The Examiner. WEDNESDAY, JULY 1. Local and General.
. The ordinary meeting of the County Council will not be held until Monday. King Peter has decided to re-inter the body of King Alexander will full ceremony. It is understood that the Federal Parliament Commission recommend Carcoar as the capital. Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day; — Strong winds from between north-east and north and west atter 20 hours from now. Glass fail. We .ther warmer. Cant- Nelson has received the intimation that Sergt-Maj ir McNair has been appointed to the sth Wellington (Ruabine) Battalion. After nearly 43 years’ Government service Mr G- Kelly, clerk in the office of the Napier Magistrate’s Court and official native interpreter, will retire in August on a well-earned pension. There was a large meeting of the Ladies’ committee of the Band Carnival hold in the Drill Hall on Monday evening. Mrs Hounsell occupied the chair Arrangements were made that the various stall-holders should hold their meetings when and where they liked and a draft programme was made out. It was decided to call the affair the “ Geisha Carnival.”
M. Combe’s majority in the French Chamber of Deputies is dwindling in connection with the legislation preventing the as dissolved religious orders acting as lay leathers, and the suppressions of many female orders. M. WaldeokEousseau, in the Senate blamed M. Combes for going beyond the Association law. The latter was designed to control but had never been used to exclude.
No passengers will be carried on " Wild Cat ” to-morrow evening. A young man seeks employment of any kind in the farming line. The Borough Council will meet tomorrow evening to pass the balancesheet. A reward of £1 is offered for the recovery of a brown mare lost from Maharahsra. Mr J. H. Trimmer has started night olasse-. for young men in Kumeroa. These should be very much appreciated. The Parisian police, while attempting to arrest an anarchist named Parmeggiani, discovered pictures in tapestry of ancient arms to the value exceeding one million francs. It is believed that he was a receiver of international thieves. Two women barred the narrow staircase enabling Parmeggiani to escape to the roof.
Lord Salisbury, speaking in the House of Lords, declared the feeling aroused ini New Zealand regarding the Privy Councl judgment was based on a total misapprehension. The judges assured him they never intended to attack the New Zealand Court of Appeal, or comment in any way on the character, or conduct of the proceeding. The attention of the German artillery experts is at present engaged on improving Birkland’s electro-magnetio cannon. Although it is only available in forts and is too complex to be trusted to an ordinary gunner, it is believed by the German authorities to have a great future before it. The principal of this new gun is tho passing of a powerful current through wire spirals in the bore without heating. It throws a 501 b projectile more than three miles with accuracy, but the inventor claims that he can increase this distance four fold. A science paper remarks that this is the first electro-mag-netic gun that German artillerists have found practicable.
A special meeting of the Stewards and Trustees, of the Woodville Jockey Club was held on Monday evening, to consider a plan of the proposed alteration to the course and additions to the buildings. There were present —Messrs McCormick (President), Buchanan, Monteith, Mackie, Stace, Leithead, Peebles, and Harris. The Secretary reported that ho had received apologies from Messrs Bolton and Grinlinton, who were Trustees of the club, but they were agreeable to the money for the purchase of Mr Manisty’s property being raised in the manner spoken of at the special general meeting. Nearly two hours were spent in discussing the terms on which the money was to be borrowed, and the personal responsibility of the Trustees and Stewards, and it. was resolved to adjourn the meeting until next Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock in the meantime the secretary to find out these particulars, and also if it would not be better to get a mortgage without the monthly payments.
The balance-sheet of the Bank of New Zealand for the year ended 81st March shows a profit of £195,590. The full report of the trouble be tween Mr E. Walker and the School Committee is unavoidably held over.
Lord Lvt'on is mention'd "8 a possible successor to Lord Tennyson as Governor-General of the Commonwealth
More than 1000 people in Paris earn a living by fortune telling. Their joint income is said to amount to about four hundred thousand pounds annually.
The American newspapers are amused at the Kaiser’s eflusive compliments to the squadron at Keil, and described him as a great actor, and the whole world his audience. The papers recall how near the Americans and Germans were fighting at Apia and Manila,
The Children’s Carnival in connection with Holy Trinity Church Ladies’ Guild, which was such a success when given before, is to be repeated next Wednesday in the Dri 1 Hall. In addition to the children’s dances, there will be choruses by the Snowflakes, and a dance will follow for "dults.
The glare of a fire in the direction of Kumeroa was Hvervable-i in Woodville on Sunday evening, and we learn that a small in the township was destroyed. Mr J Wright’s furniture was stored in the building and ail was burnt. There was a policy of insvr nca in the South British office on Mr Wright’s furniture.
School Comini l tee ain'mi'i'a. —Mr Nicholas to Mr Walker —" Such a statement is nothing mure than a rotten lie.” Mr Walker—“ I would like to point out to Mr Nicholas that other people can speak the truth as well as him. ” Mr Nicholas —”1 quits believe that under great provocation you could.” A respected lady in the district, who. has the most kind and genial husband imaginable, was seen to be wearing a black eye yesterday afternoon on the station platform. It happened thuswise: that on turning suddenly round from watching'the express go past in which was her daughter, her eye caught the verandah post instead of the object of her affection. No blame is attached to the husband.
If toothache gives you cruel pain, Be thankful it is not a sprain ;
From toothache we assure you Bock’s Herb Extract will cure you. The above is free from acids, being a purely herbal compound, gives instant relief, without injuring the teeth, anp proves permanent in most cases. Bock’s Herb Extract. Price Is. May be obtained locally from Monteith Bros, and A. E. Hugh.
Scalds are always painful and frequently quite serious, but Chamberlain’s Pain Balm, is a liniment especially suited for such injuries. One application gives relief. Try it. D. B. Harris sells it.
Toothache is a severe test of a man’s philosophy. A simple remedy is to saturate a piece of cotton with Chamberlain’s Pain Balm and place it in the cavity of the affected tooth. One application gives relief. Try it. D. B. Harris sells it.
What happened to Jones? who knows Perhaps ’twas a cold in his nose, Or maybe a cough, which he conld nt
shake off,. And denied him the joy of repose ; Quite likely he both did endure, Which him to his room did immure,
Till a friend said one day, Drive your chills all away With— Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 9 Nothing succeeds like success, and successful trading enables C. Saodford & Co. to offer 25 Ladies’ Maos, 45s quality for 355, and the 25s for 19s Gd. All new up to date styles, and reliable makes. They are also returning in cash 4s in the £to all purchasers of gents’ macintosh coats, Standard makes and at all prices. If a client of the Ocean is killed by accident it will pay his representatives £100; if be loses two limbs, or both eyes, or an, eye and a limb, it pay him £100! if he loses one limb or one eye it will pay him £SO; if he is laid up by an accident it will pay him 10s a week for 26 weeks, all for fourteen and six a year or less. Larger amounts in proportion Rowe Fennel. i!|»ent. 180jyl A Gough is Not a Disease, but a symptom. It indicates that the lungs and bronchial tubes are inflamed. This inflammaiion often heads to pneumonia. The surest way to ward off pneumonia is to use Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy on the first appearance of the cough or cold. It always cures and cures quickly. D. B. Harris sells it.
Gone I! Vanquished!! Absolutely cured I! The old man’s cough M gone. For years he was troubled with asthma; now he is quite cured; Bock’s Balsam has cured I It has cured others ! Has cured thousands I Book’s Balsam cures Bronchitis in all its stages—old standing coughs, ordinary colds, heals cuts) cracked hands, etc. Bock’s Balm is free from narcotics; relieves everybody; many a blighted life made happy by it. Prices Is 6d. Obtainable locally from Monteith Bros., and A. E. Hugh.— Advt. 316
The half-ton cheese which will form one of the principal attractions at the forthcoming Winter Show at Palmerston is expected to arrive shortly. This mammoth cheese has been manufactured at the Edendale Dairy Factory by Mr. James Sawyers, one of the leading cheese makers of the colony. It contains £lO worth of coins ranging from half sovereigns to threepenny pieces, and slices of it will be sold during the Show at one shilling a piece. The society should have no difficulty in effecting a quittance of the entire cheese. A feature of the Winter Show will be hockey and football tournaments on the Show grounds, for which clubs from the majority of the North Island centres are entering teams. The world’s best timekeeper is said to be the electric clock in the basement of the Berlin Observatory, which was installed by Professor Poerster in 1865. It is enclosed in an air-tight glass cylinder, and has frequently run for periods of two or three months with an average daily deviation of only 15-lOOths of a second. Yet astronomers are not satisfied even with this, and efforts are continually made to secure ideal conditions for a clock by keeping it not only in an air-tight case, but in an underground vault, where neither changes of temperature nor of barometric pressure shall ever affect it. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is intended especially for coughs, colds, croup, whooping cough and influenza. It has become famous for its cures of these diseases over a large part of the civilized world. The most flattering testimonials have been received, giving accounts of its good works ; of the aggravating and persistent coughs it has cured ; of severe colds that have yielded promptly to its soothing effects, and of the dangerous attacks of croup it has cured, often saving the life of the child. The extensive use of it for whooping cough, has shown that its robs that disease of all dangerous results. It is especially prized by mothers because it contains nothing injurious and there is net the least danger in giving it, even to babies. It always cures and cures quickly. D.B.Harris sells it.
For Influenza and Cold in the Head take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure Is 6d and 2s Gd. By an announcement elsewhere it will be seen that Miss Mills (late of Kirkcaldieik Stains) has arrived, and is nowin charge of the dressmaking rooms at Messrs D. G, McKibbin & Co’s. Her reputation is such that the firm has every confidence in recommending her to their customers. —Advt. W« have jnst made a special purchase of ladies macintoshes —usual price 255. We are are gbing to clear them at 8s 6d each; also about ten dozen ladies fancy belts usual price 2s Gd to 5s each ; to be cleared nt Is each. See our window for them. The Economic, A. Rosenberg & Co. The Greatest Danger from colds and influenza is their tendency to result in pneumonia. If reasonable care is used and Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy taken, all danger will be avoided. It will cure a cold or an attack of influenza in less time than any other treatment. It always cures and cures quickly. P. B. Harris sells it.
• Elsewhere Messrs D. G. McKibbin & Co announce that having purchased a leading manufacturer’s sample clothing at a discount of 4s in the £, they are offering their entire stock of men’s, youth’s, boy’s, and ladies’ macintoshes at the same discount, viz., 4s in the £ sterling. This we need hardly say is a unique opportunity which will no doubt be largely taken advantage of.
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Woodville Examiner, Volume XXI, Issue 3572, 1 July 1903, Page 2
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