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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9465, 7 June 1909, Page 4

The Fire has decided to hold the 1910 Conference at Hastings. A Grammar School boy, named Laxon, had his arm broken at Auckland while playing in the Secondary Schools Competition. We have received, but do not publish, some correspondence on Universal Military Service, as we cannot break the rale against the pnblicatiou of anonymous criticism of signed letters.

Mr F, G. Hilton left Marten today for an extended holiday in the South Island. Daring his absence his business will be in charge of Mr Hay, who is a first-class tradesman with over 30 years experience. At Feilding on Saturday night a fire broke out in a cottage, owned by Mr Hoskins, and occupied by Mr O’-tJrien, near the Forester’s Hall, but it was extinguished, with the help of neighbours, before much damage was done; and before the Brigade arrived. A public meeting at Auckland, after carrying a resolution in favour of compulsory military training for men, passed a further resolution on the motion of Mrs Emily Niool, that the Government be asked to introduce a system of universal defensive training for yonng women, and (3) that they be attached to a bearer corps and tanght first aid. Under the heading “Slavery and Imprisonment” a notice appears in our advertising columns requesting all opposed to the scheme for compulsory military training to attend the meeting at Marton on Wednesday evening when Mr MoNab will give an address, and a resolution in favour of some form of universal training will be proposed. At Botorna Magistrate’s Court on /Saturday, A. 0. Norris, Postmaster of Whabatane, pleaded guilty to embezzlement, and was committed for sentence. Bail was allowed in £BSO in two sureties of £175 each. James Simpkins, messenger at Whabatane Post Office, also pleaded guilty to embezzlement, and was committed for sentence. Bail was allowed.

A protest should be entered by all who have any regard for the purity of the English language against the use of the words “roll up” when “attend” or “be present” would do just as wellf football secretaries may perhaps he pardoned for asking players to roll up to practice or for matches, but it is certainly inexcusable to request ladles, as a hookey official did the other day, to roll up for a meeting. The expression has even penetrated into the leader columns of some papers, and we were told the other day that a thousand persons rolled op to the election of the school committee at Hawera. After such a statement it was hardly surprising to learn that the meeting was so disorderly that two hours were spent in the election of a chairman.

A light fall of snow took place in Dunedin on Sunday. Mr Oswald M. Curtis, a prominent settler of Stratford, died suddenly of heart failure on Saturday night.

The scow Echo which stranded at Karamea has been floated off, and is now at Karamea wharf.

Boiler Licensing Committee refused applications for new licenses at Mine Creek. Eleven o’clock extensions were granted where applied for. At the' Police Court at Marten to-day, before Messrs R. E. Beckett and C. Rawson, J’s.P., two first offending .drunkards were fined 5s each.

Mr Clement Wragge has received information from which ne infer* that pitohblend has been discovered in the North Island. Pitchblende is the source of radium.

AS a meeting of Opposition members on Saturday night 32 were present. The meeting was held partly with a view of introducing new members. Nothing definite was decided upon in regard to the approaching session. Mary Kilmartin, a visitor to Camara from Makikhi, who had been staying since March, was found dead in bed on Sunday morning at the Junction Private Hotel. It is understood deceased belonged to Dnnedin. The inquest disclosed heart disease.

A staff ride, comprising all the officers of the mounted forces in the Wellington military district, was held at Palmerston yesterday under the direction of Colonel Bauohop, D. 5.0., and Major MacDonald. The idea was that a force of 1500 had landed at Foxton and was advancing on Palmerston.

A Wellington police constable named Mills caused some diversion in Manners -Street, on Saturday night, owing to being in a state of drunkenness while on duty dn_ uniform. Mills was ordered off duty by Inspector Ellison. The matter will be inquired into by the police authorities.

.■ Share capital amounting to £1 3,000 has been guaranteed in connection with the proposed Farmers’ Cooperative Freezing Works, and the registration of the company is to be proceeded with at once. The provisional directors will hold a meeting at Pahiatna to-morrow. At Rangiora on Friday an unmarried middle-aged man named Frank Coates met with an accident which proved fatal. He was topping a pine tree about 25 feet from the ground when a gust of wind unexpectedly broke the top and he fell beneath it.' The foot of the tree fell on hia thigh, smashing it from the groin to the knee. Doctors attended him, and amputated the leg. Charles Riches, aged 27, employed at Sylvia Park, Otahnhu, was accidentally killed on Sunday. He laid his gnn down on a dog kennel while he released a dog. Then he polled the gnn towards him, the trigger became oanght, and Riches received the full charge in his stomach, death ensuing before a doctor arrived. Riches arrived from-Lancashire last November,

The Levin Times complains of the charges that 'are now being made for freight on the railway. Small parcels that used to be carried from Wellington by the late private company for sixpence now cost as much as eighteenpence and never less than a shilling. Goods freight is also abnormally high in comparison, so much so, that the major portion of merchandise carriage is being diverted, via Foxcon, to the sea route. Notwithstanding the inconvenience of delays by the occasional stranding of boats, merchants and others still prefer to avail themselves of the freightage by sea. In reply to a deputation from Taranaki urging the construction of a railway to Opubake and offering a guarantee up to 3)4. per cent.. Sir Joseph Ward said the matter could only be dealt with by Cabinet. The Goernment must provide a system that would operate equally in all directions. He did not say that they should exact as high a rate as 3% per cent, for any line. There were many places requiring railways which could reasonably expect to pay 3% per cent., and as a railway was a pioneering institution It was only a proper thing $o say that they must be given time to make a reasonable retnrn. Legislation was prepared to’dual with tne matter and would be brought down at a future date.

For several years past the Wellington Fire Brigade has been frequently summoned by false alarms of fire from the vicinity of Hankey and Hopper Streets. Three such alarms were indulged in last night. Op the occasion of the last one, at 'about a quarter to twelve, a Miss Harris, living in the neighbourhood, saw a man in the act of giving the alarm. He broke tbe glass of the alarm box with a pocket knife. She rushed bnt and seized him by the coat collar, but tbe man escaped from Miss Harris, though -not before he had out one of her hands with the pocket knife. The Jinan went into his house in Sooth Avenne, off Hopper Street. The police and brigade had then arrived, and the man was arrested. He is a married man, named John Evans, a dustman in the employ of the Corporation.

A deputation consisting ot several prominent settlers on the eastern side of Marton Junction waited on Bangitikei Council on Saturday to object to being included in the proposed special rating district for loan of £550 towards the snbway and the Fipae Street crossing at Marton Junction. The Council recognised the difficulty in definißg a district for a special rating area for this loan and pointed out that the one mapped out bad been agreed to by several of those directly interested as being as fair a district as could be set out. If the district was increased as suggested by the deputation there would be little chance of carrying the loan.—Or. Duncan considered that as this work would be a oonvenieuoe to the County generally the interest might fairly he made a charge on the general account. He moved in that direction, and his motion was carried, three" Councillors dissenting. The objections were then withdrawn by the deputation and the loan proposal will be proceeded with on the district already defiend. The Act demands that a special rating area should he defined as security, but the rate may be paid out ot general funds.

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An old lady named Mrs Harriet Oook died yesterday from injuries received by falling off a tram-oar in Ferry Road, Christchurch, on the 3rd. Deceased alighted before the oar stopped. A man named John Ernest Woodrough was found in a dying condition at the top of the Fort Hills, Christchurch, on Saturday afternoon, and died shortly afterwards. He had set out earlier in'the day for a walk on the hills.

At Christchurch Magistrate’s Court op Saturday a man named Leonard H. C. Barley, alias Percy Nat King, pleaded guilty to stealing jewellery and other articles, valued at £3l, the property o f Mrs Adam Cowan; also the theft of £23 10s, belonging tc Henry Hayward. Detectives stated that he was one of the worst hotel thieves in the country. He was sentenced to sis months, to be served at the close of a sentence for theft from an Invercargill Hotel. Mr John Stndholme has offered £3OO a year for three years to endow a chair of Domestic Science in the Otago University. It is some time since a similar offer was made to Canterbury College, but the authorities, after giving the matter lengthy consideration, and entering into negotiation with Miss Qilohrist, Tennessee University, tdeoided not to entertain the proposal. The Dunedin Council will favourably consider the offer.

At Feilding Court this morning before Messrs Goodbehere and Haybittle, J’s.P., William McWilliams was charged with having assaulted James Northoott at Pakihikura on April 15th. Mr Sandilands appeared for complainant and Mr Graham for defendant. It appeared that McWilliams. having lost money on two occasions from his whare, suspected Northoott of the theft. He invited Northoott to his whare and charged him with the theft, and the alleged assault took place there. A purse containing £2, which the complainant had lost, was found afterwards in the . whare by Mr Rutherford. McWilliams stated in Court that he made no charge against Northoott and was sorry he had assaulted him. He was fined £l, and ordered to pay solicitor's fee £1 Is.

Wellington Typographical Union on Saturday unanimously pased the following reeolntion :—“That this Union, whilst recognising the necessity of the impending Imperial Defence Conference, and the desirableness of New Zealand being adequately represented urges members ot Parliament to take into consideration the far-reaching effect of the proposed adjournment of the winter session on the industrial class. A large number of wage earners who find employment during the sitting of Parliament will be thrust on the present abnormal and unemployed market, and their wives and children who are now suffering from want and hardships (due to the general monetary depression) will be further cruelly penalised during the severity of winter.” A copy of the resolution will be forwarded to every member of both Houses of Parliament.

Interviewed on Friday as to the law respecting infants who became the care of the State, the Hon. Q. Fowlds said the nest alteration of the law would probably be to secure power for the State to continue its parental regard for its wards!) even after they had attained the age of twenty-one, if it was shewn that their conduct when left to their own resources was unsatisfactory. The idea was to give the State authority to retain incorrigible inmates in the institutions and recommit others after they had passed the present age limit if further detention was considered advisable in the interests of the youths and the general public. “It is a perfectly ridiculous thing,” commented the Minister, “for the State to be put to the expense of keeping some of these persona who may ba more or less degenerates up to the age of twenty-one and then turn them adrift to prey upon society”