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Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 300, 23 June 1909, Page 4

A ' - : ' "- - On page 2 : Cable news, Sir Joseph AVardj Supreme Court. _ Page .3 .- Charges against solicitors. Page 6; The sculling championship race, Herbertville notes. " Page 7: Correspondence -Radium (No. 4), Sydney letter, the gospel of laughter. • :■. Miss Honan, postmistress at NorseAywd,;is: at present away on her annual /holidays. . Mr Brown, of the Danneyirke postal staff, is acting as relieving officer. ; . The -telegraph 'poles in Gordon street, which: were out of alignment owing J.o- the extension of the footpath, were placed in „t heir proper position yesterday. Mr R. Roake, the popular auctioneeer for Rose, Ltd., is at present laid up with a severely sprained ankle, but will be able to resume business iri a. few days' time. The Druids' social' t.6, be held this evening promises to be a great- success. The Lodge officers have, succeeded in disposing of a very large' number of tickets, and they have all arrangements _in perfect order. Mr Faivhurst is making splendid progress with the erection of the new ward at the hospital, and expects to be able to hand it over the trustees in about a fortnight or three weeks' time. Nurse Light, who has' been on the staff of the local hospital since its inception, left- for G-isborne yesterday, where she has received another appointment. Miss Light was seen off at the station- by many of her Dannevirke friends. . • - - -The new hot water service which Mr Fairhurst has installed at the hospital was tried yesterday for the first" time, and" prov-eH to be a. complete SUCqesS.- Starting from cold point an abundant supply of hot water was found to be circulating through th*e building in- half an -hour. Mr Robert McNab leaves AVellington this .'.evening- for the South, en route to England, and anticipates that ho will be absent for about nine months. His researches in connection with his historical work will "take up- most of Ids time, but he will endeavor to be present at- the Swiss manoeuvres m the autumn, and so gain some first-hand information as to the .results of- universal -military training.- .'"..'• : . '•■'?' "•'''■*•-. The new- Sunday' School at, Ormondville is now fast nearing completion. The -contractor has been favored by fine weather, and it is cx- ■— ' - t . - \ pectpd that the finishing touches to the building will be concluded by the end of the month. The school will be formally opened on Monday, July oth, when a social <will be held. It is hoped that the Bishop of Waiapu, who is conducting a confirmation service, oh the day preceding, will be able to officiate at the opening. "I advise^ every young fellow 'n New South AA T ales only to follow the vocation he is in-- im til he contrives to qualify himself for another higher still," said Mr G. H. Reid, on Tuesday night last; at-the top. of his bent in one of h's philosophic addresses, given in AVoolloomooloo, Sydney. "I was the. son of a- poor man. I had to go to work when I was 13 years old. I had no High School, Grammar School, or University. I had to go to work to earn my own living. And I think it was tlie grandest thing ever happened to me. I learned n-uch snore in the first year at tho office than ever I had learned at school';-- • But then I still had ambition. 1 wanted to reach higher -than tho vocation of a clerk, respectable, though- it is. I had always the ambition to enter public affairs. At eight or nine my great ambition was to become a preacher. (Laughter.) My father was a minister; and, listening to him — he was one of the most eloquent men who ever entered tlie pulpit ;- his name stands in a famous book on elocution,side by. side with tlie- fivo most eloquent men that ever , were — listening to him, I got my inspiration. I got it from that- noble father of mine. I only wish I could be half as good as him." „

**^***" MM **" M ** „,, * I***1 **** 1 * 1 ** M '~*~-y-****--«-«-----^ Mr A. AY. Hog- M .p.. is af] _ dress a political meeting at AVellingtbn .to-morrow evening... Mr P. 0... Clark, il* lwalasejit of , the New Zeakud Accident Insurance Company, informs ns that tlie -company to-day paid over to the local agent of the Public, . Trustee the sum of- £520, being the. full amount of claim and funeral expenses in connection with * the death of the- late AA\ J. Burrell, which Avas caused by an accident at the- . Rangitana sawmill. Mr Clark states that the payment was made^tJKv f_j ay , following the claim being sent in, which is only another .instance of prompt settlement hy this wellInsurance Company^ ' " -- The- "Message from Mars'- was delivered at" the Drill HitlKto 4^ crowded audience last night, was received with no--§mali degree of renthu^asm: The play is always a popular &<uAii»h A only for the moral -in ''altruism %hich it-teaches, but for the smartness of- - :- its dialogue, -And "the sense of' the. mystic in" which it-revels. , Foi* the > - pourtrayal of these; phases-of human interest- Mr Allan Hamilton brought ' together a strong company, who gave a very faithful representation 'of' 'Mr Koßert Ganthony's conception.- and the effortsof various players \ we-re- to- • ceived with the .most cordial approval. , ' •• . A correspondent sends to the West- . minster Gazette the folidfldtog note on New Zealand angling • ; "J hlve-.-been in camp now for three >;hiQntl_*V/agid in that, time have caught SXMW)I6. : r qf trout ; their , average is ■■ 101 b. One '*■ brown trout weighed 22^1,1,,: and 'one rainbow'; 20§lb. The rainbows '.give '\ •a magnificent sport/ and, are Aery. hard fighters. The .country '■.is''"" a fisherman's paradise, every r'iv-gr being well stocked and, of . cours-^ freo to anybody, while in the shooting season every kind of game is very plentiful, from quail to red deer."". The editor regretfully adds:, /'What a pity New Zealand is so far away!-*' Cycle i*oad racing will be in ..full..' swing for the next few months ", do come. Tlie Nonpareil Cycle Conir pany, Palmerston North, has decided to hold a series, of three .large road races on or about the following date*?": First, ' AA^dnesday, July 14th ; seoond, AVednesday, August 11th"; .third,, being the Nonpareil New .'. Zealand championship, to be ; held on Wed-., nesday, September Bth. The prizes • are tho largest given for many a .day, totalling to the value of 50 guineas, thus giving chances never before offered to the young amateur cyclists, who should avail themselves of. the opportunity to bring -glory and pro-, minence to themselves. .Training facilities will be offered, to all intending compeiitors^to„traiß. oa jsjb&.f hoine ..trainer erected ■ on the firpi's ; / premises in town. This ;4yould : n itself be the means of ..bringing ;ail riders up to nick before the race. TJhe course on which the i above races wiD» be held will be in the vicinity of Palmerston North, although not definitely decided on yet, but full particulars^ - will bo inserted in a few . days' time, i