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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 173, 17 February 1888, Page 2

Adjourned meeting of Town Board on Monday evening. Mr Amesbury, dentist, can be consulted at Mr Kidd's on Monday next. Business was brisk at the Woodville K.M. Court yesterday. The sitting was no» concluded until to-day. John llealy has been committed for trial on several charges of forgery at Kkctahuua. ]>r Brauting will perform free vaccination during his visits here on Mondays in each week. Mr Spillane’s store anti dwelling-house at Kketahuna was burnt down early on Wednesday morning. The cause is supposed to have been sparks from a bush lire, l’he stock and furniture were insured for TduO and the building for £SO in the Ktjiiitable ollice. For sly grog selling at the Gorge, John A* r VVrß;”Mfoiiih’s imprisonment. Mr i\ Stewart, of Ballig Fanu, situated ou the Toritea Hoad, invites tenders for oO chains of fencing. Specifications to be seen at Mr Stewart's house, oil the farm, l enders close on Monday, 27th instant. The Germans have traine l pigeons for use in war tune. The liussiaus are training hawks and falcons to catch iuo pigeona. An hotelkeeper in Wanganui writes his own bill of fare, thereby saving the cost of printing. It announces : —Cofly, soupe, roste beef, fride am, boylod and bakt |H>talios, frido coul puddin, and ininspy. About 3 o’clock yesterday aftornoon Mr Willie McCardle was attempting to secure a colt with the intention of giving it sotno exercise, lie got a rope runntl the animal's neck, when it suddenly bolted, the end of the rope becoming twisted round Mr McCardle's legs, lie was thrown to the an 1 received a blow on the left temple which rendered him unconscious for about a quarter of an hour; he was also badly bruised on the left shoulder. Mr Kidd attended the sufferer, who, although progressing favorably, still suffer, considerable pain from the severe shaking. Inductions in the defence department include eight officers and fifty men. The names ol officers who have resigned or been disjauiscd with are : Major General Whitmore; Lieut. Colonel Doddatu; 1.1.-Colonel Roberts ; Majors Scanned and Gascoyne ; ( apis, tape) and Laker, and 1 >r. Campbell, surgeon. These reductions are independent of those effected in the works department. In the Volunteer department seven instructors and commandii 5 - officers have been dispensed with and the allowances of other commanding officers have been reduced. The school of musketry has been abolished and the whole of the adjutants have been reduced by ieO i>er annum. At the corner’s inquiry into the three fires which broke out almost simultaneously at Wellington ou tho night of the ffrd lust., John Collins, one of those -U'pecti 1 of i losing the fires, and now in custody, handed in a long statement in which he confessed that Iteubcn Hind ialso in custody) sot tire to the three buildings and that he (Collins) was in Hind's company at the time. The jury after n lew minutes deliberation returned a verdict that tho premises in question had hi ■ n wilfully set fire to by iieubeu Hind and John Coliins. Jtallancc and Whitmore have disagreed. Whilst inspecting tho Volunteers at Christchurch the other day an accident occurred which placed Major-General Whitmore in an unpleasant position. A horse named ltallance, which he was riding, took fright and careered away, the Major-General vainly endeavoring to stay it* progress. Holland's course was stopped by a wire fence, with which it collided, and the General lost ltis seat. He returned to the inspection with a •mearisl uniform and shaken beby, astride another horse, liallanco received some nasty cuts on the knee*, and was relegated to a Christchurch Yeomanry Cat airy man, who rodi it during the remainder of the proceeding*. Good rou Balnea.—“ We are pleased to *ay loat our baby was permanently cured ol a serious protract,*d irregularity' of the bowels by the nse of American Co.'s Hop Hitters by its mother, which at the same time restored her to |>erl'ect health and strength."— futi Vaunt*. bee

An old poultry- keeper says that eggs with the air bladder on tho centra of tho crown of the egg will produce cockerels, loom- With the bladder on the side will produce pullets. Those with the air bladder not in either of the positions named should be rejected as uncertain. Experiments prove the correctness of the foregoing. Henry Ford, of Hastings, Hawke’s Bay, makes a bold bid for the £20,000 prize offered by the N. 8. W. Government for the best means of rabbit extermination. His plan is to till wire cages with green f khl, charge the cages with electricity and tliitenout every rabbit who approaches. A good constable (snys an exchange) is the result of careful education, and. in every particular, he wants to be trained in giving evidence, so that when he goos into the box his words may carry conviction both to the Bench anil the prisoner. The chances that an ill-trained constable throws away arc too numerous to count. For instance a member of the Queensland force ght into n swimming bath tho other day. and was roughly handled by some larrikins, who didn't recognise the majesty of the law when H hadn't any clothes on. Next day ho brought them up for assault, and from sheer force of habit he also charged them with “ lenriu ’ me uuiforui." Then he was asked if he bathed with his uniform on, and it dawned on him that a glorious caso had been Utterly fooled away by a staunch adherence to routine, and by that painful want of originality which is the bane of a noble profession.

Over 1000 people gntliered in front of the Leicester (England) prison the other day to witness the release of William Smith, who had Wen undergoing seven days' imprisonment for refusing to allow hta child to he vaccinated. The chief member of tho city government organised a meeting opposite the entrance of the goal and refused to disperse when ordered to do so by the police. Smith was welcomed with loud cheering, and the meeting passed anti-vaccination resolutions and denounced the authorities for sonding a mail to gaol for conscience sake. Two thirds of the whole number of children vaccinated in England nnd Wains are operated on at the public expense and only one third by private practitioners. The Auckland Herald, in a strong article on tho totalisator nnd racing gambling, says :—“ Since tho beginning of the present year we have had no less than six days’ racing in and near Auckland, and when we come to consider that during that short period something liko £20,000 has been put through the machines, it will readily be seen the time has fully arrived tor the break to bo applied if we wish to sec this fair land saved trom becoming a gambling hell. Since the legalising of the totalisator eight years ago. it is estimated a million and u-half sterling has been passed through the machine, anil unless tho metropolitan racing clubs compel reforms, the totalisator will have to bo wiped out of the Statute Book altogether.

A Wairarapa correspondent of the Now Zoalund Times writes :—A curious fact is that the settlers have a dislike to eating rabbits, and almost invariably spurn the plump bodies of the rabbits. They will carefully skin them, and then chuck aside as worthless the bodies. Yet these very men, some of them cockatoos aud struggling bravely and thriftily to earn a living, will kill good costly wethers for their own BttPA\"r:Vf>bits. It is as idle and as wasteful a prejudice as that which somo people have against eating eels. In Blenheim somo 00,000 rabbits have been, this season, preserved ami tinned for food to bo sold in London. In Wairarapa all the rabbit carcases are thrown aside to rot and pulrify. This is shear culpable wasto. Governor Kamsay explains how it was that so many hotel keepers in America Lear military titles. When the war closed, the business of tlie country was in a chaotic condition, all industrial affairs having suffered a complete prostration during the seven years’ struggle. Tho American officers came out of the war without any occupations, and aB poor as a lot of church mice. About tho only business that they could go into that did'nt require capital was tavern-keeping. So it came to pass in a short time that the head of every hostelry in the country was a colonel, a major, or a captain. And from that day to this it has been regarded as the proiier thing to invest an hotel keeper with a military title, it comes to him in the way of honorable tradition.

The bankruptcy of Sir lleury I’arkes is given by Vanity Fair as a reason for looking askance at colonial loans. It says : While sympathysing witli the misfortunes of this worthy statesman, we cannot help remarking that, if the i’remierofa colony has come to private financial grief over his unfortunate investments in securities similar to that upon which tho Government credit of that colony is based, it is a disquieting look-out for those who hold such Government bonds. If the administrators of a colony are led into such errors on their own account, it is almost certain that they will be led into equal errors on administrative account. Thus unfortunate circumstance, we think, is worth most serious attention by those interested in colonial Government securities.

The Hon. J. Service, late Premier of Victoria, was interviewed at Invercargill. Ho said he was present during the disturbance in Trafalgar Square, and he thought the police hail acted with remarkable self-control. The procession was very properly stopped. The higher and middle classes in England looked upon the Trafalgar Squint* meetings as something which should be put down with a strong hand. With reference to the articles in the St. James’s Gazette on the financial position of the colonies, he thought that far more notice had been taken of it in the colonies than in England. The feeling in London was that South Australia and New Zealand especially overran the limit a little with regard to loans, but ao anxiety was shown about them. The Imperial federation idea had greatly strengthened the interest taken in the Australian naval defences, which had done more to bring forward tho matter of the federation of the Empire than most people were inclined to think.

Good Words—From Good Authority. * * * We confess that we are perfectly amazed at the run of your American Co’s Hop Bitters. We never had anything liko it, and never heard of the like. The writer (Benson) has been selling drugs here nearly thirty years, and has seen the rise of Hos tetter's, Vinegar aud all other bitters and patent medicines, but never did any of them, in their best days, begin to have the run that American Hyp Bitters havo. *’ We can't get enough of them. We are out of them half the time. * * Extract from letter to Hop Bitters Co., U. 8. A., August 22. '7B, from Bentos', Myers A Co., Wholesale •Iruggists, Cleveland, O. Be sure and see.