Rangitikei Advocate. THURSDAY, NOV. 28, 1907. SECOND EDIITON.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9013, 28 November 1907, Page 2

Rangitikei Advocate. THURSDAY, NOV. 28, 1907. SECOND EDIITON.

This report of meeting of Eangitikei Council appears on our fourth W. H. Nelson lias been reelected chairman of Woodville County Council. Mr W. J. Shaw, late of Kiroholtou, lias boon elected chairman of Kawhia County for the coming year. Kairanga County Council elected Mr 0. Yoss chairman and ho and Or. Bryant wore appointed to attend the Conference re river protection. Or. Shirloy Best was unanimously elected chairman of Wairaea County Council for tho third year m succOs--81 At a meeting of Dunedin Bakers’ Association yesterday it was decided to reduce the price of bread fronted to 7*!<d fpor 41b loaf from Mouuay U °Tho issue of GO debentures of £IOO eacli by tho Otago Harbour Board has been taken up in one parcel at £IOO 17s Gd each.

Tlie Victorian Goveruinont has invited Mr Ferguson, late Secretary and Engineer of Wellington Harbour Board, to visit Melbourne to advise on the best means of providing additional harbour accommodation. The postal authorities notify that tho transmission through the post ot tinselled postcards, unless enclosed in a cover, is absolutely forbidden, and that in future all such cards will bo destroyed.

Tho present position [iu regard to Pohaugiua bridge is that the Council has decided to raise a loan and Government has promised a subsidy of £ for £. Tenders will .probably bo called for tho repairs at next meeting. „ . . Raugitikoi County Engineer coinplained in ids report of the difficulty of obtaining horse teams for the road grader. He had been asked £2 to Gs per day for a team of 4 horses ana driver. Tins materially increase!, tho cost of 1-oad work. A little girl, 9 years of ago, named Martin, daughter or a railway surface man at Shannon, was thrown from her horse yesterday at Shannon, sustaining a badly broken arm. She was brought to Palmerston by the lata train for medical treatment.

On Saturday morning Mr J. Thoms’ dwellieg at Stanley Biook, NnlVnu, was burnt clown. The hro silo; i iu an outbuilding and spread M jbe house. It was impossible to save the place owing to the absence ofhvater, but some furniture and a piano were rescued. The house Was almost uew and two’storied. Allan Garth McGregor, who was found not guilty on the grounds ot insanity of shooting W. E. Sargood and ordered to ho imprisoned iu gaoi during the Colonial Secretary s pleasure, was released this morning. McGregor was employed iu Sargood s hoot factory, Dundoiu, at the time of the shooting two years ago,

The question of carters’ licenses was considered at Raugitikci County Council mooting. Certain earners at Tailiape have been compelled to take out licenses iu the County pnci also iu the Borough. Reference wag made to the fact that Martou Borough coach, proprietors in many cases use roads at a greater distance than five miles from the borough. It was decided to discuss the matter with Martou Borough Council and report to next meeting.

The following are the representatives 3of the local bodies elected yesterday as Palmerston Hospital Board;—P.N. Borough—The Mayor and Ors. Luxford and fiaydon. Mauawatu County—Crs. J. G. Wilson and G. Kendall. Kairauga County—Crs. Voss and Bryant. Pohaugiua County—Or. Jackson. Oroua County—Ors. Vincent and Pearce. Kiwitea County—Ors. Vincent and Pearce. Kiwitea County Or. r :-.rlor. Feildiug Borough.—Or. S. W. Fitzherbort.

Two members of Kiwitea County Council yesterday, Messrs Short and Carman, iu the former’s motor car travelling towards Kimbolton, met the Kiwitea County Council horse drawing the Kiwitea ConnciPs big camping waggon. Instead of swerving off at sight of the motor car this horse made his protest by jumping almost in front of it, with the result that the whole brake power of the motor had to bo applied to _ avoid killing the animal, bo great indeed that one of the tires of the motor car \Yas injured. The horse then bucked the wagon in the drain and broke the shaft.

At the meetingof the North Canterbury Hospital Board, k letter Jwas received from the Otago Hospita. Board suggesting that tho various Boards should join together to urge tho Government to provide and equip a suitable building iu a central position in tho South Island for the purpose of a consumption sanatorium for New Zealand , and it waspresolved to reply that as Christchurch had already started a sanatorium, which it was hoped would meet the requirements of the locality, the Board could not see its [.way to support the ])roposal to erect one Bcvuutorium for the Dominion.

In the course of the report of the Engineer to Raugitikci Council lie stated that he had tho Walker's pit nud tho road thereto put m order so that the motor waggon could haul gravel on Ongo Road. He had left the matter iu abeyance, _ however, owing to the objections of wool carters and asked instructions from Council. He pointed out that the prejudices of drivers against motor traffic must be ; overcome sooner or later as motor vehicles had conic to stay. It was decided to arrange times for carting metal so as_ to interfere as little as possible with wool waggons.

A short time ago Pohangina County Council had under consideration tho question as to whether it would be responsible for auy damgo which by any means might occur to a person owing to the Council having given permission to a laud holder to erect a fence alongside the road formation and it was decided to obtain a legal opinion. Shortly stated, Mr limes replied that tho Council cannot give auy ratepayer permission to erect a fence on the road line according to tho’decision of appeal in ro Selwyn County Council except the edge of a formed road with a view of the protection of tho public over portions of the road, which if left unprotected would he dangerous to the public using the road.

At Palmerston Arbitration Court Messrs Sollitt Bros, were fined £l, R. P. Jenson £3, the Mauawatu Fibre Co. and the Maunder Manufacturing Co. £3 for employing men at less than the award wages. 1' or employing a non-union driver, &. C. Lane was fined £3 and costs. Arthur Do Lueu, for employing two journeymen tailors and paying weekly wages, when no piece-workers were employed, was fined £3 on each of the charges. J. Merry less and J. May, for accepting weekly wages from the above, were finen IGs. A. \S. Bradley, of Fox ton. for employing a female apprentice at a time v.licn there wore no piece-workers emploj ed was fined £3 and costs. M. H. Lawson, for accepting loss wages than the award, was fined 10s.

At the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday George Tnstiu, painter and paperhangor, bankrupt, was found guilty of having failed to keep proper books, and of incurring debts without reasonable expectation of meeting them. Accused disclaimed fraudulent intent and said his bankruptcy was partly caused by having to pay iis and 13s to men who wore only worth 5s (id to 6s a day. He would not rest till ho had paid his creditors 20s‘iu the £. The jury found bankrupt'guilty but that ho had no fraudulent intent. ;>j*itence was deferred pending the decision of the Court of Appeal on law points. Bail was allowed himself in £SO and one surety of £SO. THE PRIZE ADVERTISEMENT. Tina week a conundrum won. Hero it

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Nelson reports that steady ram set jii to-day after the long spoil ot dry weather. ■ Tlio Pohaugina County Council on Wednesday raised the salary ot the clerk from £2OO to £220 a-year. Denis Stephen, aged 17, fo nn(^ shot in a paddock at Kaikora. There is no evidence as to how t.ie accident occurred. The Engineer of Poliangina County Council stated yestorday’that he had been compelled to give 9s per day for casual labourers and had not been able to get suitable men at that rate. Black’s bakery stable and cartshed at Maori Hill, Dunedin, were burned down this morning. Two horses wore destroyed. Premises and stocks wore insured for £255 in the Standard Office. The Methodist Synod at Napier ( appointed Bev. A. O. Lawry representative to the Conference and Bev. J. N. Buttle substitute represeuta--1,1 Henry Johnston, flax merchant of Auckland, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. His debts are £4123 IJs 3d. The creditors are all unsecured. The assets are estimated at £lO5 las 3d. Decrees nisi have been granted in the divorce cases Levinia Dyson Smith v. Sydney Smith on the ground of desertion, and David Duncan v. Emily Louisa Duucau, on the ground of failure to comply with an order for the restitution of conjugal rights. Sir Janies Mills, managing director of the Union Company, is being entertained at a public luncheon today. The gathering is a representative one, including the Premier and representatives from Auckland, Christchurch. Dunedin and Napier. Hastings Borough Council’ having had separate and contradictory sewerage reports submitted by J. Bonus, 0.8., late of Palmerston North, and James Rochford of Kupier £Ui«l invited Mr Fergussou, consulting "engineer of Wellington Harbour Board, to advise and recommend the best scheme. Mr Forgusson replies that his engagement with the Harbour Board precludes him taking outside work. The dearth of ministers and missionaries for New Zealand was referred to at Auckland meeting of the Methodist Synod to-day. Resolutions wore carried requesting the Methodist Conference to renew its application to the British Conference ' for at least four trained ministers and to apply fo the authorities of Cliff College, England, for at least four moil us home missionaries in New 'Zealand, , MacMahon’s Pictures will be shown at Feilding on Friday and Saturday nights. These represent practically a great Australian novel on miles of film, the story being unfolded to the reader piolonally instead of in type, making the interest more intense. S “ Robbery Under Arms ” is a most j interesting book, but with the story in this form its interest is materially increased. Marton loan proposals wore rejected by a majority of ratepayers at a poll taken yesterday. The voting for the £4OOO loan for improvements to the back streets was 73 for the proposal and 104 against, there being two informal votes, The loan for £ISOO for the main streets and footpaths was defeated by a narrow" margin of two votes, the figurcs_ being 88 for the proposal gnd 90 against, with one informal vole. Tito body Of the old man, William Lewis, of Wanganui, wito has boou missing since Saturday morning, was found floating under one of the boats moored near tiro Plymouth street groin yesterday afternoon, 1 The deceased was only partially l attired, and the sum of Is Id was • fouucl ill cue of the pockets of Jus trousers. The police theory is that • the old man, who loft his residence . tarty on Saturday fruorniug, must • have proceeded straight to the groin and thrown himself into the river. Our Huntervillo correspondent writes The quarterly shoot bn Wednesday afternoon respited as follows: —Ist Sweepstake: Powell Ist, Mercer 2nd. 2nd Sweepstake : Geo. • Morris Ist. Owing to small attendance due to shearing, etc., the 1 quarterly event was postponed to loth i January.—The Racing Club is, for some unexplained reason, knocked on the head for the year, at least so I hear. The following arc the instructions of Stock Inspector Millar as to the host manner to lay rabbit poison ; “The process usually adopted is to turn over ;i sod with the spado about four inches surface and about au inch in thickness. Place one or two baits in the hollow caused by the nj)turned sod or surface ot sod. The poison should bo laid about seven yards apart, leaving a distance of about a chain between each row. Whore indications are numerous the number of upturned sods made should bo increased to, say, "double that number. The safest plan to prevent sheep from oaring poison is to make a .small hole about an inch and a half to two inches deep, similar to a rabbit’s, and placo poison in the hole. This is important when sheep are grazing. 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