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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8829, 4 June 1907, Page 2

The first interprovincial lacrosse match was played at Auckland on Saturday between teams from Auckland and Wellington. The game, which was keenly fought, ended in the defeat of the visitors by seven goals to five.

The Management Committee of the Auckland Cricket Association have decided to challenge Canterbury for the Plunket .Shield, which was awarded to Canterbury recently. They ask Canterbury to suggest a date for a match early next season.

A fire occurred yesterday in the shop of Biggins, hairdresser, Yictoria-street, Christchurch, over which the Anglers' Club has rooms. The back premises were gutteu, the stairs leading to the Anglers' Club were burned away, and the rooms themselves scorched and goods destroyed. The following appointments are gazetted .—Chas. J. Canton, to be a member of the Wellington Land Board ; A. K. Drew, registrar of marriages, births and deaths at Sanson; Miss Jessie Bicknell, to be an assistant inspector under the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885, as from Ist May, 1907.

During the hockey match at Feilding yesterday, Miss Drew, the captain of the ladies' team received a nasty blow on the head. Dr Johnstone was called and attended to the sufferer. Lieut. Owen Pleasants, of the Manchester Rifle Volunteers, has been awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces long service medal. This officer has a total rank and commissioned service to 28th February, 1907, entitling him thereto, of twenty years and twenty-two days. "A party of Aucklanders yesterday explored a cave in Cornwall Park, which was originally a fortress of the great chief Kiwi Tamaki. Tons upon tons of bones formed a deposit of human debris, four feet high. So long had the bones been there they had resumed the semblance of white earth. There are other caves which will be explored at a future time. A conviction was recorded at Wellington in the case of A. E. Waugh, for breaches of the Bankruptcy Act, and he wasordered to come up for sentence when called upon, Mr Harden, for defendant, said he hoped to announce that in future some repayment would bo made to the creditors. His Worship expressed the hope that defendant would be in the position. He would not be the first to do that. Many honourable men in business had lain by for years, and working hard, eventually paid everybody. There was a large gathering of military forces and the general public at BuckleJ street, Wellington, on Saturday afternoon, when His Excellency the Governor laid the foundation stone of the new Garrison Hall to take the place of the one near Lambton Quay, built thirty years ago. In the course of his speech Lord Plunket said one of the great difficulties the Council of Defence had to face was the short time volunteers could get away from their regular employment for training. They could not train men effectively by night drills and on holidays. The men wanted several days together. He hoped employers would make sacrifices as the men were doing in order that the latter might do the duty they desired to perform. The Hon. J. A. Millar speaking at a letter carriers' social at Dunedin on Saturday night said the Postal Department was at one time the envy of every department because it had its classification scheme. Since that time other departments had been classified until as far as he could gather from opinions expressed, he judged that the time had nearly arrived when there should be a further classification of Postal Department. (Applause). In some of the classes the classification was perfectly fair, but in others an improvement might be effected. Ho referred to the more poorly paid classes of the service. Those classes ought to receive particular attention in first instance. He-did not believe in poorly paid workers. When a man occupied a responsible position he ought of course to bo paid well for his services. Increased responsibility should carry with it increased emolument but when a man had made his way into a position in which it might be said he was comfortable, and there were others who were pinched, the ones in the lower grades ought to be considered before tl'ose in the higher grades, and in that respect he thought that there was room for improvement. The PostmasterGeneral, he believed, had tlio welfare of every man in the service at heart and if he was satisfied that the pay was not sufficient he would be the first "man to come to the House and ask that it should be increased. (Applause).

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At Wanganui Supreme Court on Satur-1 day Oliphant Hughes was sentenced to j eighteen months' imprisonment for j perjury. j The Minister for Education has authorise' the acceptance of a tender for erection of a two-storied brick building for a technical ; school at Feilding. It is understood that t the price is sligh:ly below £3OOO. ■" j Mr D. Mason, Assistant Clerk at j Wanganui, has been appointed Clerk j at Marton Court. Members of Morgan Lodge are re-> minded of the public installation ceremony which takes place at 8.80 ; this evening at the Druids' Hall. A dance -will follow the proceedings. Mr Bert Crozier will provide the music. "For croupy coughs," says Mr J. Abbott, general merchant, Dandenongand North Mirboo, "there is. nothing auite so good as Chamber-. lain's Cough Remedy. It is the one medicine that I always keep in my home, so as to have convenient to give any of the children who show symptoms of a cough or cold. The longer I use it so does my faith increase as to its efficacy. The people of Dandenong think a great deal ot ' Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and their comments are always flattering. For sale by T. H. Brediii, Marton; Ellis Bros., Hunterville; and W. B. Clark, Bulls.

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