Rangitikei Advocate. FRIDAY, FEB. 22, 1907. SECOND EDITION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8747, 22 February 1907, Page 2

Rangitikei Advocate. FRIDAY, FEB. 22, 1907. SECOND EDITION.

Editorial Notes aro unavoidably hold over. The meeting of Marton branch of the Acclimatisation Society will he held at the White Hart Hotel this evening. A full attendance of members is particularly requested, and intending members are invited to attend. The District Hospital new budding, costing with fittings nearly £5,000, was opened by Mr Fowlds at Stratford yesterday. The Minister also v'sited tho High School and Convent School. Advices have been received [from Sydney that repairs to the mail steamer Ventura will occupy several weeks. It has been decided in the meantime to miss her trip from Auckland on March 4th. The next steamer from Auckland will he the Sierra on March loth. At the meeting of Foilding Borough Council last night, Sir IV. G. Haybittle said that the Manchester Timber Co. was paying sixty per cent more rates than rent on a section near the Railway Station, mainly owing to high valuation. The Hazel Craig, tho first of the three barques of the Craig lino which began a race from Newcastle to Auckland eight days ago, arrived here this morning. Neither the James Craig nor tho Lizzie Craig are yet signalled. Auckland City Council has accepted the tender of the Australian General Electric Company for the installation of the power and lighting plant. Turnbull and Jo les tender has been accepted in the event of the other not being taken up. The New Zealand Rugby Union has decided that it cannot fall in with the wishes of the Exhibition authorities to hold a football tournament at the

Exhibition at Easter. It is useless to deny, says the Press* that the foolish strike which has attracted so much attention during the last few days has done more to unsettle industrial conditions in New Zealand than anything that has occurred for years, for it has shown clearly that a proportion of the workers are only prepared to abide by an Arbitration Court award so long as it suits them. There was only a moderate attendance at the performance of “ The Ticket-of-Leare Mas," given by the Wanganui amateurs at Marton last .evening. No effort had been spared by the management to ensure the success or the production of the melodrama. It has a strong and well sustained interest and the characters wore well drawn. The staging and scenic effects -were qnite a feature of the entertainment. Mr E. H. Nicholas, of Wanganui, who recently arrived from Australia, where he has occupied the position of organist and choirmaster to the leading Baptist, .Wesleyan and Presbyterian Churches at Ballarat, - intends visiting hforton weekly, and is prepared to receive pupils for piano, organ, theory aad harmony. Mr Nicholas brings with him very high credentials as a fwcher.

Of the 25 workers’ homes at Petonc only 12 dwellings have; yet been taken.

A Wellington advertiser was prosecuted by the City Council and lined for having placed advertisements on Con-, stabinslrGat cutting. Mr J. 11. Clarkson’s; sajoM secondhand and.soiled bicycles at Marion hun sale day was a great success, and lie ntends holding another on next Marten ■ sale. ‘ . Harvest Thanksgiving services v hi be held in Martoa Methodist Church on Sunday. The choir are prepaying special anthems for the occasion. Tickets can now be obtained for ike school excursion to Castlocliif on 27th February. Arrangements have been made for a supply of hot water for tea, but milk must be provided by Urn excursionists. About 800 school children's teeUi have been examined in Dunedin up to date by members of the Otago Otbmtological Society out of 20-JO, and of the number investigated only 13 perfect mouths have been discovered.

Our Rangiwahia correspondent today make* some interesting remark-: cn the policy of restricting entries ac sports meetings to local compelitw?Wo think he mates out a good care tor tha action taken by the llangiwehia committee.

Three of the firemen from i~e s.?. j Eakaia, who were landed in HeLmc:ton suffering severely from the cfcccis of coal gas some months ago, are ~.f.A at the hospital, and two of are scarcely able to move about yet. I aero were .six firemen at the institution originally One recovered suihcicntly to disappear, and two were taken back to Great Britain. The New Zealand Shipping Company is making arrangements to have tha three remaining patients returned to their homos in the United Kingdom. ;' Among the many fine stands at Christchurch Exhibition there is non® which attracts more attention than that of Messrs E. Reynolds & Co., Ltd., cycle dealers, of Welington. Inis magnificent exhibit includes a very large show of tbe famous Iludgo-W hitworth machines —aptly named “ Britain’s best bicycle ’’—for which the firm aro sole New Zealand agents. Another section of the stand is devoted to the well-known Clincher tyres, made by the North British Rubber Co.—ope of the largest rubber, concerns in the world—whose products are handled by the firm. The inquest on the infant child of Susan Mangan, who was plaintiff in the Wrack maintenance cr.so, concluded yesterday at Auckland, The jury found that death was duo to tho failure of nutrition, the result of defective nourishment, due to gross neglect of duty on the parr, of Mrs Charlotte Evans, who kept the home in which the child was placed. The jury added a rider that tho evidence disclosed that the- Law for tbe juvtacfwn <-■: infant lira was being o.ua: ;;;■ 1 y ! evaded, children being got ou tha hooua j of homos to prevent inquiries, .i iu-y j urged an amendment of (ho la to j such an evasion. i During a discussion in the Snprcmt j Court yesterday, at Wellington. Justice j Cooper said he considered tha hirst ’ Offenders’ Probation Act an exceed)us, j ■ good measure so long as it was discr.voi.y j administered, but indiacruumacoty eaniinistered it could be an dement of ovil. ft . had, however, been very carefully admin- I istered by the Courts. He was very much j inriined to think that many you:;;; men | know the provisions o i this Act and j “wo can commit crime and 7,0 f '.u ■ : fore the Court and ask for crc- a; a "' : agreed that it was best :a keen yourm ouTof gaol so long as such a sirs van con- . sistont with tho proper adminam-an on of j justice. The annual meeting of tho Eomney Breeders’Association was hc-i-i m 11. - 0 - ton on Tuesday evening, when Mr <>. Wheeler was in the chair. Mr Wheeler was re-elected president .and Messrs IT. V Fulton and W. F. Jacob were elected vicepresident and treasurer respective’A bonus of £5 was voted to tho sctuu.’.ry The report of tha sub-committee appointed to draw up a definition of a typical f••:••••• Zealand Eomney Marsh sner-u having h ■ u road and discussed it mts decided t ad, amending it with ids worl:; 'lf u u. kemp,” it be adopted and printed.' ;.. resolved to,donate the Anode. ticß’*: C h Dion Shield to tho Manawatu and 1 gill Shows on the same conditions as y: - . ■ onsly, and to hold all future an-ual rr r ■ - ings nt Palmerston on the date A tu.a Winter Show. Mr T. P. Aden gave ;;o: ; e,r to move at a special general meeting, to bo held at Palmerston during the Y7iul-f Show, “ That at the expiration of tbs current year Bala 52 bo deleted and regi 'ration confined to sheep transferreu fioin flocks already registered or imported sheep accompanied by a ceri’ficato from its recognised Flock Book Society.” Matters regarding Sodden Memorial Fund were discussed yesterday at Wellington between members of tho subcommittee of tho mum Memorial Committee and tho Acting-l’remier and Attorney-General. Tho position that had been arrived a? was that hundreds of local bodies laid been circi as to the form tiro memorial should take. The committee proposed that it be a Technical College. To finance this it was proposed that Wellington City Council should give tho buildings and site of the present Technical School, valued at about £12,009, and (hat £B,OOO should bo raised by subset-ipi urn. That would be £20,009, which, with X for J; ! subsidy from tho Government won id 1 bring the total to E iO.eoO, the Govern - inent besides giving an area of from one to three acres of land in the city, on i which the college would be erect: u. 1; is understood that Ministers hold out 11 hope of this land being given. There is ; to bo a meeting of the general coiasaitt-.?* | next month to consider the matter. It is • stated that tho J amount contributed by j the public to date to cK- fuml totals MOIK j No special canvass has, however, y: t keen made. | At tho meeting of the Education iioe.rd ■ Mr Aitkon, head teaebor of the TV a :;y : nui High School, -was tho subject of a ; strong resolution, it appears that he Ims been admitting infants U- hi-: n-hof.l | in dcflauco of the Board’s mandat > to the j contrary. Tire chairman saagpe-te,: in- | forming Mr Aitkon that he mis; rw.wl all j children away from his school who had j not passed Standard I. or be given thr.-.o months’ notice of the termination of Ins j -engagement. Ultimately Mr Guthrie 1 moved ; —“That Mr Aitkcu be writ to a te j expressing tho Board’s cstmao dirap- j proved of his action in sacking to establish * an infant department at the Wanganui | District High School ir direct opposi'. ; or. ! to the scheme the Board decided on, and ! explained in the letter to the ; Wanganui j School Committee of No vend ?r 3rd Just, ; in the interests of education iu Wanganui, j and that he ho notified that a full : acquiescence with tho Board’s, wishes in | this matter is expected, othenvim his ! action shall he deemed to bo one of in- I subordination and be treated accordingly ; I that if Mr Aitken does not comply v. ith i tho terms of this resolution a special j meeting of the Beard bo held to deal with j the matter.” Mr Purnell seconded the : motion, which, after discussion. was car-:

ried unanimously. A further resolution •; was carried expressing the Board’s sivt-ng j disapproval of Hr Aitkcn’a action in com-; mitting a distinct breach of Ke.rula.tion | 27, by writing to the press in relation to | matters concerning the reboot, widen tto I was conducting. {