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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 11391, 5 December 1898, Page 2

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♦ United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph — Copyright. Eeceived December 4, 5 p.m. Loxdon, December 3. — At the wool sales competition is more animated. Merinos are firm, and crossbreds show a slight improve* ment. Received December 5, 1.45 a.m. London, December 4. — The wool sales close on the 13th instant. There was a good , selection at yesterday's sale. Continental buyers purchased the bulk of merinos and . crossbreds, which show a slight advance on opening rates. .Received December 5, 8.48 a.m. London, Deceniber 4. — The number of bales of wool catalogued to dare is 51,378, of which 46,930 have been sold. The Mangatoro cl.p realised 5|J. Frozen Mutton : Crdssbrfed wethers and i maiden ewes, Canterbury, 3 Jd ; Dunediu and Southland, 3 5-16 d; North Island, 3£d; lamb, not quoted ; Biver Hate mutton unchanged. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION, j Wellington, Deceniber s.— lhe AgentGeneral cables : — "Cheese, 465, prospects . encouraging; Australian butter, 110s; market ' very uncertain. fear price go down."

Stonebreakers are wanted on two large contracts. Messrs Granville & Co,, Waitara, announce elsewhere that they have not disposed of their business, but intend to carry it on as usual. A special offer for _ Christmas trade is made. 1 Owing to the steamers Rotoiti and Takapuna changing running to morrow (Tuesday), the former vessel w^ll not leave tor south until 2 p.m. instead of 11 [ a.m. as previously notified. The Takapuna will leave for Onehunga on' arrival of the express train. • The s.s. Herald leaves Wellington at noon to morrow for this port with a cargo of produce and general cargo, and . U due early Wednesday morning. After f discharge the vessel sails for Greymouth. ! Included in the cargo for this port is a craction engine. A Sydney man published the notice of L his second marriage in the Sydney Morn2 ing Herald (or, any ho v. it was pub1 lisheq), and in the same issue tbe I relatives of his first wife rose up and j inserted eight obituary notices of that . lamented lady. The Bulletin remarks r that apparently there was no premeditai tion or malice about ifc The second marriage took place 11 months and 12 days after the bereavement, but, presum1 ably out of regard to the conventionalities, the bridegroom didn't publish the fact till his first wife had been dead exactly a year. So naturally his gladsome oranges blossom bumped up against the "in memoriams "of the first wife 'a family, which were due on that lugubrious annis vereary. But some of them rubbed it in , rather by speaking of her as the " beloved _ wife" of the gentleman whose new ' beloved wife was advertised in the same column. Talk about an awkward coincidence ! i % '. 4 ' 5 Since the institution of the St John 5 Ambulance Association in 1887, many 5 hundreds of " detached " classes, and nearly 300 "centres" have been forrried in . all parts of the world, and upwards of 300,000 certificates of proficiency have been awarded. Instances of tffioient , "first aid" rendered by certificated pupils are of almost da\ly occurrence, and nume^ rous cases, corroborated by the highest medical testimony, have been reported to Sfc John's Gate, London, and are there registered, certifying that life has been daved by pupils through the application of the knowledge acquired. In October, I 1892, a man was picked up by a boat apJ patently drowned, and so sure was the ' boatman that he was dealing 1 with a corpse, 1 that he towed the man through the \rater to a yacht. The owner of the yacht at . once took him ashore, and a medical man j pronounced life ta be extinct. However I two sanguine men resorted to artificial 7 respiration, and after two hours, anima*> tion began to return. The man was then placed in bed and carefully attended to, 5 and on the following day recovered cbn5 Bciousness, and eventually quite got over ' his misadventure.