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Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 515, 28 June 1897, Page 2

Matthew Henry adds to his stock sale list for to-morrow at Pahiatua. Mrs Monteith advertises that she is open for engagement as monthly nurse, and can accommodate country ladies in comfort.

The quarterly summoned meeting of Court Pahiatua A.O F., will be held this evening. Business nomination and election of officers.

A large quantity of material, which is to be used at tho various railway workshops in the colony, is expected from Home in about two months.

The midwinter holidays for the local school begin to-day, and the school reassembles on Monday, 12th July. Knights of Labor are reminded of the special meeting of the local assembly to be held on Tuesday evening.

Mr J. Charlton announces by advertisement in another column that he is now visiting Pahiatua, and all orders for tuning pianos or organs left with Mr T. B. Hunter will be attended to.

Owing to the intensity of the drought in South Australia, many stock holders are feeding stock on sheoak branches, apples and small potatoes.

The N.Z. Farmers’ Dairy Union has Purchased the Hamua creamery and has made arrangements to erect creameries at Maharahara West and also at Kumeroa. The Christchurch Press reckons that the promised reduction in the rate of freight for frozen meat will put £IOO,OOO a year into the pocketß of Canterbury flock owners.

The Indian Famine Fund, when the last mail left England, amounted to £506,500 —that is, within £5500 of the total reached in 1877. The half-million was passed 15 weeks after the opening of the fund. In connection with the mail service now being performed between Pahiatua, Konini, Hamua, and Newman, it has been found expedient to make an alteration in the time table, and the change will take effect on Monday next, the sth prox. On and after that date these mails will close at the local post office at 9.45 a.m., and return mails will be received at 4 p.m. daily. The post and telegraph department is ever to the fore in catering for the convenience of the public, and the latest boon which it provides is one which will no doubt be greatly appreciated After the Ist of July it will be possible through the medium of the post office to cable money to any of the sister colonies in a comparatively short space of time and at a minimum cost. A restriction is, however, placed on the amount to be cabled by any person in one day, the limit being fixed at £4O.

Mrs Ward, proprietress of the Empire Hotel, has so completely altered and renovated the establishment that the only thing necessary to perfect the change was to give the hotel a new name. On the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Day Mrs Ward, in order to com memorate the auspicious occasion, changed the name from the “Empire” to the “ Rutland." The hotel will in future be known as the "Rutland”. Since taking over the establishment Mrs Ward has at great expense made it second to none in the district, and by her consistent courtesy and kindness she has, since her arrival in Pahiatua, built up a more superior and extended business than the hotel ever before enjoyed. We wish the courteous and enterprising proprietress of the Rutland a record success.

The wife of Mr D. Robinson, a prominent lumberman of Hartwick, N.Y., was sick with rheumatism for five months. In speaking of it, Mr Robinson says : “ Chamberlain's Pam Balm is the only thing that gave her any rest from pain. For the relief of pain it cannot be beat." Many very bad cases of rheumatism have been cured by it. For sale by C. Ridd, chemist.