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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10479, 15 October 1912, Page 4

Marton Band (weather permitting) will play a programme of sacred and secular music in the Park on Sunday afternoon at 3 p.na. A collection will he taken up in aid of the music fund, Mr Laushury, a member of the House of Commons, has circularised the Independent Labour Party branches asking them to support an anti-Government policy until the enfranchisement of women is conceded. While motor cycling in Palmerston last night a man named Molloy ran into a delivery van, the shaft of which struck him on the neck, tearing it open. One of his legs was also badly smashed. At Marton Court this morning before Mr O. S. Eawsou, J.P., a first offender (a lady) for riding a bicycle on Saturday down the business portion of the footpath in Broadway, Marton, was convicted and fined 2s Gd, and costs 2s. “"Messrs Wackriil & Stewart, of the Bulls Motor Garage, notify that their new premises at the corner of Bridge street and Criterion road are now open for business. They hove just opened up a large stock of all the latest novelties in connection with the motor business, and are in the position to supply the requirements of all users of cars and cycles. All kinds of engineering work is undertaken, and the reputation of the firm is a sure guarantee of satisfaction being given.

At a meeting of the Board of Governors of Wellington Veterans Home yesterday Lord Islington presiding, the annual report for the year ended °J uu e 30th showed that the capital fund had increased from £9040 to £9440. Eeceipts totalled £237, which is not sufficient to cover expenses. There are 43 veterans in the homo. Lord Islington, the Hon. E. Mitchelsou and Col. Collins were re-elected president, treasurer and secretary, respectively. The Prime Minister and Mr Alfred Kidd., Auckland, were elected to the vacancies on the Board. The annual meeting of the Wellington Rifle Association was held last night, the president, Mr Marshall, of the Karori Club, presiding It was decided to make the annual meeting at Trentham on' New Year’s Day and the day following even bigger than that of last year. The aggregate prize will be £ls or £2O. There will be six individual matches over all ranges, from 300 to 1000 yards. Special matches will be provided for senior cadets. Additional prizes will be put on for tyros and there will be a tyro aggregate. No pains will be snared to make the meeting the largest outside the D. R. A. fixture. About a month ago, the Dunedin Waterside Workers’ Union held a' secret ballot on the question of whether it should cancel its affiliation with the Federation of Labour. Out of a total vote of 24G, the proposal to secede from the Federation was carried by 19 votes. The result of the ballot, however, did not give satisfaction in some quarters it being freely stated that the ballot papers did not sufficiently clearly distinguish the issue to be decider.. At a meeting of workers on Thursday night it was decided to take a fresh ballot on the proposal, and this was held yesterday, when the voting resulted as follows:—Por remaining in the Federation 167, against 10G.

Lucerne growing appears to be coming into favour with several small dairy farmers at Aorangi, but so far the cultivation of this valuable plant is only in the experimental stage owing to the dimcnlty of getting a good strike. Une farmer after three years experimenting has at the present time pi well advanced, crop,*which at this season of the year stands out m advance of all other fodder crops in the district. When shown to an Advocate representative the field appeared to bo somewhat patchy but nevertheless prolific. The farmer intends to have another shot this year under the Agricultural Department’s instructions, and together with inoculation of the soil and his last experience, _ hopes to have something near an ideal crop.

Mr Maughan Barnett Jias been j appointed city organist at Auckland. Prince Arthur of Connaught lias returned to London from j Japan. At Sydney bran and pollard have advanced 10s and New Zealand potatoes £l. The Moeraki, Talune, Victoria, Ulimaroa, Wimmera and Rimutaka will probably be within wireless range to-night. Martou swimming baths will be officially opened on November 6th, when the local Athletic Club will arrange a programme. Marton Junction Baud will also assist.

Another dance is to be held by Greatford Young Men’s Club on Friday next, October 18th. A waltzing competition will also he held. Admission is as usual.

The Manuka’s consignment of New Zealand potatoes iu the opinion of the inspectors is affected by Irish blight.* Out of 2300 bags, 1500 were examined and all were rejected. At the inquest at Waihi on Richard Benjaimn Harris found burnt to death after a tire in a shanty at Waitite, on Sunday, the coroner returned a verdict of accidental death. Martou Druids are specially requested to attend this evening to meet the officers of Bishop Lodge, Wanganui, who are visiting Marton to explain their proposal re the death levy scheme. Lodge meets at 8 p.m. Bunnythorpe Dairy Company for August paid Is aud September Is o)sjd for butter-fat. Early next month casein plants will be installed at Aorangi aud Buuuythorpo which will add more to suppliers returns. Marton Town Clerk, who has also been acting poundkeeper for a few months, is not altogether in love with the position, ,He stated in | answer to a Councillor that he was approached at all hours of the day aud night. The matter of appointing a new poundkeeper was held over, pending further inquiries.

A sudden rise of Is to Is 4d per lb. was experienced at the rabbitskin sales at Dunedin yesterday. Prime super does realised 5s 6%d per lb., which is claimed to be a record for the Dominion. The high price is attributed to the shortage of opossum aud musquash skins on the Home market leading to a demand for the finest rabbit-skins for the manufacture of imitations.

The Wellington Magistrate, Mr Riddell, has dismissed the information charging Robert Hogg with absenting himself from the training camp at Trent ham. Defendant was a volunteer when the Defence £Act,

1909, came into operation, and automatically became a territorial without passing into the general training section mentioned in part 6 of the Act. His contention that he was not liable to a penalty under Section 51 was upheld by the Magistrate.

Councillor Lewis at Marton Borough Council meeting last night referred to the danger to which pedestrians, and particularly ladies, with prams, were subject while crossing the bridge over the Tutaenui stream en route to the Junction. He contended that the local authority should erect a foot bridge without delay. Other Councillors supported Or. Lewis, and pointed out that the cost would be comparatively small as the supports on the present bridge could be used. It was resolved to. approach Eaugitikei County Council and see if the matter could not be attended to without delay. A Timaru youth w T as sued yesterday for the value of a horse which ho hired at a livery stables with a buggy, for. he said, a reasonable journey. The horse was brought back exhausted, and died soon after reaching the stable. Evidence showed that lie had driven 80 miles in about 12 hours with three adults and four children in the buggy. The Magistrate docided that the defendant bad driven too far, and field him responsible, and ordered him to pay for the horse, the value of which was assessed at £lO, and costs. Mr M. Maloney, mechanician to the Telegraph Department in Christchurch, has invented a new fire alarm which consists of a simple apparatus known as a thermostat and which can he affixed to the wall of a room. A brass rod, a yard or more in length, encloses a slender steel rod, connected with the outer rod at one end onlj*. A sudden rise in temperature causes the brass rod to expand, the inner rod is drawn back by its fixed end, and a'lever (enclosed in an aluminium case) is released, which falls upon a couule of copper contacts, setting up an electric current. A bell at once rings in the same building, and an indicator on a board designates the floor from which the alarm comes. At the same time a hell at the fire station can be made to ring, and a telegraphic apparatus registers the locality of the house and the floor where the outbreak has taken place. The action of the thermostat is extremely rapid. A lighted match held below the rod of the apparatus suffices to give an alarm, and if the heat continues for over six seconds or so a complete alarm is given. The thermostat is selfcompensating ; in other words, ordinary fluctuations of temperature do not affect it—it is sensitive to heat only. “It is quite evident,” said a Feilding farmer to an Advocate representative, “that we will have to establish a co-operative bacon factory before we can get the profits we are entitled to for oui’ bacon. The same farmer 'went on to state that he did not care whether the factory was established at Feilding, Palmerston or Marton, so long as the farmers could get every available penny out of their pigs instead of having to rely on an outside market. They were now producing the quantity and quality to support a good factory, and the sooner they made a move the better. Our repro sentative met a butcher not many miles from a district town, who stated he was not in the comfortable oositiou of being able to purchase on a. largo scale, and freely admitted that for the necessary financial assistance he was paying one pound on each pig passing through his hands. With retailing in the shop and cart, even with this financial load, he was able to pay the same price as outside firms and sfcxll make a profit, and guaranteed if he were in a financial nosition he could pay more to the producer and do away with the imposition of a pound per head. He further stated that he could deal with a thousand pigs per annum. There is a growing feeling of dissatisfaction in Feilding and surrounding district which, sooner or later,;.'must culminate in a united stand being taken.