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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10748, 12 September 1913, Page 4

The League football match at Wanganui yesterday resulted in an easy win for New South Wales by 44 points to 9. It has been decided to arm the next Austrian Dreadnought with guns, occupying five double turrets At Melbourne yesterday Mrs Harrison, a Tastnanian, defeated Miss Pennie, the holder of the ladies' golf championship of Australia. The latter ; struck an unlucky streak of weather. Sir Orichton Browne, speaking at the Sanitary Conference at London, declared that scientists had agreed that the death rate was reducible ten per thousand. The New York State Athletic Commission has refused to rescind rules to permit Langford and Gunboat Smith to meet on the ground that it is against the best interests of sport to allow whites and negroes to meet in the ring. Excavations have revealed the ruins of the port of Pompeii, 1250 metres from the existing seashore, and buried, under seven metres of earth, lava and ashes. A search for treasure is proceeding. At Wanganui Supreme Ocurt yesterday, in the case Rakera Huia v. Ruepena Mete Kingi, Rangipo Mete Kingi and Rawea Sutherland, the claim was for £479, portion of an advance from the Advances to Settlers Department, raised by the plaintiff and alleged to have been lent to the defendant, after hearing the evidence of plaintiff and Mr John Stevens, Mr J. H. Miles and Mr Hussev for the plaintiff, and the evidence of Rangipo Mete Kingi for the defendant, the plaintiff was nonsuited, with costs according to scale. "ADVICE TO INVENTORS" IS FREE—but it will help you to make money from your ideas. Don't keep an idea till it is out-of-date—use it! Many a money-making idea never sees the light uutil too late. Write for Booklet.-HENRY HUGHES, Ltd., 157 Veatherston Street, Wellington. Wray and Brown, Ridgway Street, Wanganui. No home should be without the "amous Roslyn Writing pad, 100 sheets. Pretty picture of "New Zealand's wonderland on the cover. Only 6d and Is each from all dealers* Ask for it*

All sobool pupils are to be granted the free use* of Feilding swimming baths

Feilding Borough Council has decided to-defer the purchase of a road roller until the duty is taken off '

Dr. Marria announoed before the American Health Association a cure for'hydrophobia by means of quinine injections.

Fourteen Russian warships are visiting England in return for the Briiisii squadron's visit to Revai in 1912.

A for £75 Ss has been forwarded to the Feilding Borough Council from Mr E. Goodbehere, being amount collected towards acquisition of Riddiford's (Awahuri) bush.

Two first offenders for being drunk on the Auckland express yesterday were convicted and fined 10s each at Marton Court this morning by Mr E. J. Wilde, J P.

Mr Lloyd George, in reply to Lord Salisbury's challenge, offers to furnish particulars of the Cecil family's investments when in office, but the responsibility of their publication must rest with Lord Salisbury.

At the Marton Gun Club's shoot on Wednesday Mr Walter Beard shot extremely well and tied with Mr O. E. Gibbons in the sweepstake. Good form was shown by several of the young members. Another competition will be held next week

A final practice of the Marton School children for the plain and fancy dress ball will be held in the Druids' Hall, Marton, to-morrow afternoon. Parents and those desirous of helping the children are invited to attend.

Rifleman J. Turnbull won Mr J. F. Studholme'fl trophy for champion shot at Taihape not Rflm. Mathie as stated in error yesterday. The latter won the President's Challenge Cup and Mr McLennan's trophy A preliminary enquiry into the police scandals in Paris justifies the cases being sent to the criminal court. There are fresh accusations against plaiu-olothes police, who in arresting vouths for gambling in the streets also seized two innocent passers-by whom they maltreated when conveying theni to the watchhouse. The Auctioneers' Association is to be asked by Feilding Borough Council to draw the attention of drovers and farmers to the fact that certain streets are closed against stock, and if the notices in certain streets are ignored Council intends defining stock routes. Mr Maxwell, the author whose book on the sex problem has been banned by libraries, when interviewel in London, said the mistake of the censor consisted in taking isolation scenes and failing to see the main drift of his book. The action was all against the spirit of the age. People were no longer afraid of the truth.

Messrs Haddock and Has3ell, contractors of Marten, have secured the contract for extensive alterations-at Satoliffe's Gash Exchange in Broadway. The additions will inoluda three island bay windows, and an extended frontage of fifteen feet. When completed the windows will be capable of showing to the best advantage seasonable goods fa city style.

The death occurred on Wednesday evening at Otago, at th 3 age of 61, of Mr Isaac Breni, who has resided in Feilding for the past 25 years. Mr Brent landed in Nelson in 1854 from Prince Eiward Islaud. During his residence in Feilding he took prominent interest in the Methodist Uhureh. Mr S T. Brent (Rotoraa) is a brother, and Mrs W. Carthew (Feilding), Mrs A. Bagnall (Auckland) and Mrs Penny (Kotorua) registers. A motion by the Mayor that :,he custodian of Victoria Park be reappointed at the salary of £l3 was discussßd by Feilding Borough Council, and lost. Oi. Harford was against such wages which he thought amounted to sweating, but the place would have been one of the best pieces of property in the borough had it been looked after. Or. Elliott said the work necessary in - the Park could be done by the Borough gardener

A serious collision was narrowly averted at Hodder and Tolley's corner, High Street, Marton, this morning Jnst as Mr John McDonald was rounding the corner with the M. A.P care into High Street, a motorcar driven by Mr John Simpson, of Heaton Park, just canght part of the cart and the horse The horse was promptly slewed ronnd by Mr McDonald, and the brakes on the car were promptly applied The horse and cart were undamaged but the glass of one of the lamps of the car was broken and part of the padding on the front seat was torn away. Another cart had been left standing ontside the Borough Oonnoil Chambers and had this not been in the way the car oould have been slewed clear.

Mr Albert. Abbiss, Brandon Hall, Bulls, reports having discovered on his farm a lamb which is a most remarkable freak of nature. It has one head, two eyes, four ears, pug nose, eight legs, two tails, two back bones, two sets ribs, and evidently had two sets of internal organs, for after it had been partly destroyed by hawks when Lying dead it was, on closer examination, found to have two hearts. The second backbone is underneath the body. The back half of the lamb is in two distinct parts, each part quite naturally formed, but both parts are connected at the middle of the body. Each pair of front legs is set sideways. The skeleton is being preserved. IT STRENGTHENED MY THROAT. "I had a weak throat," writes Mr O. V. H. Stallard, 10 Bunbury St., Footscray, Vic. "The slightest change in the weather would affect it and I would have to go home from work feeling lit. for nothing. My sister swears by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy so I thought I would try it, I did so and can honestly say it has worked wonders, for my throat is-now quite strong.'* For sale everywhere.* If your property is not insured call at or ring up the Standard Insurance Co., Ltd., Broadway, Marton, Telephone 97. O. R. Cooke. Rangitikei District Agent. Insur, anees effected promptly on the most favourable terms.—Advt Be Fair to your Corns—order "Antioor" r r the perfeot Safety Corn Shaver, from yjur local dealer today. Only 2s 6d. Immediate comfort guaranteed or your money back..*

The toipedoer "Graven": has "arrived at Savannah partially disabled by. an explosion. One of the crew was killed ari&'five injured. Wireless operators' on Italian steamers have Btruck and sent messages to Paris, Liverpool and New York asking their colleagues to support tliem.

Father Vaughan, at Liverpool,, commenting on small stature in Lancashire, said he had urged the corporations of Liverpool and Manchester to look after the physical wellbeing of the citizens. He recommends that all lads be taught boxing. An innkeeper at Klausfchal was shot dead in the bar. Two murderers shot two pursuers, one fatally One was arrested, and the othei barricaded a house. He was smoked out and shot dead.

During the voyage of the Tahiti, W. P. Gibson, aged 27, single, who had signed on as a stoker, was drowned five days out from 'Frisco. He jumped overboard with the remark "Well, here goes." The spot was teeming with sharks. The ship was stopped and a search was made for an hour but without result. Gibson had a mother living at Hughendon, near Townsville, Queensland, On Sunday. Mr Fraser Barton, B. A., the travelling secietary of the Presbyterian Bible Class Union of New Zealand, will visit Marton. He will conduct the services forej noon and evening in St. Andrew's Church, and address a combined meeting „of young men and women in the same place at 3 pm The services at Tutaenui at 2.30 p.m. and at the Junction Hall at 7 p. in will be conducted by Rev A Porter Sootland Yard is searching for the men implicated in the robbing of the Bank of Copenhagen Before it closed, two German-speaking men entered and barred the entrance by boring a gimlet into the door to prevent it opening from the outside. They terrorised two clerks by loaded revolvers, and tied their hands and ankles with string. They took five thousand pounds, putting the coins in a handbag. Thev carried the clerks to the cellar, locked them in, and left the bank by a baok door. Adelaide reports that in reference to the stabbing affray on a German bo«t, in which an Australian boatswain was alleged to have stabbed two drunken Germans, Boatswain Bieseler says he remonstrated with a man who struck him witbja bottle. It is now stated that this man and not Bieseler fatally stabbed Richter •when he entered the forecastle and subsequently Fireman Schubert staggered out of the forecastle with selfinflicted wound in the throat. The statement that Bieseler was responsible for the stabbing is incorrect. Albert Edward Osborne disappeared from his home at Point Chevalier on Tuesday. An active search was pursued, and the mystery was elucidated about noon yesterday, when a milkman called at the gate3"of the isolation hospital at Point Chevalier, at which institution 26 smallpox patients are housed. Tradesmen are not allowed to cross the "chalk line," but are met at a point some distance from the hospital In the course of a chat the milk vendor detailed the story of the missing man, whose untimely end was feared by

relatives. "Oh, T ' came the response, "we have a chap here named Osborne. We caught him prowling round the hospital buildings, so we seized him as a contact, and he is under detention now as a fit subject for quarantine"

The the Marton Swimming Baths ar9 being laid out preparatory to being planted and grassed and footpaths* gravelled. When completed they will bear a v. >;y picturesque appearance with 'lower beds nicely planted. The jaths and buildings have been thoroughly cleaned in view of the opening of tbe swimming season. a" deputation of enthusiasts intend waiting on the Works Committee tomorrow morning with repaid to the formation of a Swimming Club, and the management fcr the baths, and if possible to get-permission of the free use of the baths for a fortnight before the opening. A water chute and diving b~ard wilL be constructed during the next few days.