Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] TUESDAY, NOV. 1, 1904.

Manawatu Herald, 1 November 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. [Established Aug. 27, 1878.] TUESDAY, NOV. 1, 1904.

An advertiser wishes to rent a sixroomed house. Apply Herald. Mrs Hood notifies to;,day that she house and scullery to-let, together with xx or 12 acres of land. In to-day’s issue the Mayor (Mr G. A; Simpson) invites tradespeople to observe Friday next as the usual half holiday, in place of Wednesday, on account of the Palmerston Show. ; The concert being organised by the Sports Committe to take place on the evening of the gth promises to he a very successful affair. All the available local talent has been secured, whilst outside performers will also form a large portion of the programme. Both pedestrian and cycling competitors are training hard for the forthcoming sports, and judging by the general interest taken', the 1904 gathering should prove a' record one. Fine weather alone is needed on Wednesday week to please, the Committee. Among the votes on the Estimates are:—Palmerston North, Post office £ISOO, Police station £430; Otaki Post office, £2OOO ; Victoria College, Wellington, grant for buildings, £to,ooo; additions Shannon Post office, £l4O ; Levin to Foxton road, £250; Pretoria and Rahui roads, Horowhenua, £3OO. A meeting of the Foxton Athletic Club was held at Laing’s Hotel last night, when arrangements were reported to be well in hand for the Sports, to be held on the gth. Correspondence was received from the Railway Department re the special train service, which should be the means of inducing large numbers to visit the Manawatu seaport.

A “ Mizpah” brooch with the initials “ A.M.8,” has been’ left at our office awaiting an owner. At the Magistrate’s Court, Te Awamutu, on Tuesday five natives, who were charged with failing to register their dogs, stated that their refusal to ' pay the .taxes was because they regarded Mahutu as' their king, and not King Edward. Had they been instructed by Mahutu to pay the taxes, they would have done so. The Maoris found King Edward's power w, meaiei than Mahutu’s, and they were o L red to “ cash up.” Mr James Mills, who successfully published Bradshaw’s Otago and Southland Guide, is at present ,on a visit to Foxton in connection with a similar issue concealing the - WellingtomTaianaki Interprovincial Districts. Mr Mills hopes to have the publication ready for sale about the end of the month. It is beautifully illustrated with views of almost every building, mountain, river or town worthy of note along the line, and the 120 pages of interesting information should find favour not only among travellers, but with the general public, 'lf a’thing is worth doing at all it is weigh doing well. So thought a young man in this district (says Dannevirke Press) a few days ago, when he skipped by the light of the moon,. neglected to pay his creditors, collected money owing to his mates, and took as a partner ,of his flitting another , man’s wife. The young man evidently has a keen preception of how things ought to be done. The performance would have been without a flaw, but he omitted one important item-die forgot to pay for his paper. Mr Fennell, of Woodville, who attended the Carterton Show, says the leaping in the Hunters’ Competition was a splendid exhibition of jumping. The leaping is done in an oval, as at Palmerston, and there are six jumps, one of them a double one. Eleven horses were entered and came before the judges, but they all had to go round three separate times before the judges could pick the winner, and several had, to go round again to settle which were entitled to second and third places. And in all the rounds there was not a single case of a horse baulking or running off at any of the jumps, nor were the jumps touched half a dozen times by the horses in going over them. The contest could hardly ever have been beaten in the colony. Was it the wine, or did such really evenuate ? , A MaUgaweka scribe thus ends a report of a football Social up Taihape way :—“ Needless to say, the above account is written as seen—through a dim haze. The final vision was ot a boisterousvcrowd of revellers gathered round the chairman and uproariously ‘singing’ a, medley, in which ‘ Rule Sritanma, 1 ‘On _ the ‘ God Save,’ and * Aiild Lang Syne ’ were inextricably mixed like bon-bons in a jumble show. But at this stage a friendly hand was placed on this scribe’s shoulders, and he was led gently home to bed. Therefore the latest accounts are hardly authentic.” The Taihape Post says the subsequent proceedings interested him no more.

Some rather humourous suggestions are put forth by a writer in the Dannevirke Advocate, aiient the logger Bank incident. Me says:—“What the Home authorities ought to have done on receipt of the news was simply to order the Channel fleet to leave Gibraltar and meet the Baltic fleet! send out the flying squadron, or North American fleet, in rear of it j get the Baltic fleet between the t\Vo j bdard the Russian flagship and take the Admiral prisoner for mutder on the high seas; try him on our own flagship by colirtmartial; if found guilty hang him Up to the fore yardarm. Me is the only offender that can be executed, being in supreme command. Retain the Baltic fleet until, say, one million is paid in gold for the insult offered to the flag, half a million for damage to property, and compensation for lives lost. If not paid within fourteen days sell the fleet to the Japanese to enable them more effectively to blockade Port Arthur.”

So much is demanded of a Russian officer ..(says a London paper) that we are xuprised he has any time to learn tactics. Judging from certain secret circulars published by the “ Times,” he has to act as policeman and moral teacher as well as military leader. Re volutionary propaganda will intrude into the ranks. Jewish soldiers lie under special suspicion. Accordingly officers are commanded from headquarters to keep their eyes open and their tongues alert. At frequent intervals they are to inspect the clothing, even to„the boots, of their men, in order that no revolutionary papers may be secreted. They are also to make nocturnal inspections with the -‘Object of stopping excursions without leave. Worse, or best of all— whichever way you look at it —on Church festivals conversation of a moral and religions character with the privates is to be instituted. It is true that some of the best religious and social work is done by army officers, but we should hardly look to the normal tvpe for Sunday school teaching. Nor does the scheme of moral and religious conversation between Russian officers and men strike the outsider as the most effective way ot stemming the tide of political revolution.

Whooping Tough.— This is a very dangerous disease unless properly treated. Statistics show that there are more deaths from it than from scarlet fever 1 All danger may be avoided,’ however, by giving Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It liquifies the tough muscus, making it easy to expectorate, keeps the cmgh loose, and makes the paroxysmras of coughing less frequent and less severe. It has been used in many epidemics of this disease with perfect success. For sale by all dealers. 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 s none is genuine without it. All chemists and stores, locally of M. H. Walker, Red House, Foxtpn.