Untitled

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8700, 8 January 1907, Page 2

On page 4 will be found a quantity of telegraphic and cabled ne ,vs. Marton Fire Brigade acknowledge donations of £1 Is from Messrs J. Mitchell, W. Townson, P. P. White and T. H. Bredin.

Eoyal Eifles should note that class firing will bo resumed to-morrow, and that it is important that there should be a big muster at T hursday night’s parade.

It seems curious to read that the New Year holiday traffic on the Auckland railways was below the average, ike number of picnic parties being small on account of the rainy weather.

A Dargaville telegram reports that thousands of plan ts of Bathurst burr hare made their 'appearance in that district in earth ballast brought from Dunedin and used in road formation.

Perhaps, says the Oamaru Mail, the locality which has suffered most acutelj'i from drought in a district over which the drought lias generally made itself pitifully manifest is the Ellerslie settlement. We are assured that over the whole settlement there will not be threshed out of the crops now standing an average of 15 bushels to the acre. In discussing the yellow peril, Mr Deakin frankly madn a confession that is somewhat humiliating to the British race: “I contend,” he said, “ that the Japanese require to be excluded because of their high abilities. . . It is not the bad qualities but the good qualities of the alien races that make them dangerous to us. It is their inexhaustible energy, their power of applying themselves to new tasks, their endurance, their low standard of living, that make them such^ompetitors.”

The residents of Raurimu are credited with passing a much drier Christmas than was expected, and the old adage with reference to the “ many a slip 'twixt cup and lip” has once more been exemplified. Such of the residents as were unable to leave the township during the holidays had looked forward to passing quite a pleasant time, and, for once in the year, indulging in a social glass, when passing the custom--1 ary compliments. With this object, a consignment of the best 11 Scotch " had been secured, and late on Christmas Eve the precious cargo was carted to its destination, However, just at the psychological moment the übiquitous policeman appeared on the scene, and the whole cargo was commandeered, jn the name of the law. Needless to say, the warmth of the greetings extended to that policeman on Christmas Day was not altogether induced by the sentiments of peace and goodwill.

Twelve hundred new Government inspectors, writes a New York correspondent, are now constantly employed in and about the meat slaughtering and packinghouses, enforcing the legislation that resulted from the revolting revelations of a few months ago. The proper sanitation of the plants has been rigidly insisted upon. It is eloquent of the laxity and slovenliness that formerly existed that of the 400 large slaughtering plants in Chicago there was not; one that did not need cleaning up and altering in order to comply with the requirements of the new Act; and some of them needed to be practically rebuilt. As showing what a vast amount, of ground the American packers have to make up, the exportation figures for August are of interest. In that month the exportation of tinned beef totalled 649,1271 bas against 5,048,6331 b in corresponding month of last year.

sHEujfo has cured thousands of sufferers from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, lumbago. It will cure you. Try it. All stores and chemists, 2s fid and 4a 6d. A positive cure.

Have you tried our boots? If not, it has been your loss as well as ours.. Besides, think of the comfort you have missed. Try our boots at McEedwkey’s stores Marten, Hunterv;lie and Tailnqe.

To meet the domestic help difficulty, a Christchurch, lady has suggested that Danish. girls should be imported as domestic helps. She has ascertained that many girls would ha only too glad to coma to Christchurch from Denmark. She has kept Danish servants of both sexes, and her experience has given them a very high place in her estimation. To use her own words, they am “careful, cheerful, faithful, trustworthy, and affectionate, infinitely superior to English girls. ’ The Mayor of Adelaide, in. an interview, recently said; “ Seeing that we cannot stop betting millennium has not yet arrived—the totalise tor is to be infinitely preferred to the bookmaker, and from my experience in South Australia, I can safely say that the present system is much more satisfactory than that which prevailed before the advent of the machine.” The Hon. G. Fowlds, Minister for Education, anticipates' jLhat .the School Journal,, which the department will issue regularly, will be ready for circulation when the scholars reassemble in February. 'Through the medium of the journal, it is hoped to supply all the supplementary reading matter required by schools, and incidentally to give the pupils something up to date and interesting. A large number of applications have been received for the editorship of the journal. Cabinet will make an appointment this week; |

On the occasion of a recent examination of the Native school on the coast (says the Opotiki Guardian), gome severe weather was experienced. Many of the children started from their homes and swam the swollen river, s,o anxious were they not to miss the examination, and as a result the Education Department has requested the teacher to convey to the children and their parents its appreciation of the efforts made by them to be present at the examination, in the face of such adverse circumstances.

The Hon. R. McNab, Minister for Lands, has mapped out a long campaign in support of the Government Land Bill. On Tuesdaj next he will speak at Christchurch. This meeting will be preliminary to a campaign throughout the Canterbury district, which is being locally organised. This week Mr McNab hopes to undertake a visit to the Wairarapa. So far as arrangements have been completed at present, ho hopes to speak at Carterton on Wednesday, at Pahiatua on Thursday and at Ekolahuna on Friday, but it is possible some alteration may yet be made in this programme. Afterwards the Minister may be able to visit his own district and then he anticipates leaving Wellington for Auckland, where he will spend a month. Two weeks will bo occupied in studying the needs of the North and the remainder of the tiino will be devoted to the southern pant of the province.

i In connection with the Firearms Act, ! which came into operation on the'lst i inst., a boy is not now permitted to have in Ida possession, dr to use or , carry “ any gun or pistol of a less calibre , than .303, whether acting by the force of gunpowder or not.” Storekeepers must not in future supply or sell firearms, or ammunition for firearms, to anyone under 16 years of ago. These things are offences under the Firearms Act o£ last session, framed for the purpose of prohibiting " the sale of fire-; arms to and the use thereof by young persons.” The police welcome the new Act, and intend to see that it is obeyed. It is Just as well to remind parents and children too that fo? breaches 0 f the Act offenders are liable to a fine of £TO and to forfeiture of any firearm found in the possession of anyone under 16. The only one exempt under the provisions of the Act are those “ practising under proper supervision with a Morris tube or miniature rifle on properly constructed miniature rifle ranges.” This exemption chiefly applies, of course, to cadets. Expel the Poison. Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets will clear and expel every atom of poisonous matter which constipation and other irregularities have stored up in the bowels. They will accomplish this gently, painlessly and without griping. For sale by Messrs T. H. Bredin, Marten; Ellis Bros., Hunterville; and W. B. Clark,. Bulls,

What shall wo do with our boys P There con only be one advice, viz.—Bring them along to McEldowney’s stores, where they con be fitted in wearable, untoarahlo and well-fitting clothing at Eock-botfom prices. Try them at HcEldowney’s stores. Marten, Hunteryille, and Taihape.

Our boys' clothing is up to date.and reasonable in price. Worsted serge Conway suit from 13s fid; boys’ all wool Norfolk suits, from 11s fid; boys’ odd serge knickers 2s fid, 2s lid, 3s fid ; boys’ braces, 4d ; boys’ collars fid.— Nkac, Cash Clothier; Feildicg. Try shopping by post.* !

A bush fire of considerable ditneilsiotiA has .been raging in the Tiratu Block, near Dannevirke, for the past two days. No news has been received of the whereabouts of the Wellington-owned schooner Emma Sims, sixteen days out from Wellington to Onehunga.

The rainfall in New Plymouth for last year was.sß’oß7 inches, distributed over S3O days. The average rainfall for preceding year wss 60'72 inches. Harvest prospects are not bright in Mid Canterbury. The crops will be very light. Pastures “are completely dried up and root crops are not promising.

.The Marton Brass Band will give an open-air concert in the Park to-morrow (Wednesday) evening, starting at 7.30. They also wish to acknowledge a donation of IDs from.“ Anonymous.” Christchurch tramways, from December 24 to January 2, ten days, 1 carried 501,989 passengers, an average of 50,198 per day. Thi total for December was 1,040,810.

Captain Stringer, master of the Eotokino, has been appointed Assistant Marine Superintendent for Wellington. The maximum shade temperature recorded in Masterton yesterday was 88dcg., taken on a standard thermometer kept in a Stevenson screen. This is said to be the highest shade temperature since local records have been taken.

At Christchurch on Friday the jumping mare Lady Morton broke the Australasian high jump record. She cleared 7ft Of in, which is If in above the record established by Mahonga at Bendigo. Colonel W. H. Webb, who is a member of the Council of Defence, and was appointed Acting-Commandant after General Babington’s departure, will carry out the duties of AdjutantGeneral and Quartermaster-General pending the appointment and arrival of the second military member. An important step in. the treatment of persons mentally afflicted is to be taken by the Government, viz., the establishment in each of the four centres of what is known ns “ a halfway honse,” to which persons can be committed for observation and special treatment in the early stages of the malady. Mr Ell has been writing to the Christchurch Press on State banks and the editorial opinion of his views is as follows Mr H. G. Ell, M.H.R., who is a verjr useful member of Parliament in many respects, and capable of doing good work in looking after the interests of a maternity home or the preservation of a scenic reserve, should not attempt to wrestle with the intricacies of banking and high finance. Some idea of the great expenses which have to be met under the item “travelling” by Mr J. C. Williamson, may be gathered from the cost of carrying the Royal Comic Opera Company, which is at present in Wellington, to and from New Zealand. That organ!sation when on tour now numbers 90 members, and for fares alone for the round trip to New Zealand and back, the bill amounted to over £2OOO. Advice from New York, dated 1-ltli November, says;—President Roosevelt is personally supervising the investigation of (he mysterious disappearance of £200,000 intended for San Francisco earthquake sufferers, which is believed to have been stolon by corrupt officials in that city. Mr Roosevelt is reported to have exclaimed : “ I'll spend a million dollars if necessary to convict the scoundrels.”