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Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 136, 8 December 1908, Page 4

A first-offending "drunk" was, at the local coucrt this morning, before Mr W. Dobson, J.P., fined ss. the team to represent the Ormondville Cricket Club against Waipukurau at Ormondville to-morrow will be selected from the following: Fayen (3), McFarlane, Vivian, Redward (2), Weenick, Winger, Adamson (2), Selby, Smith, Price, and F. Olsen. • i At a meeting of the Cabinet yesterday the following votes were atuhorised: £325 fo> Westporfc technical school, £1500 for Manawatu river protection works, £350 for hospital at Tamaranui, £385 for school at Waiharara, Auckland, £5000 for Wellington - Manawatu railway tablet i working, £1200 for fixed signals for the same line, £2000 for Wanganui District High School, £285 for Otana school, £1500 towards erection of drill shed at Dunedin. £60,000 was passed for railway construction works and £40,000 for road votes. Votes for a District High School and Technical School at Hamilton, and for a Technical School building at Cambridge were also authorised. " i

I On page 2: The JVfanawatu line. Pago 3: The product market; men or muscular in-utes. Page 6: j Wolffe' s latest t failur.e ; - tested ,fre--1 cipes. Page 7,: A, high; Aivot.~ Mr W. P. Jamesi S;M'v aia Mrs James, of Masterton, : lekfe'^jeilington for Australia; shortly -for 'an. extended visit, to the Commdriwealife At ; the Magistrate's Court' this afternoon, before Messrs. Q~. New^tfeajad W. Dobson, J.'sP., a/prohibiitso^OT,der was granted against a localbueßident on the application =of hid wi£e> Yesterday, afternoon Pastor Ries and Mr Wratt (DaiinevifkeJ; and Mr Burnett ("WooavUle) met at the Mayor's room as 'a committee to prepare bye^laws for the Waipaw?s Hospital Board. ■''•"'' ? '. ; ; '... > The secondary schools cup, >whach was woij, by the D'aniievirke ■ High School football team,' as. now on riew in. Mr Ransom's window.. ;.- The. cup will be presented to the/ school by Dr Findlay on Thursday night. Cabinet has decided to. erect ; the now Government House on the site now occupied by Mount View, mental asylum. Tlie asylum is to be removed to some central site in the i Jfirttk Island, which is to be selected-..^ritlt-out delay. ' •.! The body of the late Mrs ! - John Speedy was taken to Her bertvifle last night. The interment took place this afternoon in-"the private burial ground at Burn View station, in Hub presence of a large gathering c£ mourning friends. While working at the fire last nigfafc one of the leads of hose broke a-way from the fireman in charge, and wriggled and squirmed about like ii big enake, throwing the water, in all directions, causing the crowd of : spectators to move in, a lively, manner to avoid a deluge. ' ' / The following will represent tk© Jforsewood Tennis Club against Takspau at Norsewood to-morrow : vitas-. dames Sanders, W.. G. Callender, E. C. Groom, Misses Campbell, Woodham, F. Brabazori, and Messrs Callender, Groom, Bagley, T- Hosking, Bevan and Dr Veitcji. ~; i l~ r : ' At last night's^, meeting of the North Schol Committee;, Mr Bain remarked on the reading of the headmaster's report that the. attendance was increasing, notwithstaiidiflg/ that the mills had. all been: closed : down. He understood' that the attendance at the South School -vhad-Tako increased, besides which there was the Tepapakuku school, which had taken a large number of scholars from the South school. The attendance at the latter school had also greatly increased. At the banquet "at Wellington yesterday in celebration of 'the acquirement by the Government of the Manawatu line, Sir. Joseph ' Ward remarked : "On all sides " there had been evidence of \ progress- oil- •"■" the line, and in ifliis connection he had a word of high praise to say about the late general manager, Mr W. Haanay, and the" erigirieer, Mr M*rd»banks, for the work they had dose 1 . (Applause). As .to the , purchase mo^e^y^-£9lsjooo^it-\i-as : (cai^d 'without difficulty on most 'advantageous terms. (Applause.) In conclusion, he spoke in terms of praise of the poineers who promoted the lineiffthe early days of New Zealand. He expressed the hope that the railway iticwr. taken over • would be carried , on. in future on. the lines of progress."'; A commencement was made festerday at the Ormondville railway yards with, the enlarging and extension of the cattleyards. . At present the platelayers under Ganger Ketty *re making preparations to lay a new line about 20 feet to the front of the yards, and when this is completed the old line lying at present in front of the yards, will be taken up, and the yards extended to the new line. If the Railway Department could see their way clear to' enlatge the goodshed at Ormondville, and instil a small crane the blessings of ; porters, carriers, arid carters would be shoirered on their heads. Ormondville is the centre of a very large district, with NoTsewood and Ngainoko oil one side and Waikopiro and Mangapuaka on the other, and there is an exceedingly large output there/ At times in the good shed there is not room to swing a cat. Upwards of- a thousand bales of wool will have been sent out before the season is over, and with the large machinery which is" constantly arriving for the various factories and farmers in the district, a, crane would save endless work and also prevent the shed becoming most A far from cheerful account of the agricultural prospects, in Central Otago appears in a Dunedin paper from, its Alexandra correspondent:— "The weather continues to be exceptionally dry, and every day makes th» conditions more gloomy," he write*. "During the past month hot and dip southerly winds have prevailed, and the fresh green foliage and pasturage .that existed a few weeks ago au>y bear a golden tint. Indication* throughout Central Otago are . far from bright, and there is no appearance of rain. After the wet winter experienced everything pointed to a bountiful harvest,, .but the absence of moisture during- the past few, weeks has told a sorry tale. Reports from the outlying districts are ..far .ftobi promising, and even in the Upper Clutha district, where the rainfall is heavier than in any other part of Central Otago, the country is very dry. A visitor from Hawea district states that^on more than one farm the stock had been turned on to the crops, and, should, the present :drv weather continue, the whole of the Hawea crops will be below those 1 of former years. In the Ida Valley, Lauder, and Matakanui districts the outlook is similar to that elsewhere, more especially in the first-named district, where the crops are only above the ground, and are sprouting *! r ready."