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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9127, 23 April 1908, Page 4

There was a slight earthquake at Wellington at 6.48 this morning.

South Canterbury Dairy Company propose to close the factory and cease operations altogether.

On page 2 will be found opinions by a Maori chief on the entertainment of the United States fleet and a Wanganui Charitable Aid case; pages 6 and 7 general news; page 8 appalling sacrilege and athletics and public life.

The ratepayers of the borough of Feilding yesterday voted on four proposals for loans aggregating £31,000 for borough improvements. The poll declared in favour of loans of £51,000 for surface drainage, £2OOO for footpath formation, £1750 for new ferro-concrete bridge in Manchester street, and £3OOO for swimming baths. The voting was as follows :—For extension of sewerage, ate., 335 for, 45 against, and 7 informal; for construction of bridge 316 votes for, 65 against and 5 informal ; for bath, etc., 316 for, 64 against, and 6 informal; for footpaths, 343 for, 35 against, and 7 informal.

It is seldom (says the Auckland Star) that even the finest and bravest of canines is made the subject of special notice, but Thursday night’s meeting of the Trades and Labour Council passed a resolution concerning one of the most insignificant of the race. The diminutive creature posted itself under the meeting place, and barked during the greater part of the proceedings. The annoyance was sufficient J’to cause a resolution to be passed notifying the caretaker of the hall (who, it is thought, owns the dog) that the dog required a muzzle. STRONG LAMBS. HEALTHY HOGGETS, INCREASED CLIP. Secured by using “VERMOCINE. ” The famous internal parasite destroyer and tonic. Its tonic properties are especially valuable, as besides killing and expelling parasites, it operates immediately in building up the system, and so prevents fresh attack. Prepared hv the A. & P. Food Co., Ltd. Obtainable from Brice,, Broad & Co., Ltd., Martou.

For costume and dressmaking try the Bon Marche. Messrs Spence and' Spence can confidently recommend their new dressmaker who is a lady "of talent and skill in.her profession. Perfect fitting and up-to-date garments can he relied upon, _ and a splendid selection of fashionable materials to choose from.

A magisterial inquiry is to be held into the circumstances surrounding the collision in Otago Harbour between the Lady Roberts and a launch, which resulted in the four lives.

A Chinese market gardener in Ohrfstchurch was fined 10s, and two Chinese employees 5s each, for carrying on their work at Marshlands, on a Sunday, within view from a public street.

In two canvassing in Wellington £4O has been collected or guaranteed towards sending <H. Kerr (the champion walker) to compete at the Olympic Games in London. It is “expected that sufficient money will be assured by next Monday, and that Kerr will leave for the Old Country the first week in May. The many friends of Mr James Kilgour, of Bulls, will sincerely regret to learn of his death, which is notified to-day. Mr Kilgour had long been resident in the district, and was deservedly held in high esteem by all who knew him. The Marton Liedertafel propose holding their first concert in the Opera House, on Thursday, May 21st., under the condnctorship of Mr C. W. Naylor. The Society has done some good work, and music lovers may well make a note of the date. The programme will be published in a few days and subscribing members are requested to band in their names for tickets.

The question of appointing a female inspector was discussed by Dunedin Benevolent Trustees, and it was decided on the motion of Mr London, that such an appointment be made, the trustees considering that a lady could look into the need of female applicants for relief much better thau a man could.

At Palmerston S.M. Court yesterday a case was begun in which Michael Spelman of Awahon, claimed £134 5s from Joseph .Linklater for damage done to“his property by fires alleged to have been started by defendant on or about 10th January. Defendant denied that he or his servants lighted the fires. After taking a portion of the evidence the hearing was adjourned till Tuesday next. The Hon. J. Carroll, questioned by a Herald representative respecting Rua, the Maori prophet and 3ns settlement in the Urewara country, said so far Rua was doing no harm, and so long as he kept within the four corners of tlie law there was no occasion for the Government to interfere. Mr Carroll thought the decline of the settlement and Rua’s power was only a matter of time. “Anyway, at present,” he said, “he’s doing nobody any harm.” Our Hunterville correspondent writesA gentleman, apparently suffering from the jimjams or ding bats, was found wandering on the Ongo Road last Sunday. He was then in a deplorable outward condmou, but inwardly apparently quite contented, having (in his mind) just recovered the snug sum of £6OOO. He liad it appears been sleeping out for two nights and anyone sleeping under a wire fence on Saturday night could wish for nothing much damper, yesterday he was sent down to Wanganui for seven days’ medical treatment. —I hear it authoritively stated that Mr Guthrie does not intend to woo the fickle public at the general election.

A special meeting of Marton Borough Council was held last evening. Present; The Mayor (Mr J. McEldownoy), Ors. Hilton, Lyon, Sutcliffe, Gould and Bredin. The Council passed special orders authorising the raising of a £IOOO loan to pay off a former loan of £looo v for gas extensions ; making a special rate on £IOOO for gas extension loan and to pay interest out of District Fund Account on £IOOO gas extension loan. It was resolved that the Mayor and treasurer be authorised to sign debentures in connection with the loan of £IOOO for gas extensions and that such debentures be ten of £IOO each. The suggested reduction in the price of gas was held over for further consideration. The March number of the Windsor Magazine is a notably varied issue, containing another story, complete in the one number, in Sir Gilbert Parker’s fascinating new series of episodes from contemporary history in Canada, as well as the fourth exhilarating adventure in finance of Robert Barr’s ingenious young nobleman, Lord Stranleigh. Complete stories by authors of such varied accomplishment as Fred M. White, Frances Rivers, Christopher St. John, Orme Agnus, and Jessie Pope make up a delightful budget of fiction, and the more instructive articles include lavishly illustrated papers on “Naval Training”, “More about Mars,” and “The Exploration of Labrador. ’ ’

We are inclined to think (says the Lyttelton Times) that our temperance friends have been relying too largely upon the strong arm of the law, and rather neglecting the oldfashioned methods of moral suasion. There are still bands of |hope and temperance societies scattered up and down the country, but they do not seem to us to be nearly as energetic as they were twenty or thirty years ago. Perhaps they 'have been affected by the prevailing disposition to leave the whole regeneration of society to the State. Thejmaguitude of the “drink bill” this year—the largest recorded—should move them to resume some of their former activities, and we feel sure|that they would find the conciliation of moral suasion at least as effective as the compulsion of Prohibition.

A mildly exciting little incident, artistically robbed of any untoward possibilities by the sang froid of those concerned, occurred during the progress of “The Mummy and the Humming Bird” at Hia Majesty's Theatre, Christchurch, on Saturday night. As Lord Lumley, Mr Herbert Flemming, was engaged in a particularly dramatic colloquial passage at arms with Mr A. S. Homewood (Signor D’Orelli, the bold, bad man of the evening’s proceedings), the paper shade of one of the electric lights in the apartment was seen to be smouldering. Mr Flemming attempted to extinguish the tiny outbreak, but was unsuccessful at the first essay, and the smoke became -more coaspicious. Mr Homewood then came to the rescue, and carried the shade off the stage. Mr Flemming said, “Thanks,” with courtly politeness, and then proceeded to denounce the Italian gentleman’s treachery with renewed vigour. Sufferers from indigestion enjoy the good things of the table after taking Pearson’s Pepto-ohlor,

A new artesian well, sank by Napier Borough Council to augment the water supply, gives a flow of 7600 gallons an hour. Owing to the inclement weather, Mr A. Hamilton, Curator of the Dominion Museum, had to return from his haia-collectiug expedition at the back of the Ruahiues without finding any huias. • The Dominion states that a group of eight English domestic servants, consigned to Mrs Lowry, of Napier, arrived from London by the lonic. In spite of rules that were almost laughable, the Berlin police have forbidden an amateur boxing tournament. Large gloves, with which a “knock-out” would have been impossible, were to have been used, while a hard blow was to count against the hitter. A man who presented himself at one of the New York hospitals, and requested that he should be given a sufficiently large dose of chlorform to ensure him speedy death, explained that he had attained the age of forty, and was a believer in the theory of Di'. Osier that on reaching that age a man was of no further use in the world.

There was a good attendaaec at Marton Opera House last night for the entertainment given by the World’s Pictures and Vaudeville Company. The pictures were good, but the lack Jof illuminating power detracted from their effectiveness. The musical monologists struck the popular fancy and were applauded to the echo.

The sufferings incurred by scientific men in the cause of knowledge are often very great. Giving evidence before the Whisky Commission in England, MrSamuel, principal analyst at; the Customs laboratory, said he found that whereas he could drink the strongest pot still whisky with impunity, patent still whisky gave him a headache and tightness across the chest. His assistant was made so ill by the experiments that he had to discontinue them for a week.

Accompanying postal notes'for 11s, received by ’the Victorian Railway Commissioners, was the following anonymous letter: —“Many years ago the Railway Department conveyed one of my children from Ohiltern to" Seym our, and by a trick was not paid /or so doing. Having altered my views on the matter, I beg to enclose 11s as payment, believing that ‘owe no man anything’ should include the Railway Department. ‘Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s. ’ ”

A lady, Vho left Liverpool recently by the Lucania for America, had crossed the Atlantic on a singular mission. A prominent New York business man, who died recently, dirceted in his will that his remains should he cremated and the ashes scattered on the waters of the Atlantic from a Cnuard steamer. The Lncauia, being the special favourite of the deceased, was selected, and the lady in question at a time fixed, so that simultaneously the family could attend a memorial service in New York, cast the ashes from an urn into the ocean.

The raising of Angora goats is proving a most profitable industry in Oregon,'U.S.A., where there are 125,000 of the animals. They are hardy, and live on rough feed, cleaning up brush land and making it suitable for pasturage. The price of mohair has rauged from 22% to cents a pound, taken in large quantities, while individual clips have brought 40 cents a pound. The average per fleece of Oregon Angora goats is from Bto 3 % pounds. Common Angora female goats bring from four to five dollars, while common ;males for breeeding bring from ten to "twenty-five dollars. When it is known that the United States consumes 5,000,0001bs of mohair annually, 4,000,00011)8 more than it produces, the significance of the industry is easily seen.

Afc Feilding Court; to-day before Mr Thomson, S.M., judgment for plaintiff was given in Scott Motor Company y. Hugh Oarfcy for £3 5s 6d, costs £1 9s; W. J. Clarkson v. W. J. Edwards £ll 2a 6d, costs £1 15s 6d. In the judgment summons case A. F. Walker v. T. P. Graham, £7 9s, the amount was ordered to be paid forthwith, in default seven days. In the case J. Spurr v. J. G. Webster £44 18s the original judgment was varied, and defendant was ordered to pay the amount in monthly instalments of £5. Rasmus Nielson v. H, P. Sorensen—a charge of demanding excessive fees as poundkeeper. Mr Graham for plaintiff and Mr Sandilands for defendant. Plaintiff stated that on 3rd April four of his horses were found in Halcombe pound. On going to release them he was told by defendant’s daughter that < there was a charge of 12s upon them. After making a protest he was allowed to take them away after paying ss. He said the horses had not been fed and there was no hay in the rack. Rasmus Nielsen, jun., also stated that he had noticed that the horses had not been fed, and there was no feed in the rack. The defence was that the charge should have been la driving fee, 4s poundage fee, and 7s 6d for sustenance. The animals were impounded at 6.30 a.m., and were fed according to the Act. They had been released by defendant’s daughter on payment of 4s in consequence of the threat of the plaintiff. The case was dismissed on the ground that the correct charge had been made. Costs 2s Court, witnesses 10s, counsel’s fee 21s. THE PRIZE ADVERTISEMENT. Let philosophers prate as they will— Let physicians persist m their pill— To me there is nothing more perfect or truer. In all this wide world than “ Universal Cold Cure.” One guinea has been posted to Miss M.D., c/o Dr Duff, Nehon. Each week a Guinea is awarded for the Best Original Conundrum, Apt Essay, or Humorous Verse on the Merits of THE UNIVERSAL COLD CURE. Contributions must not exceed fifty words; must be accompanied by Coupon and be addressed 1 Universal Cold Cure—The Latest and BestJ?.O. Box 716, Wellington.” Stores and Chemists—l/6 and2/C. “YERMOOINE.” The perfect internal parasite de- ; stroyer and tonic. Unequalled for aP 'internal parasitic diseases of stock. Destroys stomach worms, intestinal worms, and lung worms. Its tonic properties are especially valuable, as besides killing and expelling parasites it immediately operates in building up the weakened system. Prepared by the A. &P. Food Co., Ltd. Obtainable from Brioe, Broad & Co., Ltd., Marton. Whoever suffers with indigestion can be cured by taking Pearson’s Pepto-chlor. All chemists Is, 2s 6d and 4a.

A sensational incident occurred on the Queen street wharf, Auckland, last week. An old man, apparently undor the influence of liquor, walked to the end of the western tee, and after carefully folding his coat,’ placed it with his cap on the wharf. Then he calmly jumped overboard. His action was noticed by some workmen, and one of their] number John Oassidy, who was fully dressed, jumped in and effected a reesue, with the assistance of O. M’Quillan. There were no police about at the time to inquire into; the old gentleman’s reasons for his rash act, .? and he walked off the wharf un-

molested. “ The British Royal Agricultural Society is with the times, for in connection with their Newcastle show this year prizes are offered for the best plana of farm ' buildings, the points to which the - judges’ attention will be specially directed being:—(l) Economy in . planning and in cost of construction 1 ; and subsequent maintenance; (3) convenience - of arrangement for working, and accommodation for animals; and (B) lighting, ventilation, and drainage of the sheds, espeically those £for dairy cattle. The plans must be suitable for av mixed farm of not less thanJBOO acres and not more than 400 acres in extent, half of which is assumed to be arable and half grass. HOW RHEUMO CURED MR WILLIAM JAMES.

Mr William James, the popular proprietor .'of the Terminus Hotel, , Christchurch, writes:—“l suffered very greatly from Rheumatic Gout, for quite fourteen years—and tried almost every remedy suggested by my friends and Medical Practi- : tioners, hut with very little relief. About three years ago I was strongly advised to . try RHEUMO. I did so, and I am glad to say with the greatest satisfaction. I have a , little twinge now and then, but a dose or two of RHEUMO puts me right almost at onec. To anyone suffering the agonising pains of gout - or rheumatics I can recommend RHEUMO with the greatest confi- ’ 3 ence * * i RHEUMO is sold by all stores and chemists, 2s 6d and 4s 6d. ; r No one need suffer from indiges- . tion. Take Pearson’s Pepto-ohlor. All chemists Is, 2s 6d and 4s.