Rangitikei Advocate WEDNESDAY, JAN, 23, 1907. SECOND EDITION

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8721, 23 January 1907, Page 2

Rangitikei Advocate WEDNESDAY, JAN, 23, 1907. SECOND EDITION

The report of Wellington and Foxton Eaces and a quantity of miscellaneous reading matter will bo found on the fourth page. The Opaki Kille Club beat the Karori Billo Chib in a shooting match yesterday by BSS points to 812. At the final yacht race at Melbourn yesterday Kawhiti and S,-T.S. -were the only competitors, Eiiwhiti 'was the victor by 11mm -15 sec, thus securing the cup. The heavy wind yesterday completely spoiled the arrangements for the Port Nicholson Yacht Club’s regatta. Only one event was decided —the race tor the second class yachts. This was won by Koliai, with Syren second. was a heavy sea in Wellington Harbowr.

A small boat containing two men named Aldonfield and Daly was blown out to sea from Island Bay yesterday Search was made by a steamer during the afternoon, but there was no sign of the boat or its occupants, and as a high sea was running in the Straits there is little doubt they were drowned, A fire occurred at Napier yesterday afternoon in a large storage room belonging to the White Swan Brewery Coy. The building, which held a large stock of hops and corks, was completely gutted. The building was ins.ured for AK ; O and the stock for A*2oo. The origin of the fire is a mvsterv.

Mr James Allan, M.ILI’., dolivei'CMl an address in the Public Hall, Milton* last night. under the auspices of tiie Milton branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union on the Land Bill. He criticised the provisions of the Bill and dealt at length with the question of mortgages and mortgagees, Resolutions were adopted condemnatory of the Land Bill and the proceedings concluded with a motion of thanks to Mr Allan.

The following Palmerston North candidates have passed in matriculation and and solicitors’ general knowledge ; A. H. Bunn, Ethel M, Cook. L. Lancaster, B. P. Leary, Valerie S. Monteith, J. 11. Nash, Piata H. Park, P. IV. Peed, Anita M. Rest, Martha Pest, G. Wilson, J. P. Young. Matriculation only : H. S. Baker, J. VS'. Clapham, A. S. Faire, M. O. Harrison, H. L. P. Smith. The weather has been hot and dry at Ashburton during the past season, yesterday being the hottest day for years, the temperature in the shade registering 113-3 degrees. Throughout the summer there have been a large number of grass fires, and yesterday there were two, one in the Westorfield district, when the wheat crop

of li. "’as part-felly destroyed, and another in the Hinds district, where large tracts of pasture land was swept by the flames.

At the Volunteer Hide Association’s meeting at Trcnlhaui yesterday the shearing was under difficult conditions with a heavy westerly wind. Poor scores on the whole were made. The Aggregate M itch was not fired, and the previous one unfinished is to be refired on a dale to be fixed later. Lieutenant Brightling, of Masterton, won the Wellington Match with 61, taking 30s; Serg. Perry was third in the Juniors. Brightling was also third in Ko. 1 Government Match, and Lieut. Morton third in the second (rapid firing).

At the Anglican General Synod last night a Bill was discussed providing for an alteration in the present method of electing the Primate. It provided that the Bishops of New Zealand meet in camera for the election, and that the Primate shall be selected by the Bishops out of their own number by a majority, without being bound by seniority of consecration or precedency of diocese. The Bill was rejected, the voting being— Ayes: Bishops 1, Clergy 11, Laity 5. Noes: Bishops G, Clergy 7, Laity 16.

At the half yearly meeting of the Commercial Banking Company Sydney, a profit was shown of .£9O,SOU. A dividend of ten per cent was declared. The Joint Stock Bank profit is £72,715 of which £68,203 is devoted to interest on fixed deposits and inscribed deposits stock. The balance is carried forward. Both reports testify to-the incseasing prosperity of Australia. The Joint Stockreport looks forward to a satisfactory realisation of the remaining pastoral properties of the old bank. Sir Eobert Stout speaking, in his address to the University .Senate at Christchurch, on the strain of exam i nations, suggested that the University undertake all the different Jaons so as to relieve the Edu- :'/ cawoi Department. I**, , Expet, the Poison. ; I 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 t/j Messrs T. H. Bredin, Marton; Ellis Bros., Haaterville} and W. B. Clark, JfcUs.

An inset lor Mr John Cobbe, Feilding, is circulated with this issue. It consists of an eight page catalogue of the bargains to be obtained at his end-of-summer sale. A pleasant day’s outing was spent at Marton Methodist Sunday School picnic yesterday. The attendance was above the average. We regret that pressure on our space has prevented tbo report of Nikau sports meeting appearing to-day. Crops of rape in Kimbolton district look particularly well this year. In some paddocks the growth is nearly as high as the fence. Owing to the Tutanekai being otherwise engaged Government has arranged with the Union Company to carry cadet battalions to the Exhibition. Post cards bearing imitations of Jfcw Zealand postage stamps will be passed for transmission, in the colony only, until present stock of cards is exhausted.

Sheepfarmers will have an interesting time at the forthcoming Feilding Showl there being no less than 1250 exhibits in the sheep classes. This, we are informed, is a record for the colony.

Complaints are reaching us of the tremendous growth of pennyroyal near Rongolea, and it is suggested that the Manawatu County Council should place it on the list of noxious weeds. The shocks caused by the blowing up of the roburite factory at Witten, Germany, were registered on the seismograph at Goettingen. 250 miles away, as serious earthquakes. The father of eels was caught the other day in a creek on Airs Bowen s property at Turakina Ualley. Ihe monster weighed JJlbs, was over 5 feet long, and 2L inches in circumference, or 7 inches through. . The skin has been sent to Wanganui Museum. Moa Road Board, Taranaki, is very wrath at having to pay £25 to Government for what one member describes

as (lie worst valuation ever made. Another member statedthat the A ablation Act was “ the rottenest Act ever passed in Now Zealand ” He had heard that valuers were now valuing land from photographs submitted. According to Mr G. Tisch, there is a groat danger that the Old People s Home at New Plymouth will become “ too cheap.” Applications for admission were received from people who could manage to keep themselves, and, besides (his was the fact that many of tnc inmates seemed to have an idea that they could leave the shelter provided for them, have a “ booze,” and then return to the homo when the cash ran out.

An (accident of a very peculiar character happened at the A'arra Glen races recently. A drunken man wandered on the track, and while a jockey named Gilbert Morrison was doing his preliminary ou one of the starters he struck the drunken man on the head with his log, and broke the latter, but tiie man’s head was uninjured. On Monday, while Air W. E. Pudwell was putting his race horse Elevation in the bos at Foathcrstou station the engine started. Mr Bidwell held up tiie door of the box to keep the horse in. and the porter, who could not attract the attention of the driver by shouting, put on the brakes of the box. This led the driver to look round and put an end to a somewhat perilous situation.

Tt is generally agreed, says the Ila vora Star, that Monday was the

to,-;:' >->y day for milk known in the history of the colony. The amount estimated to be payable by dairy lactones throughout the colon}-, for most pay out on the same day, is put down at well over £3UO,UOO. One gentleman declares that it has taken thiec tons of sovereigns t ' pay for the milk during each of the last three months.

Owing to the dry season experienced having resulted in a shortage of green feed, -pollard poisoning during the last few weeks has been highly successful in assisting the extermination of rabbits in the AVairarapa. In the early spring there was an abundance of grass, and the rabbits would not take the poisoned grain, with the result that the efforts put forth for their destruction proved comparatively futile. A correspondent of the Poverty BayHerald, who is travelling through the East Coast district, writes :—Talk about telephone linos? I was amazed to find quite a network of telephone lines from AVaipiri to Crete, in the Bay of Plenty, all owned and erected by natives. In a year or two every settlement and homestead of any size at all will ho connected by telephone. About four o’clock last Thursday afternoon (sav-s the Gore Standard), during a thunderstorm, one of the men’s huts at Beaumont Station was struck by lightening. A portion of the weatherboards and lining between two studs was smashed to atoms. Across the room was suspended a wire on which hung some clothes, which were completely burned through at the point of suspension. Fortunately, the men were out mustering at ihc time of the occurrence.

A cable slates that the President-, at the annual meeting of the Union Bank, said the prosperity and expansion of Australasia, was never so great as now, and all circumstances seemed to betoken i continuance of prosperity throughout

An Invercargill wire states that the bush lire.; are still burning at h-onward Hum. Two more sawmills have been completely destroyed. The Southland Timber Company's Kanaka mill on the Wait ana lagoon was destroyed on Monday night and about the same time hi cCaUiim's mill at Asher’s siding was burned. Ten c -ttages situated in the. vicinity were involved in destruction. Two bridges near Kapuka, constructed by the Southland County Council, are down and miles of fern lag end tramway ruined. The position at Raymond's lignite pit, which has been burning for a, week, is getting serious. The seam run; under the Seaward lluAu railway and unless the lire is checked there is danger of the line collapsing. Only one mill is | left In Seaward Bush where last week there were si:-;. The tires will probably result in t'O or li.’O men being put out of | work. All the water for miles ar e-.nd i Invercargill is tainted with smoke, s'- I lad caught in the bush carting wood ) pluckily lin eked his horses free with an I axe while the dray was burning.

The strange disappearance of Mr IT. B. Tomlinson, a. resident of Petono, and representative there for the T. and G.■'Mutual Life Assurance Society, has not yet bc.-n explained. He left I’etone by the S.lli a.m. (rain on .Monday, January 14th, for Wellington. He was seen to leave the train at Kaiv.arra. where he joined a young lady, and they walked off the plattorm together. lie was next seen at New Plymouth on Wednesday last. Mr Tomlinson was between 60 and GO years of ago. It was presumed that he was a bachelor. He lived in lodgings at the house of Mrs Thomas, in Bay-street, Petono. He was a man of regular habits, and on the morning of his disappearance he told Mrs Thomas ho was going to Lowry-Bay, and lie ashed her to keep Ins dinner for him if he was not homo at his ususl time. Mr Tomlinson had been a resident of Petono for several years. Besides doing business in Pctone for Ids oilice, lie also travelled in Brooklyn and JohnsonviHo. It is not surmised that anything relating to monetary matters is conuecied with his disappearance.—N.Z. Times.

At Peilding Court this morning, before iMr A. D. Thomson, S.M.. lliehard Smith was fined 5s and 9s costs for smoking on the station platform, Eeilding. J. If. Ashworth, fof being drunk, was lined 5s and os costs. Judgment was given for plaintiff in the following undefended cases :—A. Eayner v. A. H. T. Scarle. claim £l7 10a, costs £L 10s : E. A. Eansom v. A. T. Green, claim 10s, costs 10s ; Doraigan and Co. v. Hapela Matua, claim £l, costs 13s Cd; G. Cornfoot v. A. Wiggins, claim £2 Is, costs 10s ; W. W. Andrews v. H. Bolcher, claim £3, costs 13s; Cullen v. Charlesworth, claim £1 7s 9d, costs 3s. Judgment summonses •. Eousc and Hurrell v. Jl. Marston, claim £29 2s lOd, ordered to pay forthwith, in default three weeks imprisonment; H. Hall v. M. Eichler, claim £9 7s, ordered to pay forthwith, in default seven days’ imprisonment.

No fewer than 500 eases are on the list before the Native Land Court, now sitting at Wellington, W. Burnside, headmaster of •Inglewood school, has been appointed In* speotor under Auckland Education Board vice Goodwin, retired. At Gisborne Police Court Joseph Burke, licensee of the Eeoord Heign hotel, was fined £5 for permitting drunkenness, The Magistrate ordered the license to be endorsed. Digest Vv hat You Eat. The reason why any wholesome food is not properly digested is because the stomach lacks some important element of digestion. Some stomachs lack peptone, | others are deficient in gastric juice or j hydrochloric acid. The one thing necessary i n any case of poor digestion is to supply those digestive elements which _ the stomach lacks, and nothing does this .so . thoroughly and safely as Dr Sheldon’s ■ Digestive Tubules. They digest what you : eat, thus giving the stomach a rest and assistance until it is restored to its normal j action and vigor. For sale by Turner & Turner’s Tip Top Tea Shop, Marton; T. H. Brediu, Marton ; Ellis Bros,, Huntervillo ; and Campion & King, Bulls.