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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9074, 14 February 1908, Page 4

At Auckland Supreme Court yesterday Ermond William Lewis Ward was cdfiVicted on several charges of false pretences and theft, and Was sentenced to two years, Mr Stevens, M.P., is bn a visit to Foxtom- He will return to his residence at Bulls, about the end of the month. William Scott and Thomas Townsheud, on remand under charges of highway robbery at Whangarei and breaking and entering at Waipu, were before the Court yesterday. They pleaded guilty to both offences, and were committed for sentence at the Supreme Court. Noyes Bros, are issuing a writ against Dunedin City Corporation for £7339, balance of commission* alleged to be due in connection with Waipori works. A strong bar has been engaged. At the meeting of the Council of the N.Z.A.A. A., an application from the Wellington centre that G. Sharpe, a long distance runner, should be sent to Tasmania with the New Zealand, team was refused. Strong exception was taken to the remarks made at the recent meeting of the Wellington centre, reflecting on the Council.

■ In Gape Egmont district considerable destruction has been wrought by bush fires. Tne homesteads of Morrow and Clarke, Kahui road, were destroyed. Rothery’s sawmill has been on” fire, but was saved from destruction up to the present. The Opunake Company’s sawmill is in danger. The fires are raging practically over the whole district to the north and west of Mouut Egmont. Our Hunterville correspondent writes: —I hear the fires are so bad around Poukiore that some of the settlers have their household goods on the road to-night. I hear, to my sorrow, that that beautiful piece of scenery Reserve at Silverhope is threatened ; everyone will agree that such an event would be little less than a catastrophe. It was, 1 believe, owing to Mr Aldworth’s representations that the same was conserved. During the discussion on the rivers question at Manawatu County Council the Chairman saidjproteetive work was costing him £IOO a year or more. He did < think that provision should be made in the law to compel a landowner to take action with his neighbour in protective work, where it was necessary. Cr. Masters* remarked that the demand for fresh legislation was to enable the proposed Board to ;tax land owners who would not be benefited. The Collector of Customs has received instructions from Wellington that no beer may be taken under permit to depots at Oolliugwood on a'non-license boundary; consequently the Collector has notified owners of depots that they will not be permitted to store beer in depots after the 28th iust. Rope and Co., who had a depot the same as others, have for some time had a brewery working alongside, and that will be unaffected.

At a meeting cf Dunedin Trades and Labour Council last evening the principle of the federation of labour was affirmed, and a resolution passed expressing the opinion that the proposal of the Waikato Miners’ Union was a step in the right direction, and had the approval of the Council, which, however, recommended the constitution adopted at the Trades Conference to the favourable consideration of the unions.

Here is a geniune ease of professional pride. A millionaire cattleman led a visitor into his library, a great room lined with thousands of volumes. “See them books?” said he. “Yes,” said his visitor. “They’re all bound in calf, ain’t they?” “Yes,” the visitor agreed. “They seem to have a uniform binding.” The millionaire swelled proudly. “Well, sir,” said he, “I raised all them calves myself.” Concerning the statement published that there is a probability of the North German Lloyd Company establishing regular steamer connection between Germany and New Zealand, Mr Laugguth, German Consul, states that .there is no prospect of a regular line. There was a good deal of cargo olfering.for Auckland and it was decided to send the steamer Westfalen to that port after she had discharged in Australia. There was no probability of establishing direct communication with New Zealand. If such a project matured it would be a fpassenger not a cargo service. The steamers running to Australia are too big to pay to run to the Dominion where only about 30 to 80 passengers could be picked up.

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