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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9438, 7 May 1909, Page 4

Special attention of those who have not paid their newspaper accounts is directed to an announcement before the leader. The Dunedin Star states that relics in connection with the.‘‘Amy Book marriage” will shortly he put up for public, auction. At Wednesday’s meeting of the Education Board, a grant of £3 was made for shelving at the Holcombe School for school library. The application for a school at Bennett’s siding, Ohakune, was not to. A number of booksellers and others were charged at Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday with selling copies of the New Zealand Truth, One case was heard and judgment reserved, the other oases being adjourned. The May issue of the Lone Hand, whi<jh the Gordon and Gotoh Proprietary, Ltd.. Wellington, forward, is a capital number. The literary contributors include Arthur H. Adams, O. H. Kirmess, James Esmond, O. A. Jeffries, [Hilda Keane, E. J. Brady, and other wellknown writers, while the illustrations are by Percy Spence, , Norman Lindsay, D. H. Soufcer, Alek Sass, and others.

The Feilding Bprongh Council has decided to invite Mr R. MoNab to give a lecture at Feilding on compulsory military training. A large meeting of Orangemen in Sydney passed a resolution opposing Mr Redmond’s Bill for the amendment of the King’s Accession Oath, and it was decided to cable a protest to Mr Asquith. After a long discussion last night, Feilding Borough Council decided not to proceed with the objection to validation of property in the borough. Tin’s resolution wi*as come to largely owing to the evident indisposition of the ratepayers to support sach[aotion as had been first decideu noon.

Some letters written by Amy Book which appear to-day on page 3, show that she has unquestionable claims to the title of ‘‘compleat letter writer,” When we recall, thejstilted character of most of the epistles in the books that bear this or similar titles, we cannot but wonder at the lack of enterprise which has led publishers hitherto to overlook the claims of the talented lady who has of late been so prominently before the public. The steamer Koromiko which arrived in Auckland from Newcastle on Thursday, encountered fierce gales and high seas. On the night of May Ist she shipped tremendous seas, compelling a deviation from her course. Next day a sea swept the deck, stove in the starboard lifeboat, and flooded one of the cabins. Very stormy weather continued till the morning of the 4th. The Koromiko was also delayed some time repairing a slight accident to her machinery. The Wellington Magistrate has given judgment for defendant in a case in which T. Dixon claimed £IOO from the Alliance Insurance Company, value of policy on a building destroyed by fire. It was shown that when the insurance was Effected the building was occupied by Europeans as a dwelling house, and was subsequently let to a Chinaman for use as a laundry. The Company had not been informed of the alteration or they would have increased the premium, a laundry being a hazardous risk.

The death of Mrs William Ornickshank, which occurred at Wanganui on Tuesday, removes one of the oldest residents of the district. She was extremely well-known and highly respected and was always most active. Mrs Orniobshanb arrived in Wanganni in 1868, and to Marton. During her long residence in the latter place, extending over 20 years, she $ made many friends, who will regret to hear of her death. She leaves a family of three sons and three.daugbters, Mr England, the owner of the hay and straw store burned at Hastings on Wednesday, estimates the damage at between £2OO and“£3oo. The firp was confined to the stacked straw. Water and smoke were responsible for other damage. The origin of the fire is a mystery. It is thought that rats caused the fire. The insurance on the building was £6OO in the Stand Office, stock £3OO in the Lodnon Lancashire Office, and £2OO in the Victoria Office; machinery (undamaged) £l5O in Loudon and Lancashire. At a conference of chairmen of the district Drainage Boards at Palmerston yesterday the recommendations of a sub-committee regarding proposed amendments of the Act were adopted. The included rating on an acreage basis np to 2s in the £, also the repeal of sections which require the Boards to give notice before pro ceeding with certain works, repeal a clause relating to compensation, amendment of certain sections and addition of a section incorporating parts 3 and 10 of the Public Works Aot and the section of the Counties Act relating to by-laws. • At Wellington yesterday Hemingway was committed for trial for robbery of cancelled bank notes from Wellington Post Office. Detective Lewis put in a confession made by aocnaed when arrested, in which he seated that he had travelled to Pending after the burglary and there found he could fix up the cancelled bank notes. Then be went north and visited Auckland and , Rotorua, and returned to Wellington, and had a trip to Sydney, returning to New Zealand. He then went to Christchurch and bolted when he found detectives after him.

A rather heated discussion took place at the meeting of Feilding Borough Council last night on the matter of appointing representatives on the Fire Board. Mr Pirani was one of the Council’s representatives last tear and was chairman. Or. West proposed, and Or. Harford seconded, That the Mayor and Ors. Goodbehere and Willianison be appointed. An amendment proposed by Or. Tolley, I seconded by Or. Atkinson, that the Mayor, Or. Williamson and Mr F. , Pirani he appointed, was lost. The movers of the motion acknowledged the services of Mr Pirani, but contended that only Councillors should he appointed. The motion was carried. The death of John Whlteford, says the Dunedin Star, touches public interest at two points. In the first place, this man, apparently deep sunk in poverty, living, in a mean but, and alone, bad comparative wealth—£lßoo hanked; and in the second place, be died literally from a ‘ ‘broken heart. ’ ’ Here is no sentimental applioation of the hackneyed phrase. Dr. Gordon Macdonald uses it in a purely physical way to indicate a cause of death so rare-that he, iu all his post-mortem experience in Scotland and New Zealand, has never before come across it. The heart Is really nothing more than a muscle surrounded by a fibrous sac, known as the pericardial sac. A sudden strain upon Whiteford’s already diseased and enfeebled heart literally caused a rupture of the left ventricle, near the apex. The Wellington Society for the Promotion of the Health 1 of Women and Children, in its fir/st annual report of Bases just issued, states that of 310 babies who have been under observation, six of them only are dealt with in the report. These children were fed on costly patenc foods and \yet they grew to the thinness |of the proverbial rake. When the patent foods were discontinued and the . Plunket nurses’ directions followed in regard to dieting on humanised milk, the condition of the babies took a rapid turn tor the better, some of them gaining five pounds in six weeks. Others 'developed at the rate of half a pound a week. Normal sleep and generally followed the simple com-mon-sense treatment laid down and the babies, instead of being lost, now bid fair, to become robust members of society. In one case contracted limbs became straight as the result of rational feeding.

At Failding yesterday Mr Thomson, S.M., reserved judgment io the case, Customs v. Redwood, in which the point involved is whether a brewer can sell liquor in such a quantity as two .gallons and three bottles. *

Patrick doe, storekeeper, of Koputarua, was killed by the afternoon train from Wellington yesterday. He fell asleep on the line on the way home from Shannon and the train ran over his heacj, taking the scalp clean oif. ■ "

A , very interesting lecture oh “Fiji and the Fijians’’ was delivered in Marton Methodist schoolroom last evening, by the Rev. W. R. Poole. The lecture was illustrated by means of lantern slides.

A resident of the Lumsden district who, prior to the opening of the shooting season, shot six • Paradise ducks, and then informed the Acclimatisation Society of his action on account of the birds destroying his property, will be called upon to answer a charge of siiooting game out of season.

We have frequently mentioned that many petty thefts have taken place in Marton during recent weeks. Yesterday about two dozen copies of the Advocate, left for a few minutes by the subway at the Railway Station, were stolen. We could dispense with such evidence of the popularity of this journal. 1

There was a good attendance at the meeting of Ruapehu Lodge of Freer masons last evening, including visitors from Hnnterville, Palmerston, Auckland. England and Scotland. Degree work was very successfully carried out by the W.M., Bro. G. Cummins, assisted by his officers. One candidate was balloted for and accepted, and- another was proposed for initiation.

Mr A. J. Gonld*wiirnbe~enabled to offer to-morrow to hia numerous patronajn Marion and district better facilities for serving tea and luncheon. His fine new brick building is to be opened to the public, and. in a spacious room downstairs luncheon ,will be served and dain'ty morning and afternoon tea will be supplied in luxurious tea rooms stairs. Mr Gould's latest enterprise) should enable him to retain the full favour of the public. “The traffic on the North Island Main Trunk, railway has, so far, exceeded our expectations,”, said the Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister of Railways, to a Post reporter. The'servioa, he added, was running smoothly* and despite the near approach of winter showed no signs of falling off. And as to winter travelling he pointed out that foot-warmers are not carried nowadays on the North Island Main Trunk railway. The carriages are heated by steam and in fact are as comfortable as one can well desire.

William Auchinachie, an old ancl respected resident of Palmerston, was killed by the mail tram yesterday afternoon. Deceased, who wak 60 years old, and crippled by rhenmsltism, Was absent-mindedly crossing the line as the train approaches He took no notice of the whistles. The cowcatcher carried him two chains and he was shockingly mutilated, death resulting almost immediately. Mr Anchinaohie was £ native of Scotland, and lived for some years at Kaikoura and Rangiiora.- > *

Reports > are now to hand from most of the deer stalkers who went to North Otago, that the average size and quality of heads on wellknown stalking grounds were better than in any previous year, and this following op on a very severe winter. The theory that shooting the best heads deteriorates a herd iis therefore much discounted, as there are plenty of good young stags coining on to take'the place of those' shot. The only part of Hie forest where deterioration has taken place is where the ground is overstocked with deer, and there is an absolute shortage of feed. At Dunedin Police Court yesterday a man named James Stewart was charged with drunkenness and with procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order. Station Sergt. King explained that accused ban a wife and five children, who had been practically supported by the 'Benevolent Trustees. It was one of the worst cases in Dunedin, and the wife had a terrible time. On the first charge the accused was convicted and discharged, and pn' the second be was fined ss, in default two. month’s imprisonment. Application (or time to pay the fine was refused.

Numerous instances are : on record of oows giving three oalves at a birth, a few instances of four, but apparently only one case of five oalves at a birth This case ooourred at Wilburtoh, Ely, in England, in February, 1900. \ Mother and offspring were photographed. The owner of the group wrote at the time as follows:—“The cow had been anxiously watched for days beforehand, something abnormal being expected. The five oalves were all born alive, and . all except one were strong. That one, 1 am sorry to say, died to-day. The other four are perfectly well, and, I think, are sore to ' live. The mother, too, is doing well. Hundreds of people from the adjoining villages and towns have been to see them. I can quite believe that manyjpeople would consider the fact untrue, as I myself never heard of snob a case, bnt seeing is believing. The cow has been under a vet. for the last throe weeks.” '

The Otira tunnel is making good progress, the heading having, been driven 42 chains and the process of widening has now began. This week it is hoped that the total distance driven will be between 78 and 80 feet, in which case the 26 or 28 men engaged on the work will'receive between them as a boons £l2 or £l4'. The men are perfectly satisfied with the bonns system. When the ground to be driven through is exceptionally hard, they are not able to advance more than 60 feet or 66 feet in a week, though working with equal zeal. When the ground is good they can advance at a rate of 70 feet or 80 feet per week, and for all In addition to 66 feet they receive a bonus. By this means they get the full benefit of the good ground. !If the nature of the ground does not permit them to do 66 feet they do not receive less in wages. In,Mr McLean’s opinion the men, even if they did not get a bonus, would do just as much work, as they are a good class of men. ‘‘lt has been stated by labour agitators, ’’ continued Mr McLean,” that these men by th«lr exertions, and by doing extra work, are robbing otner mou rf employment, but as a matter of fact, as far as this particular instance is ooDoerned, it would be impossible to employ more men than are employed, owing to space being con fined.”