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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9098, 18 March 1908, Page 4

Kiwitea is the latest country town to have a telephone exchange. A sharp earthquake was felt in Marton at 10.20 p.m. yesterday. Christchurch City surveyor has issued during February 56 building permits to the value of £83,435. All interested.are reminded of the meeting convened for this evening, with the view of forming a Building Society in Marton. During February the following stock was slaughtered at Christchurch Municipal abattoirs :—Cattle 1031, condemned 13;-sheep 7470, condemned 7; lambs 1937, condemned nil; pigs 477, condemned 3; calves 368, condemned nil. The Department of Labour - in its journal for this month provides as usual a number of excerpts from the magazines. Among other articles appear ‘How, to make the negro work’ and ‘The vice of gambling.’ We make no complaint as to quality of the articles which are taken- from theJNineteenth Century and the Journal of Ethics, but it is surely out of place to print such matter at the expense of the public. At the concert in the Opera House, Marton, last evening, the Mayor (Mr J. McEldowney) presented the medals'to the successful competitors in the Marton Fire Brigade event, Capt. J. H. McDonald, Foremen Broom and Turner. In doing so he congratulated the men on their win, and also spoke in high terms of the good work done by the Brigade when called out, notwithstanding that their appliances were altogether inadequate. Nothing spoils, a man’s appearance more than a bald pate. Capilla Hair Tonic will keep your hair on. G-ive it a trial.

Wellington Gas Company has entered into a’con tract with the Poston Gas Proprietary to erect complete plant and fay mains in connection withjthe local gas installation. Operations will "commence within a few weeks. It is expected to have the town lit by the eud of June. At Feildiug this morning an elderly man named John McFarlaue, an employee of Messrs Loohhead & Co., complained of feeling ill, and was found shortly afterwards at the rear Empire Hotel, in what was apparently a fit. A medical man who was called in, was unable to account for his condition, but supposed that he had had a paralytic stroke.

A prisoner named Edward . Jones, alias Johns, attempted to commit suicide in the prison “yard at Palmerston Gaol yesterday morning by cutting his throat with a sharp piece cf tin. The wound is not serious. Jones was to be sentenced yesterday for indecent assault on a little girl of which he was convicted at the Supreme Court on Monday.

A Taihape telegram states that it is expected fully six more sawmills will be elected round Ohaknne during the next three months and as soon as freights are taken down on the Public Works line a number more will be erected. The heavy freight on the line between Obakune and Mataroa is at present stopping cawmillers from exporting. At the request of the Minister of Lauds Mr Tesohemaker’s Kauroo estate has been placed under offer to the Government for closer settlement. The acreage of freehold is approximately 19,118 acres and 750 Grown laud, and 000 held from the School Commissioners. The property is already subdivided into seven farms ranging from 800 to 5000 acres.

As a result of recent gales a tragedy of 1900 has been discovered at Pukeatua near Riverbead. It appears that in November of that year a settler named Wilks gave food and accommodation to John Pallar, a wandering gum digger who never after was soon alive. While searching for a new site for a house Wilks discovered Pallar’s skeleton in a clamp of pines about 800 yards from the bouse. There was no sign of how Pallar died. An open verdict was returned at the inquest. Complaints are made that delay and difficulty are being experienced in connection with the supply of grass seed to burnt-out settlors who are in temporary difficulties (says the Wairarapa Daily Times of Saturday). The process of signing the necessary declarations has been tardy in consequence of difficulty of legal attestation. The price of seed is also advancing, which further prejudices the settlers’ interests. It is alleged that the instructions to issue the orders for grass-seed were promptly given, bub the Crown Lands Ranger has only now been instructed to distributed the orders. To-day settlers are in Master ton to procure seed, but the Crown Lands Ranger is away from. town.

Frauliea Viennese nurse, has declined an offer of marrage on account of a snake. She received from a former patient, a wealthy Brazilian fruit grower, a large case of fruit as a Christmas present. It was accompanied by a letter in which the fiuit grower asked her to go oufc to Brazil to become bis wife He promised to make her his solo legatee, and as an evidence of good faith enclosed a cheque for £350. Fraulein Heimath was delighted, and was proceeding to open the fruit case when she saw coiled up within it a large poisonous snake. The shock gave her such a horror of Brazil that she wrote off at once declining the offer of marriage. The sweetheart of Police Constable Bur received two messages in pathetic contract this week—first, that her future husband bad inherited a legacy; uetx, that he was dead. Burt was to have been married next month. On Tuesday morning he received a letter from a firm of solicitors telling him that a relative who died a month ago had left him more than £4OO. He immediately telegraphed the good news to his sweetheart, and went out on duty in private clothes shortly afterwards, delivering circulars. He was not seen alive again. Two of his fellow constables, suspecting that some one had broken into the back of some premises at Nutfield, climbed over a wall to make a search. The first thing, which caught their eyes was the dead body of Burt in front of an outhuose. A doctor who made a post-morten said at the inquest that the cause death was apoplexy, and the jury returned a verdict accordingly. A tragedy of a dissipated fortune and domestic misunderstanding, resulted in the suicide of Archibald Paul Mitchell, a well-known figure in Broadway, (New York), who, soon after the chimes had rung in the New Year, turned on the gas in his bedroom and lay down in his bed to die. He was discovered many hours later by bis wife, who left him the previous evening. Mr Mitchell, who was the son of a well-known politician, had lived an exceedingly gay life since his marriage to a Virginian heiress with an annual income of £4OOO. Recently he attempted to recoup his losses, due to extravagance by speculating on Wall street, and in this way he dissipated a fortune of £40,000. When he committed suicide his pockets were empty. Next day, by the irony of fate, he would have inherited a second fortune, which, by the terms of bis mother’s will, is divided equally between him, and a sister, who is the daughter-in-law of Mr Thomas W. Lawson, author of “Frenzied Finance.”

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A thirteen-year-old boy, a stepson of Mr John Galloway, of Motuparaka, has .been missing since the 13th iust. Active search has failed to find a trace of him.

Mrs W, Miller, wife of the Rev. A. Miller, of Edenclale Church, Ngaruawhia, ' was seized with illness at tea in the manse and expired in a few minutes, presumably from heart weakness. The Wanganui polo teams journey to Mar ton on Saturday next, 31st, to play Pern Plats. The following teams will represent the Wanganui Club A. Team—L. Strachan 1, A. Higgle 3, L. Higgie 3, M. Higgle 4. B. Team —G. Jones 1,-G. McLeod 3, P, H. Jones 3, O. H. Burnett 4. Emergencies—Albert Higgie and R. Sharpe. gpi At Invercargill yesterday, Patrick Troy was sentenced to twelve months’ -hard labour for being a rogue and a vagabond. He was described in Court as a professional swagger and loafer, who travelled from end to end of Southland begging food. He seldom worked, and some farmhouse people were afraid ito turn him away for fear he would burn stacks or do other damage. Auckland Prohibition League carried a resolution expressing alarm at the account of the spread of intemperance in the community and resolved to draw the attention of the Alliance Executive to Commissioner Diunie’s letter to the Licensed Victuallers of Christchurch, dated Wellington, February 38th, which is regarded as an attempt unduly to interfere with the independence of Inspectors of Police. In the bowling competition at Napier Carnival, the following are the aggregates np to the end of the fifth round ;—Section A : St. John’s 5 wins 0 loses, Palmerston North (Brophy) 4 1, Wellington 3 3, Napier (Smith) 3 3, Danuevirke 3 3,'Greenmeadows (Crowley) 1 4, Palmerston North (Pickering) 1 4, Martoa 1 4. Section B: Palmerston N. “(Bunting) 4 0, Gisborne 3 1, Bluff Hill 22, Greeumeadows (Badley) 22, Mastortou 1 3, Hastings 1 3, Napier (Bull) I 4. g , A conference of representatives of the South Island Chamber of Commerce met at Oamaru yesterday, to consider the Government’s regulation respecting the size of grain sacks. Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill, Timer a and Oamaru were represented. After a long discussion, in which a variety of sires were recommended by the delegates, it was eventually decided to recommend that a sack 4G by 34 % be adopted. This, it was believed, would hold 3001bs of dour as well as of grain, it was also decided to ask the Premier to allow the carriage of grain in sacks carried over from the present season, and to communicate with the Australian Chambers of Commerce asking that a similar size of sack be adopted there.

Our Sandon correspondent writes : The funeral of Lawrence Batherley, eldest sou of Mr E. A. Walters, of Saucion. took place Yesterday afternoon. The bony was taken to the Church, which was filled with fri ends of deceased, and then conveyed to Sandon cemetery. The cortege was a long cue, and there were many beautiful flowers and wreaths on the cciiiu. The Rev. Wilson conducted an impressive burial service, and many of Lawrence’s fellow schoolmates were moved to tears. Lawrence was a hoy who was esteemed and respected hy all. “He was always keenly alive to sport of all kinds, and his loss will be felt, not only by his family, hut hv a large circle of friends, for whom much sympathy is felt.

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