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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8915, 7 September 1907, Page 2

At the Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday, Gin Sing Ki was fined £2O for having opium in his possession in a form suitable for smoking. '

Mr C. Q. McConagle, of.the ston North railway clerical staff, has£3an transferred to Aramoho.

An old settler, in the person of Mr Roderick Matheson, of Eairanga, passed away yesterday at the ripe-age of 77« It is reported that a fair start will be made with the erection of the Maaawatu Gorge bridge early this month.

The Woodville Examiner states that another good outcrop of copper has been found on the Masterton Syndicate’s property. The new find is situated higher up the hill than- the Maharahara mine.

The lonic, which left Lyttelton cn July 24th for London, resumed her voyage from Monte Video on ednesday owning. The Monowai left Wellington for Sydney yesterday afternoon at 4 p.m.

Miss Jessie Maclachlau is, wo regret to learn, still suffering from illness, and it will ho noticed that her Martou concert has been postponed till September 24th. G. F. Nicholson has been arrested on warrant at Wanganui on a charge of stealing a dog from John Coulter, of Feildiug. The case will he heard at Feildiug on Monday. In reply to a question in the House yesterday, the Minister of Mines stated that the Crown had made considerable reservations for coal mines and he believed that in the course of some years Government would have not only the best but the largest output of coal in the colony. A land sale of suburban residential sites at Hastings took place yesterday when record prices for that class of property were obtained. Nineteen and a quarter acres were disposed of for a total of £5338 or an average of about £2BO per acre. Six sectious which are slightly over an acre in extent close to the business part of the town brought over £IOOO an acre.

Th'e Oroua County Council passed the following resolution on Friday That this Council wishes to place on record its sincere regret at the death of Mr Bray, Engineer of this County, and its appreciation of his long and faithful services ; also that the chairman write to Mrs Bray and convey this Council’s sincere sympathy in her sad bereavement. The question of poaching is rather troubling the Carterton anglers this year. It is stated that last year one poacher took over 150 trout from neighbouring streams, with no other appliances than his hands. The best of the anglers, with all the up-to-date methods at their disposal, only took about half that number, and the licensed . fishers in the district believe that the cause of their luck was the successful poacher’s action in taking nearly all the trout. A dreadful fate was predicted for some of the colony’s sheep at the recent meeting of the Philosophical Institute at Christchurch. A speaker had referred to the improvement, by artificial selection of the English Leicester sheep in He* Zealand. Another speaker, who did not believe in the possibility of carrying such improvement very far, said that ho understood that that improvement consisted in thinning the heads |and of the sheep. If the natural selectionists wore correct, it would bo quite easy to improve the English Leicester rill it had no head or logs at all. A novel method of bringing in amounts due from delinquent credit customers is said to be adopted by a Wairarapa tradesman# Ho renders accounts correctly for a mouth or two, and thou bills the dilatory customer for a. larger amount than is due. Of course the indignant debtor calls in to protest against the unwarranted addition, and that is just what the shrewd tradesman desires, as it generally results in oral persuasive means accomplishing the desired object. Advices from the wheat-growing districts of New South Wales show that the crops arc very backward. In Riveriua the tender shoots are scarcely two inches above the ground and much the same state of affairs is noticeable in the western wheat belt, where at this time of the year growers often have difficulty to obtain sheep to keep down the rank growth of the crops. There is, of course, ample time for the development of a strong well-rooted plant before the critical mouth of October. In the affiliation case at Masterton, in which the Magistrate declared it a clear case of mistaken identity, the defendant at the outset set tip a plea of mistaken identity, and the case was adjourned in order to allow witnesses to bo brought from Chrstchurch. On Saturday last tiio case was proceeded with, _ a female witness, who kept a boarding house in Christchurch, stating that she was fairly positive that the defendant was a person who lodged with her in Christchurch at the time of the alleged intimacy. A daughter of this wtinoss also gave evidence, ' stating that she was almost certain on the same point. They stated, however, that defendant wore a “hard hitter” whilst in Christchurch, whereas now he was wearing a skull cap. In order to give witness every opportunity to make the identification certain, if possible, the magistrate ordered the defendant to clou a hard hat, but tills only appeared to add to the uncertainty of the witnesses for the prosecution. Counsel for the plaintiff' asked permission to put in certain affidavits as evidence, but this was objected to. Eventually the case was again adjourned to enable the persons who made the affidavits to bo called a;; witnesses. The defendant, in his evidence, swore that he had never seen or spoken to the plaintiff in his life, the magistrate remarking that apparently the more they went into the case the deeper became the mystery. Clients will kindly note that wo only advertise lines which are actually in stock; in the event of any lino advertised being sold out, wo will substitute a better line, if possible, at McElclowney’s Sale, Marton, Taihape and Hnutervillo. For Children's Hacking Cough at night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure; Is fid and 3s fid.