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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXX, Issue 8697, 4 January 1907, Page 2

llatepaycrs and householders are reminded of tko addresses to b,a given by Messrs S. J. Gibbons and McE!downey in the Opera House tliis evening at 7.30 sharp. Only those entitled to vote will be admitted. Mr J. J. McDonald will take the chair at both meetings. W. Creovy, hairdresser, was fined £2O at Christchurch for having sold liquor on Christinas Day without a license. Evidence showed that Creovy Jtad been doing a heavy trade and had one room in his house fitted up as a bar. Kheumo has enabled many a poor sufferer from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, and lumbago 'to' .babe more enjoy health and happiness. 2s fid and 4s;fid. Sold everywhere. OurSfoz black flexible felt hats rx? j just the thing for hot days — so cool am. comfortable. A large assortment of ( Panamas —9s fid, 18s fid, 22s fid to 37s j fid. Big selection cool underwear, new | ‘lies, Shew tennis shirts, at Neal’s 'Per- ■ bpugm street, Feilding.* >

i the whole, Mr Isitt com 'idersfhrit .Iteration of electoral bouL 'm lll ® B H i'in his party’s favor, althou ?. ■'hey ot want to spread the., no-. “sense fcory except by the people’s vi. '* 6resident of Pukepapa road, A nr ‘ informs ns that his potato crop h ‘ as ruined by wire worms, hardly a to being left untouched. As if to pe the underground enemy, quite a ber of potatoes have formed far up stalk, where leaves usually appear, is stated at.Gisborne that in conion with the acquisition Of the Te estate in that district Government exerci£s the compulsory clauses of Land- for -Settlement Act no agreet with the owner, the Hon. Eandall [dounson, as to price having been arrived at. .'The question of auctioneers’ licenses was tiiscussed' ».c. a meeting of the Ash- j burton branch of the Farmers’ JJnij-drf on Saturday and it was.vfe'herally thought that as stock mojjjfly used the country roads and hagS&y any in towns or boroughs the Boards should get portion of/fbe auctioneers’ license , fees. “jSffe trouble is that the immigrants Sffom England who say they are farmers or farm labourers don’t want to be farmers here, and the clerks, who know absolutely nothing about it, want to be farmers,” said Mr James Mackay, of the Labour Department, to a Times representative. Some little excitement was evinced at at Suva a few days ago by the appearance of a waterspout in the harbour. It formed near the passage of the harbour and travelled towards the Tamavua river, creating no small disturbance. The column of water passed about 100 feet off the stern of the steamer Suva.

A member of H.M.S. Prometheus, who deserted the vessel at Auckland in March last, was arrested in Wanganui by the local police. He was brought before Mr 11. L. Stanford, S.M., yesterday, and remanded till 10th inst„ in order that enquiries might be made of the Prometheus’ whereabouts.

The iron has evidently entered into the soul of the writer of an article on the problem of domestic help in the New Zealand Times. He concludes with the petulant exclamation : “To the community at large snob a question as preference to unionists is of little importance compared with this difficult problem which touches every household.”

To a statesman who was complimenting him on his splendid physical condition, President Eoosevelt replied : “ I suppose I ought to pull myself together and assume a weary air, and say that my strength was being taxed to the uttermost with the cares and duties of my high position, but the fact is, 1 like the job. I like being President of the United States.”

The gipsies, who were recently camped near Christchurch, did not receive a hearty welcome. Their ideas of sanitation and hygiene were not highly developed, and on general grounds the party were kept under close police surveillance by day and night during their stay at Sydenham. The police, however, discovered nothing against them. They could not be moved on as they hud hired a paddock for a week.

One indication of the earliness of the present season is the fact that several Nelson tomato-growers are picking ripe fruit from the outside plants. From one or two plantations it has been possible to gather three or four cases at a picking. Eipo tomatoes outside any time in December; denote unusual earliness ; but lo be able to pick on the 20th or 21st of the month is altogether exceptional.

A team of Wellington polo players (Messrs C. Cooper, 11. Levin, D. Itiddiforcl and Grace) have been playing a series of matches in this distaict. They beat Parewaiuii on the Bulls ground on Friday last by 0 to 3. But the Bulls team, consisting of J. G. Wilson, A. Kciller. It. Wilson and K. Dalrypiple, won by 5 to 2. The visitors played Fern Flats cu Monday and beat them by sto 3. The .Fern Flats team were .R. Bryce. A. J. Coleman, B. Coleman and H. Cameron. The Parewanni team was Scotts (2), McKenzie and McKclvie.

The Chief Chemist, reporting on a specimen of supposed phosphate, says it is merely pink limestone. lie suggests as a test for phosphatic rock a mixture half muriatic acid and half water. This will dissolve limestone with effervescence, but in the presence of phosphates wiil dissolve the rock without any effervescence.

Government recently decided, with a view to debiting each department with its own share of postage that official stamps .should he used and the stamps have been issued to all the departments. They arc the ordinary issues overprinted with the word “ official.” Philatelists are informed that Civil servants arc under pain of a tine of £5 for selling any of these stamps in an unused condition or exchanging them for others,

The punishment for a second offence is dismissal.

Mr Gray, M.H.K., yesterday telegraphed to Mr ilall-Jones, staling that large numbers of excursionists from all parts of the colony wore very anxious to have their tickets extended to, say, January 31, and that he hoped that m the interests of the Exhibition the Minister would grant the request. Mr Hall-Jones replied regretting that as the tickets were available two mouths from date of issue and were a liberal concession on ordinary fares ho could not see his way to comply with the request.

A black retriever dog, named Scot, saved the lives «f his master and mistress at the expense of his own life at Silsden, near Keighley. The dog belonged to Mr and Mrs Charuock, who slept on the iop floor of the residence. Late one night they were awakened by the dog jumping on their bed and barking and licking their faces. They found that the house wa* on fire, and had just time to escape. The dog was found afterwards, burnt to death in the hedrooom. The dog slept in the basement ,of .the house, and could easily hare escaped had ho not gone upstairs to warn his master and mistress.

At the termination of the meeting cf Feilding Borough Council .last week several of the Councillors expressed their appreciation of the services rendered to the Council hy Mr A. G. McFarland, the reporter of the Star,

who is leaving to join the Manawatu Daily Times. Their relationship had always been of a most cordial nature, and ho had shown untiring energy and impartiality in reporting the meeting. They trusted his '.career would be a successful and prosperous cue, A resolution to the above effect was eaiiried unanimously.

A forme? resident of South Canterbury, writing from Buenos Ayres to a friend in Christchurch, says Argentina may bo competing with Ivcw Zealand in the London market, but at a terrible loss to the companies interested. The greater part of these companies have made freight contracts for three or tour years and they must supply the freight. Markets have gone against them here, and some of them are losing from £IOOO to £2OOO per week. These companies, while stock prices were low, could plump their meat into London and show a profit. To-day they cannot, and never will so long .as the tendency of Argentine to go over from sheep-breeding to agriculture continues. The number of stock of the country is steadily falling and meat prices arc keeping high.

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Sir W, F, Hely-Hutchinson's term as Governor at the Cape hasi been,extended to 1909. Westport Coal Co.’s output last year was 571,559 tons. The Seddonville State collieries output was 36,048 tons Pour shocks of earthquake were felt at Kaikoura this morning, one very severe, at 6 o’clock. Two strangers, Delaney and Gibbons, have been committed for trial at \Vestport for burglary at a hotel. They rcLUOved the cash register and contents. T.he Daily Telegraph states that the ]g,ight Hon. James Bryce, who has been appointed Ambassador 1 to 'Washington, has been oSerJeUTa, peerage. ' Another cffo.irf is being made to recover thfh' Tllingamite treasure, fv auxiliary schooner Huia having ft K.aiqJara on Friday last for the Three ✓yKings. The manager of the Fijian Firewalkers is enquiring (says the Wanganui ' Herald) whether the showgrounds can be obtained for an exhibition in that ' town. The firewalkers perform in 1 Wellington on Tuesday and Wednesday next. A lad of 16, while ascending Pac- | kakariki hill, dropped his gun. The charge went off, the shots going into the posterior portion of his body. Ho now ' lies in a serious condition in Welling. ton Hospital. 1 In our wanted column will be found an advertisement for a working house- ; keeper, which we hope will produce a ■ satisfactory reply, it need hardly be ; said that the bona tides of the advertiser ‘ is quite above suspicion. A contemporary, more in sorrow than j in anger, condemns the anomalous alterations of “ the electrical boundaries ” in the locality over which its widelycirculated banner periodically flutters. l Mr W. Baker, jun„ of Makino, has i decided to make farther additions to ; his prize flock of llomneys. Ho has ■ also purchased some of the leading i prize-takers at the recent Christchurch show. In Denmark any person who at the , age of 21 pays to the State the sum of L £G 10s is entitled, if lie reaches the age , of 65, to an annuity of £l3. But if ho ; dies before that age the money is fori felted. , Mr W. J. Birch, writing from Port

Said on November 27th, advises us that he is on his way hack to New Zealand. He was to spend Christmas in India, and leave Colombo on 12th January, arriving in Sydney on February Ist. He hopes to be among his old friends again early in February. When the London County Council came into being in 1 SSI) the debt it took over amounted to £17,563,262. Last year this debt had increased to the total of £44,020,262. The annual expenditure had increased from £3,303,623 in 1889 to £16,178,010 in 1905. A telegram from the Postmaster at Mongonui reports that a ship has been wrecked on the Three Kings. Six of the crew are on the islands. The vessel is the barqneutino Elverland, which left Newcastle for Auckland on December 14th. She struck on Saturday last. The Captain and five of the crew landed atPnkenuiafc 1 a.m. on Friday. The remainder of tire crew are on the Three Kings. In reply to a cablegram forwarded by the Premier, through the Governor, sending greetings from the Government and people of the colony to the King and Queen, the Governor received the following reply from the Secretary of State for the colonies : “ Their Majesties send your Government and the people of New Zealand sincere thanks for Now Year greetings and expressions of loyalty.” Some idea of the inflation of land values in Wellington may be gauged from the simple fact that the latest gale at Miramar represents an advance of nearly 600 per cent within four years. A property of 36 acres, which in 1903 was parted with to a syndicate at £lO5 an acre, last week fetched over £26,000, representing (loss reading) something like £928 an acre. Those nursing this particular baby evidently expect to unload at over £lt)00 an acre.

Islands have been known to disappear altogether. Some years ago Aurora Island, in the New Hebrides, entirely vanished one night, leaving no trace behind. Seventeen years ago a new island made its appearance in Tonga, and was promptly “annexed” by a loyal British trader, who “ boarded” it and proudly hoisted the Union Jack on the highest part. Falcon Island, as it was named, lived for about a dozen years, attained, to the dignity of growing a few banana and cocoanut trees, and tli.cn one day disappeared in just as mysterious a way as it had come. Mr George Gray, says the Wairarapa Daily Times, who has just returned to Masterton from Wanganui, states that the Wanganui Baud is playing splendidly, and their chances of winning at the Christchurch contest arc considered good. The present combination is undoubtedly the best the band has yet •had, and they have champions in their ranks. Mr Tom Gray, an old Mastertonian, is playing solo trombone, and Mr T. Eodgers is playing solo cornet. The hand is well supported by the public, and during Christmas week they took over £2OO in carolling and concert money.

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