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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8799, 29 April 1907, Page 2

At Opaki rifle range on Saturday in a match in which Opaki beat the East Coats, W. Winslade, of Opaki, scored 34, at 300yds, 30 at COOyds, making a total of 99, the possible being 35 at each range. We have received complaints as to accommodation provided at a local flaxmill, but we are unwilling to publish statements ■ which wo have had no opportunity of verifying. The writer should report the matter to the Labour, Department, whose duty it is to investigate such conditions as he mentions.

Messrs Harry Reid and Go. make an important announcement in today’s issue in reference to fares to Mar ton Railway station. The firm have decided to carry passohgers in their palace ear for Is return, and no doubt this intimation will bo received with approval. That Taihape values must advance is asserted on all sides. Keen judges, among whom are a number of Wellington’s financial men, have been buying extensively in Taihape recently. There is no bettor indication of a town’s soundness than the fact that men of this stamp entrust their money to its future. There is a sale of Taihape sections to-morrow. See our advertising columns.

At the meeting of Marton Branch of Farmers’ Union on Saturday Mr Lethbridge asked the retiring chairman, Mr Edward Newman, if it was his intention to contest the Mauawatu seat at tiro next election. In reply, Mr Newman said he novelintended to have made a definite announcement yet, as it was a long time before the next general election, hut as a direct question had been put to him he was quite open to admit it was his intention, if health permitted, to become a candidate. Th anouncemeut was greeted with applause. ■ “Somalittle time ago,” says Mr J. G. Bojle. Jfolmscott, W.A.“I was sulfering from a severe cough, which threatened to take a serious form. Hearing bo much about Chamberlain's Cough Homely I decided to give it a trial, and to my,, great satisfaction was completely cured by the time I had finished tho first bottle.”-: For pale by ,T. 11. Brpdin, Marton, Ellis Bros.. llnntorville, and W.B. Clark Bulls.

Eight from the fh-stdoso Hn Etmo gives relief from the awful agony of rheumatism, gout, sciatica, lumbago, etc. 2/6 and 4/6. Obtainable from all chemists and stores.

The Invercargill police are making on" quiries into a case of alleged cattle stealing in Otautau district. The diver who examined the steamer Invcran reports that the vessel is undamaged, not eyon a plate being dented. His Excellency the Governor returned to Wellington by the Moura from the south yesterday. He leaves for Pioton on Wednesday, returning on Saturday. Tte Taranaki Law Society has passed a resolution in favour of repeal of the clause of the Law Practitioners Act, 1898, giving solicitors power to practise as barristers after five years. ; The Minister of Health ha,s agreed to give careful consideration to the request of Wellington Dental Association for appointment of dentist to examine the teeth of school children.

Marketing at Addington (says an exchange) is usually confined to the sterner sex, but at last Wednesday’s market a precedent was' created when a lady appeared as a bidder for both pigs and store sheep. The auctioneers from whom she made purchases will testify that her dis comment and judgment were more than equal to those of the ordinary buyers.

The estate at present possessed by the Government in connection with the Exhibition represents an expenditure of between £130,000 and £140,000.' It‘consists of the buildings, the art gallery, the concert hall, the organ, 'fencing, turnstiles, entrance pavilions, bridges, statuary, the fountain, furniture and plant. The eight pieces of statuary in the main hall cost £2500, and the plaster statues £IOOO. The home of Our Lady of Compassion recently erected at Island Bay, which is under the charge of the Lev. Mother Mary Joseph Aubert, was opened hy Archbishop Redwood yesterday afternoon. Speeches were delivered by the Archbishop, Hons. Hall-Jones and T. W. Hislop, Mayor of Wellington, Dr. McArthur, SAL, and others. The Homo is designed to accommodate 150 incurable children of all denominations.

Dr Abrahamson, a prominent barrister of Berlin, has been sentenced to a fortnight’s imprisonment for running over and killing with his motor-car a three-year-old child. The accident occurred in 1905, and it was long before the owner of the car was discovered. Dr Abrahamsou’s ohalfeur not slackening speed after the accident and assuring his master that nothing serious had happened. Feilding and Manawatu Mounted Rifles wore inspected yesterday at Bunnythorpe by Colonel Davies. About thirty Feilding and forty-one Palmerston men wore present. Colonel Davies will inspect the Royals, Martou, to-day ; Manchester Rifles, Feilding, to-morrow; and Palmerston Guards on Wednesday. At the conclusion of the parade the Colonel congratulated the men on their general appearance and upon their knowledge of skirmishing. The Paris courts have decided that Dr Doyen, tho cancer specialist, is to retain the fee of £4OOO charged to the American millionaire, Air Geo. Crocker, for the treatment of Mrs Crocker. Mr Crocker claimed the return of the fee on grounds that Dr Doyen failed to secure tho recovery he promised, and that his remedy was a secret one, and therefore disallowed by the rules of tho medical profession.

At tlio last contest for the Taranaki seat there were five candidates, the voting being as follows: —E. M. Smith (Government) 1953, H. J. H. Okay (Opposition) 1717, C. H. Bellringer 838, Gr. Tisch 475, C. T. Mills 232. There were 5215 votes recorded out of a total number of 6326. The late Mr Smith, who had 3263 votes polled against him, and secured 1953 votes, was, therefore, a minority member by 1303 votes.

El An extraordinary lease which has been puzzling some of the Taranaki medical fraternity has occurred at AV aitara. A young woman went into a trance and remained in that condition for sixty-five hours. She was seen by three doctors from New Plymouth, but the pricking‘of needles and shocks from electric batteries had no effect on her. At latest advices she has boon removed to the New Plymouth Hospital still in a trance.

Messrs Joseph Nathan and Co.’s now building in Wellington, now nearly completed, coats £40,000. It is unique in being a perfect cube with 100£t frontage to G roy-streeti 100 ft to Featherstou-streot, and there is a drop of 100 ft from parapet to pavement. It is a six-storied building of reinforced concrete and brick, and is as nearly fire and earthquake proof as it is possible to make a building. There is not a wooden wall or partition in the building, the walls being of coke breeze concrete, and the floor's are laid dorm in the same material, interlaced with railway iron.

The impatience of a bridegroom gave a touch of romance to a recent voyage across the Atlantic of the Cunard liner Etruria. Scarcely had the liner docked at New York when Mr David Davidson, of San Francisco, hastened aboard with a wedding ring to meet his fiancee. Miss M. E. Coutts, a first-class passenger. Mr Davidson said ho could wait no longer, and wanted to bo married immediately. His bride Laughingly consented, and so the ceremony took place in the steamer’s saloon, in the presence of all the ship’s officers, the Rov. A. A. Gardner, of the Seaman’s Institute, officiating. A friend played the “ Wedding March,” and tiro bridal party shortly after the arrival of the vessel loft the ship amid showers of rice thrown by the passengers. There was a sad scene at the Auckland Police Court the other morning. The Star reports that an educated man, Henry John Atkins, was brought up for sentence, In the course of a statement, Atkins taid that although many convictions had been recorded against him, 'the offences in themselves had all been of a most trivial nature, committed, on the impulse of the moment, at times when he had been drinking, and there was never the slightest suggestion of premeditation on his part. “ For such trifles as an umbrella, a bolt of ribbon, a pair of boots, etc., I have spent the best years of my life in prison. That life is, I tool, fast drawing to a close—at the most I can only hayo a few more years to live. I implore your Worship to give me this last one chance of living usefully and honestly in striving to retrieve my lost character, and make some reparation to those I have wronged—not intentionally, but through my weakness and follies.” Excessive drinking, a habit acquired while a student in Germany, had been the curse o£ his life for the last 20 years, his social, moral, and physical ruin, but if his last prayer was granted, the remembrance of his Worship’s mercy and compassion would give him strength to resist every temptation to touch drink again, and would keep him in the straight path. Hia Worship said . that it was perfectly clear that it was his duty to send Atkins to the Supremo Court to be dealt with under the Habitual Criminals Act. There were no less than 21 convictions against Atkins for larceny. To cure any kind of headache in twenty minutes take Stearns’ Headache Cue. Gives positive relief and leaves the head “clear as a boll.” No bad oifeots, no narcotic drugs.—Advt. No matter how long you have suffered from rheumatism, gout, sciatica or lum bago, Kheumo will cure you. Allstores and chemists, 2/0 and 4/6.

IMPEY’S MAY APPLE v. PILLS. Some people are so constituted that frequently they have to. resort to medicine?, and until the introduction of Lnpey’s May Apple there seemed no alternative but to take pills. The latter ofttimes possess an almost insoluble coating, thus rendering them non-effective. If the coating is inferior atmospheric changes affect the pills. It is - common to find boxes on exhibition in the shop window exposed to the sun, or kept in the damp of a bulk storeroom. Pills or tablets must: deteriorate under such conditions. This is where Impey’s May Apple stands pre-eminent. Being a liquid medicine, sealed in bottles, its virtue is in no way impaired; by the changes of country or climate. Lnpay’s May Apple is'prompE, safe and sure. Can bo obtained from all chemists and storekeepers or j)ost free from tJharlaud and Co., Ltd., Wellington; 2s (id per bottlo.

For Children’s Hacking Cough at night Woods! Great Peppermint Cure. Is 6d and 2s fid,

Tho usual meeting of Kimbolton Rabbit Committee was adjourned for a month. The report of the sitting of the Land Board on Friday last appears to-day on our fourth page. Maliohester Rifles, accompanied by Feilding Band, had a church parade at Mr 0. O. Ploaeonts’ yesterday. Twenty out of the twenty-live workers’ homes at Petono have now been taken up, and it is expected that the remaing five will be in occupation in the course of a few weeks. Potatoes are being quoted at from £3 10s to £3 15s per ton in Invercargill. Tasmanian Derwent potatoes are bringing £3 15 s per ton in Auckland, and Melbourne Pink Eyes £5 5s to £5 10s.

The Minister for Labour says the proposed amendment of the Arbitration Act will make the Act self-contained, so there would bo no recourse to the Supreme Court as in the slaughtermen s dispute, and it will enable a settlement of any dispute within two or three days of its arising. | Messrs Gorton and Son offered as good 1 a lot of draught horses for sale on Satur- | day, at Feilding, as had ever been sold there, but only one, and that the poorest was sold under the hammer, yet there was a fairly good attendance of farmers. Tho New Zealand branch of tho Eoya Humane Society has awarded the Stead modal to Staff-Sergeant Redmond, of Nelson, for rescuing four persons from I drowning when a coach capsized in the Collin river in November Lit. I Mr S. Daw’s Manchester Band onter--1 tained Feilding public with a lively musical programme in the rotunda on Saturday evening. The individual members are making good progress as a result of Mr Daw’s careful tuition. A Waihi (Auckland) prohibited person who feigned a fit for the purpose of obtaining drink had rather bad luck. Ho was sent to tho hospital and fed on bread and water, and when he again tested the scheme some days later he received six months in gaol. One of the largest pigs ever seen at the Addington saleyards was sold by Mr H. Stuart, of Middleton, recently. It was a purebred Tamworth sow seven or eight years old, and is estimated to weigh over 000 pounds when dressed. The price realised was £lO ss.

A young son of Mr R’evington Jones, of Taonui, on Saturday, while driving some cattle, was thrown from his horse and sustained a broken leg. Ho was admitted to Palmerston Hospital and is doing as well as can bo expected under the circumstances.

giMr Oliver, of Feilding, who some two years ago went to the Old Country with his daughter. Miss I. Oliver, in order that the latter could complete her musical education, returned to Feilding last week. Miss Oliver has gained several musical distinctions, and remains at

Home to further prosecute her studios. Mr T. McKenzie, M.H.R., addressed a well-attended meeting iu Invercargill on

Saturday afternoon under the auspices of the Farmers’ Union. His speech was largely on the lines of his previous addresses. At the conclusion it was unanimously resolved that no land law can be acceptable to the farming community of Southland without tho freehold or optional system.

It is noted that at the Manchester hotel, in Aldersgate-street, there can now be seen a wonderful collection of football curiosities (says our London correspondent), Mr Hausoombe, the manager, says that the New Zealanders’ ‘ ball, made in the Antipodes and signed by the all-eonqmring “ All Backs,” is the most valuable Eugby football in existence. He has also the South African ball, signed by the Springbol.ksn; this was one of the half-dozen with which the team practised on their voyage to England.

In his resume of Canada’s claims to greatness, Mr G. T. Booth told his audienc« at the Mayoral banquet at Christchurch that Canada xiroduced enough apples to give every little boy in the Dominion three kinds of stomach ache in a day. Mr Eace replied to him with a quaint apple story of Adolphus and Samantha, a man and a maid who were strolling through an orchard. “Do you hear the wind moaning in the apple tress, Adolphus ? asked Samantha, sentimentally. “If you had as many green apples inside you ns those trees have you would moan to,” was the unvarnished reply of the matter-of-fact lover.

The meeting of Kimholtou Horticultural Society was hold on Saturday evening, Mr Roht. Mcßeth in in the chair. The balance, sheet was adopted. A number of brizes have already been promised for next year’s show. A donation of £3 Bs was voted to the secretary, and Messrs Boyues and Wallace wore elected auditors. G. M. Barr, one of the most prominent consulting engineers in the colony, died on Saturday, aged 70. He came to Dunedin from Scotland in 1863 as. surveyor for the Provincial Government of Otago, and was Chief i Engineer of the Public Works Department from 1860 till 1873. Ten years later lie was appointed engineer to Dunedin Harbour Board, occupying that position till 1888. since when ho has been engaged in private practice at Dunedin.

THE CELEBRITY OP SANDER AND SON’S PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT Is universally acknowledged. Royalty honours it, and the entire medical profession las adopted its use. Imitations sprang up without number. The latest of them —all styled “ Extracts ” —was an oil foisted upon the trusting and unwary under the grossest misuse of Sander and Son’s reputation. Sander and Son instituted an action In the Supreme Court of Victoria, before His Honor, Chief Justice Sir John Madden, K.C.M.G., etc., and at the trial .i sworn witness testified that he had to step the use of counterfeits on account of the irritation produced. This shows what care is required to obtain an article that is scientifically tested and approved of. As such is solely endorsed and recommended. THE GENUINE SANDER & SONS PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Golds never fails, lo 6d and 3s 6d.