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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9338, 6 January 1909, Page 4

The Cheltenham Rifle Club will fire for the McOorkindale Cup on Saturday at 1 p.m.

f The death is reported of O, Crawford, an Otago football representative from 1889 to 1892.

The Mayor of New Plymouth has opened a fund for the Italian earthquake sufferers. The death is reported from New Plymouth of Mr Reginald Bay ley, aged 64. He was for many years in the Deeds and Stamps Office. H.M.S. Cambrian is delayed at New Plymouth through the loss of an anchor, but will leave at the end of the week if her anchor is not recovered earlier.

Mr Alfred Ogston, British ViceConsul at Messina, who lost his wife in the earthquake, is a nephew of D. Ogston, District Health Officer for Otago.

The continuous wet weather is having very damaging effect on the crops. Caterpillars are also playing havoc, and the outlook is not encouraging to the farmer. At Feilding Court this morning S. D. Forrest, a young man, was convicted of drunkenness and discharged. John Coyle, an elderly man, who was found drunk with £l4 9s in his pocket, was fined 20s. A country print is proclaiming its own virtues and bitterly attacking those who are alleged to be boycotting it. It apparently forgets that circulations has to be obtained before a good claim for advertising can be founded.

Mr Taft, the new President of the United States, works twelve hours every day of the week, and he allows himself but two meals a day. “To be in the thick of it; that is to live.” This is the motto Mr Taft has expressed as being the sum total of his existence.

Reports from New Plymouth state that oil has been flowing freely from No. 2 bore at the petroleum works since work was resumed yesterday after the holidays, close on fifty barrels having been collected. It is stated that the oil is remaining about the same level in the bore despite the large quantity drawn off.

The Hinemoa has taken from the Bluff a party of eleven to replace the shepherds working for Captain Tucker on Campbell Island. They took with them a whale boat and an oil launch, and in addition to doing the shearing and other pastoral work of the island sheep run, they will at intervals be occupied in whaling. We have received a copy of the invaluable Star Almanack for 1909. Besides the directory, the volume contains a mass of information for the farmer aud gardener. There are statistics in more handy form than in the Year Book, a digest of numerous Acts, information as to local bodies and many useful hints as to garden management, and the treatment of pests and blights. Some oilskins, as the wearers of these indispensible articles know, have an unpleasant habit of sticking to whatever they touch but in few instances is the adhesive power so great as in the case of the oilskin worn Tby a customer who when leaving a Marton chemist’s shop the other day was called back and asked not to take the [chair on which he hadjbeen sitting awayjwith him.

Speaking at the Automobile Association’s dinner at Christchurch on Saturday night last, Mr T. E. Taylor, M.P., said he hoped the next Parliament would induce the people of New Zeaand to believe that the duty of defence rested not with the volunteer force, but with the whole male adult population of the Dominion. (Hear, hear). The volunteers had done well, but it was not fair that to a small portion of the community should be delegated a task that had become the duty of every man in the Dominion. . At the meeting of Dunedin Drainage Board last night correspondence relating to the recent appointment of a draughtsman was considered, objection having been taken to the appointment of a draughtsman named Norman Low, who took his degree as Bachelor of Engineering at Canterbury ‘College. It is Jjunderstood that the objection was baaed on the nationality of Mr Low. The Board to adhere to its decision appointing him, and it is stated that the resignation of the engineer, Mr Slirger, is impending as a result.

The Wairarapa Daily Times remarks:—“The strong point of the miners in their present attitude of. “We are about to strike,” is not their cause, but the past weakness of the Government in making peace at any price with any insurgent section of the Labour Party. The question is not so much as to whether the miners will strike, as to whether the Government will find some rat hole by which it can crawl out of its difficulty. There will be no sympathy with the Government in the present crisis, for it made a rod for its own back when it passed a Workers’ |£Compenstaion Act, last session, as a sop to Cerberus. We do not suppose that the Opposition, or the public of New Zealand, will encourage the Government to go on “sopping.”

Some discussion is taking place in Kiwitea district, favourable to the establishment of a bacon factory. It is slated that the present buyers of bjkoon pigs in the district have recently lowered their purchasing price to and are more particular in their" definition of good bacouers than previously, and that the difference between the price obtained by bacon raisers and that paid by consumers at the stores, namely up to Is, indicates that a good profit is being made by the manufacturers. Mr F. H. Usmar, who is a member of the directorate of the Cheltenham Dairy Company, intends to bring the matter before that body on Monday next, with a view of inducing the directors to take the lead in convening meetings in order to form a company. It is recognised 5 that it would be necessary to establish such a factory at Feilding, as being gthe most suitable centre and having railway connection; also it is anticipated, that should the farmers surrounding show themselves favourable tojthe proposal the businessmen of Feilding would become shareholders and take part in the mangemeut. Have you ever tried a "Ready Tailored Suit. ” They are made of first-class material, stylish out, and fit well. Call in at Neal’s, Feilding, and you can see them without being pressed to buy. The prices are very reasonable, 47s 6d, 555, 59s 6d; The stock is large; yon can be easily fitted.*

One of Feilding’s most popular shopping resorts is the Bon Marche. Messrs Spence and Spence’s business has been ouilt up on principles of honesty and fair dealing, and the firm have always on and a good selection of all fashionable lines at prices that cannot be beaten any, where in the Dominion.*

The two cricket matches played in Auckland against Canterbury and Otago teams resulted in a total gate of £4OO.

Duriug’her stay in port at New Plymouth H.M.S. Cambrian {has been in communication by means of wireless telegraphy with the flagship H.M.S. Powerful, in Auckland. A notice appears in our advertising columns inviting parishioners of Bulls, Greatford, Sandon, Ohakea and Parewanui to meet the new vicar the Rev. E. J. Sola and Mrs Sola at a social to be held in St. Andrews Sunday School, Bulls, on Friday evening at 7.80 p.ra. A Silver Wyandotte rooster mothering a brood of young turkeys is to be seen ou a poultry farm at Lansdowne (says the Wairarapa Daily Times). The spectacle is too funny for words, and when other fowls go near they are viciously attacked by the rooster. Another curious sight is a turkey gobbler sitting upon a nest of eggs, having turned off the female bird.

From a notice in another column it will he seen that Messrs Fallerton-Smith & Miles, of Marton, have admitted into partnership Mi O. F. D. Cook, of Christchurch. Mr Cook is the eldest sou of Professor Cook, who was for many years Professor of Mathematics at Oanetrbury College. He was educated at Christ’s College and subsequently took his M.A. degree with first-class honours. He is wellknown in Christchurch as a cricketer and footballer. He has been associated with the Christchurch legal firms of George Hasper & Son, and Izard and Loughnan, and for the last year has taken in Mr Frank Rolleston’s work in the firm of Tripp and Eolleston, of Timaru. Recent robberies in Wellington had evidently upset the nervous system of an elderly lady, who was transacting some business in the Post Office Savings Bank on Monday morning. She was filling in a 'deposit slip, and had laid her purse on the desk in front of her. A gentleman, who happened to be writing at the desk alongside, picked up his pass book and walked out, when the lady ;immediately uttered a scream and followed him into the street. A crowd immediately gathered, and the geptleman was accused of purloining the elderly lady’s purse. After vainly protesting his innocence, he walked back into the Savings Bank, and there the lady’s purse was, still lying where she had set it on the desk.

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