LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 73, 25 February 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The" Tui will leave Foxton for W.ellirig» totiat 7 o'clock this evening. Our., readers are : reminded Of Me?Sra SttJ.vepa and G-or ton's Btock sale at Awahuri, .to take place to -pa or row at 1 o'clock attbe A wahuri Sale .Yards. - . Mr -.^nelson's horse is'ale on Saturday was ' Well-attended/ but- there were not many buyers, and vendors' reserves were top high. About half the number yarded found purchasers either under lhe hanv« mer or privately afterwards. The sale m .King 'a estate was brisk, the premises being packed, and several hundred lots were disposed of. , Dr Hutyey and -Mr HerberfcHaw.kins, bbtii of Pftlmerston, left to-day br the Foxton train en route for Wellington and Sytftiey. We wish both gentlemen' a ' p'e'aaanL voyager We understand Mr Hffb'eft Hawkins will not probably Return to tNev? Zealand i . '.■/ : Thet Orofta. County Oouncil is inviting tenqfersfor metalliug a portion of Kiinbolton Road, and for forming and metalling a portion of Mackay!e Line. > new Anglican minister is expected tp arrive m. Palmdrston early this. week, apd- will, probably conduct- service next Sjui"iay. I 1 The first rabbit joke wo remember to hkve seen bas been : peppe'tratSd^ iby-- a paper. Referring to' tlie millions v^hich have been : destroyed m Airstralia' ahd New Zealand without making any I apparent decrease m their numbers, our contemporary snya, ' They have all come [jom» pair taken out there many v«">rs a^o, This iß^not the only eVil which the world hf.s suffered from a single pair.' ' The value of advertising has often been pointed oat. A. conspicuous instance OQCu'rr'ed the other day. A young'lady, employed iv one of the largest dry goods • establishri&nts m Detroit, lost a brace« (Jqt. ■'■Qne advertised -for -it m sereral papers, and on returning to the store hx the. morniug found the bracelet under the counter. , s < 'By a proclamation m the Gazette his Excellency 'the .Governor has^revoked the proclamation issued a month previously. The proclamation of. 2lst .February exc«pted, inter alia, the Counties of Duti, East and :Weat Wr rarapa, Manawatu, O rou a, Eangitikei, Wsnganui and Pa tea, from the : operation of the Crown and Native Lands Railway Act, 1882. The proclamation declares that those counties shall be native rating districts under that Act."- -^ '■■'"■. •; A* Wellington paper has the following : —The many friends of Mr John Bentley, of Greyrstreet, will regret to hear that lie has been seriously indisposed for some . iuiie past, and is compelled to seek a fcix weeks 1 rest at Palmerston North. •In view of Hanlon'a visit to Sydney^ the celebrated sculler having, according to. cable message?, already started for that city, it is desirable that an effort shbuld be made m Id-al ticTatic, circles to ■ induce hins to visit Wellington prior to his , departure from thia part of the world. I . Sir William Fox stated m the course of a temperance 'address at Auckland that 'there were 2000 drink shop 3 m New Zealan\l, and that. tHrough canses directly or m directly ..originating m drink, at least 2000, and probably nearer 3000 people, were seut-.to their graves every year. • Says a recent Auckland Herald : — ' Mr Carkeek, who is m charge of one of the survey parties engaged exploring a route for the North Island Truck Railway from Te :Awau>utu to New tPlyincvufn, leaves town by the up Waikato train m order to commence survey operations. His party cittte through from New Plymouth via Mulriiu. and will make thnr way back fro m Te Awauiutu to the original point from which .they started. He entertains no fears of obstruction from the natives 'as '<'th.ey were everywhere most friendly, and. anticipates having the route vii JMokau thoroughly explored before the Assembly meet?, if the weather holds up.' .. A3 conduoUd toy^-the Chocu .taV Nation, m Indian Territory, areia Kidod curdling speticle. The doomed "tna.n; is seated on a blankdt, ,one ot us h»nds held by tlie Sheriff and' the other by a -^deputy. Another deputy, five paces. awaVj, then shoots the condemned through the heart, using a navy revolver. "jL'Bbon to Mankind. — Baxter's liurig Preserver, by virtue of its balsamic and soothing properties, cannot be excelled as a, soother of Fulmonic irritation. Many : whose recoy.ery hjad 'been despaired of by medical advisers and friends, have been spared to proclaim the astounding virtues 5 ifof the Lung Preserver. It has been . employed^in the mansion as Well as Jin .the OQttage, and has convinced the aristocrat, "as well as the peasant that it is, indeed, a boon to inankiud. It is pleasant to the palate and may safely be en' in all cases. Persons suffering from Bronchial I affections, who take the Lung Preserver will find the speedy effect to be diminution of' pain and expectoration— Brs% be" cause the mucous membranes are utiniuInted to throw thn phlegm up, and second because the medicine is adapted. tP tb^ u the discharge before jt leayes tlje brorj» j chial tubes and .lungs. This specific is highly extolledby members of the mcdi- | cal and clerical professions and others,— To be bad of all chemists and ?tP?ftf; i keeper?, • ' 'i ... i,fe for Indigestion -^-Baxter's Compound Quinine Pills, used according 'to the • direction*, hare pro fed a certain and speedy cure, for indigestion, bilious and liver complaint 4 , wind m the stomach and bowelp, nervous debility, &c. Their ob ject is the removal of debility and derangement by assisting nature, and imparting tone and power to the system.— To be Had of all chemists and storekeepers, m boxes, la la^ and 2* 9d each, or po*t free on receipt of 19 o'r44 stamps.— J. Baxter, Pharmaceutical Chemist, 21. Victoria" ' street^ Christchurch.