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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9127, 23 April 1908, Page 5

The Oddfellows Conference at New Plymouth concluded this morning. occurred at Oolebrook’s store at Waereugaahiki last night. About £4O was taken. An inset is circulated with portion of to-day’s issue containing a list of classes for competition at Marton Ohryasnthemum Show. Lecturing before the Royal Photographic Society, Mr F. Martin Duncan said the death’s head moth was the only .large insect which bees would admit into their hives. As soon as the moth was able to fly it went straight to the beehives, and was found next morning intoxicated and tumbling stupidly, the centre of an admiring crowd of bees. Mr Sidney H. Godfrey',- a native of Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, has won the world's championship cup for fast shorthand writing for the second time, the year being held at the Olympia Business Show. Last year Mr Godfrey won the cup with 200 words a minute, and this year his speed was 220 words per minute for five utes with transcript. Particulars' of a conspiracy to swamp the Farmers’ Union with farm labourers were given by Mr Kennedy at the Conciliation Board at Christchurch. He stated that at one period it was proposed that the farm labourers should join the Farmers’ Union in a body and take charge of things, but the labourers had thought that it would not befair to the farmers after what the farmers had done for them. “It may not be to late for them to join the Farmers’ Union,’ 3 he added, to which his colleague, Mr Thorn, rejoined : “Oh, no, we pick our compam !’’ It* is reported that there were no fewer than 25 marriages in Dunedin the other day. Every carriage was in use, also every hireable motor car, during the day, and from early in the afternoon until the departure of the second express for the South in the evening there was a continual procesison of bridal parties to the railway station, which was literally strewn with rice. The number of marriages for the year to date is 212, against 226 for the same period of last year; but Eastertide seems to have brought dilatory wooers to the point, and for the fortnight preceding Good Friday there are this year 58 weddings solemnised or authorised, or sixteen more than for the same fortnight of 1907. “Talk about wet feet,” said a prominent volunteer officer during a shower yesterday afternoon, “reminds me that a serious omission was made in connection with the manoeuvres in not impressing on the men the value of strong heavy foot-gear. It was ludicrous to see some of the local volunteers scouring the country in light-soled, sharp-pointed boots without any suspicion of nails — boots they would wear when parading Lambton Quay in fine weather. The result was that their feet became sopping wet in no time, and going down Porirtm Road I saw more than one in (Afficulties with his boots —one, in particular, making a valiant attempt to keep ?body and ‘sole’ together. The British Army authorities are very particular as to how the men are shod, and we should, as far as possible, emulate them in that regard. What the men should wear are stout kib boots with plenty of nails in them, so that they can get a good foothold in any kind of country and in any weather.”— Dominion. 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. in-, candescent kerosene lamps, mantles, wicks and chimneys. A full stock k?.pt. Kimboiton road. Feilding*. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds never fails. Is 6d and 2s 6d.