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Bush Advocate, Volume XX, Issue 1004, 16 April 1908, Page 4

On page 2 : Cable news, " meeting of employers. Page 3: Easter encampment; sporting; a millionaire's orgie. Page 6: Rifle shooting; Weber- Waione cricket. Page 7 : Magistrate's Court report. Several weddings are to be celebTated at Dannevirke during theconling Easter holidays. In accordance with; custom, the offertories at St. John's Church on Easter Sunday will be handed to the vicar as an Easter gift. The trains have all been crowded to-day with the usual holiday traffic. A large number of local residents intend spending Easter at other centres. The chairman of the Auckland Harbor Board announced yesterday afternoon that the revenue for the first three months of 1908 showed an increase of £2748 4s lOd. The Takapau golf links were opened yesterday, Messrs Morgan and G. Potts representing the Dannevirke club. A handicap bogey match was won by Mr W. C. Gavin. The fortnightly meeting of ; the Loyal Dannevirke Lodge, 1.0.0. F., M.U., will be held this evening. The district officers will be present, and will hold a degree lecture. Butter is slowly, coming ; down j\n price. The ruling rate in Wellington is now Is 3d. It is reported that the factories are generally making more butter now than at the end of February^ ~ An effort is being made at Wellington to raise .£IOO, being half the money required to send the athletes Kerr iand Murray to London, to participate in the Olympian games. Athletic bodies throughout the island are to be asked to subscribe to the fund. . Mr Vigor Brown, Mayor of Napier, -nas been voted £2W.foiflus past year's services. Mr Brown proposes to give £50 of the honorarium to-wards'-iestablishlffg? ■£ readings room atPbrt Ahufiri, and £150 in erecting swings on the beach and otherwise •providing recreation for the young. A Dunedin wire states that the final trials of the Union Company's steamer Tof ua on -. Clyde , gave satisfactory results. On a. measured mile, in unfavorable weather, she averaged 14J knots in loaded trim, and on the passage from the Clyde to Liverpool, working only three boilers, she averaged J4> knots. She left Liverpool on Sunday for Sydney. Those who suffer in any way from eyestrain or defective vision should note that the proficient sight-special-ist, Mr John L. Nicol, will be here en Saturday. He may be consulted • n that day' at the shop < f Mr Prior, chemist. Mr Nicol has tho reparation of aiding the eye in the mo_>t successful manner and as he comes Je:e ai regular intervals, bis clients have the advantages of periodic attention.* A number of friends of Mr and Mrs M. Mends met last evening to bid them farewell on the eve of their deFarture for Palmerston North. The unction took place at the Oddfellows' Hall, ana took the form of a social evening. In an interval, Mr R. Roake, on behalf of their guests' many friends, wished them every Srosperity in their home, and hnded fr Mends a purse of sovereigns, and the latter returned thanks. The performance of Stainer's "Crucifixion" at St. John's Church last evening, was attended by a* fairly numerous congregation. The music of tlie meditation was nicely rendered by a strong choir, although ladies' .voices preponderated. The bass solos were sung by Messrs H. Tilsley and G. W. Wright, while the tenor work was undertaken by Mr Russell, the conductor of the choir. The organ accompaniments were very tastefully supplied by Mr T. O. Kerr. At Christchurch yesterday, William Diamond, medical practitioner, who was concerned in tlie motor car accident at Addington on the night of February 22nd, when Sydney Hayward Merritt received fatal injuries, was charged before the S.M. at the police court yesterday with causing the death of Merritt by his negligent and improper driving and thereby committing the * crime of manslaughter. The acciised was commit- . ted for trial, bail being allowed in £250. Tlie Health Department is about , to inaugurate a scheme that has been in contemplation for some years. The proposal is in the direction of providing suitable employment for people ■ who have been at the various State . sanatoriums, aud have recovered from ■ consumption.. The details of the scheme are withheld for the present, L but it will be on the lines of enabling 1 the people referred to to earn their > living in a manner that shall be of . benefit not only to themselves bvit to the State. , An indication of the good feeling which exists amongst the ministers of - the different denominations in Wel- > lington was given at Tuesday's meetj ing of the Wellington Presbytery (says the Times). The presbytery was considering the different localities ■ where there was an opening for • church extension, and it bore no ill- . will whatever when one of its mem- . bers reported that a certain field, I back from W^airarapa, which was not attended to. had been seized upon > by the Church of England. "There ■ is a Church of England clergyman [ there," said the Rev. J. McCaw, "and he is getting our people. There is no wonder, too, for he has done " the work of a Christian* minister effecs tively and well." > A little man stepped in the shop, And said: "Now, you be sure • To give me what I ask for pop, : That's Woods' Great Peppermint ; Cure. It's no us© to iry and force • On me some other class, ; ,For though I am a little hoarse r I'm not a little ass.' . t You should ask to" see our *new , models in trimmed millinery and our new corset models; you will be de- > lighted to find such nice goods at such > reasonable prices. ; — McDowell and : Power. — Advt.