Rangitikei Advocate. SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1907. SECOND EDITION. EDITORIAL NOTES

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXX, Issue 8698, 5 January 1907, Page 2

Rangitikei Advocate. SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1907. SECOND EDITION. EDITORIAL NOTES

When ou the night he was elected President two years ago Mr Eoosevelt stated that he would “ under no circumstances ” accept re-nomination at the end of his term of office, ho was undoubtedly speaking in perfect sincerity. Yet at the present moment everything points to the probability of his not only being again nominated but also that he will not decline the nomination. His popularity, instead of waning, appears to increase the longer he holds office, and even in the meetings of Democrats, his political opponents, the mention of his name evokes a cheer. The people of the United States seem to feel that he is the only man in the country who will show his hatred of political bosses and moneyed corporations, not in words only, but also in deeds. Whatever the President’s personal feelings may be he will probably ie compelled to accept office in the interests of his party and of

the country. If, when the time for making nominations arrives, the Democrats appear to be formidable, Mr Roosevelu’s desire will be ignored, and he will bo forced to carry the standard of the Republican Party, willy nilly. It however, the Republican Party looks to be a certain winner, Mr Roosevelt may be allowed to have his own way, in which event the Republican nominee will probably ho either Secretary of Wat, Taft, Speaker Cannon, Secretary of State Root, or Secretary of the Treasury Shaw.

The desire of the Ministry to do something to secure the votes of the workers resulted last session in the Advances to Workers Act. The Act empowers Government to advance a sum up to £350 to any worker not in receipt of more than £2OO a year to build a house, provided he is already in possession of a site. As the Act refers to town dwellers there ia no objection made to their holding their property on the freehold tenure. The

State will advance money up to the limit mentioned at, 4$ pec cent, and the money borrowed is payable ib easy instalments spread over a period of 88£ years. Building society, which have to be conducted on business lines and with due regard to the safety of investors, cannot afford to lend money on such terms, but the State can of course call on the general taxpayer to cover-any losses which may occur in its benevolent undertaking. We doubt whether the. Act will be taken avail of to any great extent, because the town worker is often more anxious to have a grievance than to take steps, which 'imply some self-denial, in order to remove it.

One of those alarmists who are always ready to meet trouble m advance has been pointing out in an English paper the supposed daiigerof the influx of emigrants into Canada from the United States. The writer views this American invasion with feelings of dread as he considers it may lead to the ultimate absorption of Canada in the United States, or at any rate to a treaty of commercial reciprocity between the Dominion and the Republic. The view taken by the Canadian Commissioner at the Exhibition on the subject is much more bright and hopeful. “ All I want to say,” remarked Mr Race, “ with regard to that article and the influx of Americans into Canada is this: that they oome in there with their capital and their ideas of progress ; and their ideas of progress are really worth more than the capital to us. And even though they bring with them a strong American sentiment, they find our laws, our social conditions, and all our institutions free, and in many respects superior to theirs; and that our laws especially are better enforced and more respected, and they become enamoured of our Canadian system. And when they enjoy all the privileges of trade and commerce and this present century progress, they find they have nothing to gain by clinging to their Americanism. Hence they become just as strongly Canadian as those who have been born there. And nothing has tended so much to develop a national spirit in Canada as that very fact—that we are independent of the United States, and that we have been drawn closer to the Motherland. Yet we are still open for better trade relations with the great Republic —but only at their solicitation. To sum up, I would say that there is no fear at all of the bond ever loosening between Great Britain and Canada, on the lines suggested by the writer of that article.”

On page -I will be found a quantity of telegraphic and cabled news. During an earthquake in Monmouthshire houses were much shaken. Mr Taverner lias been reappointed Agent-General for Victoria for three years at a salar}' of £IOOO a year. Fourteen thousand persons, of classes, viewed the body of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts lying in state at her Stratton Street residence. English farm labourers are arriving in fairly large numbers m Hew South Wales as a result of Government assisted immigration. A fire in the main street of Homa> Queensland, destroyed five and damaged five shops. Ho estimate of the damage has been made. The success of General Booth’s AntiSuicide Bureau has been so marked that branches have been opened in the largo provincial towns. Mr Heaves, High Commissioner, is sending the ‘Wellington branch of the Navy League a piece of canvas rom the sails which the Victory had at Trafalgar.

Advice was received by last mail tha Mr L. A. MacDonald, of Halcombe ba» had conferred upon him the honor of the Fellowship of the Royal Geographical Society, London. On the subject of servant girl immigration, the Minister for Labour states that the High Commissioner lias authority, if suitable girls are available, to assist their passages, and the Government does not propose to go any further in that direction. Mr Alfred Bayley’s Toko-road property, of about 2000 acres, nine miles from Stratford, lias been acquired by the Government. Surveyors are now cutting it up for small dairy farms. It is understood that the price paid was £ll per acre. On January 13th there will be a total eclipse of the sun. It will not bo seen in Hew Zealand. A fortnight later there will be a partial eclipse of the moon, in which about three-fourths of her diameter will be shadowed. This will be visible in New Zealand after midnight on the 28th. A party of 'Wellington residents on a trout fishing expedition at Miki Miki, eight or nine miles from Masterston, found that ashes from bush fires were practically decimating the fish in the Huamahanga river. Dead trout of all sizes are to be seen in the deeper holes. The Acclimatisation Society will most probabiy have to restock all the creeks in the vicinity

At the time the lasi English mail left there was a great shortage of all supplies of meat in London, and prices have ruled phenomenally high of late—so high, indeed, that those who held stocks of Hew Zealand lamb, for instance, earlier in the year, are regretting now that they yielded to the temptation do sell at low prices. But it is easy to bo wise after the event. Wc regret that subscribers on the Cliff and Calico Lines have received their papers rather late in the evening during the last fortnight. This was due to the illness of the runner and the difficulty of finding a substitute. The usual runner will take up his work on Monday, and we hope there will be no further cause of complaint.

The Minister of Justice, interviewed by a Post reporter, said that few people realised the success which has attended the system of employing good-couduot prisoner at tree-planting. The results have, he says, come up to his fullest expectations. The life has a good moral effect on those sent to the camp, particularly on those who are not hardened criminals.

In commenting on the proposed now legislation with regard to patents, the Hew Zealand Times candidly says ;

“ The object of the new legislation is less to decrease the cost of patented articles than to stimulate colonial manufactures.” In other words it is onty another device to tax the people of tiro country for the benefit of our infant industries which never growup. A writer in the Cornhill Magazine gives some delightful examples of mixed metaphors. Hero is one : Sir Robert Purvis, addressing his old constituents at Peterborough in defence of an Act of Parliament under whose operation some of them had gone to.' prison for a week, said, “ That, gentlemen, is the marrow of the Education Act, and it will not be taken out by Dr. Clifford or anyone else. It is founded ou a granite foundation, and it speaks in a voice not to be drowned by sectarian clamour.” THE CELEBRITY CP SANDER AND SON B

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The Peeil op Ode. Time. Isj lung disease. Dr Sheldon’s Hew LLoivery for coughs, colds and consumption cures lung trouble. Small dose. Pleasant to take.- Every bottle guaranteed. For sale by Turner & Turner’s Tip Top Tea Shop, and T. H. Bredin, Aw.rton; Ellis Bros., Hunterville; and Campion & King, Bulls. Exposure to cold and damp causes rheumaitism. The skin cannot give off the excess h'ric acid and it becomes deposited ' in the blood. Kheomo will quickly euro thtf J 1 troubla All chemists and store*, 2/C & 4/6 1

The drink bill for Great Britain last year was nearly £5,000,000 - loss than that: of, 1904. Mr E. Drew will take up*hisnew duties as clerk to the Manawatu County Council on Monday next. D. Horgan, competing at ■ Temuka sports, is credited with a high jumplSf 6ft. ORn. This is a record for the colony. The Wanganui wool, skin, hide and tallow sales will be held on Thursday, January 10, and the produce should be in not later than the 7th. The Loan and Mercantile are now receiving entries.

A team of Feilding bowlers left by the 10.30 train this morning for Masterton to compete in the championship fours of the North Island Bowling Association. , ,

The extra mail train's, which have been running Oil the Wanganui-Wel-lington line during the holidays, were discontinued yesterday, owing to the great rush of traffic now being over. One of the Straker steam motor waggons ordered hy Feilding Road Cat Company has arrived at Feilding and is being put together by Messrs. Stewart and Co., engineers. The waggon will shortly be taken for a trial trip.

News has been received of the death at Taupo of J. S. Johnston, a wellknown commercial traveller, for Messrs Mackay, Logan and Company, and recently manager of their Gisborne branch.

A young man named W. Meech, in the employ of Mr E, Barnes, died suddenly at Turakina this morning. .Deceased went to Wanganui yesterday for medical advice.

A. dealer largely interested iu the frozen meat trade of the South Island estimates that 250,000 fat sheep will bo required for consumption in the towns and districts between Dunedin and North Canterbury up to the end of N ovember.

There has always been a great difficulty in defining a habitual drunkard, but the act passed last session has provided a solution of the problem. ;In future “habitual drunkard” will mean a person who has been three times convicted for drunkenness within the nine months immediately proceeding any conviction for drunkenness.

In a recent interview the Kaiser unbosomed himself as follows ;—“ I am always in a thankless position,” “ because no one seems to believe that I think and act for myself. I work v.nwearyingly, I think to some purpose. My sole object is]to promote the welfare of Germany and the German nation.” The Auckland Star says that some idea of the enormous growth of the dairying industry in the Auckland province may be gathered from the fact that payment for butter fat to their suppliers by the Now Zealand Dairy Association alone totalled for the month of November the magnilieont sum of £18,883 IPs S)d. This easily constitutes a record for any one month since the Association’s inception.

Two impudent impostors, who have been acting as police detectives in the Blenheim district for the last few weeks, have been exposed, says the Marlborough Herald. They represented themselves as emissaries of Inspector Ellison, "Wellington, and obtained free drinks on the ground that they were reporting on illegal hotel trading. The men have loft for the Wairau Valley and the police are interesting themselves in their movements.

Harvesting operations are general throughout the Wairarapa, but it is anticipated that returns will bo slightly below the average. Crops that were sown early in heavy lands have done well, but those sown late in light soil have suffered from the effects of the dry weather, and have matured too quickly, the heads being tilled with stunted grain. The rape crops have suffered very much through the absence of rain.

Some excitement was caused among Awahuri Maoris yesterday when a Maori from Waitara arrived in a cab with the intention of taking away his vvisc who, it appears, had loft him on account of ill-treatment, The woman strongly objected to accompany her husband who was using forcible means when another Maor. woman of huge proportions came on the scene and tied herself with a shawl to the wife. Tho husband, finding it impossible to deal with the pair of women, left the pa discom fitted.

The excursion of farmers from this district to the Moumahaki experimental farm lias, wo are informed, produced very ,valuable educational results. These have been especially noticeable with regard to manures. In the past farmers have been generally content to sow lewt or less of manures with root and rape crops, but after seeing the results of the use of varying quantities of manure on plots side by side in the same paddock they are now using up to 2cwt per acre, jMoumahaki experiments having shown that quantities above that amount did not produce a proportionate increase in crop. Crops in this district treated with the largor allowance of fertilisers are looking far hotter than ever before, and farmers are of opinion that another excursion would result in further valuable hints being acquired. Miss Baber, M.A., who for the past twelve months, has been studying modern educational methods in England and on the Continent announces that she has taken over Miss Swainson’s Boarding and Day School for Girls, in Fitaherbert Terraco, Wellington. The establishment, which is situated in a select locality, contains la'rgo bright rooms, jps surrounded by spacious grounds, and is iu every way an ideal school for girls. The thorough regime, which was so strong a feature in Miss Swainson’a time, will, with the addition of modern improvements, still be carried out. Prospectuses may be had on application to the principal. Rhisumo has pcrmanentlyleurod thousands of sufferers from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, and lumbago. It will cure you. All stores. 2/G & 4/0. Give it a trial.