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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8960, 28 October 1907, Page 2

Au earthquake was felt iu Marten at 11.40 this morning. A Now Plymouth cable advice from Loudon states that the butter ex Athcaio has been sold at 1245. The Taihape News has been sold by tiio proprietor,‘Mr J. Ivess, to the rival company, which controls the Taiiiapo Post, for £2850. Mr W. J. Oarruthers has purchased the grocery and ironmongery business of Mr H. J. Capper at Kimboltou.

A Sydney cablegram reports that butter advanced a further 3s per cWt. to-day. Archdeacon Gould, of Oamaru, has been appointed Yicar of St. Paul’s Cathedral in succession to Archdeacon Robinson. The death is reported from Dunedin of Mr J. A. Kirhy, a prominent mason and bowler, and William Wright, grocer, The former was a member of the Harbour Board and Hospital Trust. The Mar ton Borough Holiday Committee has decided that all business places shall remain open all day on Wednesday next and close all day oh Friday, November Ist, being People’s Day at the Mauawatu Show.

At a meeting of Wellington Shopkeepers’ Association it stated that there were 750 shops’in Wellington, and of that number only 20 closed on Saturdays, the remainder recognising Wednesday as the day for the statutory holiday-.

The Rev. R. F, Williams Methodist minister at St. Kilda announced from the pulpit yesterday that he was leaving the work of the ministry, being no longer able conscientiously to affirm the standards of the Faith of the Church.

At Feilding on Saturday night, besides the usual concert by the Salvation Army baud, the people in Manchester Squato wore treated to a good programme of music by the Feilding Baud, under the charge of Mr Bellve, lender. The vendors of gramophones also contributed to the public amusement. The advantage of a wide street was scon at Feilding on Saturday afternoon, when Mr Joseph Darragh’s four-horse team, biiruesscd to tii© waggon-. . galloped Unattended along half a mile of Kimbolton road. They were stopped at the Courthouse and no damage was done. A seven-year-old boy, son of Dr.

H. Cox, while riding a pony in a paddock at Maugero, fell from the saddle, his foot remaining in the stirrup. He was dragged ou the ground and died soon after. Dr. Oox lost his younger sou two years ago through the lad falling from a vehicle. ISSS-gga The series of socials given by St. Stephen’s Choir this past winter will terminate ou Wednesday evening. Special efforts have been made to make this social eclipse those previously held. The choir have been rehearsing for the past twb mouths various novel items, the principal being “Box and Oox,” a one-act comedy of the old standing order. Supper will be provided at the close, and the charge of admission will be one shilling-. Special attention is drawn to tire excellent quality of horses to bo offered by Messrs . Abraham and Williams at the " Willowbrook” sale at Upper Tutaenni to-morrow. They are without doubt one of the best

lot of draughts in the district, perfectly sound and in the pink of working condition. These draughts

show groat quality and power, being by such well-known horses as Workman 11., Clydesdale Hero and Boro’ Drayman. The international postage stamp, which was adopted at the Rome, Postal Congress last year, ou the suggestion of Mr Henniker Heaton, M.P., came into use on October 10th. It is an artistic picture of a goddess, with a background of olive brandies, was designed by Grassott, and lias been printed at Einsiedelu, in Switzerland. Its Value is 2}£d, and it will bo sold in every country in tho Postal Union, so that a correspondent may prepay a reply from any of those countries. Considerable dissatisfaction appears to exist amongst a section of the Maoris in the Wairarapa in connection with certain lecommendations made by the Native Land Board not being given effect to. Mr H, Parata, a well-known Wairarapa Maori, expressed himself to a Wairarapa Age reporter in strong terms in regard to this matter, and said that a large deputation of Maoris intended to wait ou the Premier shortly and bring the subject under his notice. Two scullers on the Wanganui river had a collision yesterday and the bow of a boat in which Mr Whcttou was rowing caused a severe wound ou tho hip of Mr J. Green, the other sculler. Mr Green was removed to tho hospital and is progressing satisfactorily. Owing to a number of accidents of a similar nature at Cambridge University it became the custom to affix common india-rubber cricket balls ou the sharp bows of boats, thus reducing tho danger from collision. Speaking in regard to the proposal that Homo vessels carrying butter, etc., should make Auckland tho final port of departure from New Zealand, Mr Stringer, speaking for the Auckland Farmers’ Freezing Company said Auckland was now the largest exporting province in tho Dominion, and tho groat trade of the future was bound to centre at Auckland, as tire country developed. Therefore shipping facilities in accordance with the importance of the great northern centre should be provided. A South Canterbury farmer, Mr Olelaud, of Pleasant Point, reports having had an excellent lambing. From 887 ewes lie has 1296 lambs, and 200 of the owes are two-tooths. The forest reserve of 45,000 acres,

iu the East Taupo and Waimarino counties, offered for lease by public auction, for a term of 31 years, was acquired by Mr L. W. Wall, of Porirua, at au aunual rental of £309. The upset annual rental was £l5O. The laud is situated about eight miles south of Lake Taupo, and the soil is pumiceous. A fishing party on returning to Auckland on the steamer Siren with 98 splendid hapuka, some of the fish weighing 901 b aud 1001 b, were much surprised when the Customs authorities placed au embargo on the catch, desiring to know, in the interests of licensed fishermen, whether the fish were for private use or for sale. The argument resulted in 50 of the fish being seized until further explanation was made to the authorities, the balance being released on the understanding that they were for private use. This is the first occasion on which such action has been taken by the authorities. A Nelson producer recently shipped six sacks of cauliflowers to Wellington for sale, and received the following account sales Two sacks cauliflowers at 3s, 4s; two sacks cauliflowers at Is lOd, 8s 8d; two sacks cauliflowers at Is 6d, 3s; total, 10s Bd. Charges.—Commission 9d, freight 7s 6d, cartage and wharfage 2s, total 10s 3d. The shipper has received, for his six sacks of cauliflowers the munificent sum of sd—iu stamps. Iu addition to the charges enumerated in the account sales, ho had to pay Is wharfage at Nelson. So that after cutting, growing, bagging and carting to the wharf, he was

actually 7d out of pocket ou the shipment, not counting the value of the six sacks containing the cauliflowers, bringing the total loss up to 3s 7d. The cauliflowers were shipped from Nelson iu good condition, being freshly cut.

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Entries for Waikato Show on November Bth and 9th total 1400, as compared with 928 last year. The reticulation works for the now, water supply at Gisborne has been completed and tested. A sharp double shock of earthquake was felt in Napier at 13.17 ou Sunday morning. Otago University will receive , a substantial benefaction under the will of the late Mr Arthur Beverley. The inspection of the shearing sheds of Gisborne district has been completed. One inspector leaves for Wairoa and the others for Napier. Mr E. Short has decided not _tb exhibit Romney? at Feilding Show, but he will exhibit other classes of sheeii and also cattle. The first practice of the - Marten Cricket Club this season will be held in the Park to-morrow (Tuesday) afternoon at 4 o’clock. As several matches have been arranged for next month members are requested to attend.

On Saturday the filial of the threb football matches between tlm boys of Huntley School and Mr Atkinson’s school (Wanganui) was won by the Wanganui boys by 5 points to 8, Wild thus won the challenge ciip. The Assessment Court is sitting at Gisborne to determine the compensation to be paid to the Hon. Randal Johnston and J. Clark, lessees for the Tearri Estate of 10,700 acres, recently taken by the Government. , „ The East Coast Hallway League met at Gisborne ou Saturday and decided to ask the Government for a large appropriation this year. Support was extended to a petition by the Bay of Plenty League, asking for Ui& vigorous prosecution of the work of surveying the whole of the line. Residents of Motd, tbi'ovigh which fill© lino is to pass, said they had it from good authority that Motu and Waimarino wore the best forests in the Doiriniou.

The steamer Morayshire, which arrived at Auckland ou Friday from the West Coast of England ports, had 140 immigrants for Auckland and other New'Zealand ports. They all appear to be a desirable clsas, and have evidently been carefully selected. There are a number of

married men with their wives and families,;but the majority are single men. .. : In the Supremo Court at Wellington in Chambers, liefore.His Honor, Mi- Justice Cooper, on Friday last, probate of the will of the late Ann Richardson of Karaka Terraco, near Bulls, was, on the motion of Mr IS. F. Smith, solicitor, Wellington, granted to Thomas Fraser Richardson, of Mangauiahoe, and Alfred Lyon of Martou, the exceut-ors named m the will;

The work of re-conditioning the damaged flax cargo of the Taurkina is being carried out with all possible expedition. A temporary plant for the" purpose has been erected at Miramar at a cost of £I4OO. It is expected the flax will not be ready for reshipping before six or seven weeks’ time. Some of the flax has been found, to be in a Very badly prepared ‘"'ouditiuli. In his opening address at the Anglican Synod at Dunedin the Primate i stated that lb iVa.s hot iiis intention' W visit England for the Pan-Anglican Synod. Ho suggested that a commencement mjghf.be made with the Cathedral building at Dunedin in 1010, and urged that the clergy should bo allowed to share the general prosperity of the country by an increase in their stipends. , No one can travel in the district without noting tiie great number of dead cattle and sheep lying about in the paddocks. In one case a farmer has not troubled to bury a beast that is lying within 300 yards of his town house. Apart from the danger to the health of human beings caused by this carelessness there is no surer method of spreading disease among stock than that of allowing putrifyiug carcases to lie about iu the paddocks.

A correspondent at Papeete, Tahiti, makes serious allegations against certain officials thorn. He fays there is a state of latent insurrection which cannot continue long. The highest officials are treated with open contempt, and in spite of all efforts the attention of the French Colonial Office cannot be drawn to the abuses which exist. Natives, Frenchmen, and foreigners alike would welcome the transfer of the colony to the British flag.

The efforts of the Government to acclimatise the Pacific (or quiuuat) salmon in the waters of the Dominion have proved entirely successful, inasmuch as these fish have now been observed to spawn for throe successive years. The Acclimatisation Societies’ Conference was so well satisfied with the success of these efforts that it congratulated the Government on the result, and asked that attention should now be given to the introduction of the Atlantic variety. This the Hon. J. A. Millar promised to do, and a sum of a few hundred pounds will probably be set down for the purpose on the supplementary estimates. Interviewed on his return from Australia, Mr Heaton Rhodes, M.H.R. for Ellesmere (Canterbury), said the drought in Australia is already beginning to assume unsatisfactory proportions. For instance, the manager of a big estate informed him when in Sydney that he had arranged to pay £(1000 for 7000 acres for six mouths for grazing purposes. That was land that would carry two and a half sheep to the acre. In fact, Mr Rhodes regarded the outlook as serious, more especially so because it hadjmauifested itself so early in the year, with oaten hay at £G 10s a ton, but ho did not desire to take up an alarmist attitude. The question of funerals was discussed at Christchurch

Diocesan Syuod, aud the following motion carried, on the motion of Archdeacon Scott:—“That this Syuod welcomes the protest of the Canterbury “ Trades and Labour Council against the custom *of Sunday funerals, and urges tiro laity of the Diocese in all possible ways to support the clergy in their endeavour to reduce such funerals to occasions of absolute necessity on the ground emphasised by the Council, that Sunday funerals deprive many persons of their day of rest, and, still more, that the spiritual work of the church is thereby seriously

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