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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XL, Issue 11405, 23 October 1915, Page 4

|The Rangitikei Advocate will he published as usual on Monday, 25th October, (Labour Day). It is stated that of 14 young men who went to the front from Ohingaiti 12 have been killed. It is not probable that there has been such a large proportionate any other place. Dustin, Ltd., Palmerston North and .Wanganui, advertise high-class cakes, ready for posting to our soldiers at the front, at 5s per bos. The cake is valued at 3s 6d, and the two blocks of chocolates at Is each, a nice gift for your soldier boy. The Rev. A. H. Golvile, vicar of S. Mary’s, New Plymouth, will preach in S. Stephen’s to-morrow at both morning and evening services. Mr Golvile was one of the missioners at the Mission of Help in New Zealand in 1910, and previ ously in South Africa. The carpenters and brickiay-ers erecting the new military camp at Liverpool, Sydney, struck as a protest. against the authorities’ refusal to pay the railway fares to reach the work. The strike has seriously inconvenienced the accommodation of recruits. “Can those hones live” will be the text taken by the Rev. F. Rands at Max-ton Methodist Church tomorrow eveuing, when the possibilities of transformation in national, ecclesiastical . and individual life will be shown.

Taranaki’s third shipment of the new season’s produce was made from New Plymouth yesterday, when 11,011 boxes of butter and 4,013 crates of cheese were shipped per the Corinna. It is expected that the butter will realise £3 10s a box, making it of the value of £38,538 10s, while the cheese should bring £4 a crate or a total of £16,048. This brings the aggregate value of the shipment up to £54,585 10s. Three shipments of produce have now been made of a value of £129,491 10s, The services at the Marton Presbyterian Church to-morrow morning and evening and at Tutaenui in the afternoon will be conducted by Mr McKenzie, Mr McKenzie Is the travelling secretary for the Bible Classes of New Zealand and will have special messages for the young men and women, and it is hoped that all the young people will make a great effort to he present at these services. Mr Haddock will take the evening service at the Junction Hall.

The Feilding and District Patriotic Committee met yesterday when it was reported that there was £2845 in hand and that the Colyton collectors had obtained promises of £llOO. Collectors in other districts have not completed their canvassing. Additions were made to the canvassing committee, and it was decided to ask the members to meet in order to bettor co-ordinate their efforts. It was decided not to give a public send-off to less than 10 recruits, but lessor numbers be farewelled by a sub-committee.

At the inquest on Mrs Catherine Stanley, who died in the Dunedin Hospital on October (3th, Coroner Widdowson returned a verdict of death as the result of an illegal operation to procure a miscarriage. In summing up, Mr Widdowson accused the husband of despicable cowardice by his failure to inform the doctors of the interference, otherwise her life might have been saved. Mr Widdowson also said there bad been deliberate perjury by somebody during the inquest. The police are investigating with a view to further action.

The Rangitikei Co-operative DairyCompany paid out for the month of September the sum of £2817 16s lid for butter fat supplied at the rate of Is 4d per lb. The amount paid out for the coresponding month of last year was £1847 I7s lid at the rate of Is per lb butter fat. The Company is also paying Is 4d per lb for butter fat supplied during October month. The daily make of butter at the factory is 50 boxes, showing an increase of six boxes daily over the corresponding period of last year. The death occurred in Palmerston on Thursday of Mrs Smith, wife of Mr G. F. Smith, of Coal Creek, Kimholton. The deceased lady was the daughter of Mrs E. Koehler, of Palmerston, and a sister of Mrs W. Koehler, of Napier road. She was 49 years of age. She had been in ill-health for a considerable time, and had borne her sufferings with patient fortitude. With her husband she had been a resiident of Coal Creek for a great many years, and was generally esteemed for her good and kindly qualities. Wide sympathy will be felt, particularly in the Pohangina County, of which Mr Smith is a councillor, for the bereaved husband and family of sons. One of the latter is married, and a resident of Ohura. THERE IS ONLY ONE SANDER EXTRACT, and that is why the people insist on getting it 5 and why they reject the many inferior substitutes and the cheap and frequently harmful “just as good.'* The GENUINE SANDER EXTRACT is free from the objectionable qualities of the common eucalyptus oils and the so-called “extracts.” SANDER’S EXTRACT is the most powerful antispetic and healing remedy -that can be used with safety; it prevents and cures all infectious diseases, influenza, colds, fevers, smallpox, diphtheria, flatulence, dyspepsia diarrhoea, dysentery and kidney troubles. SANDER’S EXTRACT, applied to ulcers, bui'ns, sprains, cuts, inflamed skin, gives instant relief and cures permanently. Three drops in a teaspoonful of cod liver oil is a specific in all chronic lung affections; rehumatism is quickly dispelled by it. Reliability, effectiveness and safety are the great attributes of SANDERS’ EXTRACT.

Ten ladies wore collecting in Feilding- for the Red Cross Fund yesterday and obtained £l3l. Over 80 soldiers escaped from the Melbourne detention camp,- and the majority are still uncaptured. Unless they return, the authorities propose to expose them by publishing their names and descriptions. Railway arrangements in connection with the Waverley Races on Monday are advertised in this issue. A Special train will leave Marton at 7.53 a.m. leaving Waverley racecourse on the return trip at 5.55 p .m. and arriving at Marton at 10 p.m.

Responding to the toast of “Our Boys at the Front,” at the Masterton Foresters’ Lodge social last week, Mr William Dixon, of Masterton, stated that his seven sous had all donned the King’s uniform, and he was sorry he had not more sons to do the same. Some of the boys bad fought in the South African war, while tlie others were uo.w at th e front.

A remarkable escape from death is recorded by Sergeant A. E. Crozier, of Sunderland, The sergeant is in Booth Hall Infirmax-y, Manchester and in the course of a letter to his father states: —“What unnerved me most was this. I was buried in the earth, with only my head sticking out, when a shell dropped alongside my head. I was in a fix. I could not move an inch, for the earth was fastened round me like glue, but the shell never went off-. Another shell came over and blew me and the shell into the air—and hero I am. ’ ’

Read3'-to-wear garments for the show and racing season. Mesrss Spence and Spence have large selections of high-class suits for men and hoys, and costumes and frocks for ladies and maids. Complete outfits are procurable at very moderate cost at the Bon Marche, Feilding.*