The Advocate. [Established 1888.] [PUBLISHED DAILY.] OLDEST ESTABLISHED PAPER AND GUARANTEED LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE DISTRICT. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1910.

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The Advocate. [Established 1888.] [PUBLISHED DAILY.] OLDEST ESTABLISHED PAPER AND GUARANTEED LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE DISTRICT.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1910.

CIRCULATES IN Dannevirke Mangatoro Tamaki Ngapaeruru Mangahe Weber Ti Tree Point Waione. Wimbledon Herbertville Akitio Horoeka Oringi Kiritaki Maiiarahara Woodville Umutaoroa Matamau Pi-ripiri Makotuku Ormondville Norsewood Takapau Whetukura Awariki Otanga Kumeroa Rangitane Raumati Rua Roa S. Norsewood Tiratu Tipapakuku Mangapuaka Mangatuna Makaretu

We understand that the Drill Hall has been l>ooked by the "Besses o' th' Barn" Band for March 29. A special meeting of the Waipawa District Hospital Board will be held at Waipukurau on Wednesday next, to discuss the question of representation on the board to be formed under the Act of last session. The steamer Clan MacFarlane, which left Napier on Sunday, cleared for London, not Dunkirk, as at first reported. It is stated that at the last moment it was decided to send her to London direct to catch the March sales. Her wool for Dunkirk will probably be transhipped at London. ( According to the Referee, Frank Smith, jjunr., the Sydney snooker expert, ran out in two hits of 35 and 45 unfinished in one game in six minutes. Against Humbert Rumball recently he scored 91 to 4, and put young Lindrum's seal]) on his belt to the tune of 96 to 16 at os a ball on a standard table. A meeting of the Dannevirke Dairy Company was held at the office oi Messrs Campbell Thomson and Co. this morning, when cheques amounting to close unon £llOO were passed for payment for milk supplied during the month of December. As showing the success of dairying in the Umutaoroa district, we may mention that one supplier's cheque for the month amounted to just on £IOO. The Pelorus Guardian says : A correspondent forwards particulare of an alleged sly-grog centre in the Sounds, and threatens to give information to the police if the letter is not published. The letter rests gently in the waste-paper basket, and our friend will "follow the copy" if he personally makes such threats. If he has knowledge of a sly-groggery, and objects to it, his proper course is to inform the police. Last evening a large number of interested friends congregated at the Methodist Church to farewell the Misses Stoventou and Mrs Ford, who have for some years past been active workers in that denomination. Mr Geo. Anderson, in a neat speech, presented, on behalf of the Christian Endeavor and Mission Band, Miss E. Steventon with a handsome wrist bag, and Miss D. Steventon with an umbrella. Mr W. Harrison responded on behalf of the recipients. Mrs Gaulton then, on behalf of the Ladies' Guild, presented Mrs Ford with a daintv silver-mounted honey jar. Mrs Ford'suitably replied. The bountiful supplv of provisions provided by the friends being done justice to, the meeting broke up after singing the customary farewell hymn.

On page 2: British election results. Page 3: Country correspondence. Page 6: Sporting news— Fox ton acceptances. Page 7 : Weber County Council. The chirp of the chick is music for the poultry fancier. Styles of collars for men to wear who are watching airships are now in vogue in France. In Victoria the female electors exceed the males by about 15,000. The total figures are 347,000 women and 332,000 men . The heaviest man playing in the Northern Association's bowling tournament was Bradley, of Onehunga. The big man weighs 20st 101b. A bee, unladen, will fly at the rate of forty miles an hour; biit one returning to the hivo laden with honey does not tiavel faster than twelve miles an hour. The _ West Australian Government statistician's returns give the population of that State on December 31 . at 276,908, an increase of 6085 on last year. The ink plant of New Granada is a curiosity. The juice of it can be used as ink without any preparation. At first the writing is red, but "after a few hours it changes to black. Severa buyers of fat lambs, who are in the South Canterbury district, state that, partly owing to the scarcity of feed, lambs are not up to last year's standard, and that growers are in most cases anxious to sell. The membership of the Masterton A. and P. Association has now reached a total of eight hundred. Members' subscription are coming in freely, much better than in former years. The express train from Napier this morning carried quite a batch of Anglican clergymen, amongst them being Bishop Averill and Archdeacon Ensor, en route to Wellington, where they attend the General Synod. Mr William Jennings Bryan, of Lincoln, Nebraska,who, twice unsuccessfully contested the Presidency of the United States, has written to a friend in _ Axistralia stating that he intends visiting the colonies at an early date. The Japanese language is said to contain 60.000 words, every one of which requires a different symbol. It is quite impossible for one man to learn the entire language, and a welleducated Japanese is familiar with only about 10,000 words. The Union Steam Ship Company was "desirous of making a presentation of a gold watch to Captain Blunt, of H.M.S. Pioneer, for his promptness in getting the Waikare's passengers off Stop Island, but found that the Admiralty regulations prevented it. On his return from the Synod, Bishop Averill will conduct a service at Woodville on Sunday, February 6, coming on \r> Dannevirke. on the following Monday. He will afterwards spend a few days at Mangatoro, where his family are now. staying. Mr Simmers to-day received word from the secretary of the Education Board that John Wiseman, a pupil of the High School 1 ; was top of the Senior Education Board Scholarship list for Hawke's Bay. Unfortunately his name was omitted from the telegraphed list published yesterday. A number of Englishmen residing in Brussels and Antwerp met on November 18 at the British Consulate in Antwerp and constituted a British Chamber of Commerce for Belgium. They will endeavor to stop the fraudulent use of English labels on goods that have not been made in England. A special train carrying a number of racehorses for the Wellington meeting, and general produce, arrived in Dannevirke this morning at 10.50. As the engine carried a whistle of much the same sound as that on the express train, engine, the approach of the train was the signal for a rush of busy men to the station, only to find that their arrival was premature. The all-round capabilities of a country constable in New Zealand amusingly demonstrated in the last Gazette. Constable Luke Spellman, of Coromandel, has the honor of taking up over half a column of space in that official publication by virtue of his appointment as an Inspector of Sea Fisheries, Inspector of Factories, Licensing Officer under the Arms Act, and a police gaoler. During the period from 1845 and 1909, the amount of timber shipped from the Wairoa is difficult to compute, but far exceeds 1,000,000,000 ft. To-day (says the Auckland Herald) the mills, if called upon, could annually produce 100,000,000 ft., and the amount of money engaged in the industry is enormous. There are over 1000 men engaged in the bashes and mills, and their wages are an important item to Wairoa merchants.. The executive of the Taranaki Caledonian* and Athletic Association yesterday discusssed the question of control of cycling events at sports gatherings, and resolved that if the N.Z. League of Wheelmen grants a permit to the Wanganui Society's sports it be a recommendation from the Taranaki Centre that all negotiations for reciprocal agreement between the Caledonian Union and the League of Wheelmen be cancelled, and that owing to lack of government of cycling in many parts of New Zealand by the League the Union should take over control of cycling.

On her trip to England from Australia in November last the P. and O. mail liner Mantua, which arrived at Adelaide from London on Saturday, accomplished the remarkable feat of communicating by wireless telegraphy with the English station at North Foreland from Malta, a distance of over 2000 miles. On New Year's Day the liner was in communication with H.M.S. Powerful in connection with the New South AY ales colliery strike. During the run from Fremantle a game of chess was conducted between the passengers aboard and those on the N.D.L. steamer Friedrich der Grosso, which sailed from the Outer Harbour, Sydney, homeward bound on Monday week last, and has an installation of the Marconi system. The game was won by the Mantua's representatives after six hours' play in 21 moves.