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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9081, 22 February 1908, Page 4

At Feilding sale yesterday prices still showed a drop, 4 and 6 tooths bringing 12s, lambs Is to Bs, the latter being good ewe lambs, old ewes 2s to Bs, 2 and 4 tooth wethers 10s 6d, gone lot of old s.m. e\yes Is lid. Steers brought £3 3s, fat cows £3 10g and £3 15s. The cash system adopted by the Gisborne butchers is said to be working very satisfactorily. The plan that has been adopted is that accounts are made out on Saturday night, delivered on Monday, and customers given until Wednesday to settle.

The third anniversary of Court Alexandra was celebrated at Marton last evening by a dance, when a very enjoyable evening was spent. The first part of the programme was in charge of Miss Mogridge as M. O. and took the form of a leap year dance. After the supper adjournment, Mr J. Ritchie acted as M.O. The music was supplied by Mr Bert Orczier and Miss Marr and Mr Harnish played extras. The relative demand for leasehold and freehold land respectively is well illustrated by the figures in a Parliamentary return just to hand. Out of 1000 applications for land in the Waioeka, Waiawa and TTrutawa blocks there were 930 under the O.R.P. system, 09 desired L.1.P., and there was one applicant on the cash system. In other words, 83 per cent of the applicants preferred the freehold, aitnough the rent payable was higher. At Feilding Court this morning, before Messrs Trawin and Oobbe, J. ’sP., David Anderson was charged with being an idle and disorderly person, and with begging in a public street. Accused, a strong *young man, said he had had a burst at Taihape. He was allowed to go on promising to leave the town before noon. John Wolfe was charged with wilfully breaking four panes of glass in a bouse owned by his wife. He was fined'£l and ordered to pay the damage.

Max Gotch, tho unqualified medical practitioner, who was severely dealt with by a Magistrate at Auckland the other day, did not escape with merely a fine of £3O. There were two other charges against him. and on each of these he was penalised £5. Altogether, with costs added to the fines, his disbursements amounted to £-19 15s, and ho also received some hard words from tlie Bench in exchange for his bard .crash; The Magistrate said he Imped the flues would have tho efface of chocking (here!) and others like him, who are public nuisances.

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The Queen has acceded fco the request of the Palmerston North Hospital Board to style the new woman’s ward the Royal Alexandra Ward for Women. A party of motorists, leaving Christchurch on Tuesday morning, undertook to cover the 386-mile journey to Invercargill in one day, and carried through the undertaking successfully. Councillor Yarr, of Masterhon, has tabled a motion —“That this Council take into consideration the desirability of establishing a retail Municipal Butchery.” Mr H. F. Gibbons, resident inspector of the Bank of New Zealand, at Welliutgon, .is resigning his position to become a partner in the firm of Barraud and Abraham, Palmerston North. At Gisborne Constable John Thomas Irwin was to-day fined £1 and <bosts £9, in default'7 days’ imprisonment for using undue violence in removing from a hotel a drunken man. The Magistrate characterised defendant’s action in strong terms.

The Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee met yesterday at Government, House, Lord Pkmket presiding, to select the New Zealand Rhodes Scholar for 1908. The committee’s choice fell npon Mr Solomon N. Ziman, of Auckland University, Cardinal Moran and has party, including Archbishop Redwood and Bishops O’Connor and Gallagher, returned from Rotorua by last evening’s train. The Cardinal will perform the dedication ceremony in connection with St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Sunday morning, and on Monday will return to Sydney. The water in the Wainni reservoir, which supplies Wellington, is receding at the rate of three inches a day, and is now 39 inches below the by-wash. If it reaches three feet below the by-wash the water for other than domestic purposes will he cut off. Rain appears as far off as ever.

At the Waitemata Swimming Club’s Carnival last night, fW. |E. Champion lowered the Kew Zealand record for a half mile by 24 1-oth sec, being 13miu. 2sec. J. Grant, who swam second to him, also beat the previous record by 2soc, his time being 13.24 l-sth. Champion appeared to be able to reduce the time had lie been forced. It is understood, says the Wairarapa Age, that the Government is supplying settlers with grass seed on terms spreading over three' years. No interest will be asked for the first year, though after the expiration of that period interest on a sliding scale will be charged. The Grey town Rifles have accepted a challenge sent them by the Eketahuua Rifles to a tent-pitching competition for £lO aside. It will be remembered that the Greytowu Rifles won'the tent-pitching event at tne New* Zealand Exhibition, and the Eketahuua Rifles won a similar competition at the military at Palmerston North on January Ist. The competition between £the two corps will take place during the Easter encampment at Wellington.

“What is your objection to the fixing of a minimum wage for the average competent man?’’ asked the labour representative of a witness in the farm labourers’ dispute in Canterbury; “All men are of varying capacities,” said the witness, “and when God Almighty started them out in Ifie, he did not endow them all equally.” “Oh, I want you to answer my question,. ” rapped out the labour man, “not preach me a sermon. ’ ’

Judgment was given for defendant with costs £2 2s by the Wellington S.M. in the case in which J. W. Chase claimed from E. J. Riddiford £6 7s 4d, for shearing 729 sheep at Orongorongo station at 17s 6d |per hundred. His Worship found that plaintiff had entered into an agreement and indivisible contract with defendant to continue shearing the whole of the sheep on Orongorongo station until the work was completed ; that he had left without reasonable excuse before the shearing was completed, and was therefore not entitled to payment.

A return shows that the number of trees planted by the State Forests Departments is 18,300,779. Their ages range from two to six and ahalf years. Of the sixty varieties, over five millions are Larix Europsea (larch), useful for railway sleepers, posts, bridge-building and farm purposes ; over two million are Australian gums, used for constructive works generally ; over three millions are Piuus Austriaca; and over two millions Quercus pedunculata, used for housebuilding, waggons, carriages, casks, etc. The hearing of the case of Gillies v. Mrs Allerby at Feilding Court lasted till 10 p.m. yesterday. At the conclusion of the evidence for plaintiff defendant’s solicitor raised four nonsuit points; (1) that the document having been executed on Sunday was illegal and not binding. He stated that the document which could be legally executed on a Sunday was a will; (2) that Allerby did not give his consent to the alteration in the agreement; (B) there was not sufficient proof that Allerby was Ins wife’s authorised ||agent; (4) that the document would not be binding unless the supply from 400 cows was obtained. The Magistrate reserved decision.

Orona County Council have received the following tenders for the undermentioned works; —Contract No. 7, Naunestad’s and Taonui road, 500 yards metal, F. Allerby, 3s 3d and 2s 2d (accepted); J. Hicks, 2s 3d; J. Shapleski, 4s; P. Eiohler, 4s 3d. Contract No. 8, Kimbolton road, 1000 yards, F. Allerby, 2s lid (accepted); J. Hicks, 3s (sd, pit metal, for river metal 4s 6d ; G. Lankshear, mixed metal, 3s 6d; B. Poole, 3s lid; J. Shapleski, 3s 3d for pit metal, river metal os; P. Eichler, 3s 9d for river metal, 4s 3d for pit metal; ‘Rink Bros, 3s 9d. Contract N°- 9, Halcombe 250 yards, P. Eichler, 4s id (accepted). Shapleski, os. Contract No. 10, 400 yards. Buuuythorpe road, F. Allerby (accepted) ;W. Burgess 3s lOd ; J. Shapleski, os; C. Lassen, 3s Id. Whoever suffers with indigestion can be cured by taking Pearson’s Pepto-chlor. Ali chemists Is, 2s 6d and 4s. A Great Opening Event.—E. Lloyd & Go., successors to J. McEldowuey, will hold a Special 14 Days’ Clearance Sale, commencing on Saturday next, the 23nd instant. The many bargains in all cieoartmeuts will astonish the most fastidious purchaser.* BURNT OUT. Ydo take this opportunity of advising Farmers who have had the misfortune to h ' burnt nut of food lately to try ‘' SUGROSINE ” it is ■ the most*economical food to buy. Obtainable from Brice, Broad & Co.,