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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8846, 24 June 1907, Page 2

The annual value of English Bea■borne commerce is £1,465.000,000. . This is two and a half times the i value of that of Germany, and three times thac of America. The Park Committee of the Maaterton Borough has decided, to call for tenders for the erection of a public swimming bath on a site m the park. Alternative plans have been drawn up for baths 100 ft. x 40ft. or 80ft. x 40ft. £££ Sparta never produced a more curt youth than one who appeared in the . Magistrate's Court ou Friday at ' Wellington Asked how much a week he earned, he electrified the , Bench with the short announcement, j "A quid!" On Saturday night the police at; Taihape found a drunken man lying across the rails a quarter of an hour before the arrival of the last train and but for the moonlight he wornd probably have been cut to pieces. The WcllinsrtonJDoinestic Workers' Union has tlefiuitcly decided to take a case against the employers before tho Arbitration Court. The duet item unsettled is the question of time off. The winter school for teachers opened at Wanganui this morning. About GO are attending the ■ school, which is held for the convenience of teachers of remote country schools who are unable to attend tho Saturday classes for teachers in tho centres. The school will extend over a week.

The social evening in connection with~St. Stephen's Church, Marton, ou Wednesday, promises to be very successful. An excellent programme of vocal and instrumental music has been provided, and tiie ladies connected with the church will be responsible for the supper arrangements.

W. J. Roche, C. 8., Wellington, has been appointed borough engineer for Feilding at a salary of £4OO per annum. Mr Koche has been for four years chief assistant in the office of Mr Mestayer, the well known engineer, and has had considerable experience in large public works in England. At Feilding Court this morning, before Messrs J. Cobbo and B. Burne, J.'sP., Matthew Williams, from Carterton, was remanded on bail for £75 and two sureties of £SO and £25, for failing to provide for tho maintenance of the unborn child of a Feilding girl, ho having left the district. Win. Mulligan for having been drunk was convicted and discharged. tt Mr W. Dickson, of Hasties Hotel, Feilding, returned home on Saturday after an extended trip to Australia. During the early part of his holiday Mr Dickson did not enjoy the best of health, and was laid up in a private hospital for some weeks.

One of the Colonial Premiers, asked after tho first meeting of the Conference what interested him most, replied : "Next to the speeches, the quill peils. We were each supplied with a lino antediluvian feather pen, with which wo were expected to make notes. I have brought mine with mo. Here it is. I shall keep it as a souvenir of the ancient methods of the Colonial Office."

According to the judges at the Duuedin Show may potato growres labour under the delusion that the larger a potato is tho better chance it has of winning the prize. The judges, however, hold quite a different view, and maintain that a potato too big for table use is oxaotly what a prize'potato ought not to be.

One of the most remarkable features of the Land Bill discussions in the press this week, says the Hawera Star, is that writers who strongly supported tho "limitation proposals of the original Bill are now tumbling over one another in eagerness to show that the proposals were altogether 'unworkable. Even tho Welilgtou Post, which wanted "the Bill, tho whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill," now explains and condemns at great length the "absurdities of tho £15,000 limitation." Our Kiniboltou correspondent writes:—-As a result of a challenge from the Apiti Debating Society to that of Kiniboltou a debate will take place at the Apiti Oddfellows' Hall ou Thursday evening next. The subject to be discussed is, "Is Modern' Civilisation a failure." Each societv will be represented by four members, the Kiniboltou deoaters taking tho affirmative A concert in aid of tho Prebsyterian Church Fund will be held at Poole's Hall, Kiniboltou, ou Wednesday oveniug next, when a programme will be given by tho Feilding Presbyterian Choir. I learn that W. P. Pratt has sold his farm to Mr A. J. Pettigrew at £l(s 10s per acre.

A Gisborne vicar iuvitotl the children at his church to bring _in the afternoon the price of a brick, 3d, for the new church. Tho vicar was not surprised, says an exchange, on opening tho service to find that many of the children had come laden with the genuine article, a brick apiece, and a small stack of brisks was received. One lad the previous Sunday brought his brick in a sugar bag to'the vicarage, and it will probably receive an honoured place near to the foundation stone. As most of tho bricks were probably stolen from houses in course of erection the church will start under adverse conditions.

Some interesting information was given in Auckland Supreme Court as to tho earnings of a direct liner trading between New Zealand and London. Giving evidence in tho claim of tho Shaw, Savill Co. against tho Auckland Harbour "Board, Arthur Edwin Pearce, managing director of Levin and'Co., the Wellington agents for tho Mamari, said tho stexiner's gross freights on the Homo trip after tho accident totalled ,£21,391. The total cost of running the vessel on the New Zealand coast was .£5500, if the vessel had been detained for the whole of the homeward voyage the ntt loss would have been „-C12,350, but the detention was for 41 days, making the loss .£7200.

His Honor Mr Justice Chapman has forwarded to tho Registrar of the Snpromo Court hfo reserved judgment in tho case of "William John Williams, hotelkeeper, of Feilding, v. William Abbott, hotelkeeper, of Penrose, Auckland, which wa3 argued in Wellington some two months ago, when Mr T. Young appeared for the plaintiff and Mr M. Myers for the defendant. This was an action for the specific performance of a contract for the sale of an hotel at Feilding or in the alternative for damages for the breach of that contract. The defence was an allegation of misrepresentation as to the weekly takings of the hotel and the want of title on the part of plaintiff. There was also a' counter claim to recover a deposit paid of .£2OO. Tho matter was tried in the fist instanco at Palmerston North, and subsequently argued in Wellington. His Honor's judgment was for the defendant, and costs wore allowed him as on a claim for .£IOOO, with witnesses expenses and disbursement.

Direct shipment of oilskins in riding cut arc now open at Neal's Feildinsr. Walking cut 9s lid, 14s Gd, riding cut 17s Gd, 21s, 25s Cd. Try our oilskin garments and you will be pleased. We pay carriage by post, rail or coach. Send a trial order.*

See our Beady Money prices for Grocery and Tea. Excellent quality and lowest prices still obtained at the 00. -op Stores, North Broadway Marton. MILKING MACHINE FEVER. Never in the history of the milking machine has there been such a crop of putative machines as now follows the unique success of the '' Lawrence-Kennedy-Gillies.'' Numbers of hurriedly designed and im-. perfectly tested machines, many of which are based o* systems long ago discarded, are being rushed on to the market to share in the present harvest, which the "L.K.G •' sowed fivo years ago. When considering other makes, don't forget that until they have been worked for at least two years by practical farmers, you are only buying untried machines on the reputation which the "L.K.G." established. Rhoumo has enabled many a poor suffer from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, and lumbago to once'more enjoy health and happiness. 2s Cd and 4s Gd. Sold everywhoro. Our Wellington, or "Petono," and Mosgiel Unshrinkable Flannels arc the Best Goods of their class made m New Zoaland. Our "Petone" Travelling Rugs are just Perfect. We offer you these goods at old prices. Flannels from 10>£d .por yard. J. McEldowey, Marton, Huntervillo, and Taihape.* Rheumo has cured thousands of sufferers from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, lumbago. It will euro you. Try it. All stores and chemists' 2s 6d and 4s 6d, A positive euro, s .

The Press states that it is understood that the .gentleman who _was stated by the Minister of {Lands to have given £IOOO towards the establishment of a Government herd of dairy Shorthorns is none other than Mr McNab himself. The sinsring class in connection with the "Marton Technical School will he held this week in tho vostry of the Wesleyan Church. Notice ap • pears in our advertising columns that a class in wood-carving will shortly be started. [ A Kaikoura message states that | -, Bullen's Greenhills Estate on the ;; Kaikoura-Waiau road, of 36,000 ; acres, has been bought by a Banks Peninsula syndicate for sub-division. The price is not known, hut covers ' stock, including 80,000 sheep. The station adjoins the Crown lands of Clarence Yalley. On Saturday afternoon the staff of the Rangitikei Advocate met to express their good wishes and con gratulatious to Mr H. H. Hunt on his recent marriage and to present him with a handsome French marble clock as a permanent memorial of the occasion. For reliable gig, buggy or milkcart harness, or horse appointments of all kinds G. B. Healey has the best and most up-to-date stock in the district. Also agent for A. 8.0. incandescent kerosene lamps, mantles, wicks and chimneys. A full stock kept. Kiniboltou road, Foilding.*