Rangitikei Advocate. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, '07. SECOND EDITION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8733, 6 February 1907, Page 2

Rangitikei Advocate. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 'O7. SECOND EDITION.

The exports of butter and cheese from Now Zealand during January totalled 60,29-lcwt and 33,672 cwt respectively. The Daily Mail is publishing a special weekly edition in Braille type for the use of the blind. A Hastings telegram states that 121 applications have been received for 22 sections in the Man .' 'alii settlement. The ballot will take p.ace on Saturday. The friends of Mr and Mrs F. Burnell, of Sanson, arc invited to a social in the Town Hall, particulars of which will bo found iu our advertising columns.

Bush and grass tires, more or less extensive, are still reported from the country districts in Canterbury, more particularly in the Oxford district where the bush is still burning briskly. Marton'|Branch of Farmers' Onion have decided to forego their annual picnic and, in place thereof, have a trip to Momohaki State Farm sometime early in March. Eoyal Eiflcs’ February parades are published in another column. It will lie seen that a big muster is wanted for to-morrow night’s parade and that the new khaki serga uniform is to be worn until further notice. 1 AAj Mr Alexander Paterson, of St. Clair, lias given the Presbytery of Dunedin a section of land at Fairfield, near Green Island, and has undertaken to erect a church upon it. A Blenheim wire states that the barley market opened yesterday. Prime malting lines were bought yesterday by a leading merchant at -Is per bushel, sad:-; extra. Prices opened last year at Is lid and rose is 5s id.

The body of Boy McKenzie, agtii 1-5, was found in the Maiaura. yesterday morning, near the residence of Lis employer, it. MeCallum, Seaward Downs. Deceased was last seen alive on V/ednesday cutting weeds in the vicinity of the river. A meeting of the Napier Borough ratepayers was held last evening to discuss the electric lighting and tramways proposals recently made to the borough council, and it was resolved to urge the council to push on with the negotiations for the carrying ■ out of such proposals as quickly as possible. Mr E. Short, of Waituna, the well .known Komney breeder, leaves for an extended holiday to the Old Country and Paris in March. During ids visit, Mr Shorf will endeavour to make further purchases of Eomnoys to add to his .already large flocK A horned ewe, the property of Mr A. Coleg, of Are Farm, Asmiuster, lias given birth to 10 lambs within 50 .weeks. Four were born in November, 1905 ; three in April, 1906 ; and the .same number in November. 1906. All : th# lamb* are reported healthy and .doing well. The funeral of the late Mr G. •Nitichko, of Cliff Load, Marton, took place yesterday and wag ai tended by a .very large number of mourners. The service in the Lutheran Church was .conducted by Pastor Teyler in German and that at the graveside in English. Many beautiful floral tributes were j sent by friends. For a day or two past, says the ■Herald, trucks with manuka scrub Jiave been arriving at the Now Plymouth railway station. This scrub has been brought all the way from the Huntorville branch for the purpose of .fascining the spongy parts of the track on the town deviation. Attention is drawn to the excursion, advertised to-day, leaving Marton for .CL lisle rare’. on Monday next, February 11th, at • 2.25 p.m. Tickets are available for nine days, giving a clear week at the Exhibition, and the inclusive .fares —steamer and train—are 29s 9d First-class and saloon and 19s Gd second class and steerage. A fatal accident happened on tbc Main Trunkline last night to a worker in the Ohingaiti gravel pit, named Brown. The unfortunate man was walking home along the lino when lie was caught by an engine and severely injured by the cow-catcher, lie was brought down to Mang-iweka, but mcaical assistance proved of no avail. An inquest will bo h«ldto-day

An inquest touching tlw deal;) of Walter Koy Scott, the infant killed in tho coach accident, opened yesterday at Giv-y----mouth, but after taking tho father's evidence, it was adjourned f,u- a week to enable the driver to attend. Tho funeral .took placeo ye.storday. the body being interred in the Greymoutu cemetery. Mrs Scott, who was injured, is much Jmproved to-day.

On Thursday afternoon last a Xolsoi: •resident named Edward Hooker, a married man with a family, left Motuoka in ;i

email yacht or boat to proceed to Xulson. That night it blew heavily, and the boat, .which is said to have been an old one, lias not arrived. It, is feared she Inis foundered, and that Hooker is lost, but some .think she may have been blown to sea, .and it is suggested that steamers should Jceep a look out.

Quite a gloom was cast over the Pending district yesterday by the sudden •death of Mr Geo. E. iiussell, local .manager for Messrs Hannah and Co. He had been working as usual in the morn-

j! -ing, and on entering Mr V.’ooltam’s chemist shop suddenly expired through tho bursting of a blood vessel. -Deceased had been ailing for some time. Tho " doctor has certified as to the cause of •death and that no inquesf will be neccs«ary. You Feei. Dull. If your liver is sluggish and cut of tone, and you feel dull, bilious, conati- > Jjated, take a dose of Chamberlain's if • Stomach and Liver Tablets to-night be- • fore retiring, and you will feel rig lit in ‘the morning. For sale by T. 11. ■ Brcdin, Marion , Eli Is Bros. ,'HiinlorviJlc : ■ «nd W, B. Clark, Bulls. A Imagine someone ripping your back r_ -«pen with a red hot pitchfori’t— that’s Unmbago. Ko reason to endure Uifc agony, fv Just try Hhbumo. Has cured thousands —will you, uk 4 - gJUany have testified E/ie i;mo ha* percured them from rheumatism, Lr ;-»te,after all other remedies bad failed, 1 , sB-i&JI chemists and store?:, 2/6 and 4/6,

Masterton Borough Engineer has been instructed to number the houses in the borough. Ills Experience. A. T. Beale, of. Beale Bros., Oakey (Q.), says ; “ I can recommend Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera, and Kemcdy to all troubled with diarrhoea, or | bowel complaints, for I have used it for i those complaints and was cured. Have , persuaded my friends to give it a. trial, 1 and in every instance a euro was effected. For sale by Messrs T. H. Brcdin, Marten; Ellis Bros.,' Himterviilo; and W.B. Clark. Bulls.