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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9069, 8 February 1908, Page 4

Mr Stead has threshed 103% bushels of oats to the acre on his farm, Oooringa, Canterbury. A house at Brightwater, Nelson, owned and occupied by H. G. Parte, was destroyed by lire yesterday morning. The building was insured for £175 in the Norwich Union office, and there was also a small poicy on the furniture. In the case in which Sheridan was charged with manslaughter at Wellington the "defence was that deceased’s death was really accidental. Sheridan, giving evidence on his own behalf, said ho tried to put McNally in a place of safety while he was drunk. McNally struck him several times, and made use of bad language towards him. He went_ to leave McNally, who followed him, and struck him again. 1 It was while endeavouring to protect himself from this blow that he hit deceased, knocking him down. Pie had not so much struck McNallyl as he had endeavoured to ward off the attack on himself.

A start was .made yesterday with the work. of altering Government House with the view of preparing it for the next meeting of Parliament. The new offices for the Orona County Council at Feilding will be completed _in about a fortnight. On Friday- the chairman and Or. Wheeler were appointed to purchase furniture. Mr D. G. Monrad, a well-known Manawatu settler, died suddenly at Palmerston last night. Decesaed was a grandson of the late Bishop Monrad, once Prime Minister of Denmark, who came to New Zealand with the earliest * Scandinavian settlers. The proprietor of the • WanganuiMarton carying service has an announcement in to-day’s issue in connection with the delivery of goods. Since Mr Diffey took charge of this carrying business he has given tradespeople and others entire satisfaction by giving prompt attention to orders and the careful handling of goods. Marton orders are to be left with Messrs Mogridge & Co. or Mr A. Linton. At Wellington Supreme Court yesterday John W. Morris, regarding whose case one jury had disagreed, was, with additional evidence, convicted of misappropriation of ss, moneys collected for his employer, and sentenced to six months. The offence was committed in August, 1906, and accused bolted, and was arrested in December in the North Island. Edward Leydon, a letter carrier, was found guilty of stealing a postal packet containing jewellery, and sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment.! A Siamese newspaper _ has distributed the following notice.: “The news of English we tell the latest. Writ in perfectly style and most earliest. Do a murder git commit, we hear of and tell it. Do a mighty chief die. we publish it, and in borders of somber. Staff has each one been colege, and write like the Kippling and the Dickens. We circle every town and extortionate not for advertisements. Buy it. Buy it. Tell each of you its greatness tor good. Ready on Friday. Number one. ’’

At Auckland, Mr Kettle, S.M., delivered jugdmeut in a case in which a man and woman adopted a babv, which afterwards died whilst in their charge. After a review of the evidence the Magistrate said he was satisfied that defendants were guilty of neglect within the meaning of Section 3 of the Children’s Protection Act. He was also inclined to the opinion that the parents were totally guilty. Although he was not called on' to decide what action should be taken, there was a growing inclination among some mothers to shirk nursing their offspring, and a desirejjjto shirk their moral obligations. Defendants were fined jointly £lO, or, in default one mouth’s imprisonment. About 50 Australian workmen who came to Wellington by the Moeraki called on the Labour Department. This is the largest number of Australian applicants, says the Dominion, the Department has had from one boat for twelve months past. Most of them were miners and “navvies,” and they were unusually free from the objection which most immigrants have to taking work in distant parts of the country. Fully half of the newcomers willingly agreed to go to situations at Stratford, Strathmore, Ohakune, and other distant places; others said that they would wait a day or two, ou the chance of getting work in the city. The town has large atractious for the majority of immigrants, who turn their backs with great reluctance ou the pleasures of the city life. The recent newcomers by the Oorinthio were an exception to this rule. They included a fair proportion of Scotchmen, and Scottish immigrants, it is found, go to the country much more willingly than English.

Mr Justice Cooper has granted the appeal in the case of Brannigan v. E. Macdonald, a farmer;of Pahiatua, in which the former claimed damages for libel alleged to be contained in a letter addressed by Macdonald to the Pahiatua Herald, and published by as an advertisement, and in a declaration published as an advertisement at the instigation of Macdonald in the Pahiatua Herald. The District Court judge held at the hearing in the District Court that the words complained of were not capable, of a defamatory meaning and nonsuited plaintiff. His Honor held that the words set out in the statement of claim, and complained of by the plaintiff in the court below, were not incapable of a defamatory meaning, and that therefore the District Court judge was wrong in withdrawing the case from the jury and in nonsuiting plaintiff. He therefore allowed the appeal, and ordered the nonsuit granted by the judge in the District Court to be set aside, and directed that there should be a new trial in the District Court. Costs, seven guineas and disbursements, were allowed to appellant. There is one dog at least in Central Otago which is certainly leading a life of the worst kind. A Christchurch visitor to that locality states that the dog is chained up right on the brink of the Olutha river, on the road from Clyde to Cromwell, and is what is termed a “boundarykeeper,” his duties being to bark at Stray sheep to keep them off. Inqiries made of the coach-driver elicited the information that the poor brute had been chained up in solitary confinement for about five months, and had only once during that long period had a brief interval of liberty, the occasion being one on which he found life intolerable, and made a dash for freedom. He was captured and chained up once more, and there he will probably remain till he rusts out or dies of melancholia. His only shelter consists of a small box, which lies on its side, and his bill of fare is a keg of water let into the ground and the bundles of raw meat thrown to him by the driver as the coach passes. On the occasion in question, the exiled animal was so delighted at the sight of human activity that he nearly wagged his tail off, and took absolutely no notice of the meat thrown to him. “How does he fare when the coach happens to miss a day?” queried the passenger of the driver. “Oh, then he doesn’t get anything, that’s all,” was the answer. In connection with the 14 days’ big relinquishing sale, now being conducted by Mr John McEldowney, he wishes it to be understood that the old-established privilege that visitors have hitherto had of going through and inspecting the different departments and making inquiries as to prices, qualities or fashions, will be maintained.* Dyspeptics Pearson’s Fepto-chlor will enable you to enjoy food. All chemists Is, 3s 6d & 4s.

Following .the example of Feilding Baud, in asking Feilding Borough Council for a subsidy the Manchester Band and Salvation Army Bands will make similar requests. Rangiwahia is suffering from bush fires which are raging furiously. The wind carried the fire down Mangawharariki Valley, and it threatened several residences. On the Main South road the fire is also raging.

The Moeraki, from Sydney brought 868 cases of grapes to Wellington. The quality was about the same as that of last week’s shipment, and those sold at auction brought from 7d to 8d per pound. So far no South Australian grapes have arrived. In connection with Rongotea sports we have been asked to notify competitors who have not paid their nomination fees and whose handicaps have not been published that they may obtain the same on payment of fees to the secretary. The Minister for Public Works (the Hon. W. Hall-Jones) has promised Mr Dillon, MP., and Mr W. D. Lysnar (chairman of the Gisborne branch of the Farmers’ Union) that he will look into the question of opening a stock'driving route between Gisborne and Wairoa and the Waikato at an estimated cost of about £2OOO.

It is satisfactory to note that the tickets for the Marton Band Concert fixed for 19th February are going' off rapidly. The whole proceeds of this entertainment go towards the expenses of the Baud’s visit to New Plymouth. The programme for the concert will be very attractive—the very best talent in the district having been engaged. The sea serpent has turned up again, on this occasion at Norfolk Island, and judging by the size of it, if report speaksjtrue, it would seem to be a record one. About £ p.m., on the 12th ult., writes a correspondent of the Sydney Daily Telegrabp, a young sou of Mr Godfrey Christian was out on the cliffs, when he saw what he supposed was a large rope drifting about. Upon informing his parents, they, with other members of the family, went to see what it was, and Mr Christian pronounced it to be a sea serpent. It was carefully watched, as it was expected it would come ashore on the beach, but it was lost sight of after sunset. It was estimated to be over 500 ft long and about 2ft in dameter. The head, which seemed very hairy, was about 10yds from the beach, and the serpent appeared to be feeding. It was of a grey colour, intermixed with both black Jand brown. Three pilot fish were seen, one on,either side of the head, and one in front.

A difference of sixpence was responsible for a pugilistic encounter in Featherston on Friday, says the Wairarapa Daily News. A motorist, a stranger to the district, pulled up at a local cycle establishment, purchased some benzine, and had a little attention given his motor at the same time. The small sum of Is 6d was asked for the lot, but the client wanted to pay only Is. The cycle engineer did not agree to that, and wanted the motor fuel back. By this time the motorist’s temper had mastered him, and he attacked the engineer, who retaliated, and an invitation to settle the matter outside was accepted. After a few blows the stranger “gave in,” and paid up the disputed sum. He said that he could sign his name to a £30,000 cheque, and was sorry for what had happened. The cycle man is wondering if the wealthy motorist accumulated the money in the way illustrated.

Sir Robert Stout, in a letter to the New Zealand Times, refers to the action of the University Senate in accepting the O’Sullivan bequest. He declares that if his suggestion had been acepted the bequest would not have been a University scholarship. The Public Trustee would have been trustee, and the fund a private one. He believes great injury may be done to Roman Catholics by the University accepting the bequest. By that acceptance the University, he says, invites Protestants to make sectarian gifts, that is, to make it a condition of their benefactions that Roman Catholics be excluded from participating in them. In his opinion the University should have so acted as to have discouraged sectarian trusts, and have maintained the provision in its Act that for no University scholarship should there be any religious examination or test. He believes the founding of the O’Sullivan University scholarship is an injury to the University, a wrong to all religious bodies in the minority, and the creation of a precedent that must lead to heart-burnings, animosities, and difficulties in the near future.

Referring to the Hon. McNab’s woful wail at Ohakune, a writer in the Auckland Herald sarcastically remarks: —“Qf course, the miner and the sailor and the butcher and the baker are not paid so well as Cabinet Ministers, and it might be argued that even if they were it would be quite open to them to throw up their job and go on the land or earn their own living in any other way.they liked; but the great prinicple of the thing remains unaltered. In this enlightened, age, when we are trying to diminish the death-rate in all walks of life, we should not remain indifferent to the claims of our Cabinet Ministers. Had we but served them as they have served their constituents, they would not in their age have laid this charge against us. We stand charged with working our Ministers beyond endurance, beyond a fair return for the money we pay them, and the fact that one of them resigns, but all go on working with this terrible death-rate staring them in the face, like a hideous spectre of the night, speaks volumes for their patriotism. Duty never yet did want its meed, and we in this great Dominion ought to feel proud that we have such noble, self-sacrificing men as our Cabinet Ministers, willing to go on working and fighting against the awful odds, with no thought of piling up riches, no thought of fame, but simply with a patriot’s desire for his country’s good. But “there’s a good time comiug,” some day, when Socialism reigns. Ministers will then not be paid such big salaries, of course, but there’ll be a fairer division of labour, and they will probably not have to work so hard, and the fact that they will be able to live a little longer will make up for any drawbacks in other respects. It is not right that an Honourable Minister, simply because he insists on standing by his country, should have to die earlier than other people.’’ Indigestion is caused by failure of the gastric juices. Pearson’s Peptochlor removes the trouble. Is, 2s Gd and 4s. r