Arrectis auribus adsto. Spero meliora. TOKOMAIRIRO, JUNE 4, 1593.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 2655, 4 June 1895, Page 2

Arrectis auribus adsto. Spero meliora. TOKOMAIRIRO, JUNE 4, 1593.

County Council, — The Bruce County Council meet to day. Received. — We bave to acknowledge reoeipt of the Railway Time Table for June, a handy penny worth that should be in the possession ol all travellers. Pacing. — At the Mandeville races on Thursday Mr T. Rett's Stockfish won the double, Mandeville Handicap and Flying, paying dividends of £1 14a and £1 10a respectively. Expensive.— ln fitting up the children's nur6ery in the mansion of a New York millionaire, 1200 guineas are said to be frequently expeuded. This is the first outlay, and the annual expenses must be great, seeing that tbe toy account amounts to £500 a year. A Tribcte,— 'ln general, I cannot sufficiently praise the extraordinary politeness and obliging disposition of the English, whioh are far beyond all my expectations ; even the poorest people, when you come to speak with them, are very civil, modeßt and sensible." So said Prince Bismarck after a visit to England. Political. -Mr James Allen, M.H.R. for Brnce, addressed the Tokomairiro portion of his constituents in St, George's Hall, Milton, last night. There was a large attendance of electors, including a number of ladie?. Mr Allen dealt very fully with all the principal political questions of the day, the address beiDg att ntively listened to throughout. At the close he was accorded a vote of thanks and confidence. A report of the meeting will appear on Friday. Ambulance — Tne Beries of ambulance classes in Milton was inaugurated on Fri day evening, when Dr Sutherland gave bis first lecture to ladies in the Counoil Cham bers. There was a large attendance of ladies, no fewer than twenty one giviDg in their name? as membere. The lecturo was of a preliminary nature, aud waa confined to i a oareful description of the various parte of i the body, together with their functions, i The lecturer dealt very fully with the res- i piratory and digestive organs and tbe ne. - - I vous ty ite s>, the leoture iu fact being purely i on physiology. The information impartei I by Dr Sutherland was attentively listen 'd I to by all those present, and j idging frem the . interest oow taken in the eubjsot the classes i bid fair tQ befloroe exceedingly popular |n i MiltPSt (

Closed— Yesterday being Whit Monday waa obscrvt d as a bank holiday in Milton. Evangelism. — The evangelistic services in the Tokomairiro Presbyterian Church were oontinued dnring the whole of last week. . The attendances were large throughout, and great interest /seemed to be roused. Devotion.— Questioned by a reporter as to what he intended to do Lord Alfred Douglas is reported to havo eaid tbat if Oscar Wilde was locked up he wonld take a house near the prison and live there till he came ont. A Heavy Fall.— The Bnowstorm In Central Otago was the heaviest known for. years. It is feared the residents of Nevis are snowed up for the year, and that they are without adequate supplies. One death from exposure is reported. The Derby.— The English Darby was run at Epsom oa Wednesday and resulted in a win for Lord Rosebery's Sir Visto. This makes the Becond year in succession that the Premier hae been successful, Ladas having won the race for him last year. The Deans — Ch&rles and Minnie Dean were charged at Invercargill on Thursday with having murdered Eva Hornsby and Dorothy Edith Carter. A remand was granted till next Thursday, by which time it is expected that the inquests will be concluded. Thb Band.— The Milton Brass Bind paraded the streets on Saturday night and discoursed aome exoellent mueio under the baton of their conductor, Mr R M. Brookes. The band are showing considerable improvement of late, due, no doubt, to careful practice. DEGRADING — A Napier paper reports tbat a man recently sold his wife to another man for threo drinks. A parchment was drawn up, the drinks were consumed, and the agreement duly signed. This reads very muoh like a return of the old days of slavery. Seriocs. — It is freely alleged (says the Wellington ' Post ') that in more thau one town of the colony tha Inspectors of Police are, owing to being unable to plaoe reliatca on some of their men, unable to secure de tection and punishment of breaches of the lioensing law kuown to exist, and that while reputable hotels strictly observe its provisions, others can sin with impunity. Novel — Mr Kerr, in sentencing a burglar in London to three years' penal servitude, said the man was obviously an habitual criminal, and it would have been cheaper for the country to have set him up in business or to have given bim a pension of 30a a week. Such a bargain would have been better for the oountry, but everyone talked about these things, and nobody did anything. Tho Legislature was nothing but a mere talking shop. Qoeer Ads — Au exohange says :— We learn that a storekeeper some time sinoe had the following notification in his window : — "Superior butter, ninepence per lb Noboby can touch it." This is almost as good as the tempting notice of a dealer in cheap shirts: — "They won't last long afc this price," snd almost as novel as the notice in the window of a cheap restaurant :— " Dine here and yon will never dine anywhere else." New Sono.— We have to acknowledge the receipt from the Dresden Musio Warehouse of a copy of the new football song '* Crom a-boo." It is a New Zealand production, both words aod musio having beon written by Wellington residents. It is a very lively piece, having plenty of swing in it, eo that it is sure to "catch on." Mr R. Robertson, of Bon Acoord, has a supply on hand, which we have no doubt he is only too anxious to dispose of. Cookery. — Mrs Miller conducted the first of thu series of cooking lessons ia Milton on Thursday night. A very large number of ladies assembled, and were kept busy for a couple of hours takiDg notes of the various dishes which Mra Miller turned out. We understand that the latter ia very highly pleased with the measure of support whioh has been acoorded her so far. The olasses will yet increase in popularity, as time goes on, till tbe houses which have not reoeived some instruction will be few and far between. Meanness. — An extraordinary case o meanness occurred in London recently. A poorly clad woman picked up a small leather bag from the pavement. She opened ifc, and satv that it contained papera and gold — the sum they represented, it subsequently transpired, being £503 She told some people wbat t^be had found, and said she would take it to the police Btation. Jußt at that time the owner arrived in great haßte, satisfactorily described the contents of the bag, and then, after some demur, rewarded the woman with a penny, The Treasurer —Tho Hon. J, G, Ward is inviting tenders in Lo doa for a new cable steamer for N'ow Zeiland. She ia ex pected to cost £25,000. Mr Ward, spsaki.ig at a dinner to Lord Brassey, asked for the suppoit of thoae present in connection with the Pacific cable and steamer services, and urged that their success would afford a better proof of the feeling of England, and do more to unite the Empire than any number of platitudes. The Governor of the Bank of England paid Mr Ward a high tribute, saying his good judgment has assisted New Zealand to regain a position of Oret-claBS credit in the London money market. A Pretty Custom —A Paris correspondent describes the festivities attending the election of Qaeen ot the Washerwomen, or Queen of Queens, as she is called :— Last year the Qjeen of Queens received no fewer than 300 offers of marriage. Mdle. Grimm (this year's Queen), whose youth and beauty are beyond dispute, has already been honored with as many marks of attention, and others continue to flow in from ail sides. So many lovers all at once have naturally flittered her, but they have not turned her head, which appears to be a etron; one. She says that her mind aa regards her future lord and n aster is made up. " I shall marry nobody who does not work as I do," is her ulti matum. A Bic List.— From a list in the 'Review of Reviews ' it appears that there are no fewer tban 55 serial stories running in British monthly magazines at the present time, but it may be Bafely estimated that &s many more are running in the weekly papers — probably a hu dred times ai many. It must be an appalling thought to the old school utilitarian of Puritan instincts that so much brain-work is being expended on tbe weaving of fiction. Of the 55 stories two are anonymous, and of the 53 acknowledged ones 43 are the work of 48 authors, one to eacb, and there are four over. The four over belong to Mrs L. T. Meade. One is by an author who i$ dead— Mrs Henry Wood. Light. — MrJ Watt, patentee ofthe hydro carbon water gas process now in use in Bal clutha, waa in Milton on Friday laat. He was round the town and waited on several members of the Council with reference to his lighting power. From what we can learn of it the gas seems to be giving great satisfaction at Bilclutha. We understand that Mr Watt aleo obtained a number of particulars regarding the town, and he will forward an estimate of thß cost of 1 ghting Milton with gas, whioh will moßt likely be considered at the next meeting of the Council. We heard a proposal the other day, which appearß a very good one, that a deputation from the Miiton Council should pay a visit to the works at Balclutha wish the vitw to seeing the practical working of the gas. Local Work. — Anyone who has tiken a walk along the Springfield mad of late mne' have been struck with the signs of industry apparent there. On inquiry the visit r ; would be informed th^t the building in i course of erection was a Btx?rooi»ed house, - with the usual out buildings, to the order of ' Mrs Draper The contract was undertaken by our young fellow townsman Mr J. R. Parlane, whose excellent workmanship on j another house which he erected in Milton some time back had taken Mrs Draper's > fancy. The house i- no v rapidly approach- / log completion, a&d from what we have seen * of it Mr Parlate has made a firat-cldSs job, fie work throughout beiug th;nu h The plumbing work was given into MrC. King'o hande, while Mr C, Mills has bad charge of the painting and p iperh*r>giog department. All the woik has beea faithfully perform d 1 so far as it baß yet gone aod from present I ippearaooea the honse should be ready for e }cs*uj*-atiet* w«M V$ to cost: A9( da£ft ' fij

Rainfall.— We are informed by MrJ, E. Brown, the looal recorder, that the rainfall in Milton for May was 3 inches, that at Balolutha beiDg 2.94 inohes. Cause and Effect. — In consequence of the rise in the price of wheat the Riverton bakers have raised tbe prioe of bread from 5d to 6d. The Auokland bakers have aleo raised the prioe ld. Lime Conference.— The conference of delegates from the various Farmers' Clubs, to consider tho lime question, will bo held in the Council Chambers, Milton, to-morrow morning. We hope that a satisfactory solution of the difficulty will be arrived at A Rotal Student.— One of the fads of the new Czar of Russia is the study of electricity. He is intensely interested in anything pertaining to electrical science, and ie said to have made several ingenious contrivances himself in the simpler lines of electrical manipulation. Turkish Reform.— Fifteen of the assailants of the Jeddah Consuls have been arrested. The Armenian Commission is meeting with muoh obstruction and petty annoyances. The Great Powers have refused the Sultan's request to postpone a reply to the Armenian reform acheme. A Good Show —Visitors to the Winter Show in Dunedin this week should not mies the chauce of inspecting Messrs Reid and Gray'a establishment. This well known firm have a very large stock of implements of all kinds, and as many of them will be shown in motion their warehouse should be well worth a visit. Passed On — Many of our readers we re no doubt acquainted with Miss Elizabeth Curry Butement, who was for some time a much respected resident in this district. They will therefore regret to learn that she died at Upper Hawthorn, Melbourne, on Friday 10th May News of her death arrived by the laat mail from Melbournei The ['ise in Wheat.— The 'South Australisn Register ' dealing with the advance in wheat says that numerous factors apart from the capricious influence of crop reports are combining to bring about a better tone, and are geaerally suggestive of the rise being something more than a passing fluctuation of a sensitive market. A Compliment.— Max O'Rell, in a prefaoe to a French volume, pays Englishmen a compliment. He says if they cannot boast; of having discovered new worids in the midst of remotest seas, they can proudly claim to have produced the greatest genius of the earth, Shakespeare. A Plucky Woman. — There is a woman in America whose praises are loudly sung by a contemporary. She is a farmeress, and '• goes to four markets a week, tends poultry and calves, cojks, sews, entertains comapany, attends boardere, drives in ber pony cart, keeps acoounta and does shopping." This, however, is not all. At a pinch she has killed and dressed a pig. And still she remains a womanly woman. The Army.— The new officers of the Salvation Army, who are to take over the command of the Milton oorps, arrived at tbe end of last week, They are Captain M'Cillum, late of the Duntroon camp, and Lieutenant M'Kerzie, of tbe Dunedin war office, and both como to us with good credentials. The meetinga sinca their arival bave been well attended, W© wiah the two officers every auoceas in their work in Milton. Dairying.— We have received a copy of the annual report of the National Dairy Association of New Zealand. Io is of a very exhaustive description, dealing fully with all the matters whioh came under the scope of the Association's aims and objects. Attached to the leport are tables showing the amount of butter and cheese shipped through the Association from the various po t9 lor the year together with the tota a for the whole colony. There are now no less than Sl factories connected with the Association, which ia therefore a very influential body. The report is well worthy the attention of all dairy farmers. Easy Enough. —To obtain a title is not a difficult matter in Bavaria, provided one has a aupply of cash, To be made a simple '' Von " costs a matter of £75 ; to be raised to the " Rutteratand," £100 ; to be made a " Freiherr," £250 j to be made a " Graf " costs £500 ; wbi e to be made a prince only costs £1000. Theae prices are only for one person, but the Government kindly makes reductions in the case of whole families wishing to turn noble all at oDce, Thus, for two or three thousand pounds a small family can be made princes, though unfortunately, or fortunately, they are only permitted to use their title within the kingdom of Bavaria. THE DAILY USE BEFORE MEALS Of Wolfe's Schnapps promotes a Adw of gastric juice that stimulates the stomach, rekindling its natural craviDg for food.