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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8786, 13 April 1907, Page 2

The business people of Marton are invited to close their premises at noon on Wednesday next on account of Marton sports.

Work is fairly brisk at Seddouville State Coal Colliery. Good hard coal is being produced and the manufacture of briquettes from the colliery’s soft coal is proceeding at the works iu Westport.

Henry Augustus Scott, a horsedealer, was fined £lO to-day for having played two-up on a suburban hill at Dunedin on Sunday. The rails on the Main Trunk line are now laid to Niuia, 33 miles north of Txihape. An inset is circulated with a portion of this issue with regard to the great auction sale of the assigned stock of Messrs Campion and King, Bulls. ; During the quarter ended last week fines totalling £250 were imposed iu the Invercargill Magistrate’s Court for offences of sly-grog selling. Mr W. T. Bowater, of Feildiug, has been, appointed delegate of the N.Z. Wesleyan Conference to the general Australian Conference to meet in Sydney next month. As an indication of the necessity of dairymen ascertaining the value of eaoh cow in the herd, a Feildiug farmer by testing eaoh cow’s milk found that his cows ranged in value from 10s up to £2 per month. JgMr William Henry Eyes, at one time Superintendent of Marlborough, died in Wellington yesterday* aged 88 years.

It is stated that about £IOO worth of tobacco and cigarettes have recently disappeared from the store of A. S. Paterson and Co., Wellington. There are no marks about the premises indicating forcible entry. The Appeal Court at Wellington, was to have taken the case of Findlay v. the King, an application for a new trial yesterday, but owing to a slight indisposition of the Chief Justice it was postponed till to-day when it is hoped Sir K. Stout will be able to attend.

Wo regret to learn that a grandson of Mr A. E. Curtis formerly of the firm of Kirton and Curtis, of Tedding, succumbed yesterday at midday. The little fellow, who was between eight and nine years of age, had been an inmate of Mrs Treeman’s private hospital, in Palmerston, and was operated upon for appendicitis, but failed to rally and died as above stated. The body was taken to Feilding yesterday afternoon. “What about New Zealand politics?” Alderman Baker, of Adelaide, who recently visited this country, was asked on his return. “ Well,” he replied, “ that is rather a large order. I heard it put this way, and I hope it is not a chestnut: If anyone in New Zealand has got sixpence more than his neighbours, then those neighbour's sit up all night thinking how they can got it. If they don’t succeed, they pass an act of Parliament and get it that way.” At the Jubilee of the Oddfellows, held at iSew Plymouth yesterday, an aged Oddfellow, explaining the canse of his longevity, said that he had given the secret to a Wanganui friend: “ Down here in Wanganui you feed on fat beef. Up in Taranaki we eat kumikums and milk, and with a tot of whisky on top of that we are all right.” Loud laughter greeted the recipe, and one or two staunch teetotal Oddfellows are said to be seriously considering this simple method of reaching a good old ago. Funerals by electric tramway have been suggested, with apparent seriousness, in Wellington. Trams now run to the cemetery gates at Karori. Tire subject was freely discussed by the guests of the Karori Borough Council at the opeuiug ceremony. Ono person declared that before very long the gloomy hearse, with its long string of cabs, would ho relegated to other duties, and that a car would he constructed to combine a hearse and mourning coach. Messrs A. T. Pycroft and H. E. Burrell, the Auckland delegates to the Railway Officers Conference, which sits in' Wellington from 15 th inst., arrived by the Takapuua at New Plymouth this morning. Messrs A. D. Duncan and C. P. Ryan, the delegates for Wangauni-Now Plymouth section, proceed to Wellington by mail train to-day.

It lias been decided that the chamois recently imported shall be regarded as “ game ” and shall consequently come within the operation of the Animal Protection Act, 1880. Mr Albert Ernest Louis Bertling, who w T as in charge of the chamois on their way to the colony, and who previously was an officer in connection with the London Zoological Gardens, has been appointed by Gazette notice as a ranger under the Act referred to for the Rotorua district. An average well-educated person in Britain seldom uses more than about 4000 different words in actual conversation. Accurate thinkers and close reasouers employ a larger stock, and eloquent speakers have at command about 10,000. Shakespeare, who displayed a greater variety of expression than probably any writer in any language, produced all his plays with about 15,000 words. Milton’s works are built up with 8000, and the Old Testament makes use of only 6643 words. The application for workers’ homes at the Windle settlement, Dunedin, are still hanging Are. Out of 14 houses under offer, applications for only six havq so far been received. Six more houses are under the course of erection. “It is too far away, ’ ’ said a gentleman who knows something of the workers’ wants. ‘ ‘ They should have been erected in a more convenient place, and instead of 30 leiug put up, there should have been from four to five times that number erected. • ’

A ripple of laughter swept over the characteristically decorous ' proceedings of an annual meeting of parishioners in connection with a Christchurch church the other evening. The vicar, in the course of his review of the year’s progress, mentioned that only 18 marriages had taken place at the church during the preceding 12 months. The number should have been greater hut for the fact that a few T men whose' banns' had been called in the church selected their brides from other parishes. Receipt of the intelligence was greeted with a resounding cry of “Shame,” by an eldgrly gentleman present, and the applause which followed his declaration was supported with hearty sympathy by the feminine section of the audience. MILKING MACHINE HINTS. Before deciding to buy an unproved or “ improved ” machine, wait till the heavy flow of milk is on. Previous machines appeared to milk all-right in the slack season, but failed hopelessly on heavy Hnilking cows. A trial even of one season is not long enough to see if any injury results to the cows, and it is only after a. second season that the safety- of milking machine can be deterinined; Why experiment when you can secure the “ L.K.G.” machine, which has- been five years in practical use, and has been proved by‘2so level-headed New Zealand farmers, to be a complete, commercial success. Book now to avoid the rush. Agents, J. B. Mac Ewan and Co ’, Ltd., U.S.S. Company’s Buildings, Wellington. Why suffer the awful agony of rheumatism, gout, lumbago, sciatica, and kindred diseases. KußOiio if given a fair trial will quickly cure you. Sold at, 2/6 and 4/6, L

The Feildiug electoral roll has, now been completed. It contains 1205 names as compared to 834 two ' yearsagA stray horse impounded in the public pound at Bulls made the poundkeeper a handsome profit, as rt brought £Bl at auction. Mr A. Davie, Saudon, intends to give up the butchery business altogether, aud is turning iris attention to farming, having bought a part of Mr luglis’ property at £3l au aero. When Benjamin Franklin thought of starting a paper in Philadelphia his mother, greatly alarmed, tried to dissuade him. She pointed out that there were already two newspapers in America. The Elton Comedy Company played to a good house at Bulls last night, and were well received,, practically every item being encored, They appear again to-night, aud at Sandou on Monday. The Napier Telegraph describes the company as the smartest and brightest ever seen in the city. Mr L. Pole, late assistant at Martou School, has received au appointment as teacher iu charge of the school at Waipiro Bay, under the Hawke’s Bay Education Board. Mr and Mrs Pole leave Palmerston r todav for Napier, en route for their new home, a rising district on the East Coast.

Iu au article ou the flax industry written by Mr W. Kerr for the Tourist appears the following -It costs on au average 13s per ton to cut aud carry green flax to the mill, and the average , cost per ton of milling the green leaf into fibre is £6 11s. Now, au ordinary mill is capable of turning out, without much difficulty, 16 tons of fibre per mouth. This tonnage of< fibre, taking 8)4 tons of green leaf to the ton, would represent 136 tons of green leaf. The following figures are significant, and speak for themselves: Price realised from sale of 16 tons .of fibre at the quotation of £34 per ton, £544; cost of purchasing 136 tons of green leaf at 15s per ton £103; cost of cutting 186 tons of green leaf and carrying them to the mill at 18s per ton, £88; cost of milling 16 tons of fibre from 136 tons of green flax at £6l Is, £105—£395; profit, £249. After making a liberal allowance for freight, it is clear that a small mill, comparatively, like this must yield the owner au annual income of considerably over £3OOO. ! “ Somo little time ago,” says Mr J. G. Boyle, Kehnscott, W.A., “ 1 was suffering from a severe cough, which threatened to take a serious form. Hearing so much about Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy I decided lo 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. H. Bredin, Marton, Ellis Bros., Hunterville, and W. B. Clark Bulls. We offer you a good heavy 32-inch Flannelette at 5s 6d per dozen, in pink, white and cream. We would like you to compare this line with what you usually buy at 7s Gd the dozen. We offer you special cut values in Calicoes, Sheetings, Lace Curtains and Towels. Try us at Mcßldowney’s Stores, Marton, Hunterville and Taihape. For Bronchial Goughs take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Is 6d and 3s 6d. No better saving can be effected anywhere than at our stocktaking sale now ou at Co-op. Stores, North Broadway. Marton.* To euro rheumatism, gout, sciatica aud lumbago, the excess poisonous-uric acid must be removed. Ehedmo will quickly and permanently do tills. All chemists and stores, 2/C and 4/6 per bottle. You try it.