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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8798, 27 April 1907, Page 2

On our fourth page will he found a report of last meeting of Wellington Laud Board from our special reporter.

Robert Clark, of Tinwald, has sold his Clydesdale entire to P. .A. Bremer, of Hawora, for 800 guineas. During the year ended Marcli 31st the tramways carried 16,897,034 passengers, against 13,596,597 last year. Mr Boucher, Government Pomologist, says there is no need for alarm as to the fruit fly, as the Department hope to have the pest absolutely exterminated before next fruit season. At the annual meeting of Napier Star-Bowkett Society it was shown that the total loss through the late secretary’s defalcations amounted to £7lB which had been reduced to £2lB by the payment of the fidelity bond. It is expected the writ for the Taranaki seat will be issued on Monday. In that event the election will take place on Monday fortnight. " TwO young men, Nolan Christopher and Henry Easton, aged 19 and 18 respectively, were arrested yesterday at Oamaru for burglary from a dwelling house at Glenavy, and charged at the Police _ Court this morning and remanded till Tuesday.

The secretary of the Marton Chrysanthemum Flower Show desires to acknowledge with thanks a donation of a guinea from Oapt. Batten, on behalf of the Royal Rifles, as a special prize towards the “Baby Show Competition.”'

An infant female child about two months old, was found on the doorstep of a house in the main road at Parnell, Auckland. It was well clothed and had an empty feeding bottle alongside it. The child, whose antecedents are unknown, has been sent to the Door of Hope Institution. An Auckland syndicate has bought the equipment of Wonderland of the recent Christchurch Exhibition. The work of dismantling and shipping to Auckland will be begun in > few weeks’ time, and it is expected that tiie grounds will be opened by the end of the year. The site consists of six acres in Kliyher Pass road.

The following subscriptions have been received to the building fund of the Technical School: —Harry Sutcliffe £1 Is, Father Molloy ss. Mr J. J. McDonald lias had sufficient faith in the generosity of future subscribers to telegraph to the Education Board that the money in is hand, thus securing the erection of the new room, and we hops that his faith will not prove vain. A Taihapo telegram states that old residents in the vicinity of Ruapehu are not in the least exercised over the supposed trouble at Ruapelmu. Dr. Patterson and Mr A. Petersen, of the Govrenment Insurance Dopart- ■ meut, left Waiouru on Wednesday to make an ascent of Ruapehu, and readied o s now-lino, hut had weather ckitiTod. them making further investigation. They were satisfied, however, that no disturbance of a serious nature had occurred, cither volcanic or thermal. At a sitting of the Assessment Court for South Invercargill an objector took exception to the constitution of the Court, stating Mr A. Bain had been appointed by the Borough, and had been a bitter opponent of his for many years. The Chairman (Magistrate McCarthy) said he had known Bain for many years as a member of the Licensing Committee, and that while hard and bitter he never did anything unfair, and lie could not see liis way to entertain the suggestion of the objectobr.

A meeting of the general committee of the Feildiug A. and P. Association was held last night. A letter was read from Mr G. Wheeler accepting tho office of vice-president. Tho balance sheet and also draft report were adopted, to be submitted to tho annual meeting. The ground committee reported that the pig pens had been moved, the road widened and a comprehensive system of drainage was being carried out. It was resolved-that the ground committee be authorised to expend the necessary amount for erecting permanent pens for .mares and foals. This being tho last meeting of tho committee previous to the annual meeting the chairman thanked the members who had worked so agreeably with him. Several members of the committee complimented the President on the able manner he had carried out his duties and he was given a hearty vote of thanks by the committee for his services.

“Soma little tune ago,” says Mr J. G, Body, Kelmscott, W.A.“I was suffering from a severe cough, which threatened to take a serious form. Hearing so much about Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy I decided to give it a tria l , and to my great satisfaction was completely cured hy the time I had finished the first bottle.” For sale by T. H. Brcdin, Marton, Ellis Bros., Huntervillo, and W. B. Clark Bulls.

THE RUSH FOB MIT/KING MACHINES. Now that the ‘ ‘ Lawrence-Kennedy-Gillies” Milker has, after five seasons’ uso on numbers of dairy farms, proved an unqualified success, there is a heavy and increasing demand for this popular machine. Throughout Australasia a tremendous number of machines are being booked for the coming season, and in New Zealand alone some thousands will be required. On all sides one hears of people going in for the “L.K.G.” machine. If you wish to get a plant installed in anything like time for the coming season book up your order without delay. Plants will only bo supplied in priority of application.—J. B, Mac Ewan and Co., Ltd., agents, U.S.S. Co,’s Buildings, Wellington, ;

H.M.S. Encounter arrived at Wellington yesterday from Sydney.

So far as can be seen at present the j only * damage suffered by the Inveran through being aground is that her propeller was stripped. j At Nikau a lihraryihaa been established ■ in connection with the school. It was formally opened this week by the Chairman of Committee, Mr J. D. Balmer. j Yesterday 8 tons of copper ore was : sent away from Woodville to Melbourne to be smelted. This is a trial shipment , from Mahahahara Copper Company’s mine. i On Tuesday next Messrs Abraham and Williams will offer .for sale a number of building sites at Taihape. This is a good opportunity for those who desire to obtain suburban sites in what promises to he the most important town on the Main Trunk Line.

Mr A. J. Massey,who, as will be seen from our advertising columns, proposes to visit Marton to _ give music lessons, is well known in the bowling world, having skipped the Te Ran (Gisborne) rink, which won the championships at the late Masterton tournament. Mr Massey now resides at Feilding. We understand that Mr J. O. Williamson had decided not to include Marton in future tours unless the coming visit of Mr Andrew Mack and company good financial results. As this would he a loss to theatregoers in the district we hope that a good house will reward Mr Williamson’s enterprise.

The following sales of land have recently taken place in the Harbor Board block :—Smith Bros., 300-aore section on Zig-zag road, to W. P. Yiles, £lO an aero j Luxmore Bros, to Smith Bros.; Mr Haythorne’s farm at Te Awa to Mr W. It. Rutherford, at £l3. Decision has been reserved in the come pensation case McKenzie v. McCallum, heard at Invercargill, a claim for £l5O in respect of the death of claimant’s son, who had been employed Jby respondent, and was drowned. Mrs Seddon has intimated her intention of presenting an oak pulpit to St. Paul’s pro-Catheclval in memory of the late Premier. The church has also received a bequest of £IOO (less duty) from the late Madame Merz for erection of a memorial window. Under the will of the late Sir Walter Buller, the parish is to receive £IOO during the year ended March 31st. In reply to an invitation to turn on the Waipori electric power the Hon. W. Hall. Jones stated ,he was unable to leave

Wellington at present. He had no doubt in the near fnture the development of Hydro-eloctrioity would revolutionise the Industries of New Zealand and ho congratulated Dunedin on its enterprise in undertaking the Waipori scheme. A meeting of the Sheep Schedule Committee of Manawatu A. and P. Association was hold at Feilding yesterday, Mr Geo. Wheeler in the chair. It was decided to recommend that the Quibell silver cup be allotted to tho Rotoaey class, but no recommendation was made in regard to the other two. With a few trifling exceptions, it was decided to recommend the prize money be awarded at the next show as at the last. The Rangitikei Club, Feilding, has recently added a billiard table to its equipments, one of Allcock’s best. The first game was played on it yesterday aftoruoon, and it was found to be running true and fast. Improvements have also been made to the card and visitors’ rooms, As showing the popularity of this place of resort it may be mentioned that this club has now 200 members. At the Dunedin Police Court yesterday, Frederick John Garner, James A. Dalian, and David Isaac Rodger were charged with breaking and entering the shops of Denby, Terry, and Charles A. Scott, in George Street, and stealing a largo quantity of postcards and other articles. The charge against Callan was dismissed, as far aa Terry’s shop was concerned, but all accused were committed for trial in the other case, and Rodger and Garner on the first charge. At the Kimbolton Magistrate’s Court yesterday, E. Short was fined 5s with 7a costs for leaving his motor car across the footpath on Saturday last. Two blacksmiths of the town were fined for shoeing horses on tho foothpath. Two persons were fined for driving without lights, and several residents were each

fined for allowing cattle to graze on the street. William Lawson and David Hollman were charged at Invercargill yesterday with imposing upon William Watt, by false and fraudulent representation with a view to obtaining money and goods and board and lodging on credit. The allegation was that they arranged for board

and lodging at the Royal Hotel and went away without paying. Watt said he had been “ slipped up ” by four people during a fortnight. The Magistrate held that no criminal offence had been shown by tho evidence, and he dismissed .’the case, with two guineas costs against informant.

At Dunedin Police Court yesterday, E. Puddio, licensee of tho Kensington Hotel, was fined £2 for exposing liquor for sale at a place where he was not authorised to do so. During the re-erection of the hotel a temporary bar permit was issued expiring on December 25, but business was ioarried on until the beginning of March without renewal of tho permit. Defendant only took charge five days before the temporary permit expired.

A meeting of Gore retailers forwarded a protest to the Minister of Labour against the proposed change of half-holiday in work rooms attached to retail premises to Saturday, and asking that the present arrangement be allowed to continue. Mr Millar replied that he regretted he could not do so, as the Factory Act provides that Saturday shall be observed as the holiday, and as he has to administer the law, not to make it, he has no option but to insist on the law being observed, leaving Parliament which made the law to alter it if it thinks fit.

Owing to the numbers of classes in the Chrysanthemum Flower; Show catalogue being omitted, intending exhibitors are reminded to number tho catalogue themselves, but to see that the total numbers in each section correspond with those below, thus ;—Section 1, cut blooms, Nos. 1 to 15; section 1, dahlias IA, 16 to 31; section 3, decorative, 32 to 87; section 3, pot plants, 38 to 40; section 4, fruit, 41 to 60; section 5, garden produce, 61 to 98; section 6, dairy produce, 99 to 107; section 7, broad, cakes, etc., 108 to 123; section 8, preserves, etc., 124 to 128; section 9, school work, 129 to 157. The -committee intend holding a baby" show, particulars of which are advertised.

So few attended the annual meeting of Foilding branch of the Farmers’ Union yesterday that it was thought advisable to adjourn it in order to get a larger attendance, especially as the important question of amalgamating several of tho out lying branches with Foilding, and- the manner in which tho annual demonstration shall bo held are to bo discussed. The chairman said several members of the country branches had spoken to him on the subject of amalgamation and he had come to the conclusion that it would be advisable to take such a step, so that it could be made worth the while of tho secretary to go about the district in the interest of tho Union. In regard to the manner of celebrating the establishment of the branch, Mr G-. Wheeler advocated holding a dinner at the Drill Hall (it was said a caterer would supply at 3s a head) and holding a dance afterwards.

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