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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9093, 12 March 1908, Page 4

A Wairarapa grazier, living out towards the coast, is fortunate enough to have still a comma rable amount of feed and has bought a liue of heifers in the Forty Mile Bush at 355. IHis not intended that the WebbTresiddor boat race shall be forgotten by Wanganui people. There is to be a “Webb terrace’’ and a “Tresidder road,’’ and the suburb in which these honoured thoroughfares bask will be called “Durie Vale.’’

Feildiug Borough Council has been notified of the approval of the Treasury of the proposed loan of £18,750 to be obtained at 3% per cent., repayable in 41 years. The balance of the loan required will be obtained from a Wellington firm of solicitors. At the meeting of the Marton Borough Council last evening the Mayor (Mr -I. McEldowney) and Cr. Lyon were appointed to confer with representatives of other Local Bodies at a meeting to be held at Marton next Monday, to consider the claims put forward by the Workers Union. No reply having been received from the Flaxmill Employees’ Union to a request by the Employers’ Association that the Union should join the Association in getting the award cancelled or altered, the millers have decided to take no further action and as a result most of tiia mills will close immediately, ■while others will merely complete existing contracts.

“I paid 17s Gd an acre for my land,” said a Hilleud .settler the other day (says the Clutha Leader), “and I would not take £lO for it now. “What about the unearned increment?’ “It is well earned,” was the answer. “1 bought the laud in the tussock, fenced it, cultivated it, built upon it, and every penny it is worth has been thoroughly earned. It represents twelve or fourteen years hard work on the part of myself and my family.” Six only Crash Costumes in brown, pale blue and green. Usual price 17s Gd, now Bs lid. E. Lloyd & Co., successors to J. McEldowney. The only effective remedy for null gestion is Pearson’s Pepto-cMor. All chemists Is, 2s 6d and 4s,

There was a large attendance at the concert at Feilding Technical School last evening. About £ls was taken at the door.

About/j'S per cent of the flaxmills in Otagcf and Southland have closed clown, because of the London market price leaving no margin of profit. In some cases there is lack of water and in others-scarcity of flax, •so it is doubtful if very many of them will start again. In our advertising columns will be found a notice of a meeting to be held in Marton, on Wednesday next, to discuss the formation of an investment society under the provisions of the Building Societies’ Act. At the meeting of flaxmillers yesterday, it was stated that word had been received that the price of hemp had fallen to £l9 for good fair, while Manila hemp was selling in London at £33. An accident occurred yesterday to the North Western mail train from Narrabri, New South Wales. Several carriages were derailed and overturned, eleven persons being injured, all slightly. The statement was made by the Rev. W. Marshall at a meeting of the Lower Hufct Presbytery that only one person out of every ten in the Lower Hutt ever attended any church. Captain England’s resignation of the .command of the Nimrod resulted from a difference of opinion between him and the leader of the expedition, Lieut. Shackleton. Captain England considered that Lieut. Shackleton asked him unduly tc; risk his ship, and declined to do so. At the meeting of Wanganui Hospital Board yesterday, Mr Behan moved, that a Cottage Hospital be erected at Taihape, and Mr Battle seconded the motion pro forma. It was resolved that the matter he held over till next meeting, meanwhile Mr Behan to make inquiries and learn from the residents of Taihape what they are prepared to contribute to the Hospital. At the Annual Conference ,of the Grand United Order of Oddfellows, in Melbourne, the Grand Master painted a very lugubrious picture of the state of the Order. Members, lie said, could not get sick pay and the liabilities were far in excess of the funds, while for years the balancesheets of certain lodge;: had been as false as dicers’ oaths. An interesting hook lias been published by the Bank of New South Wales, giving a brief history of the Bank and iihotographs of past and present branch offices. The illustrations bring out very clearly not only the great progress that has been made by the Bank but also the enormous development which lias gone on during the last half century in the Australasian colonies.

The Union steamer Waipori, which arrived at Auckland irom Westport yesterday, had a tempestuous voyage'. The day after leaving Westport she encountered a heavy gale, and the decks were flooded with water, the doors leading from the starboard side of the bridge dock to the engine room being broken down, and officers’ rooms on the same dock were hooded. The steamer was hove to overnight and also on the succeeding day, when the mountainous sea running almost buried the ship. During the hearing at the Arbitration Court of the tanners’ and fellmongers’ dispute, evidence was heard as to the average weight of wool bales. A Union witness stated that they averaged 4cwt, but Mr T. 11. Baker, of Wools ton, called by the employers, stated that 1133 bales that had gone through Ids hands, had averaged 34-*lbs each; and 800 bales averaged 330 ibs each. Mr William Nicholas, of Belfast, gave the average weight as ranging from BOOlhs to 15571 bs. The Palmerston correspondent of

the New Zealand Times writes: —

“Regarding the flaxmillers’ meeting at Foxton, millers in this and the Shannon district are seeking to dissociate themselves from a movement that they regard us mistaken. They had nothing to do with the meeting, which was a purely Foxton affair, and which they consider was ill-planned. There is a feeling' - among millers that rather than incur abuse it will be better to close up the mills without troubling about a conference.

In adjudicating on a dispute between master and servant in [the Auckland Magistrate’s Court, Mr Kettle, S.M., said that disputes between master and servant (which were too numerous) would be rare, and much of the time of the Court; saved if employers, when engaging servants, entered in a book to be kept for the purpose, and signed by both parties, the name of the servant, date of employment, rate of wages per hour and when payable, how the service was to be determined and the nature of the services to be rendered by the servant. A copy of the entry should be handed to the servant.

The Colonel, attended by a staff officer at Trent ham, was making the rounds of the camp the other day. Passing through the men’s messroom, his eye fell upon a somewhat dispirited-looking rifleman, who was toying with his food and gazing despondently across the table. He was evidently dissatisfied. “Well,” said the Colonel, “how are you getting aloug?” “ Oh, all right, sir. The tucker’s Al, but I can’t get no bulls.” The Colonel was puzzled. “Bulls?” bo asked. “What sort of bulls?” “Bulls-eyes, ” said the man. “I’ve ’ad no luck at the targets, sir.” “Oh, I see,” said the Colonel, mightily relieved to hear that the commissariat was not responsible for the cloud on the brow of the unsuccessful shooter.

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Notice is given of a competition bazaar to be held by the Young Women’s Bible Class, St. Andrew’s Church, Marton, in aid of the Building Fund. Sir Joseph War 3 stated on his return from Auckland that he believed it would be found that the damage by bush fires was not nearly so bad as it had been stated in the first instance. From information which was laid before him before he left Auckland it was evident that the grass seed required for regrassing where the fire had swept would not run into more than £20,000 or £30,000 for the whole of the Auckland provincial district. Considering the area affected, the extent of the fires and the earliest reports, that was not by any means a large sum. Two inquests were held yesterday at Wanganui before Mr Stanford, S.M. The first was on the body of William Broughton who committed suicide by hanging on Monday evening. Medical and other evidence was to the effect that deceased had been drinking heavily and the verdict reutrned was that deceased had hanged himself while temporarily insane. At the inquest on the body of the Maori Winata Matakatea who was drowned in the river on Saturday the evidence given showed that deceased had walked into the river and tripped over a mooring rope and disappeared. Attempts to rescue him proved fruitless. A verdict oi accidental drowning was returned. A deputation consisting of Captain Preece (Palmerston Chamber of Commerce), Crs. Heunessy and Frauklaud (Foxtcn Borough) " and Cr. Stubbs (Palmerston'), waited on Manawatu County Council yesterday to suggest the desirability of metalling two miles of the beach road from Foxton to the sea and half a mile of the Foxton road near Himatangi. The deputation dwelt on the claims of (Foxton as a seaside resort and the inconvenience of there being no road to the beach from the borough boundary. As the proposed mad’ was estimated to cost £2OOO and the benefit to County ratepayers was not obvious Council received the proposition without enthusiasm, especially as the delegates could net premise an} T financial assistance to tiie scheme.

It having been reported in Chicago that the sen of Charles il. Patten, a wealthy hanker of that city, had married a barmaid named Dolly Powell from one of the Bohemian resorts of London, Mr Patten, senior, was promptly interviewed. The old gentleman professed complete ignorance on the subject, but took the matter very philosophically. “I think it is a misstatement,” he said; ‘‘but if it is tree, she will be welcomed by tills family, and especially if, as they say, she is worthy and clever. I never heard of Dolly Powell or any other girl figuring in any love affair with my son. The hoy is 23 years old, a graduate of Harvard, and thoroughly competent to take care of himself. If he lias married an English barmaid it is his own affair.”

A peculiar fatality occurred at the Tweed. Dock, Lerwick. Tire steamer Air-stair, belonging to Port Diuorwic, -was loading barley lor Antwerp, and a temporaly bulkhead bad bee a erected in order to perform some work. The captain of the vessel, named John Williams, belonging to Port Diuorwic, went on to the bulkhead, when it gave way, and he was engulfed in loose bailey, being pinned down by wood forming the erection. All efforts to release him were futile, and he was suffocated. Tiie body of Williams, who was a married man, was not recovered until some hours had elapsed. Indigestion is caused by failure of the gastric juices. Pearson’s Peptocblor removes the trouble. Is, 3s Gd and 4s.