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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8910, 2 September 1907, Page 2

On Wednesday and Thursday next the business places of Martou Will, as usual, close at 11 a.m. on account of the races.

The Customs duties for the port of Auckland for tho month of August totalled £71,033, and the bcor duty £1984, as against £67,477 and .21056 for last August. Footwarmers have now fceon removed from the railway carriages, auct will not be put there again until next winter —the beginning it is hoped, and noi. as this year, when it was more than hah over. The .Rev. Herbert Reeve, Home Mission priest in Taranaki, lias accepted a call to the Olmron Or the Holy Sepulchre in Auckland. The death is reported from Dune-, din of Mrs Parata, wife of the member for the Southern Maori District, also of Mr F. R. Smith, formerly registrar of Deeds at Dunedin. Daniel Tohill, acting-porter at Waipawa railway station, was arrested on Saturday evening on a charge of thieving from the goods shed.

Bishop Neligau, of Auckland, has accepted an invitation to attend the Pan-Anglican Conference, and v;ul probably bo away from |tho colony for nine mouths.

For having failed to supply sheep with sufficient food, D. O. Tliorlcy to-day was fined £5 and cost:, at Napier. The evidence disclosed that 250 sheep had been pad clocked in eight acres without food. We regret to report the death of Mrs John Andcrso'h, wife of Mr Anderson, blacksmith, 'of Marlon. The deceased iady was on a visit to Melbourne, and a cable message was received tills morning stating that she died yesterday. Messrs Gorton and Sou hold the annual sale of draught horses for Messrs Hockcn Bros, at Feilding on Saturday. Bidding was somewhat slower than at the last annual sale, still first class draughts brought up tokgfiO, the prices being from £35 up to* that fcßjn’and a good proportion were quitted, A rather striking commentary upon one of the unexpected results' of uolicenso in Mataura electorate was made by the President of "the Gore District Baud of Hope Union at the! annual meeting of that body lastweek, says the Ohristchi-ch Press. ; ■■‘Those who thought the temperance movement had a great hold in the district,” the speaker remarked, ‘‘were woefully mistaken, which was provod|by the difficulty of getting workers for it.”

Tiie Marlborough Express states that Picton harbour for the past few days has been almost covered with a top-dressing of dead herrings, which are being continually washed on to the beaches surrounding the harbour and up the lagoon. "The smell is anything but preasaut, and in some cases causes violent retching. The seagulls arc having a. mighty feast without the trouble of diving. They simply settle upon the floating raft's of. fish and gorge, quarrelling and screaming all day. Concerning the statements made with regard to the failure of the Dunedin Dental Hospital to get patients the management explain time though the patients have averaged .only about one a day, most have had to‘‘attend at least twice and filling in cases, which form the majority, have needed from six to adozen attendances. Three students! have, jn fact, been kept occnnpied, and Die hospital has so far fully justified its existence. Mr Henuiker Heaton, M.P., now in Sydney, anticipates that ‘in a few weeks penny postage will bo in operation between America and Great Britain.” Mr Heaton may not be a man of one idea, but lie is possessed with a leading idea, and liis life’s work is an illustration of the value of concentrated effort. In the face of neglect, opposition and ridicule, in season aud out of season, lie has worked for many years as no other man has done for cheaper postal aud telegraph rates, and has boon largely instrumental in bringing about the reforms ho advocates.

At the Hunterville Police Court on Friday A. J. Berry, postmaster, was charged with having allowed his chimney to take fire. The charge was dismissed. F. Petherick was fined la, without costs, on a similar charge. M. and A. McKinnon, were each fined 5s and 'costa for allowing horses to wander on' the public streets. Mr Basthor, Truant Inspector, was fined 5s and costs for riding a bicycle on the footpath in Huntorville." A resident "of Pohonui was fined 2s, with costs Ifis fid, for failing to send two children to the Pukeroa school.

Mr Apirama Ngata, M.H.R., speaking at] a Y.M.O.A. gathering at Wellington, said lie was always hearing of young men who wore going out to India aud China as missionaries to the heathen. No doubt those young men had had a call to labour in these fields, hut still he could not help thinking of the GOOO heathens at our own doors Few youug New Zealanders had as yet given themselves up to Christianise the Maori, hut he could assure las hearers that every man who would devote himself to that noble work would he gladly hailed by the native race. Had not the young men amongst the Maoris of New Zealand as much need of their sympathy aud help as the students of Japan, for whom they had done so much?

The enormous difficulty of the task before the community in carrying out to the full the provisions of the Noxious'Weeds Act, and of re duciug this menace to agricultural and pastoral pursuits, is enhanced to the" owner of second-class hilly countrv, as compared with the farmer on the level plains. At the Stock Inspectors’ Conference, it was pointed out, inter alia, that the burden of removing noxious weeds fell far more heavily on the owner of 25s an aero land than on the owner of land valued at £35 an acre. The ‘returns on second-class land were often so small that they would he almost swallowed up fey * the expense of clearing away a rank growth of noxious weeds. It. was hoped that the Department would take this into consideration.

Help the weak if you are strong, Respect the old if you are young, Own your faults when you are wrong, , And when you f ro angry hold your tongue. Pay your debts before you bet, Back not a bill for rich or poor, And when a cough or chill you got, Take some Woods' Great Peppermint Cure,

Since Saturday morning 145 inches of rain have fallen at Onmarn. The weather has now cleared. The Citizens’ Assurance Company has taken up New Zealand Government debentures to the, vali e of half a million.

Hugh Chisholm, aged 60, formerly gaoler at Dunedin, Clyde, Westport and Gisborne, who retired three mouths ago aud intended to settle in Auckland, died there on Saturday.^ Further particulars of the Haupiri boating fatality show that |a heavy sea struck the boat as it was returning to the ship and swept Lawrence overboard and caused the crew to loso their oars, with only a steer oar remaining to work the boat. Lawrence was not a good swimmer aud soon sank and those in the boat had difficulty in getting back to the steamer. The body has not yet been recovered. Mr R. H. Coker who is representing Miss Jessie Maclachlan _in Martou received word this morning from her manager that owing to illness her concert which was to be given on Saturday evening next will he postponed. The now date will appear shortly. A week’s canvass at Blenheim by members of the Methodist Church among their fellow religionists culminated yesterday in a remarkable collection tiio sum of £llOO having been taken up at two services. The object ox tho movement is to wipe out the church debt, to renovate the church building and to provide a new infant aud Sunday school. Much of the money was given in £IOO cheques. *? Application has been made to tho Supremo Court by tho Wellington Conciliation Board for a pronounceincut 011 the point as to wliotlior the Board has tho jurisdiction to prescribe the working hours of bakers who employ no labour hut themselves to do all the work in connection with thoir business. Complaint lias been made by some master bakers who employ labour that tho single-effort master baker gains a great advantage while exempted from the provisions of tho award, inasmuch ‘is ho can baxo at any time lie ploasos. and thereby deliver bread fresher than it can be delivered by bakers who are restricted as to hours lof labour, Chinese in laundries are not to be allowled to work more than 48 hours a week, aud it is now proposed to extend to a similar* reI striptiou to white men.

There was a serious misunderstanding after tho victory of a racing crow which Limerick a few years* age sent to'Oork. A few hours afteritho victory tho Mayor of JLimerick received” a wire purporting to come from tho Mayor of Cork, which ran: “Your Limerick crew beat ns todav, bat, for the honour of Cork, I hereby challenge yon, for a stake of £SO to row a measured milo on the. River Leo.” The poor Mayor of Limerick happened to lack au arm, hut, remembering the Mayor of Cork suffered from a deficiency m the matter of legs, replied f _ “If you want i 0 avenge your disgraceful beating of' to-day, I will hop yen over Wellesley Bridge, in this city, for £100.” His worship of Cork was innocent of having sent the flrsc wire, and upon . receiving the jpvd-orions missive from Limerick could o-fi]y think that a gratuitous insult had" been planned, aud wired back his deliberate opinion that tho

Chief Magistrate of Limerick WAS a ‘‘covyardly cad.” Legal counsel had beou summoned to the ala of the disputants before it was discovered that a rascally had lipeu at work upon the initial telegram.