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Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 573, 22 November 1897, Page 2

Messrs E. J. Gothard (retiring Mayor) and James Taylor have been nominated for the office of Mayor of Woodville. A man named Edward Jones is missing from Woodville, and search parties aro out. It is feared that he lias made away with himself. Messrs Abraham and Williams advertise list of horses to be sold by auction at tho Palmerston emporium next Saturday at 1 p.m. The firm also insert to-day tho list of stock for the Palmerston cattle sale on Thursday next. A few bright days last week had the effect of raising hopes and increasing business. Yesterday morniDg again brought a return of rain anil gales. We are now resigned. If we remember rightly, it was stated months ago that we were going to experience a very dry spring and summer becauee the Muoris reported that the wi d fowls were laying their eggs near the edges of lagoons. Evidently the bottom has fallen out of Maori prophesy. A joke is going round the Taranaki district that at a recent 6bow three samples of the same churning of butter were 6ent. One took first, the other second, whilst the unfortunate third was disqualified. It has been stated in official circles that the Government intend this session to ntroduce and pass a dairying act amendment bill to make the pasteurization of milk compulsory at all factories. The will of the late Sir William Clarke, of Melbourne, has been lodged for probate. The net value of the estate, not including the properties in entail, is £590.000. The probate duty amounts to nearly £OO,OOO. The beautiful designs made by Messrs Waterlow and Sons for the new* issue of New Zealand postage stamps have been much admired. They depict the scenery of the mountains, of the sounds, geysers and lakes. The Christchurch A. and P. Association has agreed to supplemeni by £25 tho Horse-owners’ Protection Society’s reward for the detection of the horse stabbing fiend. The Association also asks the Government to subsidise its contribution.

On Friday at Auckland, the charge against Johanna lviely, aged 16, of wilfully setting firo to the lie use of F. W. Browning, at Tawhare, in which accused was a servant, was dismissed. Though there was evidence of arson, thero was nothing to connect accused with tho crime.

The bullock and sheep guessing competitions at the Manawntu show resulted as follows :—The bullock’s actual weight was 8681 b, and Mr A. Alexander (Normanby) guessed the correct weight. Of the five shoep tho actual weight was 4191 b, and the correct weight was guessed by Mossrs It. J. McMillan and 11. W. Oliver, Palmerston North. “ Fashionable ladies on the Confine liti on arriving at hotels, enter not only their own names but the name of their pet dog. A maid is employed almost exclusively to look after the dog, and a special trunk is required for the articles of its toilet." We would like to know what provision is nlso made for tho comfort of “ hubby.” Why not engage a maid exclusively to look after him ? Surely ho is of more value than tho pug. Porhaps not. Tho editor of tho Eketahnna Express moralizes thus :—What is Now Zealand coming to, when its daily papers contain references to throo ghastly murders. The Amberloy matter has scarcely ceased to shock tho public mind before we aro confronted with the grave of poor young Hawthorne cruelly slain. Following closo on this wo lenrn that a settlers' quarrel at Ilar.tpipi, near Auckland, has resulted in bloodshed. And yet another tale of misery comes from Dunedin, where a laborer takes tho life of his wife and attempts suicide. “ Surolv something is rotten in tho Stato of Denmark.” “ God’s own Islands" they aro sometimes called : Wlioro every prospect pleases, And only man is vile. Oh for a Whitfield or a Wesley to turn back tlie tide of indifference and atheism which is slowly hut surely encroaching upon our shoroa and undermining our bulwarks. If it required an annual outlay of DIO,OOO to insure a family against and serious consequences from an attack of bowel complaint during tho year there are many who would feel it their duty to pay it; that they ootild not afford to risk ihoir lives, anil those of their family for such an amount. Any one can get this insurance for 25 cents, that being (lie price of a bottle of I'liamhorlain's Colie, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy. In almost every neighborhood sumo one has died from an attack of bowel come plaint before medicine could he procuri d or a physician summoned. One or two doses of this remedy will euro and ordinary case. It never fails. Can you afford to take tho risk for so small an amount? For sale by C. Kidd, chemist. Asters, Phlox, Dahlias, Stocks and i other annuals now ready. Hurling and Adams, Fernloigh Nursery.

Mr James Perdue, an old soldier residing at Monroe, Mich., was severely afflicted witli rheumatism but received prompt relief from pain Ivy usiny Chamberlain’s Pain Bairn, lie says: “ At times my back would ache so badly that i could hardly raise up. If L had not gotten relief 1 would not bo hero tc write those few lines. Chamberlain’s Pain Balm has done mo a great deal ol good and J tool very thankful for it.’ Ear sale by C. Raid, chemist.