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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3498, 18 March 1905, Page 2

The average attendance at the Foxton State school for the week ending to day was 210,2, and average number of scholars absent 42 8, the roll number being 253. An Auckland lady who desires that her name shall not be published has donated to the Jubilee Blind Institute {■soo which, with the Government subsidy, represents £II,OOO.

It is understood that the Foxtou Public Hall will be lit with acetylene gas for the fir:- t time on Mondav evening, a plant having been installed by the New Zealand Acetylene Gas Company.

With such an extravagant standard of living among all classes, it is time someone started a Simplicity Society ns an antidote to (he vulgar ostentation of this pleasure loving ago.—British Journal of Nursing. “ The New Boot Shop,” opposite the police station in Main street, opened this morning with a large slock of goods, and bargains will be the order of (his evening. The goods are all guaranteed best quality, and the prices are at bedrock.

A prisoner before the Supreme Court in Wanganui had convictions against him amounting altogether to ib,out 30 years. The Chief Judice said accused seemed to be one of those persons who were no soo-ior out of gaol than they commenced committing criminal acts again. In his Honour’s opinion prisoner was one of those persons who slrold not he allowed their libertv.

A buyer, representing the Japanese 1 Government, purchased at Sandy ; Gallop saleyards, near Ipswich, Queensland, between 60 and 70 head of horses, the prices ranging from 6gs to iogs. Eight hundred horses have been purchased on the Darling Downs on behalf ot a Sydney syndicate, who are reported to have contracted to supply the Japanese Government with 5000 horses. The British India steamer Ifria is taking 500 horses to Bom bay. The shipment is valued at over £IO,OOO. A Sydney cable states that an old man—Mclnnes—has returned by the Waikare. He states he was refused admission to New Zealand. The ground for the refusal is not stated. A Wellington telegram states, with reference to the cable message that Mclnnes, a passenger from Australia was refused permission to land in New Zealand, it appears the health officer in Wellington would not ceritfy that he was an imbecile or insane, but stated that he was infirm, and as he had only 33 6d and did not know where his relatives were, he was likely (0 become a charge upon charitable aid. Acting on (his the Customs’ authorities consulted the Law Officers of the Crown, and refused permission to land unless the Union Steamship Company entered into ? bond. The matter is considered one ot considerable importance.

A singular feat in the forgery of bank notes has just been accomplished in Copenhagen. With no apparatus better than a small lithographic press and one or two most imperfect or primitive tools a lithogropher had succeeded in producing 10,000 notes of 10 kroner each so perfect that only stupidity in circulating them prevented a great success. The police refused to believe that notes so perfect had been produced by means so inadequate, hut the lithographer, with artistic pride, asked for his press, and, going to his cell, soon demonstrated that it was possible to be a knave and and a fine artist. And now in Copenhagen the strange spectacle is witnessed of forged io*kroner bank notes, worth nothing as money, selling freely among connoisseurs for 30 kroner as 1 beautiful specimens of lithographic I work.

In connection with the sly grog.sell ing prosecution rU Dunedin, Lawrence Uancy, Margaret Clancy, May Colder,I'Jbrabcth Johnston and Cecilft Fork were each lined /"50 and costs. The Mail *’ reports that (he nolicense movement in Otaki appeal's to dead. In Levin and Shannon, ii -wever, a big fight is esoeot. d at the :i'xt local option poll. Mr H. 0. BedtotaL M.H.R;, is said to be due to -pC’ik oh ihii fiji’njc.-et at Levin shortly. It is staled in a Sydney paper that the Queensland Government has appointed Mr Chaplin, a Brisbane j ournalist, as agent and lecturer to visit the other Australian State's and possibly New Zealand, to set forth the advantages and terms of land settlement in Queensland;

The Westland County Council re s dved to extend invitations to Sir Joseph Ward and the Hon. W. HallJones to Visit South Westland with a view to noting requirements in regard to roads; bridge,.-; arid other facilities and to sssist rti ire rapidly (lie development that is steadily growing in the district.

A Scotchman who had been through London (dt a,distance of dvef three utiles tendered a shilling as fare to' the cabby. In reply to (he latter’* rerrjohstrauce, lie exclaimed irately: “ Lion, do ye ken wha I am! I’m a Macintosh I” " I don’t care a if you are ;in umbrella', ,! was tile retort. “ I want :ny eighteen-pence.” An armoured coat for dogs, says “Forest and Stream,” td serve as a protection against motor-cars, has been invented by a Mew Yorker. The coat is studded will! slurp steel points, like a sted hedgehog. If Urn armoured dog is run into by a motor car, the sharp points puncture the tyre, and ilu. r. uvrequont rush of. released air blows the d >g ti.it of danger.

N >!hing th-it wa eat, drink, wear, cit do escapes the blame of the health expert. When one man says beer is baneful, another replies that tea is poison. A min condemns wdhtafl's corsets, arid a woman retorts with the assertion that (lie silk hat produces baldness. Aid now front tile headmaster of Kingston on-Tnarnos Crammer School we learn that our physical salvation is to ba found by leaving off waistcoa'ii.

The present lengthy spell of fine weather is seriously interfering with West Coast alluvial mining, most of the goldfields being at a standstill owing to the want of water. The de vehpment of the work at the Wiibertoice reefs is steadily proceeding. The prospecting tunnel will soon be completed and experts are now on the ground deciding as to future operations. The expectations as to the future of the field are very pronounced.

TEA AND COFFEE GROWING. Tea and coffee are growing remarkably well in the Transvaal. A correspondent. writing from there to the “ Ceylon Observer,” says the growth of tea is simply marvellous in the short time from planting. Fifty acres of ■Coffee is full bearing, and has now reached its sixth year from planting. It has yielded several enormous crops, perhaps too much for young trees. The first crop was sold at 2s 6d per lb in Pietersburg during the piping times of war. Referring to tea, the writer says : So far we have but a tew bushes of very mixed jat, but I have recommended extension, and we hope before long to send a few big orders to Colombo for seed, as I am positively certain we can rival von in Ceylon or India in yield, quality, and flavour.

CHILDREN AND FIRE GUARDS. Dr Waldo, the City and Southward Coroner, slated that as the result of action hv the Coroners’ Society a notice had b'en pasted all over London warning parents and guardians to protect children in their care from fire hv using fi e guards and avoiding the use of fl innelette. The question, the Coroner was glad to say, was now being taken up by the Home Secretary. Mr Akers-Douglas had written to him asking him in his annual return to give details of the deaths of children from fire, classifying them as (i) deaths from the use of flannelette; (a) want of protection by fire-guards ; (3) and other causes. Dr Waldo thought there ought to be a law making parents liable to punishment in cases of their children being burnt to death where neglect to provide protection was proved. Fathers smoked and drank, and if they did that, it was no plea to say they were too poor to buy a guard.

WHITE MEN AND BLACK MEN

One of the strongest arguments which have been brought forward by the P. and O. Company in favour of the employment of lascors in the stokehole is that they are more reliable than British firemen. A witness examined by the Navigation Commission at Sydney, who for many years was a master in the Aberdeen line, stated that the main trouble he experienced with British firemen was that when they went ashore they were supplied with such vile stuff in the shape of liquor that they speedily became helpless. Fie remembered a case where a man. on landing at Williamstown, was overcome by two glasses of grog, a most unheard of thing for a thirsty fireman. What he was served with was doubtless a horrible mixture, containing snuff, among other ingredients. As for the black stokers being immaculate in regard to docility and sobriety, the secretary of the Coal Lumpers’ Union said this was quite a mistake. They were often just as troublesome as the white firemen, and in his opinion the only reason they were employed was because they were cheaper. A disclosure made by the local manager of Houlder Bros, was that there were white men in Sydney despicable enough to levy blackmail by enticing away from vessels and keeping in hiding black men who came within the purview of the Alien Immigration Act. On two occasions he, explained, he had to pay £5 for the production of black stowaways in | order to get clearances for vessels. Of j course, the money found its way to the blackmailers in a roundabout way, , that could not be traced.

“FOR BORES!” A CURE. A leading New York weekly has hit upon a happy plan for disposing of people who want to talk the editor to death. Upon entering the office the visitor sees in (he glass partition before him four windows, with a silver plate over each. One is inscribed “ Bookkeeper,’’ another “Advertisements," another “ Subscriptions," and last, but not least* Urn fourth is inscribed “ For Bores." Any stronger showing 0 disposition to neglect this strong way of pm ring the matter is referred to the fourth window, where' <i speaking tube, running down to the cellar, aiid theitce up to the roof and down again to an opening, close to hi* ear, is at his disposal. Tube or no* tube? That is the question which he next asks himself. He generally pvft las lips to the orifice, yells out “Is the editor in ? ’’ and Starts back affrighted as the words repeat themselves in his ear. He yells it again, and again the echo is repeated. Then he looks sheepish, smiles a sickly smile, remarks “That’s a pretty good thing," slides out of the cleat and downstairs before anyone knows what’s the matter with him, and never comes back. SOUTH AFRICAN SLUMP. Quite oVerslutdowing in the public niifld every other concern (and the different cominrinitie's in the Transvaal have been greatly agitaled since the opening of the New Year on 1 lie Scope of the constitution that is about to be grafted the colony) is the bieakdown of the Kaffir market, writes a correspondent from Johannesburg at the end of January. The gold output for December was a record one. Money was commencing to flow in for aiiv promising new mining venture, and slocks which bad jumped to something like pre-war prices, were in many cases steadily advancing, and now thev have tumbled back to the lowest ebb' again,’ The Rand is almost in despair. Seri niS European disturbances are the cause of the latest knock out blow ws have received. The set bach may be, and most probably is, Only temporary, still there is trouble and" misfortune in its trail. Job’s comforters tefl the man in the street, “ Now is the lime to buy.” The advice may be sound, but it is only the one man in a hundred who has the wherewithal to buy- 10cores df people had been hanging off fr oni investment itritil aUdli time as the mining market had takeli 3 decided tarn. The time had come they foiiaiy imagined last month, and the caretul investor took his chance. Many of these who were not strong enough to hold on have been mined. Premier Diamond is the only stock that has not been affected. AN HONORABLE DISTINCTION Tlie Western Me.Ucal Review, a m’dicil pub icatiou of the highest standing, says in a recent issue “Thousands of physicians in this and other countries hive ates'ed tha> SANDER AND SOdS EUCULYPTI EXTRAC T is not on'y ab;o ate y reliable, but it has a pronounced and bids intake superiority over a'l other preparations of enca'yptus.” Yoim heal h is too precious to he ampsred with, therefore reject ai products foisted upon you by unscrnpu'ous moreen tUs and insist upon gAting SANDER iND SON’S’ PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, the only pre natation recommended by your physician and the medical press. Used as month wash regular y in the morning (3 to 5 drops to a glass of water) it prevents deciyof r eth, and is a sure protection against all inf c:ious fevers, such atyphoil, ma’avia, etc. Catarrih of nnsi and throat is quickly cured by garg'iug \vi h sune. la-tantaneous ro'i- f pridue. d in co ds, influenza, diptluria, bronchitis. 1 (I.llllllll'ion of the lungs and consump tion, by putting eight drops of SANDER AN!) SONS’ PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTR HIT into a cupfu of boiling water and inhaling the arising steam, Diarrhea 1, dysentry, rheumatis n, diseases of tlie -ula -ys and urinary organs, quick'y enrol r.y taking 5 to Id drips internally 3 h -j times daily. Wounds, u’cera, sprains a d shin diseases it lisa's without inflam raation when painted on.