The Pahiatua Herald. with which is incorporated THE PAHIATUA STAR. Published Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1894.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 120, 7 March 1894, Page 2

The Pahiatua Herald. with which is incorporated THE PAHIATUA STAR. Published Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1894.

In our next issue will appear a New , Zealand sketch by Mr Henry Lawson entitled “ Stiffnor and bill—thirdly Jmi.' • It is rumoured that Mr D. Crewe ha t disposed of his auctioneering business • The name of his successor has not yet > irauspired. • We are requested to draw our readers • attention to the unreserved sale at the ' brick Auction Mart, which takes place on • Saturday next, when Mr D. Crewe in • teuds clearing every line offered absolutely to the highest bidder. On Tuesday nex • a real good line of young horses will b« • submitted. For particulars see advertise • ment. Logs and stumps are being blasted in • all directions around Pahiaiua just now, the booming of dynamite catridges ut in tervais throughout tho day sounding like j. the signals of a ship in distress. 1 Bernby, who played half for Christ , church, some three or four years back, in , tends playing for the Eketahuua Football Club this season. The attendauce at the Pahiatua State . School 011 Tuesday reached 250. Tho roll now shows only 7 short of 800. Mr Lee intends applying for an additional pupil r teacher. The adjourned meeting of the Pahiatua School committee will be held to-morrow • (Thursday) evening. Trewby Bros.’ showroom is now undei lie charge of Miss Crickmore, who has :iad charge of tins department for some ] years in a southern house. Mr Sullivan intends enlarging the . Public ila iat an sariy date. The hall will be carried back tor some distance, and uotli auditorium and stage will be con.'iderab y increased m size. Says •* Hiogeuos ” in the Star : “ Foot bail in the Forty mile bush is an expou , sive item for travediug expenses. During he banner matches of 1393, Eket hma travelled 130iui.es, Pahiatua 114, wood vilie 110, and Hawera 93 miles, making a respectable total of 462 miles.” We might meuiiou that the total distance ; traversed by the Pahiatua Club in their junior and senior matches last seasou was >3B miles, the whole distance, with the exception of about 50 miles, being done by coach. i Un Saturday morning a recent arrival, who is employed as cook'at Anderson’s Hotel, Kketahuna, had her box relieved ot a gold watch and chain valued at £ls. i Hie same day some enterprising individual “ annexed " a pair of trousers from tho front door of Messrs N. Aulin and Co’s store.—Star. » In blankets and flannels see Trewby Bros.’ va ue. They have already opened up a large quantity of the above. A Masterton farmer informs the Star that a crop of wheat planted by him on excellent soil has been so infected by the Hessian fly that he will have to buy wheat next season for sowing purposes. , The Towai correspondent of the Auckland Herald writes as follows:—One of the contractors on the Kaiuarama Valley Hoad had occasion to fall a totara tree, and mside the trunk, which was hollow, lie discovered tiiree skeletons, supposed to be a man, wornau, and child. One of the sku Is had apprently a bullet-hole through 1 the forehead. A letter received in Sydney from one of tho “ New Australia ” settlors states that as tho fundamental rules are not to be enforced until a certain number of immigrants arrive, Mr Lane, the founder of the •olonv, has in the meantime assumed iiciatorial power. Another writer says that three members have been turned away for breaking rules, and about 20 others who sympathised with them left at the same time. The cricket match between the first elevens of the Pahiatua and Woodville teams, that had been fixed for next Saturday, has had to be postponed owing to the inability of the latter Club to get a team away. An effort is being made to arrange a match between the second elevens.— The return match between the Pahiatua and Wairarapa representative teams takes place at Greytown on Saturday, 27th inst. A meeting of the Licensing Committee was held yesterday, there being present— Messrs A. W. Sedco e (chairman), J. Vile, and D. Knight. The only business was an appdoation from Mr 11. J. Malcolm to transfer the license of the Union Hotel, Pahiatua, to Mr J. O. Eastwood. Mr Haslett appeared for Mr Eastwood and Mr 'Tosswttl for the owner of the property. Mr Christiansen. Consideration of the j application was adjourned until the 19th ; inst. We are now selling one of the cheapest lines in shirts ever shown in Pahiatua. Regatta shirts worth 5s 6d to be cleared at 2s lid. See them. Trewby Bros., Coburg House. We beg to inform tho public that the following preparations of Bock and Co., manufacturing chemists, can be obtained from Mr Brenton, storekeeper, Pahiatua— Xon-Mercurial Plating fluid, Price Ik 6d, unsurpassed for cle.ninggold, silver and replating brass and copper. Fire and Waterproof cement, Is, especially adapted for mending china, glassware and metal articles, it can be used without heating, and will, when dried in a stove, resist hot water and fire. Waterproof Cement, price Is, for repairing leather, india-rubber, also excellent for delf. 1 Oamphylene Balls, in neat air-tight jars, t containing 18 balls, price Is, to keep 1 moths out of clothing, also a perfect dis- I infectant and a safeguard against whoop- < mg cough. Herr Extract, price Is Cd, ] an infallible cure for toothache, guaranteed ’ free from anything injurious to the teeth t or health ; it stops the most acute pain i immediately, and proves a permanent i cure in nearly all cases where the teeth c are hollow. German Curb for corns and 1 warts, price Is; a speedy and painless c remedy, also highly recommendedior ohff- £ blains ; also A. Hodubeks Mortbim In- 6 sect Powder and Spreaders, price Is J each, guaranteed to kill all insects known. 1 The public should give it a trial. o