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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9015, 30 November 1907, Page 2

Tho oollapsoof a Birder, during the widening of Blaokfriars Bridge killed four workmen and injured several others. , , _ M'irton Technical School Committee and High School Committee will meet on Monday next, Decem--1)6 A message from Suva, Fiji, states that Fauniug Island has been sold for £25,000 to Father Rougier. \ London cablegram reports that aUho wool sales thero was keener competition; prices were unchanged. There was a large attendance at Auckland Show to-day. Mr E. D. McLenuan's Buttercup was awarded the championship of dairy cows. The Hon. W. W. MeOardle has retired from tho Auckland Land Board in consequence of the clause in the Land Act passed last session disnualifviug members of the Legis--1 too holding a seat on a Land Board. The vacancy will be filled by a mombcr elected by tho tenants. In the Supreme Court action between Patrick Quinlan hotelkecper nf Auckland, and J. G. Swan and Oo brewers, of Wauganui, for £IOOO damages - for alleged trespass by wrongfully placing a bailill in nossewion of plaintiff's hotel, tho ?ury ™ded plaintiff £250 damages. Some legal points raised were reserved. . Tho main points in tho Arbitration Court award in the Building Trades and Labourers' dispute at ton aro that a week's work is fixed at 45 hours and the rate oi wages is to bo one shilling and a penny halfpenny per hour. -Labourers engaged in the construction of scaffolding get a penny an hour more. At an inquest yesterday at Waitara on a native, named Apiao Aomu, found dead with his neck broken on Wednesday mornnig, having evidently fallen off his horso, the ovidcjicd seemed to show that deceased was under die influence of dunk and an adjournment was granted for i week to enable tho poiico to make inrruiries where tho deceased spent liia tUno in Waitara on Wednesday.

During Ma recent yifiit to America the Bishop of Loudon was eiitorHined by the Pilgrims' Club, awl Sxiul in a speech to President, BooWvolfc Eaid:-"Ho struck mo a» a San who kept everybody in America ali"e " The bishoy declared that he did' not play singles with Mr Poosovolt, but doubles, and when t,e Bishop's side won, as it did,, the President looked as pleased as it he had beheld a man who had had M children. ~ . ~ „ There must be something m the •n-mearauco of the farmers giving e See before the Conciliation Boa'-d which suggests that they are tlie proud fathers of stalwart sons. Occasionally appeawuices are deceptive '' Have vou any objection to mvii>2 vonr sons a weekly wage !o-tiuS. they can. .put a little, bit away?" asked Mr Kennedy oi a witness appearing before t ho Conciliation Board yesterday. '1 m not married," the witness responded, Mushing. „ „ , • Tlie animal mooting ot Taraua a Oil and Freehold Company was held 'ast niglit. The report and balancesheet; adopted. F. P. Corkill <ro-eke tert) and G. D. Henderson ( Wellington) were elected directors ; £IOO was voted to the chairman for tho ensuing year, and £lO each io tho other directors for last year. Tho manager stated that the bore was now down 254 feet aud had an ■pxcelleut show of oil that afternoon, bus that did not betoken anything at present Much more rapid progress was no.w being made. Three of the four actions for damages against Wellington City Council iu connection with the Brooklyn tramway accident last roar, have been settled out of Court. sb. tlie cases of Thos. 8011, ot Nelson, who was severely inured, and his wife tilled, plaintiff has accepted £llOO including costs. In one case he claimed £BOOG, the death of his wife, and the other £&oi cu account of his own injuries. A fchvm of £3OO made by Arthur Smith, another passenger, has been settled for £12.-. The South British Insurance Company v:iil, under die nolicy issued to the CounciJ, pay a •nrge proportion of the amount y t -iia to settle tlie cases.

"Mr Tootle, S.M., lias given reserved -j mi anient in tiie case in which a number of Chinese gardeners were prosecuted for working at their ordinary avocations on Sunday, lie said that after :i long spell of wet weather the conditions improved on Saturday night and the Chinese considered 'it necessary for the safety of the crop to get it in on Sunday. In the special circumstances the work was reasonably necessary but the preparation of vegetables could have been done on Monday. Those defendants who gathered and prepared vegetables on Sunday in full view of the public highway wero fined 5s each and costs, but the charges against those engaged in saving the potato croplwo re dismissed. A letter received by Taranaki Education Board stated that a teacher with a family of seven had only a 300-gallon tank at the residence. This was insufficient, oven in our moist climate, and the scarcity of the watery elemental the house often necessitated taking the family washing to the nearest creek. The Board, being merely men and thus not personally concerned in the success or otherwise of the laundry operations nor able perhaps to fully appreciate the difficuties of the washing day, decidedCtliat.it could; not give any further"\vater supply.

The. presentation at Feilding last night by Messrs Macmahon_ of pictures representing the chief incidents of Rolf Boldrewood's famous novel, -'Robbery Under Arms," made an ontortainment which was evidently very highly apppreciated by the audience. Few stories offer such dramatical points of interest as this, and these have been seized upon by fcljo artists with rare skill, with the result that the magnificent pictures, as they wero unfolded, sustained the interest of the audience from start to finish. Many other pictures of an amusing description were shown, and Miss Tansley sang several songs which were well reAt tiie Arbitration Court at Palmerston the local inspector of awards, at the instance of the New Zealand Flaxmillers' applied for an interpretation of Clause 3 of the Manawatu Flax Employees' award, which reads as follows :—''' Any time worked •in any one week in extension of tiie hours prescribed in Clause 1 hero of shall be paid for at the rate of time and a quarter for the first three hours, and time and a half for all farther time until the usual time of commencing work." Tiie question put to the Court was: "Must each day stand by itself, or is all overtime worked to be added together at the end of the week, and to be paid for at time and a quarter for the first three hours and time and a half for all further time?" This is the interpretation delivered by Judge Sim :—Under the award overtime is only to be paid when the hours of work exceed 48. The hours of work for each day may be regulated by the employer, subject to the provisions of section 18 of the Factories' Act, 1001. If the hours in any one day are extended beyond those mentioned in that section,- then the provisions of section S 3 of the Act would apply, and overtime would be payable under that section, but overtime is not payable under the award until more than 48 hours have been worked in any ono week. EVIL EFFECTS OF THE USE OF CARBONATE OF SODA.

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Sir Joseph Ward leaves for Auckland early next week to select a site for the new Post Office to he erected there. The Hon. Dr. Findlay (Attorney-] General) will distribute the prizes at the Wanganui Girls-College on the 12th pros. . A Hindu barrister thus addressed the Bombay Court the other day: "Mt client as sick, and lie has sent me to say that lie is lying, cannot come."

Iu a North - Island orchard is an apple tree which has been cut hard back, being an unprofitable sort, and 1 on it arc grafted-gr owing, and making good growth, too-rose sSis-(two sorts), pear, and gooseberry. "The Lone Hand" for December, to hand from Messrs Gordon and Gotch is an excellent number, conSing a large articles, stories, etc. The tious are also numerous [and attrac--1,1 The present prosperity of the Dominion," said a witness in the farm labourers' dispute, is the result of the long hours and hard work done by the early settlers. If they had worked under these demands the Dominion would not have bem in anything, like as prosperous a state as it is to-day." . The appointment of Messrs J. A. McOullough and W. T. Young as representatives and deputy respectively of the workers on the Arbitration Court, has given the Wellington Trades and Labor Council much satiSiou The Council rooonimended 'these men to the Dunediu contoence as the most fitting for the positions, and have congratulated the two elected representatives of labor .on their appointment. \n iyy plant which established itself in a crevice of the tower of fat. John the Baptist's Church, \arborough, Lincolushiro, lias caused such damage that au architoct who lias bcou consulted estimates that £6OO will be required to P"* *"° tower iu a thoroughly good state. The roots undermined the foundations gradually lifting tlia fitones Sit of &ace, and a large crack m the walls resulted from the growth of the plant.

An interesting statement regarding the comparative productive value of dairy cows and sheep on grazing land was made by a witness who gave evidence in the farm labourers dispute. The gross product of a dairy cow grazing mi 1% acres ot hind for a vear would bo valued at from €U to £l3, and the gross product of the 0l d:;;ary number of sheep allowed for that area wcpM be £4 10s The witness argued that ir laVmeh, through oppressive labour _ relictions, M to'giro up d f W u Si tfio productive value of the unci would be reduced from £l3 to_<g4 10s. Tlie State, as well as the individual, would then suffer.

Last week a Christchurch constable on the look-out for fin escapee from Snunyside, said to liavo been seen wandering about Addiugton, saw a man who answered to the description casslMK about the cattle saleyards. He approached, and, passing the time of day, asked what the gazer was doing *' Oh, I'm looking for ft cow that's wandered from Sunnyside, was the reply. "Then you're the man I want," said the policeman. "You come along o' me," and m belief of the explanation immediately forthcoming, ho took- his charge to the mental hospital.' When 'lw «ot :J there he found to his horror that ho, had captured ope of the officers of the institution. The ionic, which is expected to arrive on Tuesday, brings a total of (577 sotilß to the Dominion. Of these 43 are first saloon passengers, 08 are travelling second, and 506 are t.mrd class. Ainong these third-class passengers are a very large number of assisted .immigrants, and, peculiarly the majority axe goij'g to friends a»ci will thus be absorbed aimost at once. Following are the destinations and the number of newcomers for each town detailed Wellington 180; Auckland 183; Napier--46 ; Gisborno 17 , New Plymouth 29 , \Van~anui 3; Lytteltou 128 ; Timarn si' Oamaru 3; Dunodin 40; Bin ft 19; Nelson*!.; Pictoii 4 j_ Greymocith 7; Westnort I,'1 ,' coiaj 077. The provision of Sko breakfasts for poor children in London schools is not without disadvantages. An active school manager hearing that at her school froo breakfasts were being giron to all children who came •without them, paid a.series of visits at nine o'clock in the morning to the children's hoiiieii. In nearly evorv enso tho mothers were in keil, and," when questioned as to their views upon the free breakfasts, goodhumouredly replied that they tkoueht them excellent, JNot that there' am't the food in tho house, ma'am. But it do save so much trouble, and it's my belief them ladies enjoys fussin' over tiio kich? a» much as I likes my rest." The Wairarapa Daily Times inquires :—Ate bookmakers now, in point of rank, on a. level with Bishops? We should say so. arior reading certain remarks made by MiLewis, M.H.R., concerning these sentry. At the tail_ end of the session the public gallery of • 'the Honse" (really it ought to be called "the house") was said by this authority to be not good enough for tho bookmakers who were assisting tho revision of tho Gaming Act, and special accommodation was arranged for them in Mr Speaker's gallery. The professional status of these missionaries amongst misguided youths is now legalised, and perhaps it will be unnecessary to call one or two of them to the Legislative Council in order to further protect the important local industry which they represent. Speaking of raffles at church •bazaars at Dimedin, the Rev. A. Don waxed reminiscent (says the Ota-go Daily Times.") Having mentioned the cast, of a minister who had resigned his position at Lawrence as a protest against the practice of raffling, the speaker wont on to tell of s, certain pious brewer wiio presented the congregation with a barrel of his best XXX to be raffled for at the church sale of work. The corpulent barrel seemed as much out of place as a fish at a flower show, and many of the elect wero horrified. The situation was relieved by the beer being won by tiio brewer's daughter, who took it away with her"

lii tho Magistrate's Court, Dnuodin, the othor day, a man \vas charged with desortiug his wife. Tho facts, as stated by defendant a solicitor, aro that the plaintiff, who was a widow with five young children, applied through the newspaper columns for a husband. Defendant, a bachelor, thus got into communication with her, and after a courtship of four weeks they were mamed, Four weeks later they found that their temperaments were uncongenial, and parted. Defendant went to work in another part of the colony, and on a warrant issued by his wife was brought back to Dunedin to answer a chargo of desertion.

"Wo are paying oar Homo Mission men loss than' gurnpickers' wages," declared Mr T. W. Jones at .the Methodist Synod during a discussion on a suggestion for the increase ot a home mission stipend. The sum allowed was £IOO, but Mr Jonos pointed out that as tho recipient was a married man, and paid £25 for house rent, it loft him only £75 per year to live on. "Wo must oithor give this man a little bigger allowaneo or withdraw him from tho work," added Mr -Tones. "I will not vote for any married man having to live on £7o a year.' The Rev. J. Dukes said the agent referred to had been quite prepared to rocoivo £9O, and he was not, moreover, entirely dependent on his stipend. The Rev." EW. Gittos created a hearty lauglf by declaring, emphatically, that he would soouer black boots than be a home mission agent. After somo further reniarks~...tho matter dropped without any >ction being taken.

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Just on 8000 bales are catalogued for the opening wool s&les at Napier next Tuesday. „as against 7148 £last December. A prisoner named Archibald Campbell McKenna, undergoing four years for rape, escaped from Hanruer on Friday ovening. The vessel sighted burning op August 23rd fn latitude S2}£, longitude S 3, may possibly be the .barqueSilver Horn overdue at Iquique from Newcastle. Nothing was seen of the \.t yesterday's Conference the Miners' Federation recommended that when the new wages agreement was made the standard should be 30 per cent above the rate of 1879 and

1888. a A firo at Kaitangata yesterday destroyed a four-roomed house .valued at £175, belonging to Mr Hitohon, The building was uninsured, ine furniture was insured by Sheehan, the occupier, for £l5O in the United. Thomas Mitchell, at one time proprietor of Aramoho Meat Freezing Works and who for several years was engaged unsuccessfully in lawsuits, including a Privy Council appeal case against the Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company, has been adjudged bankrupt. This is the first bankruptcy in Wangauui since July.

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