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Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 110, 12 February 1894, Page 2

A fst kudo k dropped dead at Mangahao through the heat last week. One of the sections in the McKenzie Spend Settlement forfeited at last meeting of the Lend Board was owned by a son of tbo late Sir Harry Atkinson. .Ta key, the Dora Dora black, has been recaptured. Tile Britannia has arrived in Albany. Dr Hosking. of MastertOD, is a passenger for New Zealand. Messrs Abraham sud Williams made additions to their sale list for the 20th inst. The Makuri Sports programme appears in another column. A budget of Athletic news will appear next issue. Members of the Rifle Club are reminded that there will be no prize firing held on Wednesday, 14th, as at present there is no ammunition procurable from the defence stores.

Several important additions are made to Mr D. Crewe's stock sale which takes place to-morrow Tuesday the 18th nt 1 o'clock. Mr D. Crowe adds to hie Eketahuna stock sale, ewes and lambs, good steers, heifers, and yearlings. The sale takes place on Friday next, at 1.80. After the stock snle the auctioneer will sell under hill of aale furniture &c., at Ellison's Hall Eketahuna. The public are reminded that this is the last week of the sale of drapery, etc., at Mr S. G. Radford’s cash drapery store, Pahiatua. Goods of unrivalled quality at unexampled prices. The sceptical ore invited to read the advertisement. About eight tons of butter was despatched from the Mangutainoka factory last evening. The social and coffee supper to “ farewell " the Rev A. W. Ashcroft takes place to-morrow evening. An excellent musical and literary programme has been arranged to supplement the addresses. We have the greatest pleasure in drawing the attention of our readers to the teatimouials and advertisement of T.angstone's Specific for lungworm and all intestinal parasites, which has bad an immense sale in all parta of the colony, and baa given the greatest satisfaction to sheep owners. When administered at this season of the year it gets at all worms and parasites efieeting stock.

A floe New Zealand trout weighing 1211* 240e. t from Wellington, N.Z., wae ox hibited at the la* meeting of the Piece tonal Boc»ety, Winchester, England. The fieh has beon aeot over by Mr Isard in the ie* chamber of Che Tongariro and after a journey of 16,000 miles, occupying 44 days, looked almost as fresh as if it had been recently caught. It fs believed to be the first trout that has reached a Ixmdon angling club from the Antipodes, and will be preserved in the Society’s museum. — Hampshire Chroniclo on December 28rd. Mr A. B. Harrison, of Bell Block, has brought to the office of the Taranaki News a portion of the backbone of a fat bullock which was slaughtered a few davs ago at Mr Baylev’s alaughteryard. In the lame was firmly embedded a portion of a prong of a hay ferk, Sin. long, which had pierced the spinal chord, and the animal had lived and thriven after the injury. It is supposed that the injury was indicted when the animal was young, aud the bones were comparatively soft. An old woman named Mary Rvan met with a shocking death at Sandringham, Melbourne, on the 6th ultimo. She had been gathering periwinkles, and was returning home when she was knocked down by a shunting engine and instantly killed. The head was completely severed from the body, and tho trunk was much mangled. Tho driver of tho engine attached to the Melbourne train on reaching Sandringham saw the body near the line headless, and the head was discovered near fcy.

The following uniqne advertisement recently appeared in the Rangiora Standard :—“ Lost. jCSO reward. Stolen or strayed from tho Black Hills, Kingdom of Merino, in longitude 193 deg., latitude 42 deg, on the night of Jan 28, one Dinornis Robust us (hen bird), wearing hobbles, blind in one eye no brand, yellow beak, limps on one log. If stolen, free pardon to accomplico giving information. If strayed, supposed to be making for Cheviot. Anyone detaining her after this notice will be prosecuted as the law directs." At the meeting of the Wellington Land Board on Friday, a number of selectors in the McKenzie Special Settlement, between Eketahuna and Pahiatua, waited on the Board to explain the reasons why they had not carried out the conditions of the Land Act in regard to their improvements. A long discussion took place over the matter, Mr Hogg explaining that the land in question had really been promised for a village settlement, but a number of men who had beeu on the watch when it had passed through the Native Office managed to grab it as a special settlement. He objected to any concession being given to those who had not carried out the improvements. Tho Commissioner expressed himself very strongly in favour of forfeiting the sections of those who had not complied with the conditions. Mr Pirani said the Board should make it a condition that men who took up land in special settlement carried out sufficient improvements to show they meant to occupy the land, and he would he in favor of forfeiting the interests of thofto who proved to be merely speculators. Eventually it was decided that the interests of several should be forfeited, and that others should be given notice to complete the balance of the improvements.— N.Z. Times. Trewby Brothers is the house for drapary. Salo now on. Flannelettes, 2sd ; dross stuffs, 3|d ; floorcloth (ono yard wide), 94d ; art muslins, boys washing knickerbocker suits r *duoed to 3s fid ; ladies evening shoes, 9-' I, reduced to 7s 9d; boys straw hat, Is 6.. .j Is lid, reduced to 9d. Assigned estate. Radford and Co. having bought for cash a large portion of an assigned estate in Wellington, are now giving the public of Pahiatua the benefit. Bargains in boots and shoes. Bargains in general drapery. Bargains in Men’s and Boys’ Clothing at our sale for 14 days only. Hundreds of rolls of the latest patterns in wallpaper for sale at very low prices to clear. Sanitary paper in great variety, scrims from 4d per yard, tinned tacks, mixed paints, oils, colors, varnishes, glass, plain and ornamental, cut to auy size. Work done in any part of the district. \ll trade requisites in stock. Terms cash. Cooper and Co., opposite the Bank of New Zealand. At the W.F.C.A., Ltd.—Have just opened a speciality in all sizes of boys’ sailor suits that they recoinmeud for good hard wear at a very reasonable figure. The price range from 4s 9d tho full suit.