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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9224, 28 May 1910, Page 4

Messrs Hartgill and Knight's woolshed at Kumeroa was burned down on Thursday evening. The fire was caueed by the explosion, of a benzine tank. The New Zealand Gun Club's ofeampionship, fired at Wanganui yesterday, was won by a 16-year-old boy,'son of Mr Duncan Fra-ser, of Hororata, . Canterbury, who scored 20 .out of 21' kills. Included in the corripetitors were some of the best shots in the Dominion. - Some clothes drying in front of • a fire at Mr Curtis' residence in Joseph 'street this morning was the cause of an alarm of fire. The brigade turned out, but their services were not required, the flames having been put out with but trifling loss. N.G. Bro. Setter presided at the meeting of the Orient Lodge last night. One candidate was proposed for membership, and there was a considerable amount of sick pay passed. There was a very fair attendance, and a lot of routine work was got through. It was decided to hold degree meeting next lodge night, several of the brethren having applied for various degrees.

The following team has been selected to represent the Palmerston Rifles in the Battalion Shield competition which takes place at Wanganui on Friday next, June ii~f ;ol A Ser M- Pemn, Sergts. Needham, Stock, Corpls. Kells, Pratt, Pvts. Ashley, Cook, Mills, Friend, Griggs, Ball. The members of the team are requested to get in as much practice as possible before Friday next.

Toiranaki Petroleum Company has JSS oil this week, totalling 4200 gallons. The No. 2 bore is down to a depth of 3030 feet. During the week the No. 2 bore gave eighty barrels, and Nos. 1 and 3 ten each. The manager reports that No. 3 flowed very strongly yesterday morning, and five barrels were obtained. There was a powerful pressure of gas. No. 2 was flowing freely, and there was much gas.

At a meeting held at Hokowhitu last night, in the Anglican Sunday School, it was decided to hold fortnightly services, commencing to-morrow night at 7 o'clock. It is probable another meeting will be held in a couple _of weeks' time to form a committee of residents to manage affairs in connection with the school and services. During the meeting the Ven. Archdeacon Harper, who presided, stated that the school had now been repaired, and he suggested that residents should more fully recognise their responsibilities in connection with the building, and endeavour to look after it a little more, much of the damage done having been of a deliberate nature.

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The latest addition to tho telephone* exchange is' No. 578, - Schlierite Bros., Fitzherbort street. , Two residents of Greymouth—Mrs Kirkwood ; and Mr Evans—are entitled to the distinction of having lived in six reigns. ■ ' Tho most careful chemical analyses have demonstrated that rice possessesmore nutriment than wheat, pate, or barley. ' It is estimated that the London newspapers benefited to the extent of £100,000 by the advertisements that were published to attract investors in th& rubber and oil speculations. A well-known , Gisborne sheep farmer, Mr George Barron, wae badly injured by his trap colliding with a cart on Tuesday, a wheel paesing over his body. He had three ribs broken, and his right; lung pierced. ■ A fire on Oxford road, Woodville, on Wednesday evening destroyed Mr Lelievre's residence, which was the first weather-board house built in the dietrict. It was erected 33 years ago, and the joinery work had to be taken from Palmerston and packed 'to the site. Says the Otago Daily Times (Dunedin): An officer of one of the local Volunteer companies is reported to have decamped within the last few. weeke with the sum of £20, the property of one of the local shooting funds. His present address is unknown. Tho following advertisement, inserted by a firm of grocers, and set out m bold type, appears in a Perthshire (bootland) newspaper:—"Our specialty to-day is our cream made (full weight) margarine at 6d per lb, which is exceptional value. Try it i It is fit for any table. A settler, in returning thanks at a farewell function up the coast the other night, stated that he was particularlysorry to leave the district where he had made so many real friends, who were equally willing to help if he-had a cow that required pulling ' out of a creek or a fat turkey for Sunday dinner that required eating. .. The Lupot 'cello, valued 300 guineas,, which llttlo Georgo Ellwopd uses on his New Zealand tour, is lent to niinby the Hon. Dr. Findlay, Minister for Justice, who takes a great interest m the children. The Amati violin, valued at 100 guineas, on which Harry Ellwood plays, is lent by Archbishop Redwood. The violin is of the best period of this famous violii> builder. Last evening a combined parade of the Palmerston Rifles and Guards was held at tho drill hall, whon the. corps wereinspected by Lieut.-Colonol Hughes, V.D. T officer commanding the battalion. There were good musters of both corps on parade, and the . visiting officer put them through outpost drill, following the new system. He complimented the corps on. their steadiness on parade, which had been a vory noticeable feature of the night's /'proceedings, and said i the officers deserved credit for tho manner in which tho men had been drilled. Lieut-Colonel Hughes, who was on his first visit to the corps in his capacity as officer commanding, said ho hoped to visit every corps in the battalion half-yearly. A man named George Barrett was charged at Wanganui with the theft of a totalisator ticket. It was stated that an Aramoho native, named KorOr had invested £1 on Jack Pot in the second race at Wanganui, and when that horse had won was on his way to the totalisator when the accused shopped him and snatched his ticket out of hie hand. Accused had immediately made off with the ticket into the lawn enclosure, whero he was afterwards point'ed out by Koro to the police, and arrested. Accused's story that he had a half-share of tho ticket, and had been associated in other betting transactions that day with the Maori, was not accepted by the Bench, who sentenced him to one month's imprisonment with hard labour, and an order was made tkat the monev found on Barrett when arrested should be paid to Koro. fteferring to the decision of prospects for coal in. the Eketahuna district, the> Express says: —It has long been suspected; that coal in, payable quantities existed; in the Eketahuna district, yet up to> the preeent no steps have been taken' to ascertain if the various outcrops discovered were really part of a definite eeam. So satisfied are Messrs' Cassin and' Poppelwell, of Hastings, that -coal exists, that they have secured the optionto bore over a large area of. country in the immediate vicinity of Eketahuna. A syndicate has bccn.formed in Hawke's ; Bay, and a commencement at boring isto be made at an early date. The whole district has been thoroughly by an expert miner* and the promoters: of the syndicate are confident that good; pnyable * coal will be located near theraihvay line, and not two miles norths of Eketahuna