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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9466, 8 June 1909, Page 4

Marton Borongh Council is rehanging the firebell on the telegraph post at Davenport’s corner and the bell will be rung to-morrow at 3 p.m. as a test.

A honae at Hastings, owned by James Sourden,* and occupied by John Parker, was burned to the ground on Sunday. Insurances — building £350 in the South British, furniture £3OO in the State office. Before Nelson Licensing Bench yesterday counsel for publicans'notified that he did not intend to apply for eleven o’clock extension, consequently 10 o’clock rules from next month without action by the bench. The Feilding Court House will be completed to-day ready for the furnishing. It is a handsome building, and when the ground in front has been put in order, more than at present, the structure will be an ornament to the town.

Manakau Licensing Committee Intimated that further evidence would be required respecting five hotels, the Wairoa Hotel, .Wairoa; Drury Hotel, Drury; Harp of Erin and Prince Albert, and Royal Oik, Onehunga. A conference of Maoris at Tanpo decided that the timq is not yet ripe for the individual Maori to conduct the administration of his own land. If the land has been out up, however, it is held that the owners should then have all the privileges of Europeans. It is gratifying to know, says the -New Zealand Times, that the competition butters at the Palmerston show will be analysed for their water contents. A departure the show executive could also adopt with advantage would he to stipulate that prize butters mast not contain more than fourteen per cent, of moisture This is a very liberal allowance, and no butter should be allowed to carry an important show premium if it contains more.

Yesterdav at Palmerston seven small boys appeared before the Magistrate charged with doing damage in a Chinaman’s garden. They had slashed about marrows and pie melons, doing damage to the extent of £'d on one occasion, and on a second had attacked the cabbages. They were admonished and each ordered to pay 9s towards the damage done. When the Anglican General Synod meets in Wellington at the beginning of next year an important proposal will be submitted. It is that the Primacy'should be permanently attached to the See of Wellington, and that the Bishop of the diocese should assume the title of Archbishop of Wellington and Primate of New Zealand. No change can 'obtain until the Primacy becomes vapant. At the present , time the office—the Primacy of the Anglican Church in New Zealand—is a roving one, and is generally, though not necessarily, held by the senior bishop. When the Hon. J. A. JMillar, Minister for Railways, was interviewed by a deputation from Petone on Friday asking him to have suburban passengers carried to Wellington by the down mail train from Napier, he ascertained that a purely suburban train for the city left the suburbs shortly after the express. He was not slow to seize an apparent advantage 1 and shrewdly suggested that if the express carried passengers to requested it might be possible to “cut out” the other* suburban Jjrain. He evidently had in mind his previous announcement that “ the railways must ■ pay their way.” ,An English mining prospector named Courtney has arrived at Los Angeles from San Bernadino, in California, after fifteen years of hermit existence hunting for gold in the Arizona deserts. His first query was “How’s Her Majesty,” "and he was most astonished when told that Queen Victoria was dead. On the matter of the American Presidency, too, he was hopelessly at sea. “Roosevelt, Roosevelt,” he queried. “Who’s he? I never, heard the name before. ” Courtney learned for the first time (says the Standard) of the Russo-Japanese and Spanish-American Wars, and when told that Great Britain had gone through a successful war in South Africa be removed his hat and cheered. As a motor oar passed along the street Courtney jumped into a doorway in alarm. He flatly refuses to believe in .wireless celegraphy, and says people are trying to “fool” him. i

In his Empire Day sermon at St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney, on 23rd May, Canon Boyce (president of the British Empire League), arguing that to promote peace was a simple Christian dutVi said he thought that every effort should be' made to submit all disputes between nations to a court of arbitration, whose decisions should be enforced, it need be, by a combination of the Powers. All must deeply regret the failure of The Hague Conference. But; pending this world’s court of a arbitration, Canon Boyce asked himself what was to be done in the meantime. “Certainly,” he replied, “to be already to defend ourselves. Even as it is right to call in the police on the invasion of the house by a burglar so, in a larger way, is it right to defend ourselves from invasion by a foreign foe. The principle is the same. I believe it to be a high and holy duty to hear arms in defence for one's country*. It may be on the sea or the land, but wherever it be the need is evident.” Having spoken these stout words, the canon set out a rebuke to the people of Australia, holding that beyond question they had not done a fair share in the defence of the Empire. Yet there were signs of a truer and larger conception of the duty owing. Let each feel his own responsibility, and see that it bore fruit. Let them never forget that they should be ready to join in the protection of the weakest of their lands, and that true strength would be in mutual support.

Mr Wragge states that a great storm lias broken out in the sun which may cause earthquakes and auroral displays. ' Constable Mills was yesterday die* missed from the service for being intoxicated while on duty in Wellington on Saturday night. Up to the present the campaign against rabbits in Queensland has cost the State £1,300,000. of which £096,000 has been found by the Government.

The Executive of the New Zealand Alliance has entered a strong protest against the granting of wholesale licenses in the King Country.

At Mr McNah's Palmerston meeting Mr J. M. Johnston read a letter from Colonel Gorton, Urging mliitary training. 1 Forty New Zealanders who have served five years on H.M S, Pioneer will shortly be discharged after five years service, and will receive £250 apiece. Colonials receive higher pav than British seamen and the difference ia banked for them until they are discharged.

Notice is given in our advertising columns that the Rev. O. O. Harper will give a lantern lecture tomorrow evening in the Anglican Sunday School, Bulls, on the work of the Church in Melanesia. There will be no charge for admission but a collection will be made.

At Feilding Court this morning before Messrs Olapham and Nicholas, Mrs H. W. Taylor was fined 2s 6d with fs costs for riding without a light, "apd J. O. Thompson 3s 6d with 7d costs for riding on the footpath. A prohibition order was granted against Robert Russell, on the application oc his wife. Mr Forbes Maoleod, evangelist of the Auckland “Tent commenced special services in the Druid’s Hall, Marton, on Sunday. An interesting and effective Gospel address was based on Luke, 13 chapter, Ist to 9fch verses, “The barren fig tree. ” The whole of the evangelist’s remarks were .followed attentively. Mr Maoleod he same hall, the remaining nights of this week at 7.30.

The Hon. T. Y. Duncan, chairman of the Timber Commission, told a Christchurch reporter that although the Commission had been , through nearly all parts of the Dominion, it had seen no signs of trade depression. If there had been a cloud of that character, it had passed away, and, as far as the Commission could ascertain, •prosperity, if it had departed for a time, had returned again.

Mr J. J. McDonald, coroner, held an inquest at Kaloombe yesterday on Amy Adelsen|i® Hughes, the four months old daughter of Mr W. J. Hughes The evidence showed that the child died suddenly at 1 o’clock on Monday morning. Dr. McOallum, who held a post mortem, showed that there was congestion of both longs, and in his opinion death was due to convulsions. The ooronqr gave a verdict accordingly. At Rotorua yesterday the Mountain Rimn Timber Company- were fined £3 and 12s oasts for paying a carpenter less than award wage. Defendants urged that the man was employed as a general and useful hand and not as a carpenter. The Bartholomew Timber Company was prosecuted on the same charge. Defendants urged that one shilling a week was kept back for the rent of a cottage in which the man lived. They were fined £7 and costs 30s,

Inqpiries made at Auckland show a shortage of wheat and it is stated that by August flour will probably be up to £l4 per ton. •At present New Zealand has a surplus of 2,000,000 bushels of wheat, which

are being held tight. Two ships are on their way to New Zealand and two Australians are coming over to buy up every available bushel of wheat. The chairman, of the Flourmillers’ Association, however, denies the accuracy of these statemeuts.. . At Auckland Court, Rees Nicholson, a resident of Whitianga, was charged with having unlawfully received and detained a telegram and two letters addressed to Marie George. It appeared that defendant roeeived letters addressed to Miss George, care of Nicholson, opened them, left them lying about,and made no attempt to redirect them or return them to the Post Office, though he knew they were misdelivered, there being another Nicholson resident in the locality with whom Miss George was staying. Judge Edwards imposed a flue of £SO.

We have received very lengthy correspondence relating to tbe Hawera election, at which so much sectarian bitterness was aroused. We do not think it desirable to further aggravate those who took part In it, and we suggest that both parties should sink their religious differences and work together for the benefit of the system the country has adopted. Incidentally the correspondence com-plains-of a garbled version of the proceedings which appeared in a paper controlled by a member of the Education Board, but in any case this cannot affect the election of a member for the district Mr OD’ea seeks to represent. . i .

Curious things happen at a fire, bat though they may be serious enough at the time the humorous., side presents itself afterwards. The other day when an outbreak at Maori Hill!threatened to demolish the whole house, say's the Timaru Post, a gocart oame in very useful for the carting out of linen and various other articles. Then after a number of things had bash stowed away in a place of safety it was found that the baby was missing. Subsequently something stirred at the bottom of the go-cart; it was the baby. It had lain quietly under successive piles of linen, and smiled unconscious of all the danger it had gone through. \ ' The Wairarapa Daily Times remarks:—“There are now plain indications that|prominent supporters of the Government are fomenting a war scare, and we may assume that this is done to assist the Premier in his desire to postpone the oridnary sitting of Parliament. We fail to see that there is any more reason for such a scare than has existed for the past forty years; indeed, forty years ago the homes of many New Zealanders were in actual danger. We approved of Mr Merab’s proposals, because they are on sound lines; but wo disapprove of the efforts now being made to manufacture a scare. Wo have an uncomfortable impression that the people of .New Zealand are to a certain ?xteut being fooled; the trail of the political serpent is very much in evidence.” For Children’s Hacking.Gough at night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Is GJ and 3s 6d.

“Mr John Stevens has written to the Premier strongly approving his action re Dreadnought. ’

A meeting is called for Thursday evening to from a 'BeaMtifyirijr Society in *Martou.

Fifty unemployed in Christchurch met last night and arranged lor deputations to urge local holies to put work in hand.

The directors of the Gear Meat Company have declared an interim dividend of five per cent for the six months dnded May v.Slst.

Guy lubsman was taken to Palmerston Hospital last nighty sufleriuss from serious injuries sustained while working at a sawmill at Tokenism. The list of subscribers to the proposed Farmers’ Co-operative Preening Company, shows that the movement' is hacked at present by Wairarapa and Bush farmers alone. Eurico Piazzoli, a well-known Macetown miner, who. had been la bad health, committed suicide as Arrowtown yesterday. Deceased, who was an Italian and much respected, had no relatives Bi the Dominion.

The tug Terawhiti, which was chartered-at a cost of £5 pet hour to search for the missing steamer Wootfcou, left Wellington just after the Wootcon had been signalled at Lyttelton. She zigzagged down the coast to Lyttelton and then returned. At the meeting of Wanganui Licensing Committee yesterday all applications for licenses were granted. The committee expressed its concern at the amount of drunkenness in the town and urged the publicans and police to endeavour to cure this evil.

Canterbury Branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants has made a strong protest against the action of the Minister o! Railways in vetoeing the finding of the South Island Appeal Board In the case of a Strain examiner, who appealed against his reduction from the highe* to a lower grade. According to the Trade Review of June 3rd, 607,915 gallons whisky were imported into New Zealand during the past vear, a* against 576,984 gallons for the previous year, and 465,597 gallops for the year 1906* Of course, it must be borne in mind that there has also been a considerable increase in population. In New Zealand there are 66 daily papers, 33 published three times a week, 25 twice a week, 6S weeklies* 3 fortnightlies, 1 published every third week, 1 every fourth week, and 37 monthly. This makes a total of 236 different publications existing in a country with a total European population of under a million. At the inqnest at Christchurch on John Ernest Woodrough, who vmt found in a dying condition oa Dyer’s Pass Road on Saturday, the evidence of Mrs Woodrough was to !the effect that the deceased during the past eighteen years had suffered from heart disease. The Coroner recorded a verdict that the deceased died from heart disease.

The question of a bankrupt’s liability was involved in a civil action at Wellington in which the Te Aro Loan Companv sued G, B. Lusk for £29. It appeared that Lusk, while bankrupt signed a promissory note ic renewal of a promissory given before lie was adjudged bankrupt. Dr. McArthur held that the original note was a debt payable in the bankruptcy and under Section 132 of the Bankruptcy Act the order of discharge released banropfe from that debt. , Judgment was entered for defendant.

Inquiries made in Christchurch show that no steps have yet been taken by the Chicago beef trust to acquire the control of New Zealand freezing works. The aim or the Trust, it is surmised, is not so much to capture the mutton trade as the beef trade. If it can secure tbe remaining Argentine works the Trust will have practically the beef industry of the world under its command. The Argentine is, however, competing in the mutton market, and is also how exporting lambs. It is regarded as certain that if the Trust acquired control of the South American freezing concerns the New Zealand Companies will be faced with a bigger problem than ever before, 'in order to meet the solid front that would he presented by the all New 'Zealand Companies shon’d be represented at Home by a single office, and that some sort of working arrangement # be entered into in regard to the placing of supplies on the market, so as to avoid disastrous “ unloadings* * at unfortunate times.

In selecting warm winter wearables see what Neal, The Cash Clothier, Feilding, can do for yon. Either a new ready tailored suit, » new overcoat or new underwear in unshrinkable makes. The new supply for your selection is exceptionally cheap and the quality right.*