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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9336, 4 January 1909, Page 4

The attention of subscribers and advertisers is specially directed to the announcement which appears before the leader relating to accounts due to the Rangitikei Advocate. During the past year the amount outstanding has been so largely increased that it has become necessary to close the boobs, as from December 31st, and clear these at the earliest possible date. All accounts due must be paid by Saturday, 16th January. Mr P. P. White, Registrar for Rangitikei, has provided us with the following vital statistics. The first figures given are those for 1908, those in brackets being the figures for 1907: —Births 141 (Ho), deaths 31- (42), marriages 89 (44), marriages by Registrar 2 (2). Thirty-three entries have been received for the North Island Bowling Association’s champion fours to be played at Napier next week. Competing rinks will be divided into four sections and play confined to Napier and Greenmeadows greens.

The Nelson .Tenuis Association’s tournament concluded on Saturday. Miss Nnnneley and Wilding won the combined doubles obamiponship, defeating Miss Wellwood and Brown, 6—3, o—6, o—l. The ladies’ championsip doubles was won by the Misses Wellwood and Travers who beat Misses Nnnneley and Braithwaite after one of the most interesting games of the meeting. In the combined handicap doubles, Miss Braithwaite and Prouse, owe 8, beat Miss Travers and Salmond, 60—48. 2 Have you ever tried a “Ready Tailored Suit. ” They are made of first-class material, stylish cot, and fife well. Call in at Neal’s, Feilding, and you can see them without being pressed to buy. The prices are very reasonable, 47s 6d, 655, 59s 6d. The stock is large; you can be easily fitted.* w

Mr M. D. Campbell, of the Railway Department, Marton, has been transferred to Wellington, Last year there were 22,471 arrivals in the Dominion, and 14,153 departures, leaving a balance of 8318. This is an increase on 1907, when the excess of immigrants was 5589.

Last year the Chinese population of the Dominion increased by 122, the large influx being due to a desire to avoid the restrictive legislation which came into force two months ago. In November and December one Chinese arrived and 30 left the Dominion.

We hear from what we regard as.a reliable source, says the Waipawa Mail, that Mr Dillon, M.P., is to be offered a seat in the Legislative Council in order that Mr R. MoNab may contest the Hawke’s Bay seat. At the Bluff oo Friday night the Premier was presented with a silver service, subscribed by friends in the southern portion of his electorate, to oelebrate his having completed 21 years as representative in Parliament for Awarcia.

Mr Owens, postmaster at Woodvile, has been notified of his transferee Taihape, whose post office has been raised to the first snb-grade. Mr Boyen, of Taihape, will replace him at Woodville.

Attention is drawn to the unreserved sale of building timber to he held by Messrs A. H. Atknson & Co., Ltd., on Wednesday next at Messrs Mcßlroy and Boddy’s mill, near Halcombe. Over 70,000 feet of first class building timber will be sold without reserve. The mill is close to Halcombe Railway Station, and those requiring timber for building purposes should avail themselves of the last opportunity that can ever he offered in this district of securing timber first hand from the mill and at their own price.

The body of the man found dead in Wellington last Sunday morning has been identified as that of a man named McCormack, lately employed as a seaman on the Union Company’s training sbipJj’Dartford. He arived in Wellington about a month ago and was paid off with the rest of the crew. The police, are satisfied there is no mistake about the identification, which was made by four men who were shipmates of the deceased on the Dartford. Constable Spelman, of .Rotorua, is satisfied the body is not that of the man who was rouseabout at an hotel at Rotorua, though there is some resemblance.

On the journey from Vienna to St. Petersburg, Cumberland, the thought-reader, entertained his fellow-passengers by guessing their thoughts. One of the travellers, a Polish Jew, who took the whole thing for a hoax, offered to pay Cumberland the sum of fifty roubles if he could divine his thoughts. Visibly amused, Cumberland acceded to his request and said : “You are going to the fair at NishniNovgorod, where youjjintend to purohasee goods to the extent of 20,000 roubles, after which you will declare yourself a bankrupt and compound with yonr creditors for 3 per cent.” On hearing these words the Jew gazed at the speaker with reverential awe. He then, without ottering a syllable, drew out of the leg of his boot a shabby parse, and handed him the fifty roubles. Whereupon the great magioian triumphantly inquired: “Then I have guessed your thoughts?” “No,” replied the Jew, “but you have given me a brilliant idea.”

The New York Police have brought up a long firm whose transactions are said to have aggregated something near a quarter of a million sterling. “George Emmanuel and Co, ”, who occupied luxurious quarters on Fifth Avenue, sent through the post office tons of literature that was so “convincing” that people were alleged to have jumped [ over one another in their anxiety to get the 29 per cent, fully guaranteed by an international banking-house, and to “become millionaires in record time.” The firm employed the name of a wellknown, reputable, and profitable Mexican mine as a blind to catch their dupes, the name of the “Europan banking-house also being illegally used for the purpose. The police obtained proof that the firm intended, by means of the penny post, to enlarge their operations to Great Britain. Emmanuel succeeded in making his escape to Mexico, but Lonis Prince and Walter Lalrie are held to answer charges of gigantic frauds

Excitement was created at Sumner on New Year’s Day afternoon when the foghorn at the Cave Rock sounded the lifeboat alarm. A large crowd of holiday-makers was on the beach, and there was immediately a rush to the Gave Rock to find out the cause of the alarm. It was presently discovered that a man was standing on a rock at Whitewash Head surrounded by water. As it happened most of the members of the regular crews of the lifeboat were away holiday-making, but the boat was quickly manned by those members of the crew who had remained in Sumner for the day and| by other men who volunteered their services. There was a very rough sea on, ,and the task of getting across the bar was difficult. The boat got safely over, but had then to surmount very high breakers and to face a boisterous sea. Unfortunately one of the volunteer members of the crew unshipped his rowlock, and, with the handicap of one oar lost, the work of the party was rendered the more arduous. After a'ghard pull of close on one hour Whitewash Head was reached, the progress ot the rescuing party being watched by thousands on the beach. The man on the rook was discovered to be Mr T. Daore, a resident of Sumner. Ha went out fishing in the morning, and was ;left by a fisherman’s boat on an outlying rook about a chain and a half from the mainland, the fishermen crew intending to return from him in the afternoon, which they did, but owing to the roughness of the sea could not reach him.

One of Feilding's most popular shopping resorts is the Bon Marche. Messrs Spence and Spence’s business has been nuilt up on principles of honesty and fair dealing, and the firm have always on arid a good selection of all fashionable lines at prices that cannot be beaten any where.in*the Dominion,* Mr William Wallace, Tarrawarra, Roto, via Hillston, N.S.W., writes; “I make it a point to always keep. Chamberlain’s Gough Remedy in the house, having never known it to fail when given for coughs or colds.” For sale everywhere.