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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 13055, 25 April 1910, Page 4

There is a keenness in the air now that makes a nice warm coat a most comforting article. Besides the comfort the smart dressy stylo of our coats will animal to you. They were all specially , nought by our London partner, and we are, convinced for smartness and reasonable prices 'theyc-have,-. no equal in "this town. .The .prices, range from 25s to ■ 120s, ■ and tli e more expensive bnes, are beanti- ' dullv trimmed according to fashion’s latest' - ' 1 dictates.— McGruer and Co t

A Gisborne wire states that Harry Toon, who was arrested on Saturday on a charge of stealing a portmanteau and articles of clothing of the value ot £l9 at Taihape tof January Ist was remanded till’ to-mor-row.

John Joseph Powelka is to he brought back from Wellington and is to appear ton remand before Mr Thomson, S.il., at •Palmerston on Friday. He will appear on Friday and Saturday on tt© outstanding charges for which he was originally arrested, and probably’ some of the charges arising after bis escape will be heard on the following Monday. Since his-incar-ceration at Wellington he has continued most restless and has constantly asked to see his wife. With a view to pacifying him she was again sent for and went to Wellington on Saturday accompanied by her mother. Mrs Wilson.

Information has been received which EPems to indicate that a natural remedy has been found for Californian thistle and other similar noxious weeds, which is likely to prove more effective in combating the evil than any measures which have been tried.' In conversation with Mr John Moore, of Rissington, recently, that gentleman informed a Taranaki Herald repr-.sen-tative that a neighbour, Mr A. S. Dunnage, of Patoka. had noticed that a blight had attacked the thistles this year, and had asked Mr Moore if he had noticed it. On investigation, Mr Munro found : _at the. statement was correct, all the thistles • which he examined being found to be blighted so much so that Mr Moore -ent a number of specimens to Mr T. W. Kirk, Government Biologist, asking him to re. port upon it. Mr Dunnage says that the same blight which is affecting the Scotch thistle is also attacking the Californian thistle. Mr Moore noticed that the seed pods of the thistle this' year have no seeds in them on account of the blight, and the same apparently applies to all other kinds of thistles.

For a considerable time the subject of the disposal of ashes from the stokeholds of vessels has exercised the minds of engmeere, says an English paper, and tin question has become more pronounced wish the increased engine power of modern veseek. After many series of exhaustive experiments, J. Stone and Company, Limited, of Deptford, have introduced an apparatus to expel the ashes-, below the wato ■- the old days ashes had to be dis posed of above_ the waterline, and everv ocean voyager has experienced the resultant annoyance of ashes being blown over the decks and into the cabins, which, apart from causing so much discomfort, enta :, s a considerable amount of labour in cleaning. Messrs Stone’s underline ash cxpeller is a self-contained machine, and is silent in its working. The apparatus has met with success on several of the latest passenger vessels, but the advantages are perhaps even more pronounced in the case of warships, as when this underline expeller is employed no ashes can be seen on the surface of the sea, in wake of the vessel, as is the case when ashes are delivered on the sqrface of the sea. which is a most import ant advantage for war vessels. With the underline expeller there is also no -ccess-'ty P’ e „ rc f t] ? e armour plating,-which is well kpown to be a source of weakness and of considerable expense. By means of ontw 1 , espe . lle T the furnace refuse is 3nd c ) uiet] - v crushed and d; pos d of, at the rate of about ten tons per hour fitted 3 Sma f I d . ,sf:lla rgo tube, which V of ‘thetS hC ” aDd ° Uter