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Bush Advocate, Volume XIX, Issue 778, 27 July 1907, Page 4

Page 2: Cable news. Page 3: Cables, and an amazing story. Pages 6 and 7 : Borough Council meeting. A return presented to Parliament states that 106 of the original settlers on the Cheviot estate are still in occupation of their holdings. The batch of civil cases known as the ' 'Encyclopedia 7' cases, of which there are about 28, will come on for hearing at the S.M. Court on Tuesday. Another round of the Friendly Societies' card tournament was played last night, and resulted : Foresters, 8 points; Druids, 6; Oddfellows, 4. The total points are: Druids, 53; Oddfellows, 45; Foresters, 28. Last evening as Mr Fred May was riding along the road near Tahoraiti his horse bolted and threw him. Tlie unfortunate young man's foot caught in the stirrup iron, and he was dragged some distance, sustaining a broken leg (just above the ankle) and a nasty scalp wound. The sufferer was conveyed to the hospital, where he is doing as well as can be expected. Mr Carston has been compelled to resign the captaincy of the Cadets, as he finds that he has not the necessary time to devote to the duties of the position, which he has lield for the last 12 months. During that time the attendance has increased from 10 to 36, and the company part from their late captain with regret. Mr G. Allardice, wbo has had several years' experience as a volunteer, has now assumed the command. At the Police Court this morning, befoie Messrs W. Rose and T. Lindsay Buick, J.'sP., Charles Pearson was charged with the theft of a saddle, the property of William Millett, and of a bridle, the property of John Johnston. From the evidence, it was clear that the accused had no intention of stealing the property, and the case was dismissed, the injudicious natnre of accused's conduct being pointed out to him by the Bench. Sergeant Cruickshank prosecuted and Mr Downes defended. Mr H. S. Fitzherbert, S.M., announced at the New Plymouth Court that he intended to make it a rule to allow interest only at the rate of 6 per cent, when claimed in civil proceedings. His Worship said tliere was nothing in the Magistrate's Court Act or in the rules made under it to guide him, so he depended on the decision of the Appeal Court concerning a case in 1901. Mr Wright complained that this was an alteration which wotdd seriously affect the relations between parties to promissory note dealings. The accounts of the Public Trust office for the year ending March 31st last show that the balances in hand totalled £2,152,343, the chief items being as follows: Wills aud trusts £1,---471/JO4; intestacies, £137,751; Government railways superannuation fund, £110,736; mental patients, £81.615; West Coast Settlement Reserves, £48,645; Civil Service Reform Act, 1886, £47,402. The balance to credit of the profit and loss account on March 31st was £47,551 19s 2d. The chief sources of revenue were as follow — Balance from previous year £38,844 os sd ; commissions and charges £16,8-14; interest being surplus from investments, £15,688. Right from the first dose Rheumo gives relief from the awful agony of rheumatism, gout sciatica, lumbago, otc. 2s 6d and 4s 6d. Obtainable fom all chemists and stores.

It is proposed to play the clerks v. professions annual football match on 7th August. Dr Mason, head of ibe Public Health Department, met with a mishap while driving with bis family in his motor car at AVellington the other day. The car went over a bank and the whole of the occupants were thrown out, Mrs Mason having her collar-bone broken. The Minister for Mines, in his annual Statement, makes the following remarks regarding petroleum : "No further discoveries of petroleum havo been recorded since that at Moturoa near New Plymouth, referred, to m my last annual Statement. Several companies have been formed, and boring operations are being actively carried out, but up to the present time no considerable supply of high pressure oil has been proved, although the quality of that flowing at the Prospecting Company's well is satisfactory. Prospecting operations are also being carried on at Kotuku, hear Lake yßrunner, on the West Coast of the South Is.and."