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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8823, 27 May 1907, Page 2

The Minister for Labour informed a, deputation from the Building •Trades’ Union that the Scaffolding Act will be amended so as to give inspectors greater jurisdiction. The following are the latest additions to the Marton Telephone Exchange ;—73, Freeman, J. J., storekeeper; 70, Gronn, H. C.,_wood and coal merchant; 43, J. Harris, and Son, laud agents; 71, R. Wilson and 00., grain merchants; 73, Brice, Broad & Go., grain stores, Marton Junction. Mr Buckland, an Otago fanner, who takes a very keen interest _ m Farmers’ Union matters, is urging branches throughout tho colony to form rifle clubs. Tho question will be discussed at the Wellington Provincial Conference. A largo order for rolling stock has just been placed with the various departments of the Petoue workshops. It includes boudoir, dining, and corridor cars, etc., and trucks and vans of every description. This order is by far the most extensive one received at Petone, and will most probably necessitate the running of extra shifts night and day. When finished the results will find their way to the Main Trunk line.—Petone Chronicle. At Wanganui Police Court on Saturday, before Mr Stanford, S.M., charges wore brought by the police against James Quarcermau and seven other bookmakers of having used a place for the purpose of hotting at the recent pigeon shooting matches. After hearing evidence for the prosecution in the case of Quarteianan tie Magistrate dismissed tho case on the ground of that the mere use of a box to stand on did not constitute a ‘‘place.” The seven other eases were withdrawn. The latest innovation on board the Japanese mall steamer Yawata Mara, says a Sydney paper, is a swimming bath in tho fore part of tho ship. It it; 20ft long, with a breadth of 2ift and a depth of sft. This bath affords an excellent opportunity for the morning “dip,” and on tho passage from the For Bast to Australia was largely availed of by passengers, fixed hours being arranged for ladies and men. The Yawata Mam is the first vessel of the Australian line of the Nippon Yusen Eaisba to bo supplied with a swimming bath.

The Federal High Court has been occupied in Brisbane in wrestling with the problem of what the law regards as a sheep. Johnson’s Dictionary gives the definition of that useful animal as “ a domes ticated wool-bearing and meat-producing ruminant of the genus Ovis,” but counsel for the appellant in the action remarked that, according to the Act, the term sheep included any carcase, skin, wool, horn, or hoof. Mr Justice Isaacs: “A horn or a hoof, then, is a sheep.” Mr Justice Higgins “We have in Victoria an Act which declares that the term sheep includes r. goat.” Counsel, however, could net agree as to whether “sheep” included “travelling’ sheep.”

It is not often that a sheep indulges in a little shopping exercise, but last week at Eltham one entered a local hairdressing saloon, but whether the glitter of the razor, or the cold weather was agaiasl shearing, is uncertain, as before the barber could recover from astonishment the sheep lightly vaulted over sundry chairs and crashed through the window like a circus clown does through a paper hoop. A call was next made at the bote!, but the cook was hardly ready for live mutton, and the sheep was forcibly and unceremoniously ejected. What became of the animal is not known, but it is not safe to talk mutton and broken windows to the barber, who failed to display sufficient agility to prevent an exit being made via the window. A master retailor, giving evidence in the Arbitration Court, in Sydney, last week, said that the supply of girls looking for engagements as shop assistants, exceeded the demand. The bulk of them came from the middle classes. Parents in comfortable circumstances sent some of their girls to work. They did not wish to send them to domestic service, and they liked to have them home in the evenings, so they sent them to the shops. Girl.-:, ini, liked to relieve their parents of the burden of keeping them, and so went to the shops for employment. He did not know of any business where the pay was so good, and where the opportunities for advancement wore better In certain departments the girls were able to make more wages than the men. In the millinery, mantles and costumes, and underclothing departments he paid the girls up to X2O per month. That was not an excessive figure. He had to pay it to got the women he wanted. And then again lie repeatedly lost his girls because of marriage.

After the jury in the Fagot -case had returned Its verdict there was, says the Post, a scene iu tho vestibule of the Suxireme Court. The jurors were waiting at the public office of tho Court when counsel for tho condemned man (Mr Wilford), who had disrobed, crossed the vestibule, iu company with some of tho male relatives of the accused, to whore the- jurors were standing, aud iu a very excited manner aud using strong terms expressed his surprise at tho jury’s decision iu the face of the evidence. Tho sheriff came on the scone and interposed, saying, “Mr Wilford, I don’t think you know what you are taking about. You had better leave the Court.” Mr Wilford repeated his opinion of tho verdict, aud tho sheriff again asked him to leave. He did so. A relative of the prisoner also made some remarks to tho jury, but on tho sheriff remarking that if ho did not leave lie would bo removed, ho followed Mr Wilford out of the Court precincts. It is understood that more will be heard of the matter, possibly at the instance of the Crown. A CONSISTENT SEPARATOR. Writing iu reference to the Baltic 880 gallon Separator, Mr Cooper, the well known manager of the Mangatoki Dairy Company, says : —‘ ‘ I am - pleased to say this machine is giving every satisfaction. It Is easily equal to 880 gallons per hour, nud the skimming is quite equal if not better* tb.au any otlier machine we have, iu fact, it is more consistent, skimming as well at the end of a throe hours’ run as it does at the start. It takes about one-fourth less

power, to do the same work as two machines, each of 440 gallons capacity. ”■ Full particulars of both hand and power machines from J. B MacEwau and Co., Ltd., agents, U.S.S. Co.'s Buildings,..Wellington, Many have testified Eiieumo has per maucutly cured them from rheumatism etc , after all other remedies had foiled AH chemists and stores. 2/6 and 4/6. "’“.Judging by tho friendly remarks we hear, Boprnvillo Cocoa has come to delightful aroma have Secured for it a largo demand. Wholesale—GaiL hnr^/.ljVifish.Street, WeUiugtiou.

“All rot” is the terse way in which Mr Rockefeller, through his-secre-tary, describes the report that he had planned to give £10,000,000 for a fund to iuoderui.se and Christianise China.

Tho four-masted barque Sofala, which was hove to outside Sydney Heads last week, awaiting orders from her o.vnevr, lias a homing pigeon on board which has travelled many thousands of miles without being kept in captivity. It joined the ship off the New Zealand coast last September; made the journey to South America and thence to Sydney. At the Feiiding *Oonrt this morning. before Messrs E. Goodbohere and R. Burne, J s.P., Frederick Robinson was charged with stealing two pairs of barbers’ clippers on May 25th from John Noble, at Feiiding. Ho was sentenced to two mouths’ hard abonr at Wanganui. Daniel Hannon was convicted and discharged for having been drunk on the Feiiding railway station on Saturday last.

We regret to record the death of Mr John Feeny, while under chloroform, at Mrs ■ Freeman’s private hospital, Palmerston North, on Saturday. Deceased, who was feeding a stripper at Mr Jarvis’ flaxinill at Kairauga, a week ago, got one of his fingers severely crushed in one of the rollers, and camo into town for medical assistance. On Saturday it was found necessary; for |him to go to the hospital and have the finger amputated, aud he died whilst undergoing the operation. Deceased, who was only 34 years of age, was exceedingly popular with his fellow workmen, and also had a large circle of friends who will no doubt learn with deep regret the sad,news of his sudden demise.

“Truancy is the first step to criminality, the first rung in the ladder,” said MrWiddowsouto.au erring mother at the Magistrate’s Court at Dunedin on Saturday. _ A batch of truancy cases were before r 1 e Court, and various excuses were offered to explain . the cause of the backslidings. “It is very necessary,” said the magistrate, “that parents should see that their child r ren are kept off the streets. It is ail absurd thing that tho Court should have to force people to educate their children,” Otaki boasts a prodigy, the twelve-year-old sou of a phrenologist, who has trained tho youngster’s intellect on a system of his own. The other evening tho boy delivered an oration in the Otaki Town Hall ou the amazing thesis, “Who are yon, aud what are you?” Ho spoke in a full tone, and his delivery was splendid, according to tho Mail, aud lie pulled up sound and well. The phenomenon is further prepared to meet in tho boxing arena any lad of his own ago and weight in tho colony. He has never been beaten with the gloves, and claims to bo the champion boy boxer of tho colony. It is notified by advertisement elsewhere in our columns to-day that tho prospectus of the Dauuevirko Gas Company, Ltd., lias been issued, aud that copies may bo obtained on application to the local branch of the Bank of New Zealand. The company is being formed to acquire the Daunevirke gas works, and investors will no doubt welcome the opportunity of being able to obtain an interest in an already established gas business at par. Gas companies shares are one of the most popular investments in the colony and in_almost every instance command high premiums. It is probable therefore that the available shares in the Dauuevirke Gas Company will be soon applied for.

It is really surprising how much can he grown in a small garden if proper methods arc pursued. At the Kansas experiment station a trial was made last year to seo how much coin he grown on a plot of 50 feot square. "Successive crops were grown from early spring to late autumn, and much'of the laud produced three crops. The produce was as follows : —Lettuce 1951 b, radishes 1341 b, onions 3.351 b, peas 1411 b, string beaus 1011 b, beets 1481 b, cabbage 4501 b, cucumbers 1841 b, spinach. 14S;b, tomatoes 5751 b, poppers oib, squrrh 3371 b, parsnips 3011 b, carrots 11 :b, turnips 751 b, green corn 491 oars, egg plants 34. For most of the vegetables the rows were 18iu. apart, corn and cabbage were 3ft. apart. There was not a day after . the first radishes were of table size, which was ,81 days after planting, until heavy frosts occurred, but that fresh vegetables wore ready for use. A missionary from the Hew Hebrides, in describing the life of the native converts, told the following incident to show the hind of local colonring they introduce into Biblical narratives. “I heard one convert tell to a crowd of dusky brethren the Story of Samson. He said that first the enemy tied Samson up with creepers. Samson puffed out his chest and burst the strings. Thou they bound him with twined swathes of creepers; hut Samson shook himself, and the bands snapped. At this stage the teacher was stuck for a superlative means of expressing the third capture of Samson. At last lie bethought himself of a new and awe-inspiring sort of rope, samples of which had just reached the island.g“Then, ” said lie, “the Philistines wrapped Samson up in barbed wire !”

At Foot;-"vay, Melbourne, tlie other day, coa.-h'.ivniblo interest was taken iji'uo, experiment witli a flying machine.. The body consisted of a small canvas boat on two pneu-matic-tyred wheels, and had groat -white canvas wings, each 17ft. fiiu. in length. The flying machine was hitcho-i on by a rope to a motor car, which, wlieu all was ready, set off at full speed. The flying machine, . which carried no passengers of any kind, rose gradually about a foot from the ground, hut'when apparently about to soar off to the sky the wings carried away, being too fragile to stand the strain. The model experiment is the result of 80 years’ work by the inventor, and cost in materials £75. A bigger model is now to be built, at a cost of £3OO.

A lady from the interior of Otago was lately residing for a short time in the neighbourhood of Shag Point. Hearing one afternoon that a meeting of the Christian Endeavour Society was to he held that evening in 'the local hall, she, with a lady comrade, duly repaired to the place of meeting. On approaching the place of meeting, says the Palmerston Times, they found it pervaded witli a quiet’ religious calm. Cautiously they opened the door and eutored; but the enthusiastic cndeavouxurs were struck by the absence of ladies. Only men, to the number of 30, being present. The visitors felt something was amiss, and the explanation soon came, when they were invited to come forward and study more closely the latest tactics in scrum formation. It was the weekly practice night of the local football club.

It sounds amazing, but actually there will ba no stonemasons, no carpenters, and no bricklayers em ployed in the building of the vast block which is to form the General Post Office extension in London. Indeed, no skilled workmen, except the gaugers and the foremen, will be necessary for the work. All the rest will bo labourers. The explanation of this apparently miraculous undertaking is that the 'great buildings are to be erected on the Hennebiqnc Berro-Ooncrete system; they will be all steel and concrete. Under this novel system, as described by the Westminster Gazette, the whole framework of the building may be said to bo steel—somewhat on the principle and yet greatly differing in detail from the American plan—encased in concrete, which it naturally stroutghous and supports, but which, when the building is finished, is quite invisible. A completed building has the appearance of being composed of Portland stone.

A Successful Sale.—Miss Burke and Co. ’s bankrupt stock having been mostly disposed of, Messrs Spence and Spence are now offering special concessions on their own great stock of showroom , goods to the last day of sale. The Bon Marche has been a busy hive during the last two weeks.* It will go a long way to prevent you taking cold if you provide yourself with warm pure woollen underwear. Warm woollen undershirts and pants 3s fid.'3s lid, 4s 6d, 6a lid, 6s Gd; warm knitted socks lOd, Is, Is Bd, Is fid; flannelette pyjama suits 5s 6d, Roslyu flannels 2s lid, Crimean shirts'ss lid to 7s lid.—Neal, Cash Clothier, Building. Bournville is not only the name of the beautiful Garden City founded by Cadbury’s, but also of the most ■ delicious of flavoured Cocoas. Bor Bronchial Coughs take Wood.f Groat Peppermint Cure, la fid and as fid Direct shipment of oilskins in rid--ing cut are now open at Neal’s Building. Walking cut 9s lid, Ms Cd; riding cut 17s fid, 21s, 25s fid. Try our oilskin garments and yon will bo pleased. We pay • carriage by post, .rail or coach. Send a trial,order.* 1 laiSttSitSffi&Mi&SMllsim

A heavy hailstorm was experienced at Feiiding on Saturday afternoon.

It is reported that the Hon. W. Johnston has sold 4UO acres of his Kairauga estate to Mr Mitchell at £4O an acre.

A Sydney bankrupt stated tho other day that he had received about' £IOOO from his cousin, but when, he became bankrupt hia only assets were a gramophone, a cow and £l.

Mra J. Vile, mother of the late Mr Job Vila, was 90 years of age last Tuesday, aud. is still halo and hearty. She has been the recipient of congratulations from many relatives and friends on attaining such a ripe old ago. j A general meeting of Sandou- , Ohakca Rifle Club is called for , Wednesday evening to make arrange- I ments and' to draw out a programme for a field day’s shooting on the Prince of Wales’ birthday. A full attendance of members is requested. The following will represent j Marton F. O. against Bulls ou Wednesday at Marton—Turner, Heppel, Brewer, Fell, McKee, Henderson, Aiusloy, "Podjurski, Jolly, Yoght, Jensen, Walker, Ingle, Brown, Bishop. The game starts at 3 o’clock. All players are.requested to find jerseys aud boots. In Hawera a few clays ago, two persons received an unpleasant surprise. Messrs N. Oaplen and D. Mitchell were talking over the telephone from their respective business places when they received a very severe electric shock. Mr Mitchell was deaf for some time afterwards, and Mr Caplen was in a dazed condition for the remainder of the day. Upon investigation it was found that the shock was caused by the accidental contact of the telephone wire with an electric light wire.

We axe selling Clincher covers at 18s Gd, tubes 6s, Dunlop covers 20s, tubes 6s Gd; Oceanic covers 11s Gd, tubes 5s Gd ; Atlas covers 11s, tubes 5s Gd. The prices only hold good till June 10th. Mail us your requirements to-day. T. Reynolds aud Co,* DON’T COUGH ALL NIGHT. Restful sleep follows the use of Dr. Sheldon’s New Discovery. The best lung remedy in the world. Small dose. Pleasant to take. Every .bottle guaranteed. For sale by Turner and Turner, Tip Top Teas, aud T. H.' Brecliu, Marton; aud Ellis Bros.. Hun ter vi lie. Gout and its kindred disease rheumatism, are caused by excess uric in the blood. If you suffer Kheumo will soon cure you. Give it a fair trial. 2/6 and 4/6. All stores-