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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11699, 20 October 1916, Page 4

***The Kaugilibei Advocate will not be published on Monday, 23rd October (Labour DajOSwimming Chat, by “Breast Strobe,” appears on page 2. It is intended to publish a contribution weekly. An Army order forbids officers, and men accepting money presents for the performance of duty

Sir Tlios. Mackenzie farewelled at) Paddington a party of troops wtK were departing for New Zealand.

The annual, general meeting o. the Marten Tennis and Croquet Club will be held on Tuesday evening, not Monday as previously! notified, as Monday is a holiday. The New Zealand produce entered for export last week is valued at £549,5J8, including butter £72,015, cheese £75,865, meat £3431,65, and wcol £71,501. The gold entered for export duty during the Sept, quarter totalled 96,884 ounces, value at £400,168, making the total to date, since 1857, 31,798,594 ounces, valued at £85,739,917.

Sergeant A. R. Brj’ce, of Marton, was taken suddenly ill with appendicitis on Wednesday evening, and was operated on at Wanganui on Thursday morning.. The patient is progressing as well as can be expected. Entries are coming in freely for the Wanganui Agricultural Association’s annual show on November 15th and 16th. The closing day for entries is Saturday, November 4th, hut it is advisable that they should he sent in before that date if pos : sible in order to facilitate the secretarial work.

The telegraph staff in Wellington on Wednesday evening presented Mr A. Talbot, superintendent, with an address expressing appreciation of his efforts on behalt of the staff, especially in the direction of arranging a rotatory Saturday halfholiday. The presentation is -the more,unusual in that Mr Talbot has only been in Wellington seven mouths.

A Taranaki Maori entered A timber merchant’s yard the other "day, and* approaching the yardman, said: “How much you charge the big boards?’’ “What size do you want? What do you “want to make?” replied the yardman. “Oh, my wife she veryjll. To doctor say she die soon. I make te coffin. She no die, I think I make te pig trough !”

The Nelson Colonist understands that by the will of the late Lieut. Athol Hudson, Rhodes Scholar,filled in action, he set aside the sum of £2OO to be expended by the Council of Victoria College, Wellington, in chemistry research work, also £lO for a challenge cup, to be handed over to the New Zealand University Athletic Tournament delegates for the three-mile race. This is the race in which Lieut. Hudson held the record prior to his enlistment, and his time for it is said to be still unbeaten.

The following appointment have been made by the Wanganui Education Board: —Makobine, Tangiwai and Pipiriki, Misses Cordingly, Gordon, Powler and Dryden Utuwai, Miss Hall; Apiti, Miss L, Guy; Torere, Miss Keane; Kaurimu, Miss Stevens; Taonui, Miss Foote; Awahuri, Miss Fletcher; Newbury, Miss Minogue; Kakabi, Miss Stubbs; Glen Oroua, MissPerritt; Lytton Street, Mr Johnson; Halcombe, Aramoho, Campbell Street, Sanson, Misses Read, Dabinett, Durie, and Bell; Sanson, Miss £Milcolm: Kimholton, Miss King.

A Toronto business man who recently returned from a trip to England, describes the war labours of Canadian women as “merely playing” when compared with the work of the women of Great Britain. As a concrete example, besides that of the female conductors, farmers and munition makers, he cites the case of women working on a superdreadnought. ‘‘l rubbed mv eyes when I saw three hundred women rivetting, boring, holding plates for the men, wiring, and all the rest of it,” he said. “They were dressed in overalls, and their faces were black, and, positively, if it hadn’t been for tne hair bunching out under their caps you would never have dreamed they were women. But they were women,” ho concluded, “women in the finest sense of the word, helpmeets for this war situation ail right.” The system under which the stipends of clergymen in the Auckland diocese are paid, through the local vestries instead of through the Diocesan Office, was condemned in unmeasured terras by Bishop Averili at yesterday’s sitting of the Anglican Synod. “The system,” he said, “is a disgraceful one, and if men had not large hearts and large souls they would never consent to take holy orders and to be treated in such a way.” They should be paid their stipends in an honourable and respectable way, and this could he done only through the Diocesan Office. “The clergy,” be added, “have to live, many of - them on a miserable pittance, and at least it should be given to them in a decent way. At present it is not given to them in a decent way.’

Messrs Lloyd’s Ltd. have just landed a beautiful selection of the daintiest of underwear. Every lady is specially iilvited to inspect the charming variety, which is now on exhibition in their underclothing department

Mr H, H. Richardson, of Marion, received cable advice to-day that bis son, Private Vernon Richardson, who has been in France for about a month, has been wounded in the left eye.

Monday next will be observed by Mnrton business bouses as a general holiday, being Labour Day, and shops will therefore remain epen all day on Wednesday nest. ..Country residents are especially requested to note this.

In these days of rising prices it pays to put on your thinking cap. This is all I ask you to do in respect of my ironmongery. Cali and inspect, and you will be more than satisfied. You will save money—my prices prove it. Small profits!? and quick returns at Milligan's Ready Money Store, Marton.* When Private Devonport, eighteen, was charged at Willesden with being two days overdue ou his pass, it; was stated that he enlisted when sixteen years of age, and after fourteen months’ fighting in the trenches the authorities discovered that be was too young to fight, and sent him home. He was now sent back to his regiment. Mr William P. McCormick, land agent, Hastings, advertises a block of the heaviest and richest laud in Hawke’s Bay, comprising 135 acres freehold. This property is fully improved, ana besides a handsome dwelling of seven rooms, there are the necessary outbuildings and every possible convenience. Pull particulars appear in the advertisement on page 3. An Enfield labourer named Smith disappeared some time ago, and a careful search was made in a field in which ho kept pigs, but without result, until the searchers were attracted by the persistent barking of the man’s dog and its repeated rushes towards a barrel standing in the field. The barrel was full of water and pigs’ food, and there the body of Smith was found, he having been dead some days. The IMarton Rose Carnival this year promises to be a great success. The dates fixed are Wednesday and Thursday, November 15th and 16th, at the Town Hall. In order that intending competitors may have ample time to prepare, a preliminary catalogue has been prepared, which can be obtained from Ingle Bros, or the secretary, Mr Kingsley Harrison, at A. J. Thomson’s store, Martou.

Alter mourning her husband as dead for twelve months and receiv ing the usual widow’s pension, Annie Martin, Beeston, Notts, has just received the news that he is still alive. A former comrade, taken prisoner during the last few weeks, has written home that he encountered Martin in one of the German encampments that he has passed through, but for some inexplicable reason, since he was captured at Loos, -Martin had been forbidden to write home, and be was not reported a prisoner. During the King’s recent visit to the military nospital at Cambridge, says the Nursing Mirror in its latest issue, His Majesty nqticed a pretty little black kitten, belonging to the sister of the ward, lying on one of the patient’s beds. The King picked it np ami stroked it, robbing it against bis face. The kitten, however, failed to appreciate the honour which was accorded it. It struggled, and finally twisted itself free and ran away. One of the suite, a Brigadier General, was despatched by the King to find it and bring it back again to the patient. The German submarine menace has not appeared so formidable lately, but (says a writer in the London Evening Standard) I hear from a traveller that Germany is making great efforts to attain another ’‘sue cess” like the Lusitania. With this object, it is said, a man recently jumped overboard from a certain liner. The captain, however, refused to stop his ship. Afterwards the man’s cabin was searched, and it was discovered that he had plunged overboard for the Fatherland, in order to slow down the ship, and so present an easy prey to the lurking submarines. A Dunedin soldier writes home, stating that he is with the Light Horse Australians. The majority are a good lot of chaps, he says. One of them was up before the colonel some time ago for over-staying his leave while on furlough in London. The colonel asked him if he had anything to say. “Yes, sir,” modestly replied the Light Horse soldier. “I would have been in plenty of time, only when I was running to catch the train, the band struckup ‘God Save the King.'l bad to stand to attention, and missed the train, air.” The colonel coldly gazed at the culprit, but could not sustain the effort. He dismissed the case with honor to the Australian.

An embargo on the export of wool to America is a serious menace to a large portion of Australia’s greatest industry, aud might mean a loss of over £10,000,000 on this season’s clip, according to a deputation of Victorian woolgrowers which waited on the Premier of Victoria (Sir Ales. Peacock) the other day. It was stated that last seasdn America purchased nearly one-third of the total wool clip of Australia. The wool of South Africa was not subject to an embargo, and in consequence American buyers aud ships were being diverted to that market. The Premier was asked to send a cable message to the Imperial Government urging it to withdraw the request to the Commonwealth Government that an embargo should be placed on shipments of wool to America. The woolgrowers had seen the Prime Minister (Mr Hughes) who bad cabled Home twice, but had, as far as they knew, received no reply." The'Premier said he would comply with the request of the deputation, ami would also consult the Premier of New South Wales smd South Australia, who were in Melbourne, with a view t 6 united action.

Our prices always leave you a little over for other things—that is why we are always making (and keeping) customers. Buying groceries for cash eliminates bookkeeping and bad debts, and eliminating canvassing and delivery costs also keeps our prices consistently lower than others.—-Hodder and Tolley’s grocery section, Marton.