Terrible Fate.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3740, 12 January 1907, Page 2

Terrible Fate.

It’s a terrible fate io suffer from serious lung''?’ - d>’e. Ward it of with Dr Shnklou - -- Now .Discovery. Price Is ca and Mo ' wtainaMe at E. Healey's chemist, a£C-nt.

The usual monthly meeting of the local Masonic lodge was held last evening. A steady young fellow desires work of any kind. Apply this office.

We acknowledge receipt of handy wall calendar trom Mr RaeHoward, local agent for the Yorkshire Fire Insurance Co.

Mr Furrie, late of the staff of the local State School, and now on the staff ot the Eltham District High School, is spending his holidays in Foxton. Mr Furrie says that Eltham is rapidly progressing.

The danger of carrying a child on a bicycle was unfortunately forcibly illustrated in Hastings on Saturday. The front fork of the bicycle gave way and both rider and child fell, and narrowly escaped being run over by a passing trap. The Rev. G. Young Woodward, who will succeed the Rev. Mr Wilson to the cure of Foxton, will commence his ministration about the first week in I_ent. He has circularised his parishioners to that effect from Brynian, North Wales, under date December ist.

A fine of with the alternative of six months’ hard labour has been inflicted at Bulawayo on an Englishman named Herbert Reynolds for selling liquor to a native. This is the heaviest penalty yet imposed in Rhodesia for this class of offence.

Mr Andrew Carnegie has granted a life pension to Mr Booker T. Washington, the eminent coloured educationalist. Mr Carnegie takes a deep interest in Mr Washington’s work, and sends an annual contribution to the Tuskegee Institute, of which Mr Washington is the president.

A prominent New Zealand' breeder of Jerseys recently visited Australia with the object of buying some stock to improve his herd, but he has returned convinced that New Zealand breeders need not go beyond their own colony for the best colonial type of Jerseys. “As a rule school committees take no interest in their work, and don’t turn up at committee meetings unless there is a row on,” said Mr Holmes (Hawke's Bay) at the Educational Institute, on Saturday. “If they want to change the teacher, or to make the life ot the present teacher unpleasant, or appoint a school sweeper, then they become alive.” (Daughter). Messrs Devin and Co., Wellington, have been granted a license to occupy a part of the foreshore of the .Manawatu river, County of Manawatu, for the construction of three wharves or jetties, which are to be constructed within twelve months. This right is to continue for a period of fourteen years. A sight of the Union Jack floating in the breeze at a residence in Norbiton-road yesterday attracted the attention of persons in that locality and many conjectures were made as to the cause, It was ascertained that a christening was to take place and a couple o wags fossicked and secured the flag, determined not to allow the auspicious event to pass without in some way marking the occasion. Much regret is espressed, not only by the members of All Saints Church but by townspeople generally, at the approaching departure of the Rev. Mr Wilson who for the past few years has been in charge of the Anglican Church in this district. Mr Wilson will take up his residence at Rongotea. The parish that he has worked so faithfully will be divided into two, he taking the northern half and the Rev Mr Woodward the southern.

The ceremony of blessing the herring nets, which has taken place in Yarmouth parish church for generations, has been duly observed this year. Nets were hung in festoons on the walls and chancel rails, and others were piled at the foot of the altar. At the end of the ordinary service the nets were blsssedj prayers for the prosperity of the fishing and the safety of the men were offered up, and the mariners’ ancient hymn, “ Come Comrades, Hoist the Sail,” was sung. A Taratahi farmer while walking in his paddock the other day saw a fire start apparently without human aid and, fanned by a light breeze, dart in serpentine flames through the long grass. He immediately obtained help and extinguished the fire. Investigation at the place of origin revealed a common beer bottle. Apparently this hadfocussed the sun’s rays on to the grass with disastrous results. An Australian present mentioned that in his country fires were frequently caused by discarded bottles, notably gin bottles, the flat surface of which offered special facilities for the focussing of the sun’s rays.

America (says a cable message to the London Express from New York) is suffering from too much prosperity. There are not enough men to cope with the enormous volume of business, and a labour famine exists in varying degrees from New York to San Francisco. So great is the industrial boom that newly arrived immigrants practically command their own prices in the western States where the crops are unharvested, and railway extensions delayed for lack of skilled labourers and farm hands. The famine has affected New York severely. Employment agencies are inundated with appeals for cooks, porters, carmen, pageboys, and waiters for hotels, and high-class mechanics. Many of the big department stores are paying boys men’s wages. At the same time. New York has its unemployed question. There are thousands of ■ unemployables ” in the directs.

A cow must give two and a half gallons ot 4 per cent milk per day for nine months a year to be worth keeping. This means a total of 225 pounds ot butter fat. The Pope, owing to the French separation laws, has relinquished Peter’s pence collected in France, amounting to sterling per annum.

A number of men who left the Hokitika district tor Taihape a short time ago have returned home, being greatly dissatisfied with the conditions existing in the North. Gold to the value of ,£240 was found in a bag on a seat by a boy near Newton Heath Railway Station, near " Manchester. He took it to the lost property office, and it was discovered on enquiry that it belonged to a lady who had travelled from that place to Manchester. She had missed the money, but had no idea where she had left it. On recovering the she gave the boy threepence.

The other day for the tenth time in his life, Joseph Maski, 103 years old, believed to be the oldest person in Chicago, was rescued from a fire which threatened to destroy the building in which he lived, at No. 8961 Superior Avenue, South Chicago. Maski was rescued from the Chicago fire in 1871, and has been in the theatre fires and other small blazes.

Mr William Pryor, secretary of the New Zealand Employers’ Federation, at the request ot the Mauawatu Master Flaxmillers’ Association, visited Palmerston North last Friday and addressed one of the largest meetings of flaxmillers ever held in the colony, says the Times. At the conclusion of the meeting Mr Pryor was accorded a hearty vote of thanks. It was decided at a subsequent meeting to apply to the Employers’ Federation for Mr Pryor’s services in connection with the dispute in the trade to be heard by the Conciliation Board next week. The organising committee of the Federation has acceded to this request, and Mr Pryor will consequently conduct the master flaxmillers’ case.

“ I wish you could give me Hte! ’ ’ was the parting shot of a prisoner to the Magistrate at Lyttelton Court recentl}”-, when he was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. ,‘ I wish I could do so, too,” retorted Mr Bishop, “for all the benefit society is likely to derive from a man of your stamp.” T. Owen, of Oswestry, who is a vegetarian of 69, stated at the vegetarian conference in Manchester that for some time he has made it a rule to fast twenty out of the twenty-four hours of each day. He allows himself two meals a day, and these consist invariably of a little bread or biscuit, fresh dried fruits, and a few nuts. To consume these he takes from forty to forty-five minutes, and to each mouthful he administers from fifty to a hundred bites, Mr Owen claims that on this diet he is able to cycle considerable distances.and undergo severe mental strain without the least fatigue. The labourers and officials have now all returned from their holidays, and work on the Main Trunk line was resumed yesterday. We trust that the close of the present year will see the line at last at Ohakune at this end, and that the gap between the present rail-heads will be considerably lessened. — Herald.

Johann Muehlhausen, a young German singer, committed suicide at Berlin because an American woman, to whom he was deeply attached, left him to return to New York. Muehlhausen made his debut at Hamburg, and met with great success. After the performance he was introduced to a lady posing as Miss Newth, of New York. He fell in love with her, and she appeared to return his affection. He received a letter from her in which she stated she was a Mrs Carson, wife of a New York broker and mother of two children, tp whom she was on the point of returning. She enclosed a cheque for Muehlhausen returned the cheque to the bank and then blew his brains out.

The soldiers ot the French 63rd Foot Regiment, at Saint Mihiel, have adopted a baby which was found asleep in a sentry-box. It had a wooden horse clasped in its arms, and pinned to its jacket was a note saying: “ Please look after my little Jacques, whom I am unable to. support.” Jacques was therefore taken into barracks, and the men promptly decided that he should remain. He will wear a little suit of regimentals, and the soldiers will take it in turn to look after him.

The Guardian says that two Ashburton residents who have just returned from a holiday visit to Christchurch c,an speak with great feeling of-the operations of the light-fin-gered gentry who are at present favouring the city with their presence. Both had their pockets picked; one while attending a sports meeting being relieved of his purse containing the bulk of his money, his train ticket, and other documents, While the other was deprived of a wad of bank notes totalling £4O. This left the second man completely penniless, and he had to make his way back to Ashburton on foot. Additions are made to the Himatangi stock sale list for Monday. To cure rheumatism, gout, sciatica or lumbago you must treat the blood. The remedy is Bheuilo, which hag cured thousands of sufferers. From all stores and chemists at 2s 6d and 4 S od. Give it a fair trial. 11