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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8782, 9 April 1907, Page 2

Halcombo notes appear on our fourth page to-day. Sir B. W. Holmes, at present ; Superintending Engineer to the Government, lias been appointed Engineer-in-Chief, in succession to the late Mr P. S. Hay. A fire occurred at Young's Family Hotel, Lower Bait, yesterday, causing damage estimated at übcßt £4OO. The building is insured for £IOOO and stock for £OOO, both in the Phoenix.

Government recently invited tenders for purchase aud removal of the Exhibition buildings, and Cabinet .considered the tenders yesterday, but decided to accept none. An unsuccessful attempt was made early yesterday morning to burglarise tho safe at the Upper Hntt station. Gun-powder-was used, the look being badly shattered. The Marine Enginneers' Institute at Wellington has decided to purchase a city site for £1320, and will erect a threestoried u-nU'lng thereon for the use of the Institute. At Wellington yesienlayJosnih Towersey, confectioner and restaurant keeper, was lined £4 and 14s costs for working three waitresses longer hours than allowed under the Shops and Ofiices Act.

In June last tho Norfolk lost her propeller 900 miles off Cape Leuwin. Capt. Corner, by lino seamanship, navigated his vessel to port, and word has now been received that the owners have presor.ted Capt. Corner with ,£301) and divided .£2OO among the crow.

The Rongotea Town Board has appointed Mr F. Ptirnoll as its representative upon the Assessment Court to be hold shortly.

At the Napier Assessment Court, where Mrs Donelly endeavoured to got the valuation of her property increased, tho lower valuation £7 4s Gd per acre was sustained,

The auxiliary screw schooner Huia will sail from Lyttelton on Friday for Kaipara with a load of produce. After discharging there tho vessel goes to the Three Kings to endeavour to recover the balance of the treasure from the sunken Elingamite.

The Hon. Mr Hall-Jonos has, says the Stratford correspondent of tho Herald, I am afraid, fallen from his high estate as patron-saint of Tararsaki. His proposal to hand over 20 miles of mud road to be maintained by tho already overburdened ratepayers ''as about settled the matter, although his "nimbus" had for some time been growing faint. The Hawke's Bay A. and P. Association has decided to agree to Mr E. J. Watt's suggestion that tho conditions of the driving competiticn be altered as• follows:—Ten blocks of wood to be laid out 20 yards apart, each block to be Cin. wide, and set up on its end, the driver to drive over the course knocking over the first block with one wheel, the next with the other wheel, and so on over tho course; fastest timo to win, with a ponalty for oach block, loft standing.

" Some little timo ago," says Mr J. G. ' Boylo, Kelmscott, W.A., " I was suffering from a severe cough, which threatened to toko a serious form. Hearing so much about Chamberlain's Cough Eemedy I decided to give it a trial, and to my great , satisfaction was completely cured, by the time I had finished the first bottle." For sale by T. IT. Brodin, Marton, Ellis Bros., Huntorvillo, and W. B. Clark Bulls. Our boot-man makes boots of every description to ordor. Thoso are peiplo who cannot get ready-mado boots to fit. I If you are one of theso he will fit you. Tho heavy rains we have had will find out where tho hoioa are. Bring you boots along. We usoonlybestEnglishleathers and good, workmanship at-McEMowney'd,

I The senior girls from Wanganui and Foikling schools left yesterday afternoon for a trip to the Exhibition. Mr 'ilector K. Bethuuc, who has boon Acting-Inspector of the Bank of Australasia in New Zealand for a considerable time, has been formally appointed Inspector.

A boy named Brabyn, while loading a dray with wood at Rongotea on Saturday, fell and fractured his arm and badly cut his forehead. Ho was attended by Dv Staudahl and is now progressing favourably. # Mr W. J. Williams, the well-known coursing enthusiast of Feilding, is to be congratulated upon winning the Waterloo C-up'at Chmtchureh yesterday, with tlwt sterling performer Lord Cardigan, who has firmly established his claim to being the champion dog at present in the colony.

Mr Ellery Gilbert, tuner and importer of pianos, etc., is now on a visit to Martou and district. MiGilbert will shortly visit Feiklmg. Address: Hastio's Hotel and White Hart Hotel,-Marton.

The steamer Warimoo brought a valnablo consignment of 1(5 merino sheep from Australia. The stock is valued at about £4700, and one animal alone is saiil to have°cost £IOOO The sheep will bo forwarded to South America by tho Turakina.

It was reported at the Board oi Education meeting at Auckland that a Government grant, not exceeding £BOOO had been made for the Auckland Training College. The Board regarded tho vote as liberal, and decided to proceed with the ercetion ot tho building.

In connection with the abolition of i franking privileges Napier Education | Board has asked tho Department to make a refund at the end ofthe year of amounts 'spent in postage, lho Board apnrovod the proposal to pay teachers' salaries through the Post Office as cheaper and less troublesome than tho present system. Tho chairman of Wellington Hospital Trustees, replying to the criticisms of contributing bodies, to-day made a lengthy statement defending the administration of the hospital which, he said, compared favourably in all respects with Australian and Home institutions. The cost per head per annum was only £74 or a little more than 4s per day per patient.

The Duuedin Star "states that the Labor Department is quite unable to copo with the demand for men existin? throughout the colony. Tins lip's special reference to bushmen and roadmakors, of whom they cannot secure enough., although wages are 9s per day of eight hours. The demand for these chiefly comes from the North Island, the demands of the Bawke's Bav, Wellington, Tarauaki and Wanganui districts being most Offers of"" £2 a week and foimd " for bushmen remain unapplied for. The third round for Marton Bowling Club's Tournament (Class A) for the late President's bowls was completed last evening, when G. Holdaway defeated J. A. Bell after another close contest bv 24 points to 22. The scores iuclude handicaps, the former receiving seven points and the latter three. G. Holdaway plays H. H. Hunt in the final. A feature of tho tournament was the successful handicapping of Mr H. Sntcliffe. In the course of a prohibition order case at Masterton Magistrate's Court, thero was a difference of opinion between the arresting constable and accused as to whether tho contents of the jug, found in accused's house, was beer or otherwise, the former swearing that it was beer, and the latter that it was a mixture, of tea, water and quinine put there as a practical joke for the express purpose of trapping the cousttble. The Magistrate-decided against the alleged practical joker.

It. is interesting to compare criminal proceduro in America and England in tho light of the White and Whiteloy murders. In one case the murderer was arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to death in about a month ; in the other, six months have passed without getting to the end of the trial, and if tho case of Patrick, the Yaukeo lawyor, who murdered millionaire Rice, goes for anything, Thaw may, even if convicted, escape punishment for two or three years.

A narrow escape from a fatal accident occurred near Marton railway station yesterday. A young man named A. Wallace was driving a load of hav in bales, when several of them shifted and Wallaoe fell from the top on to tho horse and them rolled on to tho ground, being followed by a bale of hay which pmned him in a perilous position. At first it was thought the wheel would pass over his head, but he had a miraculous escape, as it just grazed the crown, removing .the cap he was wearing as the cart passed him. Mr Wallace had a nasty fall, and sustained a fractured collarbone.

From the Montreal Daily Star of 22nd February,.wo take the follow: ing :—Mrs Muir, of Longueuil, near Montreal, has just received from the omonrs o± the Bank of New Zealand, in I-OjW Zealand, a very kind letter and a photograph of her son's grave. Mr Muir left Montreal as a very young lad to visit his uncle, Mr Joseph Harris, now of Marton, who was then manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Masterton, and thus began his career in the Bank, which lasted nearly thirty y.ears. He held many prominent positions both in New Zealand, Australia, and Fiji, and at tli6 time of his death was relieving manager for the Bank all oyer the colony.

Cabinet yesterday decided to appoint Mr Donald Robertsoa, wiio for r-iany years has beon Assistant Secretary of tlia Post and Telegraph Departments, to succeed the late Mj? William Gray a 3 Secretary to those grid also decided, in recognition of Mr Gray's long and raj liable services to tho colony, to grant deceased's yoiingcr chiklron tho maximum compassionate allowance equivalent to two years' salary.

Much intorest is being taken at Feilding over the Borough elections, especially in view of a contest both for the Mayoralty and tho seats at the Council table. Mr W. J. B. Trewin, the present Mayor, lias informed us that ho intends to contest tho spat, and seyeral aspirants for tho honour of Gouncillorskip, who are not on the ticket of the gentlemen who undertook on Friday night to provide the town with suitable Borough Councillors, have decided to go to tbo poll nevertheless.

At Auckland Mr Justice Cooper sustained the appeal by the police in the case against the decision of the Thames S.M., that a yard of the hotel was not " licensed premises " His Honor pointed out that the definition of "licensed promises" in the Act of 1881, included '• every room, building, closet, cellar, skittle ground, stable, outhouses, or any other place whatsoever appertaining to such house or place." It ■ would be absurd to say that, if an innkeeper permitted drunkenness in his yard or stable, he would not be liable under tho Licensing Act. He referred the matter back to the magistrate, with a direction that the ground of dismissal was wrong in law, but if the magistrate was satisfied that the respondent was upon the premises with a reasonable excuse he ought to dismiss the case. Seeing that the respondent had not opposed the appeal, he would not not allow costs.

MILKING MACHINE QUESTIONS. What is the secret of the wonderful success achieved by the " LAWKENCE-KENNEDY-GXLLIES " Milking Machine when ovory previous machine, without exception, proved such a complete failure ? The answer is that tho Gillies patents solved conclusively tho groat problem of successful milking by suction. These patents arc embodied only in tho " L.K.G-." and. cannot boused by others without infringement. What chance, therefore, have other "new" and "improved " machines of oven being equally suceetssful ? How long a trial and what risks do you take in testing a now machine to secure evidence equal to tho present five years' record of tho " L.K.G." Agents, J. B. Mac Ewan and Co , Ltd., U.S.S. Compauy's Buildings, Wellington. I

For the Easter trade Messrs Sponce and Speuce are now showing a magnificent selection of new goods iu all departments. Lovely Furs, beautiful Skirts and tho correct styles in Coats and Costumes. Blouso lengths and Ready-made Blouses galore. Ladies should see the new goods at tho Bon Marc-he.* DR. SHELDON'S NEW DISCOVERY la tho most wonderful remedy over discovered for tho euro of Coughs, Colds, and Consumption. It will cure yon when all othors havo failed. For salo by-Tur-ner and Turner's Tip-Top Toa Shop. | Woods' Groat Peppermint Quro for , Coughs and Golds neror fails,';-Js ; fld. .{UK! JJH.&L.S-v.- >.,.&>.ft!- 1 /.f.'.wi {.■}>' -Si.l ?«.J !-S&