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Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 138, 20 April 1894, Page 3

The estimate of the receipts and expenditure of the Pahiatua Borough for the next financial year appears elsewhere. A list of goods advertised to be sold under distress warraut appears in another column. A lost gold brooch is advertised for. Radford and Barlow’s great drapery sale commences on Saturday, 14th inst. Men’s aud boys’ shirts from Is ; men’s and boys’ hats from Is; clothing at halfprice ; boots aud shoes, all sizes and makes and quantities. Three bankrupt stocks to select from at less than wholesale prices. Do not miss this opportunity. A splendid assortment of evening shoes, in blacks and tans, are now to hand at the W. F. C. Ltd., all our own importing, splendid value, and by well-known makers. The late Rev Dr O’Dowd, who died recently in Ballarat West, and whose numerous private acts of charity endeared him to Roman Catholics and Protestants alike, possessed less than ‘2s (3d at the timo of his death. For a long while past Father O’Dowd, who was a classical \scholar of high order, had been paying house rent for several poor families in Ballarat, and his purchases of provisions for other indigent people was the means of having him almost penniless. The hottest place in the United States according to the 1893 meteorological reports, is Bagdad, A.T., where the mercury often stands as high as 140 in the shade lor a week at a time. A girl is considered of marriageable age at twelve in Switzerland, Spaiu, Greece, Hungary, and Portugal.