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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3494, 9 March 1905, Page 2

The Victorian State Premier Mr Bent, estimates the surplus this year at £350,000. A West Coast paper states that a gold mining claim on Middle Branch Flat, Gnldsbnrongb, is paying the enormous dividend of £25 per man per week. Particulars of losses through the recent bush fires in New South Wales submitted to the Relief Committee totalled £70,000. The Sydney Lord Mayor’s fund proving inadequate, the committee decided to ask the Government to vote £15,000 to meet urgent casesi

Taihape people are urging the im* itv:diate/'opening up for settlement of land in the Upper Kawhatatl. The sped d Ash Wednesday se;vices in All S tints Church yesterday were f.ii !y' wdl attended, the Rev. Isaacson, uf Hulls* being the ofltci ding minister. Last week cine hundred and thirty employe:-:. a; ;h<-' K.iia poi Wooll -n . Mill, we:-..- tf.-iq-vvaiiiv dUUmrgod, and there was '-ability ot fortyact von more being dispensed' with this week. The company being overstocked is the reason. Mr Kinloch Cooke contributes an aiticle to the ‘-Empire Review” in which he reports Cases where testators are excluding Australia iTonfi (he field of investments for their estates in c'dn--sequence of the socialistic legislation in vogue.

ddlorifel May has assured the May lien Minister that the United States has no intention of annexing Hayti or S in Domingo, nor of extend Ing her influence over them even if thos ; Republics solicited incorporation with the United States.

Miss J. Lloyd slipped on the ice near the top of Mount Egmonl on Sunday, Rnd Slid pearly tesn ehains at a terrible speed. Th<f flsiri was fdrrl from portions of her arms, side and baCk, and she had a miraculous escape from more serious injury.

One' of, the sights of Australia is Little Gulliver (Sheridan! Company), bacit from Africa; smoking a big Efoer pipe which holds about fewt; of tobacco (says Sydney Newsletter). The pipe caused a block in Pitt street the dthfef day* and a wood-carter attempted to thi'otr it Into bis dray, not knowing there was a great adtor attached.

Lord Milner has resigned his position of t4igb Cdnirtlissioper in South Alrica owing to his health; Lord 9elborne will succeed him. The “ Pall Mall Gazette” says Lord Selioorue’s appoiiltnleut is a step forward in Imperial rvolution as it Is the first time in the Empire’s history that a Cabinet minister has been offered a colonial djJpolntninflfi

Two of the items ill what has been bailed the new curriculum iri State adhddJs irt Newt South Wales have been specially objected td by many, and denounced as useless fads by not a few parents. Other items have not been much better thought of, but plasticine work and ani oidextral drawhave found few, if any, friends. liP structidns have been issued to omit these two items from the syllabus. According to a Christchurch contemporary, the conviction is growing that the present system of continuous short sentences is a totally unscientific way i of dealing with the habitual criminal. It does nothing to reform him, and not much to protect the public from his depredations. The system of indeterminate sentences certainly seems to be worthy of a trial.

One parson of the Clarence River (N.S.W.), on the outbreak of the plague there, contended in the Grafton press that it was the. ungodliness of the people that had brought the plague visitation upon them. Some while afier a much infected rat was fumd in his own house. The gentleman evidently “ pinned his faith in the Lord” for he immediately packed up his little trunk and moved to the seaside.—Bui latin.

A house of the Redemptorist Order has been established in Kilbirnie (says the “New Zealand Times”). The Rev. Father Chine is in charge, and the priests with him are Fathers McDermott and Pidgeou. The members of the Rad miptorist Order do not perform parish duty, as they devote themselves to mission work* They have three houses in Australia, but that at Kilbirnie is the first established in New Zealand.

At the Supreme Court at New Plymouth a young man named Frank Smith received a sentence of two years imprisonment for sheepstealing. The accused caused quite a sensation on the occasion of his arrest a few weeks ago. For three days and nights he followed the tactics of ex-General De Wet and kept a posse of police at bay in the suburb of Fitzioy, and then sent in word that he would surrender at midnight on a certain night. Thus ended an incident which had created more fun among the small fry of the neighbourhood than half-a-dozen circuses.

At a recent performance in a Russian theatre seated in the boxes was a Russian grand duke. At his side was a lady friend, who drew the attention of all present by the magnificence of her jewels. Suddenly, during a a pause in the piece, a man in the stalls stood up, and, pointing to the grand duke in the box, called out: “ Arrest the thief who has stolen the money that has been collected tor our sick and wounded, and has covered that person with jewels out of the proceeds of his dishonesty.” At this (says Vanity Fair) there was a terrible uproar. The police were fetched, but could do little to restore order, and the grand duke and his friend had to leave the house.

The arrest of two men, wanted in connection with robberies at Hawera and Wanganui, was effected as the result of word being received at New Plymouth that the suspected pair had made their way there. Detective Benjamin and Constable De Loree kept a bright lookout, and finally located them at the Trocader. One of the men was easily overcome and handcuffed, but the elder, aged about 28, made a tough fight of it with Detective Benjamin, and was only afrested after the furniture in the room had been severely knocked about. The men gave their names as Frank Bolton (aged 24) and Edward Black alias Maynon (aged 28). The former had a loaded six-chambered revolver in his possession, and the latter a similar weapon unloaded. Black, who is known to the police, boasted that if he had his revolver ready he would have “ repeated the Ellis trick.” Two women Elizabeth Gill and Florence Weeks, said to have hailed from Palmerston, were acconv panying the suspects.

A special meeting of the Foxton School Committee is convened for to monovv evening at 8 o’clock.

Captain Edwin telegraphed at 0.25 p.m., to-day :—“ Moderate winds from between south-west and south and south-east, gLas rise slowly, tides good, serjf moderate.” Mr 11/shop, manager of the State coal mines, has effected an amicable settlement of the dispute with the. Saddonvlllc State coal miners.- Work was to be resumed to-day. At the Police Court this morning before Messrs Fraser and Simpson, J's.P., three too zealous worshippers at the shrine of Bacchus toed the mark. William McManus and William Hutchison were convicied and discharged, and a prohibition order issued against the hitter. John Redwood was rCntanded for a week for medical treatment.

Miss Berry, who has been 44 yc?l's In the Brisbane Nonna! School, and is over 70, retiie'K shortly, but receives no pension, although ul6 Queensland policeman is provid 'd for in his old age, The other night a meeting of former pupils was held to organise a fund for Miss Berry, when If Wae stated that 10,000 pupils and scholars bad passed through her hands. At the gathering were ex pupils who had become grandttjothefg.

“Young maitl, dboitt 3S, native of St. Petersburg, thoroughly' educated, good linguist, speaking five languages, has acted as foreign correspondent in Russian capital; able and willing to do anfc work." Such a notice might have been inserted in the "Want” column of a tieWspaper by a young man employed as a labourer' at a flaxmill not a thousand miles away from Foxton. This just one more commentary dfl the ways of the fickle jade Fortune.

At a meeting of the Foxloti Rifle Club, held on Tuesday evening at the. Post Office Hotel, Captain Austin presiding, a challenge from the Old Boys Cricket Club was accepted, but owing lo the short notice given it was decided that the suggested date was unsuitable. It was decided to procure another rifle. Two new members, Messrs Saville and Walden, were elected and the meeting concluded with a vote of thanks to. tile chairman and to Mr Gray for the rise of his Word was received this morning that an elderly man named George Wilson, an old identity who employed himself in fishing, was'lying in a very neglected State in a whare at Robinson's Bend, down the river l . Tbe police went down and brought him to town, and he is being sent to the Palmerston Hospital this afternoon; It is Understood Wilson had been living with another man, who appears to have left him, and the old fellow was practically uncovered except for a couple of sacks. He had had nothing to eat for two or three days, It is slated. The Premier was entertained at a banquet at Dargaville on Monday. Referring to the Advances to Settlers Act, he said the Government was prepared to give Crown tenants equal terms with freeholders. He dwelt at length on State fire insurance, and said he had no desire to continue a cutting competition with insurance companies, as there was room for both. He jocularly remarked that he had an offer to go to America to teach the Yankees New Zealand laws, so that when the colony was tired of him he had something to fall back on. _Mr beddon will probably give a political address at Auckland on Tuesday. A BILIOUS VISITOR. A gentleman who recently spent a few months in Christchurch (states the “ Timaru Post ”), was asked on his return to England to deliver an address on New Zealand to the members of a social club in his native town. He readily complied with the request, and appears from the account of his remarks supplied by a correspondent to have represented some colonial characteristics rather quaintly. “ New Zealand,” he is reported to have said, “ is a place where things are upside down. Labourers turned out every morning to their work on horseback, while the employers followed on foot. Bishops rode on bicycles, and bank managers and members of Parliament went to business wearing caps and dirty shoes. Many farmers had an annual clearing sale, and sold house and home, and everyone turned up and made a picnic of it. The same people living at Home would leave their homesteads only at the point of the bayonet, but a colonial would sell his grandmother if he could make a profit out of her. In the country wealthy farmers might be seen working in dungarees, with bits of flax for laces, and in the towns clerks and shop girls dressed like dukes and duchesses, hut never thought ot paying for their clothes.” AN HONORABLE DISTINCTION The Western Medical Review, a nudioal pub icatiou of the highest standing, says in a recent issue" Thousands of physicians in this and other countries have a tes’ed that SANDER VND SO IS EUC LYPTI EXTRACT is not only abso ate y reliable, but it has a pronounced and ind sputa b e superiority over ad other preparalious of eucalyptus.” Your healh is too precious to b ; 'ampered with, therefore reject all products foisted upon you by unscrupulous mercenaries and insist upon getting S ANDER AND SONS’ PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, the only preparation recommended by your physician and the medical press. Used as mouth wash regularly in the morning (3 to 5 drops to a glass of water) it prevents decay of t« eth, and is a sure protection against all infectious fevers, such as typhoid, malaria, etc. Catarrah of nose and throat is quickly cured by gargling with same. In-tantaneous relief produced in colds, influenza, diptheria, bronchitis, inflammation of the Jungs and consumption, by putting eight drops of SANDER AND S INS’ PURE VOLATILE EUDALYPTI EXTR ACT into a cupfu of boiling water and inhaling the arising steam, Diarrhoea, dysentry, rheumatism, diseases of the ividueys and urinary organs, quickly eared oy taking 5 to 15 drops internally 3 to 5 times daily. Wounds, ulcers, sprains a id skin diseases it heals without inflammation when painted on.

THE COLONIAL EXHIBITION", . New Zealand is to be represented by a comprehensive collection of samples of her products at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition at the Crystal Palace. The Department of Industries and Commerce put on board the lonic, before her departure last week, a large consignment of exhibits. Most of the New Zealand exhibits from the Colonial Products Exhibition, recently held at Liverpool, will also be shown. The ton cheese which will be a prominent feature of the exhibit, was forwarded by the Rimutaka. The material, consisting of 120 batter boxes and 30 cheese crates, for the trophy of the dairy produce traders, has also been forwarded. An exhibition of New Zealand frozen meat and butter will be continually on view during the six months the exhibition is open in a specially-constructed insulated glass chamber. The obelisk trophy representing the export of gold from the colu'nv is being made in London from plans prepared by the Public Works Department. Fifty enlarged photographs will be exhibited, illustrative of tlse agricultural, pastoral and mining industries of the colony. CONJUGAL AMENITIES. OilCe there were two women, who got married, And the husband of the first woman was immensely popular with all her friends. Whenever they were out at dinner or at a social gathering he was the life of the party, and all the other women rather envied her having such a genial husband. The husband of the other woman was a failure as a social light. He could not talk to other women, and he always trotted dutifully along beside his wife. All the other women envied her having a husband who was so devoted to her. But the first woman was not satisfied with her husband because the rest of the women found him so agreeable, and the second woman was dissatisfied with her husband because he seemed unable to hold his own in a social gathering. This teaches us . No, it doesn’t. It simply leaves the poor husbands up in the air as usual. NOT CANDI(E)D CRITICISM. A sample of musical criticism, as known in San Francisco, is quoted by the “ St. James’s Budget ” “ Don’t miss Phyllis, which her other name is Allen, Phyllis sings, mostly about ' dear hearts ’ and things. Still she might do that and be even more like the amiable calliope than she is. It is Phyllis's dire determination to act that interests. When she sings * O LeJleave me Nott,’ she is’nt going to let you think that she is warbling about •Any Rags.’ No. sir. She wrings out her handkerchief and clutches her ribs until every man in the audience passes it up to the next. But, the way Phyllis wades into the coquetry! She has all the delicate insinuation pf a traction engine, a wink that works like a steam thrasher—in fact, she’s just too colossally cute for anything. Which all does not prevent Phyllis having begun with a mighty good voice. It would he worth ducats to call the kye ham£. Think on’t, Phyllis.” _