A SUCCESSFUL VENTURE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11167, 30 January 1904, Page 5

A SUCCESSFUL VENTURE.

The phenomenal growth of the D.1.C., Wellington, which is of comparatively recent establishment in the North, demonstrates the readiness of the public to take advantage of an institution properly equipped and catering on right lines. To-day the Wellington D.1.C., employs about 300 people, and the wages paid amount to upwards of .£20,000 (twenty thousand pounds) per annum. The immense building still grows, and plans are now being formulated for the addition of a five-storied buildin? to the present premises. Tlie end-of -season Clearing Sale 'announced in our .advertising columns to commence on Thursday, the 28th instant, is an illustration of that Company's methods. The surplus and seasonable goods are completely cleared out at the end of the season whilst yet new and fresh, and no old or odd stock is allowed to accumulate. The management give the assurance that reductions of a specially drastic nature are faced in fashion goods, and plainer goods are liberally reduced also to bring the stock down to a mininmni point.

Don't make any mistake when buying a bicycle, but Bee that you get Britain's Beßt machine — a Rudge-Whitworth. — E. Reynolds and Co., agent*.

The Premier left Wellington for Lytteltion last night by the Mararoa .

The Waverley Dairy Company paid out about JEBOOO to suppliers last month.

There was no business at the Police Court this morning.

After a month's fine weather at Hokitika welcome rain set in yesterday. A heavy sea is running along the West Coast.

A cable has been received that the Wellington Corporation loan of .£300,000, for electric tarmways and wood-paving, has been floated in London at 96.

According to the vital stastics for this month, Wanganui has made a good start for the new year, there having been 41 births and only 10 deaths.

Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day: — Strong winds to gale from between west and south-west- and south ; glass rise ; tides high; seai heavy; rain probable; and colder weather.

The Australasian .Amateur Athletic Championship Meeting starts to-day in Melbourne. Any results that come to band will be posted at Mr J. Goss's tonight.

A Melbourne cable stales that Lord Northcote's first levee was very largely attended. He was suffering from rheumatism in the arm, and was unable to shake hands with the gnxests.

The Patea Borough Council having donated .£3O to the local High School, it is now found that the Government by law must subsidise that amoiinfc by ai £ for £ grant, and the school is accordingly in funds.

A public meeting to-night was addressed by Mr Wyatt, special envoy of the British Navy League. A resolution was passed approving the formation of a branch league in Wellington, and a committee was formed to develop the branch.

We are in a position to state definitely that Judge Kettle's transfer from Wanganui will be carried into effect. Meanwhile, the various protests against his removal wiill serve as valuable testimony to Mr Kettle's worth, if no other useful purpose.

A heavy sea is running on this coast, and the bar is too bad to allow of steamers leaving port. The Huia, which left Wellington at 1.30 p.m. yesterday, had a rough trip up, and did not reach here until 9 o'clock this morning.

The colonial mails which left Auckland on December 25th, arrived at London on the 24-th instant, one day late; those mails which left Melbourne on December 23rd, arrived at London on the 24th instant, due date.

There have been some destructive bush fires raging on the West Coast of the South Island lately, but the rain which has — according to a Press wire — been experienced there during the laßt 24 hours should haye 1 had the effect of stopping further damage from the flames.

Welcome showers fell during last night and to-day, and will have the effect of replenishing ithe tanks, many o£ which, had run very low. A night's continuous rain would do a lot of good. The weather today was much cooler thau it has been of late, and the change was much appreciated.

At the luncheon at Wellington yesterday on board the Westport Harbour Board's new dredge, Ruby Seddon, the Premier said he was convinced when the dredge got to work the big colliers loading for the Admiralty, which have to leave Westport with half cargo and complete loading at- Wellington, would be able to fill up and sail direct from Weatport.

We are indebted to Mr C. E. Hylton, the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages, for the .following vital statistics for 'the month of January: — Deaths — Town and suburbs, 4; country, 3; Hospital, 2; total, 9. Births— Town and suburbs, 32; countryi, 9; total, 41. Marriages — Presbyterian, 4; Church of England, 2; Wesleyan, 1; Primitive Methodist, 1; Church of Christ,l ; and Registrar, 1; total, 10. The committee appointed by the Masterton Borough Council to inquire into the means of escape from public places in case of fire met to-night and decided to recommend^the Council that a. number of alterations should be effected at the Town Hall, including an exit on the western side, .the installation of a better water service, and the running of a perforated pipe along the top of the proscenium, whereby .on occasion the stage could be deluged with water. Alterations in one or two churches were also recommended.

The Minister for Public Works, who has been on a visit to the soxit-hern end of the North I&land Main Trunk line, returned to Wellington last night. He states the line is completed for a distance of two and a half miles beyond Manga weka, and a locomotive is expected to cross Toi Toi bridgo by Wednesday next. The section of the line between this bridge and the Taihape tunnel is now ready to receive the rails. He states the train will be running to Taihape by June. Work on the line beyond Taihape is proceeding vigorously.

The illness from which Native Land Court Judge Butler is suffering will, it is expected, prevent him from resuming duty for two or three months. When he was at Tokaanu about two months ago he bruised his left hand while rowing a boat in which he was making a journey, on business, and blood-poisoning set in. It was feared that the hand would.' have to be amputated, but happily the necessity for such an operation was averted. The Judge is now suffering from sciatica and diabetes. Ho is under treatment at his own home in Wellington.

Mr George Smith has just completed the boring of an excellent artesian well for Mr Heisc in the Wangaehu Valley, five miles up from the railway station. From a 2-inch $>ipe down a depth of 336 feet a flow exceeding 150 gallons a minute was obtained, and although no accurate measurements have as yet been taken, Mr Smith thinks the water will rise over a hundred feet. This is the third artesian well sunk in the Wangaehu Valley and a fourth is about to be put down there for Mr Sam Woon.

Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is everywhere acknowledged to be the most successful medicine in use . for bowej^ complaints. It always cures and cures quickly. It can be depended upon even in the most severe and dangerous cases of cholera anorbus, dysentery and diarrhoea. It should be taken at first unusual looseneßS of the bowels. Sold by U.F.C.A., John T. Cooch, and F. L. Spurdle, Wanganui.

"A blithe heart and the Massey-Harris bicycle gang aye thegither." The reason is not far to seek. The owner of a Massey knows that he can always rely on his machine, that it will never fail him, and he is naturally happy accordingly. The Mas-sey-Harris Bicycle has made many a home happy, and will make many more. — Advt.

"KEAITNG'S I'OWDEE" destroys Bugs, Fleas, Moths, Beetles, and all other Insects, whilst quite harmless to domestic animals. In _ exterminating Beetles the success of. this powder is extraordinary. It is perfectly clean in application. Soe the article you purchase is "KEATTNG'S," i.«., with the signature THOMAS KEATING on each tin, aa imitations are noxious and ineffectual. Sold in Tin*, Gd and ]t #ach, by all chemists.