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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8836, 12 June 1907, Page 2

Tlie Union S.S. Co. have’placed an order with Doxford and Sous for a 4000 ton steamer.

A box of sovereigns dropped from the steamer Fiona aud was lost in Suva liar hour.

We are requested to contradict the statement that Mr R. Linton sen., of Halcombe, is seriously ill. Apart from a slight cold Mr Linton is in the host of health.

We have to congratulate Mr B. Magee, of .Marton Post Office, on his promotion to the position of postmaster at Ohakuue. The public have always received the most courteous treatment from Mr Magee and will, we feel assured, join in wishing him every success. Motorists in Philadelphia have taken to carrying carriage whips for the little boys who think it funny to stand on the roadside and shoot beaus and peas at the chauffeurs through blowpipes. A dog clothed in a paper suit upon which were the words in large type “Vote tor Kirk” was sent about the streets of St. Austell, Cornwall, in support of his master’s candidature at the urban council election.

Nicholas Tressiderwas brought before Mr Justice Williams at Dunedin for having broken the terms of his probation through drink. Prisoner was before the Court last sessions for breach of probation through drink, and was cautioned. Now he was sent to gaol for twelve mouths. In the course of a lecture at Napier last uigut on climate, Dr. Kennedy Government Meteorologist for the district, showed by tables and diagrams that Napier compared more than favourably with the world famed health' - resorts of the Old World, while in the colony it was second to none. He concluded by saying that Napier’s climate was one of its most valuable assets. In Mastertou A. and P. Association competition for swede and mangel growing Mr H. Evans took first prize for ridged swedes with a crop of 44 tons IGcwt to the acre and W. Cameron first prize for swedes on the fiat with 50 tons 2cwt to the acre. The opinion was expressed that the extra work spent in ridging was a loss. -In mangels B. J. Haigh’s crop was at the rate of 12G tons Bcwt per acre.

The Woodviilo waterworks were started about five years ago with a reservoir containing a supply of 310,000 gallons, which was thought ample to last a period of two weeks. At present time, however, the Railway Department IS taking 20,000 gallons a day, and a secoudjreservoir has become an absolute necessity. A man, who was arrested at Makatoto on Wednesday on a charge Of having imposed on a resident hy selling cold tea as whisky, appeared before the Taumr.runui Police Court on Saturday. He was found guilty, and was fined £lO, with £9 XGs costa, or one month’s imprisonment. He went to gaol.

A dramatic scene was witnessed at the. trial of Richard Riley at Sydney on the charge of murdering a young woman named Arnold. The jury found that the prisoner was not insane when the crime took place. Riley said he had no wish for any mercy or clemency, as there were worse things than the cruel pains of death. He asserted that while he had been in the Parramatta Asylum lie had been persecuted and tortured by ‘‘criminal and imbecile convicts, ’ ’ and it was better to die—to be torn asunder in front of the public—than go hack '-there. He added that God told him to commit the deed, and with Him his innocence was ..supreme. When the death sentence had been passed, Riley said if jt was in his power lie would T.haunt those people who had persecuted him.

A Maori, writing to the Otaki paper, says:—‘‘The Royal Commission has done good work. They

have recommended the purchase of two blocks up the Wanganui, also the Rangitoto block—all good laud —the Ihuwaka block, containing 63,000 acres, at 7s 6d per acre, and the best part of Rangitoto at £1 per acre. I must congratulate the Native Minister on the able and honest way in.which ho purchased these blocks. The native owners came forward and sold their land freely. This purchase supports the Treaty of Waitangi, where it mentions that the Maoris could sell to the Government if they liked, but that Government should not confiscate. ’ ’

Mr Horace J. Moon, Secretary, Empire Hotel, Wellington, N.Z., is a great believer in Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. He says:—“l am pleased to be able to speak in high praise of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, it having cured me of a very severe cough. Other cough mixtures I had taken failed to even relieve me. For sale by T. H. Bredin, Marton; and W. B. Clark, Bulls. Rheumo cures rheumatism, gout, sciatica and lumbago quickly and permanently. It is a thoroughly safe aud absolutely reliable remedy. All chemists aud stores, 2s 6d and 4s Cd. NIPPED IN THE BUD. A Cold, Cough or Influenza can be nipped in tho bad by a few . doses of Dr. Sheldon’s New Discovery for Coughs, Colds aud Consumption. For sale by Turner aud Turner, Tip Top Teas, Marton; aud Ellis Bros. Huutcrvilie. -For GltiWren’s Hacking dfougli at night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure Is tkl and 3s 6d. '

Lionel Terry has been removed from Lyttelton Gaol to SeacM Mental Diseases Hospital. Ah Auckland cabdriver has recovered £5 11s Gd and costs from the owner of a watch-dog which bit him.

The death occurred on Saturday night, at Jolmsonville, of Mr B. N. Saudilands, father of Mr W. A. Sandilands, solicitor* of Peilding. Mr P. G. Massey, son of the leader of the Opposition, lias passed his final law examination. Mr Massey is only nineteen years of age. The death is reported from Gisborne of Mr Alexander'McKenzie, who was well known throughout the colony as a breeder of stud sheep. Mr McKenzie was years engaged profitably in a sheep trade between Wellington and Oamaru for the Otago diggings, transporting six thousand sheep in one year.

In a case in Dunelin Police Court in which a man was charged with indecently assaulting a girl of fifteen, the girl, on being put into the witness box, said she did not remember what sho told the detective. On being treated as a hostile witness sho maintained the same attitude, and the charge was accordingly dismissed.

The late Dr. Alexander, of Dunedin, under his will bequeathed £1250 to the Governor of St. Helena for the benefit of native-born poor and necessitous inhabitants of the island. Tie .legacy is given in recognition of the fact that St. Helena was his birthplace, and his family had been closely connected with it for a lengthy period. Pohangina is forming a Defence Eifle Club, starting with about 15 members. Mr H. W. Oliver is president, Mr E Akers patron, and Mr Coyle lion, secretary and treasurer. A Debating Club has also been formed with 20 members. Patron, Mr E. W. Brown; president, Mr J. Coyle j vice-presidents,. Messrs D. McCarthy, D. Howie, H. W. Oliver, A. Peart; Mr A. McDonald, hon. secretary and treasurer. The following have passed their final law examinations :—Auckland:. Solicitors —W. S. Buttle, P. G. Massey, H. Morpeth. Wellington : Solicitors—S. -H. Gilmer, N. Z. Armstrong, L. Craig, G. H. Graham, H. Hart, T. B. Slipper; LL.B. — A. Fair, W. H. Wilson. Christchurch: Solicitors—T. S. Dacro, K. S. Williams. Dunedin : Solicitors—o. Darling, G. Gallaway, S. C. ■ Horens, T. E. Roberts, T. Sinclair, J. Walsh. Miss Matilda Montoith appeared as a solicitor at the civil sittings of the Magistrate’s Court this morning, says yesterday’s Post, and had the unique experience of being the first lady to take a seat, at the Bar-in the Lower Court in Wellington. Miss Montoith, on asking for an adjournment of a case on behalf of Messrs Levvey and Mackenzie, was congratulated by Dr M‘Arthur, S.M., on her first appearance at the Bar. His Worship said he hoped that they would see Miss Montoith frequently. It is understood that Miss Monteith was admitted as a solicitor at Hokitika.

At Auckland two young men, George Frederick Pepper and Herbert Hewlett, were charged with receiving money knowing it to have been stolen from the steamship Navua. The accused pleaded not guilty. It will bo remembered that 1000 sovereigns were stolen from the boat and that two men, Christie and Manning, third officer and a seaman respectively, were found guilty of having stolen the money and are now undergoing sentence Pepper was charged with having received £230 ox the money and Hewlett £lB2. The Jury, after twenty minutes’ retirement, brought in a verdict of not guilty, and prisoners were discharged.

As a result of the verdict given by the coroner’s jury at Christchurch at the inquest held last April touching the death of John Joseph Greanoy, aged eighteen years, William Stanton, “ specialist,” with no diploma, was arrested on Saturday and charged with manslaughter, in that “ in administering medical treatment he failed to have and nso reasonable knowledge and skill, and care, aud did cause the death of the said Greanoy.” Stanton was bailed out on Saturday evening, and yesterday was remanded to June 18th.

“At Auckland Police Court yesterday. Henry Pickering, a cabdriv*.*, was charged with assaulting Arthur Payliss, a clerk, so as to cause liim actual bodily harm. The former charged Eayliss with trying to poison people’s minds against him, and ho struck him on the jaw, breaking it Bayliss said he had simply told a girl, who was a relative of iris, not to drive about with Pickering because he was a cabdriver. Tno Bench held that the latter had had groat provocation, and fined him £5 and costs.

A good story is going round of the inventive genius of Lord Kitchener. The distinguished Commauder-in-Chief desired, on the occasion of the recent visit of the Ameer of Afghanistan to India, to lay out an artistic garden for his gratification. Bare exotics and flowers of groat variety of colours, tropical and sub-tropiSal plants, were brought to make the garden beautiful. One thing w*as Inching—there was no grass to give a finishing, touch of verdure, and the few days available did not permit of procuring it. Then Lord .Kitchener’s resourcefulness came into play. The garden was sown with mustard and cress seed, with the result that there was in due time.a delightful greensward effect which astonished all the visitors, and not least the Ameer himself.

Soma illuminating evidence was given before the Native levnd Commisiion at Ta Kuiti with regard to the practice of declaring minors, interested in lands, to be adults (remarks the King Country Chronicle). Apparently a judge of the Native Land Court has power to declare a native an adult when there is some doubt about the exact age. Maoris are proverbially hazy with regard to dates, but in most cases can tell to within a "year or two, in a period of twenty-one years. However, it was stated that the practice had grown up (in cases of sales of land to the Crown) of declaring children of not more than ten years to he adults. This was done for the purpose of securing the money at onco, instead of having it vested in the Public Trustee. The Maori may not bo able to manage his own affairs after the manner of the pakehai but he is remarkably apt in taking advantage of favourable pointsi

The secret of how Mr Carnegie amassed his enormous fortune was given to some extent at the Sydney University by Dr; Starr Jordan, who is a personal friend of the American millionaire. Mr Oarnegio had told him that the beginning of Ids wealth came when ho noticed that the' other manufacturers of steel were employing master workmen who had no idea of chemistry nor of what lay behind the turning of a blast on or off. Oarnegio removed some of these merely master workmen from their positions at his

works, and substituted eight or ten of tho best chemists in America and Scotland—young men educated in

. tiie universities of America, Eng- ; laud, Scotland; and Germany, By . doing this ho was able to make bis steel at a lower price, and of a better quality, besides saving what had been 'waste products. It was this that enabled him to endow a trust with £3,000,000 to bo spout on education. Mr Oarnegio’s great wish. Dr. Jordan added, was to make the educational systems in America, Canada, and Scotland as near ideal as possible. THE “L.K.G. ” RECORD. The “L.K.G. is not a new or improved Milking Machine. It is the only machine out of many hundreds which have stood the ordeal of public use, and until it had worked for four years on a number, of farms, it was considered impossible to produce a successful milking machine. Yet immediately this is assured, at least a dozen inventors confidently assure the public that they have suddenly hit on various designs superior to tho “L.K.G.” despite the fact that it holds securely the only successful principle discovered after 100 years of experiment. . Talk is cheap, but it costs thousands to produce a record equal to the “L.K.G.” Sole Agents, MacEwans, Ltd., ■ U.S.S. Co.’s Buildings, Wellington. - Delicious! Such is tho general opinion of Boumvillc Cocoa. Its delicious flavour and delightful aroma are unequalled. Wholesale— Cadbury, Farish Street, Wellington. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for Goughs and Colds never fails. It 6d and Ss 6d. _ .

i PAt Napier “Martha Caldwell, licensee of the Albion Hotel, was 1 fonnd guilty on nine informations of ' supplying liquor to boys apparently under IS, aud fined £ls. Two bar- . nfeu were fined £lO and £7 rospec--1 tively on similar charges. As the 1 hotel is changing hands the license j was not endorsed. An illustration of extraordinary length of tenure is afforded by the occuption of Hill House, near Stoke Gabriel, Devonshire,by the Churchward family. Entering upon possession in the fifteenth century, they have held it from generation to generation without a break for over 400 years.

The Rontgou rays have proved invaluable as detectives in the case of suspected smugglers. In the French Government tests of the X-ray detective of M. Alphouso Le Roux,. Xiorsons representing smuggling passengers have been examined without removal of clothing or any indignity, exccqit being detained a few moments before the apparatus. So rapid is the process that 167 persons received attentiou in 45 minutes. On these individuals were articles of any kinds, variously concealed.

The M.D.I. Company, wthich has been holding a sale of drapery in the auction mart, Broadway, Marton, found out this morning that the marc is a shop within the moaning of “The Shop and Shop Assistants’ Act” and therefore it must be closed to-day. The mart was therefore closed at one p. m to-day and the sale will he continued to-morrow at 1.80 p.m. The company was prepared to take the risk of prosecution but the auctioneer refused to be a consenting party. “Our teachers,” said Mr J. C. Thomson, M. H.R., at the meeting of the Southland Education Board, “should be instructed to outer up the full names of their pupils on the examination certificates ■which are issued by them. An instance of the hardship a mistake may occasion was brought to my notice not very long ago. A hoy’s name appeared on the certificate as ‘Fred,’ hy ■which name lie was known to his companions, but his baptism name was ‘Arthur John. ’ When he placed his certificate before a certain Department he was practically charged with fraud. ’ ’

We offer yon 40 dozen Ladies* Flannelette Chemises, Nightdresses, Combinations aud Knickers at less than price of materials at McEldowuey’s Stores; Marton, Hnuterville aud Taihape. Judging hy the friendly remarks we hear, Bonruvillo Cocoa has come to stay. Its delicious flavour and delightful aroma have secured for it a large demand. Wholesale —Cadbury, Parish Street, Wellington, Gout is really a special form of rheumatism caused hy excess uric acid in the blood. Whether your gout is acute or chronic, Rheumo will cure yon. 7! All stores.