The Rangitikei Advocate. TWO EDITIONS DAILY. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1919.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11762, 24 February 1919, Page 4

The Rangitikei Advocate. TWO EDITIONS DAILY. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1919.

The committee of the Feihiing Red Cross wish to acknowledge receipt of the earn of £l9 from Mrs Innes Jones, raised by means of the Red Cross luncheon room.

Speaking on Saturday night, Mr Fraser, M.P., said that personally he was a Prohibitionist, and he believed Labour’s only hops of success was a sober democracy.

A New York cable reports the death, at Watertown, New York, «of Dr. Mary Walker, the Civil War surgeon. She was tha only woman allowed to wear male attire by special Act of Congress. Gnnner H E Wilson, well known in Wellington athletic circles, won the 120yds hnrdle race at military sports in France just before the armistice was signed. His opponents included the champion American hurdler.

Thirty thousand people attended the late Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s state funeral. The body lay in state at Parliament House. Thousands of sleighs followed the cortege to the graveside. The Archbishop of Montreal and other Roman Catholic dignitaries officiated. The New Zealand, with Lord and Lady Jellicoe, has sailed from Portsmouth. The Mayor of Portsmouth boarded the New Zealand anl assured Lord Jellicoe of Portsmouth’s appreciation of his services, and wished him a successful tour.

The premises next Mogridga’s, Broaciwuj’, Marton. are now open as the Central Office of. the Rangitikei No-License League, and supplies of Prohibition Literature are now available.

According to the crew of the barquentiue Wanganui, the influenza regulations were being enforced with the greatest severity by the authorities in San Francisco when the vessel was there in November. One-of the seamen on the ship inadvertency *vent ashore without a sterilised mask over his face He was immediately arrested by masked po i :e, and was sentenced by a masked magisuate to ten days’ imprisonment.

Messrs Lloyd’s, Ltd., three great cleariug-np days commence on Monday, Tnesday and Wednesday next. The last three days will be notible for drastic ml sweeping reductions There will be costames, dresses, millinery, Mouses, and ell remnants and oddments that will be reduced to half the sale price. You are certain to find among the An*! offerings something that yon want.®

The director will be at the Marton Technical School this evening from 7 o’clock for the purpose of enrolling pupils. News was received yesterday that “Karamu,” the homestead of Mrs Ormond, was destroyed by Are on Saturday. The result of the Crampton courtmartial was posted up in front of the totaiisaior house at the Wanganui Races on Saturday, and was greeted with great cheering by the crowd.

The popularity of the Marton Municipal Baths is increasing daily. One hundred and sixty-ona persons, independent of ticket holders, paid for admission at the baths on Saturday last. The ladies committee of the Marlon Patriotic Society which go snccesfuliy inaugurated and conducted socials for the soldiers during the war, intend resuming these socials as monthly functions, commencing in March. Any surplus funds will be devoted to requirements of returning soldiers. The Marton District High School intend entering two teams for the Royal Life Saving Sooiet’y Schools’ Life-Saving Challenge Shied, which will be held in the Marton Municipal Baths on the forenoon of the '4th and sth March. The shield has been held by the Gonville school for the past two years. The Marton hoys are putting in some good work under Mr F, L. de Berry’s tuition, and are expected to make a good showing. The Marton District High School sports, which were postponed from last year, will be held in the school’s grounds on Wednesday, 36th March. Mr F. Pirani chairman of the Wanganui Education Board, will be present. It is probable that Mr Pirani will deliver a lecture on his travels and experiences in France and England as a press delegate, in the Marton Town Hall the same evening.

The widow of the late Sergeant Mervyn H E Gorringe, ot Levin, has donated a sum of £SOO to cover the cost of a new wing for the Y.M. O.A. Institute at King George HoS--pital, Rotorua. This is the outcome of a letter written to his wife by Sergeant Gorringe from Ypres, stating that if tha worst happened and there was something to spare she might remember the . Y.M.O.A, The wing is now being erected.