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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8892, 12 August 1907, Page 2

Splendid warm spring rains are falling throughout the Taranaki province. Some light showers fell on Saturday at Timaru, and though the sky is not heavily overcast there is promise of more rain. Mr S. Daw's Manchester Brass Band, will hold their annual social on the 30th inst. Mr Daw has recently enrolled a number of young members into the band's ranks.

Several farms at Kairanga are_ at present in a badly flooded condition, while two or three houses on the main road are almost completely surrounded by water.

Cows are now coming in rapidly all over the district and the various creameries will soon be running daily. Since the recent rains, feed which has been plentiful throughout the winter is coming on well.

The value of exports for the quarter ended Jimo 30th from Taranaki including New Plymouth, Waitara, and Patea was .£351,301 as compared with ,£243,581. t or the corresponding quarter last year. Of the increase New Plymouth accounted for £07,624.

The social and dance in connection with the Marton Branch of the Farmers' Union, to be hold in the To?m Hall on August 28th, promises to be a great success. Tickets are now obtainable from the secretary, Mr F. R. H. Brice. Full particulars will bo advertised in this paper in a fow days. _ _ J ,,^ n^.l; _^ !=rar^TO! -,.

Land popularly known as the " Mokau Jones estate" was submitted for Kile by public auction on Saturday last at New Plymouth by Mr Newton King, there was a large attendance, but only one bid that of Mr H. Kemp Walsh, one of the mortgagees, and the property was knocked down"to him at ,£19,500. Messrs Milson and Coles, of Foilding, who havo successfully carried on the business of booksellers and stationers for the past seventeen years, handed over their establishment to Mr A. G. Walker on Saturday night. Mr Milson intends to still reside in the district, and has purchased a farm at Aorangi. The people of Wanganui have had a shock over their electric tramway scheme. The engineer's estimate was £30,000 or £32,000; the lowest tender is nearly £42,000. At the Borough Council on Tuesday evening, on the casting vote of the Mayor, a proposal to refer the matter Back to the ratepayers was lost, and a motion to accept the lowest tender was carried.

There is a sharp epidemic of influenza in Nelson. Nearly all business places report the disablement of their staff. Government offices, and notably tho Telegraph Department, are working short-handed. The attendance at schools is also seriously affected. Owing to the illness of numerous pupils and of the teaching staff tho Boys College will be closed till Thursday.

" The criminal 2 calendar for next Monday's sitting of tho Supreme Court at Dunediu consists of charges against eight prisoners, three of whom are jointly charged with broaching cargo. One prisoner has answered seven charges of theft. ■ William Dougall, aged 23, who recently arrivedyfrom the "old country, ! pleaded guilty at tho Dunediu Police Court this morning to several charges of embezzlement from the firm of Thomson, Bridges and Co. The total defalcations amount to £2lB. Accused was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. At a meeting of tho New Zealand Shipowner's Federation, held at Auckland, great dissatisfaction was expressed at tho absence of provision for a representative of the shipowners in the Harbour Boards Bill, and it was resolved to endeavour to have tho Bill attended to in this respect. j Mr T. H. White (chairman) was appointed to represent tho Federation at the Annual Conference of Employers' Federation, at Wellington, on August 21st. The following particulars are available of exports from the colony during last month, the figures for last year, where procurable, being stated in parentheses:— Butter ,£25,375 (.£0589), cheese .£3702 (.£5787), beef .£55,571 (.£23,124), mutton ■£147,934 (.£122,752), lamb ,£167,614 (£127,789), wheat £43 (£279), oats £209 (£6911), potatoes £B2 (£121), hemp £47,536 (£76,461), tow £6119, rabbits £6691, kauri gum £63,426, grain and pulse £8443, hops £1489, hides £19,339, tallow £46,013. skins £72,101, timber £25,147, wool £207,882, gold £212,809. At the annual meeting of the South Canterbury Dairy Company a credit balance of £1312 was shown. It was decided to dispose of a dividend of 5 per cent on shares and a bonus of id per lb on butter fat. This was carried against some opposition. The minority included the chairman and directors, who stated tha* the profit had been made on the sales of output of the previous year. This year being so dry operations had not paid. The total receipts of milk were a little over nine million pounds. About half a million was retailed in Timaru.

An African pigmy named " Aboo," well known in Palmerston, whence ho was recently moved on for having no visible means of support, made his appearance in Carterton recently. On Wednesday he was reminded by an official that his presence m the town was undesirable, and he left for fresh woods by tho southern train in the afternoon. At the railway station he pitched a pitiful tale, but many of his statements were found to be at variance with the truth. -The little man stands about 4ft 6in in height and his age is between forty and fifty—the small knots of hair with which his scalp is covered having mostly turned grey. His weight was taken and he was found to turn the scale at Gst 81b. He has frequently been provided with billets compatible with his diminutive energies, but intemperate habits have invariably caused bis dismissal. His case is a regrettable one, but it is fairly safe to estimate that he will eventually find board and lodging at the Government's expense.—News. Guard J. Lowe, who was killed in tho Rotorua railway smash tho other day, is described as * ono of the whitest guards in the service.' He was bred in an air of railways, for his father was for many years a guard on one of the Auckland lines, and was ono of the founders of the Amalgamated Society | of Railway Servants. " Jack " Lowe was very popular. When news was received some time ago of his transfer from Cambridge, the public petitioned the Department to retain his services. Not succeeding they showed their approeiaciation in another way, and presented him with a gold watch and chain. He was at one| time the champion mile walker in tho Auckland district, and was very popular amongst athletes. His sister is his only surviving relative in New Zealand.

Mr W. jHearn, one of Now Zealand's foremost scullers of the past generation, in the course oi a conversation with a Post representative, expressed the opinion that Webb was as fine a man as he had seen in a boat in New Zealand, so far as finish was concerned, and he had scored the great honour of bringing the championship of the world to New Zealand for the first time in tho history of boating. At tho same time Mr Hearn thought that the Wanganui man had fallen upon somewhat easy times in which to wrest the championship, for the leading scullers of to-day were not to be compared with Hanlan, Beach, and Harry Searle. There were giants in those days. But there were of «ood men coming over the horizon again, and " Webb will ha?e to keep going if he wants to hold on to the championship. Thero has been little serious competition for the championship of late years, but there are a lot of men over in Australiacoming on." As AVebb is only 29 years of age, Mr Hearn thinks he will still have lots of work in him —ho should be in his prime in a boat up till the ago of 35. '• I kept at it till I was 38, but I found the work much harder after 35," said the exsculler. I

Judge R. O. Sim lias delivered judgment of the Aotea Laud Board meeting iu respect of timber cutting rights, . etc., affecting sections in llaetihi Block. Tho Board considered it had no jurisdiction to inquire what rights may exist under the contracts which it was represented to it had been made by the natives with Messrs Gammon Bros. In the cases of Messrs Strand and Burt, in respect of Raetihi sections the Board found that the laases were dated 17th June, 1907, and that the declarations required,to be lodged with the Board by the lessee were not lodged until the 4th July, and decided not to proceed witli these , applications, on the ground that the | declarations were not lodged prior ; to the execution of the instruments of acquisition. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Golds never fails. 6d and 2p 6d,

So far £235 10s has been subscribed towards the proposed hospital at Taihape. The police are still trying to recover tho body of Chas. Mitchell, who was drowned in the river at Oroua Bridge on Thursday last. We regret to have to record th-9 death of Mr Charles Bray, engineer, Orou County Council, which took place last night. Mr Bra.y was born in Cornwall and was 07 years of age. We have been asked to point out that the date of the performance of the Cantata "Daniel", by Marton Methodist Choir, is Friday August 23rd, not Wednesday as stated in our last issue. All kissing games among children have been strictly prohibited by the town authorities at Jefferson, Now York, owing to the alleged danger to health. During the year ending March 31st last 232 cattle' were condemned and slaughtered by Government authority, for which £4337 were paid in compensation. The Lanucestoii Examiner, Tasmania, on July 11 th reported "potatoes remain a drug on the market." The quotations at Hobart range from 30s to £2 per ton. Farmers are asking for a reduction . of railway freights in order that they may bo able to get some return for their crops. :

The many friends of Colonel ; Gorton, wlio underwent an opera- , tion in a private hospital in Pal- j merston on Thursday, will be glad | to hoar that it was very successful, : and he is now progressing favour- , ably. Mr R, Young, of Marton, j who underwent an opertion in the \ same hospital, is also doing well. j The question of removing tho , Salvation Army headquarters for j Tarauaki from Eltliam to New Ply- ; mouth has been under oonisderation, and it has been decided they shall remain at Eltham. A now barrack's to house 350 will bo built to supplement the present building. In the Kapouga district there is a good number of Swiss milkers working on wages. The labour of the now blood lias been highly appreciated and those employees _ seem to have quickly realised the fact that they are considered valuable milkers, for a representative of the Hawera Star has heard on good authority that they arc combining to strike for 30s a week for the coming season. The Widues Corporation's gas making continues to be most successful. At the monthly meeting of the Town Council, Aid. Timnns reported a profit of £5255 for tho year. The "make" of gas was 8.3 per cent more than last year and the profit £551 more. This was in spite of the fact that gas during the year was dropped iyi<\. per 1000 ft. in price to slot meter consumers and Id per 1000 ft. to the workers and big consumers. The Widnes gas at'ls per 1000 ft. still remains the cheapest in the world. THE POPULAR "LK.G." It was expected for the coming season that the demand for this popular milking machine would be four times greater than during the past season. Recent advices from the general agents for Australasia show that for the mouths of May and June last, over seven times as many "L.K.G." machines have been sent out as compared to tho same period of last season. This speaks with no uncertain sound as regards tho popular verdict. A list of_ purchasers' names and addresses is supplied as proof that these record sales are genuine.—J. B. Mac Ewen and Co./Ltd., Sole Agents, U.S.S. Buildings, Wellington. When you feci tho first twinge of rheumatism, gout, sciatica or lumbago, send for a bottle of Rliemno. It will quicklv cure you. All stores and chemists soil it at 2s (id and 4s (3d. A positive and lasting cure. Rheumo has permanently cured thousands of sufferers from riiouma tism, gout, sciatica, and lumbbugo It will cure you. All stores, 2s (id and 4s (id. Give it a trial.