Published MOMDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND FRIDAY. MONDAY, FEB. 22. Local and General.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3666, 22 February 1904, Page 2

Published MOMDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND FRIDAY. MONDAY, FEB. 22. Local and General.

We have printed u second edition of the Souvenir supplement which contains the views of the Gorge bridge and Poet Office. These may be had at the office of The Examiner. Mrs L. Whittington wants a good general servant,

A notice re the sitting of the Assess- 1 inent Court appears elsewhere. Entries for Mr D. Crewe’s next Saturday sale appear in another column. Holiday excursion fares in connection with the races on Wednesday and Thursday. The British Guiana legislature has granted preference to Britain and Canada. A local baeksmith has received the gratifying intelligence that he has dropped into a legacy running into four figures. Terence O’Brien, a resident of Malvern, (Vic), has been proved to be heir to a fortune in England exceeding £IOO,OOO. The Victorian League of Wheelmen has decided to disqualify Ivor Lawson for twelve months for foul riding in the championship contest against Taylor on Wednesday. The members of Court Woodville, A. O. F., are requested to meet this week on Wednesday evening instead of the regular Court night. A Scotch firm, who tendered for the English mail service to Australia, offered to provide turbine steamers with a speed of 25 knots. They required two years to get the service established. Herr Lindauer and his family returned to Woodville from their wandering over the world on Thursday. They all feel they have had enough of roaming, and are content to come back and spend the rest of their days in Woodville. Mr A. P. Horne, son of Mr D. M. Horne, of Ballance, met with a painful accident at Palmerston North on Thursday. He was shoeing a restive horse, when it lashed out and inflicted a nasty wound on Mr Horne’s head. Several stitches had to be put in. * The majority of the British battleships are receiving, and the remainder will shortly receive, four 12-inch guns each. The supplementary Army Estimates total £2,750,000 including £1,500,000 for the Somaliland campaign. In many employments requiring dexterity and quickness with the hands women are far more valuable than men. For instance, where the folding of large quantites of books or magazines is required a woman as a general rule can do a much greater quantity of woik than a man. The Manchester Corporation, Ship Canal Company, Chamber of Commerce, and Meat Trades Association have cabled to Mr Seddon urgently requesting that Manchester be included in the Federal Shipping Company’s porta of call, because Manchester is the largest distributing centre in the Kingdom. King Edward, in an army order, pays a high tribute to Lord Roberts upon hia rearing from active employment. His Majesty says that he has performed for over half a century every duty entrusted to him with unswerving zeal and unfailing success, and concludes; —“ I ex- “ press my own and the army’s thanks “ for your invaluable services, and ask “ the army to profit by the example of “your illustrious career and single "minded devotion to your sovereign “ and country.” Mr S. Campbell and family, of Pihama, had a most miraculous escape from the lightning on Sunday morning (says the New Plymouth News). They were engaged milking when a flash of lightning entered the shed where 18 cows were bailed up and knocked nearly the whole of them down, killing one instantly. Mr Campbell was near the door of the shed and was knocked out into the yard, whilst Mrs Campbell and other members of the family, who were milking, all received a shock sufficient to throw them off their stools. Mrs Campbell said she feH as if she bad been beaten all over with a stick. Mr Campbell also is considerably shaken from the shock he received. On the north side of the main road a bullock belonging to Mr Strothers was struck on the hip, and the lightning travelled along the bullock’s side cutting it open, and then apparently passed out at the nose. The respective editors of the Pahiatua Herald and Eketahuna Express are having ago at each other just now. Ekt-ta-huna commented on the fact that on the visit of their cricket team to Pahiatua they were regaled with cold water ladled out of a bucket, and suggested that it was probably procured from the nearest horse trough. Pahiatua gets back on Eketahuna in a most rude manner by suggesting that he undergo an aqua pura course to “ elevate his instincts, purify his blood, stimulate bis brain tissue, normalise his cuticle, adjust his judgment, enable him to play cricket for three or four hours without saturating himself with beer, and tone him up all round. ” It is a pity for Pahiatua that he cannot be temperate in his language as well as in some of his other characteristics.

The following statement has been filed in the bankruptcy of Frederick Unwin, storekeeper, of Mangatainoka : Unsecured creditors —Palmerston N.: Barraud and Abraham .£SOO, C. Dahl £5. Wellington : Hayman and Co. .£55, Abbott, Oram and Co. £8 3s 9cl, Bing, Harris and Co. £44 Os 2d, Sargood, Son and Ewen £2 6s 3d, Myers and Co. ±6 Is 9d, Duthie and Co. £2216s lOd, Nathan and Co. £lO, T. and W. Young £ll 12s 6d. Auckland: Auckland Weekly News £7 15a 4d, Gilmore and Co. £l2 16s. Christchurch: Weekly Press £3, Canterbury Times £1 15s 3d. Napier: A. Clark and Sons £34 9s sd. Pahiatua': G. H. Smith £l2 13s 9d. Total £728 18s. Secured creditors — Government Advances to Settlors Office £SO; R, Porker, storekeeper, Wanganui, £BS, value of security £330. Assets—Stock-in-trade £270, book debts estimated to produce £2OO, casb in hands of G. H. Smith £24 14s, furniture £SO, surplus from securities in hands of secured creditors £195, horse, gig and harness £3O, set of harness £3: total £774 14s; net estimated surplus £45 16s. Figaro states that during the Pashoda crisis Count Muraviei'f, then Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the Czar’s name gave President Faure a most definite asnirance that Russia would unreservedly co-operate with France in the event of war, and urged France to gain time with a view to preparing a diversion in the direction ol India. In reply to an inquiry by M; Delcasse, Count Muravieff did not object to the publication of the despatch and in 1898 repeated the promise, but M. Delcasse decided to omit making any publication. Rumours were current in the lobbies of the French Chamber that M. Delcasse, had resigned. M. Combes immediately and emphatically contradicted the rumours. The Times says if peace wapreserved during the Fashoda crisis, it was entirely owing to the calmness and good sense of French statesmen. We are the successful purchasers of a rather large range of plain b! wk lustres at a very great discount. We intend giving our customers the benefit and quote plain black lustres, gu uant* ed sterling goods, at following prices ; -2 6 I for Is fid, 2s 9d for Is 9d, 3s 3d for 2-. 3s 9d for 2s fid, 8s 11(1 for 2s 9d. Goods are now open for inspection, and mark'd at these prices in our doorway, and we intend selling them tit these pnet-s ring our big reduction sale only, t'la i

bargains too numerous to par.icma: .sic, gaudfgrd & Co.. The Ron Marche.