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Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7998, 21 June 1904, Page 2

Mr W. Devine, of the Empire Hotol, announces that he can be found at No. 1 booth, at the Show Grounds.

During the Show days "Woodfield's 'busses will run as usual to Terrace End and tho Hospital. The last two trips will be rim from the Show Ground.

A new posting box has been erected at the corner of Cook and College streets, opposite Major Dunk's residence. The box will be cleared at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. daily.

The Temperance Keform Council, of Dunedin, is trying to arrange for Canon Boyce (President of the New South Wales Temperance Alliance) to visit the colony. Negotiations are afoot also for a visil by Father Hayes. Stock-taking sale of cycles, 100 to select from. Prices from £2 at ClarkBon'si*

A tulegrnph eflice will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the Show Ground, from Tv sd iy to Friday, inclußive.

Tho Winter School for toachers in the Wang.imii Education district opened yesterday About two hundred teachers are present.

See our display at still Winter Show Clarkson's, Coleman Place.*

On the application of Mr Innea, District Judge Ward has granted probate to Mrs Mildon and Percy Mildon, executors in the estate of the late Mr G. Mildon, fanner, Kairanga, and probate, to the widow in the estate of Mads Nicholson, deceased, of Stoney Creek.

Th-2 Press Association agents at Huntly and Napier last night forwarded long ropoits of speeches delivered by Mr Massoy and Sir William Kux^li. Neither of them convened one fresh thought or one new idea. They cost us something like half-a-sovorei'gn, but they wore not worth twopence as an exposition on public affairs. The P.ess Association ngents in some places have got a queer idea of " news."

Come mother! Payne's giving 8; in tho £ discount on all boots and shoos *

As a result of inquiries made by Mr James Mills into the circum.-Jtanciw of the Kotoimihnna-Jessie Niccol collision, Cuptiiin Manning and Chief Ofticer Tute, who were relieved of their rcspectivH'positiom, lire to be reinstated forthwith on the Kotomahana. The directors of the Union Company are satisfied that neither Manning" nor Tate were to blame.

" Centaur motor cycle, fastest in the world, on view at Clarkson's.*

A householder writes in the following indignant strain to one of the Nnpier papers :—"Can you tell me why tho butchers do not.reduce tho price of beef, although the'.priccs of cattle have fallen? Can you tell me why the bakers have not reduced the price of bread, though the prices of flour have fallen '? Can you tell me why wo are such asses as to allow the middleman always to fool us to the extent they do, by jumping up prices on the least excuse and never making the proper reduction until compelled?"

In the Police Court yesterday before Mr Thomson, S.M., Jirnrnie Low Quon was charged on two counts, with having opium in his possession. Accused pleaded guilty. His counsel, Mr Gif,ford Moore, pleaded for leniency. Accused, he said, had been in Palrnerston eighteen years and had never appeared in Court before. The opium, he said, was used'medicinally. Counsel handed in a, sheaf of testimonials as to accused's character. The Magistrate said ho did not intend to inflict the maximum penalty of JGSO. Accused would be fined £5 and costs 28s. Mr Fitzherbert appeared for the prosecution.

Premier Cycle Co., manufacturers to his Majesty King Edward VII. Prices from £17 17s, Clarkson's.*

Mads Sattrup^ an old resident of Waipawa, was accidentally poisoned on Saturday night. He had been taking rum occasionally., to cure influenza. Thrt bottle was kept in a clothes-press in his bedroom. A. similar bottle, containing carbolic sheep dip, which was kept in the children's room, was used on Saturday, and instead of being returned to its usual'place was placed in the press alongside tho rum. Sattrup went into the bedroom in the dark and drank the carbolic instead of the rum. Emetics wero administered but proved ineffectual, and he diod an hour after.

The Bey. }l. Wilson, of Dannevirke, has been payiug a Saturday, night visit to some of the local hotels, and preaching to a crowded congregation on Sunday night, he is reported to have given " a graphic detailed account of the scenes he had witnessed. The rev. gentleman made nome strongromarks concerning tho largo quantity of drink sold on the premises visited, and deplored the fact that the money was not spent for more legitimate purposes. He gave a vivid description of the glitter and dazzle of the bar, the fascinating barmaid, and the bacchanalian sights witnessed in the streets after the hotels had closed ; contrasted the manner in which the licensed houses were conducted as compared with olher businesses ; hotly denounced the employment of barmaids.; and concluded with an appeal to his hearers to aid the nolicense movement."

"Wo lead, others must follow. The only genuine stock-taking sale secondhand cycles now on at the Dayton Cycle Depot.*

Christchurch Truth remarks:—As we said before, the wise father will make his son a butcher. Butchering is not a trade ; it is a profession with illimitable possibilities—no man can be a butcher and starve'—unles% he wants to givo a fasting exhibition. To illustrate the great advantages of the butchering trade, the price of boef at the Addington Yards has fallen to 2£d or 2£d per lb. It is not a temporary slump, because it is the result of the competition of the Yankee grower in the Howe market, in consequence of which the fore end of a New Zealand bullock is practically unsaleable in Britain, and as a lot of people have been buying cattle during the last year or two because the price ot sheep1 was too high, and these cattle are getting fat, the butcher is soon going to buy his beef cheaper than ever. But this festive professor, of anatomy and cash sales keeps on gaily charging the public from 6£d to 9d per lb for its beef. In fact, ho averages a gross profit of about 115 per cent on every pound of beef he sells. ■ As the hides and fat and other etceteras a great deal more than pay for the cost of killing the beef and hanging it in picturesque rows with holly trimmings in his shop, and as beef is likely to keep on getting cheaper, the butcher is at present engaged in enthusiastically drawing the exclusive attention of his unsuspecting customer to the prime quality of beef he has just got in.

Don't forget military social at Drill Hall on Thursday, June 23.*

Graduated exercise was the treatment principally prescribed by Dr Valintine for Mr Seddon when he took tho Premier in charge. " I started him off," he said to a representative of the Gisbornc Herald, " with a short walk of about a mile along the beach at Tauranga, and steadily increased the distance and effort until he was able to do his six miles a day. He climbed a precipitous cliff to the top of the Little Barrier Island, and'has been taking good long rides. One day he rode 24 miles. When we started off we were told by Mr Houston it would only be 14 miles, but it proved to be 24, and there was no going back. However, he came through it steadily, his pulse being 70 at the end of the journey." In addition to this exercise Mr Secidon has undergone regular massage, and was rubbed down after every walk. He has reduced in weight about 41b, but this Joes not represent the full benefit received, as a good deal of soft, flabby tissue has been converted into healthy flesh and muscle. " Organically," said Dr Valintincf V the t man is perfect, and if he takes care not to overburden himself he will be all right." ',' What about the long night sittings, will you bar them ? " the doctor was asked, and he replied that moafc certainly they would ha injurious. That was the trouble. The Premier had such an appetite for work that it would bo difficult to get him to ease off.

A section and ten years to pay, Bedad, says he. I will to-day, And now you'll see his face portray Tho stnilfi that won't come off.

«-Brophy and Co,*