Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1906.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3638, 12 April 1906, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1906.

Owing to the boisterous state of the weather, the school sports have b en p>' pone 1 until next Thursday. For col :s in the head and influenza, "Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6 and 2/6 per bottle. Ii the lad who left two hiove’e pumps on Mr J. Thompson’s doorstep will ca l at our office he will icceive same. Notice is given in our advertising columns that tresspassers with dog or gnu on the Wirokiuo Run will be prosecuted.

Tnc Awahou Ball Committee have arrangements well in hand for Iheir Ball A meeting of club members is called at Gray’s Hotel for Saturday night. We are informed, on good authority, that the Makerua Syndicate have disposed of the remainder of their estate to Messrs Nathan Bros., of Wellington. The vi-iting ca p uters who have been engaged o M- Rimmer’s contracts hel l an - ening at the Manawatn Hotel last evening, sang and music being largely contributed to by those present.

Or Shadbolt at last night’s supper “I can t go down the street one dav without someone calling out ‘ Victoria Park ’to me. lam branded it! However, if you return me to Council once more I will strive to get you a new pitch, and perhaps two of them."

Mr Prink May’s Comedy Company appeared to a poor house at the Pub lie Hall last evening. Their talen'ed and well rendered pngramme was certainly deserving of much more support. Comedy sketches and songs were well rendered throughout. Sufficient inducement did not offer for the holding of a dance. Cr Slides and Shadbolt, in replying to the toast of the “ Borough Council ” at the cricketers affair last evening, explained ranch in connection with reserves, and the money that at present was tied up. When the Act was amended, allowing money to be transferred from one reserve to another, they would both be in favour of voting money towards improving Victoria Park from a cricketers point of view. A scratch football ma f ch will he

played at the racecoiir-e on Sumday afternoon between P>r -tawh io and Awahou, The latter will be represented by: Capstick, A. McKegney, j Lambert, F. Rogue, J. Joe, G. R ’bin- ! son, A. Rroid, H. Brown, Shea Shea, J. and W. Colev, S. Carter, W. C u ter, Jefferies, and F. Robinson. Emergencies, Williams and Reid.

WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS prevents morbidness of tho kidneys. T-i norrow E Good 'Friday, and, in eon - quonee, hot-cross buns and ling tlsh will be plentiful.

We are pleased to learn that Mr Chas. Pollard is progressing very favourably of late in the Palmerston North Hospital. According to a Melbourne paper Miss Maud Beatty, who was grained a divorce in Well ngton a few months back, is to marry tho captain of the Manila police. Advice has been received by the local School Committee from the architect, Mr James, that the new school is ready for occupation, and the children will take up their new quarters therein after the Easter vacation.

“ If some of you ladies cannot make less noise going in and out of the Court,” said Dr McAthur, S.M., tho other day severely, “ you had better take your boots off."

The Manawatu TJuualp wi'l be published ns usual on Saturday, but in order to allow the staff the Easter tide, there will be no paper on Tuesday next. Business people of Foxt vi will observe Good Frill ay and E ister Monday as close holidays, fl mi •of ,1k- /I ixmills close down from to-d iy r, itil after Faster.

On April 3rd, before Ii is Worship the Mayor (B. G. Gowm*, Esq.), and Alf. Phaser. Esq., J.’s M. Cunningham and J. Winter were li :oJ 40s and ys costs for obscene l;ui 0 a :gc. Both these, together wi-li T, Mitchell, bad pr liibition orders gr nled against them.

Those desirous of Lvj.mng in a property cannot do bettor than read the new list in our advertising columns inserted by that old established land and estate Mr Alf. Fraser, who has been long and favourably known throughout the district as one of the best authorities on local properties and values.

Dr Greenwood staled at Christchurch that if two deaths per week were occurring through smallpox, there would ho a public ornery ; yet two people per week were dying in Canterbury through consumption, and no notice was taken at all. Tho apathy of tho penp e was generally due to tue fact that l.h -y knew little or nothing of consumption, nor Miat it was a curable disease if taken in time.

A young man at present living in Nelson, but formerly of Colli igwood, cl ■ w £2OOO in one of TaUersall's sweeps. Chis makes the third biy priz ! (savs the Colonist) which has been won by Collingwood people within the la-t three or fo ir vears. About four years ago a man named Byrnes dr-wv £OOOO. the i .mi aow and villas got £2OOO, and now Clare has drawn £2OOO, making a total of Clo,ooo. A New Zealand farmer named Thomas Pooke, who was a passenger to London by R.M.S. Oroides, which sailed from Melbourne last week, reported to the police that while arum! the town “ having a gay time” on the previous night he was robbed of ilßl in sovereigns, a draft on tno National Bank, London, for £3OOO, and a draft on ihe Commercial Bank, London, for £65. He sailed next day for London.

The modern Taranaki Maori is proverbially ’calc, and there is a si, wy current of mre who “ let in ” fhe local hr ‘wars and .spirit merchants for a considerable sum. He had bought, consi lerabl quantities of beer and spirits, but refused to pay tha bills. Wh n the tradesmen sought to recover, they found they could not succeed, because the ’cute voting Maori had previously taken out it prohibition order igainst himself, and it, is ill.'gal fo ary pa -s ito supply liquor to a prohibited perron ! Wo understand negotiations are pending wacreby Mr A. Lain? will pro b.ibly dispose of. his interest in the Family Flute! to J. T. N itt, of Palmers ton North. Mr and Mrs Laing and family will be sorely missed from Paxton where they have b come deservedly popular with all. especially wth the football community. We wish them every success “ wherever they may go,” and may the rays of fortune shine on them bountifully. Mr Ormonde Edwards last night favoured the cricketers vvitli “ The Water Mill,” a monologue recital which seemed to stir the very souls of all present. It certainly ranks somewhere near Bracken's “Not Understood,” and would be at home anywhere. In instancing th i battle of life, and appealing to listeners to leave not for to-m wr w what can be done to-day, the soul thrilling poem ends with such beautiful sentiment as—“ The mill can nev r grind with the wa'er that has passed ” It was recited splendidly, and thuspresent showed thmr appreciation in no unraistakeable manner.

Speaking of the last Council being returned on the pr igresaive ticket, Cr Shadb dt, at the cricket supp-r last evening, said “wa Council were only progressive when we could not, really help it.” " Had-we not decided that, a now culvert was to be placed in Main street? Yes, bm it was only because the other one had fallen in. And so it was that ratepayers had t passed a loan mat day for new Council offices.” He did not think we would have got that if the old building had -not been giving signs of falling in. And those present took in the situation and roared with laughter.

Something lather of a coincidence happened at the cricket snpner last eveimg. There was nothing stronger than lemonade at most part of the :a except at that portion occupied bv a few present who like a little variety. One of these, in speaking to a toast, said he was glad to be present at such a joily spree. We don’t know whether he lorgot himself after this, or whether he wished to let everybody “ into the know,” but he blurted out, “ Everything is a'l right, and the be-r'is go 1." N 1 0) o'hid eg t r d o this st i ein.rat tha. ihe accidentally kick dab be undorn uth the tibie, and the raitle of “dead marines” that followed put trie whole show away and brought torth roars of laughter. Tho-e who did not know previously, then clear'y understood why the lemonade in the infected parts bore such a brown tint or colour.

At a special meeting ot the Foxton Racing Club last night, Mr G. Gray was appointed treasurer. For bronchial coughs and colds,, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6 and 2/6 per bottle. Mr- Dovvie declares that for years Dowie insisted on hearing confessions, and t-ilked to attractive women about plavgomg. He tried to set her aside. The Zion overseers possess a record ot many scandals. The chestnut F, according to medi cal men, most digestible, and can not only take the place of the potato, as in France, where chestnuts, b died and mashed like potatoes, make a delicious dish, hut m reality forms a more perfect form of food.

Arnst, the young New Zealander who won the great cycle race of £xooo at Sydney recently, is 22 years ot age, stands 6it in height, and weighs i4st. *Hc is a staunch tee-totaller and non-smoker. The race is described as the most exciting cycle race which ever took place in Sydney, and the New Zealander’s win was immensely popular. AN HONOURABLE DISTINCTION ! The Western Mdkal a medical publication of th R highest standing, says in a recent issue“ Thousands of physicians in this and other countries have attested that SANDER AND SONS EUCALYPTI EXTRACT is not only absolutely reliable but it has a pronounced and indisputable 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 filing SANDER AND SONS’ PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, the only preparation recoin mended by yonr 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 a infectious fevers, sueh as typhoid, malaria, etc. Cataji'ah of nose and throat is quickly cured - by gargling with same. Instantaneous relief produced in colds, influenza, diptheria, bronchitis, inflammation of the lungs and consumption, by putting eight drops of SANDER AND SONS’ PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT into a cupfm of boiling water and inhaling the a rising steam, Diarrhoea, dysentry, rheumatism, diseases of the .adneya and urinary organs, quickly cured oy taking 6 to 15 drops internally 3 toS times daily. Wounds, ulcers, spraina and skin diseases it heals without flam mation when oainted on.