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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13339, 30 March 1911, Page 4

We have opened up a particularly choice range of dress tweeds, really .nice at very moderate prices. buying facilities permit ««.; to, buy these goods direct from the manufacturem. w these goods come direct from the mill to our store. Needless to say. the patterns are specially selected, and the prices range from is to* 5s fid per yard. Therc is a epecial window display of these tweeds in one of our large windows. McOruet and Co.

The Patea Press says that measles arc very prevalent at Patea just now. - Mr D. Stewart, Organiser of School Work for the Wanganui Education District, is at present in the Apiti district For some time past efforts have been in progress for the formation of a Rifle Club in Wanganui, and we understand that there is every probability of the club being an accomplished fact very shortly. A meeting of all interested in the matter i sto be held at the Non-Commissioned Officers’ Club to-morrow evening.

The. next- sitting of the Aotea Maori !&(&!' 'will be held on May 2nd. At its dost meeting a few days ago, the native lands at Kai Iwi and Okehu was before the Board which decided not to deal with ' them, nor grant any terms of renewal, till the whole of the leases terminate. In dealing with these lands, as with all other lands under its jurisdiction, the policy of the Board will, we are informed, he found to .be resolutely against aggregation, and wherever possible. every facility will be given to effect sub-division.

Between Raetihi and Raurimu, the country is reported to have benefited by occasional good rains, but other places along the Mam Trunk are not so fortunate. Taihapeis now waterless, and water is being carted round the town, and sold at so much a barrel. Some 20 years ago, the .same sort of thing used to happen in Wanganui during a dry summer, when owners of 'good springs generally managed to turn an honest penny in this way. The Okehu scheme has of course changed all that, and though the reservoir is somewhat below normal level, the supply replenishes itself splendidly. - During last night there was a slight variation at some South Island points from • the prevailing droughty conditions, Hght rain having fallen on the West Coast and in North Otago. Elsewhere the same old tale of dryness is disclosed by l the weafUer reports, and the sun to-day shone out of a practically cloudless sky all over the Dominion, except at the points mentioned above. A rather trying heat wave is being experienced at present, and the 9 o’clock temperatures this morning ranged from 63 to 67 in the South Island, and from 68 to 71 in the North, high figures for this time of ygar. The barometer is very high everywhere, and so far there appears no prospect of the predicted storm cailin? in on us.

The Manawatu Times states that the Nerw Zealand Flax Workers’ Union held a special meeting on Saturday to decide whether to cancel the Arbitration Act registration with the view to the resrving of the right to strike, thus following the lead of the Wellington and Taranaki Dairy Workers’ Unions, which refuse to register, and have affiliated with the Miners’ Federation outside the Arbitration Act,-to which the West Coast and Auckland .General Labourers’ and Shearers’ and Shed Employees’ Union now belong. The flax workers’ delegates, after’ discussing the situation for .some time, postponed the discussion until nest Saturday, when a general meeting will be held in Palmerston North.

A contractor named Thomas Brownlee, who’ was recently adjudged bankrupt, was charged at the Auckland Police Court yesterday by bringing about his bankruptcy by rash and hazardous speculation. It was stated that the accused had had a meteoric and disastrous career as a contractor. In 12 months he had entered into eight contracts. From three of these he had made a profit of .£SB, but on the others he had lost oyer He had started with a capital of ,£25, and his liabilities were now between ,£IBOO and i! 2000. He had paid a dividend of 5s 6d or 5s 9d in the £. It was urged that there was no criminal intent, but the Magistrate said that this did not absolve the accused from liability. Sentence of 14 days’ hard labour was imposed. Some time ago Earl Grey, GovernorGeneral of Canada, asked that conies of the New Zealand School Journal be forwarded to him for distribution amongst the Ministers of Education in the different Canadian provinces, and expressed his admiration for the publication. He has since, written to the Governor, Lord Islington, stating that he has communicated’ with the Lieutenant-Governors of the Canadian Provinces urging them to get their Education Departments to publish something of the same kind, and stating that, in his opinion, they could not have a better model to follow than New Zealand’s School Journal. He further- states that he has had very encouraging replies, and has asked that copies of the School Journal be regularly sent to the Education Departments of the Provinces.

The biggest land transaction of recent years was completed at Palmerston North yesterday, through the agency of J. M. Johnston, of Palmerston, and David Whyte, of Hastings. A private company liM-rbeen formed or well-known Manaw r atu and' Hawke’s Bay settlers, with a subscribed- capital of .£IOO,OOO, to take over ■ the’ Mokau Coal Mines, 12,400 acres of mineral rights and shipping interests on the Mokau River, together with the cele.brated- Mokau J ones Estate-of 46,200 acres, just acquired from the natives. The company, which has its head office at Palmerston North, is to be known as the Mokau Coal and Estate Company, Ltd. It held its first meeting yesterday, when it elected Robert.McNab as chairman of directors. Some 26,000 acres of the land have already been cut up, and the balance of 20,0*/0 acres will be at once surveyed, and, as =oon as possible, placed on the market, in small areas. The mineral and shipping resources of the Mokau district and river will continue to be developed.