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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12014, 17 March 1920, Page 4

lb appears that James Harold O’Brien, convicted of the systematic theft of passengers’ luggage from steamers in Wellington, won a D.C.M. at Measines, and a Belgian medal at Warneton, and was recommended for a commission. Counsel pleaded that he was a shell shock sufferer. Accused was ordered to be placed under medical examination for a month. A Hopiegrown Sugar Company, Limited, with one million £1 shares, has been formed in London under arrangement with the Board of Agriculture, to establish the sugar beet industry as an all-British enterprise. The Government will taKe up a quarter of a million shares and also guarantee live per cent interest until 19530 on public subscriptions up to quarter of a million. , The company takes over the British Sugar Beet Growers’ Society. McGruer’s have just opened up their new soason’s Navy Serge Costumes.' Owing to large contracts placed some months ago the firm are able to retail these costumes at a fraction above last year’s prices The styles are sure to please you.*

Alderman W. Fitzgerald has been elected Labour Lord Mayor of Sydney. The Carpenters and Joiners’ Society at Sydney has decided not to work on Saturdays. This means practically the cessation of bni Iding work on Saturdays. A clever gang of safe-blowers is successfully operatingdn the Sydney city and suburban post offices. Several good hauls were secured during the past few weeks.

A loss of £Bl Os 4d was made on the luncheon and afternoon tea at the Masterton show. The receipts amounted to £492 Is 6d, and the expenditure to £533 Is lOd. The Court at Sydney/found that the Millions Club is not an employer within the Act. The Millions Club was v charged with appointing other than a returned soldier to a position, e A seven year old boy named John Frederick Goodhue met his death near Kawakawa on Saturday under sad circumstances. He, was playing with'a large log during the afternoon when it rolled over, crashing him fatally. The property boom seems to have reached Tauranga. A keen demand has set in for propertied, which are frequently changing |iands. The record price of £IBO per acre has just been paid for a farm of 65 acres across the water from the northwestern part of the borough. The recently appointed biologist to the Gawthron Institute, Nelson, Dr Tiilyard, is much impressed with the serious losses sustained by applegrowers by aphis, and tears the increasing price of chemicals will soon make spraying prohibitive. He deems it absolutely necessary to discover and cultivate ifatural enemies of,the pest. He points out that this has been done in Oalilorma, and, though costly is well worth the money.

At Hawora Magistrate’s Court, William Scott Cameron was proceeded against on four informations of making bets in a butcher’s shop, a factory registered under the Factory Act, also with making a bet on the Central Hotel premises. Ail five transactions took place on the day of the Foxton Races. De - fendant pleaded guilty, and was fined £8 on each of four charges of betting in the factory and £2O on the other charge. c Part of the famous Trevena estate of 571 acres at Temuka. said to be some of the finest farming land in the Dominion, was submitted to auction yesterday in nine small farm lots of 44 to 81 acres. Two lots of 57 and 47 acres were bought by J. Kernohan at £9 per acre. Other lots were separately purchased at £94, £76, and £3B per aerg. j Two lots not sold at auction were sold privately immediately after. G. Murray, of Braemar, wno owns some land in tno locality, bought 48 acres at £B3 The other buyers were all local men.

The Hawera Star’s Normanby correspondent reports that an attempt was made to blow up the safe at the railway station, which is also the post office. The statioumaster states that h« discovered that apparently an explosive had been installed into the lock, and to deaden the sound a bag containing bacon had been used. The safe, however, had not yielded. At Hawera, the shop of Purser Bros., tobacconists, was entered. The hack window was broken, and cash lifted. So far as is known, no stock was taken. The till contained no money except a number of coppers. According to Mr K. W. Holmes, Under Secretary to the Public Works Department, It is expected that the Otira Tunnel will be completed in «about 18 months —that is the remainder of the excavating and lining of the tunnel. Tenders for the electrical equipment for the operation of trains through the tunnel close in June next, and the successful tenderer is to complete his contract in 18 months. The Public Works Department is planning to have the rails laid and the line -through the tunnel ballasted and ready for operation at the same time as the completion of the electrical equipment contract.

With regard to the sad fatality reported recently from the Gladbrook Soldiers’ Settlement, near Middlemarch, by which a young soldier settler named James Smith lost his life, the following particulars are now to hand:—Some six soldier settlers wore assisting a comrade to get his crop stacked, and had almost finished. Four of them, including the deceased, were sitting with their hacks to the stack chatting, and one man was forking up sheaves from the outer side of the stack, almost immediately opposite Jwhero the, party were sitting. In hoisting a sheaf the fork slipped from the forker’s hands, and carrying over the top of the stack, penetrated |the deceased’s hack, and entered his heart, killing him almost instantly. Deceased, whose jarents reside in the North Otago district, was married only a few weeks ago. It is reported that - Queen Mary smokos. She smokes one cigarette after luncheon, but 1 limits herself to that, as she is a believer in the strictest moderation in all things. The announcement of this conferring of the Royal approval on cigarette smoking by women appeared in Reynold’s Newspaper. It does not appear to have called forth any protests in England, hut Lucy Fage Gaston, American president of the International Anii-Gigarette League has written to Queen Mary as follows -“Knowing your high ideals of womanhood, and live interest in safeguarding youth, the story has caused a shock in America. It will be extremely unfortunate if English standards fall below thpse of this country, through your example.” Bat there is no word, as yet, that Queen Mary’s after luncheon cigarette has lost any of its charm for the Royal smoker. BOON TO DEER STALKERS AND OTHERS. —Stags’ Heads, Boars’ Heads, Birds, Fish, and Animals Mounted. Skins tanned. Every kind of Furs, Coats, and Rugs made and repaired. All work guaranteed. J. JACOBS (from London), 55 Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North *

With the approach of autumn cooler evenings are already noticeable, and bur thoughts naturally turn to warmer Clothing. . Warm Overcoats in particular are very popular and a very fine selection of these goods can be seen at Lloyd’s Ltd, Marton, Big Drapers. Warm Pure Wool Double Breasted Overcoats 90s to 150 s, Gents’ Rain Goats 45s to £8 Bs. A magnificent assortment of reliable Rain Coats and Warm Winter Overcoats now showing at Lloyds’ Ltd. Your inspection is invited.*

A well known English sports man has sent to the Daily Mail £BOO for a special cap for the winner of the Felton-Barry race, ■

* Failding Chamber of Commerce js urging the Railway Department to have alarih signals placed on the railw’ay crossings in the Borough.-

Mr Lalng, statlonm aster at'Marton Junction, has been transferr ed to Gore, He will be succeeded by Mr H P West, transport officer on Wanganui staff. Mr ' McQueen, for sis years manager of the Union Bank at Feilding, has been transferred to Dunedin. Prior to his departure he was entertained at a large gathering of businessmen and presented with a silver salver and service for Mrs McQueen and a cheque for himself. An eye-witness of the Marash massacres describes one of the most horrible incidents. A hundred Armenians were besieged- in a cellar for live days. The Turks invited them to surrender, promising protection, and the then were shot as they came out. The Turks then entered, armed with axes and knives, and slaughtered the women and children. Only two escaped. The Turks similarly attacked girls in a rescue'home, killed all, and set fire to the building, The suggestion made some little time ago that a town clock should be erected in Marlon as a Peace Memorial is more favour The clock suspended from the Post Office bi|S been causing Martonians much inconvenience. It has gone one better than the go slow policy; it has stopped altogether. If Departmental funds will not permit of its being repaired it would be a gracious act to acquaint the public so that the amount may be raised by subscription.

Hoag. Sir William Fraser, D. H. Guthrie, and J. G. Coates wore present at a meeting of the Ministerial Repatriation Board at Wellington yesterday. A great deal of business was transacted, including the passing of 187 loans to returned soldiefs, totalling £38,000. One outstanding case, which received a : kindly hearing, was a proposal by a dozen men to form a Diggers’JSawjnilling Company, to operate on the West Coast. It was decided to grant each of the men a loan of £BOO, and to arrange with the Forestry Department for the issue of a license to the company to cut timber over 630 acres of land, about five miles from Hokitika. This block which contains from nine to twelve million feet of good white pine timber, has been eagerly sought by other millers, but the returned soldiers have been given preference. The necessary plant will cost the company £4OOO. An inter; esting fact in connection with the Diggers’ Company is that the men all belong to Hokitika, and have known each other from boyhood upward. The proposition is one which had the hearty recommendation of the Hokitika Repatriation Dom» mittee.

“Tiny Tots” Garage.—The expansion of the business of Messrs F. Grover and Co., Palmerston North, has led to the opening of this Garage. Here we find everything requisite for the safe carriage of baby right from birth to after the toddling stage has been reached, and very fine samples of the firm’s wicker work, from the dainty Basinsttes to the elegantly designed pram. The firm indents the whole of the raw materials used and all articles exhibited are manufactured on the premises.*