LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 150, 23 May 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs Stevens and Gorton's next stock sale at Feilding will be held on the 27th instant. The entries at present received are published m our advertising columns. They include beef, two yearold heifers m calf to a Hereford bull, mixed cows, well-bred cows, steers, forward store wethers, fat ewes, ewes m lamb to a Romney ram, and store ewes. It has been ascertained that this season's butter crop, m Taranaki, has netted over £20,000. Over £2,000 worth was shipped on one day from the district — £2,000 worth from the breakwater, and £800 worth from Waitara. The steamer Aorangi takes 5,000 and the Victory 4,000 carcases of frozen mutton from Wellington. One of those melancholy instances of the brutalizing effects of drink occurred m Feilding on Saturday night last, (says the Star). A man had been summoned, by urgent telegram, from his work, some eighty or ninety mile 9 from Feilding, to come to the bedside of his wife, who is not expected to live for many more days. He promptly started for home m response to the message, but unhappily he " drowned his sorrows" m drink, and shortly after his arrival by train was lying across the road helplessly drunk. Some good Samaritans dragged him aside, out of the way of any passing horses or vehicles, and left him to sleep off the effects of the drink. The poor wife was forgotten. The Dunedin Herald of Thursday last contains the following : — Yesterday afternoon Mr Milner Stephen held his sixth gratuitous healing of the poor m the Old Knox Church, which has been benevolently lent for the purpose bj r the Rev. Dr Stuart. About 300 spectators and patients were present, several ladies sitting on the platform with Mrs Stephen. Although no startling cases presented themselves, the great majority of the patients, who numbered about fifty-five, were apparently treated successfully, and many envoked blessings for the healer as they walked away with joy depicted on their countenances. A Boon to Mankind. — Baxter's Lung Preserver, by virtue of its balsamic and soothing properties, cannot be excelled as a soother of Pulmonic irritation. Many whose recovery had been despaired of by medical advisers and friends, have been spai'ed to proclaim the astounding virtues of the Lung Preserver. It has been employed m the mansion as well as m the cottage, and has convinced the aristocrat as well as the peasant that it is, indeed, a boon to mankind. It is pleasant to the palate and may safely be taken m all cases. Persons suffering from Bronchial affections, who take the Lung Preserver will find the speedy effect to be diminution of pain aud expectoration — first, because the mucous membranes are stimulated to throw the phlegm up, and second because the medicine is adapted to thin the discharge before it leaves the bronchial tubes and lungs. This specific is highly extolled by members of the medical and clerical professions and others. — To be had of all chemists and storekeepers.