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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9151, 21 May 1908, Page 4

lii Auckland the price of bread will bo raised on Monday from 7d|to 8d per 41b loaf. The first practice of Marten Operatic Society will take place at Marton Opera House this evening. The books will bo distributed and it is hoped there Will be a lull attendance of members and Jthose intending to take an active part.

An BngHsh mail is due to-day. Chicken _pox is prevalent in"Wellingtou just now, and numbers of children who are affected are being ketp from school in consequence.

The Deu of Ogil, bound from Oalloa to Westport, caUrv.t in at Napier this morning to secure a chart of the West Coast.

At a sitting of the Assessment Court to consider Government; valuations in the Taradale district only two objections were brought forward and the valuations were sustained in both instances.

Sportsmen in the Wairarapa continue to obtain good bags, particularly of duck. Swans are reported to be very plentiful on the Wairarapa Lake, a large number of Mastertonians having bad very'good luck on the lake, pubeko being „also numerous.

The Maori team to meet the Britishers will be 'thoroughly representative of the Dominion. The promoters are urging the New Zealand Union to change chejvenue from Rotorua to Welliugton or Auckland, Wanganui Education Board last nights decided to sink a new well for tha drainage of .Marton school ground and accepted Mr Signal’s tender for the erection of a fence at Martou Technical J,Sohool. Mr Purnell’s report on Rata school was received and it was decided to remove the school to a new site.

The potato crop in the Spring Creek district, Blenheim, is even worse than last season, although blight is not so prevalent. The average crop per acre will not exceed three tons. Some of the farmers are dispensing with hand digging and using the plough instead.

Lots were drawn as a jest at a dance in Asherville, North Carolina, to see who should be married, and Mr J. A. Brookshire and Miss Kathleen Gentry, on whom they fell, were compelled by the other guests to go through a marriage ceremony. The couple are now petitioning for a divorce on the ground that the marriage was only a joke. Among the curious articles left in the Liverpool tramoars dating the past year were included four gas meters and one gas stove, five sets of false teeth, five live birds and animals, two birdcages, one typewriter, one sewing machine, one dressmaker’s “dummy,” four revolvers, one bayonet, and three wigs. Of the total of 34,052 articles, 13,649, or 51 per cent., were unclaimed.

Mr J. Horn, candidate for Tnapeka, in addresisng the electors at Lawrence last night, deplored the demoralisation of the districts caused by a tendency to rush to the North. He was the Government nominee, and, if his hearers wished to vote for the Government, they must vote for him. Dr. Chappie had merely come to feel the pulse of the people. He supported the extension of the Otago Central and the Roxburgh-Lawrence railways, and if returned would see that every penny voted would be spent. Mr Horn was thanked for his address, and,a vote of confidence in the candidate was passed. Disabilities as regards age prevent the Welliugton Hospital Trustees from recruiting their nursing staff as frequently as they would like. To remedy this state of affairs, it was moved at the meeting of the trustees that the minimum age hitherto insisted upon (23 ’years) be reduced to 21 years, applicants to be subject to the medical superintendent’s certificate of physical fitness. The motion was unanimously agreed to by the trustees, intimation being made that the proposal was favourably regarded by Dr. Ewart, medical superintendent of the hospital. Some innovations in the use of the rabbit as an article of commerce are to be made by Sir Rupert Clarke at Suubury (Victoria). He has established a factory on his estate where rabbits of all sizes and weights are purchased from 40 trappers, who are paid throughout the year at a fixed scale, which secures them against market fluctuations, and does away with rejects. For the first time the ears and legs will be utilised for the manufacture of glue. The heads are boiled down to feed pigs, and the skins will also be used. The output will probably reach 3000 pairs daily, and the bulk are intended for the London market.

The Hamburger Nachriohten repeats a rumor, for which, however, it assumes no responsibility, that a great contest for the supremacy of the Atlantic will take place between the Deutschland and the Mauretania. The Deutschland has been provided with a complete set of new boilers, and several alterations have been made with a view to increasing her speed. The average record of the Deutschland at present is knots. The Mauretania will leave Liverpool a day after the Deutschland, and will, so it is said, endeavour to overhaul the German liner.

Members of the Cook Oouuty Council were practically’ unanimous upon the question of the Council taking its own risk in’ the matter of insurance of its employees. The Clerk, Mr Warren, presented a return showing that whilst £348 13s 6d had been paid in premiums, they had only drawn £73 15s for accidents, of which only £32 4s 2d was for the Council’s own men. The Council decided not to continue the insurance of contractors, but to require them in every instance to take out a policy over their men before commencing on their work. It was proposed to set aside an insurance fund for the Council’s maintenance men, etc., who number 32, but the Clerk explained this would be disallowed by the Audit Department. Councillors thereupon agreed that the Council should take the risk itself, and with this indication, the matter was referred to the special Insurance Committee to report at next meeting.

THE “L.K.G,” IN AMERICA,

Because it is the best Milking Machine in the world, the “L.K.G. ” Milking Machine is rapidly gaining popularity in the United States. Mr E. H. Dollar, Kouinlton, New York, one of the most prominent breeders of Holstein’s Freisian cattle, uses the “L.K.G.” and writes:—“lt is now nearly eight months since we began using the “Lawrence-Kennedy” Milking Machines and we have found them fully as reliable and satisfactory as hand milking. We fully believe it is just as easy to bring cows to large production and keep them there while using the milking machine as with the best hand milking. For further “L.K.G.” particulars write J. E, Mao Ewan & Go., Ltd., sola agents’ U. 5.3. Co.’s Buildings, Wellington.

On page 2 will be found report of a Folding bankruptcy and Markets; page 6, a thrill iug'story of a gamble for a wife; pagw 7 the fall in wool; page S, Wanganui Education Board, Courts, and Glower Settlement.

We regret to have to record the death of Airs j .lines McChesuoy, at Oroftou this morning. Mrs McOhesney had been suffering from a fatal disease for some time and her end Was not unexpected. She leaves a family of seven daughters and four sons.

The Northern Steamship Company held its annual meeting to-day. The report showed a net profit for the year of £8778 16s Bd. The directors recommend a dividend of seven per cent, representing £B6BI 3s 4d, and carry forward £I2BB 12s lid. The report was adopted. Auckland Rugby Union approves the proposal to hold an interproviucial football match, Auckland v. Wellington, on August 15th, the Mayor having stated that he would endeavour to arrange with the Admiral of the American Fleet to delay its departure till the evening of that date.

At Feilding Court this morning before Messrs Trewin and Cobbe, J’s.P., on a charge of not sending their childdren regularly to school Alfred Hannett was fined 6s, F. G. Benge 4s, Kiwi Renan 2s and 3s costs, Thos. East 2s and 3s costs, Thos. Stewart 8s and 3s costs.

The Feilding bowlers who won the Yates’ Feathers last Saturday did not keep the trophy long as yesterday they were recaptured by a team of Palmerston players composed of Fred Mowlera (skip), N. H. Nash N. Malcolm, and H. Mowlem, who scored 25 against 18 for the holders, Messrs J. Bartholomew (skip), Irvine, Oornfoot and Thomson.

Many halting speakers will appreciate the statement made to a friend by the late Duke of Devonshire, who in spite of long practice never attained any like fluency in public speaking;—“My difficulty is that I lose sight of my nominative. When I have got half through the sentence, I have to pause and consider whether I should give up the nominative, or start the sentence again in order to keep hold of it.” From our advertising columns to-day it will be seen that the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency 00., Ltd., will be offering next Wednesday Mr Benjamin Wrightson’s Makino property, also his stock off 400 acres. The property io be offered is situated on the main road next the Makino school, and it is highly improved, the buildings and property being in really good order. The land is ready to be ploughed. Its proximity to Feildiug should make the property a very desirable one. It is Mr Wrightson’s intention to sell at a very reasonable figure, as owing to ill-health he has to move from that neighbourhood. Mr Wrightson will be pleased to show any intending purchasers over the farm.

A correspondent writes complaining of the misleading notice at Marton Station “All trains stop sufficient time for refreshments”. He arrived from Huuterviiie yesterday and with touclung confidence proceeded to dine at the Railway Hotel, with the result that the mail train left without waiting for him to finish his meal. As his excursion ticket expired yesterday he is unable to complete his journey and has exercised the Briton’s privilege of writing to the paper about his grievance. If he has quoted the notice correctly no doubt the Railway Department will point out that' it makes no reference to passengers, and merely states that there is time for trains to obtain refreshments.

At Feilding yesterday an inquest was held touching the death of the three-year-old daugh or of Mr J. W. Jensen. The child died on Tuesday morning and Dr. Willis was called in. But he, not having attended the deceased, was unable to give a certificate of the cause of death. At the request of the Coroner, Captain Mollem, yesterday, Dr. Willis imade a post mortem examination, ’ and stated in his evidence that he had found the heart dilated, the pericardium inflamed, and the liver congested. There were no the body and the child had ;beeu fairly well The condition of the heart was quite sufficient to account for the sudden death. The cause was syncope and dilated heart. He had been informed by Dr, Martin, who had previously attended the child, that it|had“suffered from diphtheria. The heart disease had no doubt resulted from diphtheria. The verdict was in accordance with the medical evidence. The Irish terrier which exhibited its tricks the other day at the Westminister Police Court, says a Loudon contemporary, is by no means the first animal which has relieved the tedium of an English court of law by its antics. In a Manchester police court a baboon, which appeared in the dock with his owner on a charge of breaking into a fowlhouse. showed its contempt of the court by stealing and chewing up pens under the very nose of the magistrate. At a London court a hundred and nine frogs were produced in evidence; in another case a porcupine was exhibited on the witness table of a country court to show whether or not the animal was worth the money claimed for it; while among other animals which have made similar unconventional appearances in recent years have been cats, donkeys, and a baby lion “Let mystery be stripped of all pretence And practice be combined with common-sense.”

If the' same mystery that is associated with present day medication were applied to the food we eat, it would not he tolerated f or a moment. If care be exercised in food and drink, is it not of still greater importance to be careful of the medicine .we take? The proprietors of auy remedy who have the courage of their convictions, who believe in their preparation themselves, who take the public into their confidence, and publish on each bottle and package the ingredients of the medicine, are to be commended, and deserve all the encouragement it is possible to bestow. SUCH A REMEDY IS IMPEY’S MAY APPLE. Every package sets forth the ingredients of which it is The only part reserved by the proprietors is a special process of manufacture—a process that renders the finished product more elegant and effective than would bo ever possible hy private manufacture, to say nothing of the lessened cost. IMPEY’S MAY APPLE, Ss (id everywhere, or post free from Messrs Sharland and Co., Ltd,, Wellington.

Mas ter ton Borough" Council last night decided to purchase the Masterton show for reorea* tion purposes, subject to the approval of the ratepayers being; secured. '

The Hon. R. McNab left Wei-ll-..gum last night for Middleman;!!,. Central Otago, where he will open a. new Agricultural Hall on Friday. He returns to Wellington on Sunday.

Mr A. H. Baskerville, the secretary and organiser of the “All Blacks,” died at Brisbane last bright of pneumonia. His body will he embalmed and conveyed to New Zealand by the first boat. Farmer and* a couple of others will accompany the body.

Our Hunterville correspondent writes:—The monthly meeting of the Upper Rangitikei GnnJClub took place in Duncan’s paddock to-day. Eight turned up and the “old horse” Mr E. Haycock, won the Ist and 2nd sweep, [and Mr G. Morris won the double rise with the possible.

. Presbyterians will'be shocked to note that the Wanganui Chronicle in reporting a marriage at Eketahuna, between Miss Baker of Taihape and Mr Currie of Palmerston, reports that it was performed by the Rev. Thompson, Bishop of Masterton. The Key. A. T. Thompson is a well-known Presbyterian minister, and it would cause some surprise if he adopted the title of bishop. At a meeting of the Timara Political and Labour League last night a motion was passed “That this meeting f protests against the imputation of" laziness and inefficiency to Australasian, workers as compared with American made by Mr Pryor, secretary lot the New Zealand Federation of Employers.

The jubilee of the Loyal Napier Lodge, Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity (established in 1856), was celebrated by a. reunion last night. It is interesting to note that the lodge’s dispensation, which is dated May 13th, 1856, was signed by, among others, Bro. T. W. McKenzie, the well-known veteran journalist of Wellington, wfio was then provincial corresponding secretary of the Wellington district. The reunion was numerously attended, and the speakers included the Mayor (Bro. J. Yigor Brown and Bros. J. Smith and Madeley, of Wellington.

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