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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9441, 11 May 1909, Page 5

At the SriQhest on the bady of Matthew Driscoll, aged 73, who was found drowned in a pond at Levels on Sunday, the verdict was suicide while temporary insane. Deceased was a well-known farmer, and a director of the Farmers’ Co-operative Association. Mr R. MoNab, ex-Miaister for Lands is so firmly convinced of the need for compulsory military training in New Zealand that he has decided to stump the country as a missionary of the causa. He will be one of tbe speakers at the meeting in tha Wellington Town Hall Concert Room this week, and he will* afterwards address a meeting in Auckland, and then come southwards, speaking at the principal towns of the Dominion. He anticipates that by the opening of Parliament he will have visited nearly every electorate. It ia interesting to note, says the Auckland Herald, the growth par head cf our European population in exports and imports. The value of imports has risen from £9 4s lOd per head in 1895 to £lB 16s 6d ia 1907, whilst the exports have only risen from £l2 7s per head to £3l 16s M during the same period. What sra the reasons for this portentous change In tbe difference between imports and exports? There are two reasons. The minor one is, no doubt, the higher and more expensive style of living so cmnrim today The major one is tha difference in the proportion of primary producers per head of our population Nearly seven-eighths of the exports of this country are represented by argiouitural products, consequently, to pat the matter briafly, the reason why our exports have not kept pace with our imports is due to tbe fact that laud settlement and farming have not kept pace with the growth of our population.

Mr Oliver Kelly, of Jacob’s River, had a very narrow escape from being gored to death by a two-year-old Shorthorn bull on Wednesday *last. In company with his wife he was (says the Western Star) engaged driving the animal from one paddock to another, when it turned on him, knocking him to the ground. Mr Kelly, who is a strong man, managed to hold cn to the animal’s head, and was thus for a time free from being gored. Mrs Kelly then want to her husband’s, assistance, when the animal turned his attention to her, knocking her to the ground, acd lacerating her arms and hands. Mr Kelly by this time regained hia feet, when the animal once more * turned on him, knocking him to the ground for tho second time. Messrs McLaughlin and Payne, who were engaged in draining 'operations In aa adjoining field, armed themselves with axes and rushed to the rescue, and it was only after three heavyblows were on the bead that the infuriated beast was driven off. Mr Kelly’s neck, face, and arma were torn in the encounter and his body badly ; bruised. The was destroyed shortly after. A consignment of Drapery for branch shop, together with latest Trimmed Millinery, will be sold at special sale prices for nine days. Gahagan’s Economic.*