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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8300, 3 June 1907, Page 4

- On page 2, correspondence, commercial, telegraphic, bankruptcy news; on page 3, "Spectator's" football reports ; on page 6, general cables, telegrams; on page 7," Foresight's " Volunteer notes, telegraphic news. A gold band ring, picked up in the street recently, now lies at the police station awaitingj its owner. The Arbitration C-onrt to-morrow will be called to adjudicate upon a large number of cases of breaches of award brought by the Inspector of Factories and the Painters' Union. The Junction Hotel at Sandon was completely destroyed by fire at halfpast one yesterday afternoon. The outbreak occurred while lunch was on, and the proprietor, Mr Morse, was only able to save a few of his effects. The insurances were as follows:—£800 on building, £200 furniture, £100 stock, £30 piano, and £50 on Mr Morse's personal effects. The depositions have been taken from a young girl residing at Carterton, whose name is mentioned in connection with a charge which has been preferred against a young man. An illegal operation is alleged to have been performed at Masterton. The patient is a child about sixteen years of age, and she is still in a 'most critical state. Ordinary and special meetings of the Manawatu County Council will be held on Wednesday week. At the ordinary meeting, rates for the ensuing year will be struck, while the business for the special meeting is to pass special order making separate rates in the riding of Rongotea (excluding the township of Rongotea) and the Whirokino' division of the Awaliou riding. An enjoyable afternoon's music was discoursed by the Band at the Hospital yesterday. It was listened to with pleasure by the patients and also by a number of visitors who were present. Thanks were returned to the bandsmen by Mr A. E. Bennett, ' speaking on behalf of the patients and staff. I-Ie also took the opportunity of stating that the visits of the Band would always be welcomed at the institution. Be sure to see the splendid assortment of Winter Dress Materials showing this week at C. Smith's, next Post Office.—Advt. When you feel the first twinge of rheumatism, gout, sciatica or lumbago, send for a bottle of Rheumo. It will quickly cure you. All stores and chemists sell it at 2a 6d and 4s 6d. A positive and lasting cure —Adrt.

Chaff has been reduced from £8 15s per ton to £5 15a in the Ohakune district. Teamsters are delighted. The only culprit to appear before the S.M. at the Courthouse this morning was a female first-offending inebriate. She was fined ss, in default 24 hours' imprisonment. Most of the gum plantations on the north side of the Selwyn river (Canterbury) are affected with blight, and the leaves are dying on many of the trees at Kirwee. The first of the three cottages in Taonui Street, owned by the Bowling Club, was shifted to-day to a new site. The others will follow shortly. The removal was rendered necessary by the proposed extension of thegreen. A working bee of members of the Poultry Association was held to-day in preparation for the Show -this month. The ground, which is situated in Cuba Street, was cleared and a staTt made with the erection of the structure wherein the birds will be housed. A Dunedin correspondent telegraphs that there is still a strong feeling among the Benevolent Trustees that the Chinese receiving relief should be sent home to China. The only trouble is the question of expense, but there seems little doubt that if the Chinese

can provide half the cost of the passage money the trustees will see to the rest. The annual offerings in aid of the Anglican Maori Museum were made throughout the parish yesterday. The Rev. A. Williams, of Putiki, Wanganui, conducted the morning service.at All Saints, and spoke of the necessity of support being accorded to the work. Mr Williams, who is the superintendent of the mission in the Wellington diocese, said that the work among the. Maoris of late had been exceedingly encouraging. To-day, being the Prince of Wales' Birthday, was observed as a close holiday in Palmerston, and the tdwn presented a very deserted appearance. The schools were also given a spell, though at first it was intimated that they would be open as usual, owing to the break recently occasioned by the observance of Empire Day. The only public attraction was the football on the Show Grounds this afternoon. Ir. the case of a charge of theft brought against a Maori youth at the Has-tmgs Police Court, it transpired (says the Napier Telegraph) that he lia'l been led into his evil practices by n pakeka, who told him he never bought clothes, but merely took them from outside the shops, where they were displayed in negligent profusion. Taking the broad hint, the native adopted that course himself, with the lcsult that he found himself in the police dock.

We have received from the Christchurch Press Co., Ltd., a copy of "New Zealand in the Exhibition Year," a special industrial and Commercial number of the Weekly Press. The publication, which is got up in the finished manner characteristic of the Press Co., in addition to being profusely illustrated with reproductions of photographs of numerous towns in the colony, affords a considerable amount of valuable information relative to New Zealand during the year in which the great Exhibition was held. The relative value of male and female nurses came under discussion at the last meeting of the Dunedin Benevolent Trustees, and the gefieral opinion was greatly in favour of the latter. Indeed, so lightly was'the male attendant esteemed that the management had long since dispensed with the services of that sort and found that an old inmate was capable of looking after the patients infinitely better than the paid, and presumably trained, professional. Dr Ooss, when appealed to, said that a male nurse was not nearly so deft or so reliable as a female. Also, curiously enough, two female nurses could be procured for the salary paid to one male.

The H.B. Herald was shown the other day a very interesting relic which is in the possession of Mr W. Pearce, of Port Ahuriri (Napier). This is a small piece of oak from a British sloop, the Mary Rose, sunk in the English Channel in 1545 bv a French man-o'-war, and raised again in 1840. The piece of oak, which has been in the possession of Mr Pearce's family for many years, is in splendid preservation, despite its three hundred years' immersion in the sea,and bears a plate made from the copper of the sunken vessel and inscribed with the dates of the sinking and raising of the vessel. Mr J- N. Grant, Grand Secretary of tho North Island Grand Lodge of Druids, was a visitor to Palmerston yesterday. Ho left for the Hawke's Bay district this morning, where he goes to complete arrangements for the opening of a new lodge at Hastings and the taking over of th& Albion Lodge, Napier, from the Victorian Constitution. He informed a representative of this paper that the Grand Lodge had paid away £720 last week in death claims, seven deaths having occurred in the district. Owing to the great increase in membership only three levies had been struck, which goes to show that the Druids' special funeral levy scheme is an assured, success.

Horticulturists. will be interested in the following:—At the Wellington Rose and Carnation Club's an- ' nual meeting it was announced that at? the club's January show a sweet-pea cup or shield of the value of 1' 13 10s wil lbe offered for competition. In addition there will be first, second, third :<nd fouith money priz'-s----with the idea of securing a number of exhibits. The piizes will beopsi* to all New Zeolrnd, either amateur or professional, and will be awarded for the best 12 vases of sweet-peas, etch vase of diffeient variety to the others, and each vase to contain 10 spikes of blooms. The winner of the trophy to hold same for cne year only and to return it to the Society in time for competition next season, on the same terms and conditions. In addition to the above prizes, tfc>? National Sweet-pea Society of England has offered a special medal for competition. Mr Robert Sydenham of Biiminghrm, has also promised -r medal or a piece of plate for 9 vases of sweefc-peas.

You want mudguards for the wet weather. If you ride at night, what about a good acetylene lamp? We are specialists in supplying you with just what you want. Scott's. —Advt. Special prices in Dress Tweeds this week at C. Smith's, the Cash Draper, next Post Office. Immense variety,, from Is to 4s 6d yard.—Advt. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds never tails. Is 6d 2s 6d.—Ail. ' If you .want your furniture or goods removed anywhere in the colony with the greatest care and expedition, send to J. J Curtis ?nd Co., Ltd., Shipping, Custom-house and For-.v.irding Agents. Customhouse Quay, Wellington. Only experienced packers employed. [Reasonable charges.—Advt.

There were eight bankruptcies :n Wellington last month, as compared with none during May, 1906. The dates of the "Wairarapa and East Coast P. A. Society's next annual show have been fixed for Wednesday and Thursday, November 20 and 21. Some Hutt residents have secured 3000 acres of bush near Ohakune from the natives for milling purposes. Tbey state it is the best bush they have seen. While dealing with a case in which a young man was charged with vagrancy, Mr C. C. Kettle, S.M., of Auckland, mentioned that he had received an anonymous letter bearing on the case. He handed it over to Detective Henderson with instructions that endeavours should be made to trace the writer of the letter. If the person could be found his Worship said he would find some means of punishing the offender. "I am glad to say," said Mr Kettle, " that since I have ™ been in Auckland I have only had to complain twice of receiving anonymous letters." It would appear from an incident which occurred at the last meeting of the Auckland Education Board that the School Journal published by the Department is not in such keen demand nor studied as profoundly as the promoters of the new magazine anticipated would be the case. A letter was received inquiring if the Board , desired additional copies to those already sent to the office. The secretary mentioned that he had a number of copies remaining from the par- <

eel received, and quite sufficient for the present. Mr F. W. Lang remarked that evidently the journal was not sought after, and members of the Says the Observer:—Sir Joseph "Ward, when travelling oversea, does not forget to look after the colony's interest. On the journey to London, the blithe Sir Joe captained the New Zealand deck cricket team, and gaily spanked the ball to the boundaries. 1 utting all thr oughts of the McNab and the Land Bill out of his head, 1 e organised tournaments and dances, and banishing all thoughts of meddlesome Massey from his mind, he conducted a select party over the Port Said school, where the little Arab scholars showed them a thing or two in the recitation line. If Sir Joe ever loses his job as Premier, he is sure of a good billet as a Cook's tourist agent. He would make an invaluable courier. The Western Star states that Master Richard Church, who has been an inmate of the Riverton Hospital for the past four years, has been cured of terrible injuries received through his clothes catching fire at Nightcaps. The cure has been a re-

markable one, and reflects the highest credit on the staff of the institution. So severe were the child's injuries, who was five years old at the time of his- entry to the hospital, that very little hopo was held out of saving hia life. With the exception of a small part of the face, the whole of the head and shoulders were badly burned, the top of the head and ears being literaliy charred, the latter falling off shortly after his admission to the institution. By the use of grafts, however, which were given by a number of friends, the child is now completely healed, and he will be discharged in the course of a few days. The casualness and uselessness of the colonial youth, his natural antipathy for work, and his apparently natural desire for cigarettes and football, has claimed the attention of many writers on many occasions, and the result has been anything but flattering to the rising generation of New Zealanders. Is he any worse than his prototype of 20 years ago? Or are we becoming too exacting and too apt to forget that we ourselves were boys once upon a time? These are- questions which were occupying the attention of some prominent Hamiltonians the other day. Some severe strictures had been passed by every member of the company except one, who, with the evident purpose" of clinching the argument, said: "What do you think? I caught half-a-dozen of the young rascals with a pack of greyhounds out on my farm on Sunday." "And what did you do?" "What did I do? I took the young devils down —(pause)— found them a hare, and gave them

the best run of the season," added the burly farmer, who had not forgotten that away back in the dim i L d distant past he had been at the gf me himself. —Waikato Argus. A Dunedin telegram the other day ' said that the recent rise in the price of wheat-had caught millers napping, with the result that some mills are closing down. The following paragraph in the Otago Daily Times perhaps affords the explanation:—"He laughs longest who laughs last. At the beginning of the present wheat season some flourmillers made merry at the expense of one of their fraternity—who has his being somewhere in the wilds of South Canterbury— who made large purchases of grain at a little over 3s a bushel. Indeed, at the time there were loud complaints against him for forcing up the market price some pence per bushel. And to-day this one shrewd miller chuckles as he sits contentedly on a pile of wheat currently reported to total something like 40,000 sacks, worth at current market quotation 4s 6d per bushel, and watches the former merrymakers sullenly closing down their mills because they have no wheat and are afraid to go into the market and buy at the present price. Dame Rumour is a jade, ana frequently errs in regard to matters of fact, but it is whispered that should the market hold and the fortunate miller in question succeed in quitting I his holding at anything like ruling ' values, the net proceeds of the venture will total between £15,000 and £20,000."

There is no place in Palmerston where Holiday and Travelling Requisites for ladies and gentlemen can be obtained to more advantage than at The Bon Marche. Value and variety always here, right up-to-date. C. M. Ross and Co. invite inspection. —Advt. A very pleasant incident took place last Tuesday in Palmerston North, when a lady and gentlemen who were about to be married were presented with an Edison phonograph. The gentleman in a few well-chosen words expressfyl his pleasure and thanks for the hanTOome gift. We need scarcely mention that the phonograph was purchased from the Photo Stores, Main Street. —Advt. Rheumatism can_ "bo cured —then why will 7/011 continue to suffer ? Rheumo has effected wonderful cures for others, after all else had failed. It will cure you. Try it. —Advt. BOYS' CARDINAL AND NAVY JERSEYS. We have now on hand a fine lot of Boys' Jerseys —navy and cardinal. These goods we purchased at a very low figure, and the clearing price has been fixed at Is 6d. This is a good line, and at the price . they should command a quick sale. D© Luen Bros., The Souare —Advt.