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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9339, 7 January 1909, Page 4

At Apiti on Monday the young son of Mr Wildbore was 'kicked ou the face by a horse and the boy’s jaw was smashed. The condition of Dr. Goode, concerned in the Waitara murder, who still remains in the New Plymouth hospital, continues to he satisfactory. A number of Wellington citizens

have sent a letter to the Premier protesting against the proposed kinematographio exhibition of the Burns-Johnson fight. The death is reported from Christchurch of Mr William Stringer, aged 83. He was father of Mr T. T. W. Stringer, K. 0., Crown Prosecutor, and Mr J. H. Stringer, accountant. The foundation stone was laid yesterday of a church for the Unitarian Free Church, which has been holding services in a temporary

building since the movement started in Wellington about four years ago. The building is to cost £3500, During November a large squad of

the Encounter’s men were in Palmerston for several days taking part in the Military Tournament. Yesterday the Mayor, on behalf of the townspeople, despatched a cable to Captain Fyler, expressing regret at the calamity that had overtaken the ship.

The heavy rain of the past week resulted in a slip in Manawatu Gorge ou Wednesday morning, the line being completely blocked and the Woodville-Palmerston North train was delayed. A special train brought passengers to Palmerston North, and a gang of men cleared the line in time for the passage of the Napier express. , A large number of persons at-

tended the sale of the sections of Mr Sydney Johnson’s Mokoia estate, near Woodville, which was held yesterday. Only two sections were sold under the hammer, one at £36 and one £at £35 per acre. The reserves on the bulk of the land were considered far too high. After the sale two other small sections were sold at the reserved price, viz., £25 per acre.

A country hotel in one of "the districts that declared for no license at the late poll has a peculiar clause in its lease, which entitles a certain man to a pint of beer free of charge each morning. The carrying of noprejudicially affected the interests sof this individual, and what he will do after June 30th next (the day the hotel has to close up), and what compensation he will be entitled to, are matters not yet settled.

It is announced by the Principals, Miss Baber, M.A., and Miss Rachel Richmond (Higher Certificate N.P.U.), that the new term at Fitzlierbert {Terrace g School, Wellington, will begin on Tuesday, 9th February. Fitzberbert Terrace School is an old-established and well-regarded boarding and day school for girls. The attention of parents is directed to the advertisement which appears in another column of this issue. The Marton correspondent of the Chronicle relates the following interesting fact in natural history: “The unseasonably warm moistne’ss

is also favourable to that very de

struotive parasite, the caterpillar. lln the night he shows himself, and crawls upon the grain stacks and I feasts upon the ripest grain he can find, and when daylight comes, deI scends again to earth, where he I burrows and lies dormant until I darkness comes again.” We suspect I some facetious farmer of having I been acting as coach to tlfis innocent I gentleman. The best method of dealing with the kind of caterpillar referred to is either to sit up at night and shoot them with rifles or to extract them from their burrows during the day by means of ferrets. The removal of Lionel Terry from Lyttelton Gaol to the Sunnyside Mental Hospital was carried out ou Tuesday night very quietly. That he was to go last night at all was known only to very few, and- he was quietly conveyed to the station in a dray, man, bags, and baggage. At j midnight the warders who had charge of him waited till there was scarcely anyone about, and ."then placed him in a first-class carriage and pulled down the blinds to stop the curious gaze of the railway portera ajd the night owls. Terry went quietly, and utterly discounted the preparations that had been made for any showy behaviour ho might indulge in. A Waiter in a contemporary calls attentioa to the recent action of the Railway Department in connection with a number of their employees. Previous to the elections the various departments at Auckland and Newmarket were taking on men by tbe half dozen, though in some instances

there was not sufficient work to keep them going. As a result, numbers of extra votes were recorded in favour of the Government. Immediately after the election the sacking match commenced. Sixteen carpenters from workshops were dismissed two or three days after the election, the excuse being lack of funds. It is the old story, the working man every time. Just fancy no funds to carry on the work of the railways.” It is just about time railway men were beginning to wake "up to this electioneering dodge, which has been practised ui’ou them so often.

.Owing to the little demand in the building trade some of the hands have been discharged from the George Bartholomew Timber Company’s Feilding Sash & Door Factory.

Mr Charles M, Schwab, the Steel Trust millionaire, has decided on retrenchment. After selling his valuable horses and closing his stables he has now dismissed his fifty servants and boarded up his palace on Riverside Drive, New York, which he built at a cost of £1,400,000.5 The large number"of farmers going to Wellington by the afternoon train yesterday to attend the wool sales caused the question to be raised as to why an application should not be made to the Railway Department for excursion fares. “Surely,” said one, “the occasion is as worthy as a race meeting. ” Probably the matter will be brought up at one of the Farmers’ Union meeitings. are very numerous off Sumner and New Brighton this summer. Last week a 6ft shark was caught at New Brighton, and while fishing for cod “off the end of the pier yesterday a young man was considerably astonished to see the gaping jaws of a fair-sized shark come to view. After [an unmistakable bite the shark was caught by the upper lip, and was suspended with its head just above water. The line would have been too weak to support the shark’s entire weight, and while means were being devised to land it in a net, an amateur sport with a rifle made a target of the jaws, without inflicting any serious injury on the shark. Eventually a rope was lowered and made fast round the fins by a venturesome swimmer, who swam out beach, and the shark was landed on the pier amid ranch jubilation. It mea-ured 7ft Jfrom the nose to the tip of the tail. The mission of EHEUMO is to eradicate uric acid from the system, and it does this moat thoroughly. RHEUMO is the greatest of all rheumatism cures. Thousands of our own countrymen have tested and proved its inestimable worth. Try it and you will obtain relief. All chemists and Stores, 2s 6d and 4s 6d.