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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11456, 8 February 1918, Page 4

Church services are advertised over the leader. Mr Hinman, of Auckland, will preach at the Druids Hall, Marton, on Sunday evening next at 7 o’clock. The takings for the Greatford week at the Marton Patriotic Shop amounted to SCO 5s 4d.

Mrs Quittenden, of Marton, has received cable advice that her son. Private H. Quittenden, of the 2Gth Reinforcements, was admitted to the Hirst London General Hospital on January 30th, suffering from broncihtis.

Snapshots at the Takapuna Jockey Club’s summer meeting, and the Taumaruuui Racing Club’s annual meeting, make an attractive showing in the current issue of the ‘ ‘N. Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review.’’ The Now Zealand Bowling Association’s tournament in Dunedin is represented in a full-page of portraits, and a budget of striking photographs dealing with the war subjects will be of special interest.

Harry Lauder spoke ou the war from the steps of a building in Wall street, Now York, recently. Men in thousands thronged to hear him as he urged investment in the Liberty Loan. Ho thrilled the gathering for half an hour. “Don’t t .Ik of money when human lives are at stake. I would give all* I ever owned, every penny, and possession, to have my boy Jack back again.” Mr Lauder’s half-hour spsech brought £IOOO in cash for the Loan. In camp, later, Lander sang and made a speech to the officers and men. In the midst of the programme the soldiers shouted ‘‘Sing us the‘Wee House Among the Heather.’ ” Lauder said ‘‘Aye, I’ll sing it, but it’s no song to mo; it’s a hymn. I sang it to the boys before the battle of the Arras. There were 15,000 Scots there then. Many of thorn are gone now. ”.

Three good meals a day, agreeably varied, are needed by all busy folk. Nowadays the cost *is increased but can be kept at rock-bottom by dealing for groceries exclusively with Hodder and Tolley. Spot cash over the counter, 11 no canyasing, no delivery,--so their prig'es arc lower s*l

Before adopting electricity aa Ttlie motive power for their cream lorries the running cost of fuel was four pence to the mile to the Ssngotea Dairy Go. It is now but one penny three farthings. At Waihi yesterday Albert Edward Armstrong, aged forty-seven, broke ilia neck by falling when engaged slacking cement in a shed used in connection with the railway construction w’orks.

The Now Zealand Insurance Company has had another very succesful year and is declaring a dividend of 4s per share, making 8s per share for the year. The company's paid up capital, reserves and individual profit now amounts to £1,3(50,174, a sum of £(50,000 having been added to the reserve fund this year. At Stratford Police Court yesterday morning John Benjamin Clark, a travel! was charged with setting lire to premises la Broadway on January 13th. Bo pleaded not guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court at Wanganui for trisl. Bail was allowed, self £IOO and one surety of £2OO. The 1 Dominion lied Triangle appeal for £IOO,OOO for tho Y.M.O. A war work was launched at Wellington yesterday. The Wairarapa Patriotic Society lias promised £3OOO and the representatives of two Wellington firms have offered £SOO if eight others will do tho same. The first £IO,OOO is already in sight.

Sergeant Sweeney, who has been transferred to Wellington, left vridi his family for tho Empire City this morning. Tho congregation of St. liTanoim Church last week presented Mrs Sweeney with a silver-monntad salad bowl and Sergeant Swecnev with a set of carvers, as a m-rk of their esteem for tho departing family.

A visitor to tho Feilding show informs us that from live minutes to ten minutes past three (a period of Mvo minutes only) he counted 72 men entering tho liquor room. Be assumed fromjithat count the number of drinkers averaged about Sift an hour and not ‘less than three thousand during tho day. This is about equal to the whole number of people on the ground, women, children and abstainers included.

A man, nocused at the Wellington Supremo Court with having looked through ladies’ bedroom windows by night waxed indignant at tho suggestion. “Why,” ho exclaimed, “I write poetry, drama, and operas, and never think of women; they never enter my head.” In reply to another query, ho said: “I am 54 years of age; I have never followed a woman in my life; I never think about them at all. ” “How do you come to be called ‘Pooping Tomi” ” asked the counsel. ‘‘l don’t know,” ho replied; “.pure rumours, that’s all. The children all call it out to me and the dogs were barkiug it all over Wadostown. Even when I go down to the tram terminus the tram men ‘chiak’ me and say, ‘ho got a crack last night. ’ When I get into a tram they nudge one another and whisper, ‘there hois; tint’s him,’ especially if there are any women about. ’ ’

An amusing story of the experiences of three British officers .who escaped from the Turks is told by a relative of one of them. Eluding their guards, tho throe officers made their way across the desort. Their first adventure came tho day following their escape, when they encountered thirteen Turkish soldiers, Tho officers resigned themselves to recapture, hut wore astonished and delighted to discover, after some .parley, that the soldiers were deserters fleeing from the hard ships of the Turkish army to some unknown destination. The two parties thereupon joined forces, and were proceeding amicably on their way when a Turkish patrol appeared. Tli ere was no doubt of the hostile intentions of this body. A sharp fight ensued, resulting in the capture of eleven of tho patrol. With these prisoners in their hands, the British officers and tho Turkish deserters marched forward, and ultimately Touched a Russian camp, where tho British officers received an enthusiastic welcome.

The ITou. G. W. Russell, Minister for Internal Affairs, uttered, at Palmerston North last week, a word of caution with reference to the establishment of soldiers’ clubs. At Auckland and Dunedin, said the Minister, it was proposed to raise a large sum of money for the establishment of permanent clubs for returned soldiers. He knew that he was treading on rather frielic =te ground, because in Palmerston there is an exceedingly tine club, but ho did not forget that the money for this was not raised in the ordinary way patriotic moneys are. “What I wish to see carried out as’far as possible—and it is no reflection on your club’s policy—is that once our soldiers have returned and have been discharged from the convalescent hospitals, they shall ’return to their former civilian status, civilian employment and environment. (Applause.) In my opinion it will be most unfortunate if, in years to come, this country is divided into two classes — the men who fought and the men who did not. That means creating class distinction, and should be avoided. The clubs which have been erected must be opened to all, whether soldiers or not. The sooner the distinction between soldier and civilian is wiped out, and the young men who return absorbed into civilian life from which they were drawn,' the better. We are not through the war yet; things look better. We have 14,000 men returned out of 100,000 enlisted, and nearly the whole of whom have gone away.’’

Messrs Lloyd’s, Ltd., will commence on Saturday a great fourteen days’ sale of all goods in their Showrooms, which include ail ladies’ roady-to-wear apparel. There should not be a lady at this late day who does not [realise the high war prices of goods will go still higher. Tliis will-afford a groat opportunity to buy cheaply. Most of the goods that will bo 'sold will show exceptional reductions and considerably less than half the manufacturers’ charge to-day.*

At the Bon Marche, Feildiug, is to be seen a window full of ladies* summer dresses, blouses and skirts all marked at two and sixpence each. Surely no one need go short of summer attire while these prices rule.*.

Dalgety andO 0., and N. Z. Loan and Mercantile -agency Go., advertise that their first annual wonner and young cattle sale will be hold r.t tlio Hnntervilla sale yards on Monday. It’tit February.

Some idea of the value of stock iu England at the present time may be gathered from the fact that at a sale near Wantage, Jin Berkshire principally of stock for the Xmia market, prices ranged (from £SO to £64. Old cows sold up to £55, calves suckling mothers £lO, working c-rt horses £ll2, and 60-year-old horse £4O, 6-mouths lambs 755, 6-thllamn-shiro ewes (to breed another lamb) £4. None of these were pedigree" stock.

A lad who had taken on a pupilteachership iu this district at a salary to start with of £SO a year, received a telegram from a Government department offering him a position in the service at a salary ot £7B a year to commence with (states the Foilding Star). Yet the Education Department is deaf to the frequent requests of the Boards to increase the pay of pupil-teachers and probationers, and even worse than that deducts pay from those at tto training college if they dare to take up relieving work in their holidays.