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Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1164, 1 February 1884, Page 2

The English Mail, via Ssn Francisco, closes at Palmersion this evening, W ith this issue we published an inse* issued by the Bon Marche. We direct attention to Mrs Morley's advertisements m our " Wanted " column, Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill hold their usual monthly horse sale at Feild» ing to-morrow. Mr M. F. Cottle, dentist, pays his usual professional visit to Palmerston oo Wednesday next, and may be consulted at Me R. Leary's on that date We are informed that upwards of £40 has been promised m aid of the race meetiug to be held by the Manawatn Racing Club on 24th May. Other subscriptions will douitlcss be fortbeomhg and we have no doubt the Club will be enabled to offer substantial prizes. At the last sitting of the Wesleyan Conference several of the appointments previously made were altered, among the number being the appointment of ' the Rev. Mr Simmonds to the Sandon j district, m place of the Rev. Mr Law, The wellrtknown Bon Marche drapery establishment was, according to an* nouncement, closed to-day, the proprie* tors, Messrs C, M. Boss & Co, being engaged m the work of removing to their new premises, next the Uuioa Bank of Australasia,

A number of additions are made to the Hst of stock to be sold by Messrs Ffalcombe and Sherwill on Thursday next. It is notified that the temporary repairs to the Avrahuri Bridge will be completed to-morrow, aad it will then be open for light traffic At noon to-morrow, Mr G. M. Snelson will hold his monthly sale of stock a' the Fitzheibert street yards, when be will offer 69 head of cattle and 620 shuep. The friends of the Rev W. Ballachey. la'e of Karori and Bulls, will regret to 1 hoar that be recently sustained a , before fall from his iiorse m the Christ- | oiureli district, which laid him up m bed for a week. The proprietor of Wolfe's Schnapps i have for some time pas; been advertising I ' hat an order for the sum of £l was nlaced m a case of each day's packing. Whether the element ot speculation, or die character of the article supplied has conduced to extensive sales iv this district, we know not, but it would appear thatthe manufacturers are strictly correct m their statement. Recently an order for the sum mentioned whs discovered by the manager of the Club Hotel, Mr Akers, and yesterday, Miss Marr, of th«> iioyal Hotel, discovered another placed between the label and the bottle. The Feilding Star, m referring to the newly elected Committee, says, " A new schoolhouse has to be insisted up^n, and as this will have to he obtained by overcoming the antagonism of the Wanganui Education Bo »rd," &c. As this remark if seen by member? of the Board, might lead to bad blood, and be an obatacle to harmonious relations m the future, we are requested to state that the feeling of the Star is m no way shared by the Committee, the relationx between which and the Board have during the past year been extremely satisfactory, and so far as is known the Board is m no sense antagonistic to a new building at Feilding, but has merely been unable to devote the necesHary fundw before through " tightness of the ehcHt " A man named John Toomoy ha» b*en making Palmerston hi« home for the \*m\ few days. Loomey pomhohhch a *wa#, bat appears tn lose it, at interval*, m a 3omewhat singular manner. On tvtro occasions recently he acquainted t\ut police with his loss, and on the first occasion the article was returned to him. On the second occasion ftur ener^-tic guardian of the peace took a peep into futuri'y and informed him that he would lose himself before long. This prediction was verified this morning when Toomey was discovered peacefully reposing on the footpath m Broad street, minus swag and recollection. He was removed to the state lodging house, aad will be brought before a J.P to-morrow morning if sufficiently recovered, to accourt for his actions. On the 12th January, 1867, the late Mr J. S. Ryiuer, solicitor, Sandhurst, posted it the Sandhurst Post Office, a registered letter, containing an order for £2 to a person at the Ueefer's Hotel, Lonsdale street, Melbourne. The other day, that identical letter, with the order iuside, came back from the Dead Letter Office to Mr J. W. Rymer's office, Pall Mall, The history of that letter during the last seventeen years must i/e a cms ious one* Oilier seuder.-i of letters thnt nave gone astray should not despair. If their communications do not reach those for whom they are intended, they will doubtless turn up for the benefit of their next of kin. A ghastl burial ceremony that is practised by the Mormon 3 rivets the hold polygamy has on the superstition of these creatures. Every wife that is buried has a black cloth laid on her face, and the Mormon women are taught to believe that on the resurrection day. when the righteous are called into the joys of their Lord, no hand but that of a husband can remove the cloth, and that unless the cloth is lif.'ed by his she must remain m outer darkness fc ever. A women who. believes that — and the Mormon vyoinen believe it — can't help helming herself, no matter how manj wives her husband takes. She has to keep on the right side of the only man who can take off that cloth. The Post says ; — There was a small attendance at the ninth annual meeting of the Wellington and Hutt Building Society, held at the Society's offices, Customhouse-quay, last evening, and the chair was occupied by Mr F A Krull, Chairman of Directors, The Secretary (Mr *V, E. S. Hickson) sub mitted the report and balance-sheet The substance of the former appeared m our columns yesterday. From the financial statement it appeared that the balance to credit of profit and Joss account was £1850 8s 2d. The redemptions amounted to £1717; the fines were £128 5s 9d ; interest, £841 19s sd ; mortgage redeemed, £1170; ditto No. 2 account, £230. On the other side, the expenses of management were stated to be £212 12s 9d ; interests on mortgages. £150 ; transfer (sundries), £186 14s 6d, &c. The Chairman stated that all that the Society was doing now was m the direction of winding-up. He calculated that the Society would run itself out m a year and nine months from the present time. It might be a month earlier, however, if, the shareholders availed thera?elvee of the opportunity of borrowing money on unrealised shares at the low rate of 7 per cent, J On more than one occasion during the last 3000 years the barbaric hordes of the East have overflowed their boundaries and have swept westwards, overwhelming the young civilisation of Europe and obliterating nearly all the landmarks of Western arts and progress, and at the present time, if we may credit the Pekin correspondent of one of the Calcutta papers, there is a powerful and rapidly growing party that advo« cates the making of yet another gigantic excursion towards the land of the setting sun. She has a population of 434,000,000 ; and supposing that estimate — for it is only an estimate — to be even approximately correct, China could out into the field more soldiers than there are souls m Germany, and, if she so willed, could with a host ot 80,000,000, trample all the civilisation of Europe beneath her feet. During the intervals of fine weather lately experienced (says the Wairarapa Star), the reapers and binders have been busy with the oat crop m the neighborhood of Masterton, and a iar»e quantity has been harvested. The tanners are making the beet possible use of their opportunity, and m some cases working almost night and day. It is estimated by the United States Commissioner of Penjions £800,000 will be required ior the payment of pensions during the next fiscal year. The decease of the Bradford Chronicle may act as a warning to the class ever ready to throw away their money m newspapers The paper m que tion was started as a Tory journal twelve months ago, and m five months £30,000 were lost upon it. Miss Harris, sister of the late Bailie Harris, of Dundee, who receutly pn* seDted £30,000 to the town tor educational purposes, has given £10,000 for a further extension of the High School, Scotland pays royally for her education. Glasgow University has 28 pro fessors ; 10 are m reoe'pt of upwards of £1000 a year, and 3 of upwards of L2OOO a year. Not one of them is over 60 years of age. Medical professors con--ider their salaries as only the basis of 1 their incomes.

The last observations indicate that we are distant from the sun 92,701 ,000 miles. These are the figures obtained as near as may be from the observations of the last Venus transits. Two hundred years ago one person m five had sound teeth. A hundred years ago but one person m 25 had perfect teetb ; and ia this nineteenth century age ot reform our very latest statistics show that but < ne person m 80 has perfectly sound teeth. The difficulty of dealing effectively , with leprosy mi n India is that it is hereditary, and it was not until late years that a rational system of treats ! ruent was adopted with the lower orde<of natives. Now the iso : a r ion which had been practised with this terrible I disease since the days of Moses and proper hospital care may m a geueratioo ;ibare the eiil. There is scarcely a spot throughoir the whole world that is not m intimate telegraphic connection with England. To carry out this tremendous undertaking and bring abou/ this am -zing result, no less than 1.30,000,000 have been expended, and the cis no less than 8000 miles of cable at the bottom of thf ocean. It is one of the sign-* of the times that the European nations, though quick t<.» quarrel, as of old, are slower to fight than they used to be. The City Council of Lisbon has passed an ordinance making cremation compulsory iv times of epidemic. At ordinary limes it is to be optional, but the remains of interred bodies are to bp burnt eyery fi<;e years. Lisbon, like Paris suffers from the lack of cemetery accommodation and the proximity of burial grounds to populous quarters. The Medical Times after calmly viewing all possible liquors, deliberately comes to the conclusion that beer is tb> heht of all. "Water from all impurity or suspicion of impurity id not easily obtainable; tea and coffee constantly taken, produce nervousness and '•j-ftpeptia; milk disagrees with many people, and the supply would fall short if everybody drank it. Oatmeal and water would soon pall upon the most enttiumastic palate, and those fruit syrup* and effervescing acids which are «iear to Hir Wilfred Lawson's diciples piny Havoc with their gastric juices Beer remain* ; and the journal is convinced that, if a committee of scientific men had to Hclftct a beverage for the people, it ia upon a light bitter beer, brewed from good malt and hops, that the seal of tneir approval would be placed. Such beer, this authority says, is not only perfectly harmless, but very whjlesome. The dummyism cases were not concluded to-day,at the Dunedin Board, and taking of evidence will be continued next Thursday. In addition to the scene between Messrs Stout and Deu» niston m the morning, m which, one accused the other of impertinence, another took place m the afternoon between Mr Or bell, one of the witnesses, and Mr Duncan, a member of. the Board. Mr Orbell asserted that Mr Dur.can had offered him LSOO to retire from the bidding for one of the sections, regarding whicn evidence Mr Duncan replied " It is a downright He." At lastnight's .neeting of Dunedin Jock* ey Club the secretary was instructed to communicate with the committee of the New Zeaiand Grand Nu'ional Steeplechase Ciub stating that the Duuediu Jockey Club would be willing to ent.-r into negotiations with them for holding the Grand National meeting, together with the May meeting, at Forbury, on the Queen's Birthday, and the following day, tbe affair to be conducted as a joint venture, and the programme to be made up of flat races and steeplechases uiternatel). A rancheress ef Washoe Valley has a novel method ot preserving eggs tor winter use. In summer she breaks them pours the contents into bottles, which are then tigbi.iy corked and seilcd and placed m thecellar.neck Jown. The cou<ents of the bottles come out as fresh as when put m. She puts a dozen eggs into each bottle. The E.sident Magistrate at Napier has decided that the words m the Licensing Act importing the masculine gender apply to females, and he therefore convicted two Maoii women charged with sly-grog selling. A Jnumber of G-iaborne bankrupts who availed themselves of the expiring Act are being refused their discharge by their creditors.