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Bush Advocate, Volume XX, Issue 1002, 14 April 1908, Page 4

On page. &; XJabl© news; grains of salt. Page 3 : The Blackball trouble ; poetry— "The dead A.8." Page 6: An extraordinary confession ; the romance of steel. Page 7 ; The downfall of Napoleon. A presentation will be given to Mr H. Drinkwater, late captain of the Fire Brigade, at the council chambers ' to-night. Mr A. W. Collett left Dannevirke this morning on a visit to the King Country. He is proceeding via the Main Trunk line, and expects to be absent about a week. Forty-four thousand feet of timber was shipped by the Mokoia, which left Auckland for Sydney yesterday. The vessel took a large number of passengers, including 181 steerage. Two keepers of temperance hotels and a restaurant keeper were fined at the Magistrate's Court at Napier yesterday for employing assistants more than the maximum number of hours in one week. ■ Taranaki dairy factories (according to the News) are storing the bulk of their output, presumably, for local consumption. Over a thousand boxes have been placed in cool store at the Moturoa works during the past week or so. At a meeting of the Otago branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants yesterday it was decided to ask that a special conference be called to deal with the question of control and publication of the Review and organisation of the Society. The Prime Minister, who reached Lawrence yesterday, will also visit Roxburgh and Tapanui this week. He will proceed to Invercargill on Wednesday night, and on Saturday will go through by train and steamer to Wellington, which he expects to reach on Sunday. A special meeting of the Borough Council will be held this evening at 7 o'clock, for which the following business has been placed on the order paper : Consideration of appointment of engineer or overseer ; town clerk's salary; Cr Haines' notice of motion; re leave of absence to Cr Drummoud ; accounts for payment. It is announced by the four steam shipping companies, viz., Shaw, Saville, and Albion, the New Zealand, Tyser, and New Zealand and African companies that the following reductions in* freight to England will be made as from to-day: — Wool and skins, Jd per lb; tow 10s per ton weight ; and tallow and pelts 5s per ton weight. These rates will be allowed until 19th September. . A horse belonging to the Danne-virke-Herbertville Coaching Company had rather a peculiar experience during the past few days. About Friday last it was missed from the stables, and a vigorous search throughout the borough failed to reveal his whereabouts. Yesterday, however, the !)roverbial small boy saw him down a lole at the back of the Cosmopolitan buildings, and seeing the advertisement in the AdVocat© last evening, he went to the company's stables and reported his discovery. A rescue party "was at once sent out, and found the horse down an abandoned cesspit quite 10 feet deep, and about 7 feet square. It is supposed that the horse must have wandered into the backyard during the night, and while feeding on the long grass growing about the edge slipped into the hole, where he must have been for several days, and from which awkward predicament he was only released after a good deal of trouble. This incident once more demonstrates the value of advertising. You should ask to see our new models in trimmed millinery and our new corset models; you will be delighted to find such nice goods at such reasonable prices. — McDowell and Power Advt. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for coughs and colds never fails. 1/6 and 2/6.— Advt.

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