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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11616, 6 July 1916, Page 4

A special offer of cheap music is made by O’Hara’s Music Warehouse, Wanganpi, of six copies of music for 5s -6d. This offer holds good until Saturday next when their great music sale concludes. A telegram from Havvera states that James Davidson, one of the early settlers of the Dominion, died this morning, aged 80. He led a busy public life for many years, and was first chairman of the Hawera Town Board in 1875. For Children’s Hacking Cough Woods’Great Peppermint Cure

■At the Marten Police Court yesterday before Mr W.. C. Kensington, J.P., Jack Kerehoma was fined 10s for being drank in Broadway. The Mann vvatu Mills Co., Palmerston Nor> . advertise that they have the following seed potatoes for sale: —Northern Star, Gamekeeper, Maori Chief, British Queen and Early Puritan. Mr Payne, Member for Grey Lynn, is to ask the Minister of Defence, Whether it is trne that there is a German school at Marton where the German children are msti’ucted in their own language, and whether it is trne that there is a German church in the same town where the German language is spoken? [Note by Mr Payne.—lt is said that both church and school were closed down for a time, hut they have since been re-opened, and are now in full swing spreading German propaganda.] An excellent number of the N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review is now to hand. War doings are represented in views depicting the trouble in Mexico; the battle around Verdun, and rum caused by Hun shell-fire: a French field kitchen; Italian bunt for spies; transportation of French wounded ; a Brit-, isn airman’s predicament; convalescent N Z. soldiers; roll of honour portraits, etc. Snapshots at the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club’s meeting contribute to the sporting section, and portraits of the lady members of the Tivoli Follies make a unique frontispiece. The United Federation of Labour Conference was continued at_ Wellington yesterday. The official report states that the conference in committee discussed the Military Service Bill,[the discussion occupying the whole day The following resolution was carried “That ' we urge all unions to take a plebiscite vote of their members upon the following questions: (1) Are you in favour of conscription of men as imposed by the Military Service Act? (Si) Are you in favour of a general strike as a means of pieventiug the enforcement of the Military Service Act?”

At the Marton ploughing match dinner last evening, Mr G. L. Marshall, in proposing the toast of “Agricultural Interests, : ’ drew attention to the mistake that farmers made who had boys in allowing them to take up clerical positions in the towns, instead ot placing them on the land. The time- for sluggards on farms had gone by, and it was the smart boy good education who would make his way as a farmer. It was a splendid thing for the Education Boards to instil a liking for working the soil into the children by means of school plots and experimental plots. It should be the ambition of every former’s son to acquire land of his own, and with a few years’ bard toil they would very soon be in an independent position.

Messrs Spence and Spence’s big winter sale commences on Thursday. The firm’s assistants are now bus}’ marking down and making preparations. A considerable part of the firm’s stock is still at pre-war prices and with the sale price reductions taken off the goods will be bargains indeed.*