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Bush Advocate, Volume XXIII, Issue 309, 12 January 1912, Page 4

A description of another scene in the New South Wales Parliament is given on page 2. "An Interrupted Marriage" is continued on page 3. Delayed cables appear on page 6 and a variety of reading matter will be found no page 7. Opotiki, for many years an outpost of British civilisation, manned by the Armed Constbulary, has now a kinematograph show each night. The scene is changing. No fewer than twenty motor-cars were employed to convey the guests to a wedding in Masterton recently.

Amongst the newest editions to the collection of the Canterbury Museum are a number of moa bones, discovered by Dr. Guthrie, of Lyttelton, at Port Levy, and presented by him.

A complimentary social is to be tendered Mr J. li. Escott, M.P., at Pahiatua on January 19. Members of Parliament from adjoining electorates, together with Messrs Masscy and Herdman, are to be invited. Aill the children presented at To Kehunga School for 'the synchronous examination in December last obtained high marks and gained 1 proficiency certificates. Their names were: Aim'. Allen, Charles Webber, Martha Webber, Dorothy Todd. The president of the local Bowling Club has received an invitation to be present at the celebration of the Auckland Bowling Club's jubilee on the 9th and 10th of February. A. large gathering of representative bowlers from the Commonwealth and the Dominion is expected. An exchange says that forty-three members of the new Parliament are pledged to the bare or fifty-five per cent majority on the licensing question. If the matter is brought before the House it would appear that the three-fifths majority is doomed. The Ballance Daily Company will pay out about £7500 on the loth inst. for milk supplied to the Konini and Ballance butter factories and the Hanuui, liukanui, Scarborough, and Makomako creameries. Payment will be made at the rate of Is per lb of butter-fat.

The Christchureh Licensing Comrinitee sat yesterday to hear a complaint lodged against Warner's hotel, that on general election night rotten eggs were thrown from the building. After consideration, the Committee decided that the charge would be upheld, but no action taken in regard to the licensee. The Secretary' of the Wnirarapn. Caledonian Society has the names of nineteen gentlemen to propose for membership at a meeting to be held on Saturday next. It is anticipated that the membership will reach 400 in a very short time, the total now being about 380.

Tho Mayor of Timaru, Mr J. Craigio, has handed to the Borough Council the last section of the avenue of trees begun in 1900. The avenue was planted by him, and fenced and maintained for three years, along 56 chains of the two-chain West Belt. A hearty vote of thanks was passed to the Mayor on Monday night for his handsome present to the town.

In the course of his remarks when thanking the residents for the presentation they had made him, Mr G. Petrie, late headmaster of the Opawa School, Canterbury, said there was a weakness in the svstem of education in the direction of physical culture. There had been an improvement in the last year or two, but there was still plenty of room for further improvement. In response to representation made on 4th ultimo, Mr R. B. Ross has been advised by the secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department to tlie effect that the necessary facilities have been provided at Akitio and Ti Tree Point to enable those outlying offices to participate in the benefits secured by settlers through the Pongaroa, Weber and Porangahau telegraph offices being reopened each evening between the hours of seven and eight. This will give the whole of the outlying portions of the Pahiatua electorate telephonic communication with all centres between those hours.

A pevusual of the prize list for the Feilding A. and P. Show, to be held on February 6, and 7, will show that sheep and lambs have been very / well treated, no less than eleven points prizes being offered for competition. There is a shield of 30 guineas which also carries a gold medal), a cup value 20 guineas, and three ten-guinea cups, one ton of manure, and seven cases of sheep dip. These with the large amount of prize money allotted, should induce very keen competition, especialy as the season has been so favorable to pastoralists Entries close on Friday, 19th inst., and the secretary will be pleased to forward a prize list on application. For warding off Influenza "NAZOL" acts like a charm. As soon, as you feel the slightest symptom take "NAZOL" according to directions, and you're safe. ZEMO, tihe speedy cure for Eczema, Piles, Ringworm, Chafing, Burns and all Eruptions and. Abrasions of the Skin. Price Is 6d, 2s 6d, 4s 6d; aHI chemists and stores.* "NAZOL" is more alive than ever, because the experience of not hundreds but thousands has proved its absolute merit in relieving and curing Nasal Catarrh, Colda in the i Head, Coughs. Sore Throats, Bronchitis and Influenza. Sold everywhere; Is 6d bottle of 60 doses.

The Radio office, Wellington, advises that the Maitai, Mocraki, Rualnne and Wimmcra wil probably be within wireless range to-night.

The inhabitants of Invercargill and the surrounding districts are to be afforded an opportunity of seting an atroplane in action at no distant date. The machine is being put together by Mr M'Kenna, of Belfast, and the wellknown Maori wrestler, Aioana Parattne, who is something of a mechanic. The aeroplane will be , fitted ith a 40-h.p. engine.

According to Mr W. H. Hagger, (officer in charge of the Christchurch branch of the department of Labor), there are very lew men out u, employment at the moment, judging from the small number of enquiries received. On the other hand it appears that many industries are doing little more than marking time, pending the settling down of affairs.' He is assured, However, that tnis is merely temporary, and that shortfall work will.be progressing as usual.

A Feilding stablekeeper sent the "new" boy with a couple of horses to the paddock. The boy set off in the right direction, but stopped at the pound paddocK. Finding the gate locked, he put the horses securely in the "boss's paddock," and then went back and reported that the paddock had been locked. His employer could not understand why it should have been locked, but in conversation witli the poundkeeper the next morning he learned the painful truth. At a cost of a couple of shillings he redeemed the horses.

"What is- going to happen to wool?" asks the Feilding Star. There has been some speculators from America abroad even in the Feilding district picking up parcels of fine merino with which to speculate for a removal of the duty in the tariff rerevision in U.S.A. And they have paid some good prices up here on tiie spot, so that some of our pastoralists arc not caring this season how the sales go in Wellington or in London. They are sitting on the fence, now smiling, x and watching next year's fleeces coming on.'' There is a new peril from aeroplanes. A Sydney paper states that great excitement prevailed at Botany near Sydney, during the passage of an aviator in his aeroplane over the farms and houses. Cows became frightened at the noise of the engine and rushed about, with the result tnat they yielded very little milk. Next day the aeroplane again hew over many of the dairy farms and the cows' got another scare and stampeded. Nearly 300 animals at a dairy in North 'Botany rushed round the paddock, and several falling were trampled and injured. Some idea of the vagaries of the winds that blow along the New Zealand coast may be gathered from the fact that the scow Ngaru, which recently took only about three days to go down from Kaipara to Wellington, has arrived at Kaipara from Wellington after a protracted passage of 32 days. The vessel was loaded with iron rails. Her long passage recalls the very slow performance of the big full-rigged ship Australia, which, a few months ago, took 31 days to cover the distance between Wellington and Auckland.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Ruahine Lodge, U.A.0.D., was held last evening, the principal business being the presentation of the balance-sheet. After the auditors' ■report had been read the balancesheet was adopted, and the .treasurer and secretary accorded a vote of thanks on the motion of Trustee Bro. Urwin. Two new members were initiated and nine candidates .proposed for iadmission. Keen competition was displayed' over the election for representatives to the Friendly Societies' Council, eight members standing for tho position. The ballot .resulted! in. the following being elected:—Bros. Geo. Harris, A. E. Urwin, and J. Watt. A vote of 'condolence was passed to Bro. and Mrs J. D. Ferguson in their recent bereavement. The result of the cards to date- shows Bros. Kemp, Ericksen and Burkinshaw in tho lead with six points each. A Wanganui shipping man tells an interesting little story concerning the barquentine Carta, which lately went ashore at Wanganui Heads, and was afterwards bought by Hatrick and Co. and floated. Some eight years ago a barquentine was built in a Dutch seaport. Immediately she was launched the keel of another was laid down, and in due course put in the water. .Both had Dutch names, but the elder ship of the twins was bought by a Dutch firm and called the Carla, and the younger of the twins was bought by Mr A. Hatrick,' of Wanganui, who gave her the name of one of his daughters—Alexa. Strange, is it not, that after eight years the twins should have come together again? One has had a comparatively uneventful life, spent mostly on the Tasnian Sea; the other has sailed all the oceans, and at last, storm-tossed, battered, and forsaken, she has been practically driven into the land of her twin sister's owner.