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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8835, 11 June 1907, Page 2

We received the following telegram from Mr G. Polgreen yesterday; “Married to-day, home on Wednesday. “ According to the last returns New Zealand possesses 20,108,471 sheep, 343,008 horses, and 1,851,750 head of cattle. The record price of S3s 6d was ohtained for a line of 170 breeding ewes at Mr Geo. Binding's sale, held by Messrs Abraham and Williams, at Pougaroa, on Friday last. Professor Behring, speaking at Berlin on tuberculosis, said boiled milk was not a suitable food for infants, and the boiling of water killed the elements therein intended by nature to make bone and sinew. As will be seen from our -shooting column Captain Sutcliffe has again provided Martou Rifle Club with a trophy for competition. In this_ case it is a beautiful teapot which will he a welcome acquisition to tho winner.

Dunedin Oily Council, by a majority of one, has decided to increase tho salary of the Town Clerk from £BOO to £IOOO, consequent on his having taken over the duties of city engineer also. The diver accompanying the expedition on the steamer Hnia, has obtained a further £4OO in gold from tho wreck of tho Elingamite. Operations are now suspended for the winter.

At a mooting of the South Canterbury Education Board to-day a resolution was passed protesting against the action of tho Department in declining to make no travelling allowance for those children who travel to school from a distance per horse or bicycle. The chairman said ho hoped every Board in the colony would pass a similar resolution. *

The secretary of the Hawke’s Bay farmer’s Union wrote to Mr A. )illou asking him to oppose tho ireseut Land Bill. Mr Dillon relied as follows : ‘ ‘ When the Bill ernes before the House I shall use ly own judgment, and, if I am vroug in ray vote, let the electors t the next election decide the uestiou. ’ ’—Dauuevirke Advocate. No more belts, bayonets, or ouches are to be distributed among re cadets of the Commonwealth, he bayonet is considered a useless ■eapou, so far as cadets are con--srned, and as ball cartridges are not irried by them, a pouch is reirded as unnecessary. Tho saving ms effected on the equipment of ),000 cadets is computed at £25,000. Mr Horace J. Moon, Secretary, mpiro Hotel, Wellington, N.Z., is great believer in Chamberlain’s augli Remedy. Ho says:—“l am eased to be able to speak in high •aise of Chamberlain’s Cough emedy, it having cured me of a I ny severe cough; Other cough ixtures I had taken failed to even hevo me. For sale by . T. H. ■ediu, Martou; and W. B. Clark, .-Jls.tAV. Bournville is not only the name of o beautiful Garden Oily founded Cadbury’s, but also |of thegmost li/tinna ftf- flftonafl 1 .. -. >■ I

At Salta, in Argentina, s list of bad schoolboys and girls is published -weekly in the newspapers.

An effort is being made to match R. E. Day, the English professional running champion, now in Auckland, against an Auckland runner.

The death of a woman whose name is unknown occurred at a restaurant in Tbry-strect, Wellington. She is believed to have been a cook on a station near Masterton. Her body is now in the morgue at Wellington awaiting identification. Waitara is growing. The population has outgrown the house accommodation, and houses are unobtainable. So acute is the situation that in some cases two families are living in a five-roomed cottage.

The principal action for damages arising out of the Calliope dock accident will commence at Auckland on the 17th inst. The Mamari has come to New Zealand specially, so that her officers may give evidence.

Dunedin hotelkeepers strongly favour the retention of barmaids, telegraphs the Dunedin correspondent of the Post. “It is represented that the barmaids in Dunedin ate in the main clean-living, highminded girls, with a capacity for business and unsentimental.”

Miss Jessie Bicknell, who has been appointed an inspector of New Zealand hospitals, was trained as a probationer in Nelson Hospital, and passed first of her year in the State examinations for nurses. James Oakley, of Warrnamhool (Vic.), was walking about at home iu his stockinged feet recently when he stopped on a thorn, which tab into his foot. Ho experienced no inconvenience until a few days afterwards, when symptoms of lockjaw developed. He was removed to the hospital, where he died. Eighteen houses in or off Walker-street, Dunedin, were yesterday condemned by the Health Department. The quarters are for most part occupied by Syrians and the Health Officer’s inspector, Mr Gladstone, who was acCompaiiied by Dr. Ogstoil, says that the premises were surprisingly clean, considering the state of the buildings. There is at least one contented man in Wellington. Ho appeared as a witness at the Arbitration Court recently. “ You are earning £3 a week, you say ?” remarked the President to him. “ Yes,’ was the reply. “ Your union seeks to have your wages raised to £3 10a,” said the President. “ Are you satisfied with what you are receiving ?” “ Oh, I’m perfectly satisfied,” replied the witness. The audacity of some sneak thieves is notorious, and this was noted lately in the Auckland district, when a lot of pumpkins and melons wore stolen from the garden of a resident in the Otahuhu township, an apron hanging on' the clothes line being borrowed in which to more conveniently remove the booty. The apron was subsequently replaced with a note attached expressing the thanks of the depredators for the assistance it had been to them.

“ My strangest case,” said a ■well-known oculist recently, “is a woman who can only seo with her eyes shut. Her eyes aia normal except in one respect —the nerve that conveys the image to the brain has become misplaced. This woman’s eyes are bright and clear. They perform all their functions properly. They dart about, regarding the sunset, the sea, everything j but, on account of their misplaced nerve, they sea nothing—nothing whatever. Yet let too woman close her eyes, and the last object gazed upon is clearly visible to her. She sees with her eyes closed. • She looks at you and everything is black. She seals up her lids, and there you are, distinct and bright before her.” The two fishermen, Isaac Jarvis and Jack Argent, who on the night of the Jebba wreck, near Salcombe, ventured down the steep cliff in the darkness and succeeded in getting a rope to the wreck, whereby 117 lives were saved, have been rewarded by the Board of Trade with £1 each. The coastguards who at the top of the cliff saved 38 by the rocket apparatus have received £l6 10s each man. This unfair treatment of the fishermen is causing groat indignation at Hope Cove. Changes of ownership of several large Southern stations are reported by the North Otago Times. Mr Joseph Preston has disposed of his Woodlands property neat Gatlins to a Timaru syndicate. The Christchurch syndicate that recently bought and disposed of the Clydevale estate have bought Mr Bullen’s large estate at the Kaikonras. Mr James Preston has disposed of his Black Forest station in the Upper Waitaki to Mr Smith, manager ot Morven Hills station, and Mr McArthur, who recently sold his Te Akaterawa run to Mr Paterson, has bought Mr W. Grant’s Grampians station in the Mackenzie country. When the Parihaka natives were re cently fined for having liquor at the kainga at the time of Tohu's death, they declined to pay, and preferred to “take it out” on principle. They were going to make martyrs of themselves in the, interests of their race, and when their time expired they would be feted and treated as heroes. Much to their annoyance someone paid the fines and they were liberated when their time was only half up. They were reluctant to leave, and they had to be pushed away from the prison. They returned to their homes stripped of the martyrdom, and a korero (says the Opunake Times) was all that took place. The heavy fog on Sunday morning, says the Wanganui Herald, was responsible for' the steamer Orcti getting on to the stone walUas she was on her way out. A temporary clearance of the fog occurring the captain determined to make an effort to get out, but the steamer had not proceeded far before a very thick hank of fog drifted across the river, and it was quite impossible to see the guiding lights at all. Suddenly the boat ran right on to the northern stone wall, and there she stuck until last evening’s tide, wheu|she was floated off and proceeded on her way to Westport. Fortunately the steamer was empty, otherwise she might easily have sustained serious damage. The career of Mr Solomon, one of the new King’s Counsel, is described as being an apt illustration of the benefits to be obtained . from New Zealand’s generous educational scheme. Commencing his studies at a State school, he passed in 1800 to the Otago Boys’ High School by the aid of a Provincial Government scholarship. Ho became dux of that school in 1871, and thence passed by a colonial scholarship to Otago University College, of which institution he and the late Mr R. S. Hay were the first graduates. Messrs 801 l aud Baume, two of the other K.O.’s, are also Otago’s High School. I ,old hoys. ’ ’

On the humour of the Americans Dr. Forsyth, a recent visitor to the United States, has much to say. He told an interviewer one little anecdote (not a “story”) as a taste of their quality. Two young medical students from a northern State were travelling in the south, and on reaching a large city wished to see the hospital. They asked that they might he shown over the premises by the prettiest nurse on the staff. In her company they spent an agreeable time, and on parting one of them said, ‘‘ If ever I am ill I’ll send for you.” The nurse replied demurely in the peculiar sweet drawl of the South, “That shows you’re a Yankee. A So’thren man wouldn’t have waited till he was ill. ” THE “L.K.G.” RECORD.

The “L.K.G. is not a new or improved Milking Machine. It is the only machine out of many hundreds which have stood the ordeal of public use, and until it had worked for four years on a number of farms, it was considered impossible to produce a successful milking machine. Yet immediately this is assured, at least a dozen inventors confidently assure the public that they' have suddenly hit on various designs superior to the “L.K.G.” despite the fact that it holds securely the only successful principle discovered after 100 years of experiment. Talk is cheap, but it costs thousands to produce a record equal to the “L.K.G.” Sole Agents, MacEwans, <-Ltd., U.S.S. Co.’s Buildings, Wellington. Delicious! Such is • the general opinion of Bournville Cocoa. Its delicious flavour and delightful aroma are unequalled. Wholesale— Cadbury, Farish Street, Wellington. See oux Ready Money prices for Grocery and Tea. Excellent quality and lowest prices still obtained at the Go. -op Stores, North Broadway Marion.

Mr W. G. Biddle, S.M., who has been appointed a second magistrate in Wellington, was welcomed by a large number of the legal profession to-day. Speeches were made by Mr Hadfleld, President of the Law Society and Dr. McArthur, Mr Pryor, Secretary of the New Zealand Employers’ Association, addressed a large and enthusiastic) meeting of employers at Palmerston North last night. The local Employers’ Association was resuscitated and a large number of new members enrolled.

A merino ram disposed of at the Homebush stock sales, Sydney, the other day was the proud possessor of four full-grown horns. It had the ordinary spiral pair, and two pothers just as thick and long, standing out from the top of the head towards the front of the animal, giving it a remarkably strange received a great dealjof attention, and eventually a butcher purchased the freak for £B.

The monthly meeting of the Foilding Fire Brigade was held last flight) Captain Say well iu , the. phaifi Foreman CL H. Garrett was elected lieutenant in place of A. G. Wilson, resigned, and J. Martin was appointed foreman. L. Burns, a probationer, was elected a full member, and J- Bower was admitted on probation. The annual balancesheet, showed total receipts of £146 12s 6d, made up chiefly by subscriptions from honorary members, £18; subsidy from Borough Council, £35 ; donations, £ll 6s. There was a credit balance of £54 7s Bd. The Brigade afterwards held its annual reunion.

The Rontgen rays have proved invaluable as detectives iu the case of suspected smugglers. In the French Government tests of the X-ray detective of M. Alphouso Le Bonx, persons representing smuggling passengers have been examined without removal of clothing or any indignity, except being detained a few moments before the apparatus. So rapid is the process that 167 persons received attention iu 45 minutes. On these individuals were articles of any kinds, variously concealed.

Puny hoys and girls need careful attention. Nothing quite so good for them as Stearns’ Wine, which makes new blood,* sharpens their appetite and t restores childhood’s happy vigour.—Advt. Rhefuno cures rheumatism, gout, sciatica and lumbago quickly and permanently. It is a thoroughly safe and absolutely reliable remedy. All chemists aud stores, 3s 6d and 4s 6d.