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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9370, 12 February 1909, Page 4

The sentencing of E. J. Searl has been postponed .till to-morrow. John O’Keefe has been found not guilty of sheep-stealing in Wairarapa. At Wanganui ram fair yesterday the highest price paid was4B>£ guineas for one of W. H. Wybourne’s Lincolns, and the next highest 41 guineas for a bred by W. Perry. We are now notified that the outgoing Vancouver mail will be despatched by the Main Trunk instead of via New Plymouth, thus it will close at Marton and Feilding a day later than previously announced, viz. . Tuesday, 16th February. All the flowers and vegetables with which one exhibitor was so successful at the Palmerston Horticultural Society’s Show on Wednesday were grown from Sutton & Sons’ seeds supplied by the sole district agents, Messrs Barraud & Abraham, Ltd. At Auckland Supreme Court yesterday, Albert Ernest Trail was charged with having, at Coromandel, on July 16th, 1903, gone through the marriage ceremony with a young woman, his wife, Elizabeth Catherine, whom he married at Auckland on March 4th, 1890, being then alive. Trail, after living with his first wife for some time, separated from her, and married the second woman. Accused, when first charged, admitted that he knew the first wife was alive just before he married the second one, but he had not seen her for ten o r eleven year™ and had been told that she was dead. He also told the young woman ho married that ho was not certain whether his first wife was alive or not. When charged the prisoner remarked : “I was suspecting something like this, but I don’t call it bigamy as I had not seen my first wife for ten or eleven years when I married the second.” After an hour’s retirement the. jury returned a verdict of not guilty.

The Telegraph Department is advised that communication with Noumea is interrupted owing to a severe cyclone in New Caledonia.

We call attention to the fact that the Taihape stock sale will be held on the 18th inst., owing to the Ram Fair.

Napier Chamber of Commerce is urging the Minister for Railways to have the survey of the line from Napier to Poverty Bay completed.

The Oamarn Mail forwarded direct to London through the Secretary of the Treasury, £IOO in aid of the Children’s Bread Fund.

At the annual meeting of the Westport Coal Company a dividend and bonus of 5s 8d per share was declared. The Hons. Fergus and Sinclair were re-elected directors.

Wellington ratepayers have rejected “the loan proposals, except those providing for tramways to Wadestown and water supply to Northland and Wadestown, only 2000 out of 12,000 voting. Intending compettitora are reminded that nominations for the Ohingaiti Sports close on Saturday. With fifty per cent, added nominations will be accepted up to the day of the sports.

The Tutanekai returned to Wellington this morning from an unsuccessful search for the Rio Logo. She zig-zagged to the Ghatbams and back but j,found no wreckage anywhere.

At a meeting of milk suppliers at Woodville yesterday it was decided to make an effort to establish a cheese factory in the district. Half the guarantee required was taken up at the meeting. Notice is given of the opening of the Technical classes at Bulls. The classes provided will include millinery, cooking, woodwork, woodoarving, and, should sufficient pupils apply, typewriting and shorthand. A complimentary conversazione tendered to Mr D. Buick, M. P., last night at Palmerston, was most successful. Among the speakers were Messrs Massey, Newman, and Guthiie, M’s.P. The obsequies of the late Hone Heke commenced yesterday, when the body was taken by rail to Otaki, where a tangi is being held to-day. To-day the remains will be taken on to Wanganui and'finally to Kaikohe for interment. The Native Minister has gone to Otaki and may go on to Wanganui.

At a meeting of the Presbyterian Chrysanthemum Flower Show Committee held last evening in Marton, it was decided to hold the show on April 30th and May Ist. A subcommittee was appointed to revise the schedule and have catalogues printed and circulated through the Advocate next month. J. A. Hubner, carpenter, of Makino, has filed. Unsecured creditors £405 16s, secured creditors £237 ss, total debts £405 16s; assets, book debts estimated to produce £26 ss, furniture £SO, surplus from securities in hands of secured creditors £362 19s, total assets £439 4s; estimated surplus £3B Bs. The exports for January, 1909, showed an improvement under most of the heads over those for January, 1908. Butter increased in value £50,000, cheese £35,000, beef £24,000, mutton £35,000, lamb £54,000. Flax, however, showed a fall in value of £86,000 and wool of £200,000, but the latter fall is probably due to the fact thatjmore wool ships happened to leave last chan in the corresponding month of 1908. At Auckland Supreme Court this morning Justice Edwards said, in connection with a Wairoa case in which the jury found Robert Garr guilty of having caused actual bodily harm, that he had doubt whether the jury was correct, and had decided to postpone sentence and reserve the point’ for possible reference to |the Court of Appeal. Accused would be allowed reasonable bail. Arrangements have now been made for the Marton School excursion to Wanganui Heads on Friday next. The train will leave Pukepapa at 8.35 a.in., reaching 10.38 and will go through to Castleoliff without a change. Hot water will be provided free at Castleoliff. The return train will leave Wanganui at 5.20. Fares are as follows: Children Is 4d, senior scholars and teachers 2s Id, adults 2s'9d. Country schools near Marton will be invited to join the excursion. “So far as Otago is concerned, there* is a sort of wave of conciliation going through the land,’’ said Mr W. Scott, the Secretary of the Otago Employers’ Association, in the Arbitration Court at Dunedin. He said chat the Court at its sitting in Dunedin this month had pot up something of a record, for of eight disputes that had been filed, every one had been settled without the Court’s intervention. He hoped that this happy state of things might long continue.

Madame Nordica, public lecturer from Queen’s Hall, Sydney, mental and magnetic healer, notifies that she is now in Marton and may be consulted at Hunter’s Private Hotel. Madame Nordica who proposes to arrange for a series of lectures in Marton, speaks with great fluency. She lectured in Sydney every Sunday night for four years and the Research Society there placed on record a resolution bearing testimony to her powers as a spiritnalistio lecturer. Before returning to Aus tralia she will give lectures at Wellington and Dunedin. At the meeting of T. A. Durran’s creditors, at Feilding, his statement showed his total debts to be £249 19s 9d, and his assets £2O, leaving a deficiency of £229 19a 9d. In nfs written statement- he said ho came to Feilding about years ago with a little stock (jewellery), but no money. He took a shop and dwelling bouse in Ferguson street at a rental of 25s per week and stayed in it for ten mouths, but could not do any good. He then moved into a shop on Kimboltou roa-I and took out a six-monthly auet i user’s license, but did not get his money back, and at the end of six months auctioned a lot of his stook He did not realise enough to psy advertising and other expenses. Sb ce then ne had not made any headway, but had endeavoured to make a living by selling jewellery and fancy goods. Ho also ran a shooting gallery at Marton, but with no better success, and, as several creditors were threatening to sue him, he had no option but to file. Ho had no offer to make Iris creditors. Cross-examined, bankrupt stated that he kept a book up till Christmas, 1907, which was destroyed by bis child. He sold bis shooting gallery for £lO and his stock for £6. The meeting terminated without any resolution being pnsesd.

Mr J." Mills is at present in this district . canvassing for his Bradshaw’s Guide in connection with the Main Trunk Bail way. An attempt is being made to induce Trembath, the half mile Australasian champion, to the American intercollegiate oham-’ pion, at Dunedin on March 20th. Mr Guthrie, M.P., was present at a banquet given in Wellington on Wednesday to Mr Williams, an unsuccessful Opposition candidate at the general election. Messrs Massey, Herdman and Guthrie were the chief speakers. The Attorney-General advises Auckland City Council that the amending of the Municipal Corporation Act is receiving attention, giving local bodies power to refuse a billiardroom license where they are not satisfied with the character of the applicant. Mr Guthrie, M.P, for Oroua, was in Wellington yesterday, seeing Ministers in connection with matters relating to hie constituency. Among other things he brought forward the question of the Karewarewa bridge and also urged the necessity for acquiring and preserving the scenic reserve near Feilding. An officer of the Department is to inspect and report on the reserve. Mr Guthrie also brought before the Minister forEdncafcion several matters relating to the Y7anganui College, of the Board of which he is a member.—Dominion. It will doubtless have been noticed by readers that during the last six weeks the Rangltikei Advocate has oeen printed on paper of irregular size. The rapid increase of oironla tion, due mainly to the opening of the Main Trunk Line, caused our regular supplies of paper to be insufficient, and the extra supplies cabled for have only just come to hand by the Aberlour, which arrived at Wellington on Friday. During the shortage had to depend on supplies obtained from our contemporaries, and we have to thank these —especially the Manawatn Standard and the Haweta Star—for their ready response to our request for supplies. The advance agent for Anderson’s Dramatic Company, which will stage “The Squatter’s Daughter’’ in Marton on Thursday next, called at the Advocate office to-day, aud in the course of conversation gave us some interesting impressions of New Zealand. Having travelled for some years in Queensland he finds the New Zealand climate a delightful change after the hot nights and hotter days of Queensland. Referring to our cities he places Auckland an easy first as either a business or residential centre, though he considers Napier an ideal place for a holiday.

Regarding the cash coupon system, Mr W. A. Kellow,. gave a representative of the Press an account of its success in Wellington. He said that the system put briefly, is that a customer purchases coupons at the rate of 3s 4d a dozen, each coupon entitling the holder to a 31b loaf of a cash value of The discount on the dozen loaves is thus 2d, cr about five percent. For every 21b loaf left at the customer’s house, the baker’s man collects a coupon and the transaction is closed without any booking or credit namg required. “I believe,” said Mr Kellow, “that there is not one person In a hundred in Wellintgon who would go back to the old. system and I think that if I went back to credit I would lose half my customers.” After about twenty-five years’ work, the Public Works Department on Saturday will Jfinally hand over to the Railway Department the last section of the North Island Main Trunk Railway. Before this can be done an engineer from each Department has to inspect the work and certify to its proper completion. This process is being carried out by Mr O. J. McKenzie, representing the Public Works Department, and Mr Lowe, who will watch the Railway Department’s interest. Mr Lowe is the District engineer of Railways in charge of the section between Marton Junction and Fraction Junction and he is stationed at Ohakune, practically halfway between the extremities of his district and close to a small railway workshop situated at Rangataua. At the end of January, four hundred men are still engaged in putting the finishing touches to the line, but every week their numbers have been diminishing and there will soon be no Public Works’ employees on the job. Most of the men have been absorbed oa other works for the Department, which is vary busy, andjhcs'an extra large pay roll.