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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9367, 9 February 1909, Page 4

Farmers are requested to note that the Wanganui Ram Fair will commence at 10 o’clock sharp on Thursday morning next. Rangitikei County Council notifies that a warrant has been issued for the erection of a bridge over the Kawhatan River. As only one business man, in addition to the chairman, attended the meeting convened by the Chairman of Balls Town Board last evening, to discuss the closing question, no decision was arrived at. It is notified that, instead of on dates previously advertised, th nominations for pedestrian and cycle events at Rongotea Sports close to-morrow, and for horse events on Friday, 12th inst. The result of yesterday’s poll for the election of Wanganui Harbour Board was that Messrs Bignell, Basse!t, Meuli, Williams, Murray, and Patterson were elected. These are the old members of the Beard. It was stated some time ago that the Dominion’s poultry export trade was practically dead, hut, says the Herald, there is a satisfactory reason for this. Poultry breeders find a plentiful market in Auckland for their birds, Government graded, at lOd per lb, without running any shipping risks. R. Arnst, world’s champion sculler, left Auckland yesterday for the South. Arnst stated to-day that he was favourable to Durnau’s cabled terms tor a match aud would like to arrange it eu route to England. He hoped to meet Barry in England about next Spetember. Arnst leaves New Zealand accompanied by Fogwell after Easter.

Entries for Masterton A, & P. Show next week constitute a record, totalling 1874 against 1819 last year which was the previous best. The sheep entry is particularly strong and has only been excelled by lust CanterbnryShow. New Zealand sea fish, aoccording to the Napier manager of the New Zealand Trawling Company will not keep as well as these captured in cold seas like those round Newfoundland dr Iceland aud this accounts for the poor supply in country districts near the Napier-Wellington railway. In the course of proceedings in the Arbitration Court at Dunedin yesterday, the question of the dismissal of a man cropped up, and Mr Justice Sim pointed out that no employer was bound to keep an employee, however competent that employee might be, any more than a workman was bound to stay with an employer. Mrs Ramsay, representing the Wilson Pill Company, is now visiting Marton‘aud the Rangitikei district, and will be pleased to wait on citizens at an early date. The public will be specially interested in the Wilson Pill Company's circular, in which they will notice testimonials from ladies and gentlemen well-known all over the coast. It ip declared that machine-drawn milk is giving much more satistactiou in Taranaki this season than has been the case in the past. The cooler season will have something to do with it but a factor largely responsible for it is the better appreciation of users of cleanliness in regard to the mechanical milker. They are looking after the machines better,3and are realising that they must be thoroughly cleaned after each milking.

Yesterday two laden trucks got away in some unexplained manner from Cavarsham station and came down the incline on the main line at a tremendous pace and ran into Dunedin station at about twenty miles an hour. Guard Stevens, who had just brought the morning train from Clinton, plnckily jumped on the trucks and succeeded in lowering the brakes. Fortunately no damage was done.

Shooting for the South Canterbury Battalion shield at Waimate on Thursday last, the Waimate Rifles put up a score for a team of 13 men which probably constitutes a record for the Dominion, if not for Australasia. The ranges were 200yds, 500yds, and 600yds, and the maximum number of points obtainable was 105. Four men scored 100 or over and the average for the team was almost 97, the total points being ’ll6O. The Timaru Port Guards, who had held the shield for two years, were beaten by 103 points, though they stood next highest in the five teams competing. During Mr Clement Wragge’s lecture in Masterton on Saturday night one of his instruments containing a speck of radium was stolen from a table near the stage. It is the custom of he lecturer to place the radium instrument on the table before the lecture proper which is given in darkness. At the conclusion of this Mr Wragge comes off the stage to give a demonstration of the properties of radium in the body of the hall and it was then that he discovered that the radium had gone. It is believed [that it was picked up in the darkness by some person leaving the hall. Police are enquiring. We employ occasionally (writes the correspondent of an English paper) an energetic little woman who calls twice a week to wash steps but declined her assistance last Saturday morning. Late in the evening she called on us again, shivering in the cold wind, aud hugging to her shoulders a flimsy shawl. “Could you. please, give me an oldbodice, missis?” she asked. I thought not, and said so. “Butwbydoyou come in this way to ask?” I added. “My master has torn mine all to bits because I didn’t take enough money home,” she explained. I found her a substitute, and she went away. This morning she called again, sprightly as ever. “I got my man ten days, missis,” she said cheerfully, and went on her way. During the hearing of the latest “graft” scandal at Pittsburgh, evidence was given that sixteen members of the City Council received 24,000d01. as bribe money for authorising the construction of a filtration plant. A sensational feature of the case was the production of a flashlight photograph of a member of the Council in the act of receiving a bribe for his vote in connection with the paving of a certain street with wood. In connection with this case seven councillors and two have been arrested, and six other councillors who are “wanted” have disappeared. It is alleged that tijey received warning from the chief detective officer of the city, who has been dismissed inconsequence.Reuter.

The water supply for general purposes in Marcon is now very small, and the position is serious. There Is only a week’s supply in the reservoir and should fine weather continue the residents will be Jseriously handicapped, particularly those who have been bo long accustomed to using the water for extraordinary purposes. The Borough authorities have been obliged to take action and a notice appears elsewhere asking ratepayers to be as eoonomioal as possible with the reservoir supply. It is also intended to at onoe out off all oonneotiofis for extraordinary supply both within and outside the Borough. If the Council is obliged to give effect to its resolution regarding the Railway supply it will greatly inconvenience the Department, especially as there is a greater demand for water at the station consequent on the increased railway traffic. This serious state of affairs should bring under notice the necessity for a better water supply scheme or a thorough test for artesian water. VERY ANNOYING.

The wearers of tan boots have frequently been at a loss to know the cause of soiled and unsightly patches of grime that gather on the pants, where the latter come in contact with the boots. It does nov occur to them that the accumulation is due to the use of a boot polish containing grease or oil. This is transferred to the olothß'v. with the inevitable result tha ust and grime quickly adhere. o remedy is to be found in the i e of a polish that is free from all' i Lose objectionable features. Thru polish ia TAN-OL. Tau-ol is - suit of considerable experiment, and is prepared in the factory of skilled chemists, and under their direct supervision. Nothing but the very best ingredients are allowed, and while the finished product costs more to produce, the general public are not slow to discriminate, and recognise in TAN-OL a polish distinctly superior to other preparations. Price Gd (paste) and Is (liquid).

The friends of Mrs W. Brookie, sen., Parewanni, who has J been seriously ill, will be pleased to learn she is now making satisfactory progress towards recovery. Hone Heke, who has represented the Northern Maori District in Parliament since 1893, died in a private hospital at Wellington this morning from tubercular hemorrhage. He was 40 years of age. Mr George Gray, late of Post Office Hotel, Foxton, who recently purchased Sedgecombe farm, Upper Tutaenni, has now taken possession. Another farm has also changed hands in the Pern Flats district, Mr J. McDonell, of Sand on, having purchased .480 acres from Mr Dogald Thompson. Since this well-known property was bought Mr McDonell has had a now road put right'through the estate.

The travelling correspondent of a contemporary throws out thelsuggestion that the unemployed could make a good living by catting the cocksfoot which is wasting ail over the Rangitikei and Oroua Counties and specially refers to the splendid crop of seed going to waste in Haicombe Cemetery. He considers that an unskilled man could average a sack a day, which would give a return of £3 a day with little expenditure for outfit.

Referring to thejj'exertion wage paid on the Otira tunnel work, which roused the indignation of Wellington Trades and Labour Council, the secretary of the Otira branch of Reefton Miners’ Union writes:—“The men have not exerted or sweated themselves in any way to obtain this bonus, and some of them did not even know so much had been driven until the day before pay day, or two days after it was completed, but always pnt in a good day’s work.” The result was that their wages were substantially augmented, and no one was the worse off.

Our Huntorville correspondent writes:—The wind-np meeting of the Sports Committee took place last night. Those present were gratified that the balance-sheet presented a surplus, and that it allowed the voting of an honorarium to Mr Marshall, the secretary. A special vote of thanks was accorded Mr Shannon, and on behalf of the concert committee to the Orchestral Society. The local defenders are busy in military tactics, the art of fortification, and several other necessary matters at Makaraka this year. On Wednesday we expect the review, and the Thursday following the Bishop of Wellington is booked to place St. John’s on a proper footing.

Mr Edward Newman, M.P., has received the following letter from the General Manager of New Zealand Railways, on the subject of boring for artesian water at Marion Junction:—“The work is at present teing carried ont by a contractor, but so far the progress has not been satisiaotory, the bore having been put down only about 70 feet. If, however, better progress is 'not made with the work the Railway Department will itself undertake the boring process and will go down about 400 feet. I may state that the present Indications do not promise any great success.”

An inquest touching the death of the late Mr N, O. Hansen-was conducted by Mr J. J. McDonald, District Coroner, at Stan way yesterday. MrS Hansen, wife of deceased, deposed that she was driving home from church with her husband about 1 o’clock, and when about half-way along the Halcombe-Stanway road they met a horse running loose on the road. The horse was galloping towards them, which frightened their horse, and he refused to go. She could not say whether her husband jumped out of the cart or was thrown out. His foot caught in the reins and he fell on his temple. The horse then went on for about two chains and got into a ditch. She ailghted from the trap and went back for her husband, and on speaking to him he did not reply. Mr Riddler conveyed him home and a doctor was sent for, but death took place Jbefore he arrived. Her husband was 63 years old. A verdict of accidental death was returned.

Dr, Oapra, Who ia investigating the agricultural and general resources of the Dominion on behalf of the Italian Government, visited Lincoln College to-day and expressed himsef as being surprised and delighted with what he saw. He states that he had never seen such crops of wheat in his life. The difference between the system adopted in similar institutions in Italy was that at Lincoln the students had to do practical farm work in addition to receiving instruction in theoretical agriculture, while in Italy the agricultural colleges had smaller areas of land and they went in for specialisation, one college taking up vine growing, another grain growing, and another dairy farming, and the students were given very little practical work. Dr. Oapra admired the Australasian system, and thinks it is the only way of imparting thorough agricultural instruction, and as the result of his mission and recommendations based thereon, he thinks that the same system will be introduced in Italy. Dr. Oapra leaves tc-morrow. for the West Coast to investigate the mining industry. Though there isjno coal mining in Italy, great use is made of the rivers for generating electricity.

Mr Guinness, M.P., has proposed a scheme for workers’ insnranoe on the following lines His idea is to found a national sick and accident fund providing that each worker, if incapacitated for any reason, conld receive half wages during incapacity. In case of death either £SOO could be paid as at present, or. if the Board to be set up considered it better, 12s per week could be paid to the widow and 4a to the children till the one married and the others arrived at the age of 16. Contributions to this end should be proportionately shared by the employer and the employee, the latter being insured for all hours of the 24 and from every ailment—sickness, disease, or accident—not, as now, for working hours only. The Government, as it would be assisted by the diminished expenditure on charitable aid, should assist. The Post Office would be the collecting agency. The medical examiner’s certificate would be the sole voucher. Employers, instead of paying in advance as now to insurance companies, would pay a percentage on the wages paid, and be empowered to deduct the workers’ contribution, say'a fourth, from their wages. No medical examination would be required and no legal proceedings would be necessary. The Workers’ Compensation Act would be repealed, and this would take its place.

The first sjhipmant this season “of Australian {trapes has reached Wellington. Thie fruit came in 181bs cases and wrls sold wholesale at from 13s 6d to la's a ease; some of the grapes were If or sale retail at 8d per ponnd. | \ The Midliirst Dairy Factory is very busy julst now, and is averaging 95 boxes/of butter per day. Tbe manager is jwell satisfid with the milk supply! which has maintained the high avferage test of ;4.1. The grading a 1.40 is high this season, ranging fionn 94 to 95 points. Napier Hospital trustees have resolved to .reinstate Nurse Brown who recentl/y got judgment against the Board |for £125 damages for wrongful Jdilsmissal. The reinstatement is madje on the understanding that the Board is released from its legal obligations. The chairman, Mr O. H. Cjiranby, is strongly opposed to the reinstatement and. has resigned his position.

The folio v£i are the nominations received sot far for the twelve vacancies on* the general oommittee of Manawattt A. and P. Association Messrs R. Stevens (Dannevirke). J. lA. MrcOrea (btoney Creak), E. .X Wilde (Marton), D. Thomas, A.\ Sutherland and J. Baleillie (Kaiirauga;, O. A, J. Levett (Kiwifiea), F. W. Arbon (Komako), St.| Clair Jonneaux (Te Matai), K. wJ Dalrymple (Bulls), Short fWaituua), H. Duncan Buchanan (lafe Kumeroa), A. Buchanan, B. F. Gibbons, F. S. - Goldinghan., H. N, Watson, T. R. Hodder, H. Gillies, M. Cohen, H.. M. Simmonds, and J. O. Batchelar, all of Palmerston North. The annual meeting of Cheltenham Rifle Club was held on Saturday, Oapt. Barrow in the chair. The balance-sheet, which was adopted, showed a credit of £9 2 1 3d. The' following were elected Patrou, J. R. Johnston; president^., J, Bruce; vice-presidents, W. \ Mitchell, S. W. R. Evans, J Belfit, > A. McOorbindale, H. Densham, A.

Kidd, D, Kilgour, H. JBurrell, sen., H. P. Lance, W. T. ttook, D. P. Barrett, A. Barrow; captain. J. Barrow; vice-captain, Richard Taylor; secretary, Robert Taylor; committee, F. Usmar, R. Barrow, H. Orhistensen, G. Sauer, R., Stuart, R. Reid, O. Pussell; handicapper, R. Reid ;* auditor, O. E. Johnston; shooting committee, G. Sauer, Christensen and Taylor. A vote of thanks to all donors of trophies and cash was passed, also one to Mr William Mills for use of his property as a Jrifle range. After a long discussion it Jwas decided to abolish the limit in handicap events. The president and captain each donated a trophy to do fired for. The U Club will fire a match on Saturday nest against Apiti, the motor bus leaving Cheltenham at 8.30 a.m.

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