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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9344, 13 January 1909, Page 5

Messrs Hally, of Dunedin Labour Department, and T. Harle Giles, of Auckland, have been appointed Conciliation Commissioners under the Act of last session. Mr Boyne, postmaster at Taihape, was farewelled last night on the eve of Ins transfer to Woodville, and presented with a gold watch. Taihape Chamber of Commerce and the Sawmillers’ Association are arranging to interview the Minister of Railways relative to freight and passenger traffic. The daily settlements of various ' Banks in New Zealand last year amounted on December 31st to £63,772,235, as compared with £63,709,754 for the previous year. For some time Nelson Customs officials and police have suspected opium smoking by Chinese at Stoke. Last night the premises of Ngan Lee, market gardener, were raided and a Chinaman, Ah Sing, arrested on a charge of having opium in his possession. A small quantity of drug was seized with smoking apparatus. About eleven Chinamen were fonnd in the building, which reeked of opium. Ah Sing was found lying across a bed with a pipe in his hand and a small quantity of opium. Informations were laid against the other Chinamen found on the premises. Mrs Henry Thomas Coventry, of New York, who before her marriage last year to a son of the Earl of Coventry was Mrs Edith MoOreery, has begun a remarkable action to have set aside a deed settling property ? worth £400,000 on her twenty-year-old son, Lawrence B. MoCreery. The deed, which was executed ten days before the marriage, bore the following endorsement:—“Being informed by my wife prior to our marriage of the proposed execution of the original of this notarial copy of a deed of trust, and later its execution, I hereby approve of her act aforesaid.” Mr Coventry, according to his wife, re- - fused to sign this endorsement. Hence the Joresent action. Mrs Coventry divorced her first hnsr hand, Mr' Richard McGreery, a. wealthy Californian, in 1905. “A bird is known by its tune and so is a man by his reputation.” Mr O. E. Gibbons, Marton, claims to have the reputation of manufacturing the best cordials and aerated waters on the Oqast. Orders solicited for the Christmas season, and, punctually attended to *