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Manawatu Herald, 27 January 1894, Page 2

i ===== There are now on sale at Joe Tos's ripe tomatoes grown in the open air. They are a tine sample and of good flavour. Last week amoug the items of outward cargo by the Queen of the South, were sixty-four boxes of cucumbers from .Toe Tos's market garden This week another forty-four cases were sent, On Monday Messrs Abraham & Williams hold a special sale of fat stock at Palmerston. On Tuesday Mesers Gorton & Son hold their Marton sale. On Wednesday Messrs Abraham & Wi liams hold a stock sale at shannon, particulars of which are advertised to-day. On .Saturday, at Bulls, Messrs Gorton & Son hold a special sale of stock from Messrs W. and H V. Hammond. We have mentioned' that Mr Gray' 3 raspberry syrup is now ready. Having re" ceived a sample we are enabled to state that it is most excellent the fresh taste of the fruit being retained. This syrup, made from the genuine fruit is far beyond that prepared from essences, which can easily be proved by a trial. Mr John Walsh has made great strides in his photographing and the other day Mr Batlersby presented us with a photograph taken by Mr Walsh of the flow of water obtained at the artesian well on the Motoa swamp. Seeing is believing and (he photo shows the water pouring out of the pipe some twelve feet off the ground, and we are informed that the pipe could hav • bpen made eight feet higher with the sa ie result. On Thursday and Friday next Messrs McMillan Rhodes & Co. hold a large clearing sale of drapery at Mr Osborne's es'fiblHlmu-nt, popularly known as the Centre of Commerce The obj ct of the sale is to mak^ room for new importations early explored. Thi- will be a fine chance for t,he ladies a? the stock is to be sold without reserve. I Times are. bad, very bad, no money. I Whore has it all gone ro ? Some paople say that it is being all sent across to Australia. This we take leave to doubt. One thing i3 certain, and that is that all our banking institutions are reducing traders overdrafts and we have heard it mentioned that in Wanganui and Palmenton. overdrafts had been reduced by some £16.---000 ! These sums withdrawn from circu laiion must have a very depressing effect. What has te°n done in these towns has been done elsewhere. Liquified oxygen does not appear to be likely to become a summer drink, on account of its price. Professor Dewar has manufactured some, at a temperature of four hundred degress below zero, at a cost of £100 per gallon ! This reminds us that the north pole would not be the exact place to spend a happy day as it is calouUved that the temperature would be some 461 degrees below zero there ! No one should get too much " puffed np :) for any reason. "How did you like my riding" was a query put to a "horseyman. "Biding!" came the answer, " Great Scott, you ought to charter a barge all to yourself and ride on the blooming waves." Tliis little anecdote we have annexed from a racing story. Bearing to the prbspeclHS published in a contemporary we suggested* in our last issue, that as th^ names of the provisional (what an exceedingly appropriate term) dirceors wire not up to the mark in spelling, that probably some little mistake had been made by scribe or printer, now, however, we learn that a greater mistake has been made, and that some of the blazoned-forth directors-deny that they are or ever intended to be directors ! One gentleman informs us that he intends to have his name withdrawn. At the inquest on Professor TyndaU's death it was shown that Mr Tyndall, by mistake, administered a dose of syrup of chloral instead of magnesia. Mv Siwers told his hearers the other night that he did not advise their simply using their land for dairying, but they should grow potatoes as well. James O'Mally was sentenced at Napier on Thursday to eight month' imprisonment without the option of a tine for slygvog selling at Moawhango. Eight previous convictions wero recorded against him for the same offence. At a meeting of the Canterbury Education Board, the question of coporal punishment in the schoo s was considerprl at some length. On the motion of the H >n. W. Montgomery, the following resolution was agreed to:— "That for the future neither cane nor stick be u=*ed in the school?, but a leather strap 1 Jin broad ; that no pupil bn struck on the head or npek ; that corporal punishment be not inflicted on girls over 12 years of age."

The Manawatu Rawing Club have, dt last, informed the regatta committee that they decline to lend the boats applied for. This will probably tend to prevent any attempt being made to arrange a regatta. This is to be regretted but when the pro moters are met in the manner they have been by those who should be the most con , cerned in keeping up an interest in rowing nothing else could be expected. Canada claims £155,000 as compensation under the award of tb>? Behring S?a Conv mission; jbairyiug has increased wonderfully a? it is only eleven years since the Government offered a boiius of £100 for the first lot of cheese exported: Mine. Carnot lias received from the King of Portugal the Grand Cordon of the Noble Ladies of the Order of l^ueen Kte Isabella - -a distinction very rarely bestowed, and posse?3Pd in France" by only one other lady, the Duchesee do Luynes. The most extraordinary derelict ship of which there is record is the barque Marie Celeste, which was found id the middle of the Atlautic, deserted* with every sail set, dinner half cooked in the galley* and not a soul on board, though she had every app°arance of having been occupied immediately before. The weather was fair, and (here was a gentle breeze. JShe Was towed into port, but no explanation of the mystery surrounding the vessel has ever offered itself. The steamer Nofmania, bound from New York to Naples, experienced a tidal wave Crossing the Atlantic, and damage estimated at £20,000 was done to the vessel. There was a panio on board, as it was thought the steamer had collided with a derelict. Many per.sons were injured. A London correspondent writes : - In the superb new steamer, the Gothic, which the Shaw, Savi 1 and Albion Company have just added to their fleet under charter from the White Star Line, New Zealanders will presently have an opportunity of seeing the latest and most magnificent example of the shipbuilding industry which the men of the North of Ireland have created and developed at Belfast. '1 he Gothic, as I have already noted, is the largest vessel that has ever disturbed the muddy water*^oi J?ather Thames, excepting only Brunei's monstrous failure, the Great Eastern. After full consideration, the New South Wales Cabinet has decided that the best interests of the country will be served by not accepting Mr Copeland's resignation. Commenting on the matter the Sydney Hominy Herald says it sees in 'he decision an instance of the lowering of the plane of public life which has been going on during the past few years. The Daily I elayraph says the incident further attests the increasing dimness of moral vision afflicting public life, it 13 simply another instance of the Government flouting Parliament to its face, and that institution feebly acquiescing in its own humiliation. The largest order for type since the invention of printing was for 75.000!b, given recently io a New York firm by the Government printing office of that State. Both Lord Kosebery and Lord Hersehell have been complaining publicly of the oppression of English Ministerial life. Lord Eoseberry told the Battersea electors that the private life of the public men had ceased to exist. " Have men working for the public no right to retirement and repose?" he a^ked. "Must his life cease entirely to be his own ?" Lord Boseberry added that the eigh-hour day was to him a golden vision of the future. Lord Hersehell s remarks revealed some biit rness. When asked by some radical deputation to supervise appointments to the magistracy the Lord High Chancellor exclaimed : " I would sooner resign, and I should do so without ngret. During the last year I have had only three days to myself, and often have worked thirteen hours a day. I have even kept my secretaries busy while I have been eating, dressing, and undressing. Tb-re is a point beyond which human nature cannot endure. The great realising sale lasting for 20 days promiues to be a gigantic success. The whole sock is to be offered at gonuine reduced prices many of th-s lines will be marked at less than English cost at 1-e Aro House, Wellington. Dining the Great Sa'o Ladies' aprons will be sold at 4_d. 4 buttons Kid gioves all new fresn goo.u a t 1/11 per pair. White and crea, u imu a at SKI per cioz. Ladies' linen c Jiiars new shapes at 3 I each. Boys' sailor collars ar. 3d each, sold everywhere at 6d, at tho Great t Hie Te Aro House, Wellington. It will pay country customers to take a run down to the Great K a'ising Sale they will save all the expenses and be money in pocket by buying all they want white goods are so cheap. Orders from the country will be carefully selected and sem carriage paid from the Great Realising Sale at Te Aro House. We are requested to direct the attention of our readers to the fact that the Annual Sale of Surplus and summer Stock will commence at The Bon Marche, Palmersion North, on Saturday, 13th January, and continue for 21 days. Buyers in this district will do well to pay the Bon Marche an early visit.