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Woodville Examiner, Volume XXV, Issue 4255, 19 April 1909, Page 2

A girl or domesticated lady-help is wanted for Dannevirke. Mr W. Eemuant wants fifty cords of matai cut The Woodville School Committee will meet this eve niog. The Town Clerk notifies that the water servi.ce will be shut off to-morrow morning until midday. Wilbur Wright has commenced aeroplane flights in Rome, his exhibitions causing great excitement. At | the meeting of the H.B. Land Board on Friday, W. E. Brightwell's application for section 3, block 4, Woodville, was approved. Information is wanted as to the whereabouts of a bay or brown gelding which strayed from the Oringi camp on Easter Monday. Rev. Bates telegraphed to-day as follows:-Northerly moderate to strong winds j glass fall slowly; probably very cold night. There is an outbreak of diphtheria at Kaitangata. Seven cases have been reported. One patient is dead and ihrec others are in a serious condition. A special meeting of the Horticultural Society will be held on Friday evening. A full attendance is requested as the business is important. The Railway Department will issue holiday excursion ickets to Wellington on the 20th and 23rd inst. on the occasion of the Wellington races at Trentham.

We understand from Messrs Husband & Finch, land agents, Woodville, that they have disposed of the following properties lately:—Mr Fendall's 140 acres at Masterton to Mr Francis Woods; Mr Hanson's 260 acres at Nireaha to Mr James Gibson; Mr Bayliss' 200 acres at Hukunui to Mr John Martin; Mr P. Scally's 10 acres at Mangatainoka to Mrs Hughes; Mr Woods'l39 acres at Mangatainoka toMrFendall; Mr Gibson's Pahiatua town property to Mr Wilson ; Mr James Wilton's 30 acres at Mangatainoka to Mr Gibbons. You cannot hear the great operatic stars, but the great composers of music may be your daily companions. All yo.'J want is a piano—a good piano. Inferior pianos are an irritation. The JJrcsden Piano Com any stocks only good pianos, selected with special regard to New Zealand climate and conditions. The Dresden Company is absolutely straight in its dealings. That is principle. You can buy a pi»no on such easy terms that you will scarcely feel that you are paying for it. Mr M. J." Brookes is Manager for the North Island. Local representative, Mr John Grant. For influenza take Woods' Great Popjermint Cure. Never fails. Is 6d and !6d.

A sneak thief the other day paid a visit to the Oamaru Hospital and stole from the safe a quantity of meat intended for the patients. Tiny tubes of radium bromide are now being sold to doctors at <£loo each for internal therapeutic work. Each holds about the sixth of a grain of i radium bromide. We would remind our reauus of the exhibition of drill to be given at the at the school on Wednesday afternoon. It promises to be well worth a visit, and as the object is a good one, we hope to see a bumper attendance. A man, named Donald Boss, who was arrested at Teapa, near Hamilton, on Friday, was fined £]so for sly giogselling at Te Awamutu. He cleared out to South Africa, and a warrant was executed on his return. Mr Henderson, the Labor leader, stated he was determined to enforce discipline in the Labor Party. Since Mr Grayson's election a collision had been inevitable. Mr Grayson, interviewed, contrasts "the Old Gang of Labor members " with " the advance guard who were sick of toadying to the Liberal party." At a meeting of Arnst's backers at Christchurch on Friday evening it was decided to accept Webb's challenge to row for the championship of the world. It is probable the race will be rowed towards the end of M ay. The place where the race is to take place is not fixed, but if suitable arrangements can be made with the Union Company, the race will be rowed at Akaroa. More matches are used in Britain than in any other country in the world. It has been estimated that English people use an average of eight matches each person per day, and annually over 1,700,000,000,000 are burned, 'I he largest match factory is in Austria, and each year it uses 22,0001 b of phosphorous, turns out 2,(500.000,000,000 matches, and for the boxes alone 160,000 ft of wood is used. The Union Congregationalists at Leigh, Essex, have transported their church, an iron building, 54ft by 20ft, weighing abort 14 tons, from Oakleigh lVk Drive to Pall Mall, a distance of about a third of a mile. The church was raised and 60fc lengths of stout timber placed beneath, these resting on iron rollers. A powerful traction engine was then brought into line, and the church was then hauled along the road by means of steel wire ropes. The s.s " Corinthic " brought a large shipment of the latest Welsbach lamps. These new lamps are an improvement upon the older inasmuch as the mantles cannot blacken even in a draught, or by careless handling. Of course, everyone knows how much the Welsbach bu mors and mantles improve gaslight; w 11, the same principle is adopted in th'ir keroseno lamps, and the improvement is just as great. Welsbach burners and mantles can be readily fitted to ordinary lamps. The Hon J. A. Millar, Minister for liailwa.\ s, stated, in the course of an interview, that the traffic on the North Island Main Trunk Railway had so far exceeded all expectations.. . The question was whether it would', continue at the present Tate, or r \vas it merely the novelty of the new route that was Appealing to the people. If the present traffic on the through line ' might be taken as a fair indication for the future, there was going to be a very heavy business done. .'.•... ' - For Millinery. arjd. Dressmaking, C. Sandford & Co. are'to the., front as usual. We have experienced an exceptional season for Millinery, having turned out and trimmed a far greater number of hats than ever before. -Mrs Kinnear is the only authorised and up-to-date Milliner ur the district and customers can rely upon getting a'l they require in the Show Boom, and all the advantages of ah experienced Milliner. As to Dressmaking Miss Walker's style and perfect fitting is so well known as to need no puff. Gur statfig fully equipped and we are now ready tp cope with the usual rush for dressmaking at this time of the year. 1 Said Darby to his old wife Joan, " We side by side have aged and grown, But here I tell you plump and plain You shall not poultice me I There's something now to cure one faster Of cough or cold than mustard plaster. JVo more these blisters I'll endure, I'll purchase Woods' Great Peppermint Cure,"

A despatch from Evansville, Indiana, to New York, ttates that the funeral of a prominent minister of that city who died a few days ago was marked by a novel and striking feature. In accordance with the Minister's dying request the funeral oration delivered at the i grave was one which he himself composed and had spoken into a gramophone. Tho large orowd whie.h gathered round the grave listened with deep attention to the gramophone oration delivered in the well-known voice of iheir dead pastor. Another impressive feature of the graveside service was a gramo phone recital of a special prayer also composed by the deceased minister.

Another earthquake period is predicted by Mr J. T. Stevenson, F,R,A.S., of Auckland, who fixes the time as between y- sterday and the 24th instant. "I expect greatly increased activity during next week;" he said, " and have very little doubt that Ngauruhoe will be more active. If tha.t volcano were hearer the sea coasts I think iliere would be a far bigger upheaval". Mr Ste enson was greatly it]tcresfk-d in the ernptign of Mount Erebus'in the Antarctic, as described by Professor David. It appears that the outbreak happened precisely at the time when the moon was nearest to the earth.

Polishing sets for Is 6d at Nicholas' Boot Palace. * The German military authorities have decided to establish a new station for aerial warships in the vicinity of Cologne. It is expected that the necettsary sheds will be erected in the course of the present year. The sheds will provide accommodation for two airships, which will be permanently stoi-ed there. The now military station for airships at Metz, now in course of construction, will be completed in May or June. Two airships—one of the Zeppelin type and the other of the Gross type—will be stationed there. Another military station for airships just erected at Predriok j

shafen was taken over recently by the ar Office. Counting the military airship station at Tegel, near Berlin the German Government will thus possess in the future four havens for aerial warships, three of which will be comparatively near the French frontier. The way it was long, and the road it was dark, And the wayfarer fell into the park, And it filled h.m right up to thePlimsol mark, And it not only filled him but chilled him He contrived to get home all a shiver and shake, IJe'd a terrible cold a d had swallowed I a lake, But Woods' Pepperme;it Cure they induced him to take, ! Or the cold that he caught would have i killed him. «

Prince Edward, eldest son of the Prince of Wales, has finished his course at Osborne College. He joins the senior naval College at Dartmouth. The first, second, and third divisions of the Home fleet, comprising 98 battleships and cruisers, will assemble at Spithead on June 10th in honor of '.be colonial journalists. The War Office is experimentally boarding out horses at Norfolk to provide for a reserve of trained horses for cavalry in the event of mobilisation. In connection with the revolution in Turkey the Russian cruiser Tertiz has sailed from Sevastopool. It is announced her destination is the Piraeas, which will necessitate the passage of the Dardane les, which is contrary to treaty. The late Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet, was buried at Bonchurch (Isle of Wight). Despite his expressed wish to the contrary he Rector of Bonchurch read passages of the burial service. Some of the monrners were greatly indignant. Bt. Hon, F. Moor, Premier of Natal, stales that the Government is considering the advisableness of proceeding against the Zulu chief Dinizulu (who was recently sentenced for treason) on a further charge of murder, owing to the statements made by chiefs subsequently tried that they committed murder by his orders. We are sorry to hear that Mr L. Dobbyn’s daughter Rita is far from well. She is suffering from congestion of the brain, and has been ill for over a week. Bo h Drs Mules and Dawson (Pahiatua) have been in attendance on her, and the . news this morning is of a decidedly I favorable character. The trustees in the estate of the late R F. Grinlinton have decided on having a great realisation sale of drapery, etc., for one month. Every article in the shop will be sacrificed, so there will be bargains galore. T e great concession of 7s 6d in the pound will be allowed on all purchases on every complete pound spent in the shop. Mr J. A Nicholas is nothing if he is not up to date. His latest addition to the Woodville Boot Palace is rubberised leather, a new invention that is bound to command the market. It is mainly used for soleing boots, and it is guarananteed to outwear any kind of leather. Mr S. Hutching has sold his farm of 100 acres on the Manga atua Valley road to a Mr Doubleday, who takes immediate possession. Mr Hutching has purchased the five acres and dwelling on Gladstone road that belonged to the late Mr W. Isles, and on which it is Mr Hutching’s intention to reside for the future. Both sales were effected by Mr Chamberlain. • In a sermon which he preached at New Voi'k recently, Cardinal Gibbons, the 1{ ~uan Catholic Archbishop of R ■.lti:uore, strongly denounced the suffragist movement and “ the unwomanly manner in which the campaign for woman’s votes is being conducted both in America and England. i According to Professor McDougall, lof Harvard University, no , man is ustified in blaming his wife or sister foa missing a train or failing to keep an aopointment. “It is a noteworthy fact that the time sense is only feebly developed in woman,” he declared, as a result of experiments with a class of 250 woman and men students, The Foresters’ Social on Wednesday evening promises to be a most enjoyable affair. All the arrangements are now completed, and it only requires the weather to hold up till Wednesday night to make the function a huge success, for we Hear that a large number of tickets have been disposed of. The following ladies and gentlemen will take part in the musical programmeMesdames Bayliss and Jack Nelson, Miss Speedy, and Messrs W. Eccles, PI. Lawrence, Kersell and Haybittle. <■ The old castle of Etiolles near Paris, which was the favorite residence of the Marquise de Pompadour, is being pulled down. It harbored not only the Pompadour but also Napoleon 111, and the Empress Eugenie. The old furniture ahd pictures of the castle were sold lately and fetched enormous prices. Four armchairs went for 1'364. An American gentleman paid'more than! .£IOOO for Napoleon Ill’s bed, and the pictures brought high prices. ; ■Mr Fitzroy, the secretary of'the H. B. Acclimatisation Society, advertises that the shooting season this year will commence on the Ist JVfay and pnd on July 81st. The license fee is the same as formerly, viz., £l. The Society offers a reward of £2 2s for information leading to a conviction for illegal shooting. (We now'lay claim to the reward, for we heard someone shooting ducks in the direction of Bakerstown at 6 o’clock this morning). The secretary wishes it known that paradise ducks are protected this year and cannot lie legally killed. The Hamua Hotel, which was burned down on Tuesday morning, was the property of a native named Nireaha Tamaki. It is understood that the

following insurances exist:— .£4OO on the building, £460 on the furniture, and £75 on the stock. Mr Hollan's (licensee) personal;.affects were insured for £75 hut of this amount £§Q oovered three bioyoles, two of which were destroyed. Mr Holland says he is a very heavy loser fire. As the license would uinder'ordinary circumstances expire on June 30th there seems some doubt as to/ whether a'house will be carried on in i th|e meantime.

was favored withja visit from ah organ grinder on Saturday afternoon- _ The instrument was the most apiatical and whezv.y one ever heard in these parts, and was horribly out of tiine. We are afraid the poor old derelict that worked the handle did not rake in many ducats In the evening in

Vogel street there was a competition between the organ-grinder and the Army band, and the noise was the most discordant ever h ard in the Southern Hemisphere —the crowing of a thousand cocks at one time wou’d be as profound silence compared with it. Two men, described as English international thieves, robbed a clerk of a p-teket of notes worth £075 outside the Imperial Bank at Frankfurts Ger-

many. As the clerk left the bank, a stranger, canting behind him, picked up and put in his pocket a purse which had presumably been purposely thrown down. The second swindler thereupon declared that the purse was his, and summoned his confederate and the clerk to turn out their pockets. The clerk showed his packet of notes, for which the first stranger skilfully substituted a dummy, whereupon both took their leave. The clerk did not noti e his loss until he reached his place of business.

Recently a patient in the Oainaru Hospital (says the North Otaga Times) underwent an operation of a peculiar character. Some time ago a swelling appeared on the side of the patient, which continued to increased in size and painfulness. An operation was performed at the hospital, and part of a long and much corroded needle was (extracted. The patient had no knowledge of how the needle got there, and how it . had worked to the place from whence it j was extracted. All the patient has any distinct knowledge of is the decided re--1 lief that was afforded when it was extracted,