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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11647, 15 August 1916, Page 4

A little boy named William Moore, aged six years, was run ever by a motor cf-.r in Onelumga last night, and killed,

A meeting of the Marton Miniature Rifle Cl ub Committee will be held at the Drill Hall this evening at 7.45 p.m. sharp.

The conrt'martial which has been sitting in the case of Gnnner Gray, R.N.Z. A,, will re-assemble at the Garrison Hall, Wellington, at 10 a.m. on Wednesday,

A farewell social and dance will he tendered to Privates C. Henderson and S. Oldfield (who are leaving for the front) at the Druids’ Hall, Marton, to-morrow evening. The annual general meeting' of shareholders of the Wellington Meat Export Co., Ltd., will be held in the Chamber of Commerce, National Mutual Buildings, Wellington, on Tuesday, August 29th, at 12,15 p.m.

A farewell social will be tendered by the Rangitikei Patriotic Society to the men on final leave from the 17th Reinforcements in the Marton Town Hall on Friday evening. All men in uniform are welcome.

The postal authorities advise that the s.s. Riverina, which sailed from Sydney at 3 p.m. on Friday- for Wellintgon, is carrying Australian and English, mails .via Suez, and is due at Wellington to-day’.

There were two fires in Fox ton on Thursday night. The first destroyed the scutching shed and contents of the Star flax mill, and the second a motor lorry loaded with fibre, at the Fox ton Cordage Company’s factory. The scutching shed also belonged to the company. At the annual meeting of the '•Turakina Co operative Dairy Company yesterday appreciative reference was made to the work of the manager, Mr A. E. Norton, and it was unanimously decided to award him a bonus of £ls. It was also decided to donate a quarter of a ton of cheese towards the Belgian Relief Fund.

Mr Fred Holderson, of Kairanga, whilst riding a motor cycle through the Gorge, came into collision with a motor car. The impact was rather a severe one, and caused the rider of the motor to somersault on to his head. He also sustained a fractured leg. Mr Holderson was taken to Woodville where he was ordereu into the Palmerston Hospital. It is stated, accOrdinglo the Southland Times, that there has been a good deal of “ragging” of late going on in the Invercargill railway engine sheds among the cleaners employed there, and as a result of a particularly severe bout, duiMug which one lad received a somewhat severe mauling, fonf cleaners have had their services dispensed with. The Post’s London correspondent reports that Mr Robert Turnbull, formerly of Messi’s W. and G Turn-, bull and Co , Wellington, has undertaken to purchase the supplies for tne canteens of fhe|New Zealand Ex. petitionary Force in Great Britain, which are to be run in future by the Force itself, instead of by contractors. Mr Turnbull will act in an honorary capacity, and has been given an honorary commission as lieutenant.

The following message has been reci ved from Mr Malcolm Ross, New Zealand’s official war correspondent: —August 10th: “Since cabling last, there bas been a comparative quiet on tbe New Zealand front, and the per cent, of casualties has fallen considerably. Several bags of an incoming Now Zealand mail were accidentally burnt in a railway truck, it is tb ought by a fire which originated through matches in a postal packet.” The secretary of the Ohingaiti Patriotic Society writes; The Ohingaiti Patriotic Society wishes to contradict a statement that appeared in the Taihape Notes to tbe Advocate on August 2nd, stating that the Society had been approached by a returned soldier, who stated that he had £4O owing to him by the Defence Department, and was unable to get any satisfaction from the authorities. The Ohingaiti Patriotic Society, he says, was on no occasion approached by any returned soldier on this mat ter.

The New Zealand Times says:— A number of people in the city were looking on hriday night for Mr P. A. McHardy, who has undertaken to give half a sovereign to anybody who, when challenged by him in the streets, could produce an Anzac art union ticket. Three of them were fortunate enough to cross Mr McHardy’s path, and, as they were able to show him a ticket on demand, were each presented with a half sovereign. Their names were Constable Marsh, Sergt. Spears of the Expeditionary Force, and Mrs Dawson, of Brooklyn. Surgeon-General Henderson, in a statement to the press concerning the deaths at Trentham, says that men who passed through the camp since the beginning of the year total roughlv 20,000. The number of deaths during that period were 31. Of these, cerebro-spiual'meningitis accounted for 9, other diseases 17, accidents 5. The deaths since August Ist number eight—five from spinalmeningitis, and three from pneumonia. The death rate is 1.5 per thousand, There*are no cases of meningitis in hospital now and no serious cases of pneumonia. At Saturday’s meeting of the Pohangina County Council a letter was received from the chainiran, Mr R. W. Brown, stating that his bad health made it advisable for him to resign the position of chairman of the Council and representative of .the Mangaono Hiding. In doing so lie thanked the members for the kindness and consideration extended to him during the time he hud held office. Cr. Smart moved that Cr. Brown bo asked to consider his decision to resign, and that the matter be held over until next meeting. He said they should endeavour to get Cr. Brown to remain in his present position even it he accepted leave of absence. The motion was agreed % to.

Messrs Lloyd’s, Ltd , are now offering exceptional value in ladies and men’s underwear,. Tho whole of their stock in colonial and imported garments is reduced from twenty to thirty per below the present market value. During the few remaining days of their great sale further redactions will be made in ail departments.* -

At a meeting of tbe Marton Ladies’ Hockey Club held last evening it was decided to donate £3 2s to the Rangitikei Patriotic Society. At the Wellington Supreme Court Oscar Padman, charged with indecently assaulting a little girl, was found guilty and sentenced to 12 months’ hax*d labour. A farewell social and dauce to men going into camp with the 20th Reinforcements, and to those of the T7th on leave, will be held in the Town Hall. Bulls, on Friday, 18th August.

A cynical young bachelor, who speaks as though he did so under the compulsion of awful responsibility, says: “The girl of to-day is worse than a failure; she’s a joke.”- But, even so, one doesn’t think much of a fellow who can’t take a joke.— New York Morning Telegraph. By the courtesy of the manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Marton we have been shown one of the new ten shilling notes which are being issued by the Bank. It is quite unlike the ordinary pound note, is of pink colour and of a different type of paper. They are now available at the Bank for those who desire to possess samples of the new issue. Mr R. W. Brown, who had been chairman of the Pohangiua County Council about twelve years, resigned both his seat oq the Council and the chairmanship on Saturday, to the regret of the Council and the ratepayers of the Mangaone riding. The dix-ect cause of tlxe resignation was ill health. Mr Brown’s association witn the Council was during the most difficult period, when large aad costly public woiks were being carried out, and the care and ability with which he directed its financial affairs will always be to his credit. There was only a small attendance at the cnbbage tournament at the Druids’ Hall last evening, dn Q , no doubt, to the unfavourable night, A very pleasant evening was, however, spent by members of the Droids and Foresters’ Lodges, and the tournament resulted in a win for the Droids by i) games to 6. Messrs R. H, Carey, R. Upchurch, G. Duck, J. Robertson, J. Wales and J. Newton represented the Druids, and Messrs G. Burt, John Anderson, T. Schultze, John Conder J. Miles and Walter Molndoe tbe Foresters.

Several months ago it wasjreported that Anton Lang, the well known Christas of -the Passion Play at Oberammergan, had been killed in battle, but in a few weeks the re port was denied. AH doubt now about his being killed in action recently has been dispelled by the receipt of a letter by Miss Isabel Brown, president of the Society of Applied Science, St. Louis, from Innsbruck, Austria. Lang’s death, the letter says, was tragic. He had been sent to the front with the German army, and the scenes he saw were so terrible that he broke down and had to return to Bavaria. A iter recuperating he was again sent to fight, and was killed in action. His trade was that of a potter, and his pottery was known all over the world. Lang had been seen in the part of Christ by millions.

Some further details of the deed of valour for which Lieut.-Colonel J. Cashmere Freetb, of Wellington, received his D.S.O. are contained in General Smuts’ despatch on the East Arficau campaign. The London correspondent to the Post states that Lieut. Colonel Freeth had orders to take his battalion, the 7th South African Infantry, by a detour, to makegood the Latema Height, to tl e north of the line of advance from Taveta. He fought his way up the lull, his party dwindling to eighteen men. A few of the Rhodesians and Mounted Rifles joined him, and the party held on till daybreak. The main force attacking the neck between Latema and Reata Hills had prepared to retire, but Colonel Freeth’s movement enabled the patrols to join with the hill forces, and the action resulted in dislodgemeut of the Germans from the whole of the rough forest country round Kilimanjaro. The British casualties were 270, and on Latema ‘position alone 50 enemy dead were found .A 6 c.m. gun, three machine guns, and ammunition and rifles were captured. John Richardson, stable keeper, Feilding, has been declared, bankrupt, • Debtor’s statement' shows liabilities amounting to £829 os Bd, and assets £G4B 17s 6d, leaving a deficiency of £l9O 8s 2rl. The list of creditors is as follows:—Feilding; Bank of New South Wales, £331 2s 3d; J. R, Perry and Co., £9O 15s 8d; Barraud and Abraham, £97 18s 3d; Abraham a'nd.Wililams, £37 16s 7d; Aitken and Evans, £ll 3s lOd; Mrs A. R. Mayo, 7s (id; W. H. McMenamin, £8 2s 6d; Gas Co., £7 17s lOd; J. Kingsbeer, £26 Is 6d; Hoker and Bealing 9s 6d; J. Campbell, £1 2s; James and Co., £l7 8s; Adams and Edelston, £6 13s; G. Hurdle, 6s; R. Bowler, 12s; Mrs P. Thomson, 11s; E. H. Fisher, £5 3s; Cash Tailoring Go., £3 10s; Wackrill and Sewart, £5 Is 4d; W. H. Bain and Co., 7s 6d; Sash and Door Co., £5 9ssd; N. Z, Railways, £2 10s; S. Stacey and Co., £l7 3s; T, Hicks and Son, £lO 19s 6d; A. E, Harrison, £2 10s; J. T. Woodmass, £5 13s 6d; W. H. Clayton, £1 Os 6d ; W. H. Hosking, 6s 6d; D. Kitchen, 13s 6d; W. Dalton; 14s 6d; J. Power, £47 15s; D. P. Barrett, £lO 11s <sd; W. E, Walker £35; Miss E.. A. Campbell, £io; John Power,' £2 14s 63. Palmerston: Holben and Kirk, £2l Is; Belt and Bailey, £3l 15s. Kimbolton: S. Hall, £l2 10s; O. Craighead, £1 4s.