The Advocate. [Established 1888.] [PUBLISHED DAILY.] OLDEST ESTABLISHED PAPER AND GUARANTEED LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE DISTRICT. FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1910.

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

FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1910.

«»■ —^> CIRCULATES IN Dannevirke Mangatoro Tamaki Ngapaeruru Mangahe Webur Ti Tree Point Waione Wimbledon Herbertviile Akitio Horoeka Oringi Kiritaki Maharahara Woodville Umutaoroa Matamau Piripiri Makotuku Ormondville Norsewood Takapau Whetukura Awariki Otanga Kumeroa Rangitane Raumati Rua Roa S. Norsewood Tiratu Tipapakuku Mangapuaka Mangatuna Makaretu

On page 2 : Waikare salvage work ; some Fisher sayings. Page 3: Five mirrors ;at Ober-ammagau. Page 6 : A link with the past; Methodist missionary and priest; the lady politician; Polar exploration. Page 7: Short story—"The Traitor" ; history of a common cold. We understand that Mr P. Ronberg has disposed of his farm at Kiritaki to Mr Logan, a neighboring settler.

The town joker of Wanganui says the Wellington Tramway Band is going to win the.band contest—because the members are all conductors. The membership of the Shearers' Union is steadily increasing, and now totals nearly two thousand for the North Island. According' to that excellent Home publication, Cricket, Mr A. G. Relf, who left for England by the Ruapehu, received £SOO for his services as coach in. Auckland—about three months' work.

By the Ulimaroa last week, Mr It. D. Knight, of Longburn, shipped' to a Melbourne order 24 picked heavy draught horses, comprising ten geldings and fourteen mares, all ranging from four to five years of age.

The tender of Mr W. E. Hutchinson (£7777) has been accepted for the erection_of a new theatre for Messrs John Fuller and Sons, on a site in Upper Pitt-street, one block removed from Karangahape-road, Auckland. The Inspector-General of Hospitals approves of the employment of women on hospital and charitable aid boards. Dr Valentine is also of opinion that the new Hospital Boards should have complete control of health matters within their respective jurisdictions.

Messrs Holben and Dunk have been very successful with their canvas in connection with the proposal to hold the next band contest at Palmerston. North, and already have £44.5 guaranteed. It is expected the remainder of the £oOO will be easily obtained from the licensed victuallers.

After four years of vain, effort to produce an epidemic among rats, M. I)e Kruyff, of the Agricultural Bureau at Buitenzorg, Java, hit upon a new plan. Pouring half a teaspo-on-i'ul of carbon bisulphide into each occuj)ied rat hole, lie lighted the vapor, and 1 the poisonous gases from the explosion almost instantly killed all rats. In 43 holes subsequently opened, 131 dead rats wore found, two holes containing ten rats each.

The Opotiki papers are making warfare over Ilua. One urges that he is being treated with too much leniency, and the other that too much notice is being taken, of him. It is understood that Mr P. Nelson has, through the instrumentality of Messrs Barraud and Abraham, disposed of ins sheep farm at Mangatuna to Mr Poole, junr., of AVebcr. The price is about £8 per acre. Yesterday a very heavy special goods train passed through Dannevirke from Napier to< AVoodville, and returned from Dannevirke to Napier later in the day. To-day another equally heavy special went through. A lady and gentleman went to, the Napier breakwater last Wednesday evening for the purpose of seeing some friends off by the Tavawera, and boarded the, boat. Their leavetakings were evidently protracted, for before they Avere aware of the fact the steamer had left the wharf, and they were unwilling passengers to Gisborne, the nearest port of call. A wire sent next morning relieved the anxiety of their friends. While escorting Lord Kitchener over the Whakarewarewa reserve on Sunday last, says the Plot Lakes Chronicle, the guide was explaining to him that the very worst thing one could do to a Maori—the greatest insult thai could be offered to him oilier—would be to compare them to something that they were in the habit of eating, such as to call a man a pig. In the olden days the punishinent for such a crime was death. "In that case," said Lord Kitchener, "it wouldn't do to call a nice Maori girl a deer (dear)." Yesterday, Messrs It. B. Itoss, M.P. for Pahiatua, F. G. Cbwper, chairman of the Dannevirke County Council, W. Nathan, District Road Engineer, and G. Harris, County Road Overseer, paid a visit of inspection to the Te Uri and Mangapuaka roads. When , joining the express, at Te' Uri junc- : tion., which was to convey them to the train at Ormondville, a slight mishap occurred. When the party took their seats on the vehicle the driver turned round very sharply, capsizing the conveyance, the occupants being tumbled out into a ditch. The driver (Mr A. Hegh) had the misfortune to be pinned under the express, and sustained several cuts on the face, in addition to other bruises. The rest of the party escaped with minor bruises. The pole of the express was broken, but this was patched up and the journey was resumed without further mishap. Writing to a Rangitikei paper, Mr W. A. Ellis says:—"The turnip blight is what is engaging the attention of and puzzling most farmers just at present. I think no one seems to know the cause of it, or whether the recent rain will check or favor it. Now it has occurred to me that possibly I have a clue. I have 15 acres, consisting of 7\ acres each of Imperial Green Globe and White Pomeranian. Both have had the same amount of manure and cultivation, and were drilled within a day of one another, January 7 and 8. So far the latter are not affected by the blight, and are doing well, while the former have it, though not very bad. My idea is that the Imperial Green Globes, being a winter turnip, were sown a bit too early, and could not stand the two little spells of dry weather we had. This theory may, of course, be quite upset by some other person's experience. I may say that I have had good crops of the I.G.G. when drilled very late up to April 4 last year. The White Pomeranian is a quick grower of better quality than the Mammoth purple top and suitable for early sowing."