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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9372, 15 February 1909, Page 4

At Peildiug Court this morning Timothy Lyon was fined 20a or in default 7 days for having been drunk and disorderly. The fine was not paid. Some cricket scores are unavoidably held over to-day on account of pressure on our space. At Feilding Old Boys scored 98 against Feilding 49. At Halcombe Cheltenham beat Hlacombe by seven wickets. The first train of regular express through service on the Main Trunk railway left Wellington at 9.15 on Sunday night with about 200 passengers, a large proportion being returning excursionists. Mr Kinkead, one of the first settlers of the Pemberton block, was killed on Friday through his horse shying. He was sitting on his horse watching the breaking in of some colts when the accident took place, and he broke his neck as tbe result of the fall. j Mr Whitmore Monokton, F.R.G.S., F.L.S., eon of Dr. Monokton, of Feilding, has been nominated by the Council of the Royal Society of Arts as a member of that Society. Members of tbe Royal Society of Arts are as a general rule, elected by ballot of members, and nomination by the Council is regarded as a rare and high honour. It is reported that a large steamer (name at present unknown) is ashore or broken down off the month of the Hurunui River. Immediately on her arrival at Christchurch from Wellington yesterday morning tbe Union Company’s Mararoa was sent up tbe coast to render assistance. No further details are at present available here.

A meeting of the Waituna West Branch of the Farmers Union was held In the Schoolhouse on Thursday. Owing to apparent lack of interest, by so poorly attended a meeting, it was decided to give up the idea of the annual picnic this year. A circular was received and discussed from Mr J. G. Wilson. Mr D. Price’s resignation was acoepted'with regret. Mr Grice was asked to bring the matter of rabbit poisoning before the Kiwitea County Council and ask that a ‘day be appointed for poisoning throughout the district. Mrs E. O. Hine, of Ohristohnroh, has been notified by , the Undersecretary of Internal Affairs that £lO will be paid to her in respect to the design sent in by her for a coat of arms for the Dominion. This design, with the designs of two other competitors, is to be forwarded to the College of Arms, London, for examination and the competitors whose designs are deemed to be first and second in order of merit receive a further payment of £lO and £5 respectively.

The Pacific Rural Press says: — Until the great prune planting passion of a decade ago the peach was the greatest deciduous fruit of California, judged by the total number of trees in service. The figures in 1905 were: Peach trees in orchard, 7,405,740; prune trees in orchard, 8,306,856; apparently 900,000 more prunes [’than peaches. But during the last three years the peach has had the call. Take the last good year, 1905 : Carloads of fresh peaches sent east, 1946; oases of canned peaches, 896,176; tons of dried peaches, 18,000. The gross value of this product of a year can be placed at about twenty million dollars. A few weeks ago, says the London correspondent of the Post, I sent you something about Colonel G. Hamilton Browne, a veteran officer of Colonial Irregulars, who was stranded in London, and was willing to black boots for a. living. Colonel Browne, generally called “Maori,” because his first service was in New Zealand in 1866-7 (for which he received the medal) is sixty-three years of age, grey and sturdy, rather like Lord Roberts in appearance. Although be holds medals also of the Zulu, Galeka, Basuto, Matabele, and the Mashonaland wars, was commended for gallantry at Rorke’s Drift, raised the Umtaii Rifles, and held important positions in the service, he was an irregular, so oannot receive a pension, and, being an officer, cannot join the Corps of Commissionaires. Reduced to extremities, he lived for three weeks on the sale of his medals, and then applied to the Salvation Army. When bis position was made known he received assistance from many quarters. One day a letter came from a lady asking if he was the same Hamilton Browne who had served in Znluland, and saved the life of a man whose name she gave. He was the same and he wrote telling her of the incident. The lady had been engaged to the man whose life was saved, but he died later in the Sr.udan, and she never married. The correspondence with Colonel Browne led to a meeting, and the acauaintanoe ripened into an engagement. The marriage took place and as the lady is wealthy the vicissitudes of the veteran soldier are probably ended. The colonel and his bride were married quietly. The bride is Miss Sarah Wallis Wilkerson, of The Beeches, Melbourne, Cambridge. Seasonable garments for the hot weather can be obtained cheap at Spence & Spence’s sale. Summer Coats, Dresses, Skirts, Blouses, and Straw Hats all going at big reductions while the sale lasts.*

Report of meeting of Pobangina County Council is unavoidably held over.

A man named Morgan was gored through the leg by a bull a few days ago, and was taken to the Waipuhurau Hospital for treatment. The leg had to be taken off as mortification set in, and the unfortunate man is doing as well as can be expected under the distressing circumstances. Metiers Dalgety & Co., Ltd., wish to give a reminder of the large clearing sale they.are holding on Tuesday, 16th inst., at Fordell on account of Mr W. Chapman. The stock right through are a good lot. Owing to the length of the catalogue the sale will start sharp at 11 o’clock.

Left unpruned, the peach soon becomes bark-bound, and the hark itself becomes hardened and brittle. Lower shoots are apt to give out. and the tree becomes an umbrella of foliage and fruit held |alofb by bare branches bark-burned by the sun, invaded by borers, exuding gum, covered with moss aud lichens—a picture of distress and unprofitability because its owner does not give the tree a chance to reinvigorate itself with large fresh loaves from the new wood which alone can carry them. Speasing at a complimentary social to Mr R. B. Williams, an unsuccessful candidate for the Suburbs seat at Wellington, Mr Massey, Leader of the Opposition, said he wished to express his candid opinion that ’there was a Government in power which was prepared ‘to sacrifice the interests of, the country to that of party. There were leaseholders, freeholders, land nationalisers, single-taxers, individualists,protectionists, freetraders, “big loafers” and “little |loafers” — (loud laughter)—prohibitionists, moderates, immoderates, people who believed in anything that the majority believed. The colours of Joseph’s coats wars nothing to the colour’s of Joseph’s Cabinet. (Renewed laughter.) It was quite certain that politics were going to be more interesting than in the past, and if the gentlemen who were now members of the Executive acted up to their on ;the platform Le thought it would take the Prime Minister all his time—he would require all the tact with which his friends credited him—to keep the Ministerial machine running.

The Schoolhonse at Sandon Block was crowded on Friday evening last, the ogcasion being a valedictory sooial to Mr Herbert Jackson, who has had charge of the school for the last three years and who has received well deserved promotion to the Taoroa School. A musical programme of a very high order, interspersed with dancing, was given, towards which Misses Johnson, Brown, Brooker, Brooks, Manson and Stent and Messrs Brooking, Brooks and Jackson contributed. Mr Hookly, in asknig Mr Jackson’s acceptance of a handsome silver inkstand and leather writing pad, paid a very high tribute to bis work while in charge of the school, and in the course of his remarks referred to the fact that last year he was one of six teachers who were nominated by the Education Board to a three weeks course at the Welington Training College, and cougrafculated him on his remarkable success in his examinations; he having in less than three I years matriculated, obtained his D certificate, passed his solicitor’s general knowledge examination, and was at the present timeSJ keeping terms at Yictoria College for his B. A. degree. A very happy and pleasant evening concluded by votes of thanks being accorded to the performers, to the ladies for the very excellent supper they had provided and to Mr W. Philps for his admirable dance music.

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