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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9387, 5 March 1909, Page 4

Waituna possesses liberal lovers of sport. On Wednesday Mr Hartley’s Vendetta which was first last year, again won the Open Hunter’s Challenge Onp, valued at twenty guineas, and it became necessary to provide another. In less than an hour more than twice the money (£4l) was subscribed on the ground. At the meeting 'of Manawatn Licensing Committee at Marton yesterday the members present were: Messrs K«rr, S.M., 3. K.. bimpson and A. O. Perry. The transfer of license of Railway Hotel, Turakina, from A. E, Wakeman to J. H. Graham was granted. The application of Mrs O. Cullen for transfer of license of Manawatn Hotel, Foxton, to Sparks Philp, was granted till June, 1909, with a proviso as to disposal of license. Few people realise the serious injury which may be inflicted by a bottle thrown out of a train travelling at 20 or 30 miles an hour. Tne bottle seems to be thrown £quite gently, but, of course, has the same speed as the train. The other day a lady who was standing with two children at the Cliff Line Station received a serious blow on the arm, which necessitated a visit to town for treatment, owing to the action of someone on the Main Trunk mail, Who threw a bottle from a carriage. A blow on the head from such a missile might easily have proved fatal.

Mr R. K. Simpson has given us some facts as to the royalty charged for flax on'the Heaton Park Estate, which do not agree with the figures presented to Mr Hogg by’the flaxmill hands on Friday last. When Mr Simpson took over the estate from the " Rhodes Trustees in 1905, the royalty paid was a percentage on the price of dry flax which worked out at from 6s to 6s 6d per ton on green fibre. In 1907 the mill was removed from the property, and the mill owner offered a royalty of 8s 6d for green flax. A small quantity on the homestead in close proximity to good roads paid a royalty of 10s. Mr Robinson for the flax employees stated that in 1905 the royalty was raised to 10s 6d.

The Act provides for a half holiday from noon on the day of election of Licensing Committees. The Conciliation Council at Napier has settled the drivers’ dispute. This is the first case settled under the new Act. The Eureka Dairy Factory, Hamilton, was destroyed by fire this morning. Only 50 boxes of butter were saved. The factory was insured for £2OIO. The body of the woman I found dving in New Plymouth has not yet been identified, but is believed to be that of Mrs Nicholson, lately employed as a cook at Stratford.

At a meeting of the committee of Feildiug Borough Council this morning it was decided to formally open the swimming baths at 2.30 tomorrow Afternoon. Mr A. J. Kings•beer was appointed caretaker. While running along the back balcony of the Grand Hotel, Rotorua, on Sunday to look at a house on fire a young woman named Woodhouse, a waitress, fell through the manhole leading to the fire escape to the ground. She fell on a stake to which some plants were fastened, and was terribly injured. The girl has been removed to a private hospital.

Technical instruction is not in great demand it would seem. Wednesday’s Hawera Star says The millinery classes in connection with the Hawera Technical School commenced last evening with four pupils. The shorthand and photography classes lapsed for the lack of pupils. If sufficient inducement offers the class for mathematics will commence to-night. The Farmesr’ Union Show at Eketahuna opened yesterday in splendid weather. Entries in farm produce, horticultural and home industries, were far in excess of the previous year. Field event entries were also a record. The quality of the exhibits was very superior ow’ng to the favouiable season. The Agricultural Department’s exhibit created great interest. The show was an unparalleled success. At Bradford, England, one of the schools has a fully furnished cottage in which girls are given instruction in domestic economy. The mistress of the school explained the need for the institution by the following story:—“l once had a party of thirteen girls enter here direct from their homes. Their first examination question was: ‘lf you had lid to get father a Sunday dinner, what would yon give him?’ Two of the girls replied ‘Roast pork,’ and the remainder ‘Fish and chips.’ Writing to his paper the Mangamahoe correspondent of the Eketahuua Express states:—We hear a great deal about the unemployed nowadays. Now I have just returned from a trip to North Taranaki, where work is going begging, at the highest wages, too. One of the road contractors up there, hearing a great dea 1 about the unem ployed, went to Auckland to see if he could get some men. Hardly any that he spoke to wanted to leave town. At last he got hold of a dozen men, and arranged to meet them at a certain train, pay their fares and expenses, and personally conduct them. However, when he went, fall of hope, to the station, not one of them turned up. In Central and North Taranaki and the King Country there is work for hundreds going begging. J. O. Dawson, son of Rev. J. Dawson, of Primitive Church, Wellington, was drowned while bathing ofl’ Shelly Beach, Ponsonby, yesterday. Not being able to swim very well, ®he got into difficulties. A companion (Mr A. Carbine) went to his aid and the two were straggling in the water for some time. They called oat for assistance from persons cn the shore, but at first the lookers-on, thinking it was only a joke, did not respond. Afterwards one person went, but by the time he reached the spot both men were pretty well exhausted. Immediately afterwards another man came, and a boat was also put off. Carbine was got on board the boat, but Dawson disappeared. The body has not yet been recovered. The deceased was only 20 years of age. He and his sister were on fa visit to Auckland and were to have left to-morrow on their return to Wellington. There is good reason to fear that the whole of the oak trees in the Cambridge district are doomed to die from an attack of phylloxera. Some time since Mr Boucher, Government expert, found the pest on the roots of several oak trees in the Domain. Mr Campbell, another Government expert, examined the roots of the trees, but could not find any phylloxera here, but the branches were smothered with millions of * them, some being winged, so the pest will soon spread. Many of the trees are half dead. As soon as they become sickly they are attacked by the borer especially in the bark; large quantities of sap exude from the wounds, and, where it runs down, maggots are found in it. At a meeting of the Cambridge Domain Board members expressed themselves much afraid that in losing the Domain Cambridge was losing one of its greatest attractions. No remedy can be suggested, bat it is hoped, something can be yet done to savfi the trees and to prevent the disease spreading throughout the whole of the Waikato. At the annual picnic and prize distribution at Makino School on Wednesday prizes were distributed as follows : Standard Y.~lvy Hall 1, May Younger 2, Myrtle Reid 3. Standard Yl.—Fred Buhner 1, Grace Mills 3, Percy Stubbington 3. Maurice Sutherland, Dorothy Saunders, Nellie Reid, R. Miers, P, Hubner, R. Miles, B. Rely, G. Pilcher. Standard lll.—Thelma. Johnston 1, Lily Murohie 2, Qneenio Townsend 3. O. Tyreman, K. Taylor, Ethel Newell, *W. Pilcher, I. Marston. Standard ll.—Val. Goodrich J, Arthur Taylor 2, Gladys Newell 8. Thelma Amon, A, Pearson, P. Hall, H. Rdf, H. Newell, I. Pilcher, R. Miles. Standard I.—Howard Brewster 1, Eva NiohoWm 2. Primer 3, Eric Taylor 1, Gladys Johnston 2, Florence Pearson 8. Victor Reid, Elsie Marstnu Primer 2.—Eileen Saunders 1, Hilda Newell 2, Doris Stubbington 3. Gladys Pask, Linda Hnbner, Elsie Pearson, E.'Murohie, A. Amon, J. Nicholson, O. Keif. Primer I.—Mavis Johnston 1, Arthur Brewstej 2, Pearl Reid 3, Lexie Younger, M: Pask, N, Murohie, Z. Taylor, R. Marston, E. Pask, W. Johnston, R. Kituey, Y. Reid, B. Saunders. Ray Pusk,

“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 Coast. Orders solicited for the Christmas season, and punctually attended to.*

A fire early this morning at Stratford gutted a shop occupied by Mias Flynn, fruiterer, and chambers occupied by Fussell, , dentist. It somewhat damaged the stock and fittings of Bendall, tobacconist, Simmons’ restaurant, Orbell and Mackay, civil engineers. Cook’s *tailor shop was slightly affected by smoke and water. Flynn’s stock and fittings were insured for £IOO in the Sun Office. Other insurances are not available.

Ohas. Keeley, a wheel tapper on the railway, was badly injured yesterday at JBalclntfaa. He stepped from the carriage platform of the express, standing at the station, and was Jstruok by a shunting enigne, then passing at a fast pace He was knocked a considerable distance, and sustained an injury to|his collarbone, and it is feared his spine is badly hurt. He is a “married man, about 56 years of age, and has a family of six.

Mr De la Salle, a British tourist, stated to" an interviewer, that there was a tendency in some quarters to underate various scenic areas, beause they were not controlled by the Government. He instanced Wai’rakei as a case in point, and declared that this thermal district was one of the best in the Dominion. “I can quite understand the reason -why the Government Tourist Department takes up its present attitude on the question.” said Mr De la Salle, “still, when people come over- to New Zealand, they naturally like to see everything which is worth seeing.”

A parrot hanging head downwards from a “live” electric wire in Willis street engaged the attention of a Wellington crowd on Wednesday. Was he or would he be electrocuted? was the problem that three or four of intellects and tongues were bnsy thrashing out Altogether the exhibition given by the bird was a good illustration of how harmless a “live” wire is when there is no direct contact with the earth. Bat the crowd were not fully satisfied that this is so until Jthe parrot, finishing his aerial exhibition, blinked solemnly at the spectators and betook himself to the roof of the Bank of New Zealand. With the view tp encourage membership the Hawera Mounted Rifles have issued a little booklet giving a brief rutline of the regulations and conditions under which the corps serves. The recruiting area is the country between the coast extending from Patea to Otakeho, thence across to Bltham, and thence across country to Patea. If sufficient inducement offers the corps hope to forma squadron either at Matapn, Te Koti orOkaiawa. The concluding paragraph says : All that is wanted is men with a desire to fit themselves to take part if necessary in the defence of their country, and the intention to “play the game” while they are volunteers.

An amusing incident occurred at a Oherniavski concert at Auckland. After their solo number, each of the boys was peeented from she proscenium with a large bouquet of red flowers, an action which, though well meant, was calculated to embarrass the majority of males. As it was, the boys took it very well—with perfect outward gavity, though they found it difficult to suppress a smile of amusement. These boys are virile, manly youths, who don’t want to be petted like schoolgirls, and perhaps it may comfort the lovesick maiden, whose happy idea the bouquet business was, to know that the boys made great fun of the incident afterwards. One of them told a reporter he seriously thought of wearing skirts the next night. The sale of post cards, which has assumed such enormous dimensions of recent years, shows no signs of falling off, except to. some extent in regard to those cards which display actresses and actors in various poses. The view post card is evidently the favourite purchase just now-, and as many are sold at the present time as ever was the case. The post card, for choice that depicting some local view, is now the popular means of communication he tween one person and another, a fact to which post card salesmen testify, and letter writing has with many people quite dropped out of practice As an indication of the actual sale of post cards, the proprietor of one large establishment in Dunedin informed a reporter that 41,400 view post cards had been disposed of read’ly in two months and a half.

Mr Harre, schoolmaster at Cheltenham, has been encouraging the children to grow flowers and vegetables at home, and on Wednesday an exhibition of these was given in the school. The following were the prize winners, the prizes being garden tools for vegetables, a writing case and glove box for flowers, and a silver thimble for sewing:—Carrots: May Mills 1, Bertha Oldfield 3, John Harre 8; seven entries. Parsnips: Ronald Booth 1, Bertha Oldfield 2, Molly Oldfield 8; seven entries. Beet: Hugh Burrell 1. Bertha Oldfield 2, John Harre 3; ten entries. Cabbage: Freeman Taylor 1, Molly Oldfield 3, Bertie Green 3; eight entries. Onions : Percy Burrell 1, Ronald Booth 3, Hugh Murdock 3; seven entries. French Beans: May Mills 1, John Harre 3. Ronald Booth 3; three entries. Broad Beaus: Bertie Green 1, John Harre 2, May Mills 3; three entries. Peas: Charlie Stretton 1, May Mills 3, Frank Stretton 3; four entries. Cauliflowers: John Harre 1, Ronald Booth 2; three entries. Bouquets: May Mills 1; eleven entries. Button holes : Sophia Stretton 1; ten entries. Sweets: Lydia Barrow 1, Ivy Stretton 3; five entries. Sewing: Lydia 1, Nelly Green 2; twenty entries. “A MAN WITH A LIVE**.” The chief trouble with the liver is stagnation. When its action is healthy it forms healthy bile and sends this fluid into the bowels to aid the system in cleansing the blood. A disordered liver makes its condition known by yellowness of the eyes and skin, a bad taste in the month, with scum and fur on the tongue ; flushes of heat in the face and hands; cold sweaty feet; heartburn ; piles; constipation; imaginary spots floating before the eyes; a drowsy, dull feeling; loss of appetite; headaches; dry skin; dizziness; and often buzzing or ringing noises in the ears. Such a condition is responsible for an attack “of the blues,’’ when the sufferer is put of sorts with himself aud everybody else. Mr E. P. James, of Enfield, Otago, says: “I have suffered much from my liver aud constipatiou, aud have tried many so-called cures. IMPEY’S MaY APPLE is the only preparation I know of’that is effective in restoring ‘a man with liver’ to good health. 5’ What Irapey’s May Apple did for Mr James, it will do/for you. The cost is 3s 6d.