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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9051, 22 October 1909, Page 4

On page 2: Parliament, report of meeting of Linton Rifle Club. On page 3: Cables, telegrams. On page 6: Current Topics, ,by Frank Morton. On page 7: Shannon news..

The Manawatu inlying Club last night hampered forty-two birds for a race from Taumaranui to be flown on Saturday at 11 o'clock. The birds should arrive here between 1 and 2 in the afternoon.

A man who came before Dr. McArthur, S.M., at Petone said he took a drop now and again to keep chills away, as he worked in cold water. "That gets .you into hot water," remarked tho magistrate, "and my advice to you is to stick to the cold water."

A witness in a Court case at Fcilding tho other day described three of his signatures, two of which ho had subscribed to cheques, in a peculiar but appropriate manner. One signature was "sober," another "fairly sober," and the last "not scber. - '

A return shows the expenses of various candidates at the second ballot to be as follows: —D. Buick, Palmerston North, £48 16s 7d; W. T. Wood, Palmerston North, £49 18s 9d; El Newman, Manawatu, £49 2s Id; J. Stevens, Manawatu, £49 16s Bd.

Prizes awarded in connection with the essays written by school children during Industries Week will be presented at the Municipal Hall at 2.30 p.m. tomorrow by the Mayor. The Industries Week executive will be pleased to see members of the Borough Council, Chamber of Commerce, school committees, and parents present at the "gathering.

St. Andrew's 6ale of work concluded last evening, when there was a very good attendance. On the whole the sale was very successful, and the ladies who worked so hard have their reward in a considerable credit balance. In the naiidriving competitions last night the following ladies won nrizes:—Mrs Warden Mrs Burns, Mrs Cbuper and Miss Astbury. In the quoits competition prizes were won by Messrs R. McMuray and McGrath and Master Rutherford

New Zealand's beautiful Xmas numbers, Auckland Weekly, Press, N.Z. Graphic and Otago Witness. Is each, are now on sale at Park's Book Depot.—Advt. Importers are invited to send their shipping documents to J. J. Curtis and Co., Shipping, Forwarding and Customhouse Agent 3, Customhouse Quay, Wei lington. This firm will do your Customs work correctly an i forward goodf promptly.—Advt A little forethought may save you no end of trouble. Anyone who makes it a rule to keep Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea Remedy at hand knows this to be a fact.— For sale by all Chemists and Storekeepers.—Advt

A new sawmill for cutting silver mn» railway sleepers has just _ been erected for Mr Harland at Horopito. Taranaki will bo well represented with Jersey cattle at tho Manawatu Anions the brooders .forwarding stock will be Messrs C. Clarke, 1 aton, L. Griffiths, O'Donnell, and Dr. Isconan. One if the Commerce tourists, in remarking to a Christchurch pressman on tho fine quality of New Zealand land, also remarked on the fine prices. Instead of the cheap land one would cxpcct to find in a new country, there wae. not much difference in the prices at Home and in New Zealand, said he. As at recent horse fairs in Hawera, the Sydney market buyers, says tnc Star, were again in evidence an<i wero strong bidders for the best ot draught horses on the opening daj. this demand for good horseflesh continues i it will be a big inducement for homeowners to breed from the best stock.

Princess Gagarine, of St. Petersburg, who was recently robbed of casn and iewellery to the value of £10,UUU at the Savoy Hotel, St. Moritz, has made out a list of the stolen poperty for the police. Among tho articles was a pcarl necklace, consisting of fourteen pearls strung on a gold chain, and valued at £400. This valuable chain was worn by her pet dog ! A Parliamentary freeholder has "pricked a card" on the tenure question and makes 47 freeholders, A leaseholders, and one (Sir William Steward) doubtful. The Lyttclton Times_ correspondent, however, reckons that it tnis were made a subject of a no-confidenco motion the Government would secure 41 votes and tho Opposition 26, with 15 doubtful.

\ funnv incident is reported from the North. A Maori wishing to nominate his horse at ono up-country meeting about 30 miles from where he resided sent tho secretary a. wire to nominate the horse, A few hours afterwards the secretary was surprised to see the Maori owner walk into his office and ask it he had received tho wire. The Maori had ridden the 30 miles in order to make sure that tho wire had roacbcd its destination.

Mr Craigio (Timaru) has put up the shortest speech record. He had an opportunity on Wednesday to continue the Address-in-Reply debute, and met w itn an encouraging" reception when he rose to explain that ho had no desire to speak, because ho looked upon it as a waste of valuable time. With a brief word of thanks for the applause, Mr Craigie 6at down. "The best speech ot the debate." commented Mr Masses.

Mr Elder, of Hawera, has a White Leghorn hen which is the producer of remarkably big eggs. Of a laying of 18, six were weighed, which turned tho scale at 24ozs, an average of 4ozs each. Tho heaviest egg weighed sozs. When it is remembered that a 2j;Oz egg is considered good the special value of this hen's produce will be appreciated. Ten of the eggs were broken, of which none contained a double yolk.

The municipal sea water baths, opened at Napier this week, aro erected on the beach almost opposite the Marine Parade Hotel. They are very complete, and cost between £17000 and £8000. The main bath has varying depths from 9ft 6in to 3ft. There are about 100 dressingrooms, and many other rooms of convenience, also private bath rooms supplied with baths for hot and cold sea water. A large tea and refreshment room is also attached.

The usual number of sheep shipped in an ordinary railway truck is 60. In double trucks 30 aro at the top and 30 at the bottom.. This morning (states a Carterton exchange of Tuesday) the police went down to tho local railway station, and ,noticing trucks apparently overloaded with ewes and lambs, ordered them to bo unloaded, and the number in cach truck counted. The first truck emitted 97, the sccor.d 99, and the third 112. It is understood proceedings will be taken against the shipper.

A striking feature of the last and successful effort mado on Saturday to clear off the debt of on the new church of St. Luke (Christchurch). so that it could be consecrated on Sunday, four days after it was opened, was that the vicar received no fewer than nine blank cheques for him to fill up with what amounts he chose. The result of the effort was that a hundred guineas over and above the amount of the debt were received.

A peculiar scene occurred in St. George's Cathedral, Perth, at a wedding last week. The bride, bridegroom, and frends were at the altar, and when the clergyman asked "Wilt thou take this woman, etc?" the bridegroom was silent, but finally whispered "Not yet." The clergyman put the question again, but got no answer. He asked the third time, and received tho whispered answer, "Not yet, not yet." The bride became hysterical, and left the church with her friends. Tho bridegroom has since expressed regret, and suggested a private ceremony, but so far the wedding stands postponed.

While the cruiser Pioneer was coming from Sydney to Wellington she was in almost uninterrupted communication by wireless telegraphy with either the Powerful at Sydney or the Challenger at Wellington. Atmospheric conditions were not particularly favourable, but communication with Sydney was maintained till last Friday night, while the Challenger messages were picked up on Sunday night. The Powerful's messages were duly recorded by the instrument on the Pioneer, but, unfortunately for the conversation, the smaller vessel's instrument was not strong enough to send back messages.

In a recent issue, we referred to the construction of an aeroplane by two Hamilton residents, and an un6uoccssful trial which took place. The Argus of Wednesday states that since their last aeroplane flight Messrs Barnard Bros, have been working hard building another machine, which has just been completed. A trial was held on the Ohaupo road, Hamilton, on Tuesday evening, which was more successful than that held previously. A horse was attached to the plane, and at a pace of about 10 miles an hour the machine rose andfloated gracefully along for about 500 yards, alighting again without mishap. The brothers are gradually perfecting the machine, and are now of opinion that when a motor is installed there will, within reason, be no limit to the .flight.

A serious accident occured at the Kahouri road crossing, about a mile and a half north of Startford, on Wednesday morning. At the point mentioned the Kahpuri road is very narrow, and on driving along it at 9.45 a.m. Mr J. O'Connell failed to notice the approach of the train that leaves New Plymouth at 7.40 a.m. Just as the horse attached to Mr O'Conneli's milk cart was crowing the lino the engine crashed into it, killing the animal on the spot. The cait was turned aside, and Mr O'Connell. who was thrown out, was fortunate enough to escape with a slight shaking. Had he been a moment sooner at the crossing there is little doubt but that ho would have been killed. Beyond having sustained somo slight damage to the brake gear the engine was pninjured. and was able to continue its journey south.—Post.

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The widow of John O'Connell, tho jockey, who was killed at Napier Park races',will receive £400 from the Jockeys' Insurance Fund. Mrs O'Connell is not yet out ot her teens and has a baby a few months old. When dealing with breaches of prohibition orders at Christchurch. Mr Haselden, S.M., said:—"l am going to suggest that instead of issuing prohibition orders, persons who desire to drink -should have a license. Anyone who can produce a license would be supplied." He pointed out that prohibition orders were apparently getting more in number than the persons who desired to drink. "Of course, I don't say it would work," ho added, "but I think it would work better than the present system.''

A valuable consignment of Clydesdale horses arrived at Wellington on cdnesday by the Rimutaka from England, consigned to Mr Ernest Short, of Parorangi. near Fcilding. They comprised Clydesdale stallion, Royal Treasure, five years old, a four-year-old bay mare and a two-vear-old bay mare, all from Messrs A. and W. Montgomery, Kirkcudbright, A Clvdcsdale mare, billoth Ladv. with a filly'foal, is consigned from Mr John Kerr, Red Hall, Wigton, also to Mr Short. The horses were brought dL by Mr John Winchester, of Parortmgi." and all arrived in good condition.

How a pauper obtained wool to knit socks and mittens, which ho sold to enable him to buy tobacco, was described to the West Ham (England) magtratcs recently. Tho pauper was Thomas Ledgett, forty-nine years old, an inmate of the Stratford branch of the Poplar Union, and he was charged with damaging a number of blankets, the property of the Guardians. The master of the workhouse found that the wool binding the edges of blankets was being removed, and that in five days no fewer than 345 blankets were so damaged. On searching the prisoner's bed the master found a bag filled with balls of 1> n l\ wool, evidently stripped from the blankets. and three socks knitted with the same material. Ledgett, who denied that he had stripped 345 blankets, was sentenced to two months' hard labour ;

An enthusiastic bandsman from Tnnaru had a somewhat, novel experience un Mondav. Missing the train which tie .should ' have caught in order to reach Kaiapoi for the band contest, he lured a. motor car for £5 to chase the train it) Ashburton. and finding he was still too late, ran the motor on to Christ■church. Ilere. again, being too late To •connect with the train for Kaiapoi. lie •en <r a tr ed a taxi-cab. This \ elude c<niiL to°gnef at- the Empire Bridge, bur ttie baiulsmau paid a cvclist 2s 6d to carry his instrument on and he himeeli on foot made such good time that he was able to take part in the competition tor which he had entered. It is interesting to iearn that he gained a place. Snigalarlv enough. Mr Wade, the judge, in his notes on "the performance, wrote tnat this competitor "was in difficulties from the first." That he was so was no wonder when the last sprint, of four miles on a hot nor'-wceterly evening is taken into the account.

Some person who has had trouble vitii his servant recentlv advertised for a girl as follows:—"Wanted.—A girl to dwell m my family, assist my wiie in doing Ihe work, and give directions generally. Wages not- so much an object, if she will only leave me enough of my income to pay for the she breaks. If she should not be satisfied with five evenings a week, an effort will be made to give her eight. She may decide what she shall have to cat, and whether it shall be overdone. underdone. or done at all; and do, in fact, just as she pleases, except wear my wife's gloves and\ shoes (unless her hands and feet are within four sizes of the right size). We always give our servants birthday. Christmas and New Year's gifts. 'Feather beds or mattresses, as preferred. A sick sister or old mother will be no objection, as wo have a spare bedroom, and will, if necessary, hire a nurse to take care of her. P.S. —A piano and music supplied free of charge. The use of the parlour for company. No account taken of the tea or sugar that ■enters or leaves the house."