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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9163, 5 June 1908, Page 4

There was a record gate at Otago Winter Show yesterday ; the takings amounting to £390. A smart earthquake, lasting ten seconds, was felt at Hokitika at 7.15 a. m. A passenger train went over Waiouru permanent line yesterday for the first time. The line is safe. A sharp shock of earthquake was felt at Greymonth ta 7.15 a.m. Nelson also reports a slight shock. The Nortli Island Brass Band Association has agreed to the 1909 contest at Hastings being held from 17th to 23rd February. At last night’s meeting of Auckland City Council a proposal was submitted for a loan of £IOO,OOO, including £40,000 for two new reservoirs, and about £50,000 for street improvements. Nelson City Council has raised the salary of the City Engineer £IOO a year as the duties of city and drainage engineer have been combined. A proposal that the Municipality undertake the sale of State coal is now uuder consideration. On page 3 will be found a "graphic account of the explosion on the Japanese training ship Matsushima ; page 6 the American Fleet; page 7 markets; page 8 Feilding Borough Council and Apiti.

Replying to a deputation from Auckland Ministers’ Association Mr Fowlds expressed surprise that the cadet camp at Thames was continued over Sunday. He promised to do his utmost to discourage any movement in favour of Sunday camps. “Henceforth” lie added, “I’ll undertake that no sanction shall bo given to Sunday cadet camps.” Messrs J. Harris & Sons, land agents, Martou and Marton Junction, insert a new list of properties and report their May sales as follows :—IOO acres at Stan way to Messrs Ingram Bros ; Mr Hebberd’s 40 acres, Marton, to Mr Opeushaw; Mr J. Tompkins’ store and stock at Rangiwabia to Mr F. E. Hyde, and £1320 worth of town property and Martou Junction sections.

Feilding Borough Council last evening went into coinmittee sider a bill of costs received for legal work in connection with the gasworks proposals. The reporters were excluded. It was stated this morning that the bill amounted to £7OO, which, singularly enough, was the price quoted originally for a complete gasworks. The Council’s estimate of the legal costs was £250. The statement made by Sir J. Ward at Dunedin that he was willing to adjust the electorallboundaries so as to leave the South Island as present, with an additional six seats for the North Island, provided the Leader of the Opposition agreed to the proposal, was submitted to Mr W. P. Massey by a Herald representative. Mr Massey replied that be was not going to express any opinion on the subject at present. “But,” he added laughingly, “it’s a pretty good admission on the part of the Prime Minister that he cannot get any important legislation through the House without my consent in spite of his large majority.” At Wanganui sittings of the Supreme Court yesterday the case Kirkwood v. Wilson was heard. This is a case brought to test whether there is a public road over the property of Mr Wilson at Brunswick, near Wanganui. Judgment w r as reserved. The case Harvey v. Hammond was partly [‘heard. This is a claim for £335 7s made up of balance of £l5O for stumping 91 acres at Rata at £3 17s per acre, £lO bonus for milk supplied to Rata Dairy Factory, and £75 for loss sus tained owing to defendant failing to hand over wood contained in ; a certain paddock at Rata. With regard to the Main Trunk railway service Sir Joseph "Ward states that the South Island service will remain practically as at present, and the North Island service must of necessity be partly a night service. The Railway Department has to face the difficulty of making provision for intermediate services at stations touched at by the express service. The express must necessarily leave Auckland at night to allow the people of Auckland to get their mails right through by train. To leave there in the morning means that the mails remain there all day, which would not be up-to-date business. Scenery was not a consideration, as the intermediate services fully provided for that, and business must not be sacrificed to scenery.

GREAT OAKS FROM LITTLE ACORNS GROW. That dread disease, Consumption, has its commencement in a cold on the chest. Don’t leave it until it is too late. You cau promptly cure your cold with Dr. Sheldon’s New Discovery. Otbtainabie at all-stores, Martou, Ellis Bros.. Hunterville, and Mansell & Sou, Bulls. Dress and costume making at the Bon Marche, Feilding. Now is the time to place your orders. Firstclass work at moderate charges is Messrs Spence’s motto, and they are confident their now dressmaker (Miss Kenney) will give satisfaction in every way.* He tried Port Hacking after fish, v But only caught a cold. He said, “Atchoo! By Jove, I wish I’d none as I was told. Tin’s is indeed a Hacking cough. Good name it’s got. I’m sure!” But next day he was right enough Through Woods’ Groat Peppermint Cure.

Mr R. Wilson, of Pukepapa, late of Heaton Park, leaves next week on a trip to Queensland for the benefit ia ins health. • Me expects to be ab'CiJi about four mouths. A meeting was held at Palmerston i:.-i v, Ar H. i>. Jvnail i.i.v:;-i(A;jg, i,..- ot ior tiling a Hunt Club in Palmerston. Mr J. A. Mitchell explained that surrounding landowners had consented to allow their property to be hunted over. He had secured a list of 25 xm-mbers, and many more had promised. The master of the Woodlands Bunt Club, Mr J. Sweeney, had consented to visit Palmerston with the hounds. It was resolved to form a branch of the Woodlands Hunt Club. The match Britain v. . Southland was not without its element of pathos. A poor dying lad wps wheeled on to the ground in a chair just before the game began. Inquiry elicited that the committee of the Southland Union had unanimously decided to have him conveyed to the ground from the hospital at their expense. The lad had always been a keen follower of football, and had expressed a wish to see the British team play Southland before he died.