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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9426, 23 April 1909, Page 4

Christchurch reports that steady rain has fallen all night and a thick drizzle continues. This is the first rain for the last three weeks.

A man named Scanlon, an employee of Thomas Langley, farmer of Dromore, was found dead in bed, in his hut yesterday. The Ooriuthio, which left Wellington for London yesterday, took 6037 boxes of butter and 13,030 orates of cheese from New Zealand.

Archdeacon Towgood will preach to-night in Christ Church, Wanganui, at a special service of commemoration in connection with the Bishop Selwyn centenary.

New Plymouth Harbour Board has accepted the tender of and Ferguson for a dredge to cost £33,000 and be delivered in New Plymouth in ten months.

Dr. Agatha "Adams, of Dunedin, was married' to the Rev. James Montries, of Taumarunui, at St. John’s Church, Wellington, on March 27th, and has now received notice of her appointment as medical Taumarunui Hospital.

Among the public works authorised by Cabinet dn Wednesday were included the following:—WellingtonHutt road and railway improvement £15,000; Dunedin-Mosglel railway duplication £12,000; Marton railway station extension £1250.

An Au.kland telegram states that the crew of the tng boat Stella, which capsized on the Horahora bar, were tluee quarters of an boar in the snrfj and had a terrible struggle to reach the shore. The captain and mate were almost gone bnt managed to land. Ordinary seaman W. Campbell was drowned. Information has been received by the police that Lewis Brown, aged 32, single, was drowned in a well at Ormondville this morning. The well had just been completed and deceased went down to clear some debris floating on the surface. While being lowered deceased was apparently overcome by foul air and fell into about seven feet of water The'body was not recovered for several hours.

Margaret Hutton, aged about 61, living at Ravenshourne, was found lying dead on the floor of her bedroom yesterday morning. On Wednesday evening deceased complained to her daughter of pains about the heart, aud on going into her room yesterday the daughter found |her as above. Deceased had not been attended to by a doctor for twenty-one years. At the inquest a verdict of death from apoplexy was returned, P In the course of a short interview at Christchurch, Mr Fowlds said that there was no truth in the statement that the Government intended to bring about the fusion of the smaller Education Districts with the larger. No (definite decision as to what would be done in the Education Department had been arrived at yet. The largest amount of expenditure was in connection with the teachers’ salaries, which- were fixed by [statute aud had been raised only last year. There was no intention whatever to touch them.

Probably the most extraordinary band on earth is that which is stationed in the Imperial Palace at Moscow. A famous composer was opoe taken into a darkened room to hear one, of his new compositions played by this band. The composer was mystified until the lights were raised, when 20u soldiers were revealed, each with a horn or trumpet in bis hand, varying in size from to [; 20ft. Each instrument aud each performer produced only a single note, but the playing was so perfect that the sound was just as if from one grand instrument played upon by a master hand. At a sitting of [the Academy of Medicine, Paris, Professor Hallopean introduced a young man of 27 years with a splendid crop of hair. The professor ” explained that eighteen months ago the young man had [been completely bald, hut Dr. Ohiootot bad tried experiments on him with astonishing success. The treatment consisted solely of the alternate use. of X-rays . and of electric highfrequency currents. Dr. Ohiootot claimed no secrecy for his method, and had merely undertaken the experiment to show what wonders could be worked by electricity in cases of baldness.

A serious accident was narrowly averted at Lyttelton yesterday morning through the presence of mind of a railway shunter named Dobson. He was engaged in showing a new man his duties and jumped 9ff the oow-catober of a shunting engine to change some points, passing in front of the engine. He attempted to step on the cow-catcher again while the engine was in motion, but his foot slipped. His left leg was dragged under the cow-catoher, but he managed to catch hold of the handrail and support himself. He was carried some distance before he conld drag his leg clear and the engine could be stopped. No bones were broken,.but the muscles of the thighs were squeezed badly and braised.

Under date March 12th the London correspondent .’of a contemporary writes The New Zealad Government were in the money market this week, placing another'batoh of short bonds—£soo,ooo worth, carrying 3% per cent, interest, and due in April 1912. I understand that the whole amount was placed very readily, and that in addition a previous issue of short bonds to the extent of £1,000,000, were renewed. The transaction was not a public loan, the bonds being negotiated privately and the total amount required being left unstated. According to the Times’ city intelligence, there was some adverse comment in financial circles on the system by which these private issues are placed on the market without any definite information as to the amonnt involved for the purpose of the borrowing.

A few years ago Tierra del Fnego was about the last place in the world any person would mention as suitable for industrial settlement of any kind, iet to-day (says the Timarn Herald) Mr A. N. Williams, a New Zealander, who has just returned from Punto Arenas, on Magellan Strait, states that there are five important factories dealing with meat products within a few miles of that town. He states that the country has a wonderful future for the production nt both wool and mutton. The who'e of the Argentine territory of Tierra del Fuego and the southernmost provinces of the Chilian Republic, in spite of their high latitudes, are admirably adapted for sheep runs. Indeed, one of the largest runs owned by a single company in the world is close to Sandy Point, . FOR SCOUR IN CALVES, sheep, pigs and horses, use “ VERMOCINE, ” Unequalled for all internal parasitic diseases of stock. Destroys stomach worms, intestinal worms and lung worms. Unsurpassed, in airbases of diarrhoea affecting young animals. Obtainable from Brice, Broad & Co., Ltd.,*Marton,

The shooting season for game is as nsnal from May Ist to July 81st, not til! May 31st only, as stated some time ago. Atj Hastings Messrs W. Y. Dennett, J. A. Miller, L. W. Fowler, and A. A. George, have been nominated for Mayor. Twenty have been nominated for the Council of nine.

It is evident that a thief of some description is roaming at large in Marton. Several days ago a lamp was taken from a bicycle in the White Hart, and yesterday we are told that he had taken a bicycle. Perhaps he is thinking of beating Birtles record from New Plymouth to Wellington. Experts declare that concrete houses can be put np at 20 per cent, less cost than brick, arid only 5 per cent, more expensive than wood. If well constructed they are well-nigh everlasting, do not require painting periodically, and are practically fireproof. If these claims are well founded, wooden houses ought to be as much oot of date in the Dominion as the crossbow and the wooden walls of Old England, that were not, we may be sure, made of unseasoned timber.

A good many people must be wondering, says Christchurch Evening News, what has become of Sir Jospeh Ward's promised speech on the financial situation. Nearly three weeks have elapsed since the financial year closed, and on April Ist the revenue returns for the principal Australian States were available for public information, but we are still in the dark as to what the returns were in New Zealand.

The Glasgow wharf presented an animated sight yesterday on the departure of the Oorlnthic for London. There were 284 passengers on board, of whom 64 are in the first-class, 79 in the second, and 141 in the third class. Included in the latter were some retaining immigrants, who, having tried New Zealand, are giving np the quest Ol opportunites Among the passengers are Mr and Mrs T. H. Hamer, Mr Hamilton Hodges, Miss Oaldow, a Wellington contralto, and Miss Raboue. A settlement of the Napier trawling dispute was brought about yesterday, when the emnloyers and representatives of the Hawke’s Bay Fisherihen’s Union held a conference with Mr P. Hally, Conciliation Commissioner, -in the chair. The employees are to receive wages plus commission on the gross catch. The employers agree to have a clause inserted in future accident insurance policies in order that the men shall be covered whilst working under the new system. The agreement is .to have a duration of two years.] A slip came down on the railway line in the Manawatu Gorge yesterday after the morning train to Palmerston got through. The slip delayed the mid-day and also the 3 o’clock trains from Palmerston. The line was cleared about 4.30, which enabled passengers by both trains *to reach Woodville station about ]5 o’clock. A large number of passengers en route to Auckland had to wait at Woodville until the line was cleared.. Heavy rain for the past 24 hours has made the river very high, a great body of water going down the Manawatu. At the sitting of the Aotea District Maori Land Board yesterday the President stated that to 3ist March last, the Board had only 3993 acres of land out of the 189,563 acres which had been vested in the Board, while as to approval granted ;by the Board (that was for land in which native owners had negotiated themselves direct with lessees) the total number of leases was 440, the area dealt with being 137,678 acres. Of this class of lease there were 102 applications, dealing with some 30,436 acres, still under considera : tiqn, awaiting valuations or completion of surveys. Some 23 applications had also been approved of or were under consideration, the area involved being about 19,000 acres. A considerable number of recommendations had also been made for removal of restrictions to allow of sales and mortgages, and some 24 had recently been dealt with, or were under consideration, for an area of 4605 acres, and the bulk of it had gone into the hands of those who were making improvements thereon at onoe. One of the biggest sales ever held in the district will be conducted by Harry Palmer, at Rongotea. commencing on Monday, April 26tb, at 11 o’clock. The firm will then offer on account ]of Amesbury Bros, the whole of their stock in trade, valued at £3OOO, and consisting of drtTpery, clothing, linen, showroom goods, boots and !shoes, crockery, and glassware, hardware, groceries, and eight good serviceable harness horsts. Amesbury Bros, are anxious to clear the shop out, and in order to do so expeditiously have decided on a public auction sale instead of the old fashioned and less satisfactory system of stocktaking and marking down sales. A glance at the detailed advertisement will show the endless variety of the lines to be offered. The sale will commence on Monday, at 11 o’clock sharp, and will be continued each day. Every line offered will be sold at no matter what price, so that the inhabitants of the district need have no hesitation about attending the sale. We have the assurance that it will be an absolutely genuine unreserved sale, and the most important ever held in the distrioS.

At Wellington yesterday Alfred Southee and Matilda Ann Sonthee were charged before Mr W. Q. Riddell, S.M., with having neglected Stanley Oronk Sonthee, an adopted child, under 14 years of age, eo as to cause him unnecessary suffering or injury to his health. Evidence for the prosecution was brought to show that the child had been tied to a verandah post for several hours, and on another occasion had been left alone in the house with a dog. When a police constable visited the accused's home the boy, according to the evidence, came running out from under the house. He was ill clad, land complained of being hungry. His Worship held that it was unnecessary to call the male defendant, as he was absent at his work at the period of particular alleged neglect In her defence 'Matilda Ann Sonthee denied that she had been guilty of neglect. She admitted leaving the child plone, but had given him his dinner before doing so. There were neighbours in close proximity, and she had on occasions left her own little girl in charge of- tbe house. She had purposely olad him in old clothes, which must have been torn by the clog. The case was dismissed on the ground that»there was no medical evidence as to ill treatment, hut the Magistrate said* Mrs Southeo should not have left the child alone; and that if she diduct take as much care of the child as of her own children he should be taken from her, „ I i- : l SisijiiiiPi!* if ii >

R. Arnst has decided to row lor, the championship on Wasganni River, Akaroa being abandoned owing to the risk of cold and rough weather.

Statistics of the p-stal and telegraph revenue for the quarter ended March 3lst show revenue--cf £225,762, against £188,615 for same pencd iast year.

The. Timarn Herald reports that an applicant before last week’s Old Age Pension Court was found to have property to the value off] £IOSO, and from it he was getting 6 per cent.

A man named G. Richatdsoa, charged with forging as cheque for £22, which was cashed by Mr Bonner, of the Langham Hotel, Mangaweka, was arrested at Rotorua Ob'Wednesday, and remanded to appear at Mangaweka on the 27th inst.

■Curing ti.e first three months of the present year discount stamps issued by Government sold in Wellington district to the value of £586 ss, in Thames £2, and in Auckland £6 ss. There was no business done with these elsewhere. '

The |steamer Lauderdale when being towed out of dock at Auckland by the Harbour Board’s tug collided wih the wharf and damaged her rudder and propeller. She was redocked to-day, and it is estimated repairs will cost about £IOOO. 'Her departure for Greymouth- has been delayed for a week;' Lieutenant '^hackleton’s recent lecture in the Town Hall in aid of the funds of the of the Victoria College Qymnasiom has “panned out,” financially, and in every other way, a big success. It was stated at the meeting of the Victoria College Council that a sum of about £250 was anticipated. A hearty vote of thanks was passed to Lieut. Sbaokleton.

The final match in the Newman Cup rbmpetifcion for present season will be fired between SandonOhakea and Marton Eifle Olnbs on. Bulls range, on Wednesday, 2Stb. Considerable public interest is being displayed. It is also expected that Mr Newman will be present to make the presentation to tho victorious team. Saudon-Obakea will be represented by the same team that met Himatangi last Saturday.