Walker, Red House, Foxton. How Often You Hear the Remark: “ It’s only a cold,” and a few days later learn that the man is on his back with pneumonia. This is of such common occurrence (hat a cold, however slight, should not be disregarded - Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy counteracts any tendency toward pneumonia. It always cures and is pleasant to take. For sale by a'l dealers. Prepare for Group. —The time wasted in sending for a physician when a child shows symptons of the croup, often leads to fatal results. A reliable medicine and one that should always be kept in the home ready for immediate use is Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It never fails and will prevent the attack if given as oon as the child becomes hoarse, or even after the croupy cough appears, For §ale by all dealers, ’ 1