Untitled

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3509, 13 April 1905, Page 2

A meeting ot the Foxton Athletic Club is called for Monday next, when important business will be dealt with. O’Connor and Tydeman, the Palmerston North jewellers, have a replace advertisement in to-day’s issue relative to their Easter gifts, A proclamation has been gazetted at Hobart absolutely prohibiting the importation of potatoes from New Zealand and Norfolk Islands.

The official declaration of the poll for the Wellington bye-election after a recount, was as follows: —Fisher, 4692 ; Izard, 3443; Hutcheson, 3023.

The commissoning of the new warship Antrim will be followed by a somewhat unique function. At the suggestion of Colonel McCalmont, M.P., the inhabitants of County Antrim have had manufactured in Belfast three large solid silver loving-cups, weighing about 400 ounces, of Irish design. These will be presented to the ship, two for competition annually among the officers and men, and the third to adorn the captain’s cabin. The formal opening of the newly formed School of Physical Culture took place on Tuesday evening at the Public Hail, the Mayor (Mr G. A. Simpson) in a few appropriate remarks congratulating the promoters on the excellence of the project and of the start secured for it, Some very fine exhibitions of various exercises were given by the instructor, Mr Walden, and the apparatus was then thrown open to the public for the evening. At the Magistrate’s Court at Christchurch on Saturday a child ten days’ old was brought up on a charge of having no means of subsistence. The mother, a single woman, has been an imbecile from birth. The Magistrate, in committing the child temporarily to the Samaritan Home and the mother to air asylum, expressed himself in terms of the strongest horror and disgust that such things should be possible in a civilised community. He ordered the police to make searching investigation, with a view to ascertaining the name of the child’s father* At a large meeting of Crown tenants at Pongaroa, near Pahiatua, sixty-eight voted for the right to acquire the freehold and two against such a proposal. It was also resolved —That the Government had not fulfilled its contract as to forming and completing all roads adjacent to Pongaroa; that Crown tenants should have the right of electing representatives as members of the Wellington Land Board ; that the past working of the Wellington Land Board was unsatisfactory to Crown tenants. Delegates of the Crown tenants residing in Pongaroa and the adjacent district were _ appointed to attend the Land Commission when it sits at Pongaroa.

WyOherly and Sons, saddlers, have an original notice in to-day’s issue.

Mr 0. Cook notifies that he is now prepared to undertake horse-clipping. The s.s. Queen of the South will run an excursion trip to Kapiti on Good Friday, if sufficient inducement offers. Captain Edwin telegraphed at noon to-day;—"Strong winds to gale from between west and north-west and south ; glass rise; tidss high; sea considerable ; rain probable, and weather colder.”

Tenders for (be erection of a shelter shed at the local school close to-mor-row evening, not on Friday week,_ as previously advertised. The committe will meet on Saturday evening at the Borough Council chambers.

A conference of delegates of the Post and Telegraph Department from all parts of New Zealand is to be held in Wellington about a month hence. One of the principal matters for discussion will be the establishment of a superannuation scheme in connection with the department.

" Honesty brings its own reward.” So thinks a man who, a day or two ago, picked tip a purse in Foxton containing over £6O in hard cash and returned it immediately to its d#ndr. A curt “ Thank you ’’ made him feel that next time he finds a wandering purse and £6O no Diogenes will discover him even if he invoke the aid of a Niagara Falls electric light supply. Readers are again reminded of the unreserved clearing sale, by public auction, of new and fashionable drapery, serges, vicunas, suitings, sheetings, rugs carpets, cutlery, clocks., watches, etc., to he held in Manchester House to-morrow and Saturday at 1 p.m. Mr Leydon assures all that every article offered will be sold without the slightest reserve;

It should scarcely need a further reminder to people to attend the public meeting at the Public Hall, to-morrow evening, at 7.30; to discuss the proposed beach railway scherrie. The importance of the matter should insure a full house; and any who Have hdt signed the petition to the Government urging the construction of the line will have an opportunity of doing so. During the past few days a good number of signatures have been obtained) Mr G. Hye bsih£ very sildcessftil iti a tiodse-to-hoUse canvass,

A waterfront fire at New Orleans on February 36th swept the Illinois Central docks for a distance ol a mile, causing a loss of property of more than 5,000,000d015. The blow to the New Orleans export trade was serious, tdough the ocean-going shipping escaped serious injury; The losses included nearly a dozten squares of modern wharves and freight sheds, two magnificent grain elevators, hundreds of loaded cars, and a quantity of freight, including 20,000 ' bales of cotton. The fire is supposed to have been caused from a hot box journal insufficient ly oiled. A number of firemen were injured, but no lives were lost. Ever since King James I. of England and VI of Scotland gave the Judges of the Court of Session the title of “ Lord,” with the remark : “ I’ll mak’ the carles lords, but I'll no mak’ the carlines leddies,” the wives of Scottish Law Lords have been plain “ Mrs,” When a new judge retained his previous name, this did not matter so very much. It was then a case of—let us say —Lord Macgregor of Craigellachie and Mrs Macgregor. But when anew judge took the title of his estate, things were different. It was then Lord Craigellachie and Mrs Macgregor, a combination of names that might easily lead to circumstances more awkward than pleasant. Now, however, ‘‘By his Majesty’s command,” the wife of a judge of the Court of Session will be “ Lady,” and thus another injustice to Scotland is removed.

On Tuesday afternoon a pleasing little junction was carried out at the local school when the presentation took place of the medals won by the local boys at the Schools champion sports gathering held at Palmerston on March ist. The children from Standards I to VI were assembled in the head-master’s room, where the presentation took place. The successful young athletes were William Currie (second in rooyds Manawatu championship under 15, and second in 100yds Hurdles), for which he received two silver medals ; Duncan Laing, who was first under 11, and Lionel Bnrston, second under 9, received medals of the same design. Cheers were given for the successful competitors, after which Mr Stewart congratulated them and exhorted the boys to try harder next year and uphold the honour of the school as had been done in previous years.

AN HONORABLE DISTINCTION The Western Medical Review, a medical pub icatiou of the highest standing, says in a recent issue“ Thousands of physicians in this and other countries have a'tested that, SANDER AND SONS EUCALYPTI EXTRAO C is not only abso'uteiy reliable, but it has a pronounced and ind'sputab'e superiority over all other preparations of eucalyptus.” Your health is too precious to be tampered with, therefore reject all products foisted upon you by unscrupulous mercenaries and insist upon getting SANDER 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 teeth, 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. Instantaneous relief produced iu colds, influenza, diptheria, bronchitis, inflammation of the lungs aud consumption, by putting eight drops of SANDER AND SONS’ PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT into a cupful of boiling water and inhaling the arising steam. Diarrhcea, dysentry, rheumatism, diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs, quickly cured oy taking 5 to 15 drops internally 3 to -5 times daily. Wounds, ulcers, sprains and skin diseases it heals without flammation when painted on.