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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9094, 13 March 1908, Page 4

The Manawatu Daily Times has discovered a now poultry disease “ergot in cock’s ;.foot,” which it states is very prevalent on South Island pastures. Mr E. Short, of Waituna, has been advised by his physician that he will have to lie up a couple of months in order to be cured of the strain to his back. The Rev. J. Hertzberger will preach at Marton Lutheran Church next Sunday morning at 10.30, and in the evening at 7. The morning service will be in- German and that in the evening in English. Mr Hertzberger is town missionary in the slums of St. Louis (U.S.A.) and is travelling in Australia and New Zealand for his health. Mr H. N. Hare, who has taken over the business of Mr A. E. Ratliff, at Feilding, and also acquired the freehold of the buildings, has decided to carry it on under the long and favourably known name of the “Ratliff Land Agency.” Mr Hare, who has been in the district some years, has had almost a life long experience of the class of business he has now acquired. Mr H, E. L. Peat will have the management of the land sale department; the experience he has had at Wanganui having given him the required insight into the business methods, knowledge of values, etc., to fit him for the work. For harness, or horse appointments of all kinds G. B. Healey has the best and most up-to-date stock in the district. Also agent for A. 8.0, incandescent kerosene lamps, mantles, wicks and chimneys, A full stock kept. Kimbolton road. Feilding>

Our Awahuri correspondent writes j—We have just been informed that Mr J. Colling wood has been appointed hapdicapper for the Utiku Sports. This is .an indication that his services are becoming, both widely known and well appreciated.

The season , for deer shooting in various districts will be as follows: —Wanganui, April Ist to May 15th; Wairarapa, April Ist to May 15th; Waitaki, April Ist. to May 13th; South Canterbury, April Ist to May 30th; Otago, April Ist to May 30th. There is stated to be a probability of another rise in the price of meat in Auckland, owing to the dry season. Very little fat stock has been forwarded or is likely to be forwarded for some time to come.

001.-Sergt William Friar, of the Onehunga School Cadets, has been selected as the best boy shot in New Zealand, and will, should the Defence Department approve, be sent Home to compete for the Lady Guinness’ trophy, open to all cadet rifle shots in the Empire. Competitors for the trophy will be guests of Lord Roberts during their visit to England. A fire was discovered in the port bunkers of the Northern Company’s steamer Waitangi yesterday, while the vessel was at Opononi, but it was soon extinguished. The lead and copper pipes were burnt through, but there was no other damage. Repairs are being effected to-day, and it is expected that the steamer will leave Opononi to-morrow afternoon for Onehunga.

The Star points out that Clause 15 of the amended Act of 1907 provides for a penalty of £IOO for those aiding or abetting a strike or lockout, and says:—“lt is contended here that all Unions in the Dominion who have passed resolutions of sympathy and pledged financial aid to the Blackball strikers haveTjrought themselves under the provisions of this section of the Act. ’ ’ The Dominion medal which the Government devised to delight the hearts of all its school children, and impress oa them a fact in history, is very late in making its appearance. The medals were to have been distributed by February 28th, but it will be two mouths yet, according to official computation, before they dangle oa the necks of school girls and are “swapped” by hoys. The explanation is that great difficulty has been experienced in achieving a really satisfactory design. One of Wellington’s pioneers, Mr Isaac Plimmer, died on Wednesday,

at tho age of 74."' Ho was the oldest son of tho late Mr John Plimmer, and came out with his parents with the shiii Gertrude in 1841. Mr Isaac Plimmer was associated with his father in many of the business enterprises of early Wellington, and was licensee of the Albert and Barrett’s

Hotels. His connection with Wellington business uudetakings was varied and extensive. Mrs Isaac Plimmer died 18 mouths since, and there is no family. In the larger towns of tho Dominion there are loud complaints of the quality of the milk supply and projects are on foot for the municipal! - sation of tho milk business. We should like to transfer some of the growleis to one of the smaller country towns where there is no milk supply at ail and where if a precarious pint cannot be obtained from some fortunate possessor of a cow the only resource is one of the forms of milk in tins. Marten is in this plight to-day and its inhabitants look forward anxiously to the time when some enterprising milkman will again cause the streets resound with the cry of ‘milko. ’ The steamer Moeraki, which arrived at Wellington from Sydney on Wednesday, had an unusual experience on Saturday. Tho Moeraki left Sydney for Wellington, and when moving from her berth three stowawajs were discovered. The vessel was stopped and the stowaways were lowered into the company’s wharf boat and put ashore. Whilst proceeding down the harbour another couple of stowaways were unearthed, and Captain Worrall stopped the Moeraki off McMahon’s Point, and sent the men ashore in tho ship’s boat. The boat bad just been swung into the davits and the telegraph bell had clanged when two more stowaways were found hiding at the entrance to the stoke-hold. Not to be outdone, Captain Worrall again stopped the vessel and the last two unwelcome guests were sent ashore in the ship’s boat.

Dean Hole’s story of Lucy Gray and the cnrate out of his element has been so often, told wrongly that the accurate version of it is now given in the Dean’s “Letters” as follows: “A yonng curate, a good fellow, but very shy and bashful, came into a

parish which was occupied by Yorkshire yeomen, who bred horses and rode them —and sometimes had steeplechases. He did not get on, and was very much depressed. One day the clerk said to him, ‘lf you please, sir, the prayers of the church are desired for Lucy Gray. ’ ‘Very well, ’ said the curate ; and at every service at which the prayer for all sorts and conditions of men was offered the church was asked to pray for Lucy Gray, till one morning the clerk rushed into the vestry and said ‘You needn’t pray for Lucy Gray any more—she’s won the steeplechase !’ ‘Have I been praying for a horse?’ asked the curate; ‘I shall leave the place!’ But the clerk said, ‘You’ll do nowt of sort; I thought little of ye when ye came, but now ye’ve got the heart of them all, and ye can do what ye like in this parish since yon took to praying for that horse. ’ ’ ’ Pearson’s Pepto-chlor worth gold per bottle to dyspeptics. All chemists Is. 2s 6d & 4s. THE REV. JOHN WESLEY ON MEDICINE. He says “The healing art was first brought into use in a very natural and simple manner in the earliest age of the world. Mankind by various experiments or accidents, discovered that certain plants, roots, and barks possessed medicinal properties. These were found sufficient to remove their diseases. The European as well as the American, said to his neighbour, “Are you sick? Drink the juice of this herb and your sickness will be at an end.” Hence it was perhaps, that the ancients, not only in Egypt, Greece, and Rome, but even in barbarous nations, assign to medicine a divine origin.” The phenomenal success of IMPEY’S MAY APPLE ■is due to the fact that it is purely herbal and composed of the fluid extracts of May Apple, dandelion, cascara, Turkey rhubarb, etc. It is a positive cure for indigestion. Chemists and Stores 2s fid. Pearson’s Pepto-chlor is a, safe and sure cure for indigestion. All chemists Is, 2s Gd & 4s.

The Postmaster-General of New South Wales has received a telegram from the authorities of a bank in Tasmania intimating that they are prepared to enter into an undertaking to return to the senders all letters containing remittances for Tattersall’s sweeps.

Cabinet on Wednesday considered the slump in the hemp industry. It was decided that when the price of hemp falls below £35 per ton f.o.b. New Zealand, the charge of 7s per ton which is levied for grading and inspection shall be remitted. Seeing that the reference to Rangitikei Permanent Building and Investment Society in an advertisement which appeared yesterday, is open to the construction that the Society is no longer carrying on mortgage bos ■ ness the advertisers, have altered the wording. That the society is a live one is shown by the fact that it lent last year the sum of £8,205. Palmerston Hospital Board met yesterday, but the business was mostly of a routine nature. The Governor wrote granting rhe request that the new ward should be called the “Royal Alexandra Ward for Women.” A donation of £6 was received from the Feilding Friendly Societies.

It is fully expected the entertainment to be given on the night of the Marton Sports will again be patronised by a large and appreciative audience. A capital programme is promised, and should prove an undoubted success. Messrs Mogridge and Son have the box plan, ; where seats may now be booked.

The Rev. T. G. Carr has returned from the Methodist Conference, and will conduct (D.V.) the Harvest Festival Services, when the choir will sing harvest anthems, and special offertories will he taken up. A brief account of the recent Conference will be given in the evening. Wellington bakers in future intend to cease giving credit to their customers, and all booking will be done away with. Customers will be invited to buy coupons in sheets containing, say. 8s worth. The baker will supply his carter each day with bread and coupons, checked into the cart, and the man will have tojbriug back coupons or loaves to the same total number at the conclusion of his round.

When asked at tho Conciliation Boad at Raugioa what he would do with men who could not earn the minimum wage, a Union witness remarked: “I would pass them out on to the road, if they could not come up to the standard.” On reconsideration he altered Ills "opinion, and said that the Union could regulate their wages. Tho Blackball dispute was before

tho Arbitration Court yesterday, and a settlement was arrived at including tho following conditions ;—The men were prepared to work ten hours shifts providing SO minutes crib time was allowed, the dismissed men to be reinstated, and a guarantee given that the men would not be victimised, the miners to come out and do two hours trucking; the other conditions in dispute to be submitted to tho Arbitration Court at a future sitting. Tho Union was fined £75, and the cases against the Company were dismissed.