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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8962, 30 October 1907, Page 2

Six degress of frost wore registered last night in Masterton. Tho citizens of Hastings are considering proposals for an electric tramway and lighting system. The balance-sheet of Rangitikei Countv Council for the yoar ending March" 81st, 1907, is circulated with a portion of to-day's issue. Erratum.—ln the lines in Memory of Thomas Death, ill the eighth lino tho word Morn should replace the word Moon. Nearly ripe oranges were brought to a Christchurch newspaper effice the other day from a tree which was planted 35 years ago. Yesterday Mr E. Short purchased the farm of Mr E. J. Grico at Vaituua, giving £25 an acre, tho highest price hitherto given for laud in that locality. The growing scarcity of white pine isjstated to be responsible for an increase of SJtjd in the price of buttor boxes since "the beginning of July. Grasshoppers devastated crops in the Trangie district of New South Wales, and invaded tho town. They died in the streets in myriads. The Turakina, Taonui, Kimbolton, Maugaweka and Ruahine schools have entered for the Feildiug Show School Garden Competitions. The entries close for this competition next month.

Aii enterprising French dentist lias started business on an Atlantic liner. The monotony of a sea voyage would undoubtedly bo broken by a low hours in a dentist's chair and the operator remarks that the motion of the vessel appears to have almost the same effect as an anaesthetic. It is estimated that 00,000 labourers will be needed during this season in different sections of Canada in constructing new railways. Now steamers are going into commission, and all available ones will be chartered for tlio new immigrants thai are booked in Great Britain for the Dominion. As an inducement, •labourers have only to pay £1 for their passages, the balance to be deducted from their wages. They are guaranteed eight shillings per day. Miss Gertie Campion, the once popular actress, seems to have given up the stage for good and all. She and her sister have opened a tobacconist's shop in Auoklaud, and aro reported to be doing remarkably well. The course of treatment which Miss Campion underwent at tho Cambridge Sanatorium after her return from South Africa was most successful, and she says that she is now quite cured. Tho Arbitration Court reserved judgment in tho claim by Ernest Gibbs against Thompson and Hall, his former employers. While Gibbs was stacking sugar ho had to bear a heavy weight, caused by another employee letting a sarek of sugar slip. Ho felt something had broken and was taken home senseless. He was laid up for four months with paralysis of tho left arm and leg. Tho deionce was that the case was not an accident within the moaning of the Act. The English decisions are contradictory, and there has been no similar case in New Zealand I

Wo remind our readers of the social which is to be held this ovening in St. Stephen's Hall. This being the final of these pleasant gathering for this season a special programme has been drawn up. The principal items of the evening will be the "Mystic Stave," given by tho ladies of the choir, '' The Four Quakeresses,'' and that good old English comedy "Box and Cox " This latter item alone is well worth hearing and wo have no doubt that to-night the efforts of tho promoters will be rewarded by a bumpor houso. The pauama hat has como to stay. No hat is so cool, comfortablo and easy to tho head. This season's goods aro bettor than ever. Noal, cash clothier, Foilding, is now showing a splendid range of these hats at 12s fid, Kis (>d, Ids od, 2'<!s <kl to 455, Brazilian folding straws 3a lid, Cs <!d, 0s Ctl. Our now shipments of Morloy's Hosiery just to hand. Every description of Oaslimoro, Lialo Thread and Balbriggau Hose. Spooiftl Yttlue at MoEldownoy'u Stores,* (

Salvation Army ' Self-denial week resulted in £30,981 being raised, in Australasia. New Zealand jeio,B»l,bf>t all other Statest New South Wales, ,£f>,3oo, was nest highest. - "if yon want to arouse pnbuc interest," said Mr T. E. Taylor at the meeting of the Prohibition League in Ohristchnroh, '' form a vigilance committee, and bring about fifty or sixty prosecutions. The hotels are honeycombed with breaches of the Licensing Act." • ■ "It is far better that plants should become dry occaisonally than that they should be kept wet all the time," said Mr E. Jones during the eonrse of a lecture at Christclmfch. "A plant always wet gets llidiges* tion, and can no more thrive than a human being with the same complaint." The executive of the Manawatu and Bancritikei Christian Endeavour Union met and arranged, in the Broad street Methodist schoolroom, for the annual

convention to be held at Palmerston North on December 18th. The election of officers resulted as follows :—President, Rev- McDonald; vice-presidents, Revs Beggs and Daniells; secretary, Mr C. Bycroft; treasurer. Mr J. J. Whitehead. . j, A further rise m the price ot timber lias taken place. According to the statement of a local timber merchant to a Wairarapa Daily Times reporter, the Rangitikei and Hawke s Bay Timber Assocations have notified local firms that heart of totara and hiatal have .advanced approximately is per 100 ft. Duriug the hearing of the land compensation case at Gisborne the Chief Justico observed that in Tarauaki and other places the prices of laud had gone up so that people made their children slaves, lho price of land was so high that they could not pay for labour, and they had to depend on their children, who were being worked to death.

E. 11. Hill, lot Opunako tarring notoriety, was arrested at Stratford yesterday on a charge of having signed a fictitious telegram at Opunako reflecting on the Wife of a Hawera resident*. He appoarccUtt court to=day and pleaded guilty. Ho Was sentencei to four months' hard labour, The charge was directly [.connected with the recent tarring and feathering.

A curious anomaly in the hours of labour awarded by the Arbitration Court was mentioned, according to the Napier Daily Telegraph, by Mr W. Ward at the Builders' Conference Mr Ward stated that in his ' bit of a business" he was working under no less than five different awardscarters 48 hours, carpenters 47, machinists 40, plumbers 45, and painters 44. _ ■ Tho Dairy Union has just paid out tho sum of £2,383 14s 7d for tho September supply of milk, says tho Eketahuna Express. For the corresponding period of last year the suppliers' cheques represented the sum of £2,304 18s 4d, or £7B 16s 3d less. This would seem to indicate tliat though the season has so far been bad, it is going to compare more than favourably with its predecessor. The secretary of the Dairy Union estimates that the sum just paid out would have been quite £2OO more if the weather had been as good as that experienced this time last year. When in Palmerston during show week don't fail to visit the Bon Marcho Arcade (the Square to George street), where a magnificent stock of latest goods in fashionable and family drapery has just been opened out + : rom the first markets of the •world. Value and variety always obtainable at this leading emporium of fashion. Tho firm invite visitors tj walk through their premises and inspect their expensive stock at any time-. O. M, ROSS AND CO.-Advt.