The Examiner Published MONDAY- WEDNESDAY, AND FRIDAY. MONDAY, MAY 14.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3873, 14 May 1906, Page 2

The Examiner Published MONDAY- WEDNESDAY, AND FRIDAY. MONDAY, MAY 14.

The Oroua County Council at its meeting on Friday thb discussed at congorge siderable length the bridge, award of Mr Commissioner Short in the matter of the Lower Gorge bridge. Or Vincent expressed the opinion that Commissions were an absolute farce. The evidence in itself was all right, but when the legal fraternity got to work they put a different construction on it altogether. Or Vincent considered the decision of Mr Short was altogether against the weight of evidence. Cr Pearce pointed out that the Commissioner, in bis report, stated that the Oroua, Woodville County and Woodville Borough had asked for the bridge, and should be prepared to pay for it, and on that apparently he bad based the higher allocation. The following resolution was then put to the meeting and carried unanimously : Chairman be instructed to acknowledge the receipt of report of the Commission apportioning the cost of the Lower Gorge Bridge, also the warrant from the Governor re same, and to state that this Council will proceed with the work on being assured that the Government will grant. £ for £ subsidy on cost less £3140 to be first contributed by this Council.”

One of the most magnificent pieces of jewellery made a in modern times has magnificent just been completed jewel. in London. It is valued at £BO,OOO, and was made to the order of a Turkish dignitary. No fewer than 8000 brilliants, besides* emeralds and rubies, have gone to the making of the jewel, which is a plastion of surpassing beauty, and has taken two years to design and manufacture. It measures two feet four inches in length, and is made to button round the neck by a wonderful circle ofdia-. monds. The jewel itself spread out on the breast, disclosing butterflies of gems daintily poised on glittering flowers. These surround a centrepiece forming the Turkish crescent, as large as a small plate, in pearls, each of which is as large as a Barcelona nut. A verse of the Koran in rabies fills the centre of the crescent, while over it is the sign manual of the Saltan of Turkey, worked in emeralds. Hanging from the crescent are ropes of glittering gems and a square medallion the size of a cigarette case, on which, standing on an emerald mound, is the Turkish flag in rubies, backed by diamonds. Below is suspended, in a diamond frame, a minature photograph of the purchaser, and completing the whole scheme at the extreme bottom is a pearl as large as an acorn. Every piece can be detached from the others and worn separately, or with truly Oriental magnificence the whole can be suspended from the neck, covering the breast with a quivering blaze of light and fire. LOCAL AND GENERAL. An owner is wanted for a cow running on Mr J. Hastings' property at Wharito. The man Knowles has been committed for trial at Palmerston for the murder of his wife. The annual meeting of the Woodville Central A. & P. Association will bo held on the 81st inst. Quite a number of Turkish ladies of position have escaped from the harems and fled to Paris. We understand that MrW, H. Hawkins has been offered and accepted a position as auctioneer with one of the leading firms of the Auckland district.

Tenders and invited up till Monday next for nlterations and additions to the Club Hotel, Pahiatua. Plans and specifications may be seen at ithe office of Mr D. Crewe, Pabiatun.

On Saturday Mr Veale signed the agreement with the Borough to take water at Treihella for the purposes of driving his machinery.

Miss Owens, daughter of the post, master, underwent a successful operation on Friday. We are glad to bear that the youngjlady is progressing satisfactori>y. A start was made this morning with the laying of pipes for the extension of the water-supply along Pinfold Road. The work is being carried out under the supervision of Mr Pickford.

It is stated that Mr Morrison, one of the n- w settler.-, on the Edend«le Estate, t as received no less a sura than £960 for his crop of tubers grown inside an »rea of nine acres square. At the last meeting of the Martinborough School Committee, the Rev. James McCaw wrote asking permission to hold Bible lessons either before or after school hours. The Committee wisely refused to grant permission. At the inquest on the woman Rookee, a barmaid who was shot by her husband at Sydney, the evidence was to the effect that they bad been living apart for eighteen months. Rookes worried his wife to return to him, she refused, and just before the shooting said her husband 1 > mb-illy. R< okes replied, “I will do i' r you." A post card was f nnd in ookiV poc': t, i earing the wo “It ' i- because 1 lovt. you that I do this. . Where I go you go," I

The Sultan of Morocco's army Irs crossed the rivers Muluya and defeated the Pretender's forces, killing and wounding a hundred.

Councilman : “I’ve come to see, sir, if you will subscribed anything to the town cemetery.’’ Old Resident; “ Good gracious I I've already subscribed three wives.’’

The p«lace of Venables, near Paris, is said to be the costliest ever built. Louis XVI. destroyed nil the documents relating to this wonderful building to prevent its real cost ever being known.

Ladies’ Black Caracul Jackets 455, a the Economic.

The Court at Pretoria upheld the legality of placarding the repatriation proclamation, and the heads of the mining industry have resolved to facilitate the placarding.

Foreign languages are now taught with the aid of the phonograph in some schools. The machine rolls off oratory, poetry and songs, while the children listen and note the accent and pronunciation.

Geranium leaves are said to form a good dressing for cuts and wounds where the skin is rubbed off. If one or two leaves are bruised and applied to the part the wound will heal in a short time.

The -Dominion Parliament, at the request of the British Parliament, will legislate to make it a penal offence to misrepresent the condition of the labor market with a view to inducing or deterring immigration to Canada.

Gash Discount of Is in the £ at the Economic.

In the House of Commons, Mr Chamberlain stated that the only proper settlement of the Education question was the parental choice of religious teaching, the State to allow teachers without tests to volunteer to give teaching without the State paying for it.

Some mystery surrounds the death at Wellington of a Greek named Cassidy, aged 62 years. At the inquest a daughter of deceased said he was in the habit of wearing a belt containing £SOOO in notes, and only Gs was found on the body, A verdict of death from heart disease was returned.

The Agents-General propose arranging a series of lantern lectures on Australia in the middle-class schools and County Councils’ continuation schools in England. The first has been delivered at Camberwell grammar school by Mr W. Clark, of the New South Wales agency. It was a great success.

Football Jerseys cheaper than ever at the Economic.

The difficulty between Great Britain and the Congo Free State respecting the Upper Nile has been settled. The lease of 1894, respecting the Bahr-el-ghazal has been cancelled, except as regards Lado, which has been leased to Kins Leopold during his reign. Egypt will guarani ee the interest on the cost of the construction of a railway from Lado to the Congo frontier.

The Ottawa correspondent of The Times states that the report that slavery exists among the Indians, and that Indian girls are being sold at auction by relatives in Northern British Columbia, is confirmed. In one instance,J it is stated, a son offered, his mother for sale as a slave. The Department of Indian Affairs has taken drastic steps to stop the practices. Dr Pomare, who visited the northern islands of the Cook group in the Countess of Ranfurly and inquired into the alleged cases of leprosy, states that there were, in two islands especially, many traces of the disease, which had its origin many years back. Three suspicious cases were confirmed by Dr Pomare as true leprosy. Another suspicious case was declared not to be leprous. Dr Pomare states there is no cause for alarm. Precautions were taken to prevent the spread of the disease. We learn on good authority that a strong contingent of road racers from Christchurch are going for the good things in Clarkson's great road race on the 4th June next. That enterprising Company are to be congratulated upon the fact that the race isopen to any competitor and any make of machine. The arrangements being made for the safety of the riderslover the course are above anything previously attempted in the North Island. After the race the competitors are to be entertained at a smoke concert at which the Mayor of Palmerston North will preside, and the prizes will be distributed by the Premier. The most representative national conference of religious denominations ever held resolved to concentrate its efforts to secure the better observance of Sunday. King Edward authorised the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr Davidson), who presided, to express bis Majesty’s sympathy and interest in the efforts of the conference and his earnest desire for the success of the movement. Among the speakers were the Bishop of London (Dr Ingram), Lord Kinnaird, Mr Will Crooks, M.P., and Bishop Johnstone (representing Dr Bourne, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster). The Duke of Norfolk represented the Catholic laity. Towels 10d, Is, Is 3d, Is fid, Is lid per pair at the Economic. While the German sailing ship Odysseus was unloading benzine oil at Chibukin, the Turkish officials, suspecting explosives aboard, towed her to Kavab, detaining her several days beneath the batteries. Marshal De Bieberatein intervened, but the Porte professed to know nothing. The Ambassador, accompanied by the captain and some sailors of the guardship Lorelei re-hoisted the German flag aboard the Odysseus, towing her back to Chibukin. On arrival at the Embassy Bieberstein found the Porte’s representative waiting to furnish explanations, adding that the release of the vessel had been ordered. With reference to the death of MajorGeneral Sir William Gatacre, it was my somewhat painful duty to visit bis tent immediately after the Stormberg disaster (writes a military correspondent in “M.A.P.”). I never saw a man so completely bioken down. I had seen him last immediate^’before the night march that was to end in so unfortunate a fashion. He was then in the highest spirits, and the thought of failure did not apparently enter into his mind, as by all the rules of scientific warfare ho had the Boer force at Stormberg Junction in the hollow of bis hand. After his repulse his face was haggard and wasted, and his hair seemed perceptibly whiter. At first he had no heart to discuss anything, and with bis ashen face binied in his hands he kept murmuring “My poor, brave soldiers, my poor h ave soldiers 1” Presently, however, when the first shock had somewhat passed away, Gatacre sprang to his feet with characteristic mergv, and exclaimed, “ I will avenge them, every one of them 1” Late as the hour was he Himmo ed his staff around Irm and began in-fantU in prepare his plans for another attack on the B ers. Shattered and broken as his weak force was he would brook no delay, and « proposal to teleguiph to Geneial Buffer for reinforcements was indignantly scouted by him. “ Puller wants every man he has got,' 1 Gatacre declared “We are going m carry this throng b\ out s -Ives.” Th fates however, wer. 0.. .n-' him, n.d f d t *i j ■ ilt he <*v> i (]un,o shook oil the oiiccts oi that awful night i

Since the Californian earthquake the aspect of the Yellow Stone Park has greatly changed. Extinct geysers have resumed their activity and a new one has been formed.

The leading lady of a Chicago company, while playing at Linton, Indiana, spoke slightingly of the town, whereupon one of the audience drew a revolver and shot her in tho leg. The discovery that Spiers, the Standard Oil director, who was shot presumably by a burglar, has made extensive defalcations, occasions the belief that he committed suicide, arranging the burglary to divert suspicion. The Chicago Federation of Labour has declared war on the Undertakers’ Association, which it describes as the “worst trust,” by decreeing that no unionists shall buy a non-union coffin, nor serve as a pall-bearer where a non-union coffin is used.

James Johnston, aged 40 years, was found lying dead alongside his bicycle, abont a mile from the Waterloo Inn, Tahara, last month. Some time ago a man, Gill Murphy, was found dead beside the same bicycle in the same locality. Firing a revolver as a salute to a wedding procession, in accordance with an old Bavarian custom, a schoolmaster recently, at Nuremberg, used ball cartridges by mistake and killed one of the bridesmaids.

Japan, with a population of about 47,000,000, employs upwards of 3,600.000 persons in her fishery, fish-curing, and aquatic industries, including profitable seaweed and sea-salt farms. Great Britain and Ireland, with a population exceeding 45,000,000, does not employ 200,000 in these trades.

We have had a special opportunity purchasing 15 Men’s Tweed Suits. These are made from all wool colonial tweed, and will be offered for ten days only f at One Guinea each with cash.—D. G. McKibbin & Co.

Mr Thomas Hoult, the well-known Feilding horse dealer, was kicked on the head by a young horse in Wellington on Thursday morning. The side of his skull was fractured and his ear nearly torn off. He was taken to the Hospital, and at latest advices was a little better. Another of tho old identities of Wood* ville, Mr John Ross, has passed away. He died at the residence of his daughter, Woodlands Road, on Saturday. Deceased was for many years poundkeeper, and was well-known throughout the district. He bad reached the advanced age of 86 years, Mr Henry Frazer, of Lake Tuakitoto’ Otago, has purchased Mr David Howse’s farm at Ashley Clinton. The farm consists of 530 acres, and Mr Frazer has also purchased over 1000 sheep which are on the property. The transaction was negotiated by Messrs Latham and Co.

One of the ca-es of ptomaine poisoning at Palmerston North has proved fatal, Mr Charles H sking, an old identity of the place, having succumbed. Deceased was taken ill after eating pressed tongues purchased, it is alleg-d by the Manawatu Times, at the shop of the North Island Mild Cure Bacon Company in Palmerston North. We hope that a careful investigation will be made as to this allegation.

On Saturday, Mr C, H. Holland, the expert sent down to test the country around Maharahara for copper and other valuable minerals, and who has been prospect! "jJn that neighbourhood for the past w* for Auckland by the morning with a representative of this journal, Mr Holland stated that he was pleased with the prospects he obtained, and he is certain there is a great future in store for the Maharahara district. He thought after he had made his report to the syn. dicate he represented that a large and influential company would be formed. Baa, the Maori who set himself up as a “ Prophet and Brother of Jesus Christ ” in the Uriwera country, has had a brief career of glory. For some days he had the delirious joy of seeing several hundreds of curious Muoris(gathering around him to listen to his wild words, but the audience apparently soon discovered that the “ pearls of wisdom ” were mere glittering pieces of crumbly pawa shell. The latest account of the northern seriocomedy depicts the hero with fading mana and his followers returning to their ordinary bread and butter pursuits.— Post.

Persona who go shooting would do well to remember that the following birds are absolutely protected :—Avocet, bell-bird, blue or mountain duck, brown creeper, bush canary, North Island crow, shining cuckoo, dotterel, pied fantail, fern-bird, gannet, crested grebe, grey warbler, redbill gull, white heron, white-fronted heron, blue heron, and Nankeen night heron, huia, kingfisher, kiwi, knot, Antipodes lark, Southern merganser, moho or tabake, laughing owl, pied oyster-catcher, parrakeet, tui, kakapo, penguin, petrel, plover, rail, robin, saddle back, sand piper, shear water, Soares snipe, Auckland Island snipe, Chatham Island snipe, white-headed stilt plover,, stitchbird, swallow, tern, South Island and North Island thrush, turnstone, green wren, rock wren, and bush wren.

The Kaiser has turned his attention to serial navigation with special reference to war. His Majesty has been spurred to this effort by the announcement that the French Government has adopted a navigable airship, invented by M. Juillot, a French engineer, for use in war by the French army. The Emperor feels strongly that Germany ought not to lag behind in that respect, and probably owing to the difficulty he might experience in persuading the Reichstag to vote sufficient funds for the purpose, he decided to obtain money by private subscriptions. He therefore appealed to the patriotism of four Jewish millionaires who are prominent in the commercial life of Berlin, and between them they have subscribed £50,000 to form a company to carry out tho experiments necessary to ascertain which type of airship is most suitable for military purposes.

Mr Chamberlain, speaking at the Australian Merchants’ banquet, said: “ The colonies are our equals in a lesser degree, not in quality or authority. Only by voluntary mutual agreement and goodwill can we hope to weld closer the union and make it into an instrument for our common welfare and good defence. The first step must be a closer commercial union and the other steps will follow. Not unnaturally we must almost necessarily create some Council of the Empire for the care of commercial interests.” He f quoted statistics to prove that the trade of the Empire’s rivals had increased proportionately more than Great Britain’s with An-tralasia. They must consider the desirability of a change of policy and meet new conditions. Colonial statesmen had shown the way towards ■i self-sustaining empire as regards emigration and trade. WEATHER REPORT. Capt. Edwin telegraphed to-day S rong winds to gale from between north and west and smith-west, after 12 hours i -in now. GLss fall again soon. Ruin probable.

Mr R. B. Roes, M.H.R.,hae started on another trip to the backbiocks of his constituency.

Owing to the action of the King, drastic changes in the style of dress coat are likely to be made during the coming season. Already blue cloth is being used, while velvet collars have lately become a conspicuous feature in the up-to-date dress coat.

A boy fell from the gallery in the Grand Theatre for Varieties, Hanley, one Saturday night lately, into the dress circle, and received no more serious injury than a sprained wrist. In his descent ho turned a double somersault, and alighted on the head of a gentleman, who was knocked senseless and seriously hurt.

Mr C. Cradock, who has been letter carrier here for some time, and has been transferred to New Plymouth, left for that place on Saturday. It is not known yet who is to succeed Mr Cradock.

There was great excitement in the town this afternoon at 3 o’clock, the occasion being the wedding of Mr C. Banks, one of the Borough officials. Woodville has not been so gay for a long time.

English saddle-tweed trousers, 7s 6d Colonial ditto 8s 6d. Youths’ and girls jereys in cardinal and navy, with polo and roll collars. Bloomers, Golf blouses, everything of the latest. Everything at the right price. Rush rugs in unusua variety and A 1 value. Colonial Blanl kets at the right price. At LondoHouse.

Special purchase of ladies’ trimmeg hats and toques. There are 12 rangind from 13s 6d to 22s 6d, all to be sold for 12s 6d each. Customers would do well to call early and get the pick.— C. Sandfoed, & Co., the Bon Marche.

Little drops of Peppermint Made by Mr Wood,

Don’t they do a body

Such a world of good

Little drops of Peppermint Cure Make you well again.

Drive away that hacking cough,

And every ache and pain. 7 Joseph Knight, who for eleven years had lived without eating in the ordinary manner, has just died at Kingstown. While on board the yacht Eliba at Gosport in 1895, he accidentally drank some burning liquid instead of porter, with the result that his gullet was destroyed. He was placed in the hands of an able surgeon, who not only saved his life, but also enabled him to live for eleven years in comparative comfort by means of feeding through a tube leading directly to the stomach. It is remarkable that though unable to eat, he was always able to enjoy a smoke. He was about forty years of age. For Bronchial Coughs and Cold 8 Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, la 6d

Miss Isabel May, the daughter of an English naval officer, is attracting attention (writes the London correspondent of the Age) by her exploits as a farm labourer, After an experience as a nurse in the South African war, she began a course of instruction at the Swanley Horticultural College, but soon found the work there too easy-going and finicking. She wanted something more practical and strenuous, and so entered the service of a farmer at St Mary Cray, in Kent, as a general field worker. She has been for some months proving herself a first-rate band at ploughing, reaping, fence-mending, attending to catde, and other rough tasks, and has quite satiated the “ boss.” He is more than willing that she should continue indefinitely in his employment, but her own intention is to go oat to Canada when she has gained a little further experience, and turn some capital that she has to account in farming on a large scale. Miss May—or "Jack,” as she prefers to be called when on duty—owes her success as a worker largely to unusual physical strength. She is tall, muscular, wears her hair short, and works in|male attire, to which, however, she adds a short smock or skirt, reaching from the waist to the knees. It is a sort of Highlandman’s kilt, and does not impede her movements. She' attended in this rig-out as a witness i - the local Police Court the other day.