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Bush Advocate, Volume XX, Issue 937, 3 February 1908, Page 4

On page 2: A ?tncken city; a new wheat. Pago 3: Cable news.' Pago V T : kPorttng—Egmont weights and Woodville nominations. Pa.<'e 7- The> borough deadlock —Mr Martin's opinion. 31 r E. Nicholas has been appointed representative of the X.Z. Retailers' Jroteetion Association for Dannevirke. Miss- Holm, the teacher at tho fciiamoko public school, left at tho bPEinmim o f tho holidays, and Miss -Morgan, relieving teacher, takes over iier dimes irom to-day. Oa Saturday 570 passengers arrived at Wellington hy the Corinthie, Irom London, over 400 being thirdclass and mostly immigrants. Several cases of measles on board have been quarantined on Somes Island. Miss Lindsay, the popular mistress oi the South School, who was compelled to accept sick leave towards the end or last year, has now fully recovered her health, and resinned her scholastic duties this morning. The Ago states that owing to the dry weather the rivers are very low, and reports to hand from various parts of the district go to show that numbers of trout are being illegally taken by men and boys from tho rivers. A case of some- interest to brewers will be heard at tho Wanganui Court on February 26th, when a, Dunedin brewer will bo charged with exposing beer in bulk for sale at that place, it being alleged that his license does not authorise, him to do so. A number of tennis players from Woodville held some matches with members of the. Dannevirke Club on Saturday afternoon, at tho local courts. There were, ten players aside, and the grand totals were: Woodvillo 107. Danncvirko 1-31. By an explosion in the Kaitangata mine three men received injuries, but not of a serious character. They had completed stopping and were putting on their clothes preparatory to leaving when the stopping blew' out. Presumably a small quantity of gas had become ignited spontaneously. Twelve fine dairy cows belonging to an Ihuraua- settler wero sold at a stock salo at Eketahuna on Friday last for £2 2s each (says tho Age), livery blade of grass on* tho settler's farm had been destroyed by the recent fires, and he had no option but to sell the cows for whatever ho could get for them. Although the weather has been threatening rain for the past two days, none has yet fallen, and tho drought still remains in evidence. With the continued absence of moisture, tho roads are now cracking up considerably. Special prayers for rain were offered up in the Anglican churches yesterday. Tiie Premier states that the revenno returns for .the ten months ended Friday amount to £6,944,718, an increase of £521,877 over the similar period ending January 1907. Ho intends to transfer £800,000 to public works, besides providing payment tor several services out of revenue formerly charged to loan. A Timaru telegram states that at ihe auction of Wilson's Allandale estate. Fail-lie, on Saturday, 8000 acres cut into 34 lots, 7 lots totalling 1177 acres were, .sold at from £7 10s to £10 Cl2s Gd per acre, or an average oi' £9 os Gd. The rest were passed at from Co -2s 6d to £10 per acre. There was a large attendance, but apparently (here were not many bidders. At the Magistrate's Court this morn ing, before Messrs W. Dobson and D. Mackay, J.'sP.. William Galbraiih and William Croker were each fined os for having been drunk. Olaf Knutsen. on a similar charge, was convicted and discharged, and on a second charge of assaulting Mr CBaddeley. the same offender was fined 10s. or 3 days' imprisonment. Tho Blenheim rainfall for Januarywas only one twenty-fifth of an inch. At Orovetown, three miles away, ninchundredths of an inch was recorded, the 'lowest for any month in twelve years. Beyond half an inch all over the Wai ran district early in December, practically no rain has fallen since early in Ctctober. In January, 1907, two and a-half inches fell. The ordinary monthly meeting of the Makotuku School Committee was held on Saturday evening. Present: Messrs C. F. Wright (chair), Mild"on, P. Olson, P. Bartosh, D. Mann, and C. Mitchell (hon. secretary). Tim Education Board wrote stating that the pump had been forwarded which was asked for. The secretary stated that the much-needed implement had arrived, and tho chairman and Mr P. Olson volunteered to instal it, an; offer which was accepted with thanks. The school cleaner was authorised to procure disinfectants for school use. Accounts amounting to £1 3s odwero passed for payment. The chairman and secretary were appointed visiting ecminilK'o for the ensuing month. The Taieri Advocate* records a wonderful escape from death of a boy while travelling on a train from Dunedin to Mosgiel. A passenger on tho train had occasion to go out on to the _ platform of the carriage, he was in just as the train emerged from the. south end of the Cavorsham tunj ml, and he saw the boy hanging to tho couplings between the. carriages. He immediately brought another passenger, and they rescued the thor-oughly-frightened boy from his perilous position. He had been hanging there ever since the train had left Caversham station. To those familiar with this particular locality, tho lad's escape seems almost miraculous, as he muM have been hanging to _tho coupling while the train covered a mile, most of which is steep gradient, and therefore traversed slowly. Those in search of a reliable bicycle at a low figure wjll be pleased to learn that K. A. Ransom is now holding a monster sale of first grade bicycles at enormous reductions. As an inki!i'K'(> he is offorinir genuine B.S.A. ciisu-hims :ii ill), the rt-gwhiav price, 1-i-iiH; £I.">. Other makes he is offering as low as £7 10s. this being for well-mafic English bicycle complete, with 12 months' guarantee. Those that have been waiting for the price to drop will have no occasion to wait lunger.— Ad vt.

On page 7 will bo found Mr Martin's opinion on the points submitted to him in comicciion with ihc borough i flfiidlock.