THE Thames Advertiser. Favour to none; fear of none; justice to all. MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1894.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 7958, 29 October 1894, Page 2

THE Thames Advertiser. Favour to none; fear of none; justice to all. MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1894.

The football match on Saturday be-t'-vcon the High and Parawai School Clubs resulted in a win for the former by U pointy to nil, A special meeting of the llincrs' Union will bo held in tho office on Saturday evoning, November !3r<], at 8 o'clock, the business beinc? to confirm liotico of motion ro now rules, In SwiizW a milkmaid or man gets bettor wa«cs if gifted with a good voico, because it has boon discovered that a cow will yield one-fifth more milk if soothed during the milking by a pleasing melody. A lady-witness in a case in tho Ma<?is» train's Court lately described a (.'hiim. man as boin£?" rather »ood looking—in fad, more like a wickod Europoan than a Uiinaman." Tho description was grcctd with ranch laughter. Wohavobcon roqucstod to state that all orders that have been left with Mr Dalton, tailor, of Pollen street, and not called for, will bo loft at Mr Carl Tomm's Post Office Hotel, Mary street, who will attend to tho delivery of tho caiuo.-r [Advt]

As will be scon by an advertisement in another column an ontertaiumont,'by the pupils attending the Convent High School, will bo hold in tbo Oddfellows' Hall on Tuesday, 6th Novomber. Tho programme will consist of vocal and instrnmontiil selections, whilst tho cnutntii, " Children's Queen," will also bo performed. A pitiable oaso of distress recently came under tlio notico of a settler near Mastorton. A lad, about 16, of respectnblo appoaronce, feebly knocked at the frontdoor, and then fell exhausted on the verandah. Ho was supplied with fond, and soon rccovorod sufficiently tothank bis entertainers and dopart. And this in a country whoro starvation should bo unknown. A curious box wns rocontlyfound amid tho ruins of Pompeii. The box was raarblo or alabasfcor, about two inches squaro, and was found to be full of a pomatum of grease, hard, but voryfragrant. What tho porfumo was mado of cannot bo con[jocturcd jiow; but it is singular that 'riioii'in tho nineteenth century should bo ablo to regale their noses with porfumos prepared in tho first.

Tlie Eiffel Tower, now in procoss of erection atWombly, by London, lias reached tho first stage, and .ilrrady affords a magnificiont view, extending for miles in every diroetion. Two hnndiod men havo bpen employed on the work for tho past nine months, and the contractors have 16 months in which Ipcorajploto the structure. Its total height will bo 1150, which is 56 feet in excess of tho combine*! heights of tho great pyramid of Ohenns, the Smtuoof Liberty and fiio spiro of Trinty < hurch in Fevy York, and also A fow feet highor than tho Washington monument piled on top pi the Great Pyramid, and crowned in its turn by tho Obelisk of Lwxon, at Paris.

Sineero regret was oxprespod on Satur r day afternoon when it became known that Miss Buokland, oldost daughter of Mr 0. Buckland, proprietor of the Saintation hotel, had passed away to hor long home. Deceasod, who was a universal, favourito, especially on account of tho amiablonoss of hor disoosition, was a victim to that dreadful disoaso, conuumption, and bus consequently boon a sufferer for some oonsidcrablo time past, She was, howcyer, always aWo to get about until Saturday mpming, whon serious symptoms sot in, and though ovorything nossiblo was done for her sho passed quietly away about 2 30 o'clock Tho boreaved father and family havotho sympathy of a large circle of acquaintances in the bcrcavemont thoy have boon called upon to onduro.