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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9097, 17 March 1908, Page 4

It is reported that an indignation meeting will he held in Levin on Friday night next, when it is hoped Mr Field, M.P., will be present.

A Bill has been introduced in the French Chamber, for the construction of a national canal from Harfleur to Gennevilliers, at a cost of £18,880,000.

Owing to the prospective high values of oat-sheaf chaff during the winter months, farmers in the Ashburton country have threshed out very little oats" this year, preferring to thatch the stacks and held for chaff. The Aotea District Maori Land Board meeting gazetted for the 18th inst., will be formally adjourned on that date till 2 p.m. on Thursday, 3Gth, owing to the president and members through pressure of urgent business being unable to attend.

The Hons. Carroll and Millar were present at the funeral of Pene Te Ua at Waipatu pah yesterday. Fully 1000 Europeans and 750 natives from ail parts of Maoridom attended the impressive obsequies, paketia and native joining together in eulogising the deceased.

An interesting ceremony took place at the Napier Cathedral on Sunday when the old battalion colours were given into the sacred keeping of the church. There was a monster turn-out of volunteers and the public and the ceremony was most impressive. As illustrating the rapid expansion of the business of the Public /Trustee’s Department, it may bo mentioned that during the month of February sixty-two estates were placed in the office for administration, aud forty-two wills L of living persons wore deposited for safe custody with that official.

Frederick Tucker, a young man, who attempted to committ suicide by jumping into the harbour was charged at Wellington yesterday. He said that ho had been in trouble for 18 months and had been driven to despair by a now disappointment. He was convicted aud discharged being ordered to pay costs. Au euthusiatic fisherman (A.D.0., Mar ton) asks us to contradict a statement made by the Tokaauu correspondent of the Dominion that a catch of 20 brown trout was made there by Judge Palmer and Messrs East and Jones. A.D.O. states that this particular catch was made by Mr Hooka Downes .who caught 12 fish aud Mr Jones, who accounted for 7. One of the ' fish was returned to the water. The matter is not of general interest, but we mention it to show' the exactness which,contrary to the current opinion, characterises, some fishermen.

Sir Joseph 'Ward left Wellington 3 T ostorday for the North. He will attend the Maori Regatta at Ngaruawahia, aud will also interview the Maori Land Commission (Sir Robert Stout and Mr A. Ngata, M.P.). Subsequently he will accompany His Excellency "the Governor to the Maori meeting which is to he held at Waharoa to consider the drawing m 3 of a petition King regarding Maori rights. The Premier is expected to return to Wellington in about ten days. At the sitting of the Arbitration Court at Wellington on Monday the Levin Meat Company for a breach of the preference clause of the award was fined £5. G. Rowell for paying less than the rates stipulated in the drivers’ award was fined £5 and Toohey, the man employed, 10s. H. Feilder & Co. were fined £2 for employing a man at less than the minimum wage and a similar fine was imposed on the Wellington Woodware Company for employing an unindentnred lad. W. Day and O. J. Johnston were each fined £2 for employing non-unionists. In Dunedin, says the Post, a new firm has taken up the rolling-pin against an organisation which has been called a trust. Much to the delight of the public, a company is cutting the prices of bread against the lordly Master Bakers’ Association. The figures were fixed in sacred conclave. The masters said : “So much of the staff of life for a price,’’ but the newcomers have no respect for the tariff arranged so arbitrarily. The 6d loaf for the trade has fallen to 5/i4d, aud the 7d article for the consumer has descended to 6/£d. Members of the association have been granted leave to “break the tariff,’’ and the combine ia to discuss further tactics for the upsetting of its rival.

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Royal Rifles are reminded of the Government parade on Thursday next. All leggings, water bottles and haversacks must be returned to store.

An egg-laying competition under the Logan system selection will start next month at Nelson. Applications for pens are coming in from all over the Dominion. At the W. O.T.U. Conference on Monday replies from most of the places in the Dominion whore Unions exist to questions sent out in regard to the use of unfermented wine in the Sacrament were to the effect that most of the nonconformist churches used uufer mented wine while most of the Anglican Churches used fermiuted wine.

Matthew Sullivan, 17 years of age, who had escaped from the industrial farm at Weraroa, was on Monday brought before Mr James, S.M., at Eketahnna, and pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and the theft of a cheque for £lB and some silver from the school mistress’ residence at Rongomai on Friday. He was committed to the Supreme Court at Wellington for sentenec.

“I think that the Trentham Rifle Meeting, in almost every way, is the finest in the world-second to none, not excepting Bisley, ” said Sergeant McCalley, the well-known Australian 'rifle shot, in the course of a conversation with a representative of the Dominion. The sergeant has been present at the principal rifle meetings throughout the world. Thirty of the nurses at tho London Hospital are down with anusual form of influenza. The disease, although not actually dangerous, is more or less serious, as it entails a considerable rise in temperature. A peculiar symptom of the new disease, if so it may be|called, is that tiro patient develops a remarkable redness of the eyes, which become very wet and humid, as in the case of an3 T oue suffering from a bad cold. The girls are being isolated as far as possible, and are, of course, kept in bed. but it is feared that some time will elapse before they are able to resume their duties. Every possible care is being taken to prevent a further spread of the disease, the malady being of a highly infectious character. The fifth battleship of tire Dread nought type has been laid down at Portsmouth, and will be completed for sea in two years. She will be known as tho St. Vincent, will be about 19,250 tons, and will carry ten 13-in guns, in addition to a powerful anti-torpedo-boat armament. She will thus be 1350 tons larger than the original Dreadnought. Another vessel of the same type will be laid down early in the new year at Devonpnrt, and will be known as the Oollingwood. A seventh vessel, similar in all respects, will be built by contract. The last is the battleship the commencement of which was contingent upon the failure of the proposal for tho reduction of armaments at the Hague Conference. The latest engine of warfare is a specially designed motor-car, which the Gorman military authorities have making war on airships. This motor-car is well armored, and yet has sufficient speed to enable it to'follow up a dirigible balloon in a much better style than horse artillery. Its great feature, however, is a new gun, which can bo tilted up to an angle of 70 dergees, and which discharges twenty four shots a minute Its range is said to be such that it can cripple any modern airship, and by the speed of the car the dirigible balloon can be pursued most effectively. Meantime, however, military aeronauts are improving their vessels in rising power and speed, and thus they hope to keep in advance of the artillerists.

The terms of the settlement in the shearers’ dispute, arrived at at a conference in Palmerston, and to be finally confirmed by the Arbitration Court at its present sitting in Wellington. are practically the same as those announced after the conference between and the men took place, "in regard to pay it is set out that the shearing rate shall be not loss than 20s per one hundred sheep, with rations supplied. If rations are not supplied the rate shall not be less than 23s 6d per hundred. The rate for shearing adult rams shall be double the foregoing rates, and the rate for shearing stud sheep shall be mutually agreed upon. Hours of labour are to be arranged between the employer and the shearers’ representative, and each employer shall provide free grazing for one horse to each shearer. Ho employer is to discriminate against members of the union. No shearer is to be 'required to shear sheep suffering from an infections disease, and there shall be no limitation to the number of learners in any abed. The award is to continue in force from April, 1908, to 31st March, 1910.