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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8853, 2 July 1907, Page 2

Lady Plunket has left England for Canada and New Zealand.

Out of 49 applicants from all over tho Colony Mr G. K. Darbyshire was yesterday appointed secretary and engineer to the Oamaru Harbour Board. Tho records of the Police Courts show that in 1906-7 under no-license there were 134 convictions at Oamaru against 353

for the previous year. In addition to the new morning paper in Wellington a project is on foot to start another evening journal. It is stated that it will be issued within the course of a few weeks.

A public send-oif is to ho tendered at Dunedin to Mr Colin Gilray, this year’s Rhodes scholar, who leaves the colony early next month.

During the half year ended June 30th, there were 171 births, 57 mimages, and 44 deaths in New Plymouth. Compared with the same period in 1906 there ia an increase of 13 marriages, 20 deaths, and a decrease of 2 births.

A Christchurch telegram states that a bnsh fire at Oxford has attained big dimensions since last Friday. A nor’wester is blowing and sheep are being mustered off threatened sections. Properties are all safe at present.

Mr D, Camming, Inspector of Post Offices, has been appointed Controller of Money Orders and Savings Banka and Accountant in succession to Mr W. H. Morris, who becomes Assistant Secretary to the Post and Telegraph Oepartmeht.

Tho celebrate .lie anniversary of No- T ' eld last night at Invercarg llio auspices of the Temperance Reform Council. Speeches by Temperance leaders occupied most of the evening and the spirit of them was naturally favourable to the' benefits resulting from prohibition.

At a meeting of civil servants at Wanganui last evening the following resolution was carried :—“ That this representative meeting of civil servants urge upon Government the necessity of introducing and passing during the present session a general scheme of superannuation for the civil service on the lines of the Bill submitted last session.”

It is reported that the scow Pukapuka and the cutters Eleanor and Teaser, which went ashore at Squadron Bay, Waihako, during the recent heavy weather in Auckland, have sustained considerable damage. Kepairs are to be effected without delay, and it is hoped that the vessels will be seaworthy again in a few weeks.

The Marton Rifle Club will fire their second competition for ;Mr A. H. Sutcliffe’s • trophy to-morrow afternoon. Shooting will commence at 1.80.

Mr G. W. Leadley addressed a well attended meeting at Pleasant Point on the Laud Bill, when a motion was carried by a" narrow majority that no Land Bill would bo satisfactory which did not include option of freehold. During a heavy thunderstorm the house of a man named Jesse Rolf, at Bleak Down, in the middle of the Isle of Wight, was struck by lightning and practically wrecked. Some furniture was smashed to matchwood, and the cloth on the dinner table was burnt, but the occupants sitting at the table escaped with slight injury from falling debris. In the stable Rolf’s brother had a trouser-leg and boot torn off, and his leg was burnt.

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Marton Singing Class to-night will meet in the Wesleyan Ohnrch vestry.

The little Spanish Prince wfio was born last month has been given the names of Alfonso, Pio, Christine, Eduardo, Franc'sco, Guillelmo, Carlos, Enrique, Eugenio, Fernando, Antonio, and Vonancior.

The Taumarunui Press states that a gentleman has in his possession a rich looking lump of gold-bearing quarts given him by a Maori, who stated that it was found in the Upper King country. The exact locality will not be divulged.

Following is the complete list of nominations for vacancies on Wanganui Education Board;—Southern Ward, Mr A. Fraser, elected unoppoesd. Central Ward; Messrs D. ft. Guthrie, retiring member, and B. P. Lethbridge. Northern Ward ; Messrs G. Carson, retiring member, T. A. Bridge, W. 0. Cargill, and the Rev. W.. White.

Mr J. Yarl', of Masterton, an able exponent of the leasehold system, lias written to Mr J. C. Cooper, vice-president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, inviting him to debate the question—Leasehold v. Freehold—in Masterton on a date to be agreed upon. Mr Andrew Collins, Labour Organiser of Wellington, addressed a crowded meeting of timber workers in Daunevirke last night. Numerous members were enrolled in the Union and a strong branch was formed of the Wellington Timber Workers’ Union.

Mr W. A. Scott, who has been on the staff of the Masterton Post Office for about ten years, will leave to-day to |take charge of the Post Office at Utiku, on the Main Trunk line. Mr Scott’s transfer means promotion,, and he will carry with him the “best wishes of a large number of friends. ' .

Danuevirke, according to a witness in the Arbitration Court, is in a very bad way commercially at the present

time. “The district is now in a transition stage, ” said the witness. “The sawmills have gone out, and the farmers have not yet come in, and the result is that business is suffering severely. 1 ’

A|Oalifornian, U,S,A., paper states that a resident of Carpentaria took first prize at ajrecont exhibition in the States of the Cosmopolitan Farmers’ League with a pumpkin which weighed 3301b5. The 14 year old son of tire grower of this ‘ remarkable vegetable, it is stated, recited a nursery rhyme from within the pumpkin. At Marten Court this morning, before Dr. Skennan and Mr A. H. Sutcliffe, J’s.P., Christopher Ryuan, Raratougan, was charged with the theft of two pairs of boots and half a dozen ties, Valued at 36s Od, the property of Mr J. McEldowucy. Accused pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three mouths’ hard labour. There were several “previous convictions against accused.

August Marchant, aged 57, and his house in Verqnin, Prance, were in so'filthy a|coudition tliat the parish doctor ordered him a bath, and the Mayor his removal. The man sobbed bitterly : “I have never had such a thing in my life, and it is three years since water has touched my face. I am sure it will kill me. ” In spite of his struggles, Marchant was placed in a warm bath, and three attendants lathered and scrubbed him. But the emotion caused by the feeling of soap and water on his body was so great that the poor wretch expired in the bath. A remarkable case of self-hypno-tism is puzzling the doctors at Worcester, Mass. Some time ago a wellknown resident, Mr A. H. Stimsou, brought himself under a hypnotic spell, and the physicians have been unable to bring him to consciousness. Mr Stimson read of a man who had stated that he had hypnotised himself, and in spirit lie toured round Europe. He determined to imitate the writer, and foil into a state of catalepsy as the result. The doctors fear lie will die without their being able to rouse him.

At Nelson Court two fruiterers, one a Chinaman, were charged under the Health Act with exposing and selling specked oranges which had been bought by the Department’s inspector. The magistrate said that it was only a trivial breach of the ’Act, as some of the oranges wore quite good inside. A conviction was recorded and they were ordered to come up for sentence when called upon.

The Wellington Gas Company has decided to establish auxiliary works at Miramar. The gas holder will cost £20,000. It is proposed to build a wharf at Evans Bay, and construct a tram line from the wharf to an immense hopper adjoining the works. An elevator will be installed on the outer end of the wharf to facilitate rapid handling of coal. It is estimated that during the nest two or three years the company will expend fuliy £IOO,OOO in now works, mains, etc.

Mr Arthur Clarke, a deaf mute, living in New York, fell asleep while reading in his home early one morning, and was .awakened by a violent blow on the head, given by two burglars who had broken a way in. They bound him hand aud foot, and demanded to know where his valuables were hidden. : Mistaking ins dumbness for obstinacy, the burglars forced a funnel into his mouth and poured a pail of water down it. He suffered great agony, but could not, of course, speak. They were about to repeat the torture when help came, aud they fled.

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