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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10738, 1 September 1913, Page 4

Questioned by a Press representative after an educational meeting at Foxton on Friday re his standing as candidate for Otaki constituency at next election, Mr Pirani stated that he was giving the matter favourable consideration. James Leonard and Phillip O’Donnell. both aged 19 years, have been arrest-.d at Auckland on a charge of burglary at -Wellington, and theft of money and jewellery from the dwelling of Frederick Saunders to the value of £IOO. They were brought before the court and remanded till Friday. A decree in divorce has been granted at .Auckland in the case of Bowden Stephens, formerly of Dargaville, v, Eliza Ann Stephens, on* the ground of misconduct with Benjamin Emrys Williams, The petitioner now resides in Christchurch. Application for an adjournment of a bankruptcy petition in the estate of Hermann Lewis was made in Wellington Supreme Court on Saturday. Counsel explained that the creditors had set up an informal committee to report on the position of the missing debtor, and until the report was available the petitioning creditor did not wish to press the order. An adjournment for 14 days was granted. After hearing the medical evidence Mr Fraser, S.M., dismissed the charge of manslaughter against Robt. Mitchell, ex-licensee of the Shamrock Hotel, Auckland, arising out of the death of a boarder named Slirapson, who, it was alleged, had not received proper attention after falling downstairs in the hotel and sustaining injuries causing his death. The. evidence showed that the injuries were such that death was inevitable. The Supreme Court at Auckland concluded the hearing of the Onehunga cases arising ont of frands on the Union Company involving a substantial sum by means of fictitious pay sheets. William Saunders, William Owens, and Richard Tyreli were charged with conspiracy in falsification and- forgery. Saunders was sentenced to three years and Owens and- Tyreli to one year. Henry Lloyd Davis charged with false pretenoes in connection with the same offence got six months, A brisk demand has arisen for Taranaki Oil Wells Refinery’s produets. Consignments have been sent to Auckland and Christchurch, and local merchants have been supplied. Fuel oil is also being sent away as fast as it can be produced, and kerosene, lubricating oil and wax are expected to be placed on the market this.week Good progress is being made with drilling by the various Companies. Taranaki Oil Wells shares are in demand and 300 were transferred last week at eighteen shillings, Messrs Spence and Spence, Feilding, have just opened up magnificent selections of new Spring millinery and hats. These will be on view in the showroom on Thursday next and following days.

BOX 23. MANGAWEKA, is always crammed full of mail orders from every coiner of the district. We have the goods that sell, and the public are not slow at finding out where the good things are to be bought at a small cost Almost every boar that enters the harbours of the Dominion bring something new and novel for Stewart’s Central Book Arcade, Mangaweka. ■

For Chronic Chest complaints, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure Is 6d, 2s 6d, ’

The damage to the Imperator |is less than anticipated. Her regular sailings are uninterrupted.

Captain Kelsey, with five companies, has started from the Gape to Cairo on a motor expedition.

Preparations are in progress in Ham. burg for the construction of sister ships to the Imperator and Vatorland.

5 The death has occurred at Ayr, Scotland, of Mr W. Forsyth, a very old resident of Mangamahn. Deceased was on a holiday. At Marton Court this morning before Mr O. S. Rawson J.P., a first offender was convicted and fined 03 for drunkenness.

A boiler exploded on the river boat Alice. The* vessel sank instantly. Eight were killed on the spot. Eight injured swam ashore. . A Mongolian company prospecting for gold in the Kudor valley, China, has discovered auriferous ground with two veins, one .extraordinarily rich.

Sandon is nothing if not productive of good returns. The skin, of a pet wether taken into Feiiding a day or two ago, turned the scale at Souths

A record birthday cake, sixteen feet high withes twenty-five feet base and three tiers, has been manufactured at London to celebrate the coming of age of the Confectioners’ Exhibition on Saturday. “Six days shalt thou labour” is very evidently observed by Marten’s apology for a town clock at the Post Office It is perhaps a saving grace that it does not strike on working days.

Five thousand persons were etn. ployed in acting Ivanboe near Chep. stow Castle for the cinematograph. During a battle scene many of those engaged lost their heads and fought in earnest. There were a number 0! casualities.

The Wellington touring schoolboy footballers, on Saturday, defeated the Feiiding boys by 14 to 0 Tbe game was very fast,bothteamsplaying well, the visitors haying the advantage of more combination and training They excelled in passing work. Prince Albert has beenappointed a midshipman on the “Oollingwood, ” which Vice-Admiral Colville is commanding. Admiral Colville was a lieutenant on the corvette “Canada” in 1883, when the King was a midshipman on the* same warship.

Viscount Haldane, who is on a visit to Hew York, in an interview, said he favoured women’s suffrage, but it had been prejudiced by the action of the militants. He expressed the opinion that Home Rule was coming.

A successful aeroplane flight of about a mile was made on Saturday afternoon at Avondale by a machine owned by an Auckland syndicate, The flight was made at an altitude of about 130 ft., and after about a mile had been covered the biplane, which is of the Farman type, came to earth without mishap.

Australian artists in London, under the presidency of Mr Bertram Mackennal have drawn up proposals regarding the mural decoration and statuary for the Commonwealth building. They claim the work ought to be reserved for Australians. Sir George Reid has forwarded the book containing the proposals to the Prime Minister of Australia..

Detectives state that many infants are murdered in and around Melbourne every year. In not one case out of a hundred is the culprit discovered. No clue is ever left. The last occasion when a woman was arrested after strangling and abandon i mg a child was in 1898 The fact that the child was vaccinated enabled the detectives to trace the mother.

London reports the death of Alfred Hirst, blind wool expert, and also of Dr. Tempest Anderson, from enteric, in the Suez Canal while Homeward hound from the Phillipines. Dr. Anderson, M, D., was born in York in 1846. He has published several papers on ophthalmological subjects, • volcanic studies,and was joint author of reporc of Royal Society on West Indian eruptions 1903 and 1907.

The flower show recently held at Sandon, in aid of funds of St. Thomas’s Church, will result in a profit of over £25. The committee are indebted to Mrs A, Harris, a successful Palmerston exhibitor, Miss Duloie Harris, Miss Bennett, Marton, and Messrs A. K. Drew. W. Cheek, and Knowles, each of whom helped in no small degree to make the show the success it was. Prizes are already forthcoming for next show, which is to be an annual affair.

A travelling photographer called at a'Paris butcher’s shop and complimented the proprietor on the fine show of meat. He suggested that he should take a photograph of the family group in front of the shop. The butcher consented, and the man took a quarter of an hour in posing. When the butcher returned to the shop he found it had. been ransacked and stripped of the meat. The camera left in Mie street was merely a cardboard box covered with a black cloth.

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