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Woodville Examiner, Volume XVII, Issue 2947, 19 April 1899, Page 2

Tenders for the Borough contracts advertised close to.-night.

Mr Chicjt, dentist, will be in Woodville on Friday, and may be consulted .. t Mr Nicholson's chemist shop.

Mr J. W. Cross's tender at £lO5 has been accepted for the improvements at the racecourse.

On Sunday afternoon, if the weather ia favorable, the Band will play out in Fountaine Square. The exploring barque Southern Cross has started from the Bluff on her return trip to the Antartic to rejoin the NewnesBorchgrevinck party. Mr Lemon's br f Calm (Kempenfelt— Repose) is nominated for the Wairarapa Hack Guineas of lOOgs, to be run in November next.

The annual ball ot the Mangatainoka Football Club will be held on the 26: h inst., instead of to-night, as originally advertised. Miss S. Hitchcock undertakes 'he cleaning and curling of feathers. Orders left at Mrs Hall's will receive prompt attention.

The New Zealand polo team at Sydney on Monday played a combined team of four representatives of the Sydney and Camden. The visitors won . by six gaols to one.

The finest tomb in Great Biitian is undoubtedly that of the Duke of Haniiton, on the grounds of the duke's seat. It cost over £200,000. He may not care to leave such a costly mansion when the trumpet sounds. Wild pigs are very numerous on the Buahine ranges to the west of Hastings. Pheasants are to be found in numbers just now on the Euahine ranges, as are also blue mountain duck. The latter is a protected bird. The following are the returns of the Waipawa District Hospital for the week ended April 15:—Patients in hospital, males 20, females 12 ; admitted during week, males 7, females 1; discharged, mules 9, females 2; died 0. At a meeting of the ratepayers in Pahiatua held on Friday night, it was dfcidedthat a poll should be taken on the proposal to raise a loan for drainage works and the purchase of the gas works on the 2nd May. There is every prospect of the proposal being carried. The Crown Dairy Factory Company have paid the milk suppliers of this district ever £IOOO for milk delivered during the month of March, being about £4OO in excess of that paid during a similar period of last season. The tests are averaging well, the milk supplied during March averaging 3d per gallon, with all skim milk returned.

Sir Robert Giffen, in a paper read by him at the Colonial Institne, said the British Empire was a territory of 11,500,000 square miles, 10,000,C00 if Egypt and the Soudan were included, and in that territory was a pnpjilation of 407,000,000, or 420,000,000, reckoning Egypt. Of these 50,000,000 were of English speech and race. There was a large assemblage on the Auckland wlnrf on Monday to see the Hon John McKenzie and family off, including a number of members of the Legislature. Mrs McKenzie was presented with a beautiful bouquet of white and gold chrysanthemums bound with ribbons of white and gold. Three hearty cheers wore given by the crowd as the Moana left the wharf.

A public banquet was tendered to the Premier at New Plymouth on Monday night. In the course of an address he defended the action of the Government in offering the sei vices of the troops for Samoa, and intimated that the Government would reduce by half per cent, the interest on loans under the Advances to Settlers Act, and would also amend the Act in the directions of issuing new security when £2OO were paid oil', the borrower to pay interest only on the balance.

A'correspondeni from the coast writes : —" In all probability Mr Donald Munro, of Weber, will come out as an Opposition candidate and will contest tho Pahiatua seat at the coming election. Mr Munro is weil known in Woodville and surrounding district, where he was highly respected as Stock Inspector, and has general knowledge of the requirements of the district. Mr Munro is a great admirer of perpetual leasehold by right of purchase, making the land into freehold."

At Napier on Monday, A. E. Eagleton, hairdresser, was fined £2O and costs for laying totalisator odds. Louis Freedaian, his assistant, was fined £5 for aiding and abetting the offence. Constables Torr and Baker proved the case. Tiie defence was that the police were liable as accomplices, and that their evidence was inadmissible without corroboration. The Stipendiary Magistrate (Mr Turnbull) ruled against this contention and gave certificates of indemnity to the constables.

How is this for meanness ? A man from a distant town owed a Woodville man 5s for four years. He came in yesterday with a cheque for £2 4s lid, out of which he asked that his account should be taken. He received back the '£,% and said the 4s lid would do to square the account, He then asked to be shown a certain article which was marked at 2s. He asked if the storekeeper had none at Is Gd. This he had net, so tho mean man went up 1.0 the next shop and got the article there for Is 01, That man will make money some day.

At the Magistrate's Court at Milton on Monday a parent was charged with assaulting a teacher. The particulars were that the teacher had be fin warned not to punish a daughter of ihe defendant, but did so. Defendant waited on the plaintiff and struck him. He subsequently waited on plaintiff and said he bore no malice, but in response to a lawyer's letter refused to apologise. The Magistrate spoke very strongly on the question of corpora! punishment in schools. He said it was being abandoned in everyilung but extreme f;asos of criminal conduct, and it seemed strange it should be considered necessary to apply it in p.ny form to children. The Es'sault, however, was inexcusable, and he fined defendant 10s and costs 7s, but declined to allow plaintiff professional costs.

A Duneiiin parson is complimenting himself on having discovered the besc way to put down whispering in church while the sermon is on. Ho spotted a members of his Hock at it the other Sunday, and in the midst of his thirdly he stopped short and said; " Some time ago,while delivering my sermon, J was frequently interrupted by a gentleman sitting in front of me, who gesticulated, moved about, and whispered to his neighbour, and at lust I delivered to him a sharp reprimand for his unseemly conduct. When the sermon was over my clerk in the vestry asked mo if 4 was ignorant of the fact that the person addressed was an idiot! I have since then hesitated to reprimand any of my congregation for interrupting me, in the fear that I may be addressing an idiot who is not responsible for his action." They sit it all through now without even a sigh, • Mesrs C. Sandford & Co., have much pleasure in stating they are now opening a ful} range of novelties for autumn and winter season, Smart jacket and skirt costumes a speciality. Inspection respectfully invited. The Eon Marche, "Woodville.— Adyt.

A sensational affair was made public at San Francisco recently. It arose out of the unwillingness 0 f a young man, named Henry Black, to marry Miss Thula Bigheart, to whom he was engaged. There was, however, no unwillingness on the part of the young lady or her relatives. Every preparation was inn do by them for the- ceremony, and when the wedding day came ail that was lacking was the bridegroom. The bride and her friends waited, hoping he had been inadvertently detained somewhere, and would turn up, though late. As lie failed to appear, inquiries were made which convinced the family that Black intended to shirk his obligation. Thula, accompanied by her brothers, went out to look for liim. They found him, thrashed him, and having bound him with ropes they dug a grave and buried him alive. A search for him being instituted by his friends, they found him three days later, de-id. The bride and her brothers were arrested.

While sowing grass-seed at Komakr, in the Pohangina (says the PahncTston Standard), the men have no'iced a number of bones on the land where the fire has cleared the land. These bones are very old ; some are evidently human bones, while others are the rnoa bird. Of these lattter there are at least the remains of two birds—the fire has destroyed them so much that when touched by hand they fall to pieces. Small portions of these remains have been sent to this office by Mr 1). Sinclair, Pohangina County Engineer, for inspection. Here are some questions for the anthropologist in his explorations:— What was the man doing there '? Was he hunting this large game or were the game hunting him? How came the man and the birds ri this dense bush? And what did they live on ? Or where were they before the bush was on the land ? Their close proximity to each other leads to surmise that the uioaa killed the man, or the man killed the moas. If so, who and wnere are the survivors'? The human remains must be those of a Maori. The leg or wing of so large a fowl must have been too much for him. On the day that Alexander the Great was married, no fewer than 20,202 persons were in one ceremony made husbands and wives. This seems impossible but the event really took place, as historical records tell us. This monster wedding occurred upon the conquest by Alexander the Great of Persia, which was then ruled over by King Darius. Alexander married Statir, the daughter of the conquered King, and decreed that 100 of his chief officers should be united to 100 ladies from the noblest Persian and Medean families. In addition to this he stipulated that 10,000 of his Greek soldiers should marry 10,000 Asiatic women. When everything was settled a vast pavillion was erected, the pillars of which were 60ft high. One hundred gorgeous chambers adjoined this for the 100 noble bridegrooms, whilst for the remaining 10,000 an outer court was enclosed, outside of which tables were spread for the multitude. Each pair had seats, and ranged themselves in a semi-circle round the Royal throne. Of course the priests could not marry this vast number of couples, so the King devised a simple ceremony. He gave his hand to Statira and kissed her —an example that all the bridegrooms followed. Thus ended the ceremony, and that vast number were married. Then followed the festival, which lasted five days, the grandeur of which has never been equalled since. At the last meeting of the H.B" Rabbit Board, Inspector McPherson reported as follows:—Muharahara : Saw a rabbit in the thistles near standing bush. Signs on Eoseberg's, Scott and Witherow's, Kelford's and Morley's. Saw a rabbit on Clausen's. Traces on Loveday's on the face of the range. Signs on Graham's. Matahiwi bush: Traces on Kearney's road sections; poison and traps being tried. Slight signs on Lambert's and Galloway's, also on Jensen's and Healy's boundary up face of range. South of Coppermine valley : Signs on Omundsen's. Started a rabbit at Carter's, and saw one at Beagley's, lulled two young ones at Elliot's and saw an old one. Signs at J. Morgan's, Bertram's, Thacker's and Bliss's. Saw a rabbit at Shaw's and Ormond's boundary, and another higher up the river. Saw a rabbit on Nelson's and Chambers's boundary (three killed since). From Manawatu river to Bluff : Traces on Logan's, and saw dead rabbit. Saw rabbits on Ward's and Hamlyn's. Signs near railway line. Saw a rabbit at Crosse's (four killed since). Signs on Gregory's, and on Oringi opposite Little's. Started a rabbit on D. Kemp's, and two on Holder's. Fresh traces on Pharazyn's and on Puketoi's, north of fence, Waewaepa range: Signs on J. Smyth's and on Bunning's bush. Traces on Pharazyn's, and in Hewitt's paddock; several rabbits killed here lately. Otawhao and Totara Valley: Signs on Martin's and Davis's. Saw rabbit on spur leading to Jackson's. Totara Valley: Ran a rabbit into watercourse on Pattison's; it was dt]g out and killed, To Mr T. Nicholson, chemist, Woodvine : " I have much pleasure in bearing testimony to the value of your Cough Balm. I had a severe cold with bad cough, and four other member: of the family, two with sore throats, and two with colds and cough. Three 1/- bottles of your mixture cured us all." Signed A.'W. lluust. Woodville, August 27th, 1898.

London House Dressmaking Rooms— Miss Cummins a lady of ih'st oias« experience, will arrive early in the week to take charge of these rooms. From her testimonials of experience, we have no hesitation in recommending her to those of our customers who may require her services. Our new auuunn dress materials have now arrived, and ft"; variety and value have never been surpassed. D. G. McKibbiu & Co. .Advt. A. Rose nburg &. Co., of the Economic Woodville, have just opened some very special lines for the coming season, of which they invite inspection, A very special line of kid gloves called the " Moko " at 3s 6d the p:iir should command a ready sale, as they are being sold at the usual wholesale price. To be had only at the Economic.—Advt. The fact has been universally admitted that A. Sandelis selling all goods in his line at actual Wellington prices, and is determined to continue to do. so. A splendid assortment of pormantenx, Gladstone bags, &c, just landed direct from the manufacturers, First class prime hams and bacon, Dutch cheese, and all other good things in stock. —The People's Cash Store, A. Sandel Proprietor. Advt.