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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11850, 5 June 1919, Page 4

The Minister of Defence stated today that a preliminary inquiry had been held by the military authorities into the circumstances surrounding the explosives accident during the Scout encampment at Trentham. As a result of this preliminary inquiry, a full inquiry has now been ordered. An undefended divorce petition, in which £SOO damages as claimed against the co-respondent, was heard at the Auckland Supreme Court by Mr Justice Cooper and a jury of twelve The petitioner was Harry Jane and the respondent was Lulu Jane,” Arthur Hope was cited as corespondent. No defence was offered either to the petition or to the claim for damages. The jury awarded petitioner £3OO damage and a decree nisi was granted, to be made absolute in three months, with costs on the lower scale. On page 1 Messrs Lloyd’s, Ltd., are advertising exceptional value m general drapery A great demand now exists for these household commodities as the shortage in all classes of goods is really acute. From that of economy also the value in all lines are irresistible, being marked at less than the trade itself can buy at to-day. *

Hr H. Lethaby, of Wanganui, is at present in Marton collecting umbrellas, needing repairing or recovering. Now that the winter is here it is not a bad idea to get the umbrellas prepared for use.* The Mayor, at the Returned Soldiers’ re-union, foreshadowed Whakatane borough loan proposals or £60,000 to £70,000 for water supplv, electricity, drainage, roads and footpaths. With the proposed County ‘loan of £BB,OOO, it is now proposed to borrow a total of about £150,000 for public works in this district. Police investigations into the damage to a plate glass window at Charles [at Opotiki resulted in the discovery of a revolver bullet, a man’s cap and a glass bottle inside the broken window. The owner of the cap has been identified. Evidently the revolver was fired at the window at short range and a bottle used to enlarge the hole. In his excitement the culprit apparently fell through the ■window into the shop and forgot to recover his cap and bottle when making his escape. A conference of representatives of municipal tramways in various centres of New Zealand met in Wellington yesterday to consider the regulations |[the Minister of Public Works proposes to put into operation. It was the generally expressed opinion that the regulations should not be gazetted for some time, as it was considered that under present conditiouns some of them -would operate prejudicially to the controlling authorities and the public. Members of the Conference are to wait on the Minister. After a long illness of over two years, Mrs Jas. McCosker passed away peacefully at her hubsand’s residence in Marton last evening. The late Mrs McOoskery took an active interest in the welfare of the Methodist Church, and was one of the brightest workers in the social life of the church. The deceased lady was the eldest daughter of Mr J, T. Burrell, of Palmerston North, and leaves a husband and three children to mourn their loss. The funeral will leave Mr Me Coskery’s residence, High Street, for the Mt. View Cemetery at 3 o'clock to-morrow. The Great Northern Hurdles and Steeplechase at the Auckland Racing Clubs’ Winter Meeting are special features of this “week’s issue of the Now Zealand Sporting and Dramatic Review, the competitors being depicted with wonderful detail in the progress of each event. Snapshots showing the euo'inous crowd present at Bllerslie make an interesting spectacle. The Wanganui Jockey Club’s meeting is also represented in a comprehensive series of views, an assortment of topical views and pages of photographs devoted to the British Naval supremacy form a budget that should make a universal appeal. At a meeting of the Waikaremoaua Hydro-electric League at Napier yesterday, it was [decided that local bodies connected with the League should send their delegates as a deputation to wait on the Government and press the district’s claims. Mr J. V. Brown, M.P., said that if the I deputation failed he would be prepared to move a vote of no-confidence Liu the Government. Mr Brown also ' said that the undue anxiety of the H.B, County Council to get away from the League made him wonder whether the Meat Trust was behind that body, as it Chad been reported was the case with regard to the Invercargill scheme. The death occurred at Napier yesterday, in his 93nd year, of Mr John Sharp, one of the earliest residents of Nelson. He came to New Zealand in 1843 as clerk to Sir Francis Dillon Bell, and for some time was a surveyor under the New Zealand Land Company in the Nelson province. Later he was clerk to the Superintendent and Resident Magistrate. He sat in the Provicial Council for Waimea West and Amuri, being lor three years provincial treasurer. In 1875 he was returned as one of the members for Nelson City in the House of Representatives, sitting for one Parliament. Mr Sharp was later appointed Resident Magistrate at Nelson, and on retiring entered into business for some years. He was Mayor of Nelson from 1888 to 1890.