WEATHER INDICATIONS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8924, 18 September 1907, Page 2

WEATHER INDICATIONS.

Wellington, September 18. Northerly moderate jto strong winds; glass fall. JR. A, Epwxk,

A fifty-acre section, about two miles from Haw-era, was sold lately for £SO an acre.

A meeting of tbe. Executive of New Plymouth Employers’ Federation resolved that the Executive strongly objects to any attempt to make Dominion Day a statutory holiday, being of opinion that thO number of statutory holidays |in the colony is already as large as is consistent with the welfare of the colony.

Dr Finch, District Officer for Canterbury, was summoned from Christchurch to Timaru on Monday in conneo* tion with the condition of a youth whose ailment presented symptoms that gave rise to suspioions of plague. Yesterday, fortunately, these symptoms had so far changed as to remove the fears that had been aroused.

Owing to the large increase of shipping coming to the Napier breakwater during the.'past two Ot three years the Harbour Board find it absolutely necessary largely to extend the Glasgow wharf in order to provide increased accommodation. The Board yesterday decided to accept the tender of the Ferro Concrete Company of Australasia for an extension of the wharf in Ferro concrete at a cost of £24,000.

At Roxburgh last week a man was fined 10s and costs for being in a hotel yard on a Sunday afternoon without a lawful excuse.

Says the DunediuStar; —“We hear that a Government official once stationed hero has been ordered to return to Dunedin on account of certain irregularities involving over £3OO, but has not done, so up to the present. ’ ’ The Holiday Association to-day declined to agree to a holiday on the 30th in observation of the Dominion Day ceremony, consequently the Mayor of Dannevirke has abandoned the proposal to hold a ceremony.

Mr J. E. Page, who was town -clerk of Wellington until about five years ago, died on Tuesday afternoon after an illness of a fortnight’s duration. He arrived from England in 1876 and entered the corporation service soon after reaching Wellington.

Examination in the dock of the steamer Buceutaur, which was recently ashore at Fiji, shows that the damage is confined to the bow, but fully ten plates must be removed and re-rolled-. The repairs will probably occupy three weeks. In emphasising the Rvalue of a nation teaching the young idea how

to shoot—with a rifle —an exchampion rifleman, at the conference of school committees at Dunedin, last week, asserted that a thousand trained boys who could shoot were a better asset to the colony than a thousand footballers. Through errors in telephoning some of the names of [jthe successful candidates in the musical examinations at Feildiug were incorrectly given. “Fay” Ryan should he May Ryan, and Gladys “Rowe” ho Gladys Wells. Madge Boddy’s marks should also have been given as 89;.instead of 98.

While talking a few days ago to friends on the fifteenth floor of the Masonic Temple, Chicago, Miss Anna Noroyle, a shorthand writer, deliberately walked to an open court window and, without a word of warning, threw herself to the stone pavement of the rotunda, 250 feet below. The girl was mutilated almost beyond recognition. A comparatively small proportion of grain lias yet been sown in the Saudon district. Unless the weather now remains line quite half the usual grain area in this district will have to he laid down in lucerne or other forago crop. The Loan and Mercantile Company held a successful clearing sale for Mr T. Inglis at Saudon yesterday. The feature of the sale was the good prices obtained for the cows, probably the best obtained in the district during the present season.

A number of unskilled labourers are out of employment in Wellington at present, partly because of the completion of the tramway ex-

tension works in the suburbs. The Labour Department is not sending any more men to the Main Trunk Railway works, and is finding uc difficulty in getting men for the Blonheim-Waipara works.

From an announcement in another column it will bo seen that on September 3-lth and 25th tickets will bo issued at excursion rates on all trains leaving New Plymouth, Napier and intermediate stations for Wellington, where performances of “Mother Goose” pautomine are to be given by artists from Loudon. These tickets will be available for return for one week.

The sale of Work hold iu the Argylo Hall, Hnntorville, on Tuesday 10th instant, in aid of Dr. Bar-

nardo’s Homes for destitute children, was very successful. £34 was cleared during the afternoon to send home. The children of the Guild,

also Mesdames Burgess, Swaiuson, Misses Brody, Hammond, Brown, McOallum, etc., assisted at the various stalls.

Tiio unfortunate man who was brought from Horopito on Saturday to Talhape as a lunatic was examined by Drs. Wliittou and Barnett and afterwards brought before J. ’bP, Aldridge and T. 35. Wilson aiid committed to the Mental Hospital at Porirua, where it is hoped that his detention will not require to be of long duration.

The pins with which ladies fasten on their hats are such fearful and wonderful things that an invention which will do away with the use of such articles should be welcomed by the fair sex. An Auckland lady, Miss Colson, has patented an idea by means of which ladies will be iu the happy position of being able to Listen on their hats without using hatpins at all. The contrivance fits inside the hat, and is quite invisible. The hat is held Jflrmly iu position, and the invention has the advantage of being very simple iu construction, and cheap to produce. The Directors of Cheltenham Dairy Company yesterday elected Mr iVLiohie,, of Oolytou, a director iu

place of Mr W. Mills, resigned. They were interviewed by several butter-buyers, but no agreement was made, as other offers are to bo received. The acceptance of an offer made yesterday, however, would

enable the company to pay 9}£d per lb for butter fat, and may -bo' taken as an indication of what price suppliers may anticipate receiving. The alarming increase of suicide among school children and very young people iu Germany has received a fresh illustration, says the Berlin correspondent of the Loudon Chronicle, by the suicide of a schoolboy at Heilbroun. The lad, who was 15, having hoard from his former master that he had failed to pass a certain examination, drew a revolver from his pocket and shot himself- through the head in the presence of the entire school. Professor Eulcnburg states that during the last twelve years he has traced 1152 cases of children who have committed suicide, of whom more than half have been driven to this act by failure to pass school examinations or by overwork at school.

Dr. Max Herz reporting to Auckland Board of Education on the recent medical examination of school children, stated that the quantity of rickets in New Zeaalnd was 1.3 per cent against 18 per cent in Europe. Lateral curvature of the spine appeared in 7 per cent against 25 to 30 per cent on the Continent. Oases of scohosis seen here were of much less pronounced character than the European. TTTo rarity of these complaints he attributed solely to the general health of the population, inherited good disposition, and wholesome way of living, eating, etc. He is afraid the authorities can claim little credit for it; on the contrary the authorities had in some respect done that which tended to’aggravate the conditions. Dr. Herz commented on the bad way in which New Zealand boys and girls carry themselves. He says physical training is amazingly neglected, especially as the sitting accommodation in schools is not at all what science asks.

Winter Bargain sale of Drapery, Clothing, Boots, etc., no better value obtainable—at the Co-op. Stores. North Broad wav. Mar ton.*