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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9092, 11 March 1908, Page 4

A total of 20,085 bales of wool were exported from Wanganui during the last four mouths, an increase of 1551 bales on the number for the corresponding period of last year.

bauds have entered for the West Coast band contest to be held at Westport, on May 22ud and 23rd, namely Hokitika Municipal, Grey Battalion, Grey Citizens’, luangahua and Westport City. In our advertising columns Ftoday appears a notice with reference to the establishment of wood-carving classes at Marton Technical School. We are informed by the director that an expert instructor will visit Marton for the purpose on Mondays. Classes will not be formed unless names are sent in promptly. The development of watercress growing in Dorset is enormous. One firm near Bere Regis employs no fewer than forty men in the cultivation, cutting and packing of cress, and the proprietor publicly stated a few days ago that lie pays £3OOO a year iu wages. The watercress, which is scientifically cultivated, is sent to all parts of the country. Three boys accidentally hanged lately a playmate during a mock lynching at Memphis., Tennessee. One of them proposed that they should lynch, in fun, a fifteen-year-old negro companion named William Gordon. Despite Gordon’s' 1 entreaties, a rope was placed about his neck, and pulley and tackle were used to hoist him to the ceiling. The boys intended to lower Gordon before his breath was cut off, but the rope caught, and it was impossible to lower him until he was dead. Two of the hoys have been charged with manslaughter. Local bodies, says the Taranaki Daily News seems to be very suscessful debt-collecting agenciec. Only too frequently there are received letters from lawyers ' and others asking the local body to pay some workman’s hard-earned, wages to Mr So-and-So. How the man is to live without his earnings puzzled some members of the Taranaki County Council, when three or four of these “orders” cropped up. One of these was for all moneys due and to become due to a county workman, but the Council decided it could not pledge wages iu advance. The %vorkmeu are to be given a very straight hint that the Council does not favor this system. The Chairman said that an effort had been made to “work the same oracle” with the Maketawa Dairy Company, hut the directors refused to acknowledge orders on suppliers’ milk cheques. Another councillor said that some dairy factory directorates were not so considerate of the shareholders’ interests.

The last seven days of Lloyd’s Groat riale.

Did you ever stop to think that Chamberlain’s Pain Balm has iu many instances cured a sprained ankle in loss than a week by simply being applied before the parts become inflamed or swollen? For sale bv T. H. Bred in. Co-op. Stores, Marton, and-D. Wilson, Kongotea.

Messrs Rink Bros, have obtained the contract for making the roads for the Aorangi Laud Syndicate, Feilding, at £329. The members of |the Arbitration Court arrived at Greymouth last night, and will hear the Blackball case to-day. Mr M. Hanan will conduct proceedings for the Grown, and Mr Guinness for the Blackball Miners’ Union.

Early yesterday morning a dead body of a Maori was washed up on the beach at Castlecliff. The deceased has been identified as the Maori who walked into the river near the Town Bridge last Thursday evening. An inquest will be held to-day. Last night the scow Noouah while entering Auckland harbour collided with the outward bound Union Go. ’s steamer Wairuna. The scow sank almost immediately but all the crew were saved with the exception of one named Fred Smith, of whom no trace could be found. The Parewanui v. Wanganui Polo match arranged to take place at Fordell on Saturday has been abandoned for the present, owing to an epidemic of influenza at Parewanui. The committee have arranged for a match between Wanganui A & B teams to take the place of the lapsed fixture.

“If the workers feel that they cannot get satisfaction from the Arbitration Court they will adopt other means—l am sure of that,” remarked one of the Wellington Labour leaders, one of the most temperate men'hers of the Trades and Labour Council. “That seems to be the general feeling throughout the*colony,” he added. The cutter Kathleen Maud, bound from Auckland to Tairua, with a general cargo, : was totally wrecked at Kennedy Bay, on Monday, Captain Chapman and the crew of two reached the shore with difficulty. The cutter had put into the bay for shelter from the gale, but was driven upon the rocks and smashed up.

A labour trouble recently occurred at the Pictou works of the Christchurch Meat Four greasers aud firemen and six labourers left work on Thursday, because, it is stated, the company refused to give them an inch-ease in wages. The firemen ana greasers were receiving an hour, and the labourers 10d an hour. They asked for a rise to Is an hour. The engineers of the works are at present acting as firemeu.

The Post states that a Pakapoo bauk in Haining street was defrauded of £250 by a man who concealed himself in the rafters while the drawing was going on. To save time, and prevent the police interfering, the drawing' was conducted while the tickets were being collected from the agents. A confederate took a marked ticket to the agent whose tickets werepioi then collected. The amount won was over £250, hut this was all the hank could raise, and it was accepted at ouce. A Wellington telegram reports the death at Wellington yesterday, of Captain Kennedy, one of t the best known shipmasters in the Dominion. From 1854 onward Captain Kennedy commanded various locally owned vessels. He leaves a grown up family. The eldest son is Mr E. A. Kennedy, of the Public Works Department, and another is manager of the Wellington branch of the Union Steamship Company. A rather curious legal position arose the other day at Rotorua, when a prisoner accused of breaking from the Waipa prison, was convicted and discharged by Messrs Wylie and Taylor, J’s.P. reports the Rotorua Times. Sergeant Watts had uo authority to detain the man, and the gaoler had authored v only to detain him at Waipa and Waiotapu. The result was that the prisoner was for the time being a. free man, and could have walked off without anyone having power to lay a finger on him. Evidently he did not know of his good luck, or he might have had a look at the carnival. After a lot of writing to and from Wellington. authority was given to the gaoler to take the prisoner to Rotorua, aud keep him in custody until he was safely back iu the precincts of the prison to which he was consigned. Mr William Broughton, of Fern Hill, Hastings, cue of the oldest and best known settlers in the Hawke’s Bay District, was found dead at Patiki last evening, under circumstances which pointed to suicide. Mr Broughton arrived from Hastings on Friday last, and was staying with Mrs Forsyth. He was absent from tea last evening, aud later on a son of Mrs Forsyth found his body hanging from a pine tree iu front of the house. The deceased, who was a half-caste, was 52 years of age, and was known to the Maoris as Wiremu Porete Pe Muhunga. He was well known in this district, and the news of his painful death will shock his many friends. Deceased leaves a wife aud family, for whom sincere and widespread sympathy will be felt. An inquest will he held. — Chronicle.

A good-natured sorfc of easy-going farmer was in our office this morning. says the Eltham Argus, with an item of news. He says that early this morning just when the sun began to rise, he was walking across one of his fields when he heard a strange but pleasant noise. It sounded something like the waving of angels ’ wings with an accompanimneut of Clara Butt’s low notes. “I listened for some time,” he said, “but the pleasant murmur was mysterious and puzzled me. 1 was absolutely at a loss to account for it. Determined not to be baffled I lay with one ear to the ground, and shortly the mystery was solved.' The gentle murmuring that I heard was the grass growing. It had been checked for so long by the drought that when the land was moistened with the rain and wanned by the sun the tender young blades of grass came popping out of the ground with a tiny report, and there being millions of them, quite a beautiful chorus was made. I assure you I never heard anything like it before.” KHUEMO QUICKLY CURES RHEUMATISM. ’ ’ Read whut Mr John Abbott, the well-known Plumber and Gasfitter, of New Plymouth, thinks about Rhcnmo. He writes on July (Ith 1907 : “I have taken Rhenmo for Rheumatics, and consider it the best remedy for anyone who suffers from Uric Acid—winch is the main cause of Rheumatism or Rheumatic Gout. I can honestly recommend Rhcumo. as I have used other remedies. I have been a resident in Hew Plymouth for over 30. years, so that I am well known. I shall consider it a pleasure to acquaint anyone I know, wl-at Rhenmo did for me.—JOHN ABBOTT, New Plymouth.” •

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