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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3766, 18 May 1907, Page 2

An advertiser has a vacancy for one or two quiet boarders. We learn from Mr O. Gardner, in connection with the proposed cut to deal with the overflow of the Manawatu and Oroua Rivers, that Mr Hays, Government Engineer has been in the district for some months past collecting data as to flood levels, etc., and that nothing further will be done in the matter till Mr Hays reports in due course to Government. What gives promise of proving a valuable industry has been brought under our notice, says the Thames ‘‘ v Star,'’by Captain Nor- , grove. It is the treatment of the flax of the cabbage tree. Put through a process somewhat similar to that of the ordinay flax it can hardly be distinguished from the dressed fibre. It is if anything finer, is equally as strong, and appears likely to prove a valuable marketable commodity. We clip the following from the Church Chronicle, in reference to All Saints’ Church :—“We have received a cheque for £SO from the sons of the late Mr Coley, of Foxton, to erect a new bell in the church. The bell is to be inscribed with the name of their father, who for many years faithfully worked in All Saints’ Church. We are much indebted to Messrs George and Edward Coley for their generous gift, and we hope many will fellow their example, and enable us to beautify the house of God.” Special features are numerous at the big Dairy Show to be held at Palmerston North, June 18th, 19th., 20th., and 21st, Mechanical milking will be represented by a special installation of a milking machine operating on cows under natural conditions. The Department of Agriculture will have a bay occupying about 600 square feet of table room for exhibits of an educational nature. A working apiary will also be a feature. The Champion Utility Poultry Breed Show is attracting entries from all over the Island. Mr J. B. Tonar, of Auckland, will be the judge. All intending exhibitors should write the Secretary, Box 85, Palmerston North. Sunday being “Whitsunday” there will be special services in All Saints’ Church, when the holy communion will be celebrated at 8 a.m., and also at n a.ra. The vicar, in giving the weekly notices out last Sunday, reminded his people that Whitsunday is one of the special days ordered by the prayer-book for all communicants to attend the service of the altar. A special ix o’clock service is arranged so as to give all communicants an opportunity of attending. There will be evening service and special address at seven o’clock. We have heard nothing further from the Postal Department in reference to the demolition of the local post office wreckage and the erection of a superb and stately edifice in its stead. We presume the Department is keeping the matter “steadily in view,” and the general public and officials will have to put up with continued inconvenience. The postmaster is apparently “ full up ” of the living quarters which our member (Mr John Stevens) some time ago condemned as uufit tor human habitation, as we are informed he has made arrangements to build a house for himself.

Messrs Collinson and Cunningham, or known in Palmerston as C. and C., have a timely announcement regarding blankets and flannels purchased by them from the mills some nine months ago (before the big rise in wool); they are now delivered, and C. and C. are in a position to sell same at last season’s prices, which they intend to do. They have a special line in unshrinkable flannels which they guarantee at is 4d, is Bd, is i id per yard, in several colours including pink, Shetland, white and Orkney. The firm are quoting blankets at a very low figure in our advertising columns, and it will well repay anyone visiting Palmerston North to call on Col linson and Cunningham, Broad St., The Square. Early last week Messrs Jas. Cowan and J, M’Donald, of the Tourist Department, left for the north to investigate the increased thermal activities that were reported from the region of Ngaruhoe and Ruapehu. Mr Donne has received a message from Mr Cowan, sent from the mountain hut near Ngaruhoe. The message was as follows ;—“ We have been here since Wednesday. Weather wet and stormy. Waiting for clear day. Have heard occasional booming reports from Ngaruhoe crater, which is about five miles north-west from our hut, but the mountain is enveloped in fog. We will first ascend Ngaruhoe, and then try Ruapehu. Mr Cowan is to report upon the condition of affairs at the'mountains, and Mr M ’ Donald will take photographs for his department. The Engineer-in-Chief for the Colony (Mr R. W. Holmes) expressed himself satisfied with the progress which is being made with the North Island Main Trunk railway line. He states that at the present rate the works should be completed well before the end of next year. Asked by a Post reporter to say whether it was Intended to push on the work by employing more men, Mr Holmes said that every section was now fully manned. At the end of every month a number of men leave the works to seek other employment, and it is in order to provide for what the department calls the wastage that the Eabour Department is now on the look-out for a certain number of experienced navvies.

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds never fails. 1/6 and 2/6.

Display of children’s clothing at the “ Economic ” to-night. Perry’s Biorama Company show at Foxton Public Hall next Tuesday. A six roomed house, owned and occupied by Mr W. S. Phillips, Awahuri, was totally destroyed by fire last evening. Nothing was saved. Bushfellers are wanted to fell about 600 acres of bush on the Wanganui river. Specifications can be seen at this office. In the Methodist Church tomorrow, the services will be conducted in the morning by Mr Huntley, and in the evening Rev. J. Southern. The evening sermon will be for young men (“A young man’s companions ”) ; the choir will render an anthem. A notice was given in All Saints’ Church last Sunday that there would be a lantern lecture on the Melanesian mission and also a presentation to the Rev. H. F. Wilson. This was to have taken place next Thursday, but has now been postponed until Wednesday, May 29th. Sitting in Chambers at Wellington yesterday, His Honor Mr Justice Button fixed dates for the hearing of the following cases on the civil list; Wednesday, 29th May.—Thomas Lind and Joseph Michael O’Connor v. Makerua Estate Co., Ltd.; claim breach of contract. Thursday, 30th May. William Corlass Breakall v. Makerua Estate Co., Ltd. ; claim £IOOO commission. In the little hamlet of Spitzendorf, among the hills of Laetern, Bavaria, Josephine Eder in March celebrated her 119th birthday. The old lady, who has been a widow for fiftyseven years, lives with a grandchild of thirty-eight. Of her three children, only a daughter of eighty-six survives. Frau Eder can still use her eyes, and has an excellent appetite, but it is said her mental powers are showing signs of decay. • The Prince of Monaco, in his account of his visit to the Arctic regions last year, tells us that the air was so pure there that a small detached party of the expedition could be seen by the main body over the snow at a distance of over 64 miles. Some pilot balloons, measuring not more than 3ft, could also be followed with the eye to a distance of 128 miles. By means of these balloons the atmosphere was explored up to the hitherto unattained height in Arctic regions of 90,000 ft. Some symtoms of acute rheumatism are, a feeling of coldness; want of appetite ; thirst; and sharp pains in the joints. lliieumo removes the cause of the trouble, excess uric acid in the blood. 2s 6d and 4s 6d. 2