Rangitikei Advocate. SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1907. SECOND EDITION. EDITORIAL NOTES

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8719, 19 January 1907, Page 2

Rangitikei Advocate. SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1907. SECOND EDITION. EDITORIAL NOTES

Objectors to ttxo proposals contained in the Land Bill have pointed out that their effect would be to raise the price of money and to produce a feeling of distrust and uncertainty in financial circles. It was naturally expected that Mr McNab would make an attempt to reply to the criticisms, but in his speech at .Christchurch he entirely failed to do so, and occupied himself in trying to mislead the ignorant by a course of disingenuous special pleadings. Those who listened to the Minister of Lands were led to believe that the real object of mortgages was to obtain possession of the land on which they had lent money whereas in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred nothing is in reality further from their wishes. Yet according to Mr McNab " the reason why the two years limit was put in the Bill was that if mortgagees were allowed to have an unlimited power of turning out the men who borrowed money from them when they made default, the mortgagees, in place of becoming moneylenders, would become landowners. When prices were low they would turn out the man who was unable to meet their demands, and they would hold the land as owners until it rose in value, and they would then resell it at a profit.” Referring to the present system of buying in mortgaged land through the Registrar of the Supremo Court, he said that; “ Under that system the mortgagee might buy in the property for a song, and the poor, unfortunate man who borrowed the money stepped out of his property, and the mortgagee stepped in and became the owner of the land.” This last statement is'of course a deliberate misrepresentation of the facts, as a lawyer like Mr McNab knows perfectly well. According to the law, when a mortgagee applies for mortgaged land to bo sold, “he shall state the value at which he estimates the land to be sold.” If he puts the estimate under the real value, the borrower will be able to raise the amount elsewhere to enable him to redeem the property at the mortgagee’s valuation. In his own interest, therefore, the lender is obliged to keep the valuation high, and no matter what the sum may lie at which the property is knocked down, the amount inserted in the deed of sale, and for which the borrower receives credit, is the amount of the mortgagee’s valuation. We should not have been surprised to find the process of buying in mortgaged property for a song described in the pages of a novel written by a lady, but it is with some amazement that we find it figuring in the speech of a well informed Minister of the Crown.

In his speech at Christchurch the other day Mr McNab quoted an incident, originally related by Mr Laursnson, which bids fair to be utilised as often as Mr Seddon’s story about the amount of insect powder used on a certain expedition up the Wanganui river. Mr McNab gave a pathetic recital of the woes of a poor man in Canterbury who bad his eye on a piece of land, and had been saving up money for years in order to acquire it. It was worth perhaps £ll an acre, but the poor man, in his eagerness to get it, resolved to go up to £22 an acre, in order to secure its possession. He was, however, outbid by a neighbouring landowner, who already owned three or four times as much land as was good for him-according to Mr McNab —but who, nevertheless, gave £26 for this particular property. As a result of this failure the man was thrown back into the labour market to get a living. ; la referring to the story in a former article wc pointed out that there must have been other bidders in the market besides the large landowner to raise the price from £22 to £26. Another weak point about the story is that the would-be-buyer, who had capital enough to venture to bid £22 per acre for the farm, was, after one failure to obtain land, compelled to seek work as a labourer. Mr McNab, of course, maintains that his proposals will remedy the evils complained of. They will certainly make it impossible for any man to buy land from Government if that is an improvement, and they will offer him a sporting chance in the State land lottery where he will have to ballot for a leasehold along with the hundreds of land gamblers who put their names down for every desirable section that comes into the market.

A Dunedin telegram reports that the drought has been followed by a wintry snap, and that Cromwell advises snow on the ranges. Mr Alexander Macintosh, formerly general manager of the Bank of New Zealand, who has been appointed chairman of the New South Wales Savings Bank Board of Commissioners, will have a salary of £I2OO per annum.

Royal Rifles’ shooting competition for cash prizes on Tuesday next (Anniversary Day) begins at 8 a.m. Several matches, with liberal prize moneys, have been arranged. The Drill Shed will be open from 7.30 to 8,30 this evening for distribution ot uniforms.

A prohibited person in New Plymouth succeeded in escaping the clutches of the law when charged with having procured intoxicating liquor during the currency of a prohibition order by stating that his condition when arrested was caused by potations of his own make of blackberry wine.

The Ruapehu sailed for London on Thursday with the largest shipment of cheese which has yet left the colony in one bottom. Her cheese cargo consists of 8924 cases, the larger portion of which came from North Island

’ s factories. The value of the shipment - e was about £33,500. The same vessel j took butter valued at £IOO,OOO. h There was a good muster of the ■ s Manchester Rifles in camp at Feilding 3, last night. The corps were inspected '3 by Col. Bauchope, Capt. Barltrop being is in command. Subsequently they were 1, taken out on the hills to repel an imaginary attack and acquitted them- ; selves creditably and to the satisfaction of the colonel. An illustration of the value of manur* L lug is to be seen at the Exhibition, where there are three tomato plants in pots, grown in pure sand, one which has beeu watered with pure water, the '* nest with liquid potash manure, and I the third with the same of double 1 strength. The unmanured plant is a miserable shrivelled one, the halfquantity potash is a tall plant with ' large tomatoes on it, and third is a much ' taller, sturdier plant with double the ’ quantity of fruit on it. i Seldom has there been a larger or more sorrowful assembly than that ■ which gathered at Waituna on Thurs- j day to pay the last heartfelt tokens of { respect and esteem to the late Mrs E. I Shannon. People came from far and j near, men, women and children all j ' feeling keenly the parting with a true ! I and trusted friend. The service at the graveside was conducted by Revs. Beecroft, Cannoll, Carr and Field, and was of a most impressive character. The , Rev. Beecroft delivered a most stirring address, after which one of Mrs Shan- E non’s favorite hymns, “Jesus, Lover of C , my Soul," was very feelingly rendered. • The suddenness of the bereavement made it very hard to realise that one so beloved was no more, and the family ! have the heartfelt sympathy of the j whole neighborhood in their sad loss. i C : Liniments cannot remove the real w trouble in rheumatism, gout, sciatica and w lumbago. Eheuiio does, by removing the m excess urie acid from the blood. Eheumo tc effects a thorough cure, 2s6dand 4a 6d C.

The Manawatu and Peilding Mounted j Rifles will go into camp on Wednesday j afternoon next and the Palmerston Guards and Rifles in the evening. Judging from the present hooking by intending visitors from outside for the Feilding Show, the hotel acoommodation will he severely taxed. Mr W. A. Shannon, of Colyton, who has recently acquired a large farm at Hastings, takes with him 200 of the pick of his Lincoln sheep. It is reported on excellent authority, says the Daily News, that at least two insurance companies’ agents proceeded to Waitara on Tuesday to cancel the insurance risks held by their respective companies in that town. The Hon. W. Hall-Jones passed through Palmerston by the express from Wellington on Thursday. He was on his way to view works along the Main Trunk railway.

The. difficulty of securing sufficient boy and girl labour at the Petone Woollen Mills is being as keenly felt as ever.

In a northern town of England an orator, in proposing a colleague for office, advanced as an argument that the gentleman he favoured was “ Well fitted to fill the shoes of the vacant chair 1”

An application has been filed with the Clerk of Awards by John Clark, a stableman, of Wellington, claiming £9 from William Anderson, farmer, of Rongotea, as compensation for injuries to his right cheek bone and eye, received, it is alleged, through the respondent’s entire horse rearing up and kicking the claimant. The case is to be heard by the Wellington Stipendiary Magistrate. A big German, who was among those presented to the Bench at the Police Court, Sydney, recently, excused his unruly conduct on the ground that ho had been drinking and was now in the throes of a “ katzenjammer.” Mr Jarret, the Government interpreter, who was appealed to for an explanation, said that the literal meaning of the word was “the yowling of many cats ” in the head.

A contemporary says : —“ On a population basis Eithamhas a licensed house for every 443 people. Stratford has one for every 425 and Hawera runs a hotel for every 308 people. But the West Coast must be the haunt of millionaires (or it may be the opposite), for at Brunner it only requires 163 people to keep a hotel going, at Rosa 82 can do it, and at Kumara there is a licensed house for each 82 of the population, Fancy a hotel for every 82 of the population ! Deduct women and children, and what extraordinary figures we get.” The Hon. Chief Seoretary for South Australia, who passed through Wellington on Thursday, says he wants to learn one thing in New Zealand. “ I see by your year-book that you get as many as 80 per cent of the electors to go to the poll. How do you manage it ? We consider ourselves lucky if wo get 50 per cent. I fancy there must be a difference in your methods of registration, and I am going to find out what that difference is before I leave.”

While ho was speaking at Christchurch on Tuesday night the Hon. B. McNab supplied some figures to give his audience an idea of the dimensions of the “ earth hunger ” in New Zealand. For single sections in recent ballots comprising holdings of reasonable size there wore great numbers of applicants—4ll, 293, 725, 174, 112, 121, 302, 285, 41fi, 203, 194, 251, 270 i The Minister tailed to state how many of the applicants were bona fide settlers.

The following programme will be played by the Marton Brass Band at the Mangaweka sports on Anniversary Day :—March “ The Competition,'' valse “ Nada,” selection, Pirates of Penzance,” march “ The Vanquisher,” valse “The Queen of Love,” selection “ Patience,” lancers “ International,” overture “ The Sentmal,” march “Alice, Where Art Thou,” valse “ “Whispers of Love,” selection “Melbourne by Night,” march “ The Vagabond,” and “ God Save the King.” A full attendance of the Band is requested at practice on Monday night. THE CELEBRITY OB’ SANDER AND SON’S PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT Is universally acknowledged. Royalty honour it, and the entire medical profession has adopted its use. Imitations sprang up without number. The latent of them —all styled “ was au oil foisted upon the trusting and unwary under the grossest misuse of Sander and Son s reputation. Sander and Send instituted an action in the Supreme Court of Victoria, before Hid Hoco, Chief Justice Sir John Madden, KC.M.G-, etc, and at the trial a sworn witness testified that be had to stop the u*e of counterfeits on account of the irritation produced. .This shows wh it care is required to obta r n an artioleihat is scientifically tested and approved of. Aa 'such hi solely endorsed and recommended. * THE GENUINE BANDER & SONS’ PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT,