Rangitikei Advocate TWO EDITIONS DAILY. TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1913. EDITORIAL NOTES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10656, 27 May 1913, Page 4

Rangitikei Advocate TWO EDITIONS DAILY. TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1913. EDITORIAL NOTES.

THE New Zealand Labour Unions are now being circularised by the "Unity Congress" Committee to reply to eight questions, which are alleged to be important:—"What would be the most successful method of organising the unorganised workers of New Zealand industrially! What would be the most successful method of organising the unorganised workers of New Zealand politically? What would be the be«t method of deciding which constituencies it would be advisable to contest? What would be the best method of conducting the selection ballots? What would be the best method of advancing the campaign? In keeping with the decision of Jam-iarv Congress? what in the opinion of yonr organisation is the best method to bring about atjthe present stage the destruction of the Massey Government? What would be the. best method of procuring and maintaining the 'Maoriland Worker's as the official organ of the new bodiea? Do you favour a weekly paper, and, if so, what support is. yaur union prepared to give same? Do you favour a daily paper, and what support are you prepared to give same ?" It will be observed that all these questions are of importance

only to the socialistic section, and that no question is put as to how the workers can best be induced to givß full and fair value for money paid as wages, and it is not even suggested that it is possible to improve the methods of labour

THE "Katipo," which is the organ of the. officers of the Post and Telegraph Department, is rightly devoting some attention to the increased cost of living. As we have pointed out on previous occasions, this increase is most severely felt by those in receipt of fixed salaries, such as all employees in the State services. The Katipo points out that the salaries are becoming less adequate,wespecially as the standard of living has also advanced, and that one effect has been the limitation of families. The Katipo ia no doubt voicing tile general discontent, and it must be admitted that there is reason in its complaint. But the amazing thing is that the employees of the State and all in ' receipt of fixed salaries, as well as all the producers and do not combine to remove the chief cause of the increased cost of living, which the recent Commission declared with truth, is the vicious system of "protection, "which exists solely for the benefit of a few monopolists and parasites. By no pos sibility can the other classes benefit either directly or indirectly by the restriction of imports; on the contrary they are seriously injured. The Katipo should start a campaign having for its object the abolition of all duties imposed for other than revenue purposes, so that' the purchasing power of money earned I will be restored, and the cost of living be correspondingly reduced, Ever3 7 restrictive duty also means not only increased cost to users and I oonsumers but also loss to the re- ( venue, because, of course, the Treasury does not collect duty on any article whioh is shut out.

Informations have been laid against several ladies for breaches of the tramway by-law prohibiting the wearing by tram passengers or unprotected hat pins.' The death is notified of Mrs William Croueher, an old and respected resident of Sanson, at the age of 80 years. The funeral takes place on Thursday afternoon. The Magistrate has ordered a lecount of the votes for Napier Harbour Board poll, petitioners alleging that certain votes which should have been deolared informal, were credited to one candidate who was returned by a majority of one. Death has removed another old colonist, after a and painful illness, in Mrs John Reed, of Awahuri Road, Feilding. Mrs Reed and her husband, who predeceased her some two years ago, were well-known in the district., A family of nine—Mesdames Simpson (Rauglotn), Bennett (Apiti), Gawith (Auckland), VV. Whisker and Bliss M. Reed (Feilding), and Messrs Duncan, Hugh, John, and Archie —are left. A deputation of labour registry office keepers waited on the Minister for Justice to protest against re duction of tho.feea recently gazeted. It was stated that the old scale was a starvation scale, and the new one was apparently an attempt to blot out registry offices. The Minister promised to bring the matter before his colleagues." He had no doubt that if any injustice had been done it would be best to put it right.

At St. Andrew's Church, Marton, to-morrow, a big missionary conference will be held, commencing at 2.15 p.m. Members of the Wanganui Presbytery will bo present. Dr. Kirn, for 24 yeara medical missionary in China, will address the gathering, along with Rev. Alexander Don of Duuedii!. Collections will be taken up to defray expenses. The ladies of Ss. Andrew's congregation will provide afternoon refreshments. Everyone is welcome.

I William Benson appeared before Mr Lawson, S. M., yesterday, at Hamilton, charged with discharging firearms at George Alien on Sunday night. It is alleged Allen has been pestering Benson's wife with his attentions for some time, and was waiting outside Benson's house on Sunday night when Benson went into the road. Allen said to Benson: "You have not seen anything. " Benson replied: "I'll lis you." With that Allen is said to have jumped over the fence and come to grips with Benson, who drew a fully loaded six-ohambered revolver and fired two shots at Allen, which went wide. Allen then overpowered Benson, wresting the revolver from him, He handed c it to Constable Haulon. A remand until Wednesday was granted. Counsel appearing for accused asked for bail. He said no actual bodily harm was intended, as when Benson fired the first shot his own wife was between himself and Allen His Worship decided to grant bail in £3O. AT TIMES UNOONSOIOUS. "I have been constantly attacked with coiic, at times being unconscious," writes Mr Alex 3. Cresswell, Storekepeer, Birregurra, Victoria. "Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy gives ma instant relief and I would not be without a bottle in the house. I have recommended it to friends and customers who have always obtained the same results as myself—immediate relief and cure. " For sale everywhere. A Geraldino iady realises a safe ®ure for colds in children She writes: "I have often-used Tonking's Linseed Emulsion children, and have proved that it is j a mild and efficacious' medicine.", "What will suit one will not suit ; another," applies to some medicines, j but not Tonking's Linseed Emulsion. I It is meant to relieve colds, and it , : will cure everybody. ] Usually you smile when you ar \ in a good humour Smoke West- j minster REGENT CIGARETTES I and keen smiling. Fragrant and J pnie, thev are the best for the in- j haler. Forty Free Gifts. I Ladies! Warner's uorsets are; comfortable guaranteed so— they shape fashionably. The bones can- : , not rust or can the fabrio tea . ; Order NOW. Local drapers. *

The S.M. ha° ordered a reconnt*of the votes at the Timaru Mayoral election. Wanganui Presbytery will meet at St. Andrew's, Marton, on Wednes day morning at 9.45 o'clock. John Oassidy, a wharf labourer, dropped dead on the Ferry wharf at Auckland "this morning while talking to a ticket collector. Thomas Mincher, aged 53, collapsed in an Auckland tram car this morning, and when a doctor arrived the man waa dead. Oaptain MoLean, master of the Maheno, denies the cabled statement that the vessel grounded aad nearly collided with a floating crane when leaving Auckland. He explains that the vessel simply rode at anchor. John Ramton, aged 46 years, a waterside worker, who was admitted to Dunedin Hospital on April 28rd suffering from internal bleeding, died yesterday. It is not yet known whether the injuries were due to Btraia at work or not.

Dr. Salvador Casteillo, a retiring Nicaraguan Minister, believes that a ' treatj for a canal across Nicaragua will shortly be negotiated with the Unity- States. 'The distance will be 2000 miles,,less than the Panama. A fire at the Ghent Exhibition yesterday burned for two hours, and an area of 150 square yards was destroyed. The English section was slightly affected, and the Fine Arts Department narrowly escaped. Visitors, remembering the Brussels disaster, were in a state of great exoitemeM, but there was no panic. At Palinerstou yesterday decreea nisi were granted in .Robert JB. Pownall v. Edith Pownall, respondent and Sidney Lang, co-respondent and Harry Woods v. Martha Woods and Leonard Barrett, with costs against co-respondent in each case. It was reported in Feilding last evening, says the Manawatu Times, that Miss Irp.no Prior, eldest daughter of Mr John Prior, had died at Wellington yesterday. Mrs Prior went to the city by yesterday's midday train though not in time to reach her daughter before her death. .. The cause of death, it is understood, I was peritonitis. S'The steamer Oonrtfield arrived at Wellington from New York. On March 13th off Cape de Peide Islands a fire was discovered in No. 3 hold: When the hatches were removed a large quantity of general cargo was found to be ablaze. The outbreak was got under control two hours' strenuous work The extent of the damage is not yet known Mr Lloyd George, speaking at Oriccietn, said the Insurance Act was teaching the people the Scriptural injunction to bear one another's burdens. The Act was working well. Fifteen thousand doctors were attending the sick, and six thousand workmen were receiving the best sanatorium treatment. Scores of thousands were in receipt of sick pay who would otherwise be without a spare penny. A change has been made in the |«?taff of Feilding Technical School. Mr Mathers, headmaster of Apiti School, has been appointed director. This s*ep has been taken to allow Mr A. O. Banner to devote more j time to the teaching of scientific 3 agriculture. Mr Mathers has had i under him at Apiti 140 students in' J the technical classes, is a good I teacher, and should do well in I Feilding. I Resulting from the raid in Oamarn j and the disoovery of bottles of beer I David Bruce was convicted for I keeping a place as a resort for the j consumption of liquor in a No- ] license district and ordeied to come jup for sentence to-day. During the hearing counsel for the defence,--Mr | Lee, withdrew the plea of not I guilty. Thirteen others, ail young | men, were charged with being !' found on premises used as a resort for the consumption of liquor in a No-license district, and were convicted. They will come up for sentence to-day. A meeting of the Superannuated Railwaymen's'Assooiation was held recently at Christohurch to consider the reply from the Minister for Railways re concessions being granted to the members of the association, as granted to the members of the railway service in regard to privilege tickets and free passes. It was stated that they were led to believe the Department looked with favour upon the request for the granting of "privilege tickets, bnt in the light of what the Minister said, their hopes were dashed to the ground. It wa3 unanimously decided to obtain signatures throughout the Dominion of all superannuated railway men, the petition to be presented to Parliament paying that the concessions asked for be granted. Aia unusual case was heard at Auckland Police Court by Mr E. Cutten, S.M., when the police applied to have the recognisance of John M. Judd with respect to J H. Thompson estreated. Thompson was arrested in Palmerston North in Maroh, and remanded to appear at Auckland. Judd, who was a casual acquaintance, entered into a bail bond for £SO. Thompson appeared at Court on the morning required, but the case stood down till the afternoon, when he had disappeared, and has not been seen by the police since. Judd was not 21 years of age when he entered into the bond, and i has not yet reached that age. It was pointsd out by the police thr.t one legal authority held a minor could not go bail. The Magistrate, after consideration, decided to make ho order in the case. I Warner's Rust-proof Corsets. In | the latest models the bust is low 5 and full. Flexible corsetting above j j the waist is the result —the newest i !' figure fashion. Perfect comfort j with figure elegance.* ' j