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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8947, 12 October 1907, Page 2

Mr A. Conway, of Kiwitea, lias booked his passage to England for a trip early next year. Ho will take the opportunity to bring back a motor-car on his return. The Feilding Council held a special meeting yesterday afternoon and accepted the tender of Rink Bros, at 2s per cubic yard for metalling Kimbolton road from Weld street to North road. It has been decided to hold the Magisterial inquiry into the fire on the steamer Turakina on Friday, the 18th inst., before Dr. A. McArthur, S.M. A remarkable applicant for the old age pension appeared at Masterton Court to-day. His age is 90, and up till quite recently he was regularly earning 9s a day at pick and shovel work. A recent accident incapacitated him from continuing daily toil, and necessitated an application for the pension. There are many stories about verbose advocates and weary judges. An American lawyer, who seemed quite unable to bring his long speech to a close, at last expressed a fear that he was taking up too much time. “Oh, never mind time,’’ was the reply, “but, for goodness sake do not trench upon eternity. ’ ’ CALF REARING. What shall it profit a man to produce a few more pounds of butter to-day and a degenerate race of cattle to-morrow? Take no risks and use the “Gilruth” Calf Food. It is a perfect substitute for whole J milk and rears strong healthy calves with a sound costitntion. —Obtainable from Brice, Broad and 00., Marton, or Mansell and Sons, Bulls.

The Dunedin Master Bakers’ Association decided last evening to advance the price of bread by a halfpenny per four pound loaf as from Monday nest, lius, says a Press Association message, makes the price 7id per four pound loaf.

An Auckland Press Association wire says that Mr Joseph Harrop, 58 years of ago, a commercial traveller for Messrs T. H rrull and Co., who was run over; by a train at the Ellerslie station on Thursday night, died at the Hospital last evening.

Mr E. P. A. Platford, who was .for many years accountant for Messrs Wilson and Cotterill, solicitors, and latterly in business as a land agent and sharebroker, and who was secretary to the School Commissioners and various trusts, died yesterday after a lingering illness (says a Napier Press Association wire). He was a member o, the Bluff Hill Bowling Club end a prominent bowler.

Some New Plymouth : gardeners who have Gariy potatoes already complain of blight amongst the crops. Unfortunately the wet weather is so persistent that spraying is practically useless. A Hastings (Hawkes’ Bay) baker has imported a machine that will mix enough dough in four minutes to make four hundred loaves. Mixed by manual labour the output would take two men three-quarters of an hour.

Acres upon acres are now covered at Miramar with flax from the Turaklna, which has been spread out both upon the ground and along chains of fences, so that it mav dry. A large quantity of the fiax is "being similarly treated at Island Bay. The directors of the Cheltenham Dairy Company have decided to pay out lOd per lb to the suppliers for the butter fat. Although not in a position to declare definitely, they are likely to procure a figure for their ensuing season’s output which they believe will be the highest yet recorded in the colony for the season. The immigration records of the United States were broken by the aggregate returns for the fiscal year of 1907, which ended on June 30th last. The total number of alien immigrants lauded in America during the year was 1,885,849, as against 1,100,735 landed during the fiscal year of 1906. While the storm was at its greatest violence yesterday at Feildiug, a part of the coping over Mr Sutton s shop fell on the verandah, but little damage was done. Mr Johnston’s horse in the trap ran away on Kimbolton road and turning into Denbigh street the trap was blown over. The horse then fell and was secured. A Maori supplier to one of the dairy factories came into town on Saturday, says the Times, and inquired for the secretary. He was told that the secretary was not about, and that any time next week would do for him, as his business could not be very important. ‘‘ Py golly, ai it, ’ ’ said the Maori. X tiuk it is; I want the bonedust for last year’s milk. ” “Never in the history of Auroa, Taranaki,” says a Hawora Star correspondent, “were so many calves killed as is the case this season. Some farmers, who a few years back reared as many as sixty or seventy calves are not keeping one this year and X am certain that next year will see cattle as dear, if not dearer, than they have ever been before in Now Zealand.”

At Day’s Bay on Labour Day, Mr Massey, Leader of the Opposition, mentioned the overtime and the night work done by members in the “talking factory,” and declared that the sooner members formed a union to bring themselves under an award of the Arbitration Court, the better it. would be. A voice immediately interjected that the members would have their wages lowered. Mr Edgar R. Waite, curator of Christchurch museum, told a terrible tale of the sea in the course of a lecture at Canterbury College Hall. He stated that aboard the steam trawler Nora Niven there were no lavatory appliances, and the only way to get a wash was to take a bucket and “bag” some hot water from the cook. The captain regarded Mr Waite’s yearnings for cleanliness with scorn. “Look at me,” he said, “I wash my hands and I feel clean all over I” Mr G. B. Chick, a Christchurch builder and formerly a city councillor, who has just returned from a trip Home, found in England a considerable prejudice against frozen meat from the colonies. Frequently New Zealand and other meat was avoided, and in no case was it given preference. Many people called it dirty foreign stuff. On several occasions he purchased meat which was beyond any question New Zealand, and Mrs Chick cooked it. They found it practically tasteless and far short of what it should be. Ho could account for the condition “only on the supposition that the method of thawing the meat was bad. Mr Lloyd George, M.P., says that Britain is paying better wages “than any Protectionist country in Europe. ’ Special investigations were now being made in Germany, and from the latest figures available he was able to say that, in, the building trade, the Germans were paying 27s 8d per week, while the Britisher earned 86s Bd. The engineering trade showed the German to bo earning 24s 9d, while his brother Britisher earned 31s sd, and in the printing trade tire German price was 28s Bd, as against 84s in Britain. The price of wheat in Britain during the first four months of tho year averaged 26s Cd per quarter, as against 39s in Germany. From Messrs Whitcombe and Tombs we have received a number of little booklets suitable for presentation or for sending ;to friends outside the colony. The series includes “Feathered friends of the bush” described and illustrated by Mr James Drummond, F.L.S., and the same author gives a short sketch of tire “Stone Ago Man,” when he lived in New Zealand not much more than half a century ago. Mr R. M. Laing, of Christchurch, has supplied a specially interesting number dealing with the wild flowers, and Miss Jessie Mackay has edited a booklet of New Zealand verses. Other numbers deal with the world-famous “Wonderland, ” and with the Domi-

uiou’s scenery and cities. The little books are artistic and dainty and should be sure of a large sale, as tiie price of each is only one shilling. It is seldom that the playgoers of Marton and district are afforded an opportunity of •witnessing a Metropolitan Company of the standing of the Willoughby Ward and Grace Palotta, that an overflowing audience is assured on Friday evening nest. In referring to ‘‘ Mr Hopkinson,” the opening attraction, a Sydney exchange says:—‘ 1 This is a new three-act comedy—one of the best things of the kind yet presented by this company, for although it is undoubtedly farcical, it does not border on, or run over, the border line of burlesque, as some farcical comedies are wont to do. The piece is full of legitimate humour, which seems to fall naturally into the mouths of the characters' without the necessity of being ‘dragged in’ to make the ‘ unskilful laugh. ’ There is a good story told, and told well, but it is unnecessary to repeat it here. Mr R. 0. Carton, the author, has done his best, and that, as we know, is something very good indeed. Clever dialogue, smart satire, rich hninonr, and some really fine character drawing with an effervescing yet consistent and most interesting plot,‘’last night made one of the brightest evenings the Criterion Theatre has witnessed for a very long time. Mr Hugh Ward took the part of Mr Hopkinson, or ‘Hoppy,’ and has never appeared to greater advantage ; while Mr George Willoughby, as the rotund Earl of Addleton, ever fearful of an attack of seasickness, kept the house in convulsions. As a lady of quality (the

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