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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11650, 19 August 1916, Page 4

The Plunket Nurse will visit Marton on Tuesday.

A London cable announces the death of Lord Redesdale.

All the offertories at S Stephen's Church, Marton, to-morrow, will be given to the work of the Church in the Military of New Zealand, Robert Carson aged 52, a waterside worker, died at Auckland yesterday as the result of a razor wound, believed to he self-inflicted." He had recently been despondent.

“An Indispensable Friend” is the subject with which the Rev. F. Rancls will deal at the Marton Methodist Cbnrob to-morrow evening. Mr Fergusson will take the morning service, All seats are free and strangers are invited. Representatives of the .Dominion cheese producers conferred with the Premier at Wellington yesterday regarding the terms whereon the next season’s output will be commandeered by- the Board of Trade. Mr Massey stated that the negotiations failed. The producers wanted the price fixed at per pound. .The secretary ofjtbe Marton Brass Band wishes to farther acknowledge donations through the issue of their circular appeal:—Mr E. Newman, M.P., £2 2s; Dr. Skerman £2 2s; Mr F. Spencer £2 2s; Miss Monckton 5s ; Mr A. Pall £l. Further donations will be gladly received and acknowledge through the columns of this paper. The services at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church torinorrow, both morning and evening, will be conducted by the Rev. J. M. Thomson. The afternoon service at Upper Tutaenui will also be taken by the Rev. Thomson. Members and adherents of the Church are asked to note that the call to the'Rev. L. H Hunt will he at the Church at each service to-morrow awaiting signatures. Mr J. Deehan, of the Post Office staff at Bulls, has been transferred to the Wellington office to take charge of the savings bank counter. Mr Deehan has been most obliging and courteous to the public and he will also be missed by all loveis of music. Since his stay in Bulls he has always been ready to play accompaniments and to help at dances, but Mr Deehan having grown out of his position has most deservedly got promotion, and we wish him every success.

One of the means Germany has adopted to create a “peace atmosphere” is to provide British prisoners of war with a special picture postcard to - send home to their friends. It bears the legend, ‘‘Peace and Industry,” and a female figure bearing what we presume is an olive branch in her right hand, and a “scrap of paper” in the form of a treaty of peace in the other. About her are emblems of the arts and sciences, and by her side is a tombstone with a laurel wreath at its foot.

The Orona County Council considered a communication from the Under Secretary yesterday, worded as follows:—A commission is 'about to be set up to apportion the cost of the maintenance of the Mauawatu Gorge road in the Kairanga and Pahiatua centres and the UpperGorge bridge. Please wire if you want the lower Gorge bridge also included in the scope of the commission. The Orona Council is not particularly anxious for a reapportionment of the cost of maintenance, of this bridge but is in favour of widening the area of contributing bodies. It was decided to reply in the affirmative. The death has taken place at the Palmerston Hospital of Mr Thomas Bennett Lee, who was severely injured at the Palmerston railway station on July 11th. Mr Lee came from the Hunterville district, and on reaching Palmerston left the train temporarily to go on the platform. The tram commenced to move off, and lie attempted to board it. In doing so be fell between the carriages, and was in iminent danger of being killed when bis plight was noticed by Porter Keen, who, with quick presence of mind, jumped into the van and applied. tiie emergency brake, which stopped the train. Mr Lee was got out from under the wheels, and on medical aid being called it was found that he had sustained a fractured pelvis and other lesser injuries. He was conveyed to the hospital, but passed away as stated. An inquest was commenced at the hospital yesterday morning, before Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., when evidence of identification was taken, and the enquiry adjourned till Monday next.

5 Bow Sutton’s Seeds to have Jtho very heat flowers and vegetables. None to compare * Sglt is notified that “Celestial Chimes’’ and “The Skipper” waltz may be procured from Mar ton booksellers.

' - The Catholic services are inserted as usual oyer the leader. The Marton Volunteer Fire Brigade, will hold a dance in the Druids Hall on Thurscljy nest, August 24th. Admission, gents 2a 6d, and ladies Is.

Messrs Abraham and Williams sold by auction at Feilding yesterday two-sections each of 5% acres, situated on the Kawa Road, outside 1 the Borough, at £125, and £126 per acre respectfully. Messrs T. Young and Chas Hopping were the purchasers.

Mr A. Awdry, secretary of the Martin branch of the Overseas Club, has received £6 11s from the Marton Defence Rifle Club for tobacco and cigarette?, which be has forwarded to the officer. in command of the Wellington Battalion in France.

At a meeting of the general committee of the Rangitikei Patriotic Society last evening, it was decided that the Society’s funds were insufficient to invest for a period of fourteen years. It was the feeling of the meeting that the funds were primarily subscribed to assist tbe wounded soldiers. The trial of Charles von Hansen on a charge of stealing nine bales of wool was concluded in the Supreme Court at Palmerston yesterday. After an hour’s retirement the jury returned with a verdict of guilty. The prisoner was remanded tor sentehee until Tuesday, His Honour wanting to know something of his past history. * At Feilding Qourt this morning Fredrick Wm. Harrison and Charles Thos. Bapkin were charged with breaking and entering tbe shop of J. Sanko, on the 7th of August, and stealing £1 16s 6d from the till and a pair of shoes, and on the 12tfa, of entering his private residence and stealing therefrom cigarettes to the value of £2 10s. . The police have recovered the shoes and most of the cigarettes from the pisoners. The case was remanded until Wednesday next, hail being fixed at £IOO each. The Court accepted R. B. Knight as bondsman for-the prisoner. A German resident of Dunedin, who has been under the necessity of reporting himself regularly to the police, will have leisure to regret an attempt he made to evade the war regulations and. escape from the country, says the Otago Daily times. He signed on to fill a vacancy 7 in tbd crew of the American schooner Omega, bound for Port, Townsend, Washington, < but was detected by the police. Such a breach of regulations is treated seriously, and he will now be interned for the remainder of the period of the war.

At the farewell social at Bulls last evening the Rev. Blackburnestated that the Red Cross Society had decided to give the proceeds of the shop on Monday next towards the upkeep of the New Zealand Hospital in London and hoped that those present who could see their way to contribute would do so, anything however small would be thankfully received. Also he wished them to remember that a gr-.at variety of articles from a housekeeper’s point of view could be purchased at the shop at a very reasonable figure, and asked them to make a point of attending some time during the afternoon.

The Hobart express met with a sensational mishap near Parattah a fortnight ago. When about two miles south of Parattah, on its way to Launceston, the express, while travelling at a speed of probably over thirty- miles an hour, dashed along a timber siding slightly over sixly feet long, the points of which had been left open, and, after derailing two empty trucks which were on the siding, through the “dead end,” came to a standstill. Only the engine had left tne rails, and not the slightest injury Was sustained by any of the fifty or sixty startled pasengers, but only the alertness or the driver, who pulled up in minimum time, prevented a terrible tragedy. Messrs Lloyds’ values in all kind of hosiery aro excellent. They are made from the finest yarn in all Jth staple weights, generous in proportion and easy in fit. Their present store of hosiery is worth much more. A comparison of values will impress the keenest buyer that they are the very best.*