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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9411, 3 April 1909, Page 5

The Ootmoil of Defence members will attend various Easter Encampments of Volunteers. Colonel Robin. Canterbury and Otago; Colonel Davies, Oringi (Woodrille), Colonel Collins, Palmerston North and Wanganui, Colonel Tnson, Auckland. The return of working of the North Island Main Trunk lines and branches ofj-railways for the period ended February 27th shows that * 440,933 passengers were carried, as against 892,258 for the corresponding period last year. Parcels, etc., totalled 42,057, as against So, 316 for last year, whilst the cattle, eto.. numbered 490,654, ass against 473,334 last year. Merchandise, eto.. carried totalled 12,552 tons, anjadvance on the previous year’s figures, . which were 112,055 tons. The revenue amounted to £182,823 12s lOd, as against £111,275 8s lid for the same period last year. At the meeting of Hangitikel County Council to-day a resolution was passed recording appreciation of the Council of Sir J. Ward’s action in offering to provide a battleship for the defence of the Empire, and a second if necessary, in consequence of the grave state of affairs now existing in Europe. The motion was proposed by Or. McGregor, who said that very few people understood the grave position the people of the Dominion were in to-day. Sir J. Ward deserved the warmest thanks, not only of the people of the Dominion, but of the whole Empire, _ Or, Fraser jokingly remarked that it reminded him of meeting a fellow who wanted to borrow a shilling, and who, immediately he got it, turned round aud asked him to have a drink. For Children’s Hacking Cenpb as night, -Woods’ Great Peppermint V/UaOj li* 0u dull imit UUt