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Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 118, 17 November 1908, Page 4

On pago 2 today will be found an interesting budget of cables. Page 3: Report of H. B. Land Board meeting and Kiritaki notes. Page 6 : A short article, "Buried alive for money" ; commercial. Pago 7: Tho licensing "question — reports of last night's meetings. The Fire Brigade meet for practice this evening. The meeting to arrange for the send off to tho Misses Learmont will be held on Wednesday (to-morrow) evening, not Saturday, as stated in last night's issue. - As an indication of tho excellenceof the present season, it may be mentioned that the October payment to suppliers at the- Stratford Co-opera-tive Dairy Company will amount to £10.. -< more than was paid out for October last year. Miss Newcombe-Ha.ll,- of Dannevirke, took part in a complimentary concert at Waipukurau last night, and her singing quite captivated her hearers. Her first number was "Sing, sweet bird" (Ganz), and for an encore she gave Alfred Hili's "Waiata Poi." In the second part she sang "Come back to Erin." The singer was again recalled, when she substituted Tosti's "Good-bye. 1 ' Mr W. Spenco, of Dannevirke, also contributed two songs to the pro^ gramme, and received warm applause. The present system of exchanging tablets on some of the New Zealand railway stations constitutes a grave danger to the official on the station platform. This fact has been remarked time and again by travelr lers. If the official standing on the platform ha.ngs on to his tablet one second too long he has the chance of being swept beneath the fast-rushing j train. Ono man already has been j killed and another injured at the game, and the wonder is that thero is not a bigger death rate. At Cartorton on Saturday the' railway official holding the tablet for one of the incoming trains had it swept from his hands and beneath the carriages. Tho man himself fortunately kept his feet. Automatic appliances for the exchange of tablets are badly required. At his meeting on Friday night the Hon. Dr Findlay incidentally referred to the aggregation of landed estates _ which was going on in Scotland for purposes of sport. A recent English paper supplies confirmation of this. It says: "A Parliamentary return has been issued giving information relative to tho deer forests in the six Highland crofting counties— i namely, Argyllshire,, Inverness-shire, j Ross and Cromart-y, Sutherland, I Caithness, and Orkney and Shetland. The return shows that the acreage, which in 1883 was 1,709,892, was in 1898, 2,510,625; in 1904, 2,920,097; j and in 1908, 2,958,490. Between j 1904 and 1908 there was a net increase of the acreage devoted to deer forests of 38,393 acres. The totalamount of tho present assessment is £131,841." Mr W. Rose, who 1 has just returned to Dannevirke from a. visit to Scotland, stated that on rej turning to his old home in Rosshire, 1 Scotland, ho was grieved to find the old familiar farm holdings gone, and that deer parks had -taken their place, : Tho statement that the sawinilling industry in the Taihape district is in a bad way. principally on -account of the largo importations of Oregon pine to the dominion, is not regarded very seriously by some of the Auckland sawmillers (says the Herald). It is an undoubted fact that a good deal of Oregon is coming into New Zealand, but Oregon is not a cheap timber, and commands a higher price than rimu. There does not appear to be a very great demand for it in Auckland, a.t auy rate, because several Auckland sawmillors who have stocked it to replace medium kauri, have used very little, if any, of it. ; One leading Auckland sawmiller attributed tho undoubted depression in the timber trade to tho tightness of : the money market, preventing neopte from borrowing money for building' I purposes. Tho money market was so | stringent at tho present time, he said, that it" was hard to borrow at 6 or 7 j per cent, on tho best securities. This ■ gentleman also expressed the opinion that the bulk of the Oregon timber was being bought more as a speculation than anything else. If you are in want of a ready-to-wear suit now, try A. Spence's store, where you will find a good selection to | choose from. Men's superior wellj cut and finished suits from 425, ' boxed. /

. The poll yesterday on a proposal to | borrow x,.^, 000 "for the New Ply-, mouth Harbor Board redemption and" new works was carried by a lai*ge majority, although lull returns are not yet known . A three-fifths majority was necessary under the special Act to cany the proposal. The results of the elections throughout the dominion will be projected on to a screen in front of the Advocate office as soon as the figures are available this evening. We have to express our thanks to Mr J. J. Patterson for allowing us to erect the screen on Wylie and- Co. 's verandah, and the uso of an upstairs room for the operator. The dato of the Maori election for the Eastern Maori district is Wednesday, December 2nd. As the shearing in this district is expected to be then in full swing, and as a largo number of qualified Maori electors will be employed shearing and scrub cutting owners and employers of Maori labour are directed to the following provision in the Legislative Act, 1908, section 185 (par. h) : "Every person who employs any Maori who is entitled to vote shall afford him a reasonable opportunity of recording .his vote, and every person who fails so to do shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £0." Tho ■hours of poll are from 9 a.m. to 4 "*' ' ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ i . The new reticulation of tho. town 3n the way of an -improved- water supply has proceeded as far as Hospital street. Owing to the special castings not coming to hand which were ordered in August, the work of turning the water into the mains has been delayed. The engineer (Mr O'Donhell) expects these to arrive in about ton days', time, when the work will be put in hand of connecting all the. residences -and the different streets from Stair:.street, along Queen street, and. in High-street from Gordon to Hospital street. It is then the : Council's intention to send a larger pipe (about 4-inch) up -to the hospital to increase the supply there so as to cope with an outbreak of fire, should one unfortunately occur. The matter of digging the trenches and the laying of the 8-inch pipes occupied 26 days for two miles, which is considered to be fairly smart work for the number of men employed — an average of ten. Tho 8-inch and the 12-inch pipes run parallel from the reservoir to Stair street. It is the engineer's intention to connect these at this point so as to increase the volume of water over the balance of the town. From the reservoir to the terminus at Mangatera, when all the pipes are laid which the Council intend putting down, the service will compare with any other gravitation supply in tho dominion.