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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9115, 7 April 1908, Page 4

Mr G. Turnbull, of Colyton, left Feilding yesterday on a trip to England. Royal Rifles will not hold a shooting competition to-morrow afternoon. On page 2 will be found shooting at Turakina and a wedding report; on page 6, Haloombe correspondence ; page 7, an Auckland robbery, deputations to Mr Fowlds; and general news.

The “top” prices recorded for oats this season in Southland, so far is (says a Gore paper) 2s 3d a bushel, paid to a Wyndham farmer recently for a choice line of Gartens. There is at least one Chinese laundryman with a sense of humour in Wellington. The name of his firm, prominently exhibited on the premises, is Wah Shing and Co. The date of installation meeting of Lodge Ruapehu is “notified. Freemasons throughout the district are specially requested to note the alteration in date from that of regular meeting. This date has been fixed to suit the convenience of the M.W.P.G.M. Bro. H. J. Williams, who will conduct the ceremony. McGregor, the jockey who was so seriously injured at a recent race meeting on the Feilding course, is now able to get about with the aid of a pair of crutches. The left leg is completely paralysed, and there are times when this feeling extends to his side, and arm. The foundation stone of the Residential College of the Presbyterian Church was laid by Mrs John Ross at North-East Valley yesterday, before a large and representative gathering of spectators. The building has cost £18,600 and will provide accommodation for 30 students attending Otago University. Mr Hoult, of Hoult & Son, left Feilding yesterday on a visit to Australia. He is taking 40 horses with him as a trial shipment and will exhibit 12 at the Royal Show there. In view of the dull market for horses in New Zealand at present he is in hope of opening a market for them in Australia,

The Marlborough Land and Railway League yesterday decided to approach both Canterbury and Wellington Chambers of Commerce with a view to securing their co-operation in renewed agitation for the speedy construction of the South Island Main Trunk Railway. The membership of Marlborough League is being greatly extended while the Kaikoura and Cheviot League are according enthusiastic support. A resident of Christchurch met with a strange accident a few days ago, says the Lyttelton Times. He was having his teeth attended to by a dentist. The dentist used the rotating needle for boring the teeth, and when he had finished with the instrument he placed it on one side. The point of it fell on to the patient’s leg, and the needle, which was still rotating, made a hole in his leg and caused a wound severe enough to lay him up for some days. Dr. Waldo, London city coroner, investigates some 1500 cases of infant suffocation every year. He advocates cots, and thinks working people "object to the cot because it compels the parents to get out of bed;to the infants. Perhaps want of means to buy the cot accounts fer its absence, just as want of means to buy the necessary fire-guard is the indirect cause of the cruel child burning accidents of which we so often read. Some time ago a nursing deaconess in London told how she had “to wash a new-born baby in a frying pan.” Speaking generally, says an English paper, last’ year was a favourable one from the standpoint of the national health. On the one hand the steady decrease recorded for several years in the mortality from tuberculosis was practically sustained throughout the year. Several other diseases, including most of the infectious diseases of childhood, have shown diminished fatality. On the other handj the sad preeminence of cancer—the one disease that hitherto has evinced no abatement of fatality—was fully maintained in the year under notice, the rate showing an increase of 32 per million on the rate for 1905. Should you be looking for furs visit the show at the Bon Marche this week. Dingo and oppossum mats and rugs, ladies’ “fine stitch” and “grizzly bear’’ setsof stole and muff, specially selected real stone marten sets, ranging in price from 20 guineas to £35 the set. Finest goods ever shown in Palmerston.'— Advt.

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Hearty laughter at a funny story told by a relative caused the death from heart failure of Miss Lena Dnlitz, twenty years old, of New York.

An enormous sheep, declared to be the largest and heaviest ever seen in an English market, was sold at Leicester cattle market at Christmas. The animal, which stood a foot higher than the ordinary pen, bumped the scale at 4cwt.

The Minister of Justice has been strongly urged by Mr Massey, M.P., to release Mr Dixon, of Drury, for neglecting to pay £2l to an employee whose claim for extra wages had been allowed by the Arbitration Court. Mr McGowan is awaiting a report by the committing magistrate. Mr Ernest Short, the well-known breeder and importer of Romney Marsh sheep,'has decided to give the Government the first refusal of Parorangi, his freehold estate of 6,500 acres at Waituna, sixteen miles from Feilding. Should the Government not accept, the property will be sold by public auction. The Ministers’ Association to-day passed a resolution protesting against the formation of a proprietary racing club in the vicinity of Wellington, complaining of the defect in the gaming laws, by which racing days are to be suddenly multiplied, and urging on the Government the necessity of regulating racing days by law.

Any excuse is good enough for a milkman when he is found in illegal possession of water. One purveyor was caught in Melbourne the other day with a can of milk and a can of water in his cart. His assistant, when asked what the water was for, said it was to put in the milk. The boss, however, said he carried it merely to put on the tires of his cart when they became loose. Unfortunately for him, it happened to be raining on that particular day. Referring to the Tyser steamer Star of England, the Otago Daily Times says:—Since her arrival Dominion the |local agents and the company have worked her cargo night and day at the various ports, so that Dunedin, as the last port of call, should be readied before tariff alterations under preferential duties came into operation. The steamer’s passage on our coast has therefore been a race to beat the Customs, in which the vessel has been victorious, having come into port a day before the new duties take effect.

Mr William Coom, secretary of the Otago Employers Association, has forwarded the following telegram to the New Zealand Employers* Federation, Wellington ;—“The Executive of the Otago Employers’ Association recommend the Advisory Board of the Federation to at once wait upon the Minister and ascertain why an employer in Auckland has been so promptly imprisoned for a refusal to comply with a decision of the Court, while so much leniency and procrastination in dealing with the slaughtermen and Blackball strikers has been shown and the Denniston miners allowed to defy the Act with impunity. The Act must either be enforced impartially, amended, or repealed. ”

Says the Taranaki Herald :—A man who drank himself into a state of temporary insanity yesterday suddenly developed a great interest in fire. He lighted a fire within a Pew feet of a local warehouse and gave voice to a new theory of putting out fires. His idea was that nobody knew how to put a fire out. He was “ The Fire King. ” He proposed to work the oracle by throwing his coat in a river. After purchasing about a dozen flounders he lighted a paper fire and commenced ‘“cooking” them. Then the police appeared, and took him away. At the Court this morning he pleaded guilty to drunkenness. He was convicted and discharged.

A painful accident happened at Napier on Tuesday aftrenoon to a youth named Reuben Haub, of Westport, who is with the Barraba buckjumping combination. The lad had taken the lid from an oil drum containing carbide, with the object of seeing if the water had got into the tin, and he struck a match in order to see more clearly. An explosion of gas took place, and the young fellow was blown several feet into the air and received rather severe scalp wounds, besides having his face badly scorched. It is fortunate, however, under the circumstances, that no more serious injuries resulted, as the tin contained about 121 b of carbide .at the time of the accident.

A night watchman named Wm. Simmons, had a narrow escape from being roasted to death at midnight on Thursday. Simmons went into a movable tool hut containing fuse, tarred oakum sacks, tools, etc., at Glen Road, Mornington, where drainage works are being carried out, and lay down on some sacks to sleep. He lit his pipe after going into the hut and went to sleep with an oil stove or ’heater beside him. He woke up soon after and found the place burning firecely, and gained the doorway through the flames, difficulty in opening it. Ho was very severely burned about the legs, face, and hands. Neighbours heard the screams and took the man to the hospital, where he now lies. The hut and contents, valued at £lO, were totally destroyed.

Interviewed by an Otago Daily Times’ reporter yesterday, the Hon. Mr Fowlds said that under the hew Hospital and Charitable Aid Bill it was proposed to do away with separate institutions and place the whole control and management of hospital and charitable aid under District Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards. That was the system now obtaining in Auckland, and it was found to be economical and to tend towards the smoother running of the institutions. The Minister also emphasised the need for large districts, in order that there might be equitable distribution over all classes of the community of charitable aid charges. With regard 'to the confirmation of hospital appointments, Mr Fowlds made “it clear that the only positions affected were those of doctors and matrons. THE HARTNETT MILKER. Mr A. France, Taikorea, writes ; After using the “Hartnett” Milking Machines eleven months under close observation and testing, I have not been able to trace any ill effects upon the cows, their teats and udders being in a perfect condition. The cows have milked quite as well as when milked by hand, with marked improvement in test. Two hands only were required' to operate the four machines milking the herd of 68 cows in two hours.”—C. Dahl & Co., Ltd., agents, Palmerston North.

Timarn reports that word was re-1 ceived to-day of an additional grant .; of £3500 by Government for the en* \ largmeut of Timarn technical school. While playing yesterday, a pupil I at Feilding High School named •„ Noble, was injured by a slate pen- " oil which he had in his pocket. „ This entered his body above the ; left hip, about two inches of the sharpened end breaking off. The master bakers of Dunedin • waited npon the Hon. Mr Fowlds . with a request that Parliament should, by Act, fix the sliding scale '■ for the price of bread, based on the ■ ruling price of flour. The Minister : promised to lay the matter before tha , Cabinet. •;

The proposal of the Auckland In* : dnstrial Association to hold an exhi- ': bition of goods of New Zealand manufacture is being enthusiastically taken up by shopkeepers, and a meeting will be held on Thursday to ; consider the financial and other; aspects of the suggestion. The Rqv. J. A. Luxford, speaking at a meeting of Auckland Ministers’ Association yesterday, referred to’ the'growing secularisation of the’ Sabbath, and deplored the prevalence of Sunday picnics, stating that was time the churches bestirred themselves.

There is no advertisement; like sending yonr goods abroad, remarks,, the Dominion. When Steffan, the ■ Martinborough deer-stalker’s guide,; went to Europe to revisit his native , Tyrol, a couple of years ago, he took with him several stags’ heads which ■. he had shot in the Wairarapa. These were seen on exhibition in Frankfort f : by Captain F. von Grunelius. So struck was he with the beauty of the heads that he resolved to visit New Zealand, and to-day he is in the Wairarapa in readiness for the opening of the stalking season. Captain ; Grunelins and his party will afterwards make a tour of the Southern ’ Lakes.

A peculiar incident which occurred ' on the southward-bound express - from Christchurch recently is reported in the Ashburton Mail. A i lady, carrying an infant, boarded the train at Christchurch, and, desiring to make a small purchase, and , at the same time to bid good-bye to . a friend, she asked a fellow-passen-ger, a single young lady—if she . would be good enough to hold her fi a by_ a request that was immediately responded to. In the meantime, , the married lady was so engrossed in a conversation with a friend on the railway platform that she failed to ■ hear the signal for the departure of the train, which moved off from the :» station without her. ’ The passengers ,' ; of the carriage in which" the young lady and her charge were travelling extended their sympathy to the former, and advised her to leave the child in charge of the stationmaster ; at the first stopping place. This official (a single man) courteously ): declined the charge, and the young ' lady was compelled to take the in- -■ fant to Timaru, were |she intended remaining to await its rightful owner. 1

In Dunedin Magistrate’s Court a ; firm of shopkeepers proceeded against \;1 a young man for the recovery of a I sum of money, and balance due on ■'! an article purchased from them ■: some sis or eight months ago. De- ; i fendant stated that he was quite un- j able to pay the amount claimed, or , to pay 5s per week, as lie had pre- ! viously agreed to do. In reply to Mr Widdowson, defendant said that the firm’s traveller pressed him to purchase the article in question and, . acting under pressure, he did so, , The traveller assured him that he . need only pay a deposit, on the article, and give the firm the balance due when he was able. His Worship: “Then it is not an ordinary tradesman’s account. This, to my mind, is a very-vicious system of obtaining custom.” The defendant was allowed to pay the money due ; in equal weekly instalments of 2s 6d.

Curious blunders often creep into ; Acts of Parliament owing to the manner in which they are rushed through iu the dying stages of a i session, but nothing has yet exceeded for comicality the Act of George 111. (technically knwon as the 53nd chaptre 146), which de- , creed that the penalty imposed should be given “half to the King, and half to the poor of the parish.” After the measure received the ' King’s assent it was discovered that the penalty was “transpotration for fourteen years. ’ ’ The first-suggested ' penalty was a fine of £SOO, but when ' this was altered both Houses forgot ' to amend the other part of the clause. fi

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