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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12018, 8 March 1920, Page 4

The Prince of Wales was beaten in the final of a squash rackets handicap at Bath. He played a hard, determined game. The miners at Maitland coalfields are organising a boycott of* beer houses and certain commodities until prices are reduced. —Sydney cable.

It is notified that the Temperance candidates for Eangitikei Licensing Committee are Messrs McDonald, H Nutfeail and Wilson.

A Home message states that the Pope has excommunicated 200 Ozecho Slovak priests who defied the Vatican’s interdiction against marriage.

The State Department at Washington has notified Britain that Sir Auckland Geddes’ appointment as Ambassador is agreeable co President Wilson.

The very fine work done by Mrs Kitoat in Art Needlework instruction will be continued this year. Intending pupils are requested to meet Mrs Kitcat at Marton Technical School on Wednesday at 2 p.na.

A protracted drought, folio wedby continuous rains, is causing serious floods in [the Free State and Cape Colony The Modder River has risen fifty feet and considerable areas are inundated. Some villages are cut off.

“ The automobile is rapidly ousting horsesfrom New York. In about two and a half years there has been a decrease of 32,000 in the number of horses in the city, and 2664 less occupied stables. TherS were, at the latest count, about 75,000 horses still loft. r-,.„

“IThe pupils of Marton Technical School are forming declass in Swimming and Life Saving, to be conducted from 6 to 7 on Tuesday evenings. Others desirous of learning this useful art will be permitted to join, but will be required to pay admission fees to the baths. Ladies are reminded that Miss McGrath will recommence her classes in Dressmaking at Marton Technical School on Tuesday, at 2.15 p.m. It is intended to have two afternoon classes so that if ladies wish they may attend for four hours. The excellence of Miss McGrath as a teacher is well known.

;?An increase in the price of building timber has been authorised by the Board of Trade consequent upon th® increased coat of production. Ordinary building rimu goes up Is 6d per 100 feet; heart of rimu by 2s per hundred. The rise is equivalent to less than 10 per cent, increase in the selling price at the mill, The Teachers' Institute has passed a resolution requesting the Government to accord teachers the equivalent of salaries paid to their present positions before the war, the reasbn being that the increments made during the war years utterly failed to counteract the increase in the cost of living.

On Monday evenings from 7 to 9 o. clock at Marton Technical School, a class in Woodwork for adults will be taken. Ladies are especially invited to join. Those interested are requested to be present nest Monday. If the support is insufficient che class will bo immediately abandoned.

Requests have been received from Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin police for increased pay. The Christchurch men ask for # 4s a day, and the others for 6s. The Wellington police have not so far joined in. One day’s holiday weekly-is also asked for. In April last year the constables were raised from 9s to 12s daily, but this is not considered sufficient. With allowances for rent, etc, an ordinary constable now receives over £5 weekly, and a long service man nearly £6.

The question of sending a commission to England for the purpose of assisting the Government to solve the matter of the disposal of New Zealand meat was discussed by a large and representative meeting of the Farmers’ Union held at Pahiatua on Saturday. The following resolution was unanimously carried: That this meeting is not in favour of» sending a commission to England, but urges upon the Government the advisablenness of retaining the services of Sir Thomas Mackenzie in the interests of the producers of New Zealand.

Amusing stories are gaining cnrfenes’ in France as a result of the afterwar relations of some of the nation’s combatants. One of these relates to a famous general and his cook, who, on being reprimanded 1 by the general because of some dish being not a perfect success, remarked, ‘ ‘You are wrong to speak so severely, my General, lam a Knight of the Legion of Honour.”' An investigation followed, and it was discovered that the cook had been a nurse at tee front, where she had shown such bravery that the red ribbon decoration had been awarded to her. On the termination of the war, she had accepted dismissal from , the service without a complaint, and, having to earn her living, became a cook, wearing the decoration only on Sundays. The Echo de Paris, which prints the story and vouches for it. adds, “and since then the general has not allowed himself to make remarks when any dish has not been a perfect success, ” One of the most striking and noticeable features in the change of the season is the change of displays of seasonable goods on show in the leading drapers. This is particularly noticeable to anyone passing Messrs Lloyd’s; Ltd, Marton’s big drapers. There ifsay be seen a very fine display of new goods for autumn and winter use. The attractive goods on show are only a portion of some large shipments just opened, and bought and Shipped prior to the recent heavy rise in . prices. Messrs Lloyd’s Ltd extend to all a hearty invitation of inspection. No one pressed to buy.* 8

London reports the death of Charles Garvioe, the ' well-known novelist.

By advertisement in another column electors of Eangitlkei are urged Jo vote to-morrow for Messrs Bevan, Bray, Brice, Gamman and Pnrnell.

The final general meeting of the Girls’ Bed Cross "Club, Balls, will be held in Clifton Social Hall on Wednesday next, March 10th, not Thursday as previously advertised.

Au order for removal to the Court of Appeal has been made in the case of the Crown v Ha trick and Co, a claim for the “sorting” of goods on Wanganui wharf. A man named Cornelius Wilev was admitted to the Greytown Hospital last night suffering from severe injuries sustained through collision with a goods train while riding a motor cycle. Robert McKinnon, married, aged i 7, who has been a station manager in the Wairarapa district for some years, shot himself in the head with a revolver at his home at Landsdowne on Saturday afternoon. He died later in the hospital. At the inquest it was shown that he had been suffering from a nervous breakdown, and a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned. The dispute between the Christchurch tramwaymen’s Union and the Christchurch Tramway Board was settled on Saturday in the Conciliation Council. The rates of wages as set out in the Boards proposals were adopted with a few alterations. It was decided that the term of the award be for two years, the principal part of the award to operate from February Ist, 1920. The chairman of the Royal Reception Sports Committee at Christchurch has received the following telegram from the Minister ,of Internal Affairs‘‘ln reply to year request in regard to arrangements for sports, I read your telegram aa meaning that the committee asks for power to reverse a decision of the Government of New Zealand of which public intimation has been given. lam unable to agree to confer that power.”

According to a recent article by H G Cornthwaite on the rainfall of Panama, a downpour of unrivalled intensity occurred at Portp Beilo on May Ist 1908, when a fall of 3.48 inches in five minutes was recorded by a self-registering rain gauge. This fall, at an average rate of 12.6 millimetres per minute, is believed to constitute a world record, its nearest rival being a shower at Our-tea-de-Arges, Roumania, on July 7th, 1889, when rain fell for 20 minutes at an average rate of 10.2 millimetres per minute. Mr W A Stapleton, proprietor of Stevenson’s Hotel at Reef ton, and owner of the trotter Palndale, was the victim of an attack at Nelson at about 3.30 on Saturday morning. He was staying with a friend at Brightwater and his bedroom was entered while he was asleep. • He received a severe olow on the side of the head with a heavy object, which caused a large wound. He was able to get up and grapple with the intruder, who, however, escaped. Stapleton was about on Saturday. Robbery is believed to be the object of the assault, but nothing was taken. A sensational accident on the Waikanae beach at 7 o’clock on Saturday night, as a result of which a married man named Ronald Mclnnes, aged 51, was drowned. Deceased, with another man named Leonard Burne, went fishing in a flat bottom boat. The boat drifted within a hundred yards, of the beach and capsized in the breakers. Both started to swim ashore and then turned back and attempted to right the boat. This failed, and they started again for the shore. Mclnnes called for assistance. Bnrne attempted to go back, but was washed away by a breaker. Burne got near the land, exhausted, and was pulled ashore. Mr and .Mrs Ernest Warren and Mr Ralph Morse swam through the breakers to rescue Mclnnes, who was brought ashore in a state of collapse. Artificial respiration was tried for half an hour, but without success.

Dr JJtC Brown, Balclutha, says he wonders why the Health Department does not go in more for inoculation as a preventive of influenza, states the Free Press. His experience as a surgeon in Egypt and on transports proved the efficacy of the vaccine treatment with large bodies of men. The transport on which he came back to New Zealand carried 1500 soldiers, who were inocnlaced several times before reaching southern seas, and on arrival at Fremantle, W.A., they were given shore leave through some misunderstanding, although the: “flu” was still raging in the town. The men were out for a good time, and went everywhere—“they were looking for influenza”—yet when the whole contingent was collected and got on board there was not a single case of “flu” They were also given a run ashore at Sydney and Newcastle, with the same happy results. The treatment is comparatively simple, involving no ill effects, and the doctor has inoculated several in Balclutha during the present epidemic

Alone, almost forgotten by the world, King Peter of Serbia lives, surrounded by a few faithful officers, at Phaleron, a few minutes’ ride from Athena, says an American correspondent. The King is suffering from paralysis, and passes most of his time in one room of a small house overlooking the sea dotted with the lateen sails of Greek fishermen. Occasionally a courier arrives from Belgrade bringing word to the old man from his son, Prince Regent Alexander. King Peter still takes an active interest in world events, despite bis physical condition. Occasionally he rides down to Athena, when he learns that a fresh batch of mail and dispatches for him has arrived. On these trips be is assisted into a side car attached to a motor cycle, as he prefers this simple conveyance to the automobile. King Peter lives the simple life at Pbaieron. His food is the simplest possible. His home is very modest in all its appointments.

A girl to relievo honsemaid and pantrymaid is wanted at White Hart Hotel, Marton.*

A special display of autumn millinery novelties is now being made by Mesrss Low and Gregory, The I Economic, Marton. These have been •I specially selected by experts from i the leading makers' in the world’s fashion centres, and the styles are i therefore absolutely while : prices will be found very much ; below those likely to be Obtained I for later shipments during the [ coming season. *