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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9170, 13 June 1908, Page 4

The report of Mauawatu County Council meeting is published on page 8. The Manager of “The Prince Chap” Company iuforms'Ms that this new drama will be played in Marton on 22ud inst. Those persons in Marton who have lost clothing from lines are requested to call at the police station to identify the same. On killing Plymouth Rock fowl at Charlton, East Kent, a farmer found the following extraordinary collection in its crop, worthy of an ostrich;2o pieces of glass, a cartridge, six nails, a tin tack, screw, copper rivet, bone collar stud, shirt button, six trousers buttons, cue brass stud, five pieces of coal, clock screw, aud a boot button.

The attention of subscribers in arrear is specially directed to a notice in another column relating to accounts due to the Rangitikei Advocate. The amount outstanding runs into several thousand pounds, and it is necessary to urge prompt payment. In order to clear our books we have decided to baud over to our solicitor for collection all accounts which remain overdue. No exceptions will be made. , A meeting of the Paraekaretu Sports Committee was held in Rata, ou Thursday last. This meeting had been deayled owing to the absence of some of the members of the committee. Various accounts were passed for payment, aud the final balancesheet showed a credit from the sports meeting of about £ll, which was considered very satisfactory. -the thanks of the committee were passed to those honorary officials who had given their time in assisting a* fcnese sports, aud a special vote of thanks was passed to those who by giving donations and prizes bad materially helped towards the success of this year’s sports meeting-

State Coal Depot will be opened in Dunedin in the first week of July.

Ou page 2 will be found telegraphic news, page 3 an interview with Kipling, page C general nows, page 7 the conclusion of an interesting account of a trip from Taiimpe to Auckland.

Tenders are to be called at once for the new General Rost Office for Wellington to cost £BO,OOO. it will bo much higher and more massive than the present building, which will bo much altered internally to lit in with the general scheme. In a letter forwarded to RearAdmiral Sperry, Consul General Prickett writes that the people of New Zealand are expressing great gratification ou account cf the visit of the American fleet. The Consul adds: “You may be assured of a hearty aud enthusiastic reception.

A deputation will wait on the Right Hon. the Prime Minister, at Feilding, on Monday next, in reference to the control of the wharf aud wharfages at Foxtou by the proposed Harbour Board. Mr Edward Newman will represent the Marton Chamber of Commerce. “ It is understood that the San Jose scale has been observed in some orchards in Nelson district. Officers of the Agricultural Department are reticent, but samples cf fruit and wood badly infected iiave been seen, and no denial is given. The officers are reporting to the Department aud awaiting instructions.

A burg Cry of a daring kind occurred on Whataupoko between Sunday night aud Monday morning. The window of a room in which two young ladies were sleeping was entered aud the place ransacked for valuables, although without disturbing the sleepers. A purse containing £1 15s aud a gold brooch aud ring were taken.

Gisborne Hospital is deriving a regular source of income from trespassers on other people’s property. On Monday the manager of the Ngatapa station forwarded £5 paid bv a trespasser who would rather donate that amount to the hospital funds than face Court proceedings. This makes £l3 recently received, including subsidy.

Interviewed with reference to statements made by Mr Davoy regarding imported material for locomotives. Sir Joseph Ward said ; The policy of the Government was to obtain all necessary material from manufacturers within the Dominion, but there were patent rights ou which the Government had no control.

There are 187 Government assisted passengers on rhe Oorinthic, due in Wellington from London, ou Monday night next, those include 23 farmers, most with capital. One has £3OOO, aud an income of £2OO a year; another £I6OO, and several have about £IOOO each. There are 24 domestic .servants, nearly all of whom are coming to friends, or to fill situations. The steamer is also bringing about a dozen farm labourers.

At a meeting of Napier branch of the Railway Servants’ League, the fallowing resolution was carried : “That tbe'sysstem of classifying the service in two divisions be abolished ; that men injured in the service should be paid from the time of the accident irrespective of tbe period they are off; that political rights be granted to all railway servants; that temporary transfers be abolished; that a test case be made re broken service not counting for superanuution. ’’

Mr Coleridge, architect of Wellington, has been instructed by' the Trustees in tbe estate of the late Hon. W. W. Johnston to accept the tender of Messrs R. Heald & Son for the Memorial Schools to be erected in Derby Street. Feilding. Building operations are to be started at once as the school is intended to bo finished at the end of the year. The contract price is a little under £3OOO, which will provide a very handsome and ornamental building aud will be thoroughly up-to-date in all requirements and ventilation.

The Coastal Masters’ Association recently petitioned the Minister of Mamie for a re-hearing of the inquiry into the collision between the steamer Wairuua and the scow Noonan, in which the master of the latter vessel was held to be in fault. Mr Millar replied that a re-hearing could only be granted ou tbe grounds of new evidence being obtainable or that tlxere had been a miscarriage of justice, and be could not see his way to grant the request. Members of the Masters’ Association meet next week to consider what further steps they shall take in the matter. An unusual occurrence took place at Taita, at the residence of Mr John Duthie. A motor car which he purchased in Loudon a few mouths ago was discovered in a blaze, while the chauffeur lay alongside it in an unconscious state. He had beeu filling the tank with petrol by the light of a motor lamp aud it is surmised that the petrol took fire, spread to the body of the car, ' and afterwards asphyxiated the man while he was trying to subdue the flames by means of a hose of water. There was no sign of any explosion of the petrol. A doctor rendered aid to tbe sufferer, but it was not until two hours after the accident that he came round.

Mr T. H. Davey, M.P., for Christchurch East, sent the following wire to the Hon. Hall-Jones ■ yesterday:—“Visiting Addington Workshops to-day I discovered engine rods, axle boxes, and springs sufficient for eight engines had just been landed from England. For years repeated Ministerial assurances have beeu giren that wherever possible railway material should be manufactured in our workshops, or in the alternative in New Zealand, this being strongly emphasised by Joseph Ward on Monday last. Satisfactory explanation may be forthcoming, but at present it appears, despite innumerable promises to tbe contrary, that material is being imported which could easily be made by workmen in the Itamiuion. ” Speaking at a Farmers’ Union social at Mangere, Mr Massey, leader of the it was.a mistake for tbe Farmers’ Unions to refrain fromt aking an active part in politics, wheufc heir interests were concerned. Only a few days ago a Cabinet Minister, speaking at Auckland, had declared publicly that the people of this country inust choose between Socialism and single tax. It was time for tbe farmers to assert themselves and say most emphatically that they would have neither one nor the other. If the farmers did not keep «n _ fighting they would keep on losing nutil they were groaning beneath the burdens of single tax.

Messrs Murrray, Roberts & On. repoit the sale to Mr A. Rt Small, late ofUtiku, of the property known as “Cheviot Hills,” being sections o aa:i H, blocks, Patutahi Surrey Dhriict, near Gisborne, containing iSr.C arces, freehold, with stock and plant.

Mr Ernest Short, the well-known Koniney sboepbreerler of Feilding, lias decided to'jpresent” his flock of eighty stud Shropsliire Down sheep to the Government for the Waverley experimental farm. This gift is worth nearly a thousand pounds.

Instructions to have the main electoral rolls completed by September nest have been issued to the Government Printing Office. The work is now about one-third of the way through. It is understood that the supplementary roll printing is to be entrusted to private firms in the several centres of population, and this fact, together with the cider respecting the main rolls, gives probability to the rumour that the general elections will be held on this occasion at an earlier time than usual—probably during October. — Post.

After repeated requests Marton Technical School Committee last week obtained a balance sheet from the Wanganui Education Board showing receipts and expenditure of Mai ton Technical School up to December olst last. Even six months delay was, however, not enough to ensure correct figures. It was noticed that the fees received by the Board were apparently less by about £lO, than those paid in by the local Committee, and ou euquiry it was stated that a clerical error had been made. The school will therefore have a credit balance of about £l3 on the year’s working instead of £3 odd as appeared from the balance sheet. 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, Henlnlton, New York, one of the most prominent breeders of Holstein’s Freisian cattle, uses the “L.K.G.” and writes; —“It is now nearly eightmonths since we began using the “ Lawrence-Kenuedy” 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 band milking. For further “L.K.G.” particulars write J. B. MacKwau & Co., Ltd., sole agents, U. S.S. Co.’s Buildings, Wellington.