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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11929, 24 October 1919, Page 4

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Dunedin and Timaru railwaymen have endorsed the protests against the Railway Bill. The Legislative Council yesterday passed the Education and Public Health Amendment Bills. In the House yesterday Mr Massey introduced ;the’ Shearers’ Accommodation Bill.

The House yesterday agreed to the operative clauses of the agreement relating to the Nauru Island phosphates.

Among the answers to questions in the House yesterday were the following:—lt is not intended to introduce a Pure Poods Bill this session. Sentences of long-sentenced prisoners will not he reduced on ratification of Peace Treaty. A line of 15 four year old steers realised the exceptionally high price of £34 10s per head at the Addington stock "sales last week, the price being claimed as a record for the yard for a line of the class mentioned. The steers were entered by a Banks Peninsula grower. At Wellington Magistrate’s Court on Thursday Thomas Steele Duncan was committed for trial on a charge of receiving goods value £lO7 from Kirkcaldie and Stains by means of a false pretence. It was stated that accused iiad represented himself as T. Duncan, of Taihape. , The Oamarn Presbytery, In response to a representative deputation from the Presbyterian Office-bearers’ Association, resolved to overture the General Assembly to take definite steps to raise ministers’ stipends to £350 and manse, with a corresponding increase to home missionaries, to meet the increased cost of living. ' The Public Service Conference yesterday resolved that Government be asked to* bring into operation a scheme whereby married men with families would be granted relief to meet the cost of living, also to make membership of the Association a necessary qualification for permanent employment in the public service.

“ ‘The newspapers of New Zealand are the best and most honest in the world,” said Sir Walter Buchanan, when speaking to a gathering -of farmers at Carterton recently. He attributed the expansion of trusts and combines in other parts of the world to the fact tiiat they exerted a sinister influence over the newspapers, whose duty it was to expose them.

A boy named Cyril Brown, aged 13, was watching a Show train come in at Napier yeslerday and was then run over by the outgoing engine. His right arm and right leg were taken off and his leg leg injured, as well as internal injuries. He is at present in hospital in a serious condition. Recently the same hoy was injured in a motor accident, and two years previous to that he was nearly drowned at the baths.

A splendid pictorial budget is contained in this week’s issue of the ‘‘Sporting and jjDramatic Review”. It is particularly strong on the racing side and covers the Auckland Trotting" Club’s Spring gathering, the Dunedin Jockey Club Meeting, the Kandwick contests and the Wbangarei Meeting, together with other interesting photographs relating to the Jsport'of Kihgs. The miscellaneous section also embraces an attractive series.

It is pleasing to hear of distinctions gained by old pupils of Marton District High School, Arthur Davenport has brought credit to his old school and to the district by his University success. He obtained first class passes in Physics, Applied Mathematics, Practical Chemitsry, and 3rd class in Pure Mathematics, He was also second in the George Grey Scholarship. Considering that he was competing in his first year on second year’s work, and against brilliant pupils bis achievement is very creditable. Tetrazzini "is remembered in London by the sensation which her appearance in opera caused some years back. The famous prima donna is yet another of those who have devoted their talents to raising funds for war charities. At the Paris Opera House in April of this year her singing realised the sum of £17,600 for the French Red Cross Society, and if the hundreds who were tmaWe to obtain admission to the Opera House is any criterion, her popularity shows no sign of waning.

“What is to be done with the stained glass window presented to the Dovercourt parish church by the ex-Kaiser 20 years ago,” is a question which had been perplexing the vicar, the Rev. T. Grey Collier, and churchwardens. They have decided that it is “to remain until another as good or better, is presented to the church,” which is, perhaps, the best way of stimulating local generosity. The body of Captain Fryatfc lies near “the Kaiser window,” as it is called, which was erected bv the exEmperor in memory of the “German Legion” who died from disease during the . Walcheren Expedition in 1810, and were buried with British soldiers in the adjoining churchyard. The subject of the design is the healing of the centurion’s servant. Ladies blouses are the special feature of the display now being made by The Economic (Low and Gregory) who advise in this issue that they have just received large deliveries of these goods of quite exceptional style and value McGruer’s are always giving the ladies of Marton special inducement for buying their drapery requirements. This week the fir nr extend the same to the men folk. On page 6 this firm advertise . fourteen specials in men’s wear. As -.MeGrutfr’s hold big stocks of all classes in men’s clothing at their usual keen competitive prices it will pay the men to shop at this store. *2

■ The Premier says he expects the session to close on Saturday week. The next monthly meeting of Rangitikei County Council will he held on Thursday, 30th inst. The Niagara was a full ship when she arrived at Auckland on Wednesday with 669 passengers. The Eastern Company reports that the cable is interrupted between Rodriguez Island and Mauritius, overloading the Pacific route and causing delays.

Ten four horse teams were at work on Martou Show Grounds yesterday and a large area was ploughed up, and other improvements effected towards the grounds.

A London message reports that oh the occasion of Trafalgar Day the base of the Nelson Column in Trafalgar Square was decorated with W'reaths from numerous warships and naval bases and also from the High Commissioners of the various Dominions.

In the House Mr Massey, replying to .Mr Semple as to whether he would make another effort to bring the parties in the mining dispute together, said ;“I am again in comtonincation with both parties. Unfortunately a great third party—the public—is more concerned than either miners or owners.”

On Tuesdiay while Leonard Flynn was driving <an emery wheel ac a sawmill at Tirau, the wheel hurst, a large piece striking him on the face, breaking his upper jawbone and indicting a wound above the eye. He was admitted to the Waikato Hospital. Paris reports tnac the skeletons of four women were discovered on Landru's estate at Gasbais. “Bluebeard’s” clever attitude before the examining magistrate had led to the belief that he was not guilty of murder, but was concerned in widespread white slave traffic, in which he eijpploj'ad his so-called fiancees. The latest discovery of skeletons reinstates the murder theory.

Answering a question as to when the surplus profits from tire sale of the wool clip will be available, the Prime Minister saici he was informed by the Imperial Government that part of the 1917 clip was still in store and portion of the 1918 clip had not yet reached the market, but there would be a substantial sum for division among .wool growers, and payment would be made in reasonable time.

1 A Kelson message reports that an extraordinary and shocking accident occurred at Wills’ sawmill, Ngatimoti, on Wednesday [afternoon. An employee named Kenneth Bradley, a married man, was beneath a circular saw making some adjustment, and his head by some means came in contact with the edge of the circular saw, which cut through his forehead making a wound eight inches long and penetrating two inches into the hrain. He was still alive this evening, but no hope la entertained of his recovery.

The London Times, in printing in its issue of July 14th a report of President Wilson’s speech in New York, used a line which never before appeared in any newspaper in the world, observes the Christchurch Press. In the place where over its foreign news Now Zealand papers print the line, “By Cable—Press Association Copyright, ” The Times printed the words “By Transatlantic Airship. ” The time may come when a line such as this may be so familiar to newspaper readers as to attract no notice, but the fact remains that the copy of the Philadelphia Ledger, containing the report referred to, brought to London by the airship 834, was the first newspaper to reach a London newspaper office by the air route. Another copy of the Ledger, addressed to the King, reached Buckingham Palace in 3 days 9>£ hours after the airship left New York, whereas a letter posted in New York, on July Ist was only delivered in London by the ordinary mail service on the 12th, the period of transit occupying eleven days. A few weeks earlier Lord Northcliffe had said that he looked forward to the time when Loudon morning newspapers would be selling in America in the evening, and vice versa in regard to American evening journals reaching London nest day. The realisation of that forecast has not yet been reached, but it is on the way.

Come and get some of the good things to be sold at the shop under Gibbons’ verandah, Broadway, Marton, to-morrow. There will be meat, cream (be sure to bring your own jars), cake, vegetables, jam and eggs, also Cayuga duct eggs,*

The ladies of Marton will be interested to learn that Messrs Lloyds Ltd., have just received in their Millinery Department some exceptionally smart new models. These new goods evidence the very last word in good taste. Every well dressed woman realises the importance of smart millinery and the dainty exclusive designs and colourings of these hats will appeal to all. Ladies should take the opportunity of viewing the latest millinery creations at Lloyds’ well stocked show rooms*

New Potatoes 4d per lb. Onion plants Is 3d per 100. Cabbage plants 2s per 100, postage extra. Tomato Plants Is 6d per dozen. —J. B. Barrington, ’Phone 294, Marton*