The Patea County Press With which is incorporated The Patea Mail. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 15, 1908. LOCAL and GENERAL

Patea Mail, Volume XXIX, 15 January 1908, Page 2

The Patea County Press With which is incorporated The Patea Mail.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 15, 1908. LOCAL and GENERAL

“Hr Just n:al Fear Not." .

Big bash fires are raging in the vicinity of Pates, and this morning the town was enveloped in smoke. A train ran into a bus at Avondale on Monday night. The driver of tho bus and two passengers were injured. The match between Webb and Tressicler for the scuffling championship of the world will take place of the Wanganui river on February 25th. lu connection with the forthcoming Land Board election, Mr Arthur Hickford, of Upper Waitbtara, will be a candidate for the position of Crown tenants’ representative. Mr Hickford has been a Crown tenant for many years. A remarkable feature ip a breach of promise case at Johannesburg was that the parties were both deaf and dumb, and ns the evidence had to be interpreted the hearing occupied two days. The court awarded the girl £SOO. Two police are looking for an Englishman who passed at restaurants in the centre of Paris a number of forged Bank of England five pound notes. It is stated that be ordered lunch and dinner a dozen times in one any. The man is believed to returned to London. Tho residents of Nelson became greatly excited when the news came to town that gold had been discovered on a mud fiat near the town. Several claims were pegged out and prospecting licenses issued to two wedi known residents before it was discovered that I he whole affair was a hoax, a quantity of brass filings having been scattered ovi” the ground. * Mr E. G, Kimhoil, manager of t]ro Bank of Australasia at Stratford, has received notice that ho will take charge of tbo bank’s Hawera branch on or about the 27th of January. Mr E, M- Chettle, at present manager at Hawora, will take charge of the Wanganui branch of the bank during the nine months’ absence on furlough of Mr W. Manmuluko Smith, manager at Wanganui, who is about to visit Europe. Mr C. W. Nicholls, for some years accountant at Stratford, and who at various times has filled the position of acting-manager during Mr Kimbeli's absence, will be appointed manager at Straikord. TWO SOVEREIGN REMEDIES. THE FAMOUS SANDER & SONS’ PURE VOLATILE ELJOaLYPTL EXTRACT was proved by experts at the Supreme Court of Victoria lo possess curative properties peculiarly its own, and to be absolutely safe, effective and reliable. Therefore, do not aggravate your complaint by one of the many crude eucalyptus oils which are now palmed • off as “ Extract?,” and from the use of which a death was reported recently, but insist upon tho GENUINE SANDER & SONS’ EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, and reject all Ihers. For wrinkles, sunburn, pimples, black heads, freckles, cracked hands, dry and in . Jiamed skin use SANDER & SONS SLPERBASKIN FOOD. No lady should be without it. Allays irritation, produces a clear and spotless complexion, and a smooth and supple skin REMEMBER that SANDER A SONS SUPERBA SKIN FOOD is not an ordinary face cream, and unlike any of them, pro duces a permanently beautifying ellcct. Chemists and stores, THE HARTNETT MILKER Now that these Machines are installed in tfis district, fanners arc able to see for them selves. Wo only ask you lo inspect the Hartnett at work and judge for yourselves. I We think too much of our business standing ■ to circulate questionable reports about rival ‘ milking machines. There is no need for it j j Everybody known by this time that the | , Hartnett is the coming “milker. C Labile and Co., Ltd , Balmerstou North. Advi j ]

Tho News (-tales than an eel weighing 68lhs and measuring nineteen feet in length was caught near Carterton last week. The exports from (ho Dominion during the month nf December in comparison ! with tho corresponding month last your j show an inew nst in carcases of lamb of 3511 and a decrease in butter of -1262 cwt, cheese 7180 owl, beef 6743 cwt, carcases mutton -‘Jib'd)?. A Alain Tnndc laborer retired from ln H job the oilier day in u state of comparative aliliience. He worked continuously on the line fnr three years, blind to the attractions of sty-grog ami two-up, and his bank back now shows a balance of £■loo, In Germany unmarried men over twenty-five have one vote, married men and widowers with families have two vote,-', and priests and certain other persons have three votes. (Severe penalties tire imposed on those who fail to vote. A penny-in-tbe-slot automatic bootblacking machine has just made its np« pearance at Richmond, Surrey. The machine is fitted with four circular brushes, which arc driven by electricity, and the whole operation of cleaning a pair of boots is mechanically performed in seventy seconds. The Otago Daily Times says : conviction to which reasonable men must come is that Mr Keir ilardie blundered in what he said and did in India. It is most likely as some of his apologists contend, that ho blundered honestly. If so however, why has ho not the honesty to admit as much ? ” “ With the New Zealand market ruled by the Home and Australian markets, where the crops are not coming up to expectations, you can reckon (remarked a local business man to a Dunedin Star reporter) that flour and bread will be very dear again this year” This ii certainly not good news for the housewife “I am entirely in favor of secular education ” said Mr Keir ilardie lecturing in the S mth. “ There will be no peace in the educational world at home, and no settling down or education for ediica* tion’s sake until the contemptible religious difficulty now experienced is got out of the way.” Passengers who arrived at Wellington by the Marama yesterday and who were in Bydney during the recent holidays, paint rather a sad picture of tho conduct of people in the city at holiday time. One visitor says that larrikinism was rampant, and he adds that a new instrument of horror, known as a detonating stick was carried by hoodlums. These sticks were struck on the footpath behind unsuspecting people, a noise resembling a simultaneous discharge of a dozen guns being produced, and many citizens were put in a state of nervous prostration. Patea again headed tho ports of tbs Dominion for the quantity of cheese exported during December, 15,514 cwt valued at £43,532 being shipped, Wellington with 7181 cwt valued at £20,087 camo second. New Plymouth 5716 cwt valued at £15,589 third, Bluff 5045 cwt valued at £14.240 fourth. Auckland ■ shipped tho greatest quantity of butter ■ 13,837 cwt valued at £66,341 being exported, 'i'hecome New Plymouth 12 254 cwt, value £61,263 ; Wellington 9123 cwt, value £44.122; Patea 4,406 cwt, value £21,231. A building society which has just been started in Paris offers ingenious attractions. It promises to sweep all the chimneys, provide medical attendance free of all charge to all tenants, and to give every tenant a chance by lottery once a month of getting three months’ rent returned to him. On the death of the head of a family in one of the houses tho widow or nearest relative living in the house, has a right to remain three months rent free. Whenever a baby is horn the parents will, if they have lived there for a year or more, receive three months’ rent as the baby’s birthday present, TongHi’iro National Park, an area of 100,()0() acres belonging to tho people of New Zealand, is to receive attention from Dr. Cockayne, P.L S., who has made some important investigations of plant life in other parts of the Dominion. His most important task will be to ascertain the influence of the chemical constituents of tiie soil of the Tongariro country upon tho structure and distribution of plants. Tho grasses which manage to sustain an existence in that desert country will receive careful attention, for it is hoped to throw some light on the important question of how to profitably turn to account what is now practically a barren waste, the largest desert in New Zealand. Dr Cockayne is hoping to find specimens of tho Logauia, a diminutive shrub similar to a veronica, forming a link m the chain of evidence demonstrating that at some time, ages ago, New Zeeland was connected by land with Australia. A well-known South Canterbury farmer, in conversation with a Timaru Post reporter, expressed his firm conviction that the price cf wheat next season must be high, in spite of anything that any trust may do. The farmer in question argued this way: “There are, according to the latest statistics, 190,000 acres under cultivation for wheat in the Dominion this year, or 18.000 acres less than last year. A fair average yield may be set down at 25 bushels per acre, thus the total yield will be approximately 4,750,000 bushels. The population of the Dominion is set down at one ’ million people, and it is calculated that it takes five bushels per head of the population to satisfy all requirements, this including the wheat that has to be saved for see l, and that v/hich loosed for fowl feed. Last season’s gram has all, or nearly all, been used, and the position therefore is that we will have dominion bushels of whegt to satisfy the demand for five million bushels, and this being so, it means that the Dominion will have to import wheat from Australia, and prices in the Dominion must rule r high if farmers am only firm in their demand for top value. The peculiar position in having two years, one follow ing another, of high prices for wheat, has, in my opinion, been brought about by tho fact that in the early part of this season tho ground was too dry and hard in many localities to allow of much wheat being got in.” RIiEUMO QUICKLY CURES RHEUMATISM. Read what Mr John Abbott, the wellknown Plumber and Gasfitlor, of Now Fly mouth, thinks about Rheumo. Ho writes on July 6th, 1907 : “ i bav'e taken Rheumo for Rheumatics, and consider it Hup best remedy for anyone who sutlers from Uric Acid —which is the main cause of Rheumatism or Rheumatic Gout. I can honestly recommend Rheumo, as I have used other remedies. 1 have been a resident in New Plymouth for over 30 years, so that I am well known. I shall consider it a pleasure to acquaint anyone I know what Rheumo did for me.- -JOHN ABBOTT, New Plymouth.” Your storekeeper or chemist cells Rheumo at 2s Cd and 4s 6d. Wholesale agenm, t Kmpthonie, Prosser, & Co. To Cuke Indigestion. , 1 Ind Stomach Troubles it is necessary to i j lake after meals come harmless preparation which will supply tiro natural digestive llind.j j which every weak .stomach lacks And ti.o j best promt ration of this ciiiu'wo r is Dr. I Sheldon’s Diges live Tabule ■, which cent:' n j all the natural liigeafimts ’.•■bum juffinv re | quires for prompt dr-es-th- • -m----taken after meals will proven: .souring. fer- i (■ mentation, and acidity, and ensure complete j ( digestion and assimilation. Obtainable at If. n E. Deane’s, agent, Patea. 1 1

Tho Kapiti whilst going out on Monday night took ground on the sand spit near the entrance to the river. The : vessel was got off yesterday without sustaining any damage. I The first case under the new gambling | laws was heard at Martinborough yesterday, when the proprietor of the Greytown (Standard was charged with printing and publishing dividends in the second day’s book of the Lower Yalley Jockey Club, Ho pleaded not guilty. After evidence had been taken, the defendant was fined 20s and costs £1 18s 8d on the charge of printing, the second information in regard to publishing, being dismissed. Canterbury tins season will have the most prolific apricot crop known in her history,* and when the main crop comes into the market the prices should be within the reach of the moat, careful housekeeper, says the Christchurch Press. The abundant supply is the result of last season’s drought, which ripened up the wood early and set the flower-buds. Apricots are partial to a dry climate, and this accourds for their successful culture in Central Otago, where the summers are intensely hot and dry. They, however, are partial to other conditions, especially to a heavy, stiff soil where clay is much in evidence. This explains why the Heathcote Yalley has proved to be one of the very best centres in Canterbury for producing this luscious fruit. Mr John Fuller, jun.. who has just returned from abroad, describes the Japanese as a people with a most wonderful system of espionage and a nnrvellous gift for secrecy. He relates that, crossing the Inland Sea, he said to an American passenger: “What is being manufactured where those two huge chimneys are smoking ?” The American replied : “ T’ye been trading here 10 years, and could never find out, nor anyone else.” Mr Fuller regards the Yellow Peril as no bogey, but rather as something imminent. He comments that while they resent exclusion, the Japanese are exo'nsivo to a most extraordinary degree. Ho foreigner, he asserts, is a shareholder in Japanese enterprise. Some time ago a grave report came from Manila to the effect that American army officers subjected a number of insurgents captured at Solano, in the province of Yiscayn. to torture, in order to extract inforrnotion from them. One of those alleged tortures was tbo famous water torture, in which a funnel is placed in the mouth of the victim and gallons of water poured down bis throat. The War Office ordered a court martial and the officers were acquitted. However, General Albert Mills, commander of the forces in the province of Yiscaya, denounces the finding of the court martial and declares the verdict is contrary to the known facts. The matter will be brought before Congress, and a thorough investigation will be made by a Congressional commit lea into these and other charges of a similar nature emanating . from the Philippine Islands. The success of the dairying industry on the northern river flats is plainly visible ; (says the Sydney Morning Herald) in the ; improved character of the farm house. . Just as the visitor was surprised a few ■ years ago, when cane and corn were kings, at the succession of slab huts on farm after farm, so he is now impressed 1 with (he modern, comfortable, and com. , modious houses The monthly cream cheque has completely changed the t aspect of affairs in the rich North Coast. Not only have the values of the riverflat , hanks gone up wonderfully, and the , scrub flats appreciated many hundred ’ per cent, but the forest lands, once conr sidered worthless, are.in steady demand, i Great as has been the change during the : past decade, it will hr nothing compared ' to the development as the result of tho railway when that work is finished. 1 Some months ago, when the Otago 1 Acclimatisation Society liberated a number of owls in Earnsclteugh and other districts with a view to minimising the small bird nuisance, doubts were expressed concerning the wisdom of the 1 step. The following letter, which has been received by the secretary of the Acclimatisation Society from a wellknown resident of the Earnscleugh dis- ; trict, explains itself; —“I. have an orchard of fruit trees, an 1 in some fir trees which I planted as a break wind the birds were very numerous until last year, and ate all the buds of my fruit trees, not leaving me a case of fruit, Since the owls were liberitad by your ranger, I have had a fairly good crop of fruit, and I consider that this is due to the work of the owls in exterminating the birds, In the fir trees which I have mentioned I have found several empty shells of eggs, and the trees are now almost deserted by small birds. I found several partly-eaten birds in an owl’s home in an old sod wall on my property, so that they would seem to eat both birds and eggs. The owls seem to be thriving l well in the district.” The Otago Daily Times understands that only 44 owls were liberated in the district —14 m September, 1906, and 30 in September of last year. A Great Lawsuit Decided. —The Supreme Court, the People, have decided that Dr. Sheldon’s New Discovery wins against Coughs, Colds, and consumption. Price Is 6d and 3s, Obtainable at 11. E. Deane’s, agent, Patea.