Rangitikei Advocate. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 31, 1907. SECOND EDITION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8963, 31 October 1907, Page 2

Rangitikei Advocate. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 31, 1907. SECOND EDITION.

i Flour has, advanced £1 a ton. Royal Rifles will indulge in prize Sring to-morrow. The death of Gerald Massey, >oet, is reported by cable. The training ship Amokura has >eon got ready to put to sea on Saturday for her first cruise, which prill be across to Queen Charlotte Sound. Some time will be spent in ea-training in and about the Sounds (efore the Amokura visits other •arts of the Dominion. Candidates nominated for the clecion on Monday to the seven vacant eats on the Mauawatu Land Draingo Board are Messrs J. Balsililo, LB. Clausen, O. Collis, P. Garrity, t. Guy, L, S. O’Loughlin, I), 'rouse, J. Byman, S. Sanson, and I, Voss. Dr. Truby King and the advocate it natural feeding for infants will, 0 doubt, be able to draw' a valuable «BOn from the fact that Marius, ie baby hippopotamus who was jra la the Paris “Zoo" recently, Is died. His mother steadfastly reiscd to feed him, and in spite of the mtinuous .services of a dozen milch [fits, thedllttlo “hippo" was infficientlv nourished. It is regrotb'e to find that civilisation lias a 1 I- derating effect on female hippo-1 Jami as well as on human beings.

Referring in a recent sermon to tlio statement by socialist speakers that the church was on the sine or capital the Rev. Mr Spott, of Wellington. remarked, with a touch of irony, that if the Church of the pro* ■sent day were the blind tool of property and capital, it certainly got very little of those things for itself. In the English language, remarked the Rev. W. Hewitsou in a lecture at Dunedin, there quarter of a million words, and he had heard of a lady who one Sunday afternoon used every one of them! She had gone to church in tine morning, and, on returning, found pinned on her beautiful hat a ticket marked “Reduced, 7s lid. ” East month (says the Hawera Star) the Kaupokonui Co-operative _ Dairy Factory Company, Ltd., maid out £5400 for bonus and interest on the season’s working, and suppliers are conrgatulatiilg themselves that they have received about £30,000 iu two ye vs more than they would have received had their milk been made into butter iustaed of choose.

A convict named Charles Newton alias jMurray, serving a term of six years for theft, and burglary, escaped from a gang working on the sewage works outside the Now Plymouth gaol tiiis morning. Two shots wore fired by warders and unheeded but the man was captured shortly afterwards while hiding in a rubbish heap. Ho lias made several previous attempts to escape from various goals. At the Dunedin Police Court today William Whittley alias George Clifford pleaded guilty to four different charges of stealing a bicycle, and lie was remanded to the Supremo Court for sentence. The bicycles had been left standing about the streets or in rights-of-way, and had lieon taken by accused and disposed of to pawnbrokers and bicycle shops. The Magistrate gave judgement today iu the Napier case Mrs Rosie Warren v. Dr. Moore, the evidence iu which appeared iu our columns recently under the head “A Doctor and a lady”. lie found the charge was not proved. Ho did not say complainant swore falsely hut she appeared to be of a strange* and emotional touperamout and might have persuaded herself her story was true. At the District Court, Nelson before Mr Hazeldcu to-day, Alfred Brooks aged sixteen was sentenced to six mouths imprisonment for indecent assault on a girl under 14, but over 13 at 38 Valley. The judge said lie would not order a flogging till lie had seen for himself the effect of a Hogging. It was absoutoly necessary for the protection of society that young girls should bo safely guarded from those who would tamper with them. Prisoner is to be kept separate from others as far as possible.

A start was made at 5 o’clock this morning from tho Marton Post Office for tho walking match to Taihapo between If. A. Wakemau (Taihape) and O. ’ Wilson (Utiku) for stake of £SO. Wakemau had ox-cou-stable Baker as a pacemaker and Wilson had his brother with him. Tho referees are Messrs Walters! Marten) 11. Doherty, and H. Earle. Both men are of lowering the record put up by Kelly in the last walk. A change has come iu regard to the values of Now Zealand and < '-van-lien cheese on the British markets. TTu to live years ago, no matter how high our cheese graded,_ it never reached tho quotations of Canadian within two or three, shillings per cwt. Tito old order of things is being now reversed, and the fact goes to show either that our local article has improved, or -that the increased quantity from New Zealand, and the regularity of the supply have created a demand for our cheese, and established the same in the Home trade. COMMENCE TO-DAY.

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