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Bush Advocate, Volume XX, Issue 939, 5 February 1908, Page 4

On pngo 2: Fire Brigade; Her- ■ bertville. and Waione notes. Page, 3 : ! Lord Charles Beresford ; Welcoming the New Year ; Unwashed Niinrods. Page 7: Americans in Europe: some ! Persian feasts. The Library Committee held an informal meeting last night to further discuss the question of furnishing and opening tho new library, but as the Borough Councillors were not able to bo present nothing definite could bo done. Mr T. Lindsay Buiik has g:i\-«ii notice to movo :it tho noxt mooting ot' the* Chamber of Commerce* that t)u» J Government be asked to introduce ; legislation to pi event any recurrence of a borough deadlock, such as now exists at Dannovirke. .Some people appear to imagine that New Zealand is the benefactor of the world. The other day the Hon. Jas. MeGowan received a letter from an elderly female resident in England j asking him to use his best endeavors to get her the old a<_e pension! She j luid never boon in New Zealand. j

The Mayor, who will be away from Danncvirke on public business till next Tuesday, asked the. Council last night not to take any further steps in connection with re-grading High street until his return. Cr Ransom said his desire was to get tho question settled before the next ordinary meeting, but lie did not desire to take any advantage of his Worship, and if tho Mayor cannot make it convenient to inert tho Council before Friday next, tho matter of Cr Hansom's resolution will bo deferred till tb on.

.. A ' J ig hush fire Ims boon raginii art the Government land at Piri Vmfor tlie past two clays. ; MrFowlds, Minister for Education has wzred Mr Hall, M.P., that ho w$ arrive in Dannevirke at 3.15 p.m on the 12th inst. for the purpose of opening the High School. Cabinet has decided to not a report from the Public Works Department upon the cost and practicability or converting Mt. Cook barracks, Wellington, into a dominion musenm! As the result of increased expenses caused by tho recommendations of the Health Department, and also following on tho award of the Arbitration Court, tho looal hairdressers have raised their charges, which will be found notified elsewhere. Tho prisoner Joseph Thompson, who escaped from New Plymouth gaol yesterday morning, is still at large. Ho was serving three years for breaking and entering at Feilding, and nine months for escaping from a prison gang at "Waiotapu. % At Xaseby David MeConoohie, jun., was charged with having at Middlemarch, on January 21st, sent a letter, knowing tho contents thereof, to Henry Bruhns, a farmer, of Hyde. threatening to kill him. Accused was committed for trial at Dunedin. At the usual fortnightly meeting of tho Rechabitc Hope of Ormondville Tent, held in their lodgeroom, Ormondville, last evening, tenders were opened for the purchase of the section of 1 acre 33 perches in tho Orniondvillc town district recently advertised. Three, tenders were received for £10, £20, and £2o respectively, tho tender of Mr J. Z. Marsh being accepted. The deadlock contagion has reached Ormondvidlle, only luckily in a mild form. At last night's meeting of tho Town Board, at which there was only just a. quorum — three members — present, it was proposed and seconded that an account of a contractor who will complete his work by to-morrow be passed for payment, subject to the member in charge passing samo and certifying that the work had been dono to his satisfaction. For some nnexplicable reason the acting-chair-man ruled that if the motion was carried it would be making a very bad precedent, and ho would not put tho motion, consequently tho contractor and tho Board's spreader will have to mait a month for their cheques. Luckily for the other employees who had accounts in, the two members passed tho rest of the accounts.